| Session 1 (8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m.) |
| Panel 1: Political and Economic Issues in Contemporary Asia |
| Location: Class of 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center |
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Chair: Martin Dimitrov, Dartmouth College
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Srini Sitaraman, Clark University
"China's Participation in International Treaty Regimes"
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Jay Siegel, Harvard University
"Labor Relations in the Emerging Chinese Economy"
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Havah Armstrong Walther, Dartmouth College
"Events of February 28 and the (Re) Development of Native Taiwanese Leadership"
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Shubh Mathur
"Difference and Danger: The Impact of National Security and Counterinsurgency Policies on Religious and Ethnic Minorities in India since 1947"
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| Panel 2: Topics in Early Modern and Modern Chinese History |
| Location: Rockefeller 1 |
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Chair: Pat Giersch, Wellesley College
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Tong Xu, State University of New York at Stony Brook
"From Household Troupe to Professional Troupe: Commercialization of Entertainment in Ming-Qing China"
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Qiang Fang, State University of New York at Buffalo
"Getting to the Top: The Capital Complaint System (shangfang zhidu) up to the Late Qing"
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Thomas Curran, Sacred Heart University
"Searching for a Way Out: The Experiment with Developmentalist Pedagogy in Early 20th Century China"
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Xamin Xu, Le Moyne College
"Structural Changes of Beijing Neighborhoods and Social and Political Implications, 1800s-1930s"
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| Panel 3: Topics in Chinese Literature |
| Location: Rockefeller 2 |
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Chair: Susan Blader, Dartmouth College
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Yugen Wang, Harvard University
"'Patterns of Poetry': Technical Poetics and Ideas of Making and Using in the Literary Culture of the Late Tang and the Five Dynasties Period in China"
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Yaohua Shi, Wake Forest University
"Opening Words: Narrative Introductions to Chinese Vernacular Fiction"
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Ying Wang, Mount Holyoke College
"The Rhetorical Functions of the Supernatural Realm in Honglou meng"
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| Panel 4: Issues in Meiji and Taisho Japan |
| Location: Carson L01 |
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Chair and Discussant: Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth College
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Trent Maxey, Cornell University
"Debating 'Religion' in Early Meiji Japan: The Meiroku Zasshi and the Public Language of Religion"
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Mark Jones, Central Connecticut State University
"The Material and the Spiritual: The Family, Moral Riches, and the Nature of a Late Meiji Middle Class"
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Massimiliano Tomasi, Western Washington University
"Shintaishikeiron: Shimamura Hogetsu and the Question of Form in Modern Japanese Poetics"
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John Gillespie, Gillespie Global Group
"Yokomitsu Riichi's Two Machines"
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| Panel 5: Topics in Asian Philosophy and Religion |
| Location: Carson 60 |
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Chair: Sarah Allan, Dartmouth College
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Hongkyung Kim, State University of New York at Stony Brook
"The Original Compilation of Laozi: A Contending Theory on the Qin Origin."
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David Brubaker, University of New Haven
"Pure Experience: James, Nishida and Merleau-Ponty"
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John Koller, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Rereading the Manavadharmasastra: A Study in Negotiating between Opposing Worldviews"
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Syed Wamiq Jawaid, Hamilton College
"Jihad against God: A Nietzschean Syncretism of Iqbal's Shikwa"
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Discussant: Gil Raz, Dartmouth College
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| Panel 6: Topics in Asian American Studies |
| Location: Carson L02 |
| Chair: Vernon Takeshita, Dartmouth College
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Leslie Turpin, School for International Training
"Traces of Places: A Vicarious Journey into the Memory of Homeland in a Lao-American Community"
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Tina Lynn Powell
"Flight from the Fields: Re-Education and the End of the Pastoral in South Wind Changing"
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