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Contested Spaces
13th Annual East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference

9:05 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. Breakfast and Registration
EAS Purple Lounge

9:45 A.M. – 9:55 A.M. Welcome Address

10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. Morning Session 1

Panel 1: Projections of Gender, Ethnicity and Culture
Discussant: TBA
– Tessa Handa (Duke) “The Orientalist Reality, Tourism, and Photography The Parrish Family Albums in Japan, 1899-1904”
– Cui Fan (Shanghai) “Reproductive Boundaries in Transnational Ethnic Groups”
– Kelly Tang (Oxford) “Contemporary Curio Cabinets: East Asian Art at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum and Paris’ Musée Guimet”
– Kaitlin Forgash (Washington) “Equal Rights Amendments in the MacArthur Constitution: American Motivations and the Japanese Feminist Response”

Panel 2: Taking the City: Protests and Activism in Urban Spaces
Discussant: TBA
– David Armiak () “Korean Youth Worlds: An Ethnographic Look at the Structure of the Student Movement in South Korea”
– Ruben de Bie (NYU) “Homeowner activism and the role of Homeowner Committees in the PRC”
– Shuang Lu (Columbia) “Squatting on Top of the City –Fashioned Subjectivity of ‘Ant People’(Yi Zu) between Urban Space and Virtual Space in Shanghai, China”
– Sinwoo Lee (UCLA) “Cry for Independence, Fight for Free Speech: The Creation of Independence Park and the Formation of a Public in Korea, 1896-1919”

11:35 A.M. – 12:50 Morning Session 2
Panel 3: Space and Ideology in the Realm of Consciousness
Discussant: Dr. Atsuko Sakaki
– Saena Ryu (Minnesota) “Double Consciousness in the Space of Korean Historical Fiction”
– Brian White (Chicago) “Sato Haruo Negotiating Nature and Modernity“
– Yuting Dong (Harvard) “Spatiality of the Ideology Risshin Shusse (Success) in Higuchi Ichiyo’s works”

Panel 4: Contested Histories: Imagining Community and the Family in Premodern East Asian History
Discussant: Dr. Graham Sanders
– Yue Zhang (Toronto) Contested Historical Spaces in Poetry–Poems on History in Chinese Medieval Period (220-960)
– Shengping Guo (Toronto) “The Fictional Elements of Zhuge Liang’s Imaginary: A Comparative Study Between The Record of Three Kingdoms and the Romance of Three Kingdoms “
– Wenyi Huang (McGill) “Where is Home? Sima Family in the N orthern Wei Dynasty”

12:50 P.M. – 1:55 P.M. Lunch Break

2:00 P.M. – 3:25 P.M. Afternoon Session 1

Panel 5: Capital and Colony: Reconstituting the Space of the Other
Discussant: Dr. Janet Poole
– Love Kindstrand (Chicago) “Molecular Politics of Embodiment at the Kantei-mae Protests”
– Toulouse Roy (McGill) “Between ‘Unassimilable Savages’ and “Imperial Citizens”: Japanese Anthropology and the Indigenous ‘Other’ in colonial Taiwan”
– Zhijun Ren (Ottawa) “From Tribute to Commodity: The Transformation of Qing-Chosen Tribute Relations in Global Capitalism”
– Benjamin Young (SUNY Brockport) “‘We Have Found It Here in Korea’: The Black Panther Party’s Links and Experiences with North Korea, “Comrade Kim Il Sung,” and the Juche Idea”

Panel 6: Contested Environments: The Politics of Ecology and Geography in the 21st Century
Discussant: Dr. Yue Meng
– Matthew Gaudreau (Ottawa): “A Political Ecology of Pollution and Sustainability: Environmental movements in Urban and Rural China”
– Birgit Buergi (Singapore): “The Political Subjecthood of Academic Immigrants in Asia’s Science Cities”
– Robert Winstanley-Chesters (Leeds): “Environmental Parallax on the Thirty Eighth Parallel: Exploring Differing Strategies of Conservational and Spatial Approach in a Divided Korea”
– Dongwoo Kim (Alberta) “Sustainability, Feng Shui and the Grand Korean Waterway: Nature’s Place in Modern Korean Society”

3:30 P.M. – 4:55 P.M. Afternoon Session 2

Panel 7: The Aesthetics of Space: Visualizing Time and the Everyday
Discussant: Dr. Linda Feng
– Michael Tseng (Toronto) “Looking at Hara Setsuko: the Crystal Image of Time”
– Shanni Zhao (Duke) “Jia Zhangke and Everydayness in Shanxi”
– Qian He (Hong Kong) “Visual Space and Politics of Childhood in Contemporary Chinese Films: Case Studies of Landscape of Childhood in Beijing, Taipei and Hong Kong”
– Chris Kier (Michigan) “Materialism and the Chinese City: Art and Politics of Jia Zhangke and Feng Xiaogang”

Panel 8: Border Politics and Politics of Borders
Discussant: TBA
– Roslynn Ang (NYU) “Non-presence of the state and the politics of the periphery in Ainu lands”
– Brigit Stadler (Washington) “I’m Trying to Tell You Now It’s Sabotage: Anti-Hallyu Protests, Changing Mediums of Discourse, and National-Cultural Identity
– Michael Roellinghoff (Toronto) “Insular Thinking: Ideology and Memory in Japan’s Maritime Territorial Disputes”
– Christina Maags (Goethe) “Inventing a Chinese socialist tradition: Promoting a socialist tradition for political instrumentalization”

5:05 P.M. – 6:25 P.M. Keynote Address & Closing Remarks
Dr. Lisa Kim Davis (UCLA)
Followed by a discussion with Dr. Ken Kawashima (Toronto-EAS) and Dr. Kanishka Goonewardena (Toronto-Geography)