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Yale CEAS at AAS 2026

Yale Council on East Asian Studies members and students will be represented at the 2026 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.  Please see below for a list of panels featuring our faculty, Ph.D. students, and scholars working on Asia.  For more details, please see the AAS 2026 Digital Program.

Thursday, March 12, 2026

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

VCC, Room 221

An Ideal Refuge? A Critical Examination of the South Korean Refugee Landscape

Organizer: Angela Y. McClean 

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

VCC, Room 215

Cultural Technique, Media, and Literature: An Early Modern Chinese Reflections

Presenter: Yen-hao Liao 

Friday, March 13, 2026

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
Borrowing and Rejecting: China and the Soviet Models

Presenter: Julia Zhou 
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
VCC, Room 301

Religion, Culture, and Media in Korea

Presenter: Yeonwoo Joh 

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

VCC, Room 206

Between the Profane and the Divine: Creative Resistance and “Islamic” Subjectivities Across Asia

 
Organizer: Dien Min Loong (she/her/hers) 
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
VCC, Room 301

Chinese Responses to Climate Change during the Little Ice Age, ca. 1350-1850

Discussant: Peter Perdue 

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM 
VCC, Room 208

Seoul Mates: Transformations of Gender and Intimacy in Contemporary South Korea

Presenter: Meera Choi 

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

VCC, Room 303

Harnessing the Humanities in the Age of “Overtourism”: Lessons from the People’s Guide to Tokyo

 
Organizer: Daniel V. Botsman
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
VCC, Room 201

Social Life of Disappointment in Contemporary Asia

Discussant: Sheng Long

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Malaspina Room, Concourse Level
Yale University Asian Studies Councils Reception

Saturday, March 14, 2026

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

VCC, Room 207

The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies, Transnational Intellectual Networks, and the History of U.S.-China Relations

 
Organizer: Yike Zhang 
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
VCC, Room 213
Infrastructural Frontiers: State and Society in the PRC's Western Borderlands

Presenter: Junyi Han
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
VCC, Room 215
Knowledge Production and Speculative Fiction in the Sinosphere--Part I; Writings of Technology

Presenter: Emily Jin
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
VCC, Room 302

The Poiesis of Embodiment: Crafting Experience and Desire through Play in Early Modern China

 
Organizer: Nellie Ting Yang
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
Institutions, Practices, and Engagements in Interstate Relations across Eurasia, 1200-1800

Presenter: Wei Cui

5:45 PM - 7:15 PM

VCC, Room 220

East Asian Paper Tigers: Unpacking Governance and Governmentality through the Practices of Documents


Organizer: Hyemin Lee
5:45 PM - 7:15 PM
VCC, Room 201
Gender and Sexuality as Illiberal Modes of Legitimation in Asia

Discussant: John Whittier Treat
5:45 PM - 7:15 PM
VCC, Room 214
Beyond and Beneath the Japanese Empire: New Books, Sites, and Scales

Discussant: Hannah Shepherd

Sunday, March 15, 2026

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
VCC Room 103/104
Publishing, Collecting, and Remembering: Japan as a Site of Korean Representation and Cultural Production

Discussant: Hannah Shepherd

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

VCC, Room 216

Commodities in Motion: Transborder Industrialization and Japanese Goods in the Sinosphere

 
Organizer: Mindy Su
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
VCC, Room 121

Individuality in Ancient Japanese Women's Poetry

Presenter: Eric Esteban

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
VCC, Room 305

Re-sizing the Qing Empire: The Effects of Distance on Borderland Formation, Part II

Presenter: George Remisovsky