Provisional Schedule:

Saturday February 8, 2020

8 AM – 10:00 AM Registration and Reception (coffees and breakfast served) CGIS Concourse

10:00 – 11:30 AM Opening Remarks (Professor James Robson, RSEA Chair )

Keynote (Professor Mark Elliott , Harvard University ) Tsai Auditorium

11:30 AM – 1 PM Panels: A, B, C See “panels”

1 PM – 2 PM Lunch TBD

2 PM -3:30 PM Panels: D, E, F See “panels”

3:30 PM -3:45 PM Break

3:45 PM – 5:00 PM Panels: G, H See “panels”

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Panels: I, J See “panels”

6:30 PM – 8 PM Refreshments and drinks CGIS Concourse

Sunday, February 9, 2020

8:00AM – 9:00AM Continental Breakfast CGIS Concourse

9:00AM – 10:30AM Panels: K, L See “Panels”

10:45-12:15 Keynote (Professor Karen Thornber, Harvard University )

Closing Remarks (Professor Alex Zahlten, RSEA Director of Studies ) S010 Tsai Auditorium

 

Panel Locations (CGIS South Building)

Panel A, D, I, K:   S001

Panel B, E, J, L:  S050

Panel C, F:  S003

Panels G:  S153

Panel H:  S250

Panel Information

Panel A: The Body and its Borders in East Asia

Discussant: Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Harvard University

Location: CGIS South S001

Time: 11:30 AM – 1 PM, Saturday 8th February

Jalem Towler, Harvard University, ‘Proof of the Man and “Spectacularized Blackness”’.

Alice Baldock, University of Oxford, ‘(Un-)Bounded Bodies: Dancers in Post-War Japan’.

Guy Pinnington, University of Cambridge , ‘Between the Popular and the Political: Reading the zainichi Body in Yang Seok-Il’s Literature’.

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Panel B: Religion and the State

Discussant: Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University

Location: CGIS South S050

Time: 11:30 AM – 1 PM, Saturday 8th February

Elizabeth Lee, New York University, ‘Koryŏ Ceramics, Liao Techniques: Celadons as Sites of Artistic Negotiation’.

John Grisafi , Yale University, ‘City Boundaries and the Traces of the Kami: Borders, Urban Spaces, and theLegacy and Memory of Shinto Shrines in Seoul’.

Yusuke Tsuzuki , Harvard University, ‘Religion or Custom?- Drawing False Boundaries in Supreme Court Shinto Cases’.

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Panel C: Crosstalk in 20th Century East Asian Literature

Discussant: Professor David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese

Literature, Harvard University

Location: CGIS South S003

Time: 11:30 AM – 1 PM, Saturday 8th February

Hui Sheng, Nanjing University, ‘Lyricists on the Edge: A ‘Contextual Misplacement’ Between Wu Mi and Shen Congwen’.

Sai Ma , Stanford University, ‘Border-Crossing Through Letters: The Rhetoric of Confession’.

Xinran Wang, Duke University, ‘The Tram, the Train, and the Steamship Semi-colonial Mobility in Yu Dafu’s “Moving South”’.

Su Chen Yang, University of California – Los Angeles, ‘The Tram, the Train, and the Steamship: Semi-colonial Mobility in Yu Dafu’s “Moving South”’.

Dengyang Liao, Harvard University, ‘Beyond Civilizational Boundaries: An Analysis of the Debate between Du Yaquan and Chen Duxiu in the late 1910s’.

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Panel D: Jump cuts: the edges of film

Discussant: Alex Zahlten, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Location: CGIS South S001

Time: 2 PM – 3:30 PM, Saturday February 8th

Hyejoo Lee , Harvard University, ‘“Desert and Movement: America and the Road in 1980s South Korean Foreign Location Films”’.

Yuchen Yan , Harvard University, ‘Sociality in Kawase Naomi’s Early Documentaries: Situated Learning and Multimedia Filmmaking in Professional Schools’.

Xiuhe Zhang , , ‘Sexual Borders, Moral Boundaries:Mediating Migrant Women Sex Workers in Post-Reform Rust Belt China’.

Wenxian Zhang , Duke University, ‘Temporal-Spatial Migration and Power Dynamics in Post-Socialist China:Zhou Hao’s Documentary The Chinese Mayor’.

Darshani Lakmali Jayasinghe , Stanford University, ‘A home beyond borders in Park Chan-wook’s Joint Security Area: Challenging traditional conceptions of home’.

Anisa Khalifa , Duke University, ‘Cinematic Postcolonial Imaginary:Visualizing the Fractured Nation in Lagaan and The Age of Shadows’.

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Panel E: Empire defining identity in East Asia

Discussant: David Howell, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History, Harvard University

Location: CGIS South S050

Time: 9:00AM – 10:30AM, Saturday February 8th

Christina Wang, University of California – Santa Cruz, ‘Displaying Colonial Korea: Borders Within and Without the Mingeikan’.

Xinyue Luan, University of California – Irvine, ‘The Politics of Floating: The G. Prat “Chine-Japon” Photographic Album 1878-1896’.

Lin Meng Walsh, Stanford University, ‘Kitamura Kenjirō, Manchuria, and “Grand Romanticism”’.

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Panel F: Identity and Exchange in Pre-Modern East Asia

Discussant: Eugenio Menegon, Associate Professor of History, Boston University

Location: CGIS South S003

Time: 2 PM – 3:30 PM, Saturday February 8th

Di Wang, University of Pennsylvania, ‘Choosing to be a Chinese: Reading the Epitaphs of Sogdian Descendants in Tang China’.

Yanxiao He. University of Chicago, ‘Rome as Self and Rome as Other: The Image of Rome in Han and Post-Han Ethnography’.

Luke Stanek , Yale University, ‘Trade Routes and Knowledge Flows: Mapping “Oddities” in the Tang Miscellany Youyang zazu ’.

Liyao Chen, University of Washington,’Crossing Language Borders: The Adaptation of Chinese Writing and the Use of Sinograms in Non-Chinese Languages’.

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Panel G: Identity in Japan: from empire to war

Discussant: Timothy Van Compernolle, Professor of Asian Languages and Civilisations, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Location: CGIS South S153

Time: 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM, Saturday February 8th

Francesco Cioffo, School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London, ‘The Indo-Japanese Entanglement During the Great War: How the Collaboration Between Lala Lajpat Rai And Ōkawa Shūmei Shaped India and Japan’s ‘Asia’.

Yi Feng, Yale University, ‘Whose Patriots?: The Japanese Issei Patriotism and the US Military Draft of the First World War in Hawaii’.

Adam Silverman, University of Southern California, ‘A National, Nationless Other: Cinematic Representations of the Ainu in Post-Occupation Japan’.

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Panel H: People on the Periphery in China

Discussant: XXX

Location: CGIS South S250

Time: 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM, Saturday February 8th

Benjamin Landauer, Harvard University, ‘Liminal Space between Popular and Forbidden: Political Sentiments and Literary Connections in Chinese Rap Lyricism’

Wen-yao Lee, University of Kansas, Wuyutong Yao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, ‘A Local History of Diexi Earthquake on Sino-Tibetan Borderland’.

Mengyun Ma, University of Pennsylvania Law School, ‘Riding over the Edge: Towards Ethnic Integration in Educational Equality Policies of Xinjiang’.

Cheng Cheng , University of Harvard, ‘The Indifferent Victim: Minority Ethnic Education in Xinjiang and Tibet’

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Panel I: South-south or East-West?

Discussant: Bohao Wu, History Department PhD Candidate, Harvard University

Location: CGIS S001

Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM, Saturday February 8th

James Gethyn Evans, Harvard University, ‘Global Revolution with a “Chinese Accent”? Maoism, African-American Activism, and Naxalism in the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)’.

Yike Zhang, University of California – Berkeley, ‘Mirroring the Late-Mao Transition through “the West”? Western Students, the Cold War International Order, and China in the Early 1970s’.

Hongyang Cai, McGill University, ‘Transpacific Poetic Imaginary: Pablo Neruda, Ai Qing and the Politics of a Friendship’.

Ernest Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, ‘Nishihara Kamezō and the Origins of Developmentalist East Asia: State Socialism, WWI, and the East Asian Economic League’.

Ria Roy, University of Cambridge,

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Panel J: Tomorrow’s Problem? Futurism in East Asia

Discussant: Mingwei Song, Associate Professor of Chinese, Wellesley College

Location: CGIS South S050

Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM, Saturday February 8th

Han-Yun Ten, National Taiwan University, ‘Ken Liu’s The Paper Menagerie and Renovation of Asian Literature Boundary’.

Xinyi Gu, Stanford University, ‘Between Humans and Machines: Control and Autonomy in Ex Machina and “The Fish of Lijiang”’.

Lin Zhang, University of Pennsylvania, ‘Reimagining the Border: A Critical Investigation of The Wandering Earth and Science Fiction Film’.

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Panel K: Boundaries in Modern Korea

Discussant: Professor Ingu Hwang, Korea Foundation Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College

Location: CGIS South S001

Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM, Sunday February 9th

Zachary M. Adamz , University of Texas at Austin, ‘Didactic Lines, Mnemonic Spaces: Exploring Boundaries of Affect and Identity at the ‘Russian Korean History Museum’.

Yishu Ma, University of Pennsylvania, ‘Where Did the Korean Wind Blow: The Construction and Changes of Koryŏ-saram’s Identity of Diaspora through 1860-1940’.

Steve Literati, University of Southern California, ‘From Agnosticism to Rescuers – Examining how the Foreign community of Kwangju became involved in the Kwangju Uprising.’

Apolinario Schramm , University of Washington, ‘An Education Problem: Early Study Abroad in South Korea in Conservative Media’.

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Panel L: Court Elites and State Boundaries in Imperial China

Discussant: Thomas P. Kelly, Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and

Civilizations, Harvard University

Location: CGIS South S050

Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM, Sunday February 9th

Tae Yeon Eom, The University of British Columbia, ‘Stories of Murder and Border: Supernational Jurisdiction and Transnational Legal Thought in Seventeenth-Century Sino-Korean Relations’.

Fan Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ‘Moral Autonomy at Stake: The Writing of Resurgence in Cao Xun’s Poetry’.

Casey Stephens, Harvard University, ‘Returning to the Capital: Wang Wei as Courtier’.