8:30 to 10:20am

Artistic Multiplicity in China’s Middle Period

10:30am to 12:20pm

Hope Away from Home: Hinduism in Diaspora As An Agent of Positive Social Transformation

1:00 to 2:50pm

Licit and Illicit Lives in the Indian Ocean

3:00 to 4:50pm

Youth Activism, Identity Politics and Movement Repertoire in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China

8:30 to 10:20am

Hope in Health? An Historical Examination of Rural China

10:30am to 12:20pm

Reckoning with State Crimes in South Asia

3:00 to 4:50pm

Border Crossing Activism in the Asian Anthropocene

8:30 to 10:20am

Japanese Empire in Motion: 1930s Art Exhibitions on the Global Stage

10:30am to 12:20pm

The Conformed/Deviated Self in Diaries of Modern Japan: The Diversity and Contradiction of Self-expression

1:00 to 2:50pm

The Colonial Korean Minority in 1940s Occupied Japan

3:00 to 4:50pm

Medicine Talks: Perceiving Society and Individuals in Japanese Occupied Singapore and Indonesia

1:00 to 2:50pm

Between Hope and Hopelessness: Reexamining the History of Diseases and Hygiene in the Late-Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century...

3:00 to 4:50pm

Bridging Region and Discipline: Social Movement Studies and Southeast Asia I

5:00 to 6:50pm

Bridging Region and Discipline: Social Movement Studies and Southeast Asia II

1:00 to 2:50pm

Social Mobilization, Governance, and Polarization in Southeast Asian Politics

3:00 to 4:50pm

(Re)claiming Identity: Reflections on Heritage Students’ Participation in Study Abroad Programs in Post-Conflict Southeast...

5:00 to 6:50pm

New Visions of Ethnographic Films from Asia

1:00 to 2:50pm

Coming Out of Oneness: The Diverse Discourses of Vietnamese Identity

3:00 to 4:50pm

Gender and Mobility in Pakistan and India

5:00 to 6:50pm

Old/New Media Cultures in Modern Asia

1:00 to 2:50pm

Nationalism and Music in Pre-War Japan

3:00 to 4:50pm

Envisioning the Family, Enacting the Family: Research on Young Adults' Views on Possibilities for Families in the 2000s

5:00 to 6:50pm

The Body in Contemporary Japanese Society: Perceptions, Expectations, Alterations

1:00 to 2:50pm

New Women, Feminist Activists, Concubines, and Prostitutes: Divisions and Dialogue in the Afterlives of Chinese Polygamous...

3:00 to 4:50pm

Women, Ritual and Religion in Urban Asia

5:00 to 6:50pm

Playing the System: Political Communication and Contested Governance in Song China

8:30 to 10:20am

Panel 1: Border-Crossing Bodhisattvas in East Asia

10:30am to 12:20pm

Panel 2: Reception of Indian Influences in Tang Buddhist Art

1:00 to 2:50pm

The Culture of English-Language Academic Book Publishing: A Roundtable with Editors and Publishers

3:00 to 4:50pm

Publishing in English-Language Academic Journals: Issues and Trends

5:00 to 6:50pm

Empire of “Hope”: Ideal and Reality of Greater East Asia in the Imperial War Films

8:30 to 10:20am

Cities in 1950s China: Socialist Visions, Soviet Models, and Urban Communities

10:30am to 12:20pm

Contesting the Future of Chinese Agriculture and Rural Society: Is there Hope on the Horizon for Family Farming?

1:00 to 2:50pm

The New Paradigm and the Old Style: Intellectual Transformation of the Literati in the Late Qing

3:00 to 4:50pm

The New Silk Road: Chinese Foreign Policy and the One Belt, One Road Initiative

5:00 to 6:50pm

Places of Conflict: Rediscovering Chinese Cityscape through Emerging Cultural Spaces

8:30 to 10:20am

China's 'Ecological Civilization': New Hopes, Old Limitations (Between Ecological Constraints and Ideological Projections)

10:30am to 12:20pm

The Delight of Stretching the Norms: In Praise of Playfulness

1:00 to 2:50pm

Frontier Spaces: The Production of Place and Meaning in China's Borderlands

3:00 to 4:50pm

Vernacular Textual Culture in Ming and Qing China

5:00 to 6:50pm

The Jesuits in Asia: The Horizons of Cultural Adaptation

8:30 to 10:20am

Feeling Food, Manufacturing Hope: Critical Studies in Affect and Labour

10:30am to 12:20pm

Futures in the Making: Writing, Reading, and Filmmaking in China, 1925-Present

1:00 to 2:50pm

Local Governance in Motion: Dynamics of Central-local Relationship in China

3:00 to 4:50pm

The Art of Laughter in Maoist Cinema

5:00 to 6:50pm

Didactic Vernaculars: Moral Values and Literary Genres in Early Modern Chinese Fiction and Drama

8:30 to 10:20am

Inter-city Cinema in Asia: Imaginative Cartographies and Critical Postcolonial Encounters

10:30am to 12:20pm

Border-Crossers and Boundary-Breakers in Journalism in East Asia from the Interwar to the Cold War Periods

1:00 to 2:50pm

Disaster and the State in Late Imperial China

3:00 to 4:50pm

State Ritual and Political Culture in Imperial and Late Imperial China

5:00 to 6:50pm

Sino-Islamic Artistic Exchanges

8:30 to 10:20am

Gender and Ethnicity in Late Imperial China

10:30am to 12:20pm

X-Files from Modern Japan: Spirits, Spirituality, and Parapsychology in Modern Japanese Literature

1:00 to 2:50pm

Living on the Boundaries: Social, Cultural, and Economic Intermediaries in Modern China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

3:00 to 4:50pm

Alternative Alliances: The Haichuang Temple in Guangzhou as a Local, Regional, and Transnational Platform of Cultural...

5:00 to 6:50pm

Between Performance and the Page: Buddhist Preaching in East Asia

8:30 to 10:20am

Global History of Democracy in East Asia

10:30am to 12:20pm

Science and Empire in East Asia: Qing Imperial Order and the Spatial Dynamics of Knowledge

1:00 to 2:50pm

Japan Foundation Special Roundtable: Bridging Japanese Studies between the U.S. and Asia

3:00 to 4:50pm

Reshaping the “Kimono” in the 20th Century

5:00 to 6:50pm

Imagining Beauty Differently: Beyond Superficiality and Subjugation

8:30 to 10:20am

Other Trans-Pacific Alliances: 1960s Protest Movements Crossing Borders in the US and Japan

10:30am to 12:20pm

Migration as a Pathway to New Possibilities: Negotiating Migrant Rights and Identities at the Margins in East and Southeast...

1:00 to 2:50pm

Manga/Comics and Transnational Flows of Culture in Asia

3:00 to 4:50pm

Re-tuning Taiwan: Performing Discrepancies through Music

5:00 to 6:50pm

Chinese Diaspora in Media and Literature

8:30 to 10:20am

Medicines in Motion: Tensions Between Transnational Capitalism and the Global Democratization of Medicines Derived from...

10:30am to 12:20pm

The Politics of Ornament: Ideology, Transnationalism, and Modern Design

1:00 to 2:50pm

Financing the Sixteenth-Century Korean War (1592-98): The Experiences of Japan and Korea and Ming China

3:00 to 4:50pm

Rethinking Migration and Otherness in Sinophone Cinema and Literature

5:00 to 6:50pm

Rural Women in East Asia and Southeast Asia

8:30 to 10:20am

Contemporary Science Fiction: Imagining (Asian) Bodies and Re-examining Humanity

10:30am to 12:20pm

Distilling Experiences into Words: Producing Medical Knowledge in Traditional China

1:00 to 2:50pm

East Asian Queer Cultures Part I: Inter-Referencing the Trans/Local Communities of Hong Kong and South Korea

3:00 to 4:50pm

East Asian Queer Cultures Part II: LGBT Politics, Queer Lives, and the Rainbow Market

8:30 to 10:20am

Possibilities of Hope—Horizons of Media(tion): Deterritorializing Representational Regimes in Print Media Across History

10:30am to 12:20pm

Horizons of Youth: Representing Children as Futurity

1:00 to 2:50pm

Colonial Transnationalism between Korea and China in the 1930s

3:00 to 4:50pm

Korea in Motion: Shifting Sounds and Cultural Identifications in Transnational, Multiethnic Korea

5:00 to 6:50pm

Bodhisattva in Motion: Tracing the Cult of Dizang in East Asia

8:30 to 10:20am

Leaving Home: Feeling Asian Urban Spaces in Motion

10:30am to 12:20pm

The Futures of Communities and Intangible Heritage: Social Pressures and Local Responses in Korea, Japan, and China

1:00 to 2:50pm

Japan in Motion: A Panel Exploration of Understanding Japan’s Social and Economic Changes through Historical Horizons...

5:00 to 6:50pm

Cultural Transmissions and Shared Pictorial Language in Early Modern East Asian Painting

8:30 to 10:20am

Utsushi: Copying Buddhist Hopes

10:30am to 12:20pm

Shifting Security Dynamics in East Asia: Charting a Path toward Regional Stability

1:00 to 2:50pm

Institutional Heritage in Asia: Welfare, Education and Knowledge

3:00 to 4:50pm

Powers and Possibilities: Transnational Experiences, Technologies of Empire, and East Asian-US Cultural Encounters in the...

5:00 to 6:50pm

Issues of Making Heritage in East Asian Contexts

8:30 to 10:20am

Crafting Affirmation from "Negation and Despair" in Japan's Lost War

10:30am to 12:20pm

Women and Political Representation in Japan and Korea

1:00 to 2:50pm

Transfers of Knowledge in Japan’s Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

3:00 to 4:50pm

Social Histories of Taiwan's Postwar Transition, 1945–1955

5:00 to 6:50pm

Confronting Tragedy and Negotiating its Aftermath: A Keynote of Ruptures in Japanese Experience, from Early Meiji to...

8:30 to 10:20am

Protestantism and This-Worldly Hope: Navigating Religion, Ethnicity and Class in Southeast Asian Economies

10:30am to 12:20pm

Understanding Ma-Ba-Tha: Buddhism, Customary Laws, and Women in Myanmar

1:00 to 2:50pm

Genealogies of Indian Democracy: Practice, Thought, and Visual Culture (1900-1950)

3:00 to 4:50pm

Messy Urbanism: Understanding the "Other" Cities of Asia

10:30am to 12:20pm

Formation of Neo-Plural Societies as Emerging Migration Regimes

1:00 to 2:50pm

Statecraft and Cultural Diversity in Premodern China: Empire, Ethnic Identity and Religious Ideology

3:00 to 4:50pm

Craft As Entrée To Larger Historical Patterns: India In Motion

8:30 to 10:20am

The Politics of Ritualization and the Ritualization of Hope

10:30am to 12:20pm

State and Society in the Contact Zone: Historical Anthropology and the New Qing History

1:00 to 2:50pm

Merchants, Agents, Technology, and Force: Empire and Natural Resources in East and Southeast Asia, 1800-1945

3:00 to 4:50pm

Post-war Transitions across New Borders: Economic and Political Activities of Repatriates in Post-War Japan and Germany

5:00 to 6:50pm

Environmental Governance in China: Governments, Corporations and Individuals

8:30 to 10:20am

Ambivalent Hopes, Gendered Desires: Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture

10:30am to 12:20pm

Ambivalent Hopes, Gendered Desires: The Potential of Japanese Pornography

1:00 to 2:50pm

Marriage Strategies in East Asia

3:00 to 4:50pm

Envisioning the Future In, Through, and Against “Japan”: Interdisciplinary and Heterolingual Approach to Hope

5:00 to 6:50pm

The Obliteration and Disambiguation of Moral Code in Modern Japanese Literature: Fluctuating Taboos and Their Cultural/Social...

8:30 to 10:20am

Amateurism and the Art of Calligraphy in Postwar Japan

10:30am to 12:20pm

Negotiating Hopes of Middle Class Migrants: Migration Flows to and from Japan

1:00 to 2:50pm

From Resentment to Alternative Cooperation: Imagining the Intimate Other in Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese Cinema

3:00 to 4:50pm

Buddhism beyond Temple Walls: The Everyday Engagements of Japanese Buddhists

5:00 to 6:50pm

The Politics of Affectivity: On the Discourse of the “Noble Savage” in Colonial Taiwan

8:30 to 10:20am

Mobilities and Aspirations of Marginal Groups in Emerging Chinese and Indian Cities

10:30am to 12:20pm

Cultural Governmentalities: Speech, Radio, and Literature in Colonial Korea

1:00 to 2:50pm

Salvaging Socialist Gender Project in Today’s China

3:00 to 4:50pm

Hope, Desire and the Work of Becoming: Transcending Marginalization in Bangladesh, India and Nepal

5:00 to 6:50pm

Hope, Desire and the Work of Becoming: Transcending Marginalization in Bangladesh, India and Nepal II

8:30 to 10:20am

Silver Linings in The Ruins: Hope, Humanitarianism, and Beautiful Tales Following the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake

10:30am to 12:20pm

(De)constructing National Identities in Japan and South Korea in the 21 Century

1:00 to 2:50pm

Changing Dynamics of Marriage, Work, and Family in East Asia

3:00 to 4:50pm

Post/colonial Horizons in Japan: Imperial Gaze, Neoliberal Vision, and Cosmopolitan Hope

5:00 to 6:50pm

“Chinese” Cinema and the Film Festival Circuit: Within and Beyond the People's Republic of China

8:30 to 10:20am

The Story of the Go Family: Korea’s Last Foreign Language Interpreters and First Western-Style Painter

10:30am to 12:20pm

Signifiers in Motion: The Transmutation of Chinese Texts in Early Modern East Asia

8:30 to 10:20am

Media, Politics, and Social Change in Contemporary Indonesia

10:30am to 12:20pm

The River and Mobility in South and Southeast Asia, 1850-1950