Asian Research Working Group Conference, McMaster University
Globalization and Asia
May 11, 2015
McMaster Innovation Park, 175 Longwood Road S, Hamilton, ON L8P 0A1
Conference Registration and Breakfast
Welcome Address
9:30-9:40
ARWG Co-Chairs: Dr. Chandrima Chakraborty and Dr. Donald Goellnicht
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Radhika Mongia
9:45-10:45
"Historicizing the Global: Asian Migration in the Time-Space of Empire"
Break
10:45-11:00
Concurrent Panels
Panel A: International Development,
Panel B: Migration, Transnationalism,
Imperialism, and National Identity
Urbanization
Chair: Dr. Netina Tan
Chair: Dr. Nadine Attewell
Katherine Blunt (McMaster), “The
Yoo-Hyeok Lee (Pusan National), “Towards
Developmental Aid Epoch: China’s
Minor Transnationalism: Multiculturalism
Emergence and Its Implications for
and Transnationalism in Korea”
Traditional Aid Models”
Mushahid Hussain (Binghampton), “Quasi- Sarah Olutola (McMaster) “Made in Korea:
State Apparatuses, Subordinate Classes and Biopolotics, Commodification and Search
11:00-12:30
the Developmental State in South Asia and for the Self in In the Matter of Cha Jung
Beyond”
Kee”
9:00-9:30
Heather Schmidt (Alberta), "Historicizing
Contemporary Globality: How Confucius
Institutes draw on the past to
conceptualize China's present and future."
12:30-13:30
13:30-14:30
14:30-15:45
Jennifer Jalal (York), “From the Bazaar to
the Mall: A Study of Changing Trends in
Usage of Urban Space and Judicial
Intervention in Three Indian Cities”
Robin Verrall (York), “Identity Crisis: Hong
Joanne Leow (Toronto), “Singapore as
Kong Identity from Colonialism to
Global Garden City”
Democratization”
Lunch
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Eric Hayot
“Who's Afraid of China? A History.”
Concurrent Panels
Panel D: East-West, West-East Migrations:
Panel C: Feminism and Gender
Symbols and Practices
Chair: Dr. Rachel Zhou
Chair: Dr. Jaeyoon Song
Catherine Jo Ishino (York), “Does
Shobna Nijhawan (York), “The All-Asian
Modernizing Mean Westernizing? Changing
Women’s Conference (Lahore, 1931) and
Views of New China’s Graphic Design, 1998the Unification of Asia”
2008”
Asian Research Working Group Conference, McMaster University
Globalization and Asia
May 11, 2015
McMaster Innovation Park, 175 Longwood Road S, Hamilton, ON L8P 0A1
14:30-15:45
Kasim Husain (McMaster), “Exalting the
Peter Hess (McMaster), “Yoga in North
Immigrant Woman, or how Neoliberalism
America: Authenticity and the Migration of
“Saves Brown Women from Brown Men” in
Language”
Monica Ali’s Brick Lane ”
Sailaja Krishnamurti (York), “Mythic
Danielle Wong (McMaster), "'The World's
Narratives and Gendered Reimaginings in Politest Protesters': The Umbrella Revolution as
Asian Replication"
South Asian Comics and Graphic Novels”
Break
Concurrent Panels
Panel F: Black April: 40th Anniversary of
Panel E: Art and Film
the War in Viet Nam (Roundtable
Chair: Dr. Faiza Hirji
discussion)
Moderator: Thy Phu
Christine Nguyen (York) “Perceptions of the
Huyen Dam (McMaster)
East and West in Studio Ghibli”
Greg Fenton (Guelph), “Dissenting from
16:00-17:30
Dissidence: From the Avant-Garde to
Jessy Huan Vu
Dissident Capital in the Work and Activism
(Hamilton community member)
of Ai Weiwei”
15:45-16:00
Federica Broilo (Mardin Artuklu U),
“Reading vs Eating Japanese Bread: The
impact of Anime and Manga on the
Glocalization of Japanese Food Ways”
18:00-19:00
19:30
Vinh Nguyen (McMaster)
Lan Duong (UC, Riverside)
Reading by Viet Nguyen, Bryan Prince Booksellers
Dinner at Koosh