Program Summary

Friday, October 25
12:00 pm-5:00 pm Registration and Information  Lobby of Palamountain Hall
12:00 pm-5:00 pm New York Conference on Asian Studies Book Exhibit  Lobby of Palamountain Hall
2:00 pm-7:30 pm Installation of Oil Painting Series 36 Strategies of Ancient China --- Artists: Tang Liming and Xiaohuan Lee Tang Teaching Museum, Payne Room
2:30 pm-3:45 pm     SESSION I                     Bolton and Palamountain Halls
Panel1    Civil Society, Human Rights and Political Change: Images from Taiwan and Indonesia Bolton 280
Panel 2 Social Values and Ethics Bolton 281
Panel 3 Images of Japan and China Through Literature, Manga and Mass Media Bolton 282
Panel 4 Japan: Socio-Cultural Perspectives  PMH 201
Panel 5 Gandhi, the Goddess, and the Ganges: Liquid Shakti in the Indian Himalayas Bolton 382

Roundtable I:

Teaching Images of China PMH 304
3:45 pm-4:00 pm Refreshments Lobby of Palamountain Hall

4:00 pm-5:15 pm     SESSION II                           Bolton and Palamountain Halls

Panel 6 Words and Images of India Bolton 281
Panel 7 Interpretations and Applications of 36 Strategies of Ancient China Bolton 382
Panel 8 Recent Politics in PRC PMH 201
Panel 9  Military History in Northeast Asia PMH 301
Panel 10 Storytelling in Japan and Narrative Revisionism in China PMH 300
5:30 pm-7:30 pm Dinner/Banquet Tang Teaching Museum -Payne Room
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 and Dean of the Faculty, Skidmore College

Professor David Ludden, AAS President --Maps in the Mind and the Mobility of Asia 

7:30 pm-7:45 pm Brief Business Meeting of NYCAS Tang Teaching Museum - Payne Room
8:00 pm-9:30 pm Bridge of Souls - - Performance by The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota and Guest Pipa Soloist, Xiao-fen Min  Dance Theater, Dance Center
9:45 pm-10:00 pm Skidmore Bus leaves for Hotels: Sheraton, Downtowner, Holiday Inn, Hilton Gardens Front of Sports Center
Saturday, October 26
7:00 am - 8:00 am Board Meeting BO 380
8:00 am - 8:30 am Skidmore 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)
8:00 am - 5:00 pm New York Conference on Asian Studies Book Exhibit    Lobby of Palamountain Hall
9:00 am-10:15 am   SESSION III                          Bolton and Palamountain Halls
Panel 11 China: From Calendar Art to Representation of the Metropolis BO 382
Panel 12 Imagining Civil Society: 1989 Tian'anmen

BO 282

Panel 13 Images of Women in Chinese Literature and the Performing Arts BO 280
Panel 14 Cultural Issues in Rural and Urban China PMH 300
Panel 15 Images of China Through Art and Poetry BO 281
     
10:15 am-10:30 am  Refreshments   Lobby of Palamountain Hall
11:00 am-5:00 pm Installation of Oil Painting Series 36 Strategies of Ancient China --- Artists: Tang Liming and Xiaohuan Lee Tang Teaching Museum, Payne Room
10:30 am-11:45 am SESSION IV                          Bolton and Palamountain Halls
Panel 16 & 17 combined Hindus, Muslims and the Media  Bolton 280
Panel 18 Independent Film Screening Bolton 281
Panel 19 Gender Images: Examples from China and Korea Bolton 282
Panel 20 Feng Menglong (1474-1646) and Literary Tradition in the Ming Dynasty PMH 304
Panel 21 Images of the Other: Socio-Cultural Perspectives Bolton 382
12:00 pm-12:45 pm Box Lunch Pick Up in Lobby of Palamountain Hall
1:00 pm-2:00 pm

Plenary Speaker: Oscar Tang, Trustee, Skidmore College

Palamountain Hall, Gannett Auditorium

Introduction by Jamienne S. Studley, President of Skidmore College

11:00 am-5:00 pm

Installation of Oil Painting Series 36 Strategies of Ancient China Artists: Tang Liming and Xiaohuan Lee

Tang Teaching Museum, Payne Room
2:15 pm-3:30 pm    SESSION V                          Bolton and Palamountain Halls
Panel 22 Images of the Other in Chinese Visual and Performance Art Bolton 382
Panel 23 Constructing Images of the Other: Views from Indonesia and the Philippines Bolton 282
Panel 24 The Discursive Formation of Women and Sex in Theatrical, Literary and Historical Text and Context Bolton 280
Panel 25 Cultural Geography and the Natural Environment  

PMH 304

Panel 26 Pre-Modern Iconography and Contemporary Intervisuality of China Bolton 281
Roundtable II: Freeman Grants and Their Impact on Asian Studies PMH 201
3:30 pm-3:45 pm Refreshments Lobby of Palamountain Hall
3:45 pm-5:00 pm     SESSION VI                          Bolton and Palamountain Halls
Panel 27 Aesthetic Encounters in the Himalayas Bolton 382
Panel 28 Images of Women in China and Japan Bolton 282
Panel 29 Images of China in Television and Film Bolton 281
Panel 30 Japanese Cinema PMH 201
8 pm-10 pm  “Monsoon Wedding”  (A film about India)  Palamountain Hall, Davis Auditorium