Description

9:30 – 10:15am Breakfast and Registration
EAS Lounge

10:15 – 10:25am Welcome and Greetings
EAS Lounge

10:30 – 11:50am Morning Sessions

Aesthetics of Excess
Room 14-228
Discussant: Prof. Janice Kim Moderator: Christina Han

Shasha Liu (University of Toronto) “The Stars Art Exhibition: Space and Power”
Laura Treglia (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) “Excess of Flesh: Spectacle and Japanese Femmes Fatales”
Kimberly Chung (University of California, San Diego) “The Proletarian Body in Colonial Korean Visual Culture”

Stagings of Power and Protest
Room 14-081
Discussant: TBC Moderator: Mark McConaghy

James MacKellar (University of Western Ontario) “Defining Friend and Foe: Setting the Stage for the 1951 San Francisco Peace Conference”
Roland B. Wilson (George Mason University) “Korea’s Forgotten, Intractable and Violent Conflict: When Will Peace Finally Come?”
Joshua J. Smith (University of Western Ontario) “Re-Remembering 4.3: Korean State Ideology and the Cheju Massacre”
Xiayi Fan (University of Pittsburgh) “Rethinking the East Asian Security Dilemma”

Ritual and Community
Room 14-353
Discussant: Prof. Jesook Song Moderator: Jennifer Lau

Minna Lee (University of Toronto) “The Taoie and the Formation of a Theocratic Society: An Analysis of the Evolution of the Taoie”
Ketaki Chowkhani (EFL University – Hyderabad) “The Function(s) of the Spectacle of Penallaipu in Pondicherry”
Chigusa Yamaura (Rutgers University) “From War Orphans to Brides: Transnational Marriages and Migration between Japan and China”

12:00 – 1:10pm Lunch
EAS Lounge

1:15 – 2:35pm Early Afternoon Sessions

Enmity and Enchantment
Room 14-228
Discussant: Prof. Thomas Keirstead Moderator: Joelle Tapas

Sanggyoung Lee (University of California, Berkley) “A Washed Out Dream: Figures of Weakness in Korean Postwar Fiction”
Xiaoqian Ji (University of Pittsburgh) “Identity Disorder of Chinese Women in and after Revolutions: From 1940s to 1970s”
Joanne Leow (University of Toronto) “Magical Realism in Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea”

Gender and Representation
Room 14-353
Discussant: Prof. Jin-kyung Park Moderator: Marta Newelska

Jooyeon Rhee (York University) “Mencius’ Mother in Armor: The Representation of Women in Chang Chiyôn’s Aeguk Puinjôn (The Story of a Patriotic Lady)”
Wei Xu (University of Western Ontario) “From Rosy-gowned to Battle-dressed: A Retrospective of the Women’s University in Yan’nan (1939-1941)”
Eunhee Park (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Homosexuality and Contestation of Sexual Identity in South Korea: The Melodrama Life is Beautiful”

Si(gh)ting Urbanity
Room 14-081
Discussant: Prof. Meng Yue Moderator: Banu Kaygusuz

Jie Cui (University of Pittsburgh) “Minority Language Shift in Southeast China: A Case of Huo Nte”
Karita Ching-Yeung Kan (Oxford University) “Making the Spectacular City: Culture and Governance in Urban China”
Yuka Hasegawa (University of Hawaii at Manoa) “Through the Looking Glass: Kamando Ichiba and the Space of Appearance”

2:35 – 2:50pm Coffee Break
EAS Lounge

3:00 – 4:25pm Late Afternoon Sessions – A

Visuality and Nationalism
Room 14-228
Discussant: Prof. Janet Poole Moderator: Yonsue Kim

Inhye Kang (McGill University) “Encouraging Volunteerism: War and Panoramas in the 1940 Great Chosôn Exhibition”
Seung Yeon Sang (Boston University) “Cultural Essence and National Ceramics: The Formation of the Korean Folk Art Museum Under Japanese Colonial Rule”
Olga Fedorenko “Spectacles of ‘Capitalist Realism’ in the Advertising Museum in Seoul”

Rhetorics of Alterity
Room 14-353
Discussant: Prof. Ken Kawashima Moderator: Steven Bohme

Yi-tze Lee (University of Pittsburgh) “Agricultural Revitalization with Failed Expertise? Social Assemblage of Bioenergy in Contemporary Taiwan”
Akané D’Orangeville (University of Montreal) “Marginalization and problematization of Japanese Youth in 1990-2000: Discourse of a New Juvenile Delinquency and a New Japanese Youth”
Yuri Chang (SUNY Binghamton) “Market as Producer: Spectacle of New Chinese Cultural Identity”

Mass Media and the Networks of Identity
Room 14-353
Discussant: Prof. Graham Sanders Moderator: Yue Zhang

Greg de St. Maurice (University of Pittsburgh) “National Commensality via Television: ‘Kuishinbou! Banzai’ and the Visual Consumption of Local Japanese Foodways”
Shih Hsiang Sung (University of Pittsburgh) “Taiwanese Mingli Television Programs (Fortune Telling Programs) and Fengshui Consumption”
Caterina Fugazzola (University of San Francisco) “Laugh So You Don’t Cry: Humor and Satire in Chinese Cyberspace”

4:30 – 5:50pm Late Afternoon Session – B

Specular Regimes in Modern Japan
Room 14-081
Discussant: Prof. Eric Cazdyn Moderator: Dr. Baryon Tensor Posadas

Sean Callaghan (University of Toronto) “The Time of Our Life: The Double-Bind of Spectacle and Seimei in Modern Social Relations”
Max Ward (New York University) “The Ideological Coordinates of Japanese Fascism: The Tokyo ‘Thought-War Exhibition’ of 1938”
Greg DePies (University of California, San Diego) “Spectacles of Humanitarianism: The 1933 Sanriku Earthquake and the Japanese Red Cross Society”

History, Photography and the Body on Display
Room 14-081
Discussant: Prof. Johanna Liu Moderator: Banu Kaygusuz

Guo Yanlong (University of British Columbia) “Cutting the Body or Rupturing Culture: Peter Parker’s Chinese Patients on Display”
Lihui Dong (University of Pittsburgh) “Cultural Identities in Photo Portraitures in the Late Qing Dynsaty”
James Poborsa (University of Toronto) “The Photographs of Wang Ningde: Tracing Historical Memory at the Margins of Subjectivity”

6:00 – 7:00pm Closing Remarks and Keynote Speaker

Prof. Jung-Bong Choi
“Trans*ing National and Ethnic Intimacy in East Asian Popular Culture”