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 |
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7:00 PM - 8:30 PM VCC, Room 221
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An Ideal Refuge? A Critical Examination of the South Korean Refugee Landscape Organizer: Angela Y. McClean |
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7:00 PM - 8:30 PM VCC, Room 215
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Cultural Technique, Media, and Literature: An Early Modern Chinese Reflections Presenter: Yen-hao Liao |
Friday, March 13, 2026 |
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
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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 |
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM VCC, Room 206
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Between the Profane and the Divine: Creative Resistance and “Islamic” Subjectivities Across Asia Organizer: Dien Min Loong (she/her/hers)
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| 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 |
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3:30 PM - 5:00 PM VCC, Room 303
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Harnessing the Humanities in the Age of “Overtourism”: Lessons from the People’s Guide to Tokyo Organizer: Daniel V. Botsman
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| 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 |
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8:30 AM - 10:00 AM VCC, Room 207
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The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies, Transnational Intellectual Networks, and the History of U.S.-China Relations Organizer: Yike Zhang
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| 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
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| 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 |
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5:45 PM - 7:15 PM VCC, Room 220
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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 |
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| 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 |
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM VCC, Room 216
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Commodities in Motion: Transborder Industrialization and Japanese Goods in the Sinosphere Organizer: Mindy Su
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| 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 |