Yale Council on East Asian Studies members and students will be represented at the 2019 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Denver this year. Please see below for a list of panels featuring our faculty and Ph.D. students working on East Asia:
THURSDAY, MARCH 21
SSCR Inaugural First Book Roundtable
Savoy, Tower Bldg., Majestic Level || 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM || Thursday, March 21
Schedule of presentations:
Erik Hammerstrom, The Science of Chinese Buddhism: Early Twentieth-Century Engagements
Introduction by Gil Raz - Dartmouth College
Justin Ritizinger, Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism
Respondent: Rongdao Lai - USC Dornsife
Melissa Wei-tsing Inouye, China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church
Respondent: Chloe Starr - Yale University
Li Yuhang, Becoming Guanyin Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China
Respondent: Katherine Alexander - University of Colorado, Boulder
Megan Bryson, Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China
Respondent: Paul Katz - Academia Sinica
Left-wing Melancholia in Asian History, Culture, and Literature
Tower Court B, Tower Bldg. || 7:30 PM – 9:15 PM || Thursday, March 21
Organizer: Po-Hsi Chen – Ph.D. Student, East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University
Organizer: Hang Tu – Harvard University
Chair: Paul Pickowicz – University of California, San Diego
Paper Presenter: Po-Hsi Chen – Yale University*
Paper Presenter: Hang Tu – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Xiaolu Ma – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Paper Presenter: Chairat Polmuk – Chulalongkorn University
Discussant: Paola Iovene – University of Chicago
*A Disrupted Telos: Temporalizing the Origin of Melancholia in Taiwanese Leftist Literature
FRIDAY, MARCH 22
The Impact of Visual and Material Cultural Networks in the Mongol Empire and Beyond
Tower Court B, Tower Bldg. || 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM || Friday, March 22
Organizer: Yong Cho – Ph.D. Student, History of Art, Yale University
Chair: Shih-Shan Huang – Rice University
Paper Presenter: Shih-Shan Huang – Rice University
Paper Presenter: Yong Cho – Yale University*
Paper Presenter: Yusen Yu – University of Heidelberg
Paper Presenter: Eiren Shea – Grinnell College
*Carving a Multicultural Empire on Stones: Juyongguan from a Trans-Regional Perspective
A Nation of Emigrants: New Research on Transpacific Mobilities and Identity in Imperial Japan
Director’s Row H, Plaza Building, Lobby Level || 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM || Friday, March 22
Organizer: Robert A. Hegwood – Harvard University
Chair: Eiichiro Azuma – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Sidney Xu Lu – Michigan State University
Paper Presenter: Anne Giblin Gedacht – Seton Hall University
Paper Presenter: Robert A. Hegwood – Harvard University
Discussant: Seth Jacobowitz, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University
The Swirling Winds: Cultural Exchange in East Asia, 8th-16th Centuries
Grand Ballroom 1, Tower Bldg., 2nd Level || 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM || Friday, March 22
Organizer: Huiping Pang – Art Institute of Chicago
Chair: Shigemi Inaga – International Research Center
Paper Presenter: Denise Patry Leidy, Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art, Yale University Art Gallery*
Paper Presenter: Ji-Young Lee – American University
Paper Presenter: Huiping Pang – Art Institute of Chicago
Discussant: George Kallander – Syracuse University
*Kashmir and the International Tang Style (Late 7th-8th c.)
The Death of Japan Studies
Governor’s Square 14, Plaza Bldg.|| 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM || Friday, March 22
Organizer: John W. Treat, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University
Chair: Karen Nakamura – University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Vera Mackie – University of Wollongong
Discussant: Brian Dowdle – University of Montana
Discussant: Joshua Fogel – York University
Discussant: Linda Isako Angst – Independent Scholar
Discussant: Stefano Romagnoli – Sapienza University of Rome
New Directions in Hokkaido History: Northern Japan and the Transnational Past
Tower Court C, Tower Bldg. || 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM || Friday, March 22
Organizer: Noell Wilson – University of Mississippi
Chair: Noell Wilson – University of Mississippi
Paper Presenter: Noell Wilson – University of Mississippi
Paper Presenter: Michael Thornton, Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies, Yale University*
Paper Presenter: Michael Hayata – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paper Presenter: Jonathan Bull – Hokkaido University
Discussant: Katsuya Hirano – University of California, Los Angeles
*Sapporo and Transnational Colonial City Planning in the Japanese Empire
Reconsidering “Excess” Humans: Outcasts and Agencies in Modern Korea
Grand Ballroom 2, Tower Bldg., 2nd Level || 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM || Friday, March 22
Organizer: Hyojin Pak – Leiden University
Chair: Jin-kyung Lee – University of California, San Diego
Paper Presenter: Hyojin Pak – Leiden University
Paper Presenter: Young Sun Park, Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies, Yale University*
Paper Presenter: Jinhee Park – University of Southern California
Discussant: Jin-kyung Lee – University of California, San Diego
*An Orphan Who Helped Himself: The Reinvention of Orphans and the Beggar King, Kim Ch’unsam
Maternity in Modern China: Technology, Morality, and the State
Plaza Court 1, Plaza Building, Concourse Level || 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM || Friday, March, 22
Organizer: Chang Liu – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chair: Barbara Molony – Santa Clara University
Paper Presenter: Chang Liu – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Lin Jiao – Beijing Foreign Studies University
Paper Presenter: Kailing Xie – University of Warwick
Paper Presenter: Shuxuan Zhou – Free University Berlin
Co-Author: Yihui Su – Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Discussant: Deborah Davis, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University
SATURDAY, MARCH 23
The Politics of Feeding China
Plaza Court 5, Plaza Building || 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM || Saturday, March, 23
Organizer: Abigail E. Coplin – University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Abigail E. Coplin – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Abigail E. Coplin – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Alexander F. Day – Occidental College
Paper Presenter: Mindi Schneider – Erasmus University Rotterdam
Paper Presenter: Caroline Merrifield, Lecturer in East Asian Studies, Yale University*
*China’s Contemporary Food System and its Discontents: Access, Provision, and Community in the Chinese Food Movement
Travelers of the Home: Transient Mental Illness and Tanizaki Jun’ichiro’s Sasameyuki
Gold, Tower Building, Mezzanine Level || 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM || Saturday, March, 23
Organizer: Miriam Kingsberg Kadia – University of Colorado Boulder
Chair: Miriam Kingsberg Kadia – University of Colorado Boulder
Individual Paper Presenter: Michael T. Chan, Ph.D. Student, East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University*
Individual Paper Presenter: Maura Haley Stephens – University of Hawai’i-Mānoa
Individual Paper Presenter: Katherine Mezur – University of California, Berkeley
Individual Paper Presenter: Natalia Doan – University of Oxford
Individual Paper Presenter: Hillary Joyce Maxson – Pacific University
*Gendered Experiences of the Public and Private in Modern Japan
The Impact of Trade on Daily Life in East Asia, 960-1600
Director’s Row H, Plaza Building || 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM || Saturday, March, 23
Organizer: Yiwen Li – City University of Hong Kong
Chair: Ezra F. Vogel – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Valerie Hansen, Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Yale University*
Paper Presenter: Yiwen Li – City University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Peter D. Shapinsky – University of Illinois, Springfield
Discussant: Richard von Glahn – University of California, Los Angeles
*Chinese and Japanese Consumption of Incense circa 100
Conceptualizing China in Relation to the World, 1700s-1910s: Sovereignty and National Interest in Transformation
Plaza Court 4, Plaza Building || 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM || Saturday, March, 23
Organizer: Ling-Wei Kung – Columbia University
Organizer: Yue Du – Cornell University
Chair: Par Cassel – University of Michigan
Paper Presenter: Boyi Chen – Washington University in St. Louis
Paper Presenter: Yue Du – Cornell University
Paper Presenter: Jenny H. Day – Skidmore College
Paper Presenter: Ling-Wei Kung – Columbia University
Discussant: Peter C. Perdue, Professor of History, Yale University
Crossing Ethnic, Religious, and Geographical Boundaries during the Mongol and Manchu Rule of China
Organizer: Wonhee Cho – Academy of Korean Studies
Chair: Max Oidtmann – Georgetown University in Qatar
Paper Presenter: Wonhee Cho – Academy of Korean Studies
Paper Presenter: Minsu Park – Ewha Womans University
Paper Presenter: Noriko Unno – Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Paper Presenter: Huasha Zhang, Ph.D. Student, History, Yale University*
Discussant: Max Oidtmann – Georgetown University in Qatar
*Mercenaries of the Empire: The Metamorphoses of Lhasa’s Chinese Military
Japanese TV as Media Ecology: Tracing Transnational Flow and History of Television
Governor’s Square 15, Plaza Bldg || 3:00 PM – 4:45 PM || Saturday, March 23
Organizer: Masato Dogase – Nagoya University
Chair: Woojeong Joo – Nagoya University
Paper Presenter: Woojeong Joo – Nagoya University
Paper Presenter: Masato Dogase – Nagoya University
Paper Presenter: Yuki Nakayama – University of Michigan
Paper Presenter: Caitlin Casiello, Ph.D. Student, East Asian Languages & Literatures and Film & Media Studies, Yale University*
*Super Composite Robots: Editing and Adaptation in 1980s Anime Localization
Moves On and Off the Board: (Early) Modern Cultures of Play in East Asia and Beyond
Windows, Tower Bldg. || 3:00 PM – 4:45 PM || Saturday, March 23
Organizer: Paize Keulemans – Princeton University
Chair: Judith Zeitlin – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: Paize Keulemans – Princeton University
Paper Presenter: Tina Lu, Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University*
Paper Presenter: Charlotte Eubanks – Penn State
Paper Presenter: Robert Batchelor – Georgia Southern University
Discussant: Judith Zeitlin – University of Chicago
*Betwixt Text and Tricks: The Literary Cultures of Madiao in the Late Ming
Spatial Approaches to Japanese History: Technological Shifts and Regional Flows
Windows, Tower Bldg. || 3:00 PM – 4:45 PM || Saturday, March 23
Organizer: Joanna Linzer, Ph.D. Student, History, Yale University
Organizer: Youjia Li – Northwestern University
Chair: Amy Stanley – Northwestern University
Paper Presenter: Joanna Linzer – Yale University*
Paper Presenter: Masato Takenouchi, Visiting Associate Research Scholar in East Asian Studies, Yale University+
Paper Presenter: Youjia Li – Northwestern University
Paper Presenter: Hannah Shepherd – University of Cambridge
Discussant: Sakura Christmas – Bowdoin College
*The Environmental Politics of Iron Mining in Tokugawa Japan
+Tobacco, Technology and Social Relations in Highland Japan: The Case of Seinaiji Village
Reimagining Buddhist Modernity in Japan and Beyond: Helen Hardacre’s Influence on the Study of Japanese Religions
Columbine, Tower Building, Terrace Level || 5:15 PM – 7:00 PM || Saturday, March 23
Organizer: Barbara R. Ambros – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chair: Regan Murphy-Kao – Stanford University
Paper Presenter: Victoria R. Montrose – University of Southern California
Paper Presenter: Hwansoo Kim, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University*
Paper Presenter: Duncan R. Williams – University of Southern California
Paper Presenter: Barbara R. Ambros – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Discussant: Helen Hardacre – Harvard University
*Lady Ch’ŏn’s Role in the Making of Modern Korean Buddhism
SUNDAY, MARCH 24
From Mr. Science to Science Fiction: A Reprise and Reappraisal on the 100th Anniversary of May Fourth
Plaza Court 5, Plaza Building Concourse Level || 9:00 AM – 10:45 PM || Sunday, March 24
Organizer: Casey Lee – Harvard University
Chair: Charles Laughlin – University of Virginia
Paper Presenter: Casey Lee – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Jingling Chen – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paper Presenter: Bo An, Ph.D. Student, East Asian Languages & Literatures and Film & Media Studies, Yale University*
Paper Presenter: Yizhi Xiao – Shanghai International Studies University
Discussant: Mingwei Song – Wellesley College
*Lu Xun’s Deep Time: Modern Geology and Critical Consciousness in Chinese Modernity
The Spatial Turn in Japanese History
Columbine, Tower Building, Terrace Level || 9:00 AM – 10:45 PM || Sunday, March 24
Organizer: Mark J. Ravina – Emory University
Chair: Marcia Yonemoto – University of Colorado Boulder
Paper Presenter: Michelle Damian – Monmouth College
Paper Presenter: Mark J. Ravina – Emory University
Paper Presenter: Susan Burns – University of Chicago
Discussant: Fabian Drixler, Professor of History, Yale University
Discussant: Marcia Yonemoto – University of Colorado Boulder
Bears and Wives, Monkeys and Lovers: Animal Narratives in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
Governor’s Square 12, Plaza Bldg. || 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM || Sunday, March 24
Organizer: Paola Zamperini – Northwestern University
Chair: Qiancheng Li – Louisiana State University
Paper Presenter: I-Hsien Wu – City College of New York
Paper Presenter: Yun Bai, Ph.D. Student, East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University*
Paper Presenter: Ariel Fox – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: Paola Zamperini – Northwestern University
Discussant: Qiancheng Li – Louisiana State University
*Babies and Dogs: Contesting Humanity in Late Imperial Chinese Biji Stories