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Yale at AAS 2022 Annual Conference

Yale MacMillan Center members and students will be represented at the 2022 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:

Virtual:

Thursday, March 24, 2022

12:30pm – 2:00pm HST (Hawaii)

A-V4: Knowledge, Information, and Perception Across the Hong Kong-China Border

Virtual Organizer: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University

Virtual Chair: Laikwan Pang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Virtual Paper Presenter: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Yi Lu – Oxford University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Peter Hamilton – Lingnan University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Sebastian Veg – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Virtual Discussant: Timothy Cheek – University of British Columbia

 

A-V14: Narrating the Covid Pandemic in Japan and Beyond

Virtual Organizer: Rachel DiNitto – University of Oregon

Virtual Chair: Rachel DiNitto – University of Oregon

Virtual Discussant: Mina Qiao, Adjunct Lecturer – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Virtual Discussant: Anri Yasuda – University of Virginia

Virtual Discussant: Christophe Thouny – Ritsumeikan University

Virtual Discussant: John W. Treat – Yale University

 

A-V21: Conquering Distance: Odysseys for Political Change and Cultural Ascendancy in Premodern Korea and Beyond

Virtual Organizer: Sookja Cho – Arizona State University

Virtual Organizer: Maya Kerstin Hyun Stiller – University of Kansas

Virtual Chair: Sookja Cho – Arizona State University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Zuoting Wen – Earlham College

Paper Presenter: Maya Kerstin Hyun Stiller – University of Kansas

Virtual Paper Presenter: Jeongsoo Shin – Academy of Korean Studies

Virtual Paper Presenter: Seonmin Kim – Korea University

Virtual Discussant: Peter C. Perdue – Yale University

Virtual Discussant: Chang Sook Lee – Seoul National University

Friday, March 25, 2022

9:30am – 11:00am HST (Hawaii)

B-V51: Contesting Civic Identity and Imperial Belonging in Japanese Urbanism

Virtual Organizer: Jeffrey C. Guarneri – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Virtual Chair: Alice Tseng – Boston University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Jeffrey C. Guarneri – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Virtual Paper Presenter: Tristan Grunow – Pacific University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Michael Thornton – Yale University

Virtual Discussant: Carola Hein – Delft University of Technology

11:30am – 1:00pm HST (Hawaii)

C-V42: Population Control beyond the Iron Curtain: A Transnational History of Family Planning in Cold War Asia

Virtual Organizer: Aya Homei – University of Manchester

Virtual Organizer: Sarah Mellors Rodriguez – Missouri State University

Virtual Chair: Jaehwan Hyun – Pusan National University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Yu-Ling Huang – School of Medicine, National Cheng-Kung University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Aya Homei – University of Manchester

Virtual Paper Presenter: Sarah Mellors Rodriguez – Missouri State University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Amna Qayyum – Yale University

Virtual Discussant: Mytheli Sreenivas – Ohio State University

 

C-V58: An Early Modern Epistemological Turn? Natural Knowledge Production in the East Asian Cultural Sphere

Virtual Organizer: Arina Mikhalevskaya – Yale University

Virtual Chair: Arina Mikhalevskaya – Yale University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Arina Mikhalevskaya – Yale University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Mårten Söderblom Saarela – Academia Sinica

Virtual Paper Presenter: Yu-chih Lai – Academia Sinica

Virtual Paper Presenter: Hieu Phung – University of Michigan

Virtual Discussant: Stephen H. Whiteman – Courtauld Institute of Art

1:30pm – 3:00pm HST (Hawaii)

D-V42: Encounters on the Margins of the Sinitic State: Frontier Women, Gendered Experience, and the Sino-Centric Narrative Decentered, 200 BCE – 1900 CE

Virtual Organizer: Dewei Shen – Stanford University

Virtual Chair: Pamela Kyle Crossley – Dartmouth College

Virtual Paper Presenter: Dewei Shen – Stanford University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Zekun Zhang – Yale University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Ruth W. Dunnell – Kenyon College

Virtual Paper Presenter: Huasha Zhang – Yonsei University

Virtual Discussant: Pamela Kyle Crossley – Dartmouth College

 

D-V48: Natural and Supernatural Worlds across Southeast Asia

Virtual Organizer: Genie Yoo – Princeton University

Virtual Organizer: Anissa Rahadiningtyas – National Gallery of Singapore

Virtual Chair: Genie Yoo – Princeton University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Matthew Reeder – Yale-NUS College

Virtual Paper Presenter: Genie Yoo – Princeton University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Alexandra Dalferro – Cornell University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Anissa Rahadiningtyas – National Gallery of Singapore

Virtual Discussant: Justin McDaniel – University of Pennsylvania

Saturday, March 26, 2022

10:30am – 12:00pm HST (Hawaii)

F-V47: Thinking with Things: From Life to Afterlife in Southeast Asia

Virtual Organizer: Faizah Zakaria, N/A – Nanyang Technological University

Virtual Organizer: Anthony Medrano – Yale-NUS College

Virtual Chair: Anthony Medrano – Yale-NUS College

Virtual Paper Presenter: Faizah Zakaria, N/A – Nanyang Technological University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Anthony Medrano – Yale-NUS College

Virtual Paper Presenter: Chairat Polmuk – Chulalongkorn University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Ruel Pagunsan – University of the Philippines, Diliman

Virtual Discussant: Juno S. Parrenas – Cornell University

4:00pm – 5:30pm HST (Hawaii)

H-V55: Beyond Bureaucracy: Individualized Histories of Institutions in Postwar South Korea

Virtual Organizer: Anna Jungeun Lee – University of Michigan

Virtual Paper Presenter: Anna Jungeun Lee – University of Michigan

Virtual Paper Presenter: Graeme R. Reynolds – Yale University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Peter B. Kwon – University at Albany, State University of New York

Virtual Paper Presenter: Michelle F. Hsieh – Academia Sinica

Virtual Discussant: Tae Gyun Park – Seoul National University

Sunday, March 27, 2022

9:00am – 10:30am HST (Hawaii)

K-V37: Hybrid Cosmologies in Early Modern and Modern East Asia

Virtual Organizer: Daniel Said Monteiro – University of Paris

Virtual Chair: Daniel Said Monteiro – University of Paris

Virtual Paper Presenter: Qiong Zhang – Wake Forest University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Daniel Said Monteiro – University of Paris

Virtual Paper Presenter: Hansun Hsiung – Durham University

Virtual Discussant: Jing Tsu – Yale University

 

K-V49: Unpacking and Repackaging Japanese Migrants in the US-Ruled Philippines: Alternative Perspectives in History and Deep Film Indexing

Virtual Organizer: Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes – University of Shizuoka

Virtual Chair: Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes – University of Shizuoka

Virtual Discussant: Ricardo T. Jose – University of the Philippines, Diliman

Virtual Discussant: Patricia O. Afable – Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Virtual Discussant: Hirosi Huzioka – The University of Tokyo

Virtual Discussant: Maria Cynthia B. Barriga – Waseda University

10:45am – 12:15pm HST (Hawaii)

L-V34: The Politics and Sociality of Dangerous Food in Contemporary China

Virtual Organizer: Mikkel Bunkenborg – University of Copenhagen

Virtual Chair: Anders Hansen – University of Aarhus

Virtual Co-Author: Mikkel Bunkenborg – University of Copenhagen

Virtual Paper Presenter: Anders Hansen – University of Aarhus

Virtual Paper Presenter: Lili Lai – Peking University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Caroline Merrifield – Yale University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Meina Sandal – Aarhus University

Virtual Discussant: Jakob Klein – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London


In-person:

Friday, March 25, 2022

9:30am – 11:00am HST (Hawaii)

B17: Expatriate Icons, Shifting Identities

Location: Conv. Center, Room 323C

Organizer: Jessica L. Patterson – University of San Diego

Chair: Pattaratorn Chirapravati – California State University, Sacramento

Paper Presenter: Jessica L. Patterson – University of San Diego

Paper Presenter: William Ma – LSU College of Art + Design

Paper Presenter: Julia H. Cross – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Ellen Huang – ArtCenter College of Design

Discussant: Pattaratorn Chirapravati – California State University, Sacramento

11:30am – 1:00pm HST (Hawaii)

C10: Asian Healthcare Colonialisms: Ethnographic and Comparative Approaches to Governance through Care

Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C

Organizer: Ting Hui Lau – Yale-NUS College

Chair: Ting Hui Lau – Yale-NUS College

Paper Presenter: Saiba Varma – University of California, San Diego

Paper Presenter: Young Su S. Park – Haverford College

Paper Presenter: Daena Funahashi – University of California, Berkeley

Paper Presenter: Ting Hui Lau – Yale-NUS College

Discussant: Jocelyn Lim Chua – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

C13: Designing Modern Readership: Book Art, Print Culture, and Literary Production in Early Twentieth-Century Japan and China

Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C

Organizer: Pedro Bassoe – Purdue University

Organizer: Xiaoyu Xia – University of California, Berkeley

Chair: Ann Sherif – Oberlin College

Paper Presenter: Pedro Bassoe – Purdue University

Paper Presenter: Ren Wei – Dickinson College

Paper Presenter: Nathan Shockey – Bard College

Paper Presenter: Xiaoyu Xia – University of California, Berkeley

Discussant: Nozomi Naoi – Yale-NUS College

 

C17: Anti-Americanism in Asia: Transnational Resistance, National Independence, and Domestic Suppression

Location: Conv. Center, Room 323C

Organizer: Chiou-Ling Yeh – San Diego State University

Chair: Mark Sanchez – Vanderbilt University

Paper Presenter: Chiou-Ling Yeh – San Diego State University

Paper Presenter: Joy Sales – California State University, Los Angeles

Paper Presenter: John G. Grisafi – Yale University

Discussant: Mark Sanchez – Vanderbilt University

 

C23: Robot Emotion: Artificial Intelligence, Technologies of Care, and the Future of Intimacy in Japan

Location: Conv. Center, Room 314

Organizer: Daniel White – University of Cambridge

Chair: Daniel White – University of Cambridge

Paper Presenter: Daniel White – University of Cambridge

Paper Presenter: Keiko Nishimura – University of North Carolina

Paper Presenter: Grant Otsuki – Victoria University of Wellington

Paper Presenter: Anne S. Aronsson – Yale University

Discussant: Chihyung Jeon – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology

 

C24: Nation/Nationalism/Subjectification/Critique

Location: Conv. Center, Room 303A

Chair: David R. Ambaras – North Carolina State University

Paper Presenter: Na Sil Heo – Yale University

Virtual Paper Presenter: Sam Bamkin – University of Tokyo

Paper Presenter: Sun Yong Lee – Princeton Theological Seminary

Paper Presenter: Thomas B. Newhall – University of California, Los Angeles

Paper Presenter: Ronald K. Richardson – Boston University

 

C33: Secrets and Secrecy in Southeast Asia

Location: Conv. Center, Room 307A

Organizer: Tri Phuong – Yale University

Chair: Tri Phuong – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Tri Phuong – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Flora Shao – Pennsylvania State University

Paper Presenter: Andrew M. Carruthers – University of Pennsylvania

Paper Presenter: Kathleen Gutierrez – University of California, Santa Cruz

Discussant: Erik Harms – Yale University

1:30pm – 3:00pm HST (Hawaii)

D04: Toward a Theory of Late Imperial Chinese Media: Paper-Money-Body-Internet

Location: Conv. Center, Room 316A

Organizer: Ariel Fox – University of Chicago

Organizer: S.E. Kile – University of Michigan

Chair: Ling Hon Lam – University of California, Berkeley

Paper Presenter: Thomas Kelly – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: Ariel Fox – University of Chicago

Paper Presenter: S.E. Kile – University of Michigan

Paper Presenter: Tina Lu – Yale University

Discussant: Ling Hon Lam – University of California, Berkeley

Saturday, March 26, 2022

10:30am – 12:00pm HST (Hawaii)

F01: Forbidden Fruit: Plundering the Meanings of Melons in Modern China

Location: Conv. Center, Room 303B

Organizer: Christopher G. Rea – University of British Columbia

Organizer: Nicolai Volland – The Pennsylvania State University

Chair: Xuelei Huang – University of Edinburgh

Paper Presenter: Christopher G. Rea – University of British Columbia

Paper Presenter: Nicolai Volland – The Pennsylvania State University

Paper Presenter: Geremie R. Barme – Asia Society

Paper Presenter: Shaoling Ma – Yale-NUS College

Discussant: Xuelei Huang – University of Edinburgh

 

F20: Japanese Literature

Location: Conv. Center, Room 304A

Paper Presenter: David C. Atherton – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: Kevin P. Mulholland – University of Notre Dame

Paper Presenter: Matias Chiappe Ippolito – Waseda University

Paper Presenter: Nina Farizova – Yale University

 

F27: Social Media, Cultural Production, and Monuments

Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C

Chair: Moodjalin Sudcharoen – University of Chicago

Paper Presenter: Moodjalin Sudcharoen – University of Chicago

Paper Presenter: Elisabeth A. Wulandari – Clarkson University

Paper Presenter: Mohit Manohar – Yale University

12:30pm – 2:00pm HST (Hawaii)

G14: Reinterpreting the “Three Perfections” in China, Japan, and Beyond

Location: Conv. Center, Room 323A

Organizer: Effie Yin – Ringling College of Art & Design

Organizer: Yijie Chen – The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

Chair: Yanfei Zhu – University of North Georgia

Paper Presenter: Mary C. Gilstad – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Yijie Chen – The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

Paper Presenter: Effie Yin – Ringling College of Art & Design

Paper Presenter: Yanfei Zhu – University of North Georgia

Discussant: Rhiannon Paget – The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida State University

Sunday, March 27, 2022

10:45am – 12:15pm HST (Hawaii)

L17: Buddhist Affect: Feelings and Emotions in Buddhist Art Across Asia

Location: Conv. Center, Room 305A

Organizer: Winston C. Kyan – University of Utah

Organizer: Padma Dorje Maitland – California Polytechnic State University

Chair: Winston C. Kyan – University of Utah

Paper Presenter: Winston C. Kyan – University of Utah

Paper Presenter: Padma Dorje Maitland – California Polytechnic State University

Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Durham – Asian Art Museum

Paper Presenter: Melody Rodari – Loyola Marymount University

Discussant: Mimi Yiengpruksawan – Yale University

 

L29: Studies of Legitimacy and Authority in Vietnamese Texts

Location: Conv. Center, Room 321A

Organizer: Claudine Ang – Yale-NUS College

Chair: Claudine Ang – Yale-NUS College

Paper Presenter: John D. Phan – Columbia University

Discussant: John D. Phan – Columbia University

Paper Presenter: Claudine Ang – Yale-NUS College

Paper Presenter: Vinh Q. Nguyen – Columbia University

Discussant: Vinh Q. Nguyen – Columbia University

 

L33: Haze, Sand, Fire, Water: Environmental Crises in Southeast Asia

Location: Conv. Center, Room 307B

Organizer: Patricia Sloane-White – University of Delaware

Organizer: Chong Ja-Ian – National University of Singapore

Chair: Patricia Sloane-White – University of Delaware

Paper Presenter: Helena Varkkey – Universiti Malaya

Paper Presenter: Tabitha Grace Mallory – University of Washington

Paper Presenter: Vanessa Koh – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Miles Kenney-Lazar – National University of Singapore

Paper Presenter: Laavanya Kathiravelu – Nanyang Technical University