Department of East Asian Studies Post-‐Graduate Student Association 688 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 3R1 McGill East Asian Studies Graduate Symposium 2015
Diversifying East Asia: Ideas, Objects, and Identities
Friday, April 17, 2015
(Day 1)
Time
Ballroom
Room B
9:00am - 9:30am
Registration
9:30am - 9:45am
Opening
9:45am – 10:00am
Break
10:00am – 11:30am
Panel 1
11:30am – 1:00pm
1:00pm – 2:25pm
Panel 2
Lunch Break
Panel 3
Panel 4
2:25pm – 2:45pm
Break
2:45pm – 4:15pm
Keynote Lecture
Asia From Outside In and Inside Out:
New Conceptions of Asian Space and Time
Professor Peter Perdue (Yale)
4:15pm
Reception
Saturday, April 18, 2015
(Day 2)
Time
Ballroom
Room B
9:30am – 11:00am
Panel 5
Panel 6
11:00am – 11:15am
11:15am – 1:00pm
Break
Panel 7
12:45am – 2:15pm
2:15pm – 3:45pm
Lunch
Panel 9
3:45pm – 4:00pm
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Panel 8
Panel 10
Break
Panel 11
Panel 12
5:00pm – 5:30pm
Closing Remarks
5:30pm
After Party
East Asian Studies Post-‐Graduate Student Association, 688 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 3R1 Department of East Asian Studies Post-‐Graduate Student Association 688 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 3R1 DAY 1
Panel 1 Economy and Culture
(Apr 17, 2015, 10:00am – 11:30am; Ballroom)
Name
Institute
Titles
Elizabeth Joy
Columbia
Multiple Currencies on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier:
Reynolds
University
Competing for Authority from 1911 to 1949
Xinxian Zheng
Yannick Laurent
Princeton
University
Introducing Nitobe Inazô to Qing China:
Agricultural Learning and Japan in the Late Qing
Reform
University of
Defining the Tsampa Eaters: Barley Cultivation and
Oxford
Cultural Representations in Early Tibetan Culture
Panel 2 Presenting Images of Women
(Apr 17, 2015, 10:00am – 11:30am; Room B)
Name
Institute
Titles
A Case Study of Women Characters in Guan Hanqing
Tianjun Chen
Rutgers University
and Zhen Dehui’s Works — The Combination of
Tristia Tradition and Vernacular Language in Yuan
Variety Drama
Chen Shuojun
McGill University
University of
Wakako Suzuki
California, Los
Angeles
A Biographical Narrative of Wu Zao (1796-1862)
Silenced Voice of the Modern Girl in Mizoguchi
Kenji’s The Water Magician
Panel 3 Reforms and Politics
(Apr 17, 2015, 1:00pm – 2:25pm; Ballroom)
Name
Sungmin Lee
Institute
Titles
University of Illinois at
Architects of National Destiny: Nationalist Politics
Urbana-Champaign
in Modern Korean History
Interpretations and Applications of Capitalism in
Kevin A. Tang
University of Oxford
the East Asian Colonial Port City: Industrialisation
in Inter-war Singapore and Hong Kong in British
Imperial Economic Policy
The Crisis of Domestic Hierarchy and National
Cai Danni
McGill University
Ideology: A Study of Chinese Family Letters
(1911-1949)
East Asian Studies Post-‐Graduate Student Association, 688 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 3R1 Department of East Asian Studies Post-‐Graduate Student Association 688 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 3R1 Panel 4 Chinese Literature
(Apr 17, 2015, 1:00pm – 2:25pm; Room B)
Name
Institute
Titles
Wang Wanming
McGill University
Poetry as a Tradition: The Formation of a Tripartite
Confrontation in the Debate on Tang and Song
Poetry during the Song Dynasty
King Kwong
Wong
Lizhen Wang
Politics, Society and Playwrights in Mongol Yuan
University of Alberta
and Modern China
University of British
Parallel worlds of Monkey King — Diversifying a
Columbia
“Classic” Chinese Literature Image
Keynote Lecture
2:45pm – 4:15pm (Ballroom)
Asia From Outside In and Inside Out: New Conceptions of Asian Space and Time”
Professor Peter Perdue
DAY 2
Panel 5 Mind and Body
(Apr 18, 2015, 9:30am – 11:00am; Ballroom)
Name
Ju-Young Lee
Institute
University of
Minnesota, Twin Cities
Titles
Why Cooked Beans?: The Cut that Binds
Multicultural Body of Cross-border Marriage
with Capitalism in South Korea
Disciplined Minds and Bodies: Embodying
Chaeyoung Lee
University of Toronto
North and South Korean Identities through
Gymnastics Performance
Clarrie Si Qian Ng
University of British
Culinary Diplomacy & Nationalism: Japan &
Columbia
Thailand
Panel 6 Soft Power and Culture
(Apr 18, 2015, 9:30am – 11:00am; Room B)
Name
Institute
Titles
East Asian Studies Post-‐Graduate Student Association, 688 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 3R1 Marina
Indiana University
Dmukhovskaya
Department of East Asian Studies Post-‐Graduate Student Association 688 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 3R1 Olympic Movement as an Important Soft Power
Tool for the Realization of Foreign Policy of South
Korea
Noa Nahmias
York University
Past, Present and Future in Chinese Museums
Kelly C. Tang
Duke University
Rebirth: Zhang Huan’s Buddhist Art in Florence
Panel 7 Media
(Apr 18, 2015, 11:15am – 12:45pm; Ballroom)
Name
Institute
Concordia
Weixian Pan
University
University of
Alexandre Paquet
Daniel Johnson
Toronto
Titles
Reconfiguring Rural-Urban Mobility: Media Rural
Tourism and Reality TV show Baba Qu Na Er
The Technological Body as an Instrument of War in
Anime and Manga
University of
Translating Across Media: User Curation and the
Chicago
Labor of Reading
Panel 8 Identity
(Apr 18, 2015, 11:15am – 1:00pm; Room B)
Name
Toshi Pau
Hannah Brown
Aliz Horvath
Institute
Titles
Duke University
Identification Options of the Past and Present: The
Future of Zainichi Identification Discourse
University of
California, Riverside
University of
Chicago
Exhibiting Identity Abroad: Ethnicity and
Nationalism in the Korean Cultural Center Los
Angeles
Finding the Self through the Other: Ritual and
Japaneseness in the Dai Nihon shi (The History of
Great Japan)
Panel 9 Fashion and Drinking Culture
(Apr 18, 2015, 2:15pm – 3:45pm; Ballroom)
Name
Gary Wang
Jianfei He
Jessica Cytryn
Institute
University of
Toronto
Titles
From Hairdo to Headpiece: The Manchu Women’s
Liangbatou Headdress and the Rise of Anti-Manchu
Sentiment in Late-Qing and Republican China
Royal Ontario
From Tale Text to Textiles: Clothing Behavior that
Museum
shapes Yi Ethnicity in Dayao, Yunnan
Concordia
Wine with Chinese Characteristics: The Ongoing
East Asian Studies Post-‐Graduate Student Association, 688 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 3R1 University
Department of East Asian Studies Post-‐Graduate Student Association 688 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 3R1 Cultivation of Wine Culture, Taste, and Refined
Palates in China
Panel 10 Emotion and Travel
(Apr 18, 2015, 2:15pm – 3:45pm; Room B)
Name
Suhan Shim
Institute
Titles
University of
Globalization of Cosmetic Surgery in South Korea
British Columbia
through Conventional and New Platforms of Media
Justifying the Revolution: The Emotion Mobilization
Chen Fang
Stanford University
Harry (Yixiang)
University of
Neo-Orientalism, “Donkey Friends” and Chinese
Li
British Columbia
idealism through the reconstruction Shangri-La
in Yan’an (1941-1942)
Panel 11 Early Imperial China
(Apr 18, 2015, 4:00pm – 5:00pm; Ballroom)
Name
Institute
Titles
Ka Ki Alan Ho
McGill University
“He thus became an uncrowned king”: The Deification
of Confucius’ Image in Prophtic Texts (Chen Wei)
Qiaomei Tang
Harvard University
The Two-Principal-Wife Anomaly in Early Medieval
China
Yu Xia
Catholic University
Ritual Failure And Its Effects On Ritual Agents
of Leuven
Panel 12 Sexuality and Subculture
(Apr 18, 2015, 4:00pm – 5:00pm; Room B)
Name
Stephen J.
Leonelli
Cody Black
Institute
Titles
Strategy and Tools for China’s Sexual & Gender
Harvard University
Diversity Movement: Will UN Human Rights
Mechanisms Enable Government Dialogue?
University of
Social Closeting of Military Evasion: MC Mong,
Toronto
Military Ambassador Idol Groups, and the
Perpetuation of Normative Korean Masculinity
Akané
D’Orangeville
McGill University
When Cute Aristocrats and Latex Meet: The Lolita
and Angura Subculture Communities in Tokyo
East Asian Studies Post-‐Graduate Student Association, 688 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 3R1