Yale at AAS 2021 VIRTUAL Annual Conference

Yale MacMillan Center members and students will be represented at the 2021 Virtual Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference this year.  Please see below for a list of panels featuring our faculty, staff, Ph.D. students, and scholars working on Asia:

Monday, March 22, 2021

10:00am – 11:30am EDT

Bordering China, Bordering Reform (Part 1): China’s Hong Kong Border

Organizer: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University

Organizer: Taomo Zhou – Nanyang Technological University

Chair: Helen Siu – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Bixiao He – Sun Yat-Sen University

Paper Presenter: Angelina Y. Chin – Pomona College

Paper Presenter: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Taomo Zhou – Nanyang Technological University

Discussant: Michael Szonyi – Harvard University

Dialogism of Self and Others: Colonial and Decolonial Practices of Translation in the Japanese Empire

Organizer: Mari Ishida – Wake Forest University

Chair: Mari Ishida – Wake Forest University

Paper Presenter: Wakako Suzuki – Bard College

Paper Presenter: Pedro Bassoe – Purdue University

Paper Presenter: Timothy Unverzagt Goddard – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Mari Ishida – Wake Forest University

Discussant: Faye Kleeman – University of Colorado Boulder

Foreign Language Pedagogy, Acquisition, and Perception in Pre-Modern East and Inner Asia

Organizer: Shuheng Zhang – University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Mimi Yiengpruksawan – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Kotyk – University of British Columbia

Paper Presenter: Nikita Kuzmin – University of Pennsylvania

Paper Presenter: John Carlyle – University of Washington

Paper Presenter: Shuheng Zhang – University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Mimi Yiengpruksawan – Yale University

12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

Emergent Means: Media, Performance, and Actuality in Interwar Japan

Organizer: Chikara Uchida – University of Tokyo

Chair: Hiromu Nagahara – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paper Presenter: Noriko Morisue – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Alexander Murphy – University of Chicago

Paper Presenter: Joelle Nazzicone – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: Chikara Uchida – University of Tokyo

Discussant: Hiromu Nagahara – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Document, Monument, Event: Contemporary Art and Visual Culture in India, 1991-2021

Organizer: Sonal Khullar – University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Sonal Khullar – University of Pennsylvania

Paper Presenter: Anuja Jain – Wesleyan University

Paper Presenter: Akshaya Tankha – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Sonal Khullar – University of Pennsylvania

Paper Presenter: Lalitha Gopalan – University of Texas at Austin

Discussant: Kajri Jain – University of Toronto

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Cultural Networks between China and (post-)Soviet Russia: Translations and Border Crossings

Organizer: Edward Tyerman – University of California, Berkeley

Chair: Jinyi Chu – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Edward Tyerman – University of California, Berkeley

Paper Presenter: Elizabeth McGuire – California State University, East Bay

Paper Presenter: Yan Li – Oakland University

Paper Presenter: Ed Pulford – University of Manchester

Discussant: Jinyi Chu – Yale University

Know Yourself and Know the Other: Information, Intelligence and Scholarship in Eurasia

Organizer: Jianyuan Sun – University of Washington

Chair: Jianyuan Sun – University of Washington

Paper Presenter: Scott Boorman – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Jianyuan Sun – University of Washington

Paper Presenter: Weiqing Chen – Peking University

Discussant: Gregory Afinogenov – Georgetown University

Local Histories of the Yellow River

Organizer: Daniel Knorr – University of Cambridge

Chair: David Pietz – University of Arizona

Paper Presenter: Ruth Mostern – University of Pittsburgh

Paper Presenter: Yuan Chen – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Daniel Knorr – University of Cambridge

Paper Presenter: Micah Muscolino – University of California, San Diego

Discussant: David Pietz – University of Arizona

New Views on the “Conquest Dynasties”

Organizer: Wonhee Cho – Academy of Korean Studies

Chair: Valerie Hansen – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Valerie Hansen – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Wonhee Cho – Academy of Korean Studies

Paper Presenter: Roslyn L. Hammers – University of Hong Kong

Paper Presenter: Karl Debreczeny – Rubin Museum of Art

Discussant: Johan Elverskog – Southern Methodist University

Not Just for Art’s Sake: Race, Culture, and Production in 20th Century Sino-Afro Exchanges

Organizer: Ling Zhang – SUNY Purchase

Chair: Keisha A. Brown – Tennessee State University

Paper Presenter: Keisha A. Brown – Tennessee State University

Paper Presenter: Ling Zhang – SUNY Purchase

Paper Presenter: Ye Liu – The New School

Paper Presenter: Quincy Ngan – Yale University

Discussant: Robeson Taj Frazier – University of Southern California

12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Legal Change and Professionalization around the Pacific Rim: China, the British Empire, and the United States, 1850-1930

Organizer: Tian Atlas Xu – The Catholic University of America

Chair: Rohit De – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Tian Atlas Xu – The Catholic University of America

Paper Presenter: Shumeng Han – University of California, San Diego

Paper Presenter: Barry McCarron – New York University

Discussant: Rohit De – Yale University

Power and Agency: James C. Scott’s Contributions to Asian Studies

Organizer: Pamela McElwee – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Organizer: Meredith L. Weiss – State University of New York, Albany

Chair: Ron Herring – Cornell University

Discussant: Shafqat Hussain – Trinity College

Discussant: Shaila Seshia Galvin – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Discussant: Takeshi Ito – Sophia University

Discussant: Eric Tagliacozzo – Cornell University

Discussant: James Scott – Yale University

3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Genres and Modes of Performance in Premodern China

Chair: Erica Brindley – Pennsylvania State University

Paper Presenter: Yung-chang Tung – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: Yun Bai – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Karin Myhre – University of Georgia

Paper Presenter: Jing Zhou – Sun Yat-sen University

Rethinking the Pedagogical Canon of Classical Japanese Literature in the West

Organizer: Danica Truscott – University of California, Los Angeles

Organizer: James Scanlon-Canegata – Yale University

Chair: Gustav Heldt – University of Virginia

Paper Presenter: Danica Truscott – University of California, Los Angeles

Paper Presenter: Mariko Naito – Meiji University

Paper Presenter: James Scanlon-Canegata – Yale University

Discussant: Joshua Mostow – University of British Columbia

Thursday, March 25, 2021

8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Performing Connoisseurship in Early Modern Chinese Drama

Organizer: Yinghui Wu – University of California, Los Angeles

Organizer: Allison Bernard – Yale University

Chair: Judith Zeitlin – University of Chicago

Paper Presenter: Yinghui Wu – University of California, Los Angeles

Paper Presenter: Allison Bernard – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Casey Schoenberger – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Paper Presenter: Yanbing Tan – The University of the South

Discussant: Judith Zeitlin – University of Chicago

Discussant: Patricia Sieber – The Ohio State University

12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Chineseness in Motion: Rethinking the Field in Global Perspectives

Organizer: Kyle D. Shernuk – Yale University

Organizer: Hangping Xu – University of California, Santa Barbara

Chair: Alison Groppe – University of Oregon

Paper Presenter: Kyle D. Shernuk – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Hangping Xu – University of California, Santa Barbara

Paper Presenter: Yunwen Gao – Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Paper Presenter: Alison Groppe – University of Oregon

Discussant: Cathryn Clayton – University of Hawaii at Manoa

The Six Dynasties–Tang Transition

Organizer: Lucas R. Bender – Yale University

Organizer: Xiaojing Miao – University of Colorado, Boulder

Chair: Xiaofei Tian – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: Lucas R. Bender – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Xiaojing Miao – University of Colorado, Boulder

Paper Presenter: Lu Kou – Bard College

Paper Presenter: Anthony DeBlasi – University at Albany, SUNY

Discussant: Xiaofei Tian – Harvard University

Virtuality as Potentiality in Early Modern East Asia

Organizer: Jiayi Chen – University of Chicago

Chair: Kristina Kleutghen – Washington University, St. Louis

Paper Presenter: Paize Keulemans – Princeton University

Paper Presenter: Jiayi Chen – University of Chicago

Paper Presenter: Drisana Misra – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Yong Cho – University of California, Riverside

Discussant: Sophie Volpp – University of California, Berkeley

3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Connections, Networks, and Ties that Bind: Rethinking Centers and Peripheries in Medieval and Early Modern Japan

Organizer: Hiroki Kikuchi – University of Tokyo

Chair: Ethan Segal – Michigan State University

Paper Presenter: Hiroki Kikuchi – University of Tokyo

Paper Presenter: Megan Gilbert – Princeton University

Paper Presenter: Xiaolong Huang – University of Tokyo

Paper Presenter: Masato Takenouchi – Yale University

Discussant: Ethan Segal – Michigan State University

The Edges of Justice: Caste and Settler Colonial Formations of Oppression among Asia’s Migrant Communities

Organizer: MaryAnne Vallianatos – University of Victoria

Chair: Neilesh Bose – University of Victoria

Paper Presenter: Sasha Sabherwal – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Hardeep Dhillon – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: MaryAnne Vallianatos – University of Victoria

Friday, March 26, 2021

8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Quotidian Structures of Colonial and Postcolonial Governance

Organizer: Gourav Krishna Nandi – Yale University

Chair: David Gilmartin – North Carolina State University

Paper Presenter: Gourav Krishna Nandi – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Meredith Mclaughlin – Homerton College, Cambridge

Paper Presenter: Souvanik Mullick – Yale University

Discussant: Lisa Björkman – University of Louisville and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Discussant: Rachel Sturman – Bowdoin College

12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Law, Justice, Society at the Margins of Asian States

Organizer: Tri Phuong – Yale University

Chair: Tyrell Haberkorn – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Paper Presenter: Tri Phuong – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Mimi Zou – Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford

Paper Presenter: Rui Hua – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Adeela Firdous – Independent Scholars of Asia

Discussant: Jennifer L. Gaynor – State University of New York, Buffalo

12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

The Material Life of the Archive: Promises and Challenges in Documenting the Japanese Diaspora

Organizer: Kaoru Ueda – Stanford University

Chair: Franklin Odo – Amherst College

Paper Presenter: Kaoru Ueda – Stanford University

Paper Presenter: Koji Lau-Ozawa – Stanford University

Paper Presenter: Edward Mack – University of Washington

Paper Presenter: Toyotomi Morimoto – Waseda University

Discussant: Seth Jacobowitz – Yale University

3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Eating Inedibles: Rethinking Foods in Asian STS

Organizer: Lan A. Li – Rice University

Chair: Lan A. Li – Rice University

Paper Presenter: Lan A. Li – Rice University

Paper Presenter: Victoria Lee – Ohio University

Paper Presenter: Tristan Revells – Columbia University

Paper Presenter: Anthony Acciavatti – Yale University

Discussant: Jia-Hui Lee – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paper Presenter: Max Moerman – Barnard College, Columbia University

On-Demand

Digital Atlas of Tokugawa Japan

Presenter Lightning Session: Fabian Drixler – Yale University

Reading Man’yōshū Narratologically: The Diversity of Structure in Kibutsu Chinshi Poems

Individual Paper Presenter: Nina Farizova – Yale University