# Asia Intertwined: The 16th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference ![heas_20132.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/koreainst/files/heas_20132.jpg?itok=9Wd3Hniu) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **February 22 - February 24, 2013** All day #### pin\_drop Location **Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138** ![heas_20132.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/koreainst/files/heas_20132.jpg) Conference Schedule DAY 1: FEBRUARY 22nd (FRIDAY) 5.00 – 6.30pm **Registration** Venue: Concourse 6.30 – 6.45pm **Opening Address by Professor Michael Szonyi** Venue: Tsai Auditorium (S010) Please be seated by 6.30pm 6.45 – 7.30pm **Keynote Address** James Fallows, National correspondent for *The Atlantic* and author of *China Airborne* (2012). Venue: Tsai Auditorium (S010) 7.45 – 8.30pm **Reception** Venue: Concourse DAY 2: FEBRUARY 25th (SATURDAY) 09.30 – 10.30am **Breakfast** Venue: Concourse 10.30 – 12.00pm **PANEL SESSION I** **PANEL 1** **GEOPOLITICS AND CARTOGRAPHY** **DISCUSSANT: MICHAEL SZONYI** **VENUE: S050** *Border and Borderless: Power Collision and Identity Creation in the Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century South China Sea*—Bo-yi Chen, Washington University in St. Louis *The Invention of Pre-modern Knowledge in the Contact between Eastern and Western Culture: A Case Study from Cartographic Perspective*—Nan Ouyang, University of Arizona *Map and the Image of the "Foreign Lands": A Cross-cultural Analysis of Matteo Ricci's World Map*—Jing Zhao, Washington University in St. Louis **PANEL 2** **GENDER AND SEXUALITY** **DISCUSSANT: DAVID WANG** **VENUE: S030** *The Colonization of Sexuality and the Emerging Sexual Subjects: Governmentality of Sex in 1920-30s’ Taiwan and Korea*—Pei Jean Chen, Cornell University *Margaret Sanger’s Visit to China and the Eugenic Underpinnings of the Debates on Birth Control and Overpopulation in 1920s-1930s China*—Mirela David, New York University *Online Comrade Literature from Mainland China Contesting Hegemonic Norms of Gender and Sexuality*—Rachel Leng, Duke University *Doubled Men in Asian Courtly Literature: A Comparison of the Doublings of Male Protagonists in The Tale of Genji and Dream of the Red Chamber*—Bao-li Yang, Dartmouth College 12.00 – 1.30pm **Lunch break** 1.30 – 2.30pm **Conference Lecture** ‘Stirred, not Shaken: Mixing History and Politics in East Asia’ Professor Mark Elliott Venue: Tsai Auditorium (S010) 2.30 – 4.00pm **PANEL SESSION II** **PANEL 3** **INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS** **DISCUSSANT: SHINJU FUJIHIRA** **VENUE: S050** *The U.S. Trade Dollar and Imperialism in East Asian History*—Austin Dean, Ohio State University *Non-Frontier States: Historical Threats' Influence on Japan, South Korea and Taiwan's Legal Response to 9/11*—Natalie Kim, Harvard University *The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Security and Intelligence Growth is Changing the Landscape of East and Central Asia*—Dan Miller, University of Washington *Sino-Japanese Relations and the Question of Energy Competition— Jeremy Taylor*, University of London **PANEL 4** **LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION** **DISCUSSANT: PU WANG** **VENUE: S030** *Animal-Human Analogy as an Expression of Nationalist Sentiments in Late-Qing Chinese Poetry: The Cross-Cultural Interaction of Darwinism with Chinese Philosophy and Classical Chinese Poetics*—Kuan-yen Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara *Yi Sang’s Troubled Singularity and Linguistic Hybridity*—Yoon Jeong Oh, Cornell University *Between and Beyond the Boundaries of Translation, Adaptation, and Re-creation: Examining Originality in Oshikawa Shunrō’s Shin Arabian Naito*—Wakako Suzuki, University of California, Los Angeles *The Influence of Japanese in Translated Fiction and the Modernization of Literary Concepts in Early 20th Century*—Yan Zhang, Nanjing University 4.00 – 4.30pm **Tea Break** Venue: Concourse 4.30 – 6.00pm **PANEL SESSION III** **PANEL 5** **JAPANESE MODERNITIES** **DISCUSSANT: TOMIKO YODA** **VENUE: S050** *Spatiality of Ero, Guro, Nansensu: the Expansion of Representationa Space from Japan to Manchuria*—Yu-ting Dong, Harvard University *The Genesis of A-symmetrical Aesthetics within Japanese Culture: from Music to its Incarnation in Manga*—Chia-wei Ko, National Taiwan University *Fukuoka: The Making of an “Asian” City*—Hannah Shepherd, Harvard University *The Girl in the Red Shoes: Themes of Longing through a Keychain*—Alexis Agliano Sanborn, Harvard University **PANEL 10** **ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY** **DISCUSSANT: SHI-LIN LOH** **S030** *Looking less/more Sinicized by choice: Comparing ethnic-boundarymaking among Uyghurs and (Southern) Mongolians*—Sansaar Tsakhirmaa, Johns Hopkins University *What’s trust got to do with it? Trust Networks among Diasporic Chinese Communities in Colonial Singapore*—Daniel Murray, McGill University *Donning Culture: Standardization of Dress and Manipulation of the Mind in the Empire of Japan*—A. Carly Buxton, University of Chicago *Wiping out Imperial Remnants: Decolonization and Subjectivity in Postwar Korea and Japan*—Jonathan Glade, University of Chicago **6.30 – 8.30pm Conference Banquet** **Venue: Charles Hotel, Brattle Room (1 Bennett St, Cambridge)** **Dress Code: Smart/Business Casual** **Entrance by invitation only (please bring your invitation card)** DAY 3: FEBRUARY 24th (SUNDAY) 9.00 – 9.30am **Breakfast** Venue: Concourse 9.30 – 11.00am **PANEL SESSION IV** **PANEL 7** **AESTHETIC TRANSMISSIONS** **DISCUSSANT: EUGENE WANG** **VENUE: S050** *First Visual and Technical Study of Central Asian Textile Aesthetics in Europe*—Mariachiara Gasparini, University of Heidelberg *A Portrait of King T’aejo of the Chosŏn Dynasty and Its Chinese Counterparts*—Ka-yi Ho, University of California, Los Angeles *Self-Fashioning as Modern Sovereign: portrait of the Emperor Kojong sent to the heads of the U.S*.—Soojin Kim, Seoul National University *Small Shadow in Slushy Snow: Kou Mei’s Portrait and Cultural Memory*—Ying-zhi Zhao, Harvard University **PANEL 8** **EMPIRE AND COLONIZATION** **DISCUSSANT: MAX OIDTMANN** **VENUE: S030** *Qing China’s representation of the British Mission to Tibet in 1904: A Historical Perspective*—Lei Lin, Harvard University *Silks Fit for an Emperor: the Role of Textiles in the Expression of Political Power in the Yuan Dynasty*—Eiren Shea, University of Pennsylvannia *Colonial Taiwan in the 'Scramble for Fujian': Cooperation and Contestation in Japan's Southern Advance, 1895-1914*—Seiji Shirane, Princeton University *Leave Mine to Me: Power, National-Cultural Identity, and Independence Movements in Korea and Ireland*—Brigit Stadler, University of Washington 11.00 – 11.30am **Tea Break** 11.30 – 1.00pm **PANEL SESSION V** **PANEL 9** **LAW AND SOCIETY** **DISCUSSANT: ERIC SCHLUESSEL** **VENUE: S050** *Betting Beyond Empire: Recontextualizing Gambling and Social Leisure across National Boundaries in late-Qing China*—En Li, Washington University in St. Louis *“Civilian” and “Military” Legal Categories in Qing Space over Time: the Case of Zhu Tianzhao*—John Gregory, Georgetown University *Arming the Chinese: Foreign Guns and Chinese Society (1860-1920)*—Lei Duan, Syracuse University *A Carl Schmittian Vindication of the 1962 Constitution of the Park Chung Hee Regime: the Political and Legal Thought of Han Tae Yeon (1916-2010)—*Kyung Min Yi, University of Cambridge **PANEL 6** **CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS AND EXCHANGES** **DISCUSSANT: DEVIN FITZGERALD** **VENUE: S030** *What's in a number? (Mis)recognizing the seventh Dalai Lama*—Ian MacCormack, Harvard University *In an Antique Land: Chinese Travel Writings on India from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries*—Chao Ren, Harvard University *Beyond Borders: the Concept of Re-use in Buddhist Caves*—Martha Schulz, University of Bonn *Ridiculous Tales of Heaven and Hell: Literary Tradition and the Reception of Journey to the West*—Yuan-fei Wang, University of Pennsylvania 1.00 – 1.30pm Closing Reception and Address VENUE: S030 See also:- [ Workshops and Conferences ](/eventtypelecture/workshops-and-conferences) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://korea.fas.harvard.edu/node/1553862/event-feed.ics) Copy link link