Asia in Boston: Snapshots from the Past and Present

Organizer(s)

• JR

  James Robson

  Harvard University

Chair(s)

• JR

  James Robson

  Harvard University

Presenter(s)

• DH

  David Howell

  Harvard University
• JS

  Jyoti Sinha

  University of Massachusetts Boston
• LD

  Loan Dao

  St. Mary's of California
• ET

  Emma Teng

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• DE

  David Eckel

  Boston University
• VW

  Victoria Weston

  University of Massachusetts Boston

Presentations:

• What Were Four Samurai Youths Doing in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1867?
  David Howell – Harvard University
• Community Building and Creating Social Capital: Narratives from South Asian Immigrants in Boston
  Jyoti Sinha – University of Massachusetts Boston
• The Politics of Belonging: Vietnamese Americans in Fields Corner
  Loan Dao – St. Mary's of California
• Why Were Four Chinese Students Detained at the Port of Boston in 1905?
  Emma Teng – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• The Boston Buddhists: Ernest Fenollosa and William Sturgis Bigelow.
  David Eckel – Boston University
• The Balm of Japanese Art: Okakura Kakuzo’s Mission to America
  Victoria Weston – University of Massachusetts Boston