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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