AAS Annual Conference

Panels by Area of Study

China & Inner Asia | Interarea | Japan | Korea | South Asia | Southeast Asia

The Program Committee has accepted the following list of panels and roundtables for the 2013 Annual Conference in San Diego, California.

Titles may change slightly, however the hourly schedule will remain constant. All Panel Titles are listed alphabetically. The Titles are preceded by the assigned panel number.

Panel details with paper titles, participant names and affiliations will appear in the Official Conference Program Book. All abstracts will be posted online.

Access to a more detailed listing of scheduled panels, participants, abstracts, keyword & affiliation searches will be available closer to the time of the conference.

Schedule

Panel Day Start Time
1 – 34 Thursday 7:30 p.m.
35 – 68 Friday 8:30 a.m.
69 – 102 Friday 10:45 a.m.
103 – 137 Friday 1:00 p.m.
138 – 171 Friday 3:15 p.m.
172 – 205 Saturday 8:30 a.m.
206 – 238 Saturday 10:45 a.m.
239 – 272 Saturday 2:45 p.m.*
273 – 306 Saturday 5:00 p.m.*
307 – 340 Sunday 8:00 a.m.
341 – 374 Sunday 10:15 a.m.

 

China and Inner Asia

135: Roundtable: A Celebration of Chris Gilmartin and Her Contributions to the Field of Chinese History. Sponsored by the China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC)

270: A River Runs through It: Environment, Society, and Governance in Chinese Riparian History

163: Armies of Learning: Issues of Transformation and Continuity in China's Military, 1920–2010

170: Around the Edges: Chan Formative Developments, Lineage Challenges, and Attempted Reclamation

368: Art Production and Remediation in the Qianlong Court

62: Beyond the Classics: The Diversity of Health Care in Chinese History

299: Beyond Trade and War: Exploring the Cultural, Geographical, and Temporal Boundaries of the Canton Trade Period

197: Borderland by the Sea: China's Southeast Coast in Interesting Times, 16th–18th Centuries

272: Bureaucratic Capitalism, Co-optation, and Regime Survival in China

97: Center Stage: Women and Gender in Chinese Buddhist Tradition

372: Central-Local Dynamics and Local Autonomy in China

136: Roundtable: China's Publishing Soft Power: Trends, Challenges, and Strategies

269: Workshop: Chinese Film and Society. Sponsored by the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia

67: Chinese Higher Education in the Context of Social Transformation

164: Chinese Muslims and the Arabic Language: Authority, Authenticity, and Communication. Sponsored by the AAS China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC)

339: Chinese Thought as Global Theory?

31: Chinese Women's Struggles at the Intersection of Social Power and Self-Determination

102: Cold War and Forced Migration in East Asia: State Policy, Humanitarian Discourse, and Lived Experiences

30: Collaborating with the World Conquerers: Non-Mongol Officials, Local Elites, and Governing Strategies in the Early Yuan Dynasty

233: Communist China and Its Modern Fate: Levenson and China 50 Years Later

298: Constructions and Representations of Space in Qing and Republican China

297: Contemporary Chinese Familial Bonds: Cultural Representations and Social Realities

130: Contentious Politics in China: New Developments and New Puzzles

334: Contested Home/land: Minority Discourse in Post-WWII Chinese and Taiwanese Film and Fiction

236: Corruption, Development, and the Rule of Law in Contemporary China

29: Critical Comics and Animated Myths: Orphans and Superheroes in the Republican Era and the PRC

237: Critical Perspectives on Soft Power and China

95: Designing Chinese Cities: The Rise of Modern Urban Practices in the Early 20th Century

167: Elite and Popular Confucianism in Contemporary China

371: Encountering Climate Change and Environmental Crisis: China's Environmental Politics

234: Envisioning a Post-Developmental Society: The Resurgence of Environmentalism in Taiwan

340: Extending the Boundaries of the Welfare Domain: The Margins and the Marginalized in China's New Social Policy

66: Facing the State in Southwest China: Social Changes in China's Interior during the War with Japan, 1937–1945

63: Financing Republican China in a Transnational Context, 1900s–1940s

263: Fitting into the Nation: Creating Citizens in Republican China

332: Fragmented Authoritarianism: An Outdated Notion?

92: Friendship in Discourse and Deed as a Key to Social Change in Late Imperial China

59: From All Sides/Gong Ting Bing Guan: Combining Perspectives on Sino-American Relations and Chinese Foreign Policy in the Cold War

133: From Empire to Republic: The Making of Modern Chinese Politics Recognition and National Identity

337: Gender, Sexuality, and Morality in Motion

202: Roundtable: Gender, the Popular Press, and the Digital Humanities: The Development of a Database of Republican Chinese Women's Magazines and Entertainment Newspapers

333: Getting Ahead in 21st-Century China

303: Green Growth in China: Global Environmental Leader or Notorious Laggard? The Local Perspective (Part I)

338: Green Growth in China: Global Environmental Leader or Notorious Laggard? The National Perspective (Part II)

65: Guanxi Studies: New Research from the Field

271: He Ain't Heavy – He's My Brother: Xiong and Di in Late Imperial Chinese Elite Culture

203: Hidden Presence: The Embodiment of Body in Chinese Religious Visual Culture

198: How Much Do Their Votes Count in Greater China? Elections and Political Transformation in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and the PRC Mainland

235: Imaginative Projections: Literary China in the Post-Tiananmen Era

61: Imagining the Foreign in Late Imperial China

335: In Her Own Image: Self-Representation in Late Imperial Chinese Women's Writing

205: Individual Papers: Participation, Integration, and Emigration in Contemporary China

34: Individual Papers: Resistance & Engagement: Gender, Internet, and the State

33: Roundtable: Ishikawa Yoshihiro's New Work on the Early CCP. Sponsored by the Sino-Japanese Studies Group

27: Justice on Trial: Practice and Perception of Law in Late Imperial and Republican China

370: Landscapes and Memory in Chinese History

100: Locality and Fluidity: China's Socialism in the 1950s

60: Localizing Ritual: The Roles of Local Elites in Northern China, 1000–1400

129: Luxury Commodities and Imperial Politics in the High Qing Era (1660–1795)

301: Magic and the Other: Women, Children, and Popular Religious Practices in Pre-Modern China

336: Military Men, Veterans, and Legacies of War in 19th- and 20th-Century China

68: Modeling Regions: Chinese Subnational Political Economy in Comparative Perspective

265: Modern China at Gunpoint: Militarists and Military Organizations in Chinese State Construction, 1864–1937

168: Morality, Law, and Bureaucracy in the Making of Chinese Modernity

64: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Mongolia

230: Nation, Gender, and Transcultural Modernism in Republican China

304: Negotiating Authority in China: Local Perspectives on Conflict and Change

231: Negotiating the Material Body in Qing Society and Culture. Sponsored by the Society for Qing Studies

204: New Perspectives on Academies in Middle and Later Imperial China

169: New Perspectives on China's Propaganda State: Revolution, War, and Culture

162: New Perspectives on Classical Knowledge and the Imperial State: The Legibility of Ancient Rituals in Early Modern China

93: New Perspectives on Didactic Imagery in Chinese Funerary Art

165: New Perspectives on Wanton Women in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

101: New Trends in Chinese Industrial Policy: State Capitalism Ascendant?

25: New Wine from Old Bottles: New Findings in Traditional Chinese Art Theory and Criticism

94: Opera and Politics in China: From Wartime Period to the Present

199: Origins and Legacies of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

366: Painted Words and Written Worlds: Visual and Literary Representation in Premodern China

305: Party Adaptation in China: Is It Enough?

232: Past Forward: Jia Yi's New Vision of Empire

98: Performing and Exhibiting Socialist Mass Culture in the Mao Era

365: Place, Praxis, and Representation in Ming China

369: Playmakers: Power, Authority, and the Chinese Stage

137: Policing with Chinese Characteristics: Histories, Regional Differences, and Interactions

132: Private Feelings, Public Expressions: Writing and Practicing Emotions

201: Re/Constructing Identity in Tibetan Biographies

161: Refocusing the Margin: Pipa ji at the Interstice between Print, Performance, and Vocal History

266: Revisiting Buddhist Cave Shrines and Images in China and Korea

26: Rule of Experts: Intersecting Art and Science in the Statecraft of Qing China

267: Senses Make Sense: Seeing, Hearing, Touching, Tasting, and Smelling in Chinese Everyday Life, 1870s–1990s

105: Social and Cultural Perspectives on Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary China

373: Social Reform in China: Pathways and Challenges. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation

96: Spatial Transformations in China's Western Borderlands

171: Speaking Bitterness: Personal Experience, Historical Narrative, and Public Articulation of Traumatic Memory in Modern China. Sponsored by the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China

99: State Failures in Chinese Education, 1939–2012

35: State-NGO Linkages, Cooperation, and Contestation in Chinese Civil Society

131: Strategies and Discourses: Exploring the Complexities of Figural Portrayals in Chinese Art

28: Supernatural Beings in Imperial Chinese Literature

306: The Formation of Academic Disciplines in Twentieth-Century China

32: The Making of a Local Famine in Wuwei County, Anhui Province, 1958–1961

374: The Soviet influence in the Chinese World: A Reappraisal

134: Tibetan Manuscripts and Documents: The Impact of Newly-Available Sources

367: Transforming Chinese Kinship in Film

264: Transport and Communications Revolutions and the Global Late Qing

302: Traversing Cultural Revolution and Rusticated Youth Memories: The Ethics and Dilemmas of Consuming Rural China

268: We Have Never Been Human: Monsters and Monstrosity in China and Beyond

200: Welfare and Health Reforms in China (Rebuilding the Welfare State), Part I

238: Welfare and Health Reforms in China (Recent Health Reforms), Part II

166: When Chongqing was China: Rethinking Chongqing's Role during the Second Sino-Japanese War

300: Workshop on Computational Tools and Digital Resources for Chinese History and Literature

24: Writing Hangzhou: Intersections of Geographic Sites, Politics, and Memory from the 10th to 20th Centuries in China


 

Interarea/Border-Crossing/Diaspora

110: "Appropriation" as Catalyst: Cross-Border Perspectives on East Asian Calligraphy

103: AAS Presidential Roundtable: New Horizons: The Impact of Digital Scholarship in Asian Studies

7: Artistic Expression, National Sentiment, and Its Political Metamorphoses in Southeast and East Asia

183: Asian Development Models: A New Paradigm for Development Practice?

279: Asia-Pacific Islands in the Sun of Empire

150: Assessing China's National Identity and Reacting to the Sino-US National Identity Gap. Sponsored by the Korea Economic Institute

209: At the Boundaries of Acceptability: Theorizing Women's Mobility, Isolation, and Intimacy

349: Becoming Japanese Overseas: Language, Gender, Race, and Class in the Production of Japanese Identities outside of Japan

350: Between Seoul and Beijing: Travels through Books and Paintings of the 18th and 19th Centuries

69: Beyond Macro-Regions: Networks and the Spread of Culture, Commerce, and Politics: A Panel in Honor of Sherman Cochran and G. Wm. Skinner

347: Buddhism and Inter-Asian History

2: China-Japan-Korea Economic Trilateralism: The Prospects and Perils of a New CJK FTA - Sponsored by the Korea Economic Institute

315: Chinese Chan Poetry in the Caodong (J. Soto Zen) School

40: Roundtable: Circulating East Asian Voices: Integrating Non-English Scholarship into the Global Academic Community

147: Citizens in the Re-Emerging Center of the World: A Cross-Border Perspective on Cultural Production and Identity Formation across Asia

39: Civic Environmentalism and Sustainable Communities in East Asia

71: Class, Gender, and Race under Japanese Rule: Writings and Thoughts of/on Women in East Asia from the 1920s to 1945

313: Clemency, Justice, and Collective Responsibility: Japanese War Crimes Trials and Their Aftermath

179: Coming to Terms with the Postwar World: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias in 20th-Century Asia

1: Conceptualizing the West and Asia: Diplomats, Travelers, and Scholars in the Age of Imperialism

8: Consolidating Russia's Conquest of Asia: The Flow of People, Ideas, and Currency across the Vast Sino-Mongol-Russian Border, 1860–1920

239: Roundtable: Critical Conversations in Sinophone Studies: A Roundtable Featuring Pema Tseden, Tibetan Author and Filmmaker

42: Crossing Boundaries through the Performing Arts

346: Cultural Revolutions and Their Music beyond China's Borders

141: Diasporic Imperialism: Japan's Asia-Pacific Emigration and the Making of the Japanese Empire

314: Disciplining "les dingues": Psychiatry, Madness, and Mental Health in Asian History

145: Early Modern News: The Fall of the Ming on a Global Stage

5: East Asian Cultural and Musical Intersections: Music in Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea

308: Eco Criticism Turns East: Ecological Issues in Image, Film, and Media in Asia

312: Emplacement / Displacement: The Making and Un-Making of Place through Religion in Cross-Cultural Asian Settings

343: Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern East Asia

310: Field Trips and Asian Studies: Best Practices and Outcomes. Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching About Asian (CTA)

144: Food and Place in the Borderlands: Perspectives from Contemporary East and Southeast Asia

277: From Heavenly Punishment to Colonial Panics: Fractured Responses to the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and Korean Massacres

280: From Networks to Network Analysis: A New Approach to East Asian History and Literature

106: Fujian in a Maritime World: A Boundary-Crossing Perspective on Local Histories

178: Workshop: Fulbright Opportunities in Asian Studies

208: Ghosts of Empire: Imperial Remnants across Postcolonial Asia

75: Girls Gone Wild: Sex, Prostitution, and Colonial Anxieties in India, China, and Southeast Asia 1890s–1950s

72: Global Environmental Technologies in the Making of Modern East Asia

311: Globalization and Temporary Agency Work in Asia: Comparative Perspectives

74: Governance and Management in the "Asian Century"

351: How to Do Things with Art in Asia

242: Identity across Borders: Cultural Interactions between Imperial China and the Outside World (7th–17th Century)

276: Identity Politics and the Politics of Museums: The Changing Role of Museums in Qatar, Burma, India, the UAE, and Australia

344: Imagining Asia in the 1920s and 1930s

77: Immobile Buildings, Mobile Boundaries: The Spatial Politics of Border-Crossing in Asia

181: Impact of Bilateral Relations under New Leadership on Regional Competition and Cooperation in Northeast Asia. Sponsored by the Korea Economic Institute

211: In Search of New Orders: Geopolitics, Ideology, and Intelligence Gathering in Post-Mongol China and Korea

274: Indian, Chinese, and Tibetan Buddhism Interacting with State Authorities

78: Individual Papers: Space (Final Title TBD)

43: Individual Papers: Business Enterprises and the Development State in Asia

283: Individual Papers: Cinema (Final Title TBD)

44: Individual Papers: Diaspora/Mobility/Migration (Title TBD)

247: Individual Papers: Modern Literature (Final Title TBD)

248: Individual Papers: Politics and the Arts

246: Individual Papers: Premodern Literature and History in China, Japan and India

109: Initial Encounters: New Perspectives on the Old China Trade

140: Interpreting Zhang Zhongjing: The Discourse on Cold Damage as a Window on Changing Epistemic Formations in East Asian Medicine

207: Roundtable: JAS at AAS: Global Capitalism and Asia

318: Korean National Movement: Crossing the Borders in Changing Times (1905–1919)

70: Law and Justice in East Asia: Judicial Independence and Democratization

243: Magazines, Money, and Mis-Identifications: New Directions in Modern Asian Studies. Sponsored by the AAS Council of Conferences (COC)

138: Maritime Jurisdiction, Smuggling, and Sovereignty across East Asia

107: Millions on the Edge of Empires: Migrants, Diasporic Subjects, and Borders across the Asian Continent

177: Modern Power, Western and Japanese Colonialism, and the New Systems of Governance in the 19th Century: Creative and Critical Appropriations of Foucault's Theory for Writing East Asian History

146: Negotiating Spaces: The Politics of Claiming Public Spaces in the Age of Globalization

3: NGOs and Female Education in China and India: Comparing Conditions and Strategies for Collaboration and Negotiation among NGOs, States and Communities

108: Not Fit for Halls of Elegance? Ming Vernacular Fiction in Context. Sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies

213: Pathways to Power: Energy in the History of East and Southeast Asia

278: Place-Imagination: Mediating Personal and Collective Identities through Art in East Asia

345: Poetic Palimpsests, Poetic Prisms: Modernism and Transcultural Asian Poetry in the 20th Century

214: Post-Conflict Reconstruction and the State in Asia: Comparing Liberal and Illiberal Peace-Building in Myanmar, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Afghanistan

37: Public Interest and Public Works: Water Control and the State in Tokugawa Japan and Qing China. Sponsored by The Early Modern Japan Network

38: Queer Globalization in Asia

112: Queering East and South Asian Pasts

4: Refiguring East Asian Colonial Spaces: Protest, Pleasure, and Power in Korea, Taiwan, and Okinawa

142: Roundtable: Regional and International Noteworthy Library Cooperation Networking Models: Japanese, South, and Southeast Asian Collections. Sponsored by the Asian Librarians Liaison Committee

182: Religion and Politics in East Asia

41: Rethinking "Global Cultural Capital" in East Asia: The Intersection of Families, Education, and Work

76: Ritual and History in South Asian and Tibetan Buddhist Traditions: Continuities and Discontinuities

143: Ritualizing Gestation: Embryological Discourse in Medieval Chinese and Japanese Religions

273: Roundtable to Honor and Discuss the Ideas of Chalmers Johnson and his Impact on the Field of East Asian Studies. Sponsored by the AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)

210: Roundtable: Interpretative Strategies for Thinking through Women's Agency in Buddhism. Sponsored by the AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)

241: Routes of Engagement: Vietnam and the Vietnamese Diaspora (Part I). Sponsored by the Vietnamese Studies Group

275: Routes of Engagement: Vietnam and the Vietnamese Diaspora (Part II). Sponsored by the Vietnamese Studies Group

175: Serial Publication in Asia

173: Setting Aside Sinocentrism: Asserting Choson Korea's Agency in Premodern East Asian International Relations

180: Sound in Silent Media: Transmediality and Uneven Modernity in East Asia

341: South Asia-Japan Encounters: Two Regions, One Asia?

342: Sub-Regional Minorities in Asian Conflict Areas

6: Taking Noodles and Soy Seriously: Evolving Views on Pho, Ramen, Soba, and Tempeh

174: Roundtable: The Birth of Chinese Feminism in Transnational Perspective

176: The Indian Ocean in South Asian History: A Diasporic Perspective

309: The Recruitment of Experts: Managing the Pathologies of Modern Life in Republican China and Colonial Vietnam

317: The Rise of "Information" in Twentieth-Century China and Japan

113: The South China Sea: The New Crucible in US-China Relations?

104: The US Military as a Cultural Institution in Asia

281: Transcending Tradition: Contemporary Zen Experience in East Asia

282: Transforming Melayu Identities in Maritime Southeast Asia

348: Translating East Asian Texts: Cultural Inflections of Theory and Practice

244: Transmission of Scientific and Medical Knowledge in Asia: From the Mongol Empire to the Twentieth Century

215: Transnational Mediascapes of the Japanese Empire: Media Culture, Identities, and Japanese Imperialism

240: Trans-Pacific Imagination, Trans-Pacific Studies

212: Transpacific Objects: Theorizing Ginseng, Mahjong, Chinese Typewriting, and the SS Yangwu

206: Traveling Knowledge: the Printing of Encyclopedia, Family Collections, and Fiction in Premodern East Asia

36: Tricksters, Scoffers, and Jesters at Play: A Comical Reassessment of the Cold War in East Asia

73: Utopias and Dystopias in Modern Asia

111: Wigs, Rugs, Clothes, and Drugs: Making East Asian Global Markets, 1850–Today

316: Works in Clay in Early Korean and Japanese Buddhism


 

Japan

329: All the News That's Fit to Print? Kawaraban Broadsheets in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan

20: Alternative Spaces and Economies: From Japan to Latin America

225: Anecdotes and Literary Knowledge in Heian and Medieval Japan

156: Buddhist Encounters of the Performative Kind: Women and Soteriology in Medieval Performative Texts

255: Challenging and Challenged: Grassroots Politics in Postwar and Contemporary Japan

53: Channeling Imagination, Shaping Minds: Media in Early Modern Japan

88: Chasing Fireflies: Glowing Networks in Post/Modern Japanese Art and Literature

360: Children and the Japanese Nation: Negotiations through Modernization, War, and Recovery

294: Chinese and Korean Influence on Ancient Japan: New Perspectives. Sponsored by the Sino-Japanese Studies Group

216: Civil Society and Social Protest in South Korea and Japan

51: Collaboration, Resistance, and the Imperial Project: Cultural Expression in Colonial Taiwan

189: Contemporary Japanese Politics in Comparative Perspective

123: Cultural Anxiety in Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism

226: Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History

120: Family at the Margins: State, Welfare, and Well-Being in Contemporary Japan

245: Frameworks of Imperial Japan: The Making of the Asia-Pacific Empire, 1880s–1945

124: From Back Court to Brothel: Reconsidering Women in Medieval and Early Modern Japan

191: From Stone to Gold: Japanese Castles in the Sixteenth Century. Sponsored by the Japanese Art History Forum (JAHF)

291: Going Public: Women's Political Activism and the Construction of Identity in Meiji and Taisho Japan

328: Gunkanjima: Culture, Environment, Heritage

193: History, Contingency, Possibility: Rethinking Early Showa Intellectual and Cultural Activity

121: Imperial Japan in an Asian Modern: The Rise and Fall of an Alternative Twentieth Century World

257: In Her Voice: Interrupting the Male Gaze in Four Japanese Literary Texts

86: In Search of Local Color: Tourism, Culture, and Place in Imperial Japan

125: Individual Papers: Gender, Metropole, and Disaster in Contemporary Japan

87: Roundtable: Integrating Literature Across the Foreign Language Curriculum. Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Japanese

18: Japan and the World in the 19th Century: Commercial, Financial, and Cultural Interactions

159: Roundtable: Japan Forum 25th Anniversary Roundtable: The Past, Present, and Future of Japanese Studies

16: Landscapes of Religious Reinvention: Representation and Metasyncretism in Japan

326: Literary and Cultural Responses to 3.11

293: Local History as a Method in the Study of Tokugawa Japan

359: Locating Plays: Dramatic Settings of Medieval and Early Modern Japanese Theatre

54: Roundtable: Managing Risk in Modern Japan

256: Media and Culture in Post 3.11 Japan

192: Medical Knowledge and Healing Practices in Early Modern Japan

89: Medieval Japanese Kambun Diaries: A Reassessment

194: Murakami Bingo: Musings, Meta-Narrative and Memory

290: Musicality in Modern Japanese Literature and Film

228: (Neuro)science in Japanese Animation

158: Workshop: Open Source, Open Book, Open Classroom: Opening Internet Resources for Teaching about Japan

327: Politics of the Nation and Its Borders in 20th-Century Japan

362: Puzzles of the DPJ Governance

17: Reading Culture in Early Modern Japan. Sponsored by the Early Modern Japan Network

19: Reimagining History in Manga Format: From Gekiga to Shôjo

157: Representation at a Distance: Early Modernity, Sinosphere, Japan

122: Rethinking Affluence in Postwar Japan

324: Rumours and Secrets in the Visual Culture of Late Edo and Meiji Japan

160: Social Change in Japan: Old Images, New Patterns in Work and Family Life

85: Sports and Identity Politics in Modern Japan (NOTE: MOVED TO SATURDAY AT 10:45 a.m)

52: Straight Outta Nippon: Appropriation, Identification, Class Consciousness, and Political Resistance in Japanese Hip-Hop and Reggae

260: Studying Abroad in the Ancestral Country: Education Designed for Second-Generation Japanese Americans in Japan from the 1920s to the 1950s

358: The Culture and Practice of the "Sound Image" in Japan during the Early Showa Period

227: The Culture of Eastern Radiance: Examining the Impact of the Toshogu upon Japan's Early Modern Period

259: The Great Convergence? Japan and the Globalization of Nature

190: The Pleasures of Noh: Translating across Texts, Genres, and Cultures

357: The Shiseido Culture: Design, Fashion, and Marketing. Sponsored by the Japanese Company Histories (Shashi) Interest Group

361: Un/Bounding the Nation: Place, Performance, and Modes of Multiculturalism in Japan

325: Visualizing Stories of Heian Japan: Go-Shirakawa-in's Image Repository

258: War Affect, War Memory: Contemporary Photographic Images and the Pacific War Memory in Japan. Sponsored by the Japanese Art History Forum (JAHF)

292: What is Geino? Functions of Body, Voice, and Space

224: Roundtable: Who Moved My Masterpiece? Digital Reproduction, Replacement, and the Vanishing Cultural Heritage of Kyoto

84: Work-Family Policies in Japan: Tensions, Contradictions, and Outcomes

55: Writing Women, Making Men: Gender in Japanese-Language Literature from Early to Postwar Modernity


 

Korea

58: Alternative Perspectives on North Korean Revolutionary Cultural History

22: Catholicism and the Transformation of Korean Society

331: Colonial Korean Literature and Disciplinary Crossings

363: Competing Post-Colonial Strategies of Subject-Formation in South Korea

195: Cross-Purposes: Tension and Conflict in the Korean Christian Mission Field

90: Domestic Matters: Making of "Home" and Family in Early Twentieth-Century Korea

21: Environment and Environmentalisms in the Two Koreas. Sponsored by the Committee on Korean Studies

261: Globally Engaged, Locally Entangled: South Korea and the Politics of Globalization

364: Historical Representation, Truth, and National Memory: Korea-Japan Crossings & Visual Culture (1900–45)

155: Individual Papers: Culture and Politics in Modern Korea

153: Intermedial Aesthetics in Modern Korea: Newspaper, Photography, Radio, and Film

56: Korean Language Education in the United States

57: Law, Justice, and Women in Chosôn Korea

196: Memorializing the Korean War: Critical Reflections 60 Years after the Armistice

296: Memories, Deaths, and Utopia: South Korea after 1987

262: Programmatic Everyday Life: Hegemonizing Language, Architecture, Work, and Moral Culture in Early Modern and Modern Koreas

126: Prospects and Challenges for Korean Reunification. Sponsored by the Korea Economic Institute

295: Re-Inscriptions of Space in Recent Korean Cinema

91: Roundtable: Reframing North Korean Human Rights. Co-sponsored by Critical Asian Studies and the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea

330: Remapping the Literary World and the Writing Practice of the Early Choson Period (15–16th Centuries.)

23: Revisiting Colonial and Cold War Legacies through Postwar Korean Mediascape

229: Roundtable: Shaking the Division System and Ending the Korean War: Civic Engagement and the Transformation of Korea and the World-System. Co-sponsored by Critical Asian Studies and the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea

127: State and Social Status in Choson Korea: The Examination System Re-Examined

154: The Samguk Sagi in Korean History

128: Youth in South Korea: Life after Democratization, Compressed Modernization, and Globalization


 

South Asia

12: Accessing Notions of Communities through South Asian Literary Texts, c.1550–c.1800

284: Roundtable: Adab as Ethics: Negotiations of the Everyday in South Asian Islam

352: Art, Healing, and Medicine in South Asia

252: Bureaucracy and Governance in South Asian History

219: Coomaraswamy Prize Panel: Responses to Molly Emma Aitken's The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting. Sponsored by the AAS South Asia Council (SAC)

114: Development and NGOs in South Asia: Feminist Debates on Empowerment. Sponsored by the AAS South Asia Council (SAC)

354: Displacements, Exclusions, and Minority Status. Sponsored by AIBS

149: Engaging Pasts: History in Modern Hindi Literature

320: Fabrications of the Past: Narrative Literature and Historiography in South Asia

10: Roundtable: Historical Reflections on Women and the Association for Asian Studies: Views from American Academics in South Asian Studies

81: Individual Papers: Gender and Networks in Contexts of Conflict

307: Innovations on the Legal Front in Pakistan: New Laws That May Surprise You. Sponsored by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies

321: Intersections of Gender and Caste through South Asian Music and Dance

47: Laboring Lives: New Forms of Subjectivity and Ethics in South Asia

186: Locating the Space of Local Goddesses in the Global Society

46: Material Hinduism

9: Media Change in India: Surging, Merging, Converging?

11: Negotiating Bengaliness: The Roles and Interrelationships of Folk and Mainstream Cultural Forms in Shaping Bengali Identity in West Bengal, Bangladesh, and the Bengali Diaspora

319: Negotiating Identity and Difference between Majority and Minority Religious Communities in Sri Lanka, Singapore and America

254: Obscenity, Sexuality, and the Sublime in Urdu Literature

353: Paths to Social Mobility for South Asian Muslims. Sponsored by the South Asian Muslim Studies Association

217: Religion-Making, Secularism, and Reform in 19th-Century Bombay

80: Relocating the Region: Bihar from the Colonial to the Contemporary

184: Rethinking Resistance: Subalternity and the State in Contemporary India (Part I)

218: Rethinking Resistance: Subalternity and the State in Contemporary India (Part II)

253: Rethinking Village Studies: Ongoing Debates, Contemporary Insights

220: Signs and Similitudes: Towards a History of Physiognomy in South Asia

45: South Asian Family Landscapes: Productions of Gender and Space in the 19th and 20th Centuries, (Part I)

79: South Asian Family Landscapes: Productions of Gender and Space in the 19th and 20th Centuries, (Part II)

185: Subject Formation in Print: Gender, Caste, and Identity in Vernacular Literature of Colonial India

148: The Ethical Subject in Pre-Colonial and Colonial India

286: The Politics of Difference in Early Modern South Asia

116: The Unfolding Narrative of Indian Literature: Print Cultures and Regional Identities in India

285: Towards a Political History of Media in South Asia


 

Southeast Asia

119: Alternative Modernities in the Dutch Indies

139: Beyond Oligarchy? Critical Exchanges on Accountability and Representation in Indonesia. Sponsored by IETSC

50: Building Trust on Democracy and Governance in Thailand

83: Church, State and Civil Society in Timor Leste: Solidarity and Challenges from Occupation to Independence. Sponsored by the Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee

15: Comparative Land Dynamics in Southeast Asia: Property, Political Ecology, Commodification, and Livelihoods. Sponsored by the AAS Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)

287: Elections and Parties in Decentralized Indonesia. Sponsored by the Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee

322: Environmental Governance In Southeast Asia Reconsidered: Scales, Norms and Politics in Natural Resources Management

222: Workshop: Getting Published in Asian Studies: Publishing on Asia in Asia

14: Illegal Passages and the Dynamics of (Un)Making Orders in Southeast Asian Borders

118: Indigenous Christianity among Ethnic Minorities in Southeast Asia

223: Individual Papers: Contemporary Politics in Southeast Asia

251: Indonesia On(the)Line: National Culture in the Digital Age

13: Interrogating Sources and Methodologies in Southeast Asian Histories

48: Local Politics of Southeast Asian Metropolis

356: Malaysia's "Original People": Recent Research on the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia: Papers in Honor of Geoffrey Benjamin and Robert K. Dentan

49: Missing Histories: Literature, Possibility, and Threat in Southeast Asia

249: Negotiating the Culture and Politics of Language Choice in Contemporary Malaysia (Section I)

152: Roundtable: New Approaches to Teaching Advanced Level Vietnamese Language to Heritage and Non-Heritage Students. Sponsored by the Group of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese in America (GUAVA)

187: New Discoveries in the Study of Thai Manuscripts. Sponsored by the Center for Thai Studies

117: Policing Thailand

172: Political Violence in Contemporary Southeast Asia

288: Post-Intervention Cambodia: An Exploration of the Discursive, Practical and Political Legacies of UNTAC, Twenty Years on. Sponsored by The Center for Khmer Studies

323: Security Regimes and Topographies of Exclusion in Southeast Asia

188: Self-Fashioning in Southeast Asia

151: Southeast Asian Cultural History through Law. Sponsored by the AAS Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)

250: "The Cold War" in Southeast Asia: International History and Beyond

221: The Irony of Endurance: Shifting Conceptions of the Sasana in Burmese Buddhism from the 19th Century to the 21st. Sponsored by the Burma Studies Group

82: Roundtable: The Monarchy in Post-Bhumibol Thailand

289: Traffic: Travel, Translation, and Illicit Trade in Colonial Indochina

355: Wastelands, Degraded Forest Land, and Underutilized Land: Critical Perspectives from Southeast Asia