The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to offer a guide to East Asia-related panels and presentations at the 2017 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference that feature current Columbia University faculty, postdoctoral scholars, affiliates, and graduate students. The AAS conference will take place at Toronto’s Sheraton Centre Hotel from Thursday, March 16, through Sunday, March 19. Complete AAS information is available here. AAS attendees are welcome to take part in Columbia University’s Evening Reception, to be held in the Toronto Sheraton Centre’s Civic Ballroom South from 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM on Friday, March 17.
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017
Panel 27. 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM in Civic Ballroom North, 2nd Floor
Revisiting the Public Sphere in 20th-Century China: Poetry, Cinema and Inter-ethnic Publics in Contemporary China
Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2017
AAS Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony. 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Grand Ballroom Centre
Things Fall Apart: Material Religion and the Problem of Decay with Examples from Korea, Vietnam, and Myanmar
Laurel Kendall, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Panel 34. 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Willow Centre, Mezzanine
Economic History and the Past and Future of Asian Studies
Chaired by Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, Columbia University
Panel 41. 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Pine West, Mezzanine
Mapping Geographic and Cosmic Space across Asian Religions: The Buddhist World Map in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
D. Max Moerman, Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College, Columbia University
Panel 46. 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Kenora, 2nd Floor
War Crimes Trials in Postwar Asia: Emotional and Linguistic Insights
Chaired by Sarah Kovner, Senior Research Scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
Panel 65. 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Maple West, Mezzanine
Situated Knowledge in Religio-Medical Landscape of Chinese History:
Treating Childbirth in Dharmic Medicine: Buddhist Healing Resources for Reproduction in Medieval China
Hsin-Yi Lin, Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
Panel 96. 12:45 PM – 2:45 PM Rosedale, 4th Floor
Divisive Politics of Southeast Asia
Chaired by Amy L. Freedman, Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Ann Marie Murphy, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Panel 102. 12:45 PM – 2:45 PM Civic Ballroom South, 2nd Floor
Manchu Court and Material Culture in Qing China
Discussant: Dorothy Ko, Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University
Panel 140. 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Willow Centre, Mezzanine
The Social Life of Keywords: Embracing Conceptual Dynamism between Chinese and English
Discussant: Junjie Chen, ACLS Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Anthropology, Columbia University
Panel 153. 5:15 PM – 7:15 PM Norfolk, Mezzanine
Curtains of Truth: Determining Scientific Legitimacy in 20th-Century China and India
Drawing the Invisible Body: Lu Gwei-djen and Chinese Medical Theory
Lan A. Li, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University
Panel 159. 5:15 PM – 7:15 PM Kenora, 2nd Floor
Rethinking the “National” in Postwar South Korean Cinema
Discussant: Theodore Q. Hughes, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities, Columbia University
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2017
Panel 171. 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM Linden, Mezzanine
Asia: Cultural Appreciation or Appropriation? Sponsored by Committee for Teaching About Asia (CTA)
Chaired by Karen Ann Kane, Associate Director, Asia for Educators at Columbia University
Panel 164. 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM Kent, 2nd Floor
Making Up Individuals and Species in 20th Century China
Knowing Individuals: Building a Fingerprint Profession in 1920s China
Daniel Asen, Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Panel 213. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM Norfolk, Mezzanine
Reconfigured Mobilities: China, Taiwan, and Transnational Histories of Southeast Asia’s Chinese after 1949
A Humane Sovereignty: Nationalist China’s Public Relations Campaign in Response to the Yuyitung Affair, 1970-1972
Chien Wen Kung, Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
Panel 218. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM Forest Hill, 4th Floor
The Religious Life of Substances
Mulberry Recipes in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Healing
Andrew Macomber, Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
Panel 234. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM Huron, 2nd Floor
Declining Inequality in China? Recent Evidence from the China Household Income Project (CHIP)
Discussant: Qin Gao, Associate Professor of Social Work, Columbia University
Panel 243. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM Mackenzie, 2nd Floor
Man Rules Without and Woman Rules Within: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Chinese Space and Gender
A Bridge between Real and Represented Space, Time, and Beauty
Daniel M. Greenberg, Mellon Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Panel 244. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM Civic Ballroom North, 2nd Floor
Nostalgia and Lament: Frontier Memories of the Qing and of the Manchu ruling Elite – sponsored by the Manchu Studies Group
Qing Aristocrats in Republican China: The Case of Xinjiang
David J. Brophy, Associate Research Scholar, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 261. 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Maple West, Mezzanine
From Secrecy to Disclosure: Doctrinal Repurposing and Consumption in Japanese Religion
Chaired by D. Max Moerman, Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College, Columbia University
Panel 266. 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Yorkville West, 4th Floor
Reports from the Local Courts: A New Archival Window onto Local Communities in Eighteenth-Century Korea
Encountering the Law: Local Courts and Legal Knowledge Production in Eighteenth-Century Korea
Jungwon Kim, King Sejong Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Columbia University
Panel 279. 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Simcoe, 2nd Floor
Patronage, Appropriation, and Transformation: Han Chinese Encounters with Tibetan Buddhism
Converting the Air: Business Practices and Tibetan Buddhist Evangelism in Contemporary China
Yasmin Cho, Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology, Columbia University
Panel 299. 5:15 PM – 7:15 PM Maple East, Mezzanine
Poetry and Empire
Arrogating Imperial Performance: The Chu ci and Xie Lingyun
Harrison Huang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 305. 5:15 PM – 7:15 PM Forest Hill, 4th Floor
Iconography, Hagiography, and Ideology: New Approaches to Chinese Religions
Traces of the Immortal: A Pictorial Hagiography of Xu Xun
Noga Ganany, Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
Panel 306. 5:15 PM – 7:15 PM Peel, Mezzanine
Rewriting Buddhism in Medieval China: Intertextual Practice, Religious Transmission, and Cultural Innovation
Refiguring Buddhahood at the End of Medieval China: Aesthetics, Authority, and the Shape of Liberation in the Chan Tradition
Kevin Buckelew, Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2017
Panel 325. 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM Willow East, Mezzanine The Center Cannot Hold? Trends in Southeast Asian Politics – Sponsored by the Critical Asian Studies Journal
Chaired by Duncan McCargo, Visiting Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Panel 337. 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM Huron, 2nd Floor
Exploring the Linguistic Landscape in Early Modern Chinese Literature – Sponsored by the Conference on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature
Discussant: Wei Shang, Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture, Columbia University
Panel 342. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM Pine East, Mezzanine
Reshaping Traditions and Crossing Boundaries: The Interplay between Religion and Drama in South and East Asia
An Indian Goddess and Her Son: The Transformation of Red Boy’s Story in Yuan-Ming Literature
Peng Liu, Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
Panel 345. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM Norfolk, Mezzanine
The Protestant Mission and Its Discontents in China and India
The Invention of Sympathy in Modern China
Gal Gvili, Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 357. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM City Hall, 2nd Floor
Comparative Nation-Building in Postcolonial Southeast Asia: Counterinsurgency, Development and Self-Determination in Malaya and the Republic of Vietnam
Breaking Down the Anarchy, Isolation, and Selfishness of Urban Life: Urban Community Development and Counterinsurgency in Saigon, 1968-1975
Simon Toner, Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in Southeast Asian Studies, Columbia University
Panel 361. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM Mackenzie, 2nd Floor
Defining Fengshui: New Scholarly Approaches to Chinese Geomancy
The Living Earth of Nanbu County: Fengshui and Land Administration in Early-20th-Century China
Tristan G. Brown, Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
Panel 365. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM Huron, 2nd Floor
Making Intangible Cultural Heritage in China
The Practice of Acupuncture in North Africa: Localizing Chinese Cultural Heritage beyond China
Dongxin Zou, Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
