The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to offer a guide to East Asia-related panels and presentations at the 2020 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 Boston’s Sheraton Hotel & Hynes Convention Center from Thursday, March 19, through Sunday, March 22. Please visit the Weatherhead East Asian Institute booth, which is number 620 in the Hynes Convention Center Exhibition Hall. For the complete AAS program, please click here.
Please also join WEAI and Columbia University affiliates for a reception on Saturday, March 21, 7:30 – 9:30 PM.
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2020
Panel 14. 7:30 PM – 9:15 PM in Hynes Convention Center: Room 209, Level 2
From Nourishing Life to National Nutrition: Diet and Health in Japanese History
Kim Brandt, Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Panel 39. 7:30 PM – 9:15 PM in Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Ritual, Memory, and Imperial Authority in Early Medieval and Medieval Chinese Texts
Harrison Huang, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, Columbia University
Panel 40. 7:30 PM – 9:15 PM in Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd Floor
Secrecy and Surveillance in Modern China
JM Chris Chang, Lecturer, Mellon Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 42. 7:30 PM – 9:15 PM in Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Sound and Somatosensory Experience: Sino-Afro Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century
Chair and Discussant: Lydia Liu, The Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University; Director, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2020
Panel 48. 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM in Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Eating Inedibles: Rethinking Foods in Asian STS
Tristan Revells, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 48. 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM in Hynes Convention Center: Room 203, Level 2
Currents in Japan’s Premodern History
Alessandro Poletto, PhD Candidate, Department of Religion, Columbia University
Panel 60. 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM in Hynes Convention Center: Room 204, Level 2
Forged in Defeat: A Fresh Look at Early Postwar Japanese Society
Discussant: Sarah Kovner, Senior Research Scholar in the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Panel 72. 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM in Hynes Convention Center: Room 210, Level 2
Toward a Thick Understanding of Dutertismo
Chair and Discussant: Sheila Coronel, Toni Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism, Columbia Journalism School, Columbia University; Director, Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia Journalism School, Columbia University; and Dean of Academic Affairs, Columbia Journalism School, Columbia University
Panel 74. 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM in Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Creating Emergent Futures in Contemporary China
Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 97. 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM in Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Recontextualizing East Asia in Premodern Japanese Art History Sponsored by JAHF (Japan Art History Forum)
Xiaohan Du, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Panel 106. 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM in Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Getting into Print in Korean Studies: An Editors’ Roundtable on Journal and Book Publishing
Discussant: Theodore Hughes, The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University; Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University
Panel 108. 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM in Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Transnationalism, Immigration, & Mobility: Expanding Our Knowledge Base through New Investigations on Korean Transnationalism
Jungmin Kwon, PhD Candidate, Teachers College, Columbia University
EunKyoung Chung, Adjunct Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Panel 165. 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM in Hynes Convention Center: Room 201, Level 2
Intellectuals in 20th-Century China: Rethinking Structures of Knowledge and Society
Discussant: Eugenia Lean, Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Professor of Chinese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 173. 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM in Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Architecture as Trans-Media Experiences in 20th-Century East Asia
Meng-Hsuan Lee, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Panel 177. 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM in Hynes Convention Center: Room 310, Level 3
Framing East Asian Feminist Cinema
Chair and Discussant: Jane Gaines, Professor of Film, Center for Comparative Media, Columbia University
Panel 193. 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM in Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Prehistories of a New Religion: Before the Liṅgāyat Separatist Movement
Chair and Discussant: Jack Hawley, Clare Tow Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, Barnard College
Mohit Kaycee, PhD Candidate, Department of Religion, Columbia University
Panel 196. 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM in Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
The Lives and Afterlives of Four Royal Women of Vietnam
Vinh Q.Nguyen, Adjunct Lecturer in Vietnamese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 205. 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM in Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Chinese Domestic Life between State Ideologies and Family Strategies: 1800-1985
Yanjie Huang, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2020
Panel 221. 9:00 AM – 10:40 AM in Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Narrative Mode in Early and Medieval Eurasian Historiography
Chair and Discussant: Robert Hymes, Horace Walpole Carpentier Professor of Oriental Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 242. 9:00 AM – 10:40 AM in Hynes Convention Center: Room 201, Level 2
Borders, Ethnicity and Laws between Qing China and Chosŏn Korea
Mengheng Lee, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
Panel 243. 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM in Roosevelt Room 2
China in Many Languages: Minority Literature and the Politics of Translation
Christopher Peacock, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 257. 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM in Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Locality and Temporality between Qing China and Northeast Asia
Ling-Wei Kung, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 263. 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM in Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Visual Cultures of Agriculture in Modern Asia
Ateya Khorakiwala, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Panel 283. 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM in Hynes Convention Center: Room 204, Level 2
Non-Human Voices in Chinese Literature
Chloe Estep, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 300. 3:00 PM – 4:45 PM in Hynes Convention Center: Room 209, Level 2
Crossing Boundaries in the Study of Medieval to Modern Japan: Women Reflect on Japanese Studies
Discussant: Barbara Ruch, Professor Emerita and Shincho Professorship of Japanese Literature for Donald Keene, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University; Founder and Director, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 339. 5:15 PM – 7:00 PM in Hynes Convention Center: Room 309, Level 3
Excavating New Insights on Early Northeast Asia: How Archaeological Research is Revolutionizing the Study of Early Japan and Korea
Discussant: David Lurie, Wm. Theodore and Fanny Brett de Bary and Class of 1941 Collegiate Professor of Asian Humanities and Associate Professor of Japanese History and Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, Columbia University
Panel 344. 5:15 PM – 7:00 PM in Hynes Convention Center: Room 203, Level 2
Traversing a Century of Korean Popular Music Fandom
Hye Eun Choi, Adjunct Lecturer, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2020
Panel 388. 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM in Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor
Everyday Life in Socialist and Post-Socialist China: Food, Travel, and Media
Gavin Healy, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Panel 403. 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM in Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Decolonial Transpacific(s)
Christopher Hill, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
Panel 423. 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM in Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Beyond Binaries in Southeast Asian Islam
Java Verena Meyer, PhD Candidate, Department of Religion, Columbia University
