The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to offer a guide to East Asia-related panels and presentations at the 2018 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference that will feature current Columbia University faculty, postdoctoral scholars, affiliates, and graduate students. The AAS conference will take place at Washington D.C.’s Marriott Wardman Park Hotel from Thursday, March 22, through Sunday, March 25. Please visit the Weatherhead East Asian Institute booth, which is number 221 in the Marriott Wardman Park Exhibition hall. For the complete AAS program, please click here.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018
Panel 3. 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM in Maryland Suite C, Lobby Level
Writing, Technology, and Information Politics in East Asia
Ulug Kuzuoglu, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 15. 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM in Marriott Balcony A
Law, Emotion, and Gendered Violence in Imperial China and Chosŏn Korea
Jungwon Kim, King Sejong Assistant Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities, Columbia University
Panel 33. 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM in Washington Room 6
Chinese Practices of Intellectual Property
Chaired by Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor of Chinese History and Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (on leave AY 2017-18), Columbia University
Panel 34. 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM in Roosevelt Room 1
Political Socialization of Elite Chinese Students: A Trans-Disciplinary Approach
Hanzhang Liu, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2018
Panel 66. 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM in Madison A
North Korea and the World: Transnational Movement of Academia, Technology, Festivity, and Investment
Eunsung Cho, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
Henri Feron, Postdoctoral Research Scholar for the Center for Korean Legal Studies, Columbia Law School
Panel 72. 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM in Thurgood Marshall South
Omenology and Ritual Responses to Disaster Among Heian-Period Elites
Chaired by D. Max Moerman, Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College, Columbia University
Alessandro Poletto, PhD Candidate, Department of Religion, Columbia University
Panel 73. 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM in Park Tower 8226
Sex and Sexuality in Greater China and Inner Asia
Ye Yuan, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 75. 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM in Washington Room 2
Data Past, Data Present: Chinese Narratives Of/As Information History
Chaired by Anatoly Detwyler, MA Program Director, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 77. 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM in Washington Room 5
Advances in Understanding Chinese Court Behavior
Benjamin Liebman, Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School
Panel 88. 12:45 PM – 2:45 PM in Coolidge
Contested Boundaries of Literary Chinese in East Asia
John Phan, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 101. 12:45 PM – 2:45 PM in Maryland Suite B
Thailand 4.0: Reading the Military Junta’s “Roadmap”?
Chaired by Duncan McCargo, Visiting Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Panel 114. 12:45 PM – 2:45 PM in Roosevelt Room 1
Beyond Digitization, Cross-Specialization
Jim Cheng, Director of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Panel 119. 12:45 PM – 2:45 PM in Madison B
Disasters and the Reimagining of Modern China
John B. Thompson, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 154. 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM in Hoover
Empire, the World and the International: Rethinking Postwar Japanese Intellectual History
Chaired by Richard Calichman, Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Panel 155. 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM in Marriott Balcony A
Matrix and Materiality: Re-Conceptualizing Icons and Embodied Objects in Japanese Buddhist Art
Miriam Chusid, Lecturer and Burke Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History, Columbia University
Panel 153. 5:15 PM – 7:15 PM in Roosevelt Room 4
Earning Your Stripes as an Academic: Advice on Publishing, Presenting, Collaborating, and Winning Support, for Young Faculty and Graduate Students in Asian Languages and Literatures
Jennifer Crewe, Associate Provost and Director, Columbia University Press
Meeting. 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM in Park Tower 8226
Meeting for the New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN)
All partners, members and prospective members of the NYSEAN network are very welcome. Attend to find out how you can apply for funding to organize Southeast Asia related events, thanks to NYSEAN’s new grant from Luce Foundation.
Duncan McCargo, Visiting Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Ann Marie Murphy, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2018
Panel 224. 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM in Wilson C
Chic Freaks, Pro Amateurs, Double-Layered Antics, and Belly Buttons: The Unadorned Truth about Late Edo-Period Comics
Oliver White, PhD Student, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 257. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM in Park Tower 8226
Media, Messaging, and Mystics: Thinking through Religious Encounters
Dessislava Vendova, PhD Candidate, Department of Religion, Columbia University
Panel 277. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM in Roosevelt Room 2
China’s Cosmopolitan Traditions
Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 285. 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM in Thurgood Marshall West
Examining the Impact of the Japanese 285 Empire around the South China Sea
Victor Louzon, INTERACT Postdoctoral Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Panel 321. 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM in Virginia Suite A
Transregional Perspectives on the Taiping War and Tongzhi Restoration
Chuck Wooldridge, Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Panel 331. 5:15 PM – 7:15 PM in Delaware Suite B
Territory in East Asia: Islands and Seas
Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University
SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2018
Panel 371. 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM in Jackson
Asian Chronotopes of the Middle East: Imaginations of Inter-Asian Connection and Mobility, Part II
John Chen, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
Panel 372. 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM in Wilson A
Jewels from the Mouth of a Mongoose: Buddhist Conceptions of Value, Prosperity and Fortune in East and Inner Asia and the Himalayas
Yasmin Cho, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Panel 392. 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM in Washington Room 2
The Meanings of Things: Material Culture in Middle Period China
Dorothy Ko, Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University
Panel 406. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM in Thurgood Marshall South
Contemporary Exiled Tibetan 406 Politics – Driving the Narrative
Tenzin Dorjee, PhD Student, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Panel 411. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM in Wilson B
Producing Localness in the Everyday
Jeffrey Chih-yu Twu, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Panel 424. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM in Tyler
A New Perspective on North Korean Politics and Society during the Cold War
Charles K. Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, Columbia University
Panel 426. 10:45 AM – 12:45 in PM in Madison B
Conservative Activism in Post-War Japan
Chaired by Sarah Kovner, Senior Research Scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
Panel 442. 10:45 AM – 12:45 in PM in Virginia A
The Republic of China After 1949 and the (Re)making of Chinese Identities
Chien-Wen Kung, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
