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Pre-1400
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Making Space in Song-Yuan China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Ritual, Memory, and Imperial Authority in Early Medieval and Medieval Chinese Texts
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
China's Worst Poetry
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(1) The Interaction between Buddhism and Urban Development of Luoyang (The Northern Wei Dynasty of Ancient China)
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(2) Embedded Geographies: Physical, Cultural, and Aesthetic Geographies in Eastern Jin Guo Pu's "River Fu"
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(3) Gender, Space, and Power in the Han Court
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(4) The Ecological, Economic, and Ethno-Cultural Frontiers of North China: The Qai under the Kitan Liao and Jurchen Jin
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(5) The “Heavenly Mansion” and the “Heavenly Gate”: Miniature Architecture in Medieval China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Constructing Memories: The Making of Song Historical Sources
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Writing the Other: Narratives of China’s Borderlands
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Politics, Historiography, and Cultural Memory - The Production of Knowledge and the Re-writing of History in the Early Chinese Empire
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 202, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Between Evolving Standards and Persistent Diversity: Manuscripts and Inscriptions in pre-imperial and early imperial China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Creating the Past: Memory, Dreams and Texts in Medieval China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Cities of Nomads in Premodern Northeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 313, 3rd level
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Performative Texts: Early and Early Medieval Chinese Perspectives on Intertextuality
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
A Rhyme for a Reason: Conceptualizing Euphony and Other Mnemonic Strategies in Pre-Modern Chinese Didactic Texts
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
After the Heavenly Qaghans: Multi-ethnic Approaches to the Tang-Song Transition
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Sponsored By
T'ang Studies Society
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
A Very Lively Death: Interactions between Death and Cultural Activities in Early China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Law and Community in Early Imperial China: Historiographical Rhetoric and Social Practice
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Materializing Religion as Medicine in Premodern China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Whimsical Fauna: Animals as Agents in Early and Medieval China and Inner Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 309, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Cosmopolitan Medicine under the Mongols: The Medical Materials, Theories, and Institutions of the Yuan Dynasty
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Towards a Spatial History of Southeast Asia: The Collisions between the Chinese, Cham, and Vietnamese Kingdoms, 1000-1900
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Narrative Mode in Early and Medieval Eurasian Historiography
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Religion, medicine, and women’s health in premodern East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Seeing is Believing: Religion and the Illustrated Narrative Scrolls of Premodern Japan
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(1) What is Ijutsu 医術? — On the Activities of Court Physicians in Ancient and Medieval Japan
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(2) Dynamics of Intercultural Transaction in the 7th -10th Centuries East Asia: The Formation of Medieval Japanese Bugaku(舞樂)
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
(4) The One About the Flatulent Priest: Getting a Laugh in Medieval Japan
Location: Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Excavating New Insights on Early Northeast Asia: How Archaeological Research is Revolutionizing the Study of Early Japan and Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 309, 3rd level
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Beyond The Borders: Cross-Cultural Dynamics in Goguryeo Murals
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Redrawing Boundaries in Early East Asia: Insights from the Korean Peninsula
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(2) Symbols in the Early Inscriptions of Kuda: A Reassessment of Epigraphy at a Buddhist Cave Site
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
1400-1800
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Cultural Capital and China: A roundtable discussion
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
People as Commodities among the Early Modern Chinese and in the Qing Empire
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 206, Level 2
Sponsored By
Society for Qing Studies
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Heterodox Cultural Spaces: Re-envisioning Texts, Temples, and Theaters in Late Imperial China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 204, 2nd level
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Rethinking the Indigenous and the Foreign in Chinese Maritime History: Connected Histories and Divergent Contentions during the Mid-to-Late Imperial Era
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 206, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Borders, Ethnicity and Laws between Qing China and Chosŏn Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
High Qing ‘Crypto-Knowledge’: Sino-Manchu Intellectual, Diplomatic, and Religious Networks with the West
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 204, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Discipline and Self-Discovery: Pedagogy in the Late Ming and Early Qing
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
New Qing History Meets the Sea? A Roundtable Discussion
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Publishers, Editors and the Circulation of Knowledge in Late Imperial China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 206, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Trade Networks, Maps, and Literatures in Early Modern South China Seas and Malay Archipelago (17th-18th century)
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(3) Mud, Stones, and Trees as Sacred Supports: Ecology in the Shaping of Local Buddhist Material Cultures in the Himalayas
Location: Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
The Environmental Legacies of the Mongol Empire in Eastern Eurasia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Coping with Abundance: Categories of Knowledge in Early Modern East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Korea-Vietnam Working Group
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Capture, slavery, bondage, and forced relocation in Asia (1400-1900), Part 1
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Publish or Perish: New Perspectives on Book Cultures in East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Reading Texts, Reading Landscapes: Early Modern Buddhist Polities across South and Southeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Capture, slavery, bondage, and forced relocation in Asia (1400-1900), Part 2
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Branching Out: Studying Social Networks in Chosŏn Korea and Qing China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Painful Subjects: Representations of violent emotions in late Imperial China and Chosŏn Korea
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Performing Proselytization: Religion, Economics, and Entertainment in Premodern Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Trading Papers: New Insights on Early Modern Diplomatic Documents & Practices in Coastal Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(4) The Maritime Warring Environment of Kyushu Corsairs
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
"The Peony Lantern" as Space, Medical Discourse, Visual Objects, and Performance
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 204, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Connections, Networks, and Ties that Bind: Rethinking Centers and Peripheries in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Revaluing the Environment: Ecology, Disasters, and Animals in Premodern Korea
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
A Roundtable Discussion on Emma Flatt’s The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Translation, Retelling, and Intertextuality in Pre-modern South Asia: Part I
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Translation, Retelling, and Intertextuality in Pre-modern South Asia: Part II
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
(4) The Karma of Love and Vengeance in Stories of the Marvelous (kỳ) and Uncanny (quái) in Vietnamese Popular Religion (15th -19th centuries)
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
The Eighteenth Century Philippines: A Connected Archipelago
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
1800-1950
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Frontier Encounters and Knowledge Production in Qing Inner Asia: Competing Narratives between the Qing State and Travelers
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Rediscovering Historical China: A Reflection on the Work and Mentorship of Professor Daniel H. Bays (1942-2019)
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China (HSTCC)
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Legacies of Civil War: Religion and Politics in the Late Qing
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Life-Writing Projects in Modern Chinese Cultural History
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
New Approaches to the Historiography of East Asian Art in the Twentieth Century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
The Ultimate Language Reform: Abandoning Chinese for Esperanto
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay Ballroom A, 2nd floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Tracing Faith, Making History: Materializing Transnational Christianities in Modern China and Taiwan
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton, Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
New Approaches to the History of Capitalism in China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 204, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Intellectuals in 20th Century China: Rethinking Structures of Knowledge and Society
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Technical Virtue: Meanings of Formulaic Texts in Late Imperial / Modern China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Chinese Domestic Life between State Ideologies and Family Strategies: 1800-1985
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Communities at Work: Reappraisals of Local Autonomy in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Spatializing Sovereignty and the Public Sphere Between State and Buddhist Monastery in Post-Imperial Inner Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
The Socially Responsible Scholar: Navigating Activism and Professionalism in Republican China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Sponsored By
Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China (HSTCC)
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Out of Synch: Temporal Disruptions in thinking ‘Modern China’
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Sponsored By
Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China (HSTCC)
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Useful Knowledge for Mass Consumption: Popular Manuals in Ming, Qing, and Republican China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Reconstructing elite networks in modern China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
What is Chinese about Chinese food?
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Death, Colonialism, and Capitalism in East Asia and its Diasporas
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Bound and Unbound: Asian Women as Agents of Change in Modern Science And Health Practices
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Change and Continuity in Social Elites in 20th Century China and Korea: Lessons from Big Data
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Teaching the East Asian Body: Integrating Studies of Medicine and Society into Global Humanities Courses
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
War and Media: Political and Cultural Networks across East Asia and Beyond under Japan’s Colonial Rule
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
New Perspectives on Japanese Imperial Infrastructure in Northeast Asia in the Twentieth Century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(1) “Reform, Or You Are Lost”: Opium-intoxication, Progress, and Charles Gutzlaff’s Voyages along the Coast of China
Location: Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Political Economy of Water in Modern India and China: New Approaches with Meteorological Database and Spatial Analyses
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
The Material Life of the Archive: Promises and Challenges in Documenting the Japanese Diaspora
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 309, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(1) Dressed Like a Cosmopolitan: Okakura Kakuzō and M.K. Gandhi Interweaving Flows and Influences in Modern Japan and India
Location: Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(3) Locations as Collectable Visual Possessions: Capturing, Depicting, and Understanding East Asian Places in Late-Edo and Modern Japan
Location: Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Unintended Manchuria: Re-evaluating "Efficiency" in Twentieth-century Japanese Empire
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Advocating Racial Justice in the Face of War and Exclusion: Liberal Protestant Activists and Returning Japan Missionaries in America, c. 1900-1945
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
From Sites to Sources: Reading Asia across the Anthropocene
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Mobilities, Belongings, and Citizenship(s) in the Afro-Asian Indian Ocean World
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Locality and Temporality between Qing China and Northeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Bloodless Iconography: War-Time Art in East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
The Historical Child as Subaltern: Methodologies for Recovering Children’s Voices in East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
East Asian Databases for Social and Economic History
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Imaginaries in Motion: Early Transnational Photography in and beyond Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Translated Poetics: Transcultural Encounters and Modern East Asian Poetry
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
After/images of Empire: Visual Media and Sino-Japanese Crosscurrents
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Decentering the Center in Communist Revolution: Rethinking Communism in Colonized China, Korea, Vietnam, and India
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Displacement and Empire in Modern East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Gender and Colonialism in the Japanese Empire
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Steamships, Transoceanic Mobilities, and Border Crossing
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
From Nourishing Life to National Nutrition: Diet and Health in Japanese History
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 209, 2nd level
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(Re)translations: The Challenges of Translating Modern Japanese Literary Theory
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Forged in Defeat: A Fresh Look at Early Postwar Japanese Society
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 204, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Japan Under Darkening Skies: Protecting Cities in the Age of Air Power
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay D, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(1) Portrait of a Community, Portrait of a City: The “Refugee Jew” Series and 1941 Kobe
Location: Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(2) Command Responsibility in the Postwar War Crime Trials of Axis Powers
Location: Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(3) Building a Utopia Together in Manchukuo: Pan-Asianism and Nationalisms in Cross-ethnic Dialogue
Location: Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Lyric and Motion in the Age of Realism
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Matricentric feminism in Japan: Hiratsuka Raichō and Takamure Itsue as visionary thinkers
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
The Rural as method: culture, politics, and society beyond the cities in 20th century Japan
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Change and continuity in the Meiji transformation
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(4) Forecasting Empire: Japan’s Salmon Fisheries in the Northern Sea (Hokuyō) and Scientific Knowledge about the Fish in the Waters during the Interwar Period
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
The Blind Spot in Japanese History: Visual Impairment in Law, Cinema, and Medicine
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Emergent Means: Media, Performance, and Actuality in Interwar Japan
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(3) Registering Identity: The Curious Case of Ōishi Yone/Kawauchi Yone/Yamamura Yone/Tsumakichi/Matsukawa Tsumakichi/Yamaguchi Yone/Ōishi Renkyō/Ōishi Junkyō
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Gender and the Proletariat in Transwar Japan
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Literary Systems as Media Ecologies in Japan of the 1920s and 1930s
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Waka Reinvented and Repurposed in Modern Japan
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
"Religion" and the Modern Artist in 20th Century Japan
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A
Sponsored By
Society for the Study of Japanese Religions
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
The Rise of the Bundan and The Politics of Writing: Literary Voices, 1880-1930
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
The Making of Japan’s Boundaries from the Interwar Period through the Early Postwar Era
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 309, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
(1) Politics of Education at the Crossroads of Pacific Imperialisms: Korean Immigrants’ Private Schooling in Territorial Hawai‘i, 1906-1930
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Humanity in Objects: Nurturing Self and the Environment in Late Chosŏn Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
(1) Yi Kwang-su’s Concept of Chŏng and the Subject of Love and Social Reform in Yi Kwang-su’s Novella Ŏrin pŏt ege (To Young Fellows, 1917)
Location: Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Beyond Colonial Modernity: New Approaches to State-Society Relations in Japanese-Occupied Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
The social and political dimensions of corruption in South Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 308, 3rd level
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(2) The Collective and the Co-Operative: Peasant Politics in the History of South Asian Cannabis, 1917-47
Location: Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Ideals Enacted: Transitions to Socio-Political Modernity in South Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Authors Meet Critics Panel on The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan (Cambridge University Press, 2019), edited by Yasmin Saikia and M. Raisur Rahman.
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
South Asian Muslim Studies Association
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(1) Printing a Community: The Māriyammaṉ Print Tradition and Non-Brahmin Interests in 19th century South India
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Historicizing the Archive on South Asia(ns): Archival Practice, Construction and Partition across the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 309, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
(1) Pathologizing the Collective: "Crowd-mindedness" and Mass Politics in Late Colonial India, 1930-50
Location: Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
(2) A Short History of Self-Determination in Colonial South Asia
Location: Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Forgotten Futures and Histories of Failure: Alternative Methodologies in South Asian History
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
(3) Everyday Evasions: Space and Strategy in Sex Markets in Late Colonial India
Location: Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Deus et Machina: Religion and Technology in Asian Cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
How India lost its ‘mind’
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
War and "Peace" in South and Southeast Asia: Mobility and Immobility
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(2) People in Transition: Petitioning and Protesting in Colonial Cambodia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Historicizing Normative Masculinities in Island Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS)
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
On The Road Again: Reconsidering the State of Theravada Studies
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Rethinking the history of capitalism in twentieth century Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
(4) Why Claiming Nation in the 19th Century of Burma?: An Analysis of Karen Baptists’ Political Reactions to the Colonial/Local Contexts
Location: Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Social Life of Print in Colonial Vietnam: From Cultural Economics to Politics of Information
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 206, Level 2
Post-1950
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Chinese Television in the Postsocialist Era: A Modern Medium for Everyday Life
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Cooperative Prospects: A Scholar-Librarian Dialogue on Contemporary Chinese Village Data (CCVD) and Beyond
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
CEAL, Committee on Chinese Materials (CCM)
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Mobilizing and managing resources from the Qing to the PRC
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Secrecy and Surveillance in Modern China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon. 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Sound and Somatosensory Experience: Sino-Afro Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Structural Dimensions of Knowledge Circulation from and to China in the 20th Century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay B, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Dealing with Victims and Perpetrators of the Cultural Revolution in Post Mao China: Cases from the Provinces
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 202, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Sinophone Socialisms: Economy, Culture, and the Socialist Imaginary Across Chinese Speaking Worlds
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
In Her Words: Reassessing Leading Women in Modern China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
The Politics of History: PRC at 70-In Memory of Roderick MacFarquhar
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Art history of socialist China: State of the field
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay D, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Eileen Chang @100: New Perspectives on an Iconic Writer
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Collective Rituals in Maoist China and Beyond
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Laughing with Fetters: Satire and Humor in Postsocialist China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Position-Takings in Chinese Ethnic Spheres: Minority Aesthetics, Agency, and Politics
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 206, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Ethnocultural Violence and Historical Memory on the Inner Asian Frontiers of the PRC
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Fantastic Interfaces of Reading in Chinese Literature
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Fieldwork for China historians
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
The Aggregation/Disaggregation of China and Greater China Across the Twentieth Century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Socialism at the Margins: Politics, Identity, and Revolution on the Ethnic Frontiers of Mao-era China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
The remaking of gender, household, and community on the Tibetan Plateau through rangeland fencing and resettlement
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
(1) Making the Paper Come Alive: Entertainment, Emotion, and Newspaper Reading Groups in the People's Republic of China (1949-1956)
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
(2) Socialist Modernity and the Sino-Soviet Tourism Trade Imbalance, 1956-1959
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
(3) How to be a Foodie in Sichuan during the Cultural Revolution
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Medical Emergencies and Epistemological Ruptures: Epidemics and Their Cultural Legacies in China in the 20th and 21st Century
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Political Violence and its Legacies in East and Southeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 206, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Can Asia Change the Cold War?: New Perspectives in Cultural/Public Diplomacy
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Refugees, Local Politics, and Diasporic Actors in China and Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay C, 2nd Floor
Sponsored By
AAS Council of Conferences (COC), Verge: Studies in Global Asias
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Revisiting Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Reflections and Critiques from Asian Studies
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Journal of Asian Studies (JAS)
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
The Politics of Global Humanitarianism in Asia Since World War II
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay D, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Eating Inedibles: Rethinking Foods in Asian STS
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Jeju and Okinawa: Transnational Solidarity Networks in Northeast Asia and Beyond
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
New Approaches in China-India Studies Roundtable I: China and India in the Age of Decolonization: Analyzing the Nehru Papers, 1947-1964
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By:
India China Institute at the New School, Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Technology and the Everyday Across Post-War Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Chineseness in Motion: Rethinking the Field in Global Perspectives
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 312, 3rd level
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
East Asian Activism in Transnational Context: Circulations, Connections, and Intersections
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(2) Women’s Mobility and Autonomy on Manchukuo’s Film Screens
Location: Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Cultural Networks between China and (post-)Soviet Russia: Translations and Border Crossings
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 309, 3rd level
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
The Cold War in Asian Cinemas: Transnational Connections and Local Formations
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Transregional Crossings: Southeast Asian Chinese Literature, Film and Theater since the mid-20th century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Law, Justice, Society at the Margins of Asian States
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Luce Foundation
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Transnational Perspectives on War and Memory: Spotlight on Japanese Military Sexual Violence
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(Post-)Imperial Interconnections: Transpacific Circulations of Relief, Knowledge, and Memories in Cold War Okinawa, Japan, and South Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Liminal soundings: Voice, gender, and affect in Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Untangling Internationalism in the People’s Republic of China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Alignments and Identities in Cold War Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Beyond Decolonization: Making Claims from the Margins of Postcolonial South and Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Shifts, Fractures, and Stimuli: Opium and Transition in South and Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Decolonial Transpacific(s)
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Verge: Studies in Global Asias
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Environmentalisms and Nonhuman Histories in Modern and Contemporary Japan
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 204, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Reading and Empathy: Textual Analyses of Connection, Community and Critique
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(4) Militarized Vision and the Critique of War in Murakami Ryū's Umi no mukō de sensō ga hajimaru (Over the Sea, the War Begins)
Location: Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Pacifism, Human Rights, Popular Movement, and “History Activism”: The “Postwar” as a Transnational Space
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Scratching the Surface of Fluff: Exploring the Ecological, Moral, Cultural and Geopolitical Dimensions of Japanese Food
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Trailblazing Paths in Modern Japanese History and Political Science: Women Reflect on Japanese Studies
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 201, 2nd level
Sponsored By
Northeast Asia Council, AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Democratization, Nationalism, and Reconciliation between Korea and Japan: Challenges to Reconciliation Study
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Race and Japanese Studies: history, intersections, and transnational flows
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Materializing Memory in Contemporary Japanese Religions
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Crossing Boundaries in the Study of Medieval to Modern Japan: Women Reflect on Japanese Studies
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 209, 2nd level
Sponsored By
Northeast Asia Council, AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(4) The Paradox of the Intellectual Woman: Postwar Japanese Feminism and Philosophy
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Searching as Interspecies Poetics
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
The politics of anti-politics in modern and contemporary Japan
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Biomedical Science, Gender/Sexuality, and Embodied Politics in Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 206, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Against the Cultural Apparatus of the Cold War: the Dynamics of Knowledge and Mentality in Postwar South Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 206, 2nd level
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
(2) The Country, the Revolution, and I: Park Chung Hee and Ham Sokhon’s Theories on Social Reconstruction
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
(3) Social Reproduction in South Korea: The Role of Education Policies
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
The Resounding Revolution: The Gwangju Uprising and its 40-Year Global History
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(1) Dreaming of a Sentient Land: Ecofeminism and Crises of Embodiment in Han Kang's The Vegetarian
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(2) Transnational Hazard: A History of Asbestos Industry and Responsibility in South Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Reconfiguring knowledge and society in postwar Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
South Korea’s #MeToo Movement - Session II: Historical Redress, Media Visibility, and Contemporary Feminist Activism
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Subverting the Cold War from Within: Rethinking Cold War Korean Literature and Culture
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Transnational Korean Literature from China, Japan, and the US
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Traversing a Century of Korean Popular Music Fandom
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Across Cold War (B)orders: Spaces and Movements in Divided Korea and Beyond
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Performing "Korean-ness": Displays of Ethnicity and Self among the Koryo-Saram Diaspora
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
(1) Gauri Gill’s Photo-Journalistic Representations of “The Horror” of 1984 Punjab
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(1) Can Identity Politics Support Redistribution? Evidence from Indian States
Location: Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(1) Kashmiri Diaspora and Imaginings of Freedom
Location: Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(1) The Rise of Lumbinī: Theravāda and Modernity on the Frontier of Nepal
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
(3) Music in the Time of Indonesia’s Mass Killings: The Dialita Chorus
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Buddhist Historical Imaginaries of mid-20th Century Southeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 309, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Collisions, Contradictions, and Camp: Revisioning Bangsa Malaysia through Malay Performing Arts
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Sponsored By
Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei (MSB) Studies Group
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Decolonizing Knowledge: Reconceptualizing State-Society Relations in Early Independent Indonesia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Vietnamese Literature and Subcultural Lives: Recovering Voices of the Past
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Engaged Buddhism: Historic Relic of the 1960s or Alive and Well in Contemporary Southeast Asia?
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
AAS Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Marxism-Maoism in the Margins: Cold War Radicalism in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Military and Civilian Encounters with the ‘Communist Threat’ in Indonesia: 1965 to the Present
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Indonesia and Timor-Leste Studies Committee (ITLSC)
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Cold War Philippines and Its Afterlives
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Urban Swamps, Sacred Highlands, Island Insurgencies and Bombed Embassies: Localization and the Microdynamics of State-Building in Southern Vietnam
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Memorialisation and History in Timor-Leste: Beyond a nation-building narrative, towards the knowledge of plural histories?
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Indonesia and Timor-Leste Studies Committee (ITLSC)
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Beyond Theravāda Buddhism: Non-Theravādin Buddhist Women in Southeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
(3) Is Thailand a Settler Colonial State? Evidence from the Uplands
Location: Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Engendering History: Gender, Sexuality, and Love in Thailand, Lao PDR, and Cambodia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Studies Group
Contemporary (post-2000)
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
China’s Long Arm: The International Law and Politics of Extradition
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Rearticulating Gender and Class in Postsocialist China: Women’s Literature as Method
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Urbanizing Tibet: Urbanization as Governance in the People’s Republic of China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Counter-Terrorism vs. State (?) Terrorism in the Uyghur region of China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay Ballroom D, 2nd floor
Sponsored By
AAS China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC)
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Creating Emergent Futures in Contemporary China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Dynamic Public Opinion in Greater China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Media Convergence in Chinese Propaganda Culture
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Cultural Genocide, Global Discourses of Terrorism and China’s Bid to Remake the World Order
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 313, 3rd level
Sponsored By
AAS China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC)
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Extractions and Electoral Politics:New Economies of Democratization in Mongolia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(1) "We Are All Guilty": Censorship of Danmei in China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(2) Beyond Tongzhi: Constructing Tactical Sexual Identities in Post-2010 China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(3) The Sexualization of Public Discourses: How the Chinese State Claims Sovereignty Through the Intimate Domain
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(4) Abortion and Sisterhood: Homosociality as a Non-Rights-Based Approach to Reproductive Health in China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(5) Breaking the Glass Ceiling? A Cultural and Socio-economic Study of Female Managers in China’s Modern Labor Market
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
China's Hong Kong Border (Part 1 of "Bordering China, Bordering Reform")
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay Ballroom A, 2nd floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Remaking Urban and Regional Governance in China: Changing Political Hierarchies and Territorial Logics
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
What’s on the Chinese Internet? Moving from Grassroots Expression to Institutional Content Provision
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(1) Winning Super Rich in China: The Role of the United Front Work Department
Location: Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(2) China's Global Governance Strategy and the Postwar Order
Location: Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(3) Process Tracing from Charm Offensive to Power Transition: Understanding the Quality of Chinese Power Transition and Locating South Korean Leadership, 2010-2018
Location: Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(4) Domestic Obstacles of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Location: Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
China's Transition to the Reform Era (Part 2 of "Bordering China, Bordering Reform)
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay A, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Chinese Studies in the New Era
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay B, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Contested Realities: Technology and Experience
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Globalizing China: Perceptions of and Resistance to China's Overseas Investment in Different Regions and China's Efforts to Cope with them
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
New Approaches to the Digital in Tibet
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
A New Age of Sino-US Higher Education Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 308, 3rd level
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Contentious Politics and State Strategies in China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 202, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Rethinking the China-Africa Relationship
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Sponsored By
East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Technology, Social Policy, and Governance in China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Insurgent Encounters: Contentious Politics and Social Movements in Hong Kong
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Society for Hong Kong Studies
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Technologies of Everyday Life, Part 2: The techno-politics of the 'China model' of development
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Doing Critical Social Science Research in Contemporary China: Access, Ethics, and Power Dynamics
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Development of Land Property Rights under China’s Economic Transition
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
(4) Cultivating Kin and Kind in the Chinese Food Movement
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
(5) Mongolian Hip Hop in China: A Unique Political Balancing Act
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
From Xuanchuan to “Self-Media”: Social Lives of Chinese Keywords for Media and Technology
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Inequalities in East Asian Democracies
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 202, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Multilingual Challenges: Performing Identity in the Sinophone Context
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 204, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Ritual, Belief, and Modern Practices in Tibeto-Burman Communities of the Eastern Himalayas
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Unpacking Authoritarian Environmentalism in Asia: Different Contexts, Different Tools, Different Responses
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Chinese Language Pedagogy Workshop: Performed Culture Approach
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Sponsored By
National East Asian Languages Resource Center
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Commodification and Precariousness in Contemporary China — Digital Technology, Inequality and the State
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
The political economy of China’s spatial reconfiguration under Xi Jinping
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
The State Advances, the Private Retreats: New Perspectives on China’s Reform “Reversal”
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Mixed-statusness and the politics of ‘doing family’ in transnational families
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay B, 2nd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Asian Digital Identities: Media, Platforms, and Cultural Wars
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Cities of desire and trauma: urban redevelopment, liminal lives, and East Asian cinema
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Visualizing International Politics in Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
China's Belt and Road Initiative: Policies, Practices, and Perceptions
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor
Sponsored By
Committee on Teaching about Asia (CTA)
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(2) Claiming Space and Taking Names: Mapping Ethnonym Politics at the Intersection of India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar
Location: Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
East Asian Pornographies and Online Porn Cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Gender and Social Change in Asian Popular Cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Global Asias as Subject, Object, Method, Praxis
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Sponsored By
Verge: Studies in Global Asias
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Gender, Work and Social Mobility in Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(4) When 50 Steps is More than Taipei: Indigenous Contemporary Art and Temporal Orientation in Taiwan
Location: Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Frontier Urbanization between India and China: Recreating the Himalayas as an Urban Zone I
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Living with Heritage: Everyday Engagement and Participation in Contemporary China and Japan
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
The Aftermath of Transformation and Destruction: Emerging Environments and Ecologies in East Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Frontier Urbanization between India and China: Recreating the Himalayas as an Urban Zone II
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Japan's abiding presence in the age of China's ascent
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Practices of Citizenship and Belonging among "Old” and “New” Asian Migrants
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Re-imagining Borderland Governance: Transforming Natural and Social Spaces in East and Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Negotiating Transnational Identity, Migration and Family Life in Virtual Spaces: The Case of Filipino Diaspora in the Asia-Pacific
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Infrastructural assemblages and East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
New Approaches to China-India Studies Roundtable II: New Scales of Citizenship and Contention in Urban Mega-regions of India and China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Sponsored By
India China Institute at the New School, Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Academic Publishing on Asia in Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
National Identity in East Asian Museums
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
North Korea as Discourse: The Knowledge Production of North Korea in a Global Context
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Strategies for Developing and Expanding Asian LCTL Programs
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Sponsored By
South Asian Language Teachers Association
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Death, dying, and care in Asian cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Silence, Solitude, and Social Change in Contemporary Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Beyond Tokyo – Cultural Production in the Japanese Periphery
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Connectivity and Integration in East/Southeast Asia: Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 202, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Representing Disability in Japanese Videogames
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay A, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
The “Rebirth” of Japanese Studies
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay B, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Recovery, Reconstruction, and Resilience: Nine Years from the 3/11 Tohoku Triple Disasters
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Cool Japan: Views from Vietnam
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 202, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Troubling Nuclear Disaster: Resurfacing Voices of the Un(der)represented
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 206, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
How Will Japan’s Historic 2019 Labor Reforms Benefit Workers?
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
The Kyoto school and ethics of the contemporary world: science, world history, and religion
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
(2) Smiles and Scars
Location: Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
(3) Married Asian Dad Seeking Friends: Social Networks at Japanese Organizations Centered on Fathering
Location: Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Beyond the End of Area Studies: The Case of Japanese Studies in the USA, Japan, and Russia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Japan’s Emotional Robots
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Panel: Make Yourself at Home: Housing, identity, and belonging in Japan
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(1) “She Only Filmed the Beautiful Parts!”: Kawase Naomi’s "An" and When Unwanted Beauty Reigns Over the Forgotten
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Managing Migration in Japan: Short-term Labour, Tourists, and International Students
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 202, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Ask a Librarian: A Discussion of Alternative Careers in Japanese Studies
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Citizens, Policies, and (Mis)representation in Japan
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Moratorium, Isolation, Trauma – The Problematic Self in Japanese Literature of the zero nendai
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Hate Speech and the Anti-racist Movement in Japan and Beyond: A Case History of the Documentary Film, The Silence
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
A New Haven for Refugees? Evaluating South Korea as a Refugee Hosting Country from Historical and International Perspectives
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Desiring Jeju: Place-making and Landscape at Korea’s Periphery
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Historicization and Memory in Contemporary South Korean Cinema and Beyond
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Transnationalism, Immigration, & Mobility: Expanding Our Knowledge Base through New Investigations on Korean Transnationalism
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
(4) Learning Sasang Medicine: The Making of "Constitutions" in a Standardized Setting
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
South Korea’s #MeToo Movement and Feminist Activism against Sexual Violence
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(3) Environmental Catastrophes of the Korean War
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Alone in Seoul: Korean Techno-Futurity and New Virtual Practices of Belonging, Play, and Labor
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
In the Era of 'Feminist Reboot': Gender and Citizenship in South Korean Cultural Texts
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 206, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Contemporaneity of Contemporary Korean Art
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
North Korean Society and the State: Beyond Regime Intentions
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Women as Political Agents in Modern South Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(1) Uneven Flows: The Gendered Politics of Groundwater Extraction in the Indian Sundarbans
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(2) Beyond the Camera: Women of the Mumbai Film Industry
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
The Broken Ladder: Roundtable in Honor of the 2019 Coomaraswamy Prize
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Sponsored By
AAS South Asia Council (SAC)
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(2) “Without Living Here, She Stays”: Negotiating Attenuated Belonging among Female Migrant Careworkers in a Kerala Nature Cure Hospital
Location: Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Made in Bangladesh: Exploring the politics of gender, class, neoliberalism, and the production of the new subjecthood
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Politics and Connectivities: Dance in/beyond Contemporary Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Transnational South Asian Rap: Race, Ethnicity, and Diaspora
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
(1) The "Intimate" in the Military: Citizenship, Soldier-servitude, and Imperial Power in Contemporary India
Location: Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
(2) Negotiating Widowhood under Militarization in India
Location: Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
(2) The Trend of “Movies as Tourism Promotion”: From Picturesque Landscapes to Eco-consciousness in Vietnamese Masses
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
(5) North Sulawesi Choral Music: A Local Portrait of a Globalizing Genre
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Politics of shamelessness: gender, vulgarity and power in Southeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
The Indonesian Council of Ulama and the State’s Islamic Bureaucracy
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Sponsored By
Indonesia and Timor-Leste Studies Committee (ITLSC)
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Change but No Change? Perspectives on Thailand's Post-Election Future
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Genealogies Of Violence in Burma: Incorporating the Rohingya Genocide into Analysis of Burma’s Protracted Civil War
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Glocalization of Southeast Asian Language Instruction
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 309, Level 3
Sponsored By
COTSEAL (The Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages)
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(1) ‘Becoming Chinese’? Visual representations of China’s presence in Cambodia, from the Democratic Kampuchea period to the Belt and Road Initiative
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(3) Forced from Lake to Land: Ethnicity and Exclusion on the Tonle Sap
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(4) The U.S. and International Actors in Cambodian Labor Politics
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(3) Gender, Disaster, and Climate Change: Indonesia in the Crosshairs
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(4) Between Trauma and Memories: Resisting Womanhood in Vietnamese Post-war Cinema
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(5) “Motherhood” Revisited: Pushing Boundaries in Indonesia’s Online Political Discourse
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Toward a Thick Understanding of Dutertismo
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Civil-Military Relations in NLD-led Myanmar
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Burma Studies Group
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(4) Voices and Votes Amid Violence: Power and Electoral Accountability in Thailand’s Deep South
Location: Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(5) Escaping Moral Exclusion: What Makes Davao City Livable for the Sama Dilaut?
Location: Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(3) Diasporic Voices: Political Engagement Among the Indonesian Diaspora
Location: Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(4) Hidden From the Heartlands: Precarity, Control, and South(east) Asian Migrant Workers in Singapore
Location: Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(5) Humanitarian Norms in Theory and Practice: Examining UNHCR Operations in Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Singapore’s next General Election: Return to the contentious “New Normal”?
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei (MSB) Studies Group
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
The articulation of area studies and ethnic studies in Southeast Asian Studies
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
REVISIONING 2020: Wherefore culture, the arts and everyday life in Mahathir’s vision?
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei (MSB) Studies Group
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
The Politics of Urban Transport, Infrastructure, and Real-Estate Development in Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Critical Asian Studies
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(2) Commodifying Democracy: How Global Democratic Ideals and Practices Embedded in Education Reform Mesh with Higher Educational Realities in Myanmar
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(3) Emergent Global Universities in Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(4) School Pedagogy Reform and Popular Islamic Authority in Indonesia: 1980s-present
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(5) Vulnerability, Risk, and Education: Tracing the Violent (Il)logics of Trafficking Prevention in Thailand
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Rising Voices in Southeast Asian Studies - New Dimensions of Migration in Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
AAS Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Electoral System Reform in Southeast Asia: Design, Dynamics, and Impact
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Civil Society and Policy-Making in Contemporary Indonesia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Indonesia and Timor-Leste Studies Committee (ITLSC)
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(4) Spirit Mediums, Deities, and Devotion: Reimagining Buddhist Piety in Modern Thailand
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(5) Saving Others, Saving Ourselves: "Buddhist" Social Welfare Organizations in Contemporary Myanmar
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Renegotiating Ethnic Identity in Democratic Myanmar
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Burma Studies Group
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
The Chinese Impact on Indonesian politics
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
(4) Transwomen Sex Workers in Singapore and Bali, Indonesia: Stories of Transformation, Beauty, Love, and Death
Location: Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Mahathir’s Tales: Narrative(s) and Resistance(s) in New Malaysia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 204, Level 2
Sponsored By
Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei (MSB) Studies Group, & College of Humanities, Arts and Social Science at NTU Singapore
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Complexities of Religion in Contemporary Indonesia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Recognizing the Usefulness of Hierarchy in Burma Studies
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Burma Studies Group
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Social Categorization and Religiously-Framed State-Making in Southeast Asia (Session 1 of 2)
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Biopolitical Vietnam
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Vietnam Studies Group
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Social Categorization and Religiously-Framed State-Making in Southeast Asia (Session 2 of 2)
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Sustainability and Exclusion: Differential Impacts of Resource Governance in Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Anthropology
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Sound and Somatosensory Experience: Sino-Afro Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Urbanizing Tibet: Urbanization as Governance in the People’s Republic of China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Creating Emergent Futures in Contemporary China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Reading From Below: Alternative Literacies, Citizenship, and Community in Modern China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China (HSTCC)
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Tracing Faith, Making History: Materializing Transnational Christianities in Modern China and Taiwan
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton, Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Cultural Genocide, Global Discourses of Terrorism and China’s Bid to Remake the World Order
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 313, 3rd level
Sponsored By
AAS China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC)
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Extractions and Electoral Politics:New Economies of Democratization in Mongolia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(3) The Sexualization of Public Discourses: How the Chinese State Claims Sovereignty Through the Intimate Domain
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Aesthetic Emotions and Ways of Seeing in Chinese Art and Literary Culture
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
New Approaches to the Digital in Tibet
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Integrating Hong Kong Studies and Chinese Studies: Views from the Watery Fringes of South China’s Pearl River Delta
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Sponsored By
Society for Hong Kong Studies
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Out of Synch: Temporal Disruptions in thinking ‘Modern China’
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Sponsored By
Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China (HSTCC)
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Technology, Social Policy, and Governance in China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Ethnocultural Violence and Historical Memory on the Inner Asian Frontiers of the PRC
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Fieldwork for China historians
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Technologies of Everyday Life, Part 2: The techno-politics of the 'China model' of development
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Socialism at the Margins: Politics, Identity, and Revolution on the Ethnic Frontiers of Mao-era China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
The remaking of gender, household, and community on the Tibetan Plateau through rangeland fencing and resettlement
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
(4) Cultivating Kin and Kind in the Chinese Food Movement
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
From Xuanchuan to “Self-Media”: Social Lives of Chinese Keywords for Media and Technology
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Materializing Religion as Medicine in Premodern China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Ritual, Belief, and Modern Practices in Tibeto-Burman Communities of the Eastern Himalayas
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Unpacking Authoritarian Environmentalism in Asia: Different Contexts, Different Tools, Different Responses
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Medical Emergencies and Epistemological Ruptures: Epidemics and Their Cultural Legacies in China in the 20th and 21st Century
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Bovines and People: Animal-Human Intimacies in an Inter-Regional Context
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Death, Colonialism, and Capitalism in East Asia and its Diasporas
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Inner Mongolia to Bengal to Gondwana: Connected Partitions in Twentieth-Century Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay A, 2nd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Revisiting Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Reflections and Critiques from Asian Studies
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Journal of Asian Studies (JAS)
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Eating Inedibles: Rethinking Foods in Asian STS
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Jeju and Okinawa: Transnational Solidarity Networks in Northeast Asia and Beyond
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Interracial Intimacies, Kinships, and Desires in Japan and Korea
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Power and Agency: James C. Scott’s Contributions to Asian Studies
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(3) Mud, Stones, and Trees as Sacred Supports: Ecology in the Shaping of Local Buddhist Material Cultures in the Himalayas
Location: Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Lost in Manchuria: Broken Dreams and Struggles for Survival
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Sponsored By
Manchu Studies Group (MSG)
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Rethinking Reproduction in a Diversifying East Asia: Cross-cultural and Historical Perspectives on the Past and Present, Part I
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay D, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Sublime Networks: Stones, Ashes, and Ruins of Islam across Eurasia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
The Material Life of the Archive: Promises and Challenges in Documenting the Japanese Diaspora
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 309, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(4) When 50 Steps is More than Taipei: Indigenous Contemporary Art and Temporal Orientation in Taiwan
Location: Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Transcending Borders: Transnational Mobility, Encounters, and Interactions across Modern East Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Cultural Networks between China and (post-)Soviet Russia: Translations and Border Crossings
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 309, 3rd level
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
From Sites to Sources: Reading Asia across the Anthropocene
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Frontier Urbanization between India and China: Recreating the Himalayas as an Urban Zone I
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Living with Heritage: Everyday Engagement and Participation in Contemporary China and Japan
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
The Aftermath of Transformation and Destruction: Emerging Environments and Ecologies in East Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Frontier Urbanization between India and China: Recreating the Himalayas as an Urban Zone II
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Law, Justice, Society at the Margins of Asian States
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Luce Foundation
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Practices of Citizenship and Belonging among "Old” and “New” Asian Migrants
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Rethinking Reproduction in a Diversifying East Asia: Cross-cultural and Historical Perspectives on the Past and Present, Part II
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Technologies of everyday life Part 1: Insights from a collaborative research project on the Making of Modern East Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Sponsored By
Hong Kong government Research Grants Council
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Visual Cultures of Agriculture in Modern Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Capture, slavery, bondage, and forced relocation in Asia (1400-1900), Part 1
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Capture, slavery, bondage, and forced relocation in Asia (1400-1900), Part 2
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Infrastructural assemblages and East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
New Approaches to China-India Studies Roundtable II: New Scales of Citizenship and Contention in Urban Mega-regions of India and China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Sponsored By
India China Institute at the New School, Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
North Korea as Discourse: The Knowledge Production of North Korea in a Global Context
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Death, dying, and care in Asian cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Gender and Colonialism in the Japanese Empire
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Silence, Solitude, and Social Change in Contemporary Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Beyond Tokyo – Cultural Production in the Japanese Periphery
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Recovery, Reconstruction, and Resilience: Nine Years from the 3/11 Tohoku Triple Disasters
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Scratching the Surface of Fluff: Exploring the Ecological, Moral, Cultural and Geopolitical Dimensions of Japanese Food
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Cool Japan: Views from Vietnam
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 202, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Race and Japanese Studies: history, intersections, and transnational flows
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
(2) Smiles and Scars
Location: Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
(3) Married Asian Dad Seeking Friends: Social Networks at Japanese Organizations Centered on Fathering
Location: Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Japan’s Emotional Robots
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Panel: Make Yourself at Home: Housing, identity, and belonging in Japan
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Materializing Memory in Contemporary Japanese Religions
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Managing Migration in Japan: Short-term Labour, Tourists, and International Students
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 202, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
A New Haven for Refugees? Evaluating South Korea as a Refugee Hosting Country from Historical and International Perspectives
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Desiring Jeju: Place-making and Landscape at Korea’s Periphery
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Getting into Print in Korean Studies: An Editors’ Roundtable on Journal and Book Publishing
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Committee on Korean Studies, NEAC
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
(4) Learning Sasang Medicine: The Making of "Constitutions" in a Standardized Setting
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
South Korea’s #MeToo Movement and Feminist Activism against Sexual Violence
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Performing "Korean-ness": Displays of Ethnicity and Self among the Koryo-Saram Diaspora
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
North Korean Society and the State: Beyond Regime Intentions
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
The social and political dimensions of corruption in South Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 308, 3rd level
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Why Traditional Medicine? Assessing Reasons and Efforts to Reclaim Traditional Medicines in South Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(1) Uneven Flows: The Gendered Politics of Groundwater Extraction in the Indian Sundarbans
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
The Broken Ladder: Roundtable in Honor of the 2019 Coomaraswamy Prize
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Sponsored By
AAS South Asia Council (SAC)
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
A Roundtable Discussion on Emma Flatt’s The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(2) “Without Living Here, She Stays”: Negotiating Attenuated Belonging among Female Migrant Careworkers in a Kerala Nature Cure Hospital
Location: Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Beyond the Slogan of “Green Sikkim”: Transecological and Transdimensional Relatedness in the Landscapes of Sikkim
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Authors Meet Critics Panel on The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan (Cambridge University Press, 2019), edited by Yasmin Saikia and M. Raisur Rahman.
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
South Asian Muslim Studies Association
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Territory, Jurisdiction, and the Significance of Space in the Sovereignty of Nepal
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Made in Bangladesh: Exploring the politics of gender, class, neoliberalism, and the production of the new subjecthood
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
The Guru: Contemporary Reformulations of an Ancient Indian Institution
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Afghanistan: National Knowledge Production through Independence and Invasion
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
AAS South Asia Council (SAC)
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Practices of Place-making in Modern South Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(1) The Rise of Lumbinī: Theravāda and Modernity on the Frontier of Nepal
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Transnational South Asian Rap: Race, Ethnicity, and Diaspora
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Badhai: Hijra Performances across Borders in South Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
(1) The "Intimate" in the Military: Citizenship, Soldier-servitude, and Imperial Power in Contemporary India
Location: Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
(2) Negotiating Widowhood under Militarization in India
Location: Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Deus et Machina: Religion and Technology in Asian Cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Fields, Finance, Factories: Rethinking South Asia’s Agrarian Trajectories
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
How India lost its ‘mind’
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Quotidian Structures of Colonial and Postcolonial Governance
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
(2) The Trend of “Movies as Tourism Promotion”: From Picturesque Landscapes to Eco-consciousness in Vietnamese Masses
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
(3) Music in the Time of Indonesia’s Mass Killings: The Dialita Chorus
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Politics of shamelessness: gender, vulgarity and power in Southeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Worlds Transformed: Social and Environmental Change on Southeast Asian Mining Frontiers
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Genealogies Of Violence in Burma: Incorporating the Rohingya Genocide into Analysis of Burma’s Protracted Civil War
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Glocalization of Southeast Asian Language Instruction
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 309, Level 3
Sponsored By
COTSEAL (The Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages)
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(5) Escaping Moral Exclusion: What Makes Davao City Livable for the Sama Dilaut?
Location: Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(3) Diasporic Voices: Political Engagement Among the Indonesian Diaspora
Location: Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(4) Hidden From the Heartlands: Precarity, Control, and South(east) Asian Migrant Workers in Singapore
Location: Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Singapore’s next General Election: Return to the contentious “New Normal”?
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei (MSB) Studies Group
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Historicizing Normative Masculinities in Island Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS)
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Making Peace: Reimagining Islamic Pasts and Presents in the Philippines
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Meditation Movements of Modern Myanmar
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
The Politics of Urban Transport, Infrastructure, and Real-Estate Development in Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Critical Asian Studies
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(2) Commodifying Democracy: How Global Democratic Ideals and Practices Embedded in Education Reform Mesh with Higher Educational Realities in Myanmar
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(4) School Pedagogy Reform and Popular Islamic Authority in Indonesia: 1980s-present
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(5) Vulnerability, Risk, and Education: Tracing the Violent (Il)logics of Trafficking Prevention in Thailand
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Engaged Buddhism: Historic Relic of the 1960s or Alive and Well in Contemporary Southeast Asia?
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
AAS Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Rising Voices in Southeast Asian Studies - New Dimensions of Migration in Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
AAS Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Military and Civilian Encounters with the ‘Communist Threat’ in Indonesia: 1965 to the Present
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Indonesia and Timor-Leste Studies Committee (ITLSC)
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Memorialisation and History in Timor-Leste: Beyond a nation-building narrative, towards the knowledge of plural histories?
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Indonesia and Timor-Leste Studies Committee (ITLSC)
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(4) Spirit Mediums, Deities, and Devotion: Reimagining Buddhist Piety in Modern Thailand
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(5) Saving Others, Saving Ourselves: "Buddhist" Social Welfare Organizations in Contemporary Myanmar
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Renegotiating Ethnic Identity in Democratic Myanmar
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Burma Studies Group
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Rethinking the history of capitalism in twentieth century Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
(4) Transwomen Sex Workers in Singapore and Bali, Indonesia: Stories of Transformation, Beauty, Love, and Death
Location: Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Mahathir’s Tales: Narrative(s) and Resistance(s) in New Malaysia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 204, Level 2
Sponsored By
Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei (MSB) Studies Group, & College of Humanities, Arts and Social Science at NTU Singapore
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Complexities of Religion in Contemporary Indonesia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Engendering History: Gender, Sexuality, and Love in Thailand, Lao PDR, and Cambodia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Studies Group
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Recognizing the Usefulness of Hierarchy in Burma Studies
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Burma Studies Group
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Social Categorization and Religiously-Framed State-Making in Southeast Asia (Session 1 of 2)
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Balik Bukid: Philippine Agrarian Studies in the Age of Human Capital
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Philippine Studies Group
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Beyond Binaries in Southeast Asian Islam
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Biopolitical Vietnam
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Vietnam Studies Group
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Social Categorization and Religiously-Framed State-Making in Southeast Asia (Session 2 of 2)
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Sustainability and Exclusion: Differential Impacts of Resource Governance in Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Archaeology
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
New Approaches to the Historiography of East Asian Art in the Twentieth Century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Writing the Other: Narratives of China’s Borderlands
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Between Evolving Standards and Persistent Diversity: Manuscripts and Inscriptions in pre-imperial and early imperial China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Cities of Nomads in Premodern Northeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 313, 3rd level
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
A Very Lively Death: Interactions between Death and Cultural Activities in Early China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Law and Community in Early Imperial China: Historiographical Rhetoric and Social Practice
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Whimsical Fauna: Animals as Agents in Early and Medieval China and Inner Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 309, Level 3
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Bovines and People: Animal-Human Intimacies in an Inter-Regional Context
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
The Science of Plague in Asia: from Beijing to Bursa
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Towards a Spatial History of Southeast Asia: The Collisions between the Chinese, Cham, and Vietnamese Kingdoms, 1000-1900
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
The Materialities of Religious Circulations in Asia, from the Silk Road to the Belt and Road
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(3) Archaeology in Museum "Diaspora" Collections: Case Studies from the Jōmon and Edo Periods in Japan
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Excavating New Insights on Early Northeast Asia: How Archaeological Research is Revolutionizing the Study of Early Japan and Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 309, 3rd level
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Beyond The Borders: Cross-Cultural Dynamics in Goguryeo Murals
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Redrawing Boundaries in Early East Asia: Insights from the Korean Peninsula
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Decolonizing Southeast Asian Art History
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Art/Art History
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Making Space in Song-Yuan China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Vision and Visualization in Tibetan Buddhism
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Cultural Capital and China: A roundtable discussion
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
New Approaches to the Historiography of East Asian Art in the Twentieth Century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Alienating the Self: Chinese Portraits Without Human Countenance
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 309, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(5) The “Heavenly Mansion” and the “Heavenly Gate”: Miniature Architecture in Medieval China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Writing the Other: Narratives of China’s Borderlands
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Heterodox Cultural Spaces: Re-envisioning Texts, Temples, and Theaters in Late Imperial China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 204, 2nd level
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Aesthetic Emotions and Ways of Seeing in Chinese Art and Literary Culture
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Art history of socialist China: State of the field
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay D, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Photography, History, and Ecology: Composing China's Modern Landscapes
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
High Qing ‘Crypto-Knowledge’: Sino-Manchu Intellectual, Diplomatic, and Religious Networks with the West
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 204, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Representing Childhood: Children, Gender and Labor in China’s Long Twentieth Century
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
The Politics of Imagining China’s Environment: A Historical Itinerary
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Discipline and Self-Discovery: Pedagogy in the Late Ming and Early Qing
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Fantastic Interfaces of Reading in Chinese Literature
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
A Very Lively Death: Interactions between Death and Cultural Activities in Early China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Dress, Gender and the Body in Chinese History: A Sourcebook
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 313, 3rd level
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Visuality and Knowledge Creation of China's Great Urban Centers
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Whimsical Fauna: Animals as Agents in Early and Medieval China and Inner Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 309, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Teaching the East Asian Body: Integrating Studies of Medicine and Society into Global Humanities Courses
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Recontextualizing East Asia in Premodern Japanese Art History
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
JAHF: Japan Art History Forum
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Global Asias as Subject, Object, Method, Praxis
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Sponsored By
Verge: Studies in Global Asias
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
The Materialities of Religious Circulations in Asia, from the Silk Road to the Belt and Road
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Architecture as Trans-Media Experiences in 20th Century East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Asian Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Next 150 Years
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(3) Locations as Collectable Visual Possessions: Capturing, Depicting, and Understanding East Asian Places in Late-Edo and Modern Japan
Location: Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(4) When 50 Steps is More than Taipei: Indigenous Contemporary Art and Temporal Orientation in Taiwan
Location: Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Transcending Borders: Transnational Mobility, Encounters, and Interactions across Modern East Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Visual Cultures of Agriculture in Modern Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Bloodless Iconography: War-Time Art in East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Reading Texts, Reading Landscapes: Early Modern Buddhist Polities across South and Southeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Untangling Internationalism in the People’s Republic of China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Imaginaries in Motion: Early Transnational Photography in and beyond Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
After/images of Empire: Visual Media and Sino-Japanese Crosscurrents
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Seeing is Believing: Religion and the Illustrated Narrative Scrolls of Premodern Japan
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Japan Under Darkening Skies: Protecting Cities in the Age of Air Power
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay D, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Representing Disability in Japanese Videogames
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay A, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(1) Portrait of a Community, Portrait of a City: The “Refugee Jew” Series and 1941 Kobe
Location: Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Change and continuity in the Meiji transformation
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Cool Japan: Views from Vietnam
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 202, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Museum Gallery as Public Classroom:Experimenting with Virtual Technologies and Japanese Buddhist Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
"Religion" and the Modern Artist in 20th Century Japan
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A
Sponsored By
Society for the Study of Japanese Religions
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Re-envisioning the Land of the Gods: Reinterpretations of Japan's History and Religion after the Mongol Invasions
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Beyond The Borders: Cross-Cultural Dynamics in Goguryeo Murals
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Humanity in Objects: Nurturing Self and the Environment in Late Chosŏn Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Across Cold War (B)orders: Spaces and Movements in Divided Korea and Beyond
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Contemporaneity of Contemporary Korean Art
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
(1) Gauri Gill’s Photo-Journalistic Representations of “The Horror” of 1984 Punjab
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
A Roundtable Discussion on Emma Flatt’s The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
The Guru: Contemporary Reformulations of an Ancient Indian Institution
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(2) Symbols in the Early Inscriptions of Kuda: A Reassessment of Epigraphy at a Buddhist Cave Site
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Deus et Machina: Religion and Technology in Asian Cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(1) ‘Becoming Chinese’? Visual representations of China’s presence in Cambodia, from the Democratic Kampuchea period to the Belt and Road Initiative
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Decolonizing Southeast Asian Art History
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
REVISIONING 2020: Wherefore culture, the arts and everyday life in Mahathir’s vision?
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei (MSB) Studies Group
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
The Eighteenth Century Philippines: A Connected Archipelago
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Asian American Studies
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
What is Chinese about Chinese food?
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Death, Colonialism, and Capitalism in East Asia and its Diasporas
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Asian Digital Identities: Media, Platforms, and Cultural Wars
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Interracial Intimacies, Kinships, and Desires in Japan and Korea
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Global Asias as Subject, Object, Method, Praxis
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Sponsored By
Verge: Studies in Global Asias
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Advocating Racial Justice in the Face of War and Exclusion: Liberal Protestant Activists and Returning Japan Missionaries in America, c. 1900-1945
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(Post-)Imperial Interconnections: Transpacific Circulations of Relief, Knowledge, and Memories in Cold War Okinawa, Japan, and South Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Transnational Korean Literature from China, Japan, and the US
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
The articulation of area studies and ethnic studies in Southeast Asian Studies
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Bibliography
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Collecting and Organizing Knowledge in China: Past and Present
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 202, Level 2
Cinema Studies/Film
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Chinese Television in the Postsocialist Era: A Modern Medium for Everyday Life
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Sound and Somatosensory Experience: Sino-Afro Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Creating Emergent Futures in Contemporary China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Chinese Domestic Life between State Ideologies and Family Strategies: 1800-1985
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Contested Realities: Technology and Experience
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Eileen Chang @100: New Perspectives on an Iconic Writer
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Laughing with Fetters: Satire and Humor in Postsocialist China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Position-Takings in Chinese Ethnic Spheres: Minority Aesthetics, Agency, and Politics
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 206, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Language, Body, and Media: Transgression and Its Limitations in Modern Chinese Popular Culture
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Asian Digital Identities: Media, Platforms, and Cultural Wars
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Cities of desire and trauma: urban redevelopment, liminal lives, and East Asian cinema
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Visualizing International Politics in Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Chineseness in Motion: Rethinking the Field in Global Perspectives
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 312, 3rd level
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
East Asian Pornographies and Online Porn Cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Gender and Social Change in Asian Popular Cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Framing East Asian Feminist Cinema
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(2) Women’s Mobility and Autonomy on Manchukuo’s Film Screens
Location: Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
The Cold War in Asian Cinemas: Transnational Connections and Local Formations
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Transregional Crossings: Southeast Asian Chinese Literature, Film and Theater since the mid-20th century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
After/images of Empire: Visual Media and Sino-Japanese Crosscurrents
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Environmentalisms and Nonhuman Histories in Modern and Contemporary Japan
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 204, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Reading and Empathy: Textual Analyses of Connection, Community and Critique
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Lyric and Motion in the Age of Realism
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
The Blind Spot in Japanese History: Visual Impairment in Law, Cinema, and Medicine
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Emergent Means: Media, Performance, and Actuality in Interwar Japan
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(1) “She Only Filmed the Beautiful Parts!”: Kawase Naomi’s "An" and When Unwanted Beauty Reigns Over the Forgotten
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Russia/Japan: Transnational Connections, Influences, and Border-crossings
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Hate Speech and the Anti-racist Movement in Japan and Beyond: A Case History of the Documentary Film, The Silence
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Historicization and Memory in Contemporary South Korean Cinema and Beyond
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Mediated Identities: Re-framing the Korean Subject Through Text, Screen, and Stage
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Subverting the Cold War from Within: Rethinking Cold War Korean Literature and Culture
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Alone in Seoul: Korean Techno-Futurity and New Virtual Practices of Belonging, Play, and Labor
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
(1) Gauri Gill’s Photo-Journalistic Representations of “The Horror” of 1984 Punjab
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(2) Beyond the Camera: Women of the Mumbai Film Industry
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Made in Bangladesh: Exploring the politics of gender, class, neoliberalism, and the production of the new subjecthood
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
(2) The Trend of “Movies as Tourism Promotion”: From Picturesque Landscapes to Eco-consciousness in Vietnamese Masses
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(4) Between Trauma and Memories: Resisting Womanhood in Vietnamese Post-war Cinema
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Communications
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Media Convergence in Chinese Propaganda Culture
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(2) Beyond Tongzhi: Constructing Tactical Sexual Identities in Post-2010 China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
China's Hong Kong Border (Part 1 of "Bordering China, Bordering Reform")
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay Ballroom A, 2nd floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
What’s on the Chinese Internet? Moving from Grassroots Expression to Institutional Content Provision
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Contested Realities: Technology and Experience
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Collective Rituals in Maoist China and Beyond
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Fantastic Interfaces of Reading in Chinese Literature
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Insurgent Encounters: Contentious Politics and Social Movements in Hong Kong
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Society for Hong Kong Studies
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
From Xuanchuan to “Self-Media”: Social Lives of Chinese Keywords for Media and Technology
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
China-US Transcultural Communication: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
ASIANetwork
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Commodification and Precariousness in Contemporary China — Digital Technology, Inequality and the State
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
East Asian Pornographies and Online Porn Cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Gender and Social Change in Asian Popular Cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Locality and Temporality between Qing China and Northeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Liminal soundings: Voice, gender, and affect in Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Publish or Perish: New Perspectives on Book Cultures in East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Academic Publishing on Asia in Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
(2) Smiles and Scars
Location: Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Literary Systems as Media Ecologies in Japan of the 1920s and 1930s
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
A New Haven for Refugees? Evaluating South Korea as a Refugee Hosting Country from Historical and International Perspectives
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
The Resounding Revolution: The Gwangju Uprising and its 40-Year Global History
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Practices of Place-making in Modern South Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Politics of shamelessness: gender, vulgarity and power in Southeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(5) “Motherhood” Revisited: Pushing Boundaries in Indonesia’s Online Political Discourse
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Economics
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Cooperative Prospects: A Scholar-Librarian Dialogue on Contemporary Chinese Village Data (CCVD) and Beyond
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
CEAL, Committee on Chinese Materials (CCM)
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Mobilizing and managing resources from the Qing to the PRC
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
China's Hong Kong Border (Part 1 of "Bordering China, Bordering Reform")
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay Ballroom A, 2nd floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(1) Winning Super Rich in China: The Role of the United Front Work Department
Location: Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Globalizing China: Perceptions of and Resistance to China's Overseas Investment in Different Regions and China's Efforts to Cope with them
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Technology, Social Policy, and Governance in China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Views from Four Social Sciences Disciplines on Contemporary China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
The State Advances, the Private Retreats: New Perspectives on China’s Reform “Reversal”
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
China's Belt and Road Initiative: Policies, Practices, and Perceptions
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor
Sponsored By
Committee on Teaching about Asia (CTA)
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
New Perspectives on Japanese Imperial Infrastructure in Northeast Asia in the Twentieth Century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Connectivity and Integration in East/Southeast Asia: Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 202, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Matricentric feminism in Japan: Hiratsuka Raichō and Takamure Itsue as visionary thinkers
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
How Will Japan’s Historic 2019 Labor Reforms Benefit Workers?
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
The social and political dimensions of corruption in South Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 308, 3rd level
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
The Broken Ladder: Roundtable in Honor of the 2019 Coomaraswamy Prize
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Sponsored By
AAS South Asia Council (SAC)
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Forgotten Futures and Histories of Failure: Alternative Methodologies in South Asian History
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Education
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Chinese Studies in the New Era
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay B, 2nd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
A New Age of Sino-US Higher Education Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 308, 3rd level
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Useful Knowledge for Mass Consumption: Popular Manuals in Ming, Qing, and Republican China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 208, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Discipline and Self-Discovery: Pedagogy in the Late Ming and Early Qing
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Doing Critical Social Science Research in Contemporary China: Access, Ethics, and Power Dynamics
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Mixed-statusness and the politics of ‘doing family’ in transnational families
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay B, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Asian Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Next 150 Years
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
The “Rebirth” of Japanese Studies
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay B, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Transnationalism, Immigration, & Mobility: Expanding Our Knowledge Base through New Investigations on Korean Transnationalism
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
(1) Politics of Education at the Crossroads of Pacific Imperialisms: Korean Immigrants’ Private Schooling in Territorial Hawai‘i, 1906-1930
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
(3) Social Reproduction in South Korea: The Role of Education Policies
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
(4) Learning Sasang Medicine: The Making of "Constitutions" in a Standardized Setting
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Transnational Forms of Knowledge in and out of Korea: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Student and Scholar Mobility
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(2) Commodifying Democracy: How Global Democratic Ideals and Practices Embedded in Education Reform Mesh with Higher Educational Realities in Myanmar
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(3) Emergent Global Universities in Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Gender & Sexuality
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Rearticulating Gender and Class in Postsocialist China: Women’s Literature as Method
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Cultural Capital and China: A roundtable discussion
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(3) Gender, Space, and Power in the Han Court
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(1) "We Are All Guilty": Censorship of Danmei in China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(2) Beyond Tongzhi: Constructing Tactical Sexual Identities in Post-2010 China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(4) Abortion and Sisterhood: Homosociality as a Non-Rights-Based Approach to Reproductive Health in China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Prehistories of the 'One-Child' Policy
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Chinese Domestic Life between State Ideologies and Family Strategies: 1800-1985
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Insurgent Encounters: Contentious Politics and Social Movements in Hong Kong
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Society for Hong Kong Studies
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
The remaking of gender, household, and community on the Tibetan Plateau through rangeland fencing and resettlement
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Revisiting Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Reflections and Critiques from Asian Studies
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Journal of Asian Studies (JAS)
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Asian Digital Identities: Media, Platforms, and Cultural Wars
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
New Approaches in China-India Studies Roundtable I: China and India in the Age of Decolonization: Analyzing the Nehru Papers, 1947-1964
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By:
India China Institute at the New School, Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Interracial Intimacies, Kinships, and Desires in Japan and Korea
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
East Asian Pornographies and Online Porn Cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Gender and Social Change in Asian Popular Cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Framing East Asian Feminist Cinema
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(2) Women’s Mobility and Autonomy on Manchukuo’s Film Screens
Location: Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Transnational Perspectives on War and Memory: Spotlight on Japanese Military Sexual Violence
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(Post-)Imperial Interconnections: Transpacific Circulations of Relief, Knowledge, and Memories in Cold War Okinawa, Japan, and South Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Liminal soundings: Voice, gender, and affect in Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Patients, Nurses, and Doctors: Medicine and Gender in Modern East Asian Literature and History
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Decolonial Transpacific(s)
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Verge: Studies in Global Asias
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Gender and Colonialism in the Japanese Empire
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Silence, Solitude, and Social Change in Contemporary Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Trailblazing Paths in Modern Japanese History and Political Science: Women Reflect on Japanese Studies
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 201, 2nd level
Sponsored By
Northeast Asia Council, AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Crossing Boundaries in the Study of Medieval to Modern Japan: Women Reflect on Japanese Studies
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 209, 2nd level
Sponsored By
Northeast Asia Council, AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(4) The Paradox of the Intellectual Woman: Postwar Japanese Feminism and Philosophy
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Gender and the Proletariat in Transwar Japan
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Literary Systems as Media Ecologies in Japan of the 1920s and 1930s
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Hate Speech and the Anti-racist Movement in Japan and Beyond: A Case History of the Documentary Film, The Silence
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Biomedical Science, Gender/Sexuality, and Embodied Politics in Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 206, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Against the Cultural Apparatus of the Cold War: the Dynamics of Knowledge and Mentality in Postwar South Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 206, 2nd level
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
South Korea’s #MeToo Movement and Feminist Activism against Sexual Violence
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
(1) Dreaming of a Sentient Land: Ecofeminism and Crises of Embodiment in Han Kang's The Vegetarian
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
South Korea’s #MeToo Movement - Session II: Historical Redress, Media Visibility, and Contemporary Feminist Activism
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
In the Era of 'Feminist Reboot': Gender and Citizenship in South Korean Cultural Texts
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 206, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Women as Political Agents in Modern South Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(2) Beyond the Camera: Women of the Mumbai Film Industry
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Selfhood and Agency: Muslim Women’s Fashioning of State, Religion, and Literature in South Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 310, 3rd level
Sponsored By
South Asian Muslim Studies Association
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(2) “Without Living Here, She Stays”: Negotiating Attenuated Belonging among Female Migrant Careworkers in a Kerala Nature Cure Hospital
Location: Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Politics and Connectivities: Dance in/beyond Contemporary Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Badhai: Hijra Performances across Borders in South Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
(3) Everyday Evasions: Space and Strategy in Sex Markets in Late Colonial India
Location: Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Fields, Finance, Factories: Rethinking South Asia’s Agrarian Trajectories
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Politics of shamelessness: gender, vulgarity and power in Southeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
War and "Peace" in South and Southeast Asia: Mobility and Immobility
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Collisions, Contradictions, and Camp: Revisioning Bangsa Malaysia through Malay Performing Arts
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Sponsored By
Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei (MSB) Studies Group
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(3) Gender, Disaster, and Climate Change: Indonesia in the Crosshairs
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
(4) Between Trauma and Memories: Resisting Womanhood in Vietnamese Post-war Cinema
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
The articulation of area studies and ethnic studies in Southeast Asian Studies
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Historicizing Normative Masculinities in Island Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS)
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Vietnamese Literature and Subcultural Lives: Recovering Voices of the Past
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Civil Society and Policy-Making in Contemporary Indonesia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Indonesia and Timor-Leste Studies Committee (ITLSC)
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Cold War Philippines and Its Afterlives
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Beyond Theravāda Buddhism: Non-Theravādin Buddhist Women in Southeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
(4) Transwomen Sex Workers in Singapore and Bali, Indonesia: Stories of Transformation, Beauty, Love, and Death
Location: Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Engendering History: Gender, Sexuality, and Love in Thailand, Lao PDR, and Cambodia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Studies Group
Geography
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(2) Embedded Geographies: Physical, Cultural, and Aesthetic Geographies in Eastern Jin Guo Pu's "River Fu"
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Extractions and Electoral Politics:New Economies of Democratization in Mongolia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 203, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Remaking Urban and Regional Governance in China: Changing Political Hierarchies and Territorial Logics
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 205, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
The Politics of Imagining China’s Environment: A Historical Itinerary
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Cities of Nomads in Premodern Northeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 313, 3rd level
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Technologies of Everyday Life, Part 2: The techno-politics of the 'China model' of development
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
The political economy of China’s spatial reconfiguration under Xi Jinping
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 207, Level 2
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Inner Mongolia to Bengal to Gondwana: Connected Partitions in Twentieth-Century Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay A, 2nd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Mixed-statusness and the politics of ‘doing family’ in transnational families
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay B, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Trade Networks, Maps, and Literatures in Early Modern South China Seas and Malay Archipelago (17th-18th century)
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Cosmopolitan Medicine under the Mongols: The Medical Materials, Theories, and Institutions of the Yuan Dynasty
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
(2) Claiming Space and Taking Names: Mapping Ethnonym Politics at the Intersection of India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar
Location: Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Political Economy of Water in Modern India and China: New Approaches with Meteorological Database and Spatial Analyses
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
From Sites to Sources: Reading Asia across the Anthropocene
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Frontier Urbanization between India and China: Recreating the Himalayas as an Urban Zone I
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
The Aftermath of Transformation and Destruction: Emerging Environments and Ecologies in East Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3