Schedules
Registration 8am-
Panel 1: 8.30-10.30am
The Search for Native and Global Identities in Modern and Contemporary Japan
Room: McCormack 2-423
Wang-kai To, Bridgewater State College, “Isawa Shuji (1851-1917): Transnational History and Public Memory of a Meiji Intellectual”
Benjamin Carson, Bridgewater State College, “Ainu and Anishinaabe Stories of Survivance: Shigeru Kayano, Katsuichi Konda, and Gerald Vizenor”
Walter Carroll, Bridgewater State College, “Sushi: Globalization through Food Culture”
DISCUSSANT: Mark Lincicome, College of the Holy Cross
Off Kilter: Spatial and Temporal Dislocations in Japanese Women’s Writing around the Turn of the Century
Room: McCormack 1-209
Melissa Wender, Harvard University, “Dislocations, Miscommunications, and War Memory: Saegusa Kazuko’s “Death that Winter”
Eve Zimmerman, Wellesley College, “Maboroshi or Phantom? A Poetics of Space in Tsushima Yuko’s Fiction of the 1980s”
Amanda Seaman, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, “Atopic Pregnancy: Childbearing and Female Identity in ‘The Unfertilized Egg’”
Reproduction of Buddhist Pasts
Room: McCormack 1-207
Trais Pearson, Cornell University, “Rethinking Intentions in Mongkut’s Dhammayut Movement”
Andrew Johnson, Cornell University, “Return to the Old City: Reproducing Lanna in the Era of Bad Ghosts”
Jonathan Young, Cornell University, “Creating a Buddhist Lay Community: The Significance of
the Upaasakajanaalankaara in 19th Century Lanka”
DISCUSSANT: Jonathan Young, Cornell University
Writing Love and Friendship: The Role of Genre and Gender in the Discourse of Love and Friendship in Medieval Chinese Literature
Room: McCormack 1-409
Marie Bizais “Genres, Different Ways of Readings: The Case of Affective Markers in Poems and Letters”
Qiulei Hu, Harvard University, “Disfavored Empress or Mighty Warlord? –The Authorship and Story of the ‘Ballad on a Pond’”
Yue Hong, Harvard University, “The ‘Grammar’ of Romantic Expression in the Ninth Century”
DISCUSSANT: Stephen Owen, Harvard University
Post–World War II Japan
Room: McCormack 3-407
Yasushi Toda, Harvard University, “Tokyo Trial Revisited: Rekindled Nationalism in Japan”
Mark Silver, Middlebury College, “Representing Rupture: The Post-Atomic Nation in Early Postwar Japanese Documentary Photographs and Writings ”
Kyle Ikeda, Univ. of Vermont, “Vicarious War Memory ad Critical Sentimentality in Medoruma Shun’s “Tree of Butterflies”
Jessamyn Abel, Penn State University/ Harvard University, “Governing Bodies and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics”
Panel 2: 10.45-12.45am
Politically Engaged/Encaged Literature and Arts
Room: McCormack 2-423
Bruce Baird, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, “The Varieties of Theatrical Experience in 1960’s Avant-Garde Dance”
Jina Kim, Smith College, “Myths and Machines: The 1970’s Fiction of Cho Sehui and Nakagami Kenji”
Sayumi Takahashi, Connecticut College, “Apertures of the (A)Political Unconscious: Photographed Dream Facsimiles in Sakamoto Ryûichi and Murakami Ryû’s Monica”
Rachel DiNitto, College of William and Mary, “Youth Culture, Pure Literature, and the Political Imagination in Postbubble Japan”
Contemporary Culture
Room: McCormack 3-407
Casey Miller, Brandeis University, “Imagining Identities and Creating Community through HIV/AIDS Activism in a Chinese Grassroots Gay Men’s Group”
Linda Lau, Tufts University, “Identifying the Other ‘Other’: Chinese Blackface and the Sinic Racial Imaginary”
Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University, “Stepping Our of Two-Town: Recent Visions of Shinjuku Nichôme”
Jonathan Abel, Penn State University/ Harvard University, “The Unmentionables of Japanese Film: Getting Over White Underwear in Roman Porno”
Penetrating the Unitary Moral Front: Literary Reappraisal of Value in Seventeenth-Centutry China
Room: McCormack 1-207
Ning Ma, Tufts University, “The Saintly Prostitute in Jin Yun Qiao zhuan (The Romance of the Golden
Hairpin)”
Maria Franca, Harvard University, “Loyalty, Martyrdom, and Survival in Two Stories from Xingshi yan”
Xiaoqiao Ling, Harvard University, “Fragmentation of the Authorial Self: Ding Yaokang’s Memoir Chujie jilüe”
DISCUSSANT: Alexander Des Forges, Univ. of Massachusetts Boston
Colonial Contexts
Room: McCormack 1-209
Jin Makabe, Harvard University/ Hokkaidô University, “Colonial Policies of Christian Scholars at the Imperial Universities of Japan: Socialism and Holism”
Karen Teoh, Harvard University, “Exotic Flowers, Modern Women: Overseas Chinese Girls’ Schools in British Malaya”
Wei-chi Chen, New York University, “Complaint, Everyday Unevenness, and the Politics of Colonial Temporality in Taiwan in the 1920s and 1930s”
East Asian History
Room: McCormack 1-409
Thu Hien Do, Harvard University, “Nguyen Phi Khanh and the Formation of Confucianism Literature in Vietnam”
Hongjie Wang, Armstrong Atlantic State Univ., “The Civil Pursuit of a Military Man in the Tenth Century China”
Florentino Rodao, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “Fascism in the Philippines, 1935-1939”
Haihong Li, “Official Agents of the Imperial State: Clan Heads of the Manchus (1644-1912)”
Keynote Speech and Luncheon: 1-2pm
Location: Healey Library 11th Floor, Reception Room
Panel 3: 2.15-4.15pm
Contemporary Politics
Room: McCormack 1-207
Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes, Naval War College, “China’s New Undersea Nuclear Deterrent: Strategy, Doctrine, and Capabilities”
Michael Wood, Dawson College, “Squaring the Triangle: Muslim Reactions to the Guided Democracy Regime”
Anna Mallett, Texas Tech University “Unheard Voices: The Families of Vietnamese Political Prisoners Association and Its Struggle for Freedom”
Guofei Chu, “The Implications of Alliance Politics in East Asia in the Post-Cold War Era, Use the U.S.-Japan Alliance As a Case Study”
Literature
Room: McCormack 1-209
Frederick Green, Yale University, “The Strange, The Foreign, and the Quotidian: Xu Xu’s Modernist Zhiguai-Tales and the Search for a Chinese Romanticism”
Robin Tierney, Univ. of Iowa, “Literary Resistance to Neo-liberalism: Three Contemporary Japanese Writers.”
Karen Thornber, Harvard University “Environmental Justice in Modern Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Literatures”
L. Halliday Piel, Lasell College, “Loyal Dogs and Meiji Boys: The Controversy Over Japan’s First Children’s Story, Koganemaru (1891)”
Republican China and Taiwan
Room: McCormack 1-207
Lawrence Kessler, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Zhou Enlai’s Escape from Shanghai in 1931”
Yi Gu, Brown University, “Reinventing Xiesheng (Sketching From Life): Neologism, Authority, and the Early Republican Art World”
Jennifer Rudolph, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, “Staking Out Taiwan’s Identity: The Many Faces of Koxinga”
East Asian Religions
Room: McCormack 2-423
Ben Grafstrom, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, “Mongaku: A Model Monk, A Model Warrior”
Terry Kawashima, Wesleyan University, “It Takes Two: Suwa Shrine Narratives and Bifurcation of Power in Medieval Japan”
B. Hyun Choo, SUNY-Stony-Brook, “Wonch’uk’s Commentary on the Heart Sutra: His Unique Exposition of the Yogâcâra interpretation of the Heart Sutra”
Virtual Worlds, Real Politics: New Approaches to Anime and Popular Culture
Room: McCormack 3-407
Ian Condry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Susan Napier, Tufts University
Ryotarô Mihara, Cornell University/Massachusetts Institute of Technology