PROGRAM
October
25-26
Registration/Information:
12:00 pm-5:00 pm, Lobby of Palamountain Hall
Book
Exhibit: 12:00 pm-5:00 pm, Lobby of Palamountain Hall
Conference participants are welcome to browse through the selections
and place
Installation of 36 Ancient Strategies of China by Artists Liming Tang and Xiaohuan Lee:
5 pm-7:30 pm, Tang Teaching Museum, Payne Room
OCTOBER
25
SESSION
ONE FRIDAY 2:30-3:45 PM
Panel 1: Civil Society, Human Rights
and Political Change: Images from Taiwan and Indonesia
Location: Bolton 280
Chair: Havah Amstrong Walter (Dartmouth)
“Civil
Society, Taiwanese Identity, and Democratic Evolution”
Havah Armstrong
Walther (Dartmouth)
Tae-Ung Baik (Notre
Dame Law School)
“Creating
Expectations: Images of Qing Taiwan”
Jennifer
Rudolph (SUNY Albany)
Panel 2: Social Values and Ethics
Location: Bolton 281
Chair: Suck Choi (SUNY Buffalo)
“Zhu
Xi’s Contribution to Virtue Ethics”
Suck
Choi (SUNY Buffalo)
“Building
Character Among US Undergraduates Students Through Building Elementary Schools
for Impoverished Children of India”
“A
Vision of One-World Philosophy and a One-World Culture”
Ashok
Malhotra (SUNY Oneonta)
Douglas
Shrader (SUNY Oneonta)
Linda Drake (SUNY Oneonta)
Panel 3: "Images of Japan and China Through Literature, Manga and Mass
Media."
Location: Bolton 282
“The Camera of Literature: Photographic and
Phonographic Realism in Meiji Japan”
Seth
Jacobowitz (Cornell University)
“Imagining Buddhism
in Japanese Manga (Graphic Novels)”
Mark
W. MacWilliams (St. Lawrence University)
Panel 4: Japan: Socio-Cultural Perspectives
Location: Palamountain Hall 201
Chair: Nancy Brcak (Ithaca College)
“The
Inner View: Issei and Nisei Images
from the Internment Camps”
Nancy Brcak and
John Pavia (Ithaca College)
“Imagining Democracy
in Taishö Japan, 1912-1926”
Lawrence Fouraker
(St. John Fisher College)
“Japan's
ODA Role Toward the Asia-Pacific Region in the 21st Century”
Monir Hossain Moni
(Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo)
“’Dowa’ or Human Rights Education in Tottori
Prefecture”
Keiko Ofuji (Bates
College)
Panel
5: India: Religion, Politics, and the Environment
Location: Bolton 382
Chair:
Joel Smith (Skidmore College)
“Gandhi, the Goddess, and the Ganges:
Liquid Shakti in the Indian Himalayas”
Joel Smith (Skidmore College)
Roundtable
I: Teaching Images of China
Location: Palamountain 304
Discussants: Terry Lautz
(LUCE Foundation), Mao Chen (Skidmore College),
Refreshments: 3:45 pm-4:00 pm, Lobby of Palamountain Hall
SESSION TWO- FRIDAY 4:00-5:15 PM
Panel 6: Words and Images of India
Location: Bolton 281
Chair: Meghmala Tarafdar (Collin County Community College)
“Images
of Transition: A Cultural Study of South Asian Fiction”
Meghmala
Tarafdar (Collin County Community
College)
Francesca Soans (Independent Film Maker)
Panel 7: Interpretations and Applications of 36 Strategies of
Ancient
China
Location: Bolton 382
Chair:
Liming Tang (SUNY New Paltz)
“Imaging
the 36 Strategies of Ancient China”
Liming Tang and Xiaohuan Lee (SUNY New Paltz)
“Imaging
Process of the 36 Strategies”
Xiaohuan Lee and
Liming Tang (SUNY New Paltz)
“The
Thirty Six Strategies in Chinese History”
Elizabeth Brotherton (SUNY New Paltz)
“The
Languages of Visual Space in Contemporary Chinese Painting”
Doretta
Miller (Skidmore College)
NOTE:
36 Strategies of Ancient China,
an oil painting series by artists Liming
Panel
8: Recent Politics in PRC
Location: Palamountain Hall 201
Chair: Shawn Shieh (Marist College)
“Rotten to the Core? The Politics and Representation
of Corruption in the PRC:
Shawn
Shieh (Marist College)
“The Rule of Law
in Chinese History”
Qiang
Fang (SUNY Buffalo)
Panel
9: Military History in Northeast Asia
Location: Palamountain Hall 301
Chair: David M. Robinson (Colgate University)
“The
Mongol Empire's Collapse: The Red Turbans in Northeast Asia”
David M. Robinson
(Colgate University)
“Guns, Guts, and Glory: Notes on Military Technology
in the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592-1598”
Kenneth
Swope (Marist College)
“Writing Japanese Pirates from the Waterline:
The Old Pine Hall Record of a
Peter
D. Shapinsky (University of Michigan)
William
Atwell (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Discussant
Panel 10: Storytelling in Japan and Narrative Revisionism in China
Location: Palamountain 300
Chair: Dongming Zhang (Cornell University)
“Recasting
the Revolutionary Past: The Contemporary Chinese Film In the Heat of the Sun”
Dongming Zhang (Cornell University)
"The
“Telling All the Stories: Imagination of Rakugo
Discourse”
Noriko Watanabe
(Baruch College, CUNY)
“Snatching the Last
Word(s): Value-Driven Suicides and the Role of Narrative in
Linda
Feng (Columbia University/RYAN Prize Winner)
| Welcome Remarks by Mao Chen, Director of Asian Studies Program, Skidmore College, and Chair of NYCAS ’02 | |
| Welcome Remarks and Introduction of Professor
David Ludden by Charles Joseph, Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs
|
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| Professor David Ludden, AAS President -- Maps in the Mind and the Mobility of Asia | |
Performance: 8:00 pm-9:30 PM, Bridge of Souls
The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota and Guest Pipa Soloist, Xiao-fen Min
Dance
Theater, Dance Center
Buses
leave for Hotels: 9:45 pm-10:00 pm/ Sheraton, Downtowner, Holiday Inn, Hilton
Gardens; Meet in Front of the Sports Center
Board
Meeting: 7:00 am-8:00 am, Bolton 380
Skidmore
College Bus Picks Up Conference Participants from Hotels: Hilton Gardens (8:00
am), Holiday Inn (8:10 am), Downtowner (8:20 am), Sheraton (8:30 am)
New
York Conference on Asian Studies Book Exhibit: 12:00 pm-5:00 pm, Lobby of
Palamountain Hall
Conference
participants are welcome to browse through the selections and place
SESSION
THREE - SATURDAY 9:00-10:15 AM
Panel 11: China: From Calendar Art to Representation of the
Location: Bolton 382
Chair: James Flath (University of Western Ontario)
“Picturing the Years: Popular Calendars and Temporal
Control in China”
James Flath (University of Western Ontario)
“The
Mao Era As Hypertext: The Ending Has Not Yet Been Written”
Susan Jacobson (Marymount
Manhattan College)
Panel 12: Imagining Civil Society: 1989
Tian’anmen
Location: Bolton 282
Chair: Evan Lampe (SUNY Albany)
"'Two
Cats Fighting Over the Same Mouse’: The
Autonomous Workers' Federation in the Tian’anmen Protests”
Evan
Lampe (SUNY Albany)
"Singing a
Political Tune: The Use of Songs in the 1989 Tian’anmen Protest”
Hsiao-pei
Yen (SUNY Albany)
Jennifer
Rudolph (SUNY Albany)
Discussant
Panel 13: Images of Women in Chinese Literature and the
Location: Bolton 280
Chair: Wenwei Du (Vassar College)
“The New Image of
a Femme Fatale: Self and Morality in Wei Minglun's Pan
Hongchu
Fu (Washington and Lee University)
“Blush:
A Film of Women and By Women”
Wenwei
Du (Vassar College)
“Imagining the Private: Chinese Women Writers'
Responses to the Literary
Donghui He (University of British Columbia)
Panel 14: Cultural Issues in Rural and Urban China
Location: Palamountain 300
Chair: Christopher J. Smith (SUNY Albany)
“The
Social Geography of Disease Transmission: Exploring the Relationship
Christopher
J. Smith (SUNY Albany)
“The Tales of Three Cities: Geographical Landscape
of Three Key Information
Yu
Zhou (Vassar College)
“Uneven Land Reform and Urban Sprawl in China”
F. Frederic Deng and Youqin Huang (SUNY Albany)
“From Work-unit
Compounds to Gated Communities: Changing Residential
Youqin
Huang (SUNY Albany)
Panel 15: Images of China Through Art and Poetry
Location: Bolton 281
Chair: Caitlin Anderson (Princeton University)
“Imagined
Audience, Unquiet Mind: Dialogue, Self Reflexivity and the Diction of
Ambivalence
in the Li Sao”
Caitlin
Anderson (Princeton University)
“Prints, Dreams,
and Accommodations of Desire in Late Imperial China”
Christine Tan (Princeton
University)
Refreshments:
10:15 am-10:30 am, Lobby of Palamountain Hall
Installation
of 36 Ancient Strategies of China
by Artists Liming Tang and Xiaohuan Lee: 11:00 am-5:00 pm, Tang Teaching Museum,
Payne Room
(Sponsored by the South Asian Muslim Studies Committee)
Location: Bolton 280
Chair: Shahid Refai (College of St. Rose)
“The Gujarati Vernacular Press and Minorities”
Shahid Refai (College of St. Rose)
“The English Language Media: ‘Organiser’ as the ‘Reasonable’
Face of Hindutva”
Theodore P. Wright, Jr. (SUNY Albany)
“Muslims as the 'Other' in Contemporary Hindu Nationalist
Discourse ”
Irfan Omar (Marquette University)
"Transforming Images: Reading Islam and Third World
in a Post 11th September America"
Suhail Islam (Nazareth College)
Location: Bolton 281
“Buddhist
Revival in Buryatia” -- ethnographic documentary and short talk
by Anya Bernstein
(Independent Film Maker)
Location: Bolton 282
Chair: Vangie Blust (Green Mountain College)
“ ‘That’s My Boy!’ Older Korean Women Farmers’ Perception
of Filial Duties of Adult Children”
Vangie Blust (Green Mountain College)
“Gender in Contemporary China”
Megan Rhodes (Skidmore College)
“Images of Women in Early China”
Margaret Pearson (Skidmore College)
Panel 20:
Location: PMH 304
Chair: S-C Kevin Tsai (Princeton University)
"Sha-gou ji in the Context of the Development of Southern-style
Drama"
Maggie Chiang (University of Texas at Austin)
“Reception and Re/Production: The Generic Translation of
the Story of Ma Chou in the Tai-p'ing
kuang-chi ch'ao and the Kuchin Hsiao-shuo”
Alexei Ditter (Princeton University)
"The
Standards of Selective Translation: Why 'Chang Shu-erh' Cannot Be Read in
English"
Jesse
Sloane (Princeton University)
"Sacrificing Words: Literary Models and Social Conflicts
in To Kill a Dog (Shagou ji)”
S-C Kevin Tsai (Princeton University)
Panel 21:
Images of the Other: Socio-cultural Perspectives
Location: Bolton 382
Chair: Richard F. Calichman (City College of New York)
“Karatani Kojin and the Image of the Other”
Richard F. Calichman (City College of New York)
“Racial Profiling and the Internalization of Whiteness: The
Historical Case of the Japanese”
Gail Chin (University of Regina)
“Constructing Ourselves for Foreigners, Constructing Foreigners
for Ourselves: Chinese Images of and for the Foreign Guest”
Mark Dailey (Green Mountain College)
“American Girls and the Western Image in China”
Thomas Williams (Green Mountain College)
Plenary Speaker: Oscar Tang, Trustee, Skidmore College -- 1:00-2:00pm
Gannett
Auditorium, Palamountain Hall
Introduction
by Jamienne S. Studley, President of Skidmore College
Location: Bolton 382
Chair: Dongshin Chang (New York University)
“Two Dramatic Imaginings of 'China' on the 17th
and 18th-century London Stage”
Dongshin Chang (New York University)
“From Arthouse to Gong-Fu: Competing Cinematic Visions of
China”
Kimberly DeVries (MIT)
“Chinese Mulan vs. American Heroine: Eastern Tradition Meets
Western Modernization”
Lingling Zeng and Seungyeon Lee (Dartmouth College)
Panel 23:
Constructing Images of the Other: Views from Indonesia and the Philippines
Location: Bolton 282
Chair: Virginia Murphy-Berman (Skidmore College)
“Images and Imaginings of the Chinese in the Philippines”
Irene Limpe (Cornell University)
"Differences in Western and Non-Western Construals of
Fairness and Duty: An Example from Indonesia"
Virginia Murphy-Berman and John Berman (Skidmore College)
Panel 24:
The Discursive Formation of Women and Sex in Theatrical, Literary and Historical
Text and Context
Location: Bolton 280
Chair: Jin Jiang (Vassar College)
“Images of Women as Instruments of Critical Engagement”
Aili Mu
“Reclaiming Female Desire—Sex and the New Cultural Revolution
in Post-Socialist Chinese Women’s Fiction”
Hongwei Lu (University of Oregon)
“Sex and Sexuality in a Women’s Opera in Mid-century Shanghai”
Jin Jiang (Vassar College)
Discussant: Peipei Qui (Vassar College)
Panel 25:
Cultural Geography and the Natural Environment
Location: PMH 304
Chair: Michael Blust (Green Mountain College)
“Koreans and the Natural Environment”
Michael Blust (Green Mountain College)
“Environmental NGOs in China - Expanding Role or Short Term
Dream?”
Jonathan Schwartz (SUNY New Paltz)
“Imagining a Future Off the Farm: Aspirations of China’s
First ‘One-Child Policy Generation’ and Implications for the Agricultural
Environment”
Eleanor Tison (Green Mountain College)
Panel 26:
Pre-modern Iconography and Contemporary Intervisuality of China
Location: Bolton 281
Chair: Nixi Cura (Union College)
“Revisiting Han Xizai: Night
Revels Reinterpreted by Artists of the People’s Republic of China”
Lara C. W. Blanchard (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
“Capturing Wenji: Narrative of Cai Yan Captivity and Return
to China”
Irene S. Leung (Asia Society)
“The People’s Army: The Qin Warriors in Contemporary Visual
Culture”
Nixi Cura (Union College)
Roundtable
II: Freeman Grants and their Impact on Asian Studies
Discussants: John Chaffee (SUNY Binghamton), Tom Wilson (Hamilton
College), Charles Hartman (SUNY Albany),
Refreshments:
3:30pm-3:45 pm, Lobby of Palamountain Hall
Location: Bolton 382
Chair: Rob Linrothe (Skidmore College and Rubin Museum of
Art)
Rob Linrothe (Skidmore College and Rubin Museum of Art)
“Digital Himalaya: The Ethics and Logistics of Returning
Cultural Materials in Digital Form”
Sara Shneiderman (Cornell University) and Mark Turin (University
of Cambridge)
Panel 28:
Images of Women in China and Japan
Location: Bolton 282
Chair: Seungyeon Lee (Dartmouth College)
“A Place Where ‘Women are like Tigers and Men are like Cats’:
Rectifying Mao Tsetung Thought on Gender”
Vera Fennell (Colorado College)
“Melting Pot: The Image of Women in Japanese Myths and Folklore”
Seungyeon Lee (Dartmouth College)
“The Rise and Fall of Shanghai Courtesan: Modernity as a
Reinvented Tradition”
Samuel Yunxiang Liang (SUNY Binghamton)
“Hiraiwa Yumie’s Detective Couple: Reimaging Gender through
the Blending of Genres”
Michael Tangeman (Denison University)
Panel 29:
Images of China in Television and Film
Location: Bolton 281
Chair: Lian Duan (Mount Holyoke College)
“Four Aspects of Zhang Yan’s Poetics Transparency”
Lian Duan (SUNY Albany)
“The Visual Imagined Communities: Indigo Myth and Television
in River Elegy”
Jia-yan Mi (University of California, Davis)
“Re-imaging the Past: Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum Clan”
Xiaoling Yin (Bryn Mawr)
Panel 30:
Japanese Cinema
Location: PMH 300
Chair: Melek Ortabasi (Hamilton College)
“Chris Marker and Historicizing Japan on the French Cinematic
Screen”
Grace An (Cornell University)
“Miyazaki Hayao’s Sen
to Chihiro no Kamikakushi: Escaping Japan?”
Melek Ortabasi (Hamilton College)
“Optical Technology and Kokutai Ideology in The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya”
Michael
Raine (Bard College)
This feature film about India by the movie-maker Mira Nair
invites you to join the festivities as one colorful and eclectic family gathers
from all over the world for a traditional wedding—a nonstop four-day celebration
as unpredictable as the monsoon season itself. Anything goes when love, lust, hope and happiness
take them by storm and bring them ever closer. With this family, when it rains, it pours.
Color/114 min.