Yale MacMillan Center members and students will be represented at the 2021 Virtual Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference this year. Please see below for a list of panels featuring our faculty, staff, Ph.D. students, and scholars working on Asia:
Monday, March 22, 2021
10:00am – 11:30am EDT
Bordering China, Bordering Reform (Part 1): China’s Hong Kong Border
Organizer: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University
Organizer: Taomo Zhou – Nanyang Technological University
Chair: Helen Siu – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Bixiao He – Sun Yat-Sen University
Paper Presenter: Angelina Y. Chin – Pomona College
Paper Presenter: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Taomo Zhou – Nanyang Technological University
Discussant: Michael Szonyi – Harvard University
Dialogism of Self and Others: Colonial and Decolonial Practices of Translation in the Japanese Empire
Organizer: Mari Ishida – Wake Forest University
Chair: Mari Ishida – Wake Forest University
Paper Presenter: Wakako Suzuki – Bard College
Paper Presenter: Pedro Bassoe – Purdue University
Paper Presenter: Timothy Unverzagt Goddard – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Mari Ishida – Wake Forest University
Discussant: Faye Kleeman – University of Colorado Boulder
Foreign Language Pedagogy, Acquisition, and Perception in Pre-Modern East and Inner Asia
Organizer: Shuheng Zhang – University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Mimi Yiengpruksawan – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Kotyk – University of British Columbia
Paper Presenter: Nikita Kuzmin – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: John Carlyle – University of Washington
Paper Presenter: Shuheng Zhang – University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Mimi Yiengpruksawan – Yale University
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT
Emergent Means: Media, Performance, and Actuality in Interwar Japan
Organizer: Chikara Uchida – University of Tokyo
Chair: Hiromu Nagahara – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paper Presenter: Noriko Morisue – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Alexander Murphy – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: Joelle Nazzicone – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Chikara Uchida – University of Tokyo
Discussant: Hiromu Nagahara – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
8:30am – 10:00am EDT
Document, Monument, Event: Contemporary Art and Visual Culture in India, 1991-2021
Organizer: Sonal Khullar – University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Sonal Khullar – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Anuja Jain – Wesleyan University
Paper Presenter: Akshaya Tankha – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Sonal Khullar – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Lalitha Gopalan – University of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Kajri Jain – University of Toronto
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
8:30am – 10:00am EDT
Cultural Networks between China and (post-)Soviet Russia: Translations and Border Crossings
Organizer: Edward Tyerman – University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Jinyi Chu – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Edward Tyerman – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Elizabeth McGuire – California State University, East Bay
Paper Presenter: Yan Li – Oakland University
Paper Presenter: Ed Pulford – University of Manchester
Discussant: Jinyi Chu – Yale University
Know Yourself and Know the Other: Information, Intelligence and Scholarship in Eurasia
Organizer: Jianyuan Sun – University of Washington
Chair: Jianyuan Sun – University of Washington
Paper Presenter: Scott Boorman – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Jianyuan Sun – University of Washington
Paper Presenter: Weiqing Chen – Peking University
Discussant: Gregory Afinogenov – Georgetown University
Local Histories of the Yellow River
Organizer: Daniel Knorr – University of Cambridge
Chair: David Pietz – University of Arizona
Paper Presenter: Ruth Mostern – University of Pittsburgh
Paper Presenter: Yuan Chen – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Daniel Knorr – University of Cambridge
Paper Presenter: Micah Muscolino – University of California, San Diego
Discussant: David Pietz – University of Arizona
New Views on the “Conquest Dynasties”
Organizer: Wonhee Cho – Academy of Korean Studies
Chair: Valerie Hansen – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Valerie Hansen – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Wonhee Cho – Academy of Korean Studies
Paper Presenter: Roslyn L. Hammers – University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Karl Debreczeny – Rubin Museum of Art
Discussant: Johan Elverskog – Southern Methodist University
Not Just for Art’s Sake: Race, Culture, and Production in 20th Century Sino-Afro Exchanges
Organizer: Ling Zhang – SUNY Purchase
Chair: Keisha A. Brown – Tennessee State University
Paper Presenter: Keisha A. Brown – Tennessee State University
Paper Presenter: Ling Zhang – SUNY Purchase
Paper Presenter: Ye Liu – The New School
Paper Presenter: Quincy Ngan – Yale University
Discussant: Robeson Taj Frazier – University of Southern California
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT
Legal Change and Professionalization around the Pacific Rim: China, the British Empire, and the United States, 1850-1930
Organizer: Tian Atlas Xu – The Catholic University of America
Chair: Rohit De – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Tian Atlas Xu – The Catholic University of America
Paper Presenter: Shumeng Han – University of California, San Diego
Paper Presenter: Barry McCarron – New York University
Discussant: Rohit De – Yale University
Power and Agency: James C. Scott’s Contributions to Asian Studies
Organizer: Pamela McElwee – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Organizer: Meredith L. Weiss – State University of New York, Albany
Chair: Ron Herring – Cornell University
Discussant: Shafqat Hussain – Trinity College
Discussant: Shaila Seshia Galvin – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Discussant: Takeshi Ito – Sophia University
Discussant: Eric Tagliacozzo – Cornell University
Discussant: James Scott – Yale University
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT
Genres and Modes of Performance in Premodern China
Chair: Erica Brindley – Pennsylvania State University
Paper Presenter: Yung-chang Tung – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Yun Bai – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Karin Myhre – University of Georgia
Paper Presenter: Jing Zhou – Sun Yat-sen University
Rethinking the Pedagogical Canon of Classical Japanese Literature in the West
Organizer: Danica Truscott – University of California, Los Angeles
Organizer: James Scanlon-Canegata – Yale University
Chair: Gustav Heldt – University of Virginia
Paper Presenter: Danica Truscott – University of California, Los Angeles
Paper Presenter: Mariko Naito – Meiji University
Paper Presenter: James Scanlon-Canegata – Yale University
Discussant: Joshua Mostow – University of British Columbia
Thursday, March 25, 2021
8:30am – 10:00am EDT
Performing Connoisseurship in Early Modern Chinese Drama
Organizer: Yinghui Wu – University of California, Los Angeles
Organizer: Allison Bernard – Yale University
Chair: Judith Zeitlin – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: Yinghui Wu – University of California, Los Angeles
Paper Presenter: Allison Bernard – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Casey Schoenberger – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Paper Presenter: Yanbing Tan – The University of the South
Discussant: Judith Zeitlin – University of Chicago
Discussant: Patricia Sieber – The Ohio State University
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT
Chineseness in Motion: Rethinking the Field in Global Perspectives
Organizer: Kyle D. Shernuk – Yale University
Organizer: Hangping Xu – University of California, Santa Barbara
Chair: Alison Groppe – University of Oregon
Paper Presenter: Kyle D. Shernuk – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Hangping Xu – University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper Presenter: Yunwen Gao – Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Alison Groppe – University of Oregon
Discussant: Cathryn Clayton – University of Hawaii at Manoa
The Six Dynasties–Tang Transition
Organizer: Lucas R. Bender – Yale University
Organizer: Xiaojing Miao – University of Colorado, Boulder
Chair: Xiaofei Tian – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Lucas R. Bender – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Xiaojing Miao – University of Colorado, Boulder
Paper Presenter: Lu Kou – Bard College
Paper Presenter: Anthony DeBlasi – University at Albany, SUNY
Discussant: Xiaofei Tian – Harvard University
Virtuality as Potentiality in Early Modern East Asia
Organizer: Jiayi Chen – University of Chicago
Chair: Kristina Kleutghen – Washington University, St. Louis
Paper Presenter: Paize Keulemans – Princeton University
Paper Presenter: Jiayi Chen – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: Drisana Misra – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Yong Cho – University of California, Riverside
Discussant: Sophie Volpp – University of California, Berkeley
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT
Connections, Networks, and Ties that Bind: Rethinking Centers and Peripheries in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Organizer: Hiroki Kikuchi – University of Tokyo
Chair: Ethan Segal – Michigan State University
Paper Presenter: Hiroki Kikuchi – University of Tokyo
Paper Presenter: Megan Gilbert – Princeton University
Paper Presenter: Xiaolong Huang – University of Tokyo
Paper Presenter: Masato Takenouchi – Yale University
Discussant: Ethan Segal – Michigan State University
The Edges of Justice: Caste and Settler Colonial Formations of Oppression among Asia’s Migrant Communities
Organizer: MaryAnne Vallianatos – University of Victoria
Chair: Neilesh Bose – University of Victoria
Paper Presenter: Sasha Sabherwal – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Hardeep Dhillon – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: MaryAnne Vallianatos – University of Victoria
Friday, March 26, 2021
8:30am – 10:00am EDT
Quotidian Structures of Colonial and Postcolonial Governance
Organizer: Gourav Krishna Nandi – Yale University
Chair: David Gilmartin – North Carolina State University
Paper Presenter: Gourav Krishna Nandi – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Meredith Mclaughlin – Homerton College, Cambridge
Paper Presenter: Souvanik Mullick – Yale University
Discussant: Lisa Björkman – University of Louisville and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Discussant: Rachel Sturman – Bowdoin College
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT
Law, Justice, Society at the Margins of Asian States
Organizer: Tri Phuong – Yale University
Chair: Tyrell Haberkorn – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paper Presenter: Tri Phuong – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Mimi Zou – Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford
Paper Presenter: Rui Hua – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Adeela Firdous – Independent Scholars of Asia
Discussant: Jennifer L. Gaynor – State University of New York, Buffalo
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT
The Material Life of the Archive: Promises and Challenges in Documenting the Japanese Diaspora
Organizer: Kaoru Ueda – Stanford University
Chair: Franklin Odo – Amherst College
Paper Presenter: Kaoru Ueda – Stanford University
Paper Presenter: Koji Lau-Ozawa – Stanford University
Paper Presenter: Edward Mack – University of Washington
Paper Presenter: Toyotomi Morimoto – Waseda University
Discussant: Seth Jacobowitz – Yale University
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT
Eating Inedibles: Rethinking Foods in Asian STS
Organizer: Lan A. Li – Rice University
Chair: Lan A. Li – Rice University
Paper Presenter: Lan A. Li – Rice University
Paper Presenter: Victoria Lee – Ohio University
Paper Presenter: Tristan Revells – Columbia University
Paper Presenter: Anthony Acciavatti – Yale University
Discussant: Jia-Hui Lee – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paper Presenter: Max Moerman – Barnard College, Columbia University
On-Demand
Digital Atlas of Tokugawa Japan
Presenter Lightning Session: Fabian Drixler – Yale University
Reading Man’yōshū Narratologically: The Diversity of Structure in Kibutsu Chinshi Poems
Individual Paper Presenter: Nina Farizova – Yale University