BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:260@harvard-yenching.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211206T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211206T170000 DTSTAMP:20211201T194211Z URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/association-for-asian-studies- new-england-regional-conference/ SUMMARY:Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Conference DESCRIPTION:A group of academic centers and institutes that support the stu dy of Asia at Harvard University will jointly host the Association for Asi an Studies New England Regional Conference via a virtual platform on Decem ber 6\, 2021.\nCo-sponsors: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard Asia Center\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mitta l and Family South Asia Institute\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Weat herhead Center for International Affairs\, Reischauer Institute of Japanes e Studies\n\nRegister for the conference here\n\nWhile there is no registr ation 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 (ES T): Welcome and Introduction\n8:45 – 10:15 AM (EST): Panel A1-A6\n10:3 0 – 11:45 AM (EST): Panel B1-B5\n12:00 – 1:15 PM (EST): Keynote\n1:4 5 – 3:15 PM (EST): Panel C1-C4\n3:30 – 5:00 PM (EST): Panel D1-D5\n\ n8:30 – 8:45 AM EST \n\nWelcome and Opening Remarks\n\nProfessor Elizab eth J. Perry\nFormer President\, Association for Asian Studies (2007-08)\n Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\nHenry Rosovsky Professor of Governm ent\, Harvard University\n\nTo be followed by Zoom logistics guidelines by Mark Grady\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n8:45 – 10:15 AM EST\n(The following 6 panels take place simultaneously)\n\nPanel A1     Liquid State: The Politics of Dam Construction\nChair/Discussant: Prof. Rohan D'Souza (Kyoto University)\n\nHydrosociality and Power in the Strug gle over the Ishiki Dam\nCharlotte Ciavarella and Joshua Linkous (Harvard University)\n\nHydropower Dams and Politics of River Development in Vietna m\nNga Dao (York University)\n\nDam Politics in South Vietnam during the C old War: The Case of the Da Nhim Dam\nChu Duy Ly (National University of S ingapore\, currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute)\ n\nLearning from the Tennessee Valley Authority: Hydropower Cooperation be tween China and the United States in the 1940s\nXiangli Ding (Rhode Island School of Design)\n\nUrbanization and Rural Politics in the Ch’ungju Fl ood Zone\nWill Sack (Harvard University)\n\nPanel A2     Margin(s) and Center(s) of Empire and Literature: Wang Wei and Meng Haoran\nChair: Chris topher M. B. Nugent (Williams College)\nDiscussant: Jack W. Chen (Universi ty of Virginia)\n\n\nMeng Haoran and Wang Wei in the Eyes of Their Contemp oraries\nPaul W. Kroll (University of Colorado)\n\n‘I’m at leisure ( 閑 haen) in the mountains (山 sraen)\, but I have to turn back (還 h waen) now and close (關 kwaen) my gate’: Rhyme-Words and Poetic Argume nt\nStephen Owen (Harvard University)\n\nPlowing at a Distance: Perspectiv es on Agricultural Labor in the Poems of Wang Wei\nChristopher M. B. Nugen t (Williams College)\n\nWang Wei as a Case study for Classical Chinese Poe try in Translation\nCathy Shen (Harvard University)\n\nPanel A3     Kn owledge\, Books\, and Text\nChair: Prof. Si Nae Park (Harvard University)\ n\nMaking Different: Reproducing the Histories of Koryŏ in the Twentieth Century\nGraeme R. Reynolds (Yale University)\n\nMaking Dungan Literary Hi story: Formation of the Sinophone Muslim Literary Tradition of Central Asi a\nKenneth J. Yin (City University of New York)\n\nChoi Namsŏn in the Tra nsnational Publication World\nJeonghun Choi (Harvard University)\n\nThe Co nstruction of Knowledge Archive in Early Modern South Asia\nSushmita Baner jee (University of Delhi\, Indi)\n\nFlowing with Wind and Stream: The Affe ct of Fengliu 風流 in the Hongzhi Edition of The Story of the Western Wi ng 西廂記\nXiaoyue Luo (University of Colorado\, Boulder)\n\nPanel A4      Gender and Sexuality\nChair: Prof. Rachel Joo (Middlebury College)\ n\nSubfertility as an Active Planning for Pregnancy in Neoliberal South Ko rea\nJean Young Kim (University of Texas at Austin)\n\nThe Saigon Sisters: Privileged Women in the Resistance\nPatricia D. Norland (Independent writ er)\n\nProtest with a party: The Semiotic Landscaping of Metro Manila Prid e March as Southern Praxis\nChristian Go (National University of Singapore \, currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute)\n\nJapan ’s Gay Seoul: Behind the Scene at a Korean ‘Snack Bar’ in Tokyo\nAlb ert Graves (Doshisha University)\n\nAttraction as a Mode of Power: Matchma king\, Romantic Fetish\, and the State in Contemporary China\nShanni Zhao (Harvard University)\n\nPanel A5     Chinese State and Governance\nCha ir: Prof. Elizabeth J. Perry (Harvard University)\n\nNumbers\, Fiscal Capa city\, and Capacity-Building in China\, 1500-1800\nLiu Ziang (London Schoo l of Economics and Political Science)\n\nLocal Deliberations and Market De velopment during the Mao Era\nKristine Li (Brown University)\n\nEchoes of Revolution and Civil War: Party Building in Chinese Counties\, 1949- 2005. \nZheng Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong\n\nWhen Clans Meet Power: E lite Competition and Rural Governance in China\nMeina Cai (University of C onnecticut)\n\nPanel A6      Narrative and Translation\nChair: Prof. D avid Wang (Harvard University)\n\nForgetting as Knowing: Knowledge and Wis dom in Zhuangzi’s Stories from Inner Chapters\nShangtong Cui (Harvard U niversity)\n\nWar\, World Literature\, and the “Real”: Futabatei Shime i and the Problem of Literary Translation in the Post-Russo–Japanese War Period in Japan\nYuki Ishida (Columbia University)\n\nTranscultural Dialo gues: Eileen Chang’s Autobiographical Fiction\nJessica Tsui-yan Li (York University)\n\nVisual and Poetic Imagination in The Four Seasons\, A Min g Handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum\nMo Zhang (University of Pennsylva nia)\n\n10:30 – 11:45 AM EST\n(The following 5 panels take place simulta neously)\n\nPanel B1     Revisiting East Asia through Mission Collectio ns in New England\nChair: Sharon Yang (Harvard University)\n\nDigital Fron tiers: The China Historical Christian Database\nAlex Mayfield (Boston Univ ersity)\n\nThe Archival Collections on East Asia at the Yale Divinity Libr ary\nChristopher Anderson (Yale University)\n\nHarvard-Yenching Missionary Collection\nSharon Li-shiuan Yang (Harvard-Yenching Library)\n\nThe Ricci Institute: A Global Resource for the Interdisciplinary Study of Christian ity in East Asia\nMark Mir and M. Antoni Ucerler (Boston College)\n\nMissi onary Research Library: More than Theology\nLeah Edelman (Columbia Univers ity Libraries)\n\nPanel B2     Knowledge Production in State-building d uring the Early PRC\nChair: Prof. Sigrid Schmalzer (University of Massachu setts Amherst)\n\nWoven Together: Cotton Trade and the Making of Trade Pra ctices in Cold War Asia\, 1950-1959\nBohao Wu (Harvard University)\n\nLear ning through Hosting: Cameroonian Delegations to the PRC and Chinese Knowl edge Production on Africa\, 1956-1965\nCaitlin Barker (Michigan State Univ ersity)\n\nHistory Education in Shanghai’s Secondary Schools in the 1950 s\nGuanhua Tan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)\n\nQuantifying Rural China: Wartime Land Reform\, Statistics\, and State Fiscal Capacity in Nor th China (1946-1949)\nXiaoyu Gao (University of Chicago)\n\nPanel B3     Constitutions and Citizenship\nChair: Prof. Tyler Giannini (Harvard Un iversity)\n\nThe Use of Programmatic Beliefs in EU-China Trade Disputes in the WTO DSM\nSalvatore FP Barillà (University of Edinburgh)\n\nMyanmar C itizenship Laws: Making Rohingya Muslims Stateless\nRonan Lee (Queen Mary University of London)\n\nObstructive Constitutionalism: Democratic Transit ions and Pre-Emptive Authoritarian Constitution-Making in Southeast Asia\n John Chua (Harvard University)\n\nPanel B4     Folklore\, Ghosts\, Mon sters\, and the Fantastical\nChair: Prof. James Robson (Harvard University )\n\nEncountering ghosts: haunting and intercommunal relations in Phang Ng a\nChantal Croteau (University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor)\n\nTender Warriors Against the Pandemic in Japan: Kumamon\, Quaran &\; Amabie\nMichael L. Maynard ( Temple University)\n\nViral Monsters for a Viral Era: Japan’s Folkloric Response to COVID-19\nIsabel Bush (Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies)\n\nA Space of the Subordinate: On the Developme nt of “The Three-body Problem” Fandom\nShuwen Yang (UCLA)\n\nPanel B5      Identity\nChair: Prof. Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University)\n\nPower and Identity of the Manchu and Mongol Bannermen in Qing: A Study of House hold Economies by Means of Confiscation Inventory Lists\nYitong Qiu (Londo n School of Economics and Political Science)\n\nVietnamese International S tudents in the Asian American Movement (1968-1975)\nCai Barias (University of Massachusetts Amherst)\n\n“In-between” Asian Americans: Falling th rough the intersectional cracks of Liminality\nKristin Kim (Korea Universi ty\n\nDocumentary Betrayal: Migrant Worker\, the Aesthetics of Cruelty\, a nd Fabulating Otherwise\nYufan Chen (Harvard University)\n\nMigration\, Ra ce and Nation: Chinese Views in Comparative and Global Context\, 1900s-194 0s\nLisong Liu (Massachusetts College of Art and Design)\n\nHistory\, Iden tity and Hong Kong: A Constructivist Approach to the De-colonisation of Br itish Hong Kong\nMatthew Hurst (University of Oxford)\n\n12:00 – 1:15 PM EST Keynote\nProfessor Hy V. Luong\nPresident\, Association for Asian St udies\nProfessor of Anthropology\, University of Toronto\n\n\n"Local Cultu re or Global Neoliberal Ideology? Reflections on a Shifting Intellectual L andscape"\n\n1:45 – 3:15 PM EST\n(The following 4 panels take place simu ltaneously)\n\nPanel C1     Assessing China’s Belt and Road Initiativ e: Strategic Evolution and the European Case\nChair: Prof. Nargis Kassenov a (Harvard University)\n\nFrom Ambiguity to Articulation: Belt and Road In itiative’s Dynamic Process in China\nMin Ye (Boston University)\n\nBurni ng (Atlantic) Bridges? China’s Rise in Europe and its Implications for U .S. Grand Strategy\nThomas Cavanna (Tufts University)\n\nFrom Maritime Sil k Road to Health Silk Road: Belt and Road Initiative’s Dynamic Process i n Europe\nGrant Rhode (Boston University)\n\nPanel C2     Thinking thr ough the Asian Diaspora\, Racial Oppression\, and Intersectional Identity\ n\nLabor’s Advocacy for Whiteness and Chinese Exclusion in Defense of th e “American Standard of Living”\nPat Reeve (Suffolk University)\n\nWan g Hao\, the Chinese Diaspora\, and Philosophy\nMontgomery Link (Suffolk Un iversity)\n\nEvangelical Christianity\, Sex and the Massacre of Asian Amer ican Women in Atlanta on March 16\, 2021\nAmy Fisher (Suffolk University)\ n\nA Feminist Critique of Anti-Asian Violence in the Context of U.S.-China Relation\nMicky Lee (Suffolk University)\n\nThe Invisibility and Microagg ression Experiences of Asians in USA: How can we Understand and Reduce the ir Adverse Impact on Psychological Wellbeing\nSukanya Ray (Suffolk Univers ity)\n\nPanel C3     Empire and Colonialism\nChair: Prof. Sugata Bose (Harvard University)\n\nDandelions\, Airships\, and the Long Way Around: O rientating Nakayama Miki’s Divine Parental Guidance\nMichaela Leah Prost ak (Brown University)\n\nSacred Maneuvers: Maulana Azad and the Career of Muslim Nationalism in British India\nAneeq Ejaz (Dartmouth College)\n\nSir Robert Hart and the territorialization of Qing rule in aboriginal Taiwan\ nGeorges Moraitis (Queen’s University Belfast)\n\nIndustrial Whaling and the Expansion of the Japanese Maritime Empire\, 1890- 1912\nFynn Holm (Ha rvard University)\n\nDiscursive Empire: The Shifting Definitions of Japan ’s Empire in Manchuria (1905–37)\nYuting Dong (Harvard University)\n\n Panel C4     Military\nChair: Prof. Michael Szonyi (Harvard University) \n\nAmerican Trash\, Japanese Treasure: Military Garbage in Occupied Japan \nConnor Mills (Dartmouth College)\n\nSoldering Across Space and Time: “ Taiwanese” Servicemen Under the Japanese and U.S Empires (1930s – 1970 s)\nShang Yasuda (University of Pennsylvania)\n\nThe Rhythms of Commodific ation: Mid-Qing Military Horse Provisioning\nCharles Argon (Princeton Univ ersity)\n\nNeoliberalism and the Political Economy of Bangladesh Military\ nMatt M. Husain (The University of British Columbia)\n\n3:30 – 5:00 PM E ST\n(The following 5 panels take place simultaneously)\n\nPanel D1      More than the Sum of it Parts: Piecing together Chinese Fragment Histo ries in the Harvard Art Museums\nChair: Sarah Lauren (Harvard University)\ n\nSeeing through the Cracks: Kharakhoto Fragments in the HAM Collection\n Victoria Andrews (Harvard University)\n\nPutting Face to Place: Fragments from Warner’s “Elephant Chapel”\nIsabel McWilliams (Harvard Universi ty)\n\nFrom Henan to Harvard: Three Sixth-century Buddhist Heads in Contex t\nMichael Norton (Harvard University)\n\nReframing Tianlongshan: Facing t he Past and Looking Ahead\nSarah Laursen (Harvard Art Museums)\n\nPanel D2       Nation\, Religion\, and Society in Modern Korea: Examinations o f Religious Freedom &\; Restriction\, Modern Social Engagement\, and (I nter)National Identity and Belonging\nChair: Prof. Kyuhoon Cho (University of Regina)\n\nRational Restriction on Religion? How North Korea Conceives of Religious Freedom\nJohn G. Grisafi (Yale University)\n\nShifts in the Social Engagement of Modern Korean Buddhism\nJusung Lee (Yale University)\ n\nGeorge May’s Lost Town: Remembering Yongsan Garrison through Seoul Am erican High School\, 1974-2019\nKaris Ryu (Yale University)\n\nPanel D3     International Relations and International Politics\nChair: Prof. Mesr ob Vartavarian (Harvard University)\n\nMaking Sense of China’s Western N eighbourhood Diplomacy: A Neoclassical Realist Argument\nGiulia Sciorati ( University of Trento)\n\nWrestling with the Past: Sumō and the Restoratio n of Japan-China Relations in the 1970s\nErik Esselstrom (University of Ve rmont)\n\nBefore the Storm Comes: Diplomatic Exchanges between Mongols\, K orea\, and Japan Before 1274 Bun’ei Campaign\nLina Nie (University of So uthern California)\n\nHegemony and Indirect Balancing in Mainland Southeas t Asia\nPaul Un (University of Chicago)\n\nPanel D4     Places and Cit ies\nChair: Prof. Nicole Newendorp (Harvard University)\n\nDecoy of the Go ds: Votive Artillery at Asuke Hanchimangū Shrine and Population Politics in a Shrinking Suburb of Japan’s Fourth Largest City\nChristopher S. Tho mpson (Ohio University)\n\nCollective Construction: Building “Community ” and “Chumchon” in Bangkok\nHayden Shelby (University of Cincinnati )\, Trude Renwick (Hong Kong University)\n\nThe Timing of the largest flow er market in Asia\nRui Sun (Chinese University of Hong Kong\, currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute)\n\nSeeing Time in Space : Temporality of Symbolic Landscape in Laos\nAnna Koshcheeva (Cornell Univ ersity)\n\nPanel D5     Performance\nChair: Prof. Alex Zahlten (Harvard University)\n\nSecularizing Bollywood: Mother Images in Popular Hindi Cin ema\nLiangdong Chen (Beijing Normal University\, currently a visiting fell ow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute)\n\nA Centennial Portrait: Ballets Pe rformed in 2021 for 100th Year of the Chinese Communist Party’s Founding \nEva Shan Chou (City University of New York)\n\n“Even if it Means our B attles to Date are Meaningless”: The Anime Gundam Wing and Postwar Histo ry\, Memory\, and Identity in Japan\nGenevieve R Peterson (University of M assachusetts Boston)\n\nLocal Performing Arts and Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: A Descriptive Qualitative Study\nAkiko Iizuka (Utsunomiya University)\n\nMusical Borrowing for Career Advancement : Daechwita in K-pop\nSunhong Kim (University of Michigan)\n\nThank you fo r participating in the NEAAS 2021. We hope to see you in Honolulu\, Hawai ’i and online in March\, 2022!\n\n \;\n\n \; END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR