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