Yale CEAS at AAS 2019

February 13, 2019

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

Tower Court A, Tower Bldg. || 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM || Saturday, March, 23

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