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SUMMARY:Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 2021 Association of Asian Studies New England Regional Conference is hosted by Harvard University’s Asia-related centers\, including: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University Asia Center\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs\, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies \n\nPresented via ZoomRegister at https://bit.ly/NEAAS2021 \nWhile there is no registration fee\, we suggest that attendees donate to the Association for Asian Studies at a level that is comfortable for them. \n\n8:30 – 8:45 AM EST Welcome and Introduction8:45 – 10:15 AM EST Panel A1-A510:30 – 11:45 AM EST Panel B1-B512:00 – 1:15 PM EST Keynote1:45 – 3:15 PM EST Panel C1-C53:30 – 5:00 PM EST Panel D1-D55:00 – 5:10 PM EST Conclusion \n8:30 – 8:45 AM EST  \nWelcome and Opening RemarkProfessor Elizabeth J. PerryFormer President\, Association for Asian Studies (2007-08)Director\, Harvard-Yenching InstituteHenry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University \nTo be followed by Zoom logistics guidelines by Mark Grady\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  \n8:45 – 10:15 AM EST(The following 6 panels take place simultaneously) \nPanel A1     Liquid State: The Politics of Dam ConstructionChair/Discussant: Prof. Rohan D’Souza (Kyoto University)Hydrosociality and Power in the Struggle over the Ishiki DamCharlotte Ciavarella and Joshua Linkous (Harvard University) \nHydropower Dams and Politics of River Development in VietnamNga Dao (York University) \nDam Politics in South Vietnam during the Cold War: The Case of the Da Nhim DamChu Duy Ly (National University of Singapore\, currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nLearning from the Tennessee Valley Authority: Hydropower Cooperation between China and the United States in the 1940sXiangli Ding (Rhode Island School of Design) \nUrbanization and Rural Politics in the Ch’ungju Flood ZoneWill Sack (Harvard University) \nPanel A2     Margin(s) and Center(s) of Empire and Literature: Wang Wei and Meng HaoranChair: Christopher M. B. Nugent (Williams College) \nMeng Haoran and Wang Wei in the Eyes of Their ContemporariesPaul W. Kroll (University of Colorado) \n‘I’m at leisure (閑 haen) in the mountains (山 sraen)\, but I have to turn back (還 hwaen) now and close (關 kwaen) my gate’: Rhyme-Words and Poetic ArgumentStephen Owen (Harvard University) \nPlowing at a Distance: Perspectives on Agricultural Labor in the Poems of Wang WeiChristopher M. B. Nugent (Williams College) \nWang Wei as a Case study for Classical Chinese Poetry in TranslationCathy Shen (Harvard University) \nPanel A3     Knowledge\, Books\, and TextChair: Prof. Si Nae Park (Harvard University) \nMaking Different: Reproducing the Histories of Koryŏ in the Twentieth CenturyGraeme R. Reynolds (Yale University) \nMaking Dungan Literary History: Formation of the Sinophone Muslim Literary Tradition of Central AsiaKenneth J. Yin (City University of New York) \nChoi Namsŏn in the Transnational Publication WorldJeonghun Choi (Harvard University) \nThe Construction of Knowledge Archive in Early Modern South AsiaSushmita Banerjee (University of Delhi\, Indi) \nFlowing with Wind and Stream: The Affect of Fengliu 風流 in the Hongzhi Edition of The Story of the Western Wing 西廂記Xiaoyue Luo (University of Colorado\, Boulder) \nPanel A4     Gender and SexualityChair: Prof. Rachel Joo (Middlebury College) \nSubfertility as an Active Planning for Pregnancy in Neoliberal South KoreaJean Young Kim (University of Texas at Austin) \nThe Saigon Sisters: Privileged Women in the ResistancePatricia D. Norland (Independent writer) \nProtest with a party: The Semiotic Landscaping of Metro Manila Pride March as Southern PraxisChristian Go (National University of Singapore\, currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nJapan’s Gay Seoul: Behind the Scene at a Korean ‘Snack Bar’ in TokyoAlbert Graves (Doshisha University) \nAttraction as a Mode of Power: Matchmaking\, Romantic Fetish\, and the State in Contemporary ChinaShanni Zhao (Harvard University) \nPanel A5     Chinese State and GovernanceChair: Prof. Elizabeth J. Perry (Harvard University) \nNumbers\, Fiscal Capacity\, and Capacity-Building in China\, 1500-1800Liu Ziang (London School of Economics and Political Science) \nLocal Deliberations and Market Development during the Mao EraKristine Li (Brown University) \nEchoes of Revolution and Civil War: Party Building in Chinese Counties\, 1949- 2005.Zheng Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong \nWhen Clans Meet Power: Elite Competition and Rural Governance in ChinaMeina Cai (University of Connecticut) \nPanel A6      Narrative and TranslationChair: Prof. David Wang (Harvard University) \nForgetting as Knowing: Knowledge and Wisdom in Zhuangzi’s Stories from Inner ChaptersShangtong Cui (Harvard University) \nWar\, World Literature\, and the “Real”: Futabatei Shimei and the Problem of Literary Translation in the Post-Russo–Japanese War Period in JapanYuki Ishida (Columbia University) \nTranscultural Dialogues: Eileen Chang’s Autobiographical FictionJessica Tsui-yan Li (York University) \nVisual and Poetic Imagination in The Four Seasons\, A Ming Handscroll in the Metropolitan MuseumMo Zhang (University of Pennsylvania) \n10:30 – 11:45 AM EST(The following 5 panels take place simultaneously) \nPanel B1     Revisiting East Asia through Mission Collections in New EnglandChair: Sharon Yang (Harvard University) \nDigital Frontiers: The China Historical Christian DatabaseAlex Mayfield (Boston University) \nThe Archival Collections on East Asia at the Yale Divinity LibraryChristopher Anderson (Yale University) \nHarvard-Yenching Missionary CollectionSharon Li-shiuan Yang (Harvard-Yenching Library) \nThe Ricci Institute: A Global Resource for the Interdisciplinary Study of Christianity in East AsiaMark Mir and M. Antoni Ucerler (Boston College) \nMissionary Research Library: More than TheologyLeah Edelman (Columbia University Libraries) \nPanel B2     Knowledge Production in State-building during the Early PRCChair: Prof. Sigrid Schmalzer (University of Massachusetts Amherst) \nWoven Together: Cotton Trade and the Making of Trade Practices in Cold War Asia\, 1950-1959Bohao Wu (Harvard University) \nLearning through Hosting: Cameroonian Delegations to the PRC and Chinese Knowledge Production on Africa\, 1956-1965Caitlin Barker (Michigan State University) \nHistory Education in Shanghai’s Secondary Schools in the 1950sGuanhua Tan (University of Massachusetts Amherst) \nQuantifying Rural China: Wartime Land Reform\, Statistics\, and State Fiscal Capacity in North China (1946-1949)Xiaoyu Gao (University of Chicago) \nPanel B3     Constitutions and CitizenshipChair: Prof. Tyler Giannini (Harvard University) \nThe Use of Programmatic Beliefs in EU-China Trade Disputes in the WTO DSMSalvatore FP Barillà (University of Edinburgh) \nMyanmar Citizenship Laws: Making Rohingya Muslims StatelessRonan Lee (Queen Mary University of London) \nObstructive Constitutionalism: Democratic Transitions and Pre-Emptive Authoritarian Constitution-Making in Southeast AsiaJohn Chua (Harvard University) \nPanel B4     Folklore\, Ghosts\, Monsters\, and the FantasticalChair: Prof. James Robson (Harvard University) \nEncountering ghosts: haunting and intercommunal relations in Phang NgaChantal Croteau (University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor) \nTender Warriors Against the Pandemic in Japan: Kumamon\, Quaran & AmabieMichael L. Maynard ( Temple University) \nViral Monsters for a Viral Era: Japan’s Folkloric Response to COVID-19Isabel Bush (Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies) \nA Space of the Subordinate: On the Development of “The Three-body Problem” FandomShuwen Yang (UCLA) \nPanel B5     IdentityChair: Prof. Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University) \nPower and Identity of the Manchu and Mongol Bannermen in Qing: A Study of Household Economies by Means of Confiscation Inventory ListsYitong Qiu (London School of Economics and Political Science) \nVietnamese International Students in the Asian American Movement (1968-1975)Cai Barias (University of Massachusetts Amherst) \n“In-between” Asian Americans: Falling through the intersectional cracks of LiminalityKristin Kim (Korea University \nDocumentary Betrayal: Migrant Worker\, the Aesthetics of Cruelty\, and Fabulating OtherwiseYufan Chen (Harvard University) \nMigration\, Race and Nation: Chinese Views in Comparative and Global Context\, 1900s-1940sLisong Liu (Massachusetts College of Art and Design) \nHistory\, Identity and Hong Kong: A Constructivist Approach to the De-colonisation of British Hong KongMatthew Hurst (University of Oxford) \n  \n12:00 – 1:15 PM EST KeynoteProfessor Hy V. LuongPresident\, Association for Asian StudiesProfessor of Anthropology\, University of Toronto \n  \nLocal Culture or Global Neoliberal Ideology?:Reflections on a Shifting Intellectual Landscape \n  \n1:45 – 3:15 PM EST(The following 4 panels take place simultaneously) \nPanel C1     Assessing China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Strategic Evolution and the European CaseChair: Prof. Nargis Kassenova (Harvard University) \nFrom Ambiguity to Articulation: Belt and Road Initiative’s Dynamic Process in ChinaMin Ye (Boston University) \nBurning (Atlantic) Bridges? China’s Rise in Europe and its Implications for U.S. Grand StrategyThomas Cavanna (Tufts University) \nFrom Maritime Silk Road to Health Silk Road: Belt and Road Initiative’s Dynamic Process in EuropeGrant Rhode (Boston University) \nPanel C2     Thinking through the Asian Diaspora\, Racial Oppression\, and Intersectional Identity \nLabor’s Advocacy for Whiteness and Chinese Exclusion in Defense of the “American Standard of Living”Pat Reeve (Suffolk University) \nWang Hao\, the Chinese Diaspora\, and PhilosophyMontgomery Link (Suffolk University) \nEvangelical Christianity\, Sex and the Massacre of Asian American Women in Atlanta on March 16\, 2021Amy Fisher (Suffolk University) \nA Feminist Critique of Anti-Asian Violence in the Context of U.S.-China RelationMicky Lee (Suffolk University) \nThe Invisibility and Microaggression Experiences of Asians in USA: How can we Understand and Reduce their Adverse Impact on Psychological WellbeingSukanya Ray (Suffolk University) \nPanel C3     Empire and ColonialismChair: Prof. Sugata Bose (Harvard University) \nDandelions\, Airships\, and the Long Way Around: Orientating Nakayama Miki’s Divine Parental GuidanceMichaela Leah Prostak (Brown University) \nSacred Maneuvers: Maulana Azad and the Career of Muslim Nationalism in British IndiaAneeq Ejaz (Dartmouth College) \nSir Robert Hart and the territorialization of Qing rule in aboriginal TaiwanGeorges Moraitis (Queen’s University Belfast) \nIndustrial Whaling and the Expansion of the Japanese Maritime Empire\, 1890- 1912Fynn Holm (Harvard University) \nDiscursive Empire: The Shifting Definitions of Japan’s Empire in Manchuria (1905–37)Yuting Dong (Harvard University) \nPanel C4     MilitaryChair: Prof. Michael Szonyi (Harvard University) \nAmerican Trash\, Japanese Treasure: Military Garbage in Occupied JapanConnor Mills (Dartmouth College) \nSoldering Across Space and Time: “Taiwanese” Servicemen Under the Japanese and U.S Empires (1930s – 1970s)Shang Yasuda (University of Pennsylvania) \nThe Rhythms of Commodification: Mid-Qing Military Horse ProvisioningCharles Argon (Princeton University) \nNeoliberalism and the Political Economy of Bangladesh MilitaryMatt M. Husain (The University of British Columbia) \n  \n3:30 – 5:00 PM EST(The following 5 panels take place simultaneously) \nPanel D1      More than the Sum of it Parts: Piecing together Chinese Fragment Histories in the Harvard Art MuseumsChair: Sarah Lauren (Harvard University) \nSeeing through the Cracks: Kharakhoto Fragments in the HAM CollectionVictoria Andrews (Harvard University) \nPutting Face to Place: Fragments from Warner’s “Elephant Chapel”Isabel McWilliams (Harvard University) \nFrom Henan to Harvard: Three Sixth-century Buddhist Heads in ContextMichael Norton (Harvard University) \nReframing Tianlongshan: Facing the Past and Looking AheadSarah Laursen (Harvard Art Museums) \nPanel D2      Nation\, Religion\, and Society in Modern Korea: Examinations of Religious Freedom & Restriction\, Modern Social Engagement\, and (Inter)National Identity and BelongingChair: Prof. Kyuhoon Cho (University of Regina) \nRational Restriction on Religion? How North Korea Conceives of Religious FreedomJohn G. Grisafi (Yale University) \nShifts in the Social Engagement of Modern Korean BuddhismJusung Lee (Yale University) \nGeorge May’s Lost Town: Remembering Yongsan Garrison through Seoul American High School\, 1974-2019Karis Ryu (Yale University) \nPanel D3     International Relations and International PoliticsChair: Prof. Mesrob Vartavarian (Harvard University) \nMaking Sense of China’s Western Neighbourhood Diplomacy: A Neoclassical Realist ArgumentGiulia Sciorati (University of Trento) \nWrestling with the Past: Sumō and the Restoration of Japan-China Relations in the 1970sErik Esselstrom (University of Vermont) \nBefore the Storm Comes: Diplomatic Exchanges between Mongols\, Korea\, and Japan Before 1274 Bun’ei CampaignLina Nie (University of Southern California) \nHegemony and Indirect Balancing in Mainland Southeast AsiaPaul Un (University of Chicago) \nPanel D4     Places and CitiesChair: Prof. Nicole Newendorp (Harvard University) \nDecoy of the Gods: Votive Artillery at Asuke Hanchimangū Shrine and Population Politics in a Shrinking Suburb of Japan’s Fourth Largest CityChristopher S. Thompson (Ohio University) \nCollective Construction: Building “Community” and “Chumchon” in BangkokHayden Shelby (University of Cincinnati)\, Trude Renwick (Hong Kong University) \nThe Timing of the largest flower market in AsiaRui Sun (Chinese University of Hong Kong\, currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nSeeing Time in Space: Temporality of Symbolic Landscape in LaosAnna Koshcheeva (Cornell University) \nPanel D5     PerformanceChair: Prof. Alex Zahlten (Harvard University) \nSecularizing Bollywood: Mother Images in Popular Hindi CinemaLiangdong Chen (Beijing Normal University\, currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nA Centennial Portrait: Ballets Performed in 2021 for 100th Year of the Chinese Communist Party’s FoundingEva Shan Chou (City University of New York) \n“Even if it Means our Battles to Date are Meaningless”: The Anime Gundam Wing and Postwar History\, Memory\, and Identity in JapanGenevieve R Peterson (University of Massachusetts Boston) \nLocal Performing Arts and Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: A Descriptive Qualitative StudyAkiko Iizuka (Utsunomiya University) \nMusical Borrowing for Career Advancement: Daechwita in K-popSunhong Kim (University of Michigan)
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