Conference Sessions
Welcome to the Session Schedule for the Midwest Conference! Here, you’ll find the details of each session, including the room number, panel topic, presenter’s name, and their respective events.
We encourage you to take your time exploring the session schedule, read the abstracts, and plan your attendance accordingly. Engage with the presenters, ask questions, and participate in discussions to make the most of this immersive learning experience.
Individual Paper Presentations (20 minutes): Individual paper presenters will be allotted 20 minutes to present their research with the 5 minutes open for interactive discussion.
Day 1 (Friday, September 29)
Session 1: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (P1-P7)
Session 1
| Room | Category | Panel | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alma Mater | Organized Panel | P1. New Asians in New Worlds: Crossing Old Boundaries and Old Borders | Chair: James Stanlaw, Illinois State University Paper Presenters: • Chop Suey Habits: The State of the American Chinese Restaurant During COVID Times (Rebecca Ma, Binghamton University) • Zoom Zen and Zen Buddhism in Denver (Noah Virklan, Illinois State University) • Korean Americans, Latinos, and the HANA Center: Solidarity Through Community Organization in Northeastern Chicago (Janeth Montenegro Marquez, Illinois State University) • Japan and the Korean Wave: Re-shaping History Through Media (Alexandria Kopicki, University of Minnesota Twin Cities) Discussant: Nobuko Adachi, Illinois State University |
| Excellence | Individual Papers | P2. Diplomacy and Foreign Relations in Modern China | Chair: Yuheng Yan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Li Hongzhang's World Tour Diplomacy (Samuel Green, Mississippi State University/John Wiley & Sons) • Stories of May Fourth (Michel Hockx, University of Notre Dame) • Prizes, Playmates and Presents: Pandas at the West China Union University, Sichuan, 1936-1941 (Cory Willmott, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) |
| Graduate Boardroom | Individual Papers | P3. Individual Papers in Literature and Musicology | Chair: Hanyun Zeng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Three Novels of Shindo Junjo (Stephen Filler, Oakland University) • The Pitch-Standard for Political Unification in Early China: Reading Chapters (Chi Feng, Indiana University, Bloomington) |
| Honors | Roundtable | P4. The Blinded Eagle and the Rising Dragon: American and Chinese Perceptions during the Early Cold War Years | Chair: Paxton Stover, Kansas State University Speakers: • Roberta Meloni, Kansas State University • Matthew Kotowski, Kansas State University • Roberto Noriega, Kansas State University • Paxton Stover, Kansas State University |
| Humanities | Organized Panel | P5. Navigating Bilingual and International Education: Perspectives from China and Vietnam | Chair: Suliya Nijiati, Indiana University Bloomington Paper Presenters: • Foreign Language Education Policy in Western China: Teacher's Role in the Implementation of National English Language Curriculum (Suliya Nijiati, Indiana University Bloomington) • The growth of international schools in Vietnam under the (new) market-oriented approach (Quynh Dang, Indiana University Bloomington) • The “Abandoned” Bilingual Education (Zhaoyi Zhang, Indiana University Bloomington) |
| Innovation | Individual Papers | P6. Topics in Korean Studies | Chair: Yidan Xiong, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • The Role of Cold War Rivalry in South Korea and North Korea’s Engagement with Africa (Joseph Owiti, The Academy of Korean Studies) • Historical Analysis of a Diary - What Makes Him a Japanese Activist for Friendship with Korea, 1932-1968 (Fumitoshi Yoshizawa, Niigata University of International and Information Studies) • Goodbye and Hello: Translocal Zainichi Identity in Matsue Tetsuaki’s Personal Documentary Annyong Kimchi (Xiaoyang Yue, University of California, Irvine) |
| Quad | Individual Papers | P7. Qing History and Society | Chair: Xinge Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Orthodoxy or Heterodoxy: the Debates On the Wenchang Cult in Late Imperial China (Patrick Zhanqiu Du, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • Imperial Project and Individual Research: Studies of Mongolian History in Early to High Qing (Rhonda Ran Huo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Technology | Coffee |
Session 2: 1:45 – 3:15 pm (P8-P14)
Session 2
| Room | Category | Panel | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alma Mater | Organized Panel | P8. Borderland Groups and Contested Identities Across Eurasia | Chair: Michael Brose, Indiana University Bloomington Paper Presenters: • Unpacking “Cross-Border Nationality” Identity in China (Jing (Maggie) Xu, Indiana University Bloomington) • Chuvashia in the interwar period: from indigenous borderlands to Soviet-model autonomic republic (Aleksei Rumiantsev, Indiana University Bloomington) • Mahsa Amini Protests: A new trend in Iran’s borderlands or business as usual? (Emily Stranger, Indiana University Bloomington) Discussant: Michael Brose, Indiana University Bloomington |
| Excellence | Individual Papers | P9. Beyond Headlines and Crises: Topics in Contemporary East Asia (Individual Papers) | Chair: James Coburn, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Social Aftershocks and Shifting Cultural Values Following the Fukushima, Japan, Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster: A Thousand-year-old Samurai Ceremony Becomes a Tourist Horse Festival (Nobuko Adachi, Illinois State University) • Changing Perceptions in Japanese Society: Gun Control in Japan (Reagan Gerry, Drake University) • Colonized Subjects in Multiple Hegemonies: The Case of Hong Kongers in the Aftermath of 2019-20 Anti-ELAB Social Movement (David Kwok Kwan Tsoi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Graduate Boardroom | Individual Papers | P10. Art, Literature and Identity in Chinese Gardens | Chair: My-Xuan Hillengas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Garden, Identity and Social Networks: Ji Cheng’s “Advertisement” and the Rhetorical Strategies of Yuan Ye (Yixuan Song, Renmin University of China / Harvard University) • Negotiating Gendered Difference in the Visual Space: Women’s Changing Identities in Poetry on Garden Paintings (Yuefan (Ivy) Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Honors | Organized Panel | P11. Environmental History and Power Politics in Modern Japan | Chair: William Tsutsui, Ottawa University Paper Presenters: • Environmental History and Power Politics in Modern Japan (Roderick Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) • Political Ecology of Hydropower and Chemical Fertilizer (Hiromi Mizuno, University of Minnesota) Discussant: William Tsutsui, Ottawa University |
| Humanities | Individual Papers | P12. Military, Medicine, and Society in China 1400-1800 | Chair: Hanyun Zeng, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Paper Presenters: • Healing at the Margins: The Eight Banners and Military Medicine from the Court to the Qing Frontier (Forrest McSweeney, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) • Healing for all: governing the collective in eighteenth-century Qing military institutions (Chang Xu, Washington University in St. Louis) • Barbarians’ Firearms in the 18th and 19th Centuries Miao Frontier (Jinju Wu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Innovation | Individual Papers | P13. Law and Society | Chair: Yidan Xiong, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Lay Judges: First Impressions from Taiwan’s New Legal System (James Jagiello, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • Exorcising Spirits in Court: Spirit Possession and Law in 18th-Century Chinese Homicide Cases (Yujie Pu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • Strategizing gender in everyday lives: widowhood, family, and law in Qing dynasty China (Haiyi Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Quad | Individual Papers | P14. Japanese Art and Literature | Chair: Tsutomu Nagata, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Why Chushingura? (Michael Brownstein, University of Notre Dame) • Constructing the Floating World: Afterlives of Ihara Saikaku in Translation (Emily Crichton, Washington University at St. Louis) • A New Approach to the Way of Tea in Global Contexts: Repairing the Land-Art Relationship (Lindsey Stirek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| Technology | Coffee & Refreshments |
Session 3: 3:30 – 5:00 pm (P15-P20)
Session 3
| Room | Category | Panel | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alma Mater | Organized Panel | P15. Institutions and Individuals: The Construction and Dissemination of Medical Knowledge in China | Chair: Kai-wing Chow, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Medical Guilds, Drama, and Pharmacy Education in Qing China (Xinge Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • Contamination or Configuration?: Wasting Worms in Late Imperial and Republican China (Xiaoyan Ren, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • Knowledge Production of HPV and its Vaccination in Mainland China (the 2010s to the present) (Yating Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • The Chinese Opium-Eater Through Imperial Eyes (1832-1851): Sickness, Disability, and Redemption (Yuwei Jiang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Discussant: Wee-Siang Margaret Ng, College of Wooster |
| Excellence | Organized Panel | P16. Japanese Language Learning Beyond the Classroom: Three Types of Out-of-Class Learning | Chair: Misumi Sadler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • A US-Japan VR Korabo Exchange and a Third Space: A Preliminary Report (Misumi Sadler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) • UIUC Tadoku Group Activity: Lessons from the Past and Suggestions For the Future (Chie Nozaki, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) • Incorporating TalkAbroad into Third-Year Japanese Language Teaching (Shino Hayashi Hirata, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| Graduate Boardroom | Individual Papers | P17. Qing Literature and Philosophy | Chair: Yuheng Yan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • A Comparative Study on the Concept of Organic Unity between China and the West in "Wen-Hsin Tiao-Lung" (Jiyang Xing, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • Truth and Diversity in Han Learning Academy: Examining Philosophical Interpretations in Gujing Jingshe Wenji (Woohui Park, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • The Emperor's Studyroom--Peiwen Zhai of Kangxi and its Cultural Space, Identifying Implications (YUN ZHEN, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| Honors | Organized Panel | P18. Fictional Elements in Traditional Chinese Texts | Chair: William Nienhauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison Paper Presenters: • Sima Qian’s Sfumato: Zhanguoce Accounts and Their Parallels in the “Hereditary House of Wei” (William Nienhauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison) • Early Chinese Barbarians with Mongolian Names: Reimagining Early China in Feng Menglong’s Dongzhou lieguo zhi (Yixuan Cai, University of Wisconsin-Madison) • Coding Love: Letter, Information and Fiction in Late Ming China (Xinyi Fu, University of Wisconsin-Madison) • A Traveling Advisor or A Minister: The Fictionalized Zigong(子貢) in Han Dynasty Discourses (Zheyu Su, Princeton University) Discussant: Joseph Dennis, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Humanities | Individual Papers | P19. Topics in East Asian Literature and Translation | Chair: My-Xuan Hillengas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Style Reform and Drama Translation: An Analysis of Two Chinese Translations of Hamlet in the 1920s (Xuezhao Li, The Ohio State University) • The Application of the Metrical Grid on Asian Poems (Jihye Yun, University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| Innovation | Studies on Asia Editorial Meeting | ||
| Quad | Organized Panel | P20. Protest and Policy in Postwar Japan | Chair: Roderick Wilson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Decades of Resistance: Method and Motivation in the Struggle Against New Tokyo International Airport (1964-Present) (David Wallace, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • Damming a Stream and Releasing a Flood: Japanese Political and Fiscal Policy 1989-2009 (Darius Barnes, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • Twilight Modernity: Demographic Modernity, Biomedical Welfare State, and Femininity in Ariyoshi Sawako’s The Twilight Years (1972) (Yingzhi Lu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Discussant: Scott O'Bryan, Indiana University |
| Technology |
Day 2 (Saturday, September 30)
Session 4: 8:30-10:00am (P21-P29)
Session 4
| Room | Category | Panel | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chancellor Ballroom | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee |
| Excellence | Organized Panel | P21. Infrastructures of Contemporary East Asian Performance | Chair: Tarryn Chun, University of Notre Dame Paper Presenters: • Spectacular Spaces: Physical, Technological, and Cultural Infrastructures in Contemporary Taiwan Theatre (Tarryn Chun, University of Notre Dame) • Harnessing History and Affect in Performative Tourism: The Case Study of Unique Henan (Yizhou Huang, Saint Louis University) • Rimini Protokoll’s 100% Gwangju: Weaving Personal Narratives and Performing the City’s History at the Crossroad of National Theatre of Korea and Asia Culture Center (Hayana Kim, The Ohio State University) • Musicals, Actors, and Audiences in the Seoul-Tokyo Musical Theatre Exchange (Laura MacDonald, Michigan State University) |
| Honors | Individual Papers | P22. Buddhist Thoughts and Practices | Chair: Yuhan Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Negating the Either-Or Structure: A Juxtaposition Experiment for Hegelian Absolute Knowing and Buddhist Nondual Awareness (Tiantian Cai, University of Wisconsin-Madison) • Imagining the Real: Imagination in Buddhist Tantric Practice ( Yaroslav Komarovski, University of Nebraska - Lincoln) • Popularizing Zen in Vietnam: A Comparative Study of Thích Nhất Hạnh's Order of Interbeing and Thích Thanh Từ's Bamboo Grove (Trang Nguyen, University of South Wales) |
| Humanities | Individual Papers | P23. China and Southeast Asia | Chair: My-Xuan Hillengas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • To Defend the Peace of Asia: The Chinese Peace Committee and Visions of Asian History, 1949-60 (Yasser Nasser, University of Chicago) • Chinese Foreign Aid Allocation and Local Elite Preferences: Lessons from Southeast Asia (Paul Un, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Innovation | Individual Papers | P24. Digital Humanities and Technology | Chair: Rhonda Huo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • A Link Between Life and Death: How Fengshui Influenced Burials in Imperial China (Genevieve Dwyer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) • The Application of the Buddhist Precept of Non-Killing in the Generative AI Modeling (Jinsub Song, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| Knowledge | Individual Papers | P25. Environment and Urban Development in Asia | Chair: Haiyi Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Asahi Shimbun's Air Pollution Incident, 1886-1888 (Conrad Hirano, Northwestern University) • India-US Climate Change Cooperation: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges (Anu Unny, University of Washington) |
| Lincoln | Organized Panel | P26. Hierarchy and Subversion in Premodern Japan | Chair: Michael Abele, Independent Scholar Paper Presenters: • Implements of Dissent: Resisting Family Structures in the Noh (Dunja Jelesijevic, Northern Arizona University) • Rural Outcastes and Social Change in Late Eighteenth Century Japan (Michael Abele, Independent Scholar) • “Authentic” Sake Brewers in Itami vs “Fake” Sake Dealers in Edo: How Regional Brands Were Protected in the Capital in Early-Modern Japan (Akira Shimizu, Wilkes University) Discussant: Brian Platt, George Mason University |
| Loyalty | Individual Papers | P27. Contemporary Topics and Emerging Issues | Chair: James Coburn, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Dictatorship of the Vengeful: The Rise of Civic Authoritarianism in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines (Patrick Peralta, University of Michigan) |
| Quad | Individual Papers | P28. New Perspectives in Asian Studies | Chair: Yangyang Liu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Trans-ing South Asia: The Question of Sovereignty (Tapaswinee Mitra, University of Maryland-College Park) • The State of Asian/Chinese Studies (Rujie Wang, College of Wooster) • Babbling in Early Modern China (Elvin Meng, University of Chicago) |
| Technology | Individual Papers | P29. Technology, Agriculture, and Labor in Modern China | Chair: Yating Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • A Perfect Storm: Meteorology, Humanitarian Discourse, and the Development of Chinese Maritime Territoriality in the Paracel Islands during the mid-1920s (Chris Chung, University of Toronto) • The Search for Technological Advancement: Wheat Variety Improvements in Shaanxi, 1940–1978 (Shumeng Han, UC San Diego) • Resistance From the Weak: Chinese indentured laborers in Samoa between 1903 and 1948 (Sijian Wang, University of Hawaii at Manoa) |
Session 5: 10:15-11:45am (P30-P38)
Session 5
| Room | Category | Panel | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chancellor Ballroom | |||
| Excellence | Individual Papers | P30. East Asian Religion and Philosophy | Chair: Alina Stetsuk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • More than Curing the Sick: A Neglected History of Medicine Buddha Worship in China (Dixuan Chen, Grinnell College) • The Dharma of the Manyoshu: Reevaluating the Buddhist Poetry of the Manyoshu (Andrew Tschirki, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • Familial Love or Social Justice? Confucian Dilemmas of Ethics and Politics (Xiaoliang Yang, University of Pennsylvania) |
| Honors | Roundtable | P31. Establishing An Early Medieval Japan Group | Chair: Gian Piero Persiani, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Speakers: • Gian Piero Persiani, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign • Paula Curtis, University of California Los Angeles • Charo D'Etcheverry, University of Wisconsin-Madison • Naomi Fukumori, Ohio State University • Ethan Segal, Michigan State University • Philip Brown, Ohio State University • Carol Symes, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Humanities | Individual Papers | P32. China and the West: Cultural Contacts and Tranformation | Chair: Xinge Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Golden Aspirations on the Yangtze: Intercultural Encounters in English-Medium Classrooms at Republican-Era Ginling College (Eric Henry, Saint Mary's University) • Nationalism and Modern Taste: Chinese Attitudes towards Foreign Cuisines in Republican Shanghai (Shuhao Liang, University of Pennsylvania) • Beijing Opera on the Go: Mei Lan-fang (梅蘭芳) and His Journeys to the West (Li-Lin Tseng, Pittsburg State University) |
| Innovation | Individual Papers | P33. East Asian Language Pedagogy | Chair: Steven Guo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Experiential Language Learning Opportunity through Global Collaboration and Social Engagement (Mina Kim, University of Texas at Austin) • A Reflection on Online Assessments for Beginner Chinese (Congcong Ma, University of Notre Dame) |
| Knowledge | Individual Papers | P34. Written Worlds of Late Imperial China: Ancestors, Prisoners, and Believers | Chair: Yujie Pu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • From the Lord of Heaven to the Savior of the World: Catholic and Protestant Narratives of Jesus' Life in Late Imperial China (Gang Song, University of Hong Kong) • How to Make a Genealogy in Late Imperial China: Rethinking Book Culture in Rural Society (Xin Yu, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee) • Identity and Literary Strategies: Zhang Binglin's Prison Writing, 1903-1906 (Tengyun Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Lincoln | Organized Panel | P35. The Atemporal Savage: Racialized Images in Modern Japanese Discourse | Chair: Kevin McKiernan, University of Minnesota Paper Presenters: • The Beginnings of a Cinematic Dialogue: Black Brazilians in the Japanese Intellectual Imagination (Kevin McKiernan, University of Minnesota) • Examining Japanese Imperial Anthropology's Racial Imagery (Nicolas Audet, University of Minnesota) |
| Loyalty | Individual Papers | P36. Labor Topics in Contemporary East Asia | Chair: My-Xuan Hillengas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Alagang Pinoy: Filipino Care Workers’ Perspective in Caring for the Elderly in Japan (Edenille Ann Santos, University of the Philippines Diliman - Asian Center) • 운수(Unsu): Luck and Gigs in the Korean Taxi Industry (Do Yeon Shin, University of Illinois Chicago) |
| Quad | Individual Papers | P37. East Asian Cinema and Literature | Chair: Yuefan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • The Couple Behind the Glass: Wong Kar-Wai's Camera Use in Happy Together (Ruoyi Bian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • Globalizing Taiwan: Geoaesthetics of Land and the Fictionality of Fiction in Wu Mingyi’s The Man with the Compounded Eyes (2011) (Xiaohan Hou, Washington University in St. Louis) |
| Technology | Individual Papers | P38. Japanese Popular Culture and Society | Chair: Yating Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Forgetful Cinematic Memories of War (Paul Droubie, Manhattan College) • Welcome Home, Tora-san: Cinematic Nostalgia and Cultural Memories in Contemporary Japan (Rami Ghandour, University of Oregon) • Boys Love Power: Boys Love's Impact on Women's Mental Well-being (Mie Takikawa, University of Kansas) |
Presidential Roundtable: 12:00 – 1:45pm
Presidential Roundtable: “Urban History, Asian Studies, and the Possible Future(s) of the Asian City”
Saturday, September 30, 2023, 12 – 1:45 pm
Chancellor Ballroom | I Hotel and Illinois Conference Center
Follow this link for more detailed information: https://mcaa.illinois.edu/presidential_roundtable/
Session 6: 2:00 – 3:30pm (P39-P47)
Session 6
| Room | Category | Panel | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chancellor Ballroom | Coffee | ||
| Excellence | Individual Papers | P39. Asian American Experiences | Chair: Yangyang Liu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Chop Suey and Community: Chinese Restaurants in the Upper Midwest (Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, Association for Asian Studies) • Critical Discourse Analysis of Korean American Juvenile Books: Representation and Intersectionality of Korean American (Hana Kang, University of Notre Dame) • Model Minority - A Historical Perspective (Kevin Yang, Cranbrook Kingswood Schools) |
| Honors | Individual Papers | P40. Japanese Popular Culture | Chair: Ruoyi Bian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • “The World’s Most Expensive Language Lesson”: James Clavell's Shōgun and the Making of a Cool Japan (Daniel Fandino, Michigan State University) • The New Ambassadors of Cool: The Shift in Perceptions of Japanese Otaku Culture in the 1990s (Zachary Long, Ball State University) • “Chico Will Scold You!”: Sound Symbolism, Folk Theories of Language, and Japanese-Pop-Culture (James Stanlaw, Illinois State University) |
| Humanities | Individual Papers | P41. Modern Chinese Cinema and Popular Culture | Chair: Xinge Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Dangling Skillfulness in Mao-Era Montage: (Anti-)Craftsmanship and Filmmaking in Sun Yu’s Films on Craftspeople (Yuzhe Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison) • "Watch out! Your long-lost lover could be a spy:" The Post-war Blooming of Counter-espionage Thriller and the Politics of Fear and Anxiety in Socialist China at the Brink of the Great Cultural Revolution (Chuanhui Meng, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) • Communist Propaganda and Popular Culture, 1927-1949 (Lei Wang, The University of Toledo/Adrian College) |
| Innovation | Individual Papers | P42. Chinese Nationalism and State Building | Chair: Alina Stetsuk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Confucianism and Chineseness: Constructing Chinese National Identity in Southeast Asian Colonies (Yuxin Wang, University of Kansas) |
| Knowledge | Individual Papers | P43. East Asian Archaeology | Chair: Yujie Pu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Continental connections and the development of the Yamato culture (James Coburn, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • From Ground to Underground: The Representation of Northern Song-Style Literati Paintings in the Jin Tomb at Yuanzhuang Village, Shaanxi (Jinglin Li, Arizona State University) • Reconciliation and Syncretism: A Study of the Stupa-Shaped Jar From the Tomb of Qibi Ming (Boxi Liu, Bard Graduate Center) |
| Lincoln | Organized Panel | P44. Transnational Intellectualism and State Building in Modern China | Chair: Jin Kim, The Ohio State University Paper Presenters: • The Safeguard of Peace: Creating an Image of Peaceful Coexistence in Southeast Asia for the People’s Republic of China, 1950-1955 (Jin Kim, The Ohio State University) • Mapping Nationhood: A Han Official’s Map of Qing China and Its Multiethnic Entities, 1789-1841 (Cruz Guan, The Ohio State University) • Expressing the Sea as Nation: Surveying and Mapping Conventions for Chinese Empire and State (Rachel Wallner, Northwestern University) • The I of I will Explode: Radicalization of Revolutionary Youth in China and Japan (Lin Ye, University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| Loyalty | Individual Papers | P45. Public Policies in China: Birth Control, Hukou System, and Zero-Covid | Chair: Yuefan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Governmental Certificates of Birth Control and the State Project of Birth Planning in Contemporary China (Ruonan Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) • Governance Challenges under Zero-COVID China: How the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Keep Its Rule and Sustain Resilience in the Pandemic Era? (Sheldon (Yaodong) Xie, The George Washington University) • Citizenship as Reward: Migration and the Spatiotemporal Politics of City-Making in Southwest China (Xuyi Zhao, Boston University) |
| Quad | Midwest Japan Seminar | P46. Uchūjin and Its Aliens: Women Writers and the Subject of SF | Presenter: Brian White, Kalamazoo College |
| Technology | Individual Papers | P47. Topics in Modern Japanese Literature | Chair: Tsutomu Nagata, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • "Taiwan no shojo" (1944): Imperialization, Language Education, and a Young Girl's Voice in Colonial Taiwan (Anne Sokolsky, Denison University) • Beauty as Aesthetic Empathy: Modern Aesthetics in Meiji Literary Theories (Chie Tokuyama, Carleton College) • Time for a Music Bath: Body, Control, and Subversion in Unno Jūza's Literary Dystopia (Yue Wang, Washington University in St. Louis) |
Session 7: 3:45 – 5:15pm (P48-P56)
Session 7
| Room | Category | Panel | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chancellor Ballroom | |||
| Excellence | Individual Papers | P48. Politics of South Asia | Chair: Hasina Fnu, Quaid -i- Azam University, Islamabad Paper Presenters: • Plebiscites and the Princely States of South Asia (Anindita Ghosh, University of Ilinois Chicago) • Aam Aadmi Party: Debating Public Outcomes and Empowerment Politics (JAYABRATA SARKAR, Deshbandhu College, New Delhi, India) • ChIndia’s DeveCracy and World order 2030 (Md Abdur Razzak, United International University) |
| Honors | Individual Papers | P49. Politics and Democracy in South and Southeast Asia | Chair: Shuyuan Shen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Prejudice and protest: the long-term effects of ethnic discrimination on anti-China protest in Indonesia (Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell, Johns Hopkins University and Yujeong Yang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • ‘Stability-in-Depth’: A Retrospect of the Cold War Lexicon of the New Order (Dan McCoy, Northern Illinois University) • Moving Towards Authoritarianism: Estimating Its Impact on Self-Censorship in Bangladesh (Rahnuma Siddika, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) |
| Humanities | Individual Papers | P50. Asian American History | Chair: Marina Tinone, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Anti-Japanese sentiment during World War II: Galen Fisher’s views on the incarceration camps (Shuma Iwai, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) • Transpacific Citizenship, Race, and Migration (Rebecca Stover, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) • Fight or Cooperate?: Between Patriot and Hanjian in Chinese America during World War II (Shinya Yoshida, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) |
| Innovation | Individual Papers | P51. Power, State, and Society in China's Republican Era | Chair: Rhonda Huo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • The Female Version of Yao and Shun: Empress Dowager Longyu's Funeral and the Decentralized Power of Ritual (Zhixin Luo, Binghamton University) • Suppressing Bandits": Social Policing of Warlord Government in Manchuria, 1918-1928 (Luming Xu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • Christianity and Chinese Modernity: New Cultural and May Fourth Movement Reconsidered (Zhanhao Zhang, Indiana University Bloomington) |
| Knowledge | Individual Papers | P52. Global Asia and Comparative Topics | Chair: My-Xuan Hillengas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Narrating the 'Hippie': Bengali perceptions of the 'Trail (Pratiti Ketoki, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) • Visual Experiences and Visualization in Literary and Filmic Narratives Through a Three Kingdoms Lens (Shao-Chi Ou, University of Michigan) |
| Lincoln | Individual Papers | P53. Perspectives on Gender and Women's Agency | Chair: Yuhan Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay’s ‘Mouriphool’ (1923): Expressions of sakhiyani (female homoeroticism) in the language of Bengali domesticity (Pujarinee Mitra, Texas A&M University) • Advocacy and Empowerment in the Narratives of Epidural Analgesia: Childbirth Diaries on Xiaohongshu (qinqin Yang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) • Women Who Ran Away Negotiating to Live in Manchuria from the 1910s to 1950 (Kiki Zhao, University of California, San Diego) |
| Loyalty | Individual Papers | P54. Science, Technology, and Linguistics in Modern China | Chair: Steven Guo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • The Chinese Communist Forces’ Communications Intelligence and Security in the Asia-Pacific War, 1942–1945 (Zhongtian Han, The University at Buffalo) • Chinese tells us what it is in English (Haiyong Liu, Wayne State University) |
| Quad | Midwest Japan Seminar | P55. The Secondary Hazards of the 3.11 Disaster at Fukushima: Shifting the Socio-Cultural Values of the Soma Nomaoi Cavalry Event | Presenter: Nobuko Adachi, Illinois State University |
| Technology | Individual Papers | P56. Topics in Higher Education | Chair: Michelle Le, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Preparing Culturally Responsive Han Teachers: Case Studies of Teacher Education Programs in China (Huanshu Yuan, Texas A&M University) • Asian Americans’ Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action in College Admissions (Sinyeong Lee, Independent Scholar) |
MCAA Banquet: 6:30 – 9:00 pm
MCAA Banquet
September 30, 2023, 6:30-8:30 pm
Chancellor Ballroom, I Hotel and Conference Center
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Day 3 (Sunday, October 1)
Session 8: 8:30 – 10:00 am (P57-P61)
Session 8
| Room | Category | Panel | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Ballroom A | Organized Panel | P57. Resonance of Foreign Cultures in Early Modern Japan | Chair: Robert Tierney, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Silence: Two Ways of Adaptations ( Hanyun Zeng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) • “Kangadan,” bunjin culture and Shina-shumi ( Tsutomu Nagata, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Discussant: Yingzhi Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Illinois Ballroom B | Individual Papers | P58. Topics in Chinese Literature | Chair: Ruoyi Bian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • The Reincarnation of “Amaryllis”: the Image of Shepherdess in Tang Qi’s early Frontier Sonnet (Zhengyuan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Pennsylvania) • Transcending Boundaries: The Relationship between Human and Ghost in Liaozhai (Cheng Zeng, University of Chicago) |
| Illinois Ballroom C | Individual Papers | P59. Art, Music and Popular Culture Across the Border | Chair: My-Xuan Hillengas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Ms. Marvel’s South Asian Music Heritage: A Sonic Reconciliation of the Partitioned Past (Anuracti Sharma, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati) • Popular Prancing: Implications of Cultural Hybridity and Blackface Minstrelsy in Reckoning Nicanor Abelardo’s “Naku….Kenkoy!” (James Carl Lagman Osorio, University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| Quad | Individual Papers | P60. Women in Colonial and Contemporary Asia | Chair: Haiyi Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Wŏn Buddhism and Women’s Liberation: The Significance of Wŏn Buddhist Female Clerics (kyomu) in Early Modern Korea ( Sungha Yun, St Olaf College) • Youth Membership, Girls, and Female Youth: revisiting Tian Han's Golden Era (Miao Dou, Washington University in St. Louis) • A Woman's Winding Road to the Position of Provincial Secretary: Meritocracy vs. Political Proximity (Aulia Rahmawati, NIPA School of Administration, Jakarta) |
| Technology | Roundtable | P61. Exploring Parents Perceptions about Children with Disability: The Malaysian Perspectives | Discussants: • Sham'ah Md-Yunus, Eastern Illinois University • Mei-Ling Li, Eastern Illinois University |
Session 9: 10:15 – 11:45 pm (P62-P66)
Session 9
| Room | Category | Panel | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Ballroom A | Organized Panel | P62. Scale-Making in Transnational Religious Movements | Chair: Sara Loo, University of Chicago Paper Presenters: • Imagining Global Islam: Indonesia, America, and 'Humanitarian' Islam (Sara Loo, University of Chicago) • The Spiritual Marketplace in Contemporary China (Yongxin Mo, University of Chicago) • Foundations and Fissures: Processes of Differentiation in the Chicagoland Tamil-Christian Diaspora (Preetha Swaminathan, University of Chicago) |
| Illinois Ballroom B | Individual Papers | P63. Individual Papers on South Asian Studies | Chair: Rahnuma Siddika, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • History, Nature and Influence of Eid-Milad un Nabi's Processions in Punjab: A Transformation from Religious Piety to Symbol of Power (Farhan Munir Abbasi, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Pakistan) • Thangasseri: Rediscovering a Forgotten Colonial Port Town in Kerala, India (Maria Rose Francis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) |
| Illinois Ballroom C | Individual Papers | P64. Individual Papers on South and Southeast Asian Studies | Chair: My-Xuan Hillengas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Spiritual ecology of glaciers: a case study of Gilgit Baltistan (Hasina Fnu, Quaid -i- Azam University, Islamabad) • Unveiling the Veil of Injustice: Human Rights Infringements in the Name of 'Culture': A Sri Lankan Centred Analysis (Pavithra Rajendran, University of Notre Dame) • Who Made Mead? The Native Research Assistant As Intellectual (Amrina Rosyada, Northwestern University) |
| Quad | Individual Papers | P65. Individual Topics in Asian Studies | Chair: Alina Stetsuk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paper Presenters: • Wretched river? The affectual ecology of urban river Lai in Pujab, Pakistan (Abdul Rehman, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-I-Azam University) • At Home in a Storied World: How Sacred Narratives Shape Humanity's Relationship to the Divine (Kevin Poe, University of Chicago) |
| Technology |