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Saturday, November 6
Session 2 (10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.)
Panel 7: Boundaries in Colonial South Asia
Location: Carson L01
Chair: Ian Barrow, Middlebury College
Ian Barrow
"The Governor, the Surveyor General and the Ceylon Boundary Crisis, 1846-54"
Bernardo A. Michael, Messiah College
"Tenurial Relations, Territoriality, and Colonial Boundaries: Mirza Abdullah Beg on the Anglo-Gorkha Frontier, 1780-1814"
Robert Nichols, Richard Stockton College
"Constructing Colonial Boundaries in the Peshawar Valley"
Discussant: Durba Ghosh, Mount Holyoke College
Panel 8: Patriotism, Occupation, and Collaboration: China, 1936-1943
Location: Rockefeller 1
Chair: Hua-yuan Mowry, Dartmouth College
Dewen Zhang, State University of New York at Stony Brook
"Sai Jinhua: Dramatizing and Performing Patriotism"
Erik W. Esselstrom, University of Vermont
"Shiso Gaiko: 'Thought Diplomacy' and the Japanese Consular Police in Occupied China, 1937-1942"
Joseph K. S. Yick, Texas State University-San Marcos
"Hu Lancheng and Li Shiqun in Occupied China, 1940-1943"
Panel 9: Rhetoric and Canonization: Historical Junctures in the Creation of Authorial Space
Location: Rockefeller 2
Chair: Grace Fong, McGill University
Paola Carrozza, McGill University
"Authorship as Moral Authority: Yang Xiong's (53 BCE-18 CE) Critique of the da fu"
Sara Neswald, McGill University
"Nannü dangong yitong pian and Selection Strategies: Rhetorical Voices in the Jindan Tradition"
Sufeng Xu, McGill University
"The Rhetoric of Legitimation: Prefaces to Women's Poetry Collections from the Song to Ming"
Xiaorong Li, McGill University
"Deriving Authority from Patriarchy: The Textual Politics of the Qing Women's Anthology Zhengshi ji"
Discussant: Paola Zamperini, Amherst College
Panel 10: Gender and Class in Modern East Asia
Location: Carson 60
Chair: Suk-Young Kim, Dartmouth College
Ji-Eun Lee, Harvard University
"The Independence (Tongnip Sinmun, 1896-1899) on Women: A Conditional Alliance"
Masami Tamagawa, City University of New York
"The Invention of Bosei (Japanese Patriotic Maternalism)"
Hiroshi Onitsuka, Iida City Institute of Historical Research
"The Village Structure during the Taisho Era: The Case of the Absence of Tenancy Disputes"
Xiaoning Lu, State University of New York at Stony Brook
"Constructing Stars in 'People's China'"
Panel 11: Topics in Asian Art History
Location: Carpenter 201C
Chair and Discussant: Allen Hockley, Dartmouth College
Kristina Kleutghen, Harvard University
"Hybrid Landscapes: Reappraising Qianlong's Waterworks Engravings"
Tomoko Okamura, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
"Display of Mercantile Power: Early Screen Paintings by Yosa Buson"
Midori Oka, Peabody Essex Museum
"Sails from the West: The Politics of seiyo (the West) in Visual Culture of the Late Edo Period"
Ling Ong Bello, Independent Scholars of Asia, Balinese American Dance Theatre
"The Kinaesthetic Buddha, Human Form and Function"
Panel 12: Asian/Asian American Studies: Re-Viewing Disciplinary Boundaries
Location: Carson L02
Chair: Lan Dong, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Sooyoung Kang, State University of New York at Buffalo
"In and Out of Disciplinary Formations: 'Comfort Women' as a Transnational Project in Asian/Asian American Studies"
Lan Dong
"From the Yearning to Shed the Skin Color to Embracing the Asian Roots: Bridging Asian and Asian American Studies"
Discussant: Josna Rege, Mount Holyoke College
Roundtable 1: Levels of Meaning: Incorporating Japanese Language Resources into the Undergraduate Curriculum
Location: Class of 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center
Chair and Discussant: Sharon Domier, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Ellen Schattschneider, Brandeis University
"Doubled Enigmas: Teaching Japanese Ritual Practice in a North American Classroom"
Kerry Smith, Brown University
"On Using Visual/Language Materials in History Classes"
Stephen Forrest, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"On Reading hentaigana with Undergraduates"
Hiroko Sekino, Brandeis University
"Japanese Across the Curriculum: A Language Teacher's Perspective"
Lunch
Keynote Address by David Ludden, Past Past President of the AAS
"Where is Assam? Locating the Present in Geographical History"
Alumni Hall, 12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
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