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Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Bovines and People: Animal-Human Intimacies in an Inter-Regional Context
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Can Asia Change the Cold War?: New Perspectives in Cultural/Public Diplomacy
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Conflict and Identity in Asia: Studies Within and Across Borders
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
AAS Council of Conferences (COC)
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Death, Colonialism, and Capitalism in East Asia and its Diasporas
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Inner Mongolia to Bengal to Gondwana: Connected Partitions in Twentieth-Century Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay A, 2nd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Mixed-statusness and the politics of ‘doing family’ in transnational families
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay B, 2nd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Refugees, Local Politics, and Diasporic Actors in China and Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay C, 2nd Floor
Sponsored By
AAS Council of Conferences (COC), Verge: Studies in Global Asias
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Revisiting Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Reflections and Critiques from Asian Studies
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Journal of Asian Studies (JAS)
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
The Politics of Global Humanitarianism in Asia Since World War II
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay D, 2nd Floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Asian Digital Identities: Media, Platforms, and Cultural Wars
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Thursday, Mar 19
7:30 pm
Bound and Unbound: Asian Women as Agents of Change in Modern Science And Health Practices
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Change and Continuity in Social Elites in 20th Century China and Korea: Lessons from Big Data
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Cities of desire and trauma: urban redevelopment, liminal lives, and East Asian cinema
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon D, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Eating Inedibles: Rethinking Foods in Asian STS
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Jeju and Okinawa: Transnational Solidarity Networks in Northeast Asia and Beyond
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
New Approaches in China-India Studies Roundtable I: China and India in the Age of Decolonization: Analyzing the Nehru Papers, 1947-1964
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By:
India China Institute at the New School, Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Teaching the East Asian Body: Integrating Studies of Medicine and Society into Global Humanities Courses
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Technology and the Everyday Across Post-War Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Trade Networks, Maps, and Literatures in Early Modern South China Seas and Malay Archipelago (17th-18th century)
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
Visualizing International Politics in Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
9:00 am
War and Media: Political and Cultural Networks across East Asia and Beyond under Japan’s Colonial Rule
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
China's Belt and Road Initiative: Policies, Practices, and Perceptions
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor
Sponsored By
Committee on Teaching about Asia (CTA)
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Cosmopolitan Medicine under the Mongols: The Medical Materials, Theories, and Institutions of the Yuan Dynasty
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Interracial Intimacies, Kinships, and Desires in Japan and Korea
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
New Perspectives on Japanese Imperial Infrastructure in Northeast Asia in the Twentieth Century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Power and Agency: James C. Scott’s Contributions to Asian Studies
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Promoting Gender Equality and Fair Practices in Professional Development and Mentoring
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Sponsored By
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Recontextualizing East Asia in Premodern Japanese Art History
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
JAHF: Japan Art History Forum
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Space and Place in Asian History
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
The Environmental Legacies of the Mongol Empire in Eastern Eurasia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
The Holocaust and East Asia: Myth, Memory, and Historical Realities
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
The Science of Plague in Asia: from Beijing to Bursa
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Friday, Mar 20
11:15 am
Towards a Spatial History of Southeast Asia: The Collisions between the Chinese, Cham, and Vietnamese Kingdoms, 1000-1900
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Chineseness in Motion: Rethinking the Field in Global Perspectives
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 312, 3rd level
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
East Asian Pornographies and Online Porn Cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Gender and Social Change in Asian Popular Cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Global Asias as Subject, Object, Method, Praxis
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Sponsored By
Verge: Studies in Global Asias
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Lost in Manchuria: Broken Dreams and Struggles for Survival
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Sponsored By
Manchu Studies Group (MSG)
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Political Economy of Water in Modern India and China: New Approaches with Meteorological Database and Spatial Analyses
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Rethinking Reproduction in a Diversifying East Asia: Cross-cultural and Historical Perspectives on the Past and Present, Part I
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay D, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
Sublime Networks: Stones, Ashes, and Ruins of Islam across Eurasia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
The Material Life of the Archive: Promises and Challenges in Documenting the Japanese Diaspora
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 309, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
1:30 pm
The Materialities of Religious Circulations in Asia, from the Silk Road to the Belt and Road
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Architecture as Trans-Media Experiences in 20th Century East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Berkeley, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Asian Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Next 150 Years
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Displaced in the Anthropocene: The Unfolding Climate-induced Migrant Crisis in Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Back Bay C, 2nd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
East Asian Activism in Transnational Context: Circulations, Connections, and Intersections
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Empowering Rulership: Politics of Legitimation in Asian Religions
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 309, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Framing East Asian Feminist Cinema
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Gender, Work and Social Mobility in Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Material and Visual Culture in South and East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Transcending Borders: Transnational Mobility, Encounters, and Interactions across Modern East Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Friday, Mar 20
3:45 pm
Unintended Manchuria: Re-evaluating "Efficiency" in Twentieth-century Japanese Empire
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Advocating Racial Justice in the Face of War and Exclusion: Liberal Protestant Activists and Returning Japan Missionaries in America, c. 1900-1945
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Cultural Networks between China and (post-)Soviet Russia: Translations and Border Crossings
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes Convention Center: Room 309, 3rd level
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
From Sites to Sources: Reading Asia across the Anthropocene
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Frontier Urbanization between India and China: Recreating the Himalayas as an Urban Zone I
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Living with Heritage: Everyday Engagement and Participation in Contemporary China and Japan
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Mobilities, Belongings, and Citizenship(s) in the Afro-Asian Indian Ocean World
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Narrative Mode in Early and Medieval Eurasian Historiography
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
The Aftermath of Transformation and Destruction: Emerging Environments and Ecologies in East Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
The Cold War in Asian Cinemas: Transnational Connections and Local Formations
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
9:00 am
Transregional Crossings: Southeast Asian Chinese Literature, Film and Theater since the mid-20th century
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Coping with Abundance: Categories of Knowledge in Early Modern East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Korea-Vietnam Working Group
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Frontier Urbanization between India and China: Recreating the Himalayas as an Urban Zone II
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 310, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Japan's abiding presence in the age of China's ascent
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Law, Justice, Society at the Margins of Asian States
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Commonwealth, 3rd Floor
Sponsored By
Luce Foundation
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Locality and Temporality between Qing China and Northeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Practices of Citizenship and Belonging among "Old” and “New” Asian Migrants
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Re-imagining Borderland Governance: Transforming Natural and Social Spaces in East and Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Rethinking Reproduction in a Diversifying East Asia: Cross-cultural and Historical Perspectives on the Past and Present, Part II
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Technologies of everyday life Part 1: Insights from a collaborative research project on the Making of Modern East Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Sponsored By
Hong Kong government Research Grants Council
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Transnational Perspectives on War and Memory: Spotlight on Japanese Military Sexual Violence
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
11:15 am
Visual Cultures of Agriculture in Modern Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
(Post-)Imperial Interconnections: Transpacific Circulations of Relief, Knowledge, and Memories in Cold War Okinawa, Japan, and South Korea
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
PRESIDENTIAL PANEL: Amphibious Histories: Rivers as Pulse and Flow in India and China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Bloodless Iconography: War-Time Art in East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Capture, slavery, bondage, and forced relocation in Asia (1400-1900), Part 1
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Liminal soundings: Voice, gender, and affect in Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Negotiating Transnational Identity, Migration and Family Life in Virtual Spaces: The Case of Filipino Diaspora in the Asia-Pacific
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Publish or Perish: New Perspectives on Book Cultures in East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Reading Texts, Reading Landscapes: Early Modern Buddhist Polities across South and Southeast Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 308, Level 3
Saturday, Mar 21
3:00 pm
Untangling Internationalism in the People’s Republic of China
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Alignments and Identities in Cold War Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon A, 3rd floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Beyond Decolonization: Making Claims from the Margins of Postcolonial South and Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Capture, slavery, bondage, and forced relocation in Asia (1400-1900), Part 2
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Infrastructural assemblages and East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon E, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Instruments of cultural adaptation: Paratexts across East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon F, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
New Approaches to China-India Studies Roundtable II: New Scales of Citizenship and Contention in Urban Mega-regions of India and China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Sponsored By
India China Institute at the New School, Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
Patients, Nurses, and Doctors: Medicine and Gender in Modern East Asian Literature and History
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon G, 3rd Floor
Saturday, Mar 21
5:15 pm
The Historical Child as Subaltern: Methodologies for Recovering Children’s Voices in East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Beacon H, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Academic Publishing on Asia in Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 209, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Branching Out: Studying Social Networks in Chosŏn Korea and Qing China
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 311, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
East Asian Databases for Social and Economic History
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Imaginaries in Motion: Early Transnational Photography in and beyond Asia
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 312, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
National Identity in East Asian Museums
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 313, Level 3
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
North Korea as Discourse: The Knowledge Production of North Korea in a Global Context
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Religion, medicine, and women’s health in premodern East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Shifts, Fractures, and Stimuli: Opium and Transition in South and Southeast Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Strategies for Developing and Expanding Asian LCTL Programs
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 210, Level 2
Sponsored By
South Asian Language Teachers Association
Sunday, Mar 22
9:00 am
Translated Poetics: Transcultural Encounters and Modern East Asian Poetry
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Hynes: Room 201, Level 2
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
After/images of Empire: Visual Media and Sino-Japanese Crosscurrents
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Jamaica Pond, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Death, dying, and care in Asian cultures
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Boston Common, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Decentering the Center in Communist Revolution: Rethinking Communism in Colonized China, Korea, Vietnam, and India
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Public Gardens, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Decolonial Transpacific(s)
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Riverway, 5th Floor
Sponsored By
Verge: Studies in Global Asias
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Displacement and Empire in Modern East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Gender and Colonialism in the Japanese Empire
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Fairfax A, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Painful Subjects: Representations of violent emotions in late Imperial China and Chosŏn Korea
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Performing Proselytization: Religion, Economics, and Entertainment in Premodern Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton A, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Silence, Solitude, and Social Change in Contemporary Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Hampton B, 3rd Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Steamships, Transoceanic Mobilities, and Border Crossing
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Clarendon, 3rd floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Summoning Rain into the Human World: The Many Rainmaking Traditions Across East Asia
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: Arnold Arboretum, 5th Floor
Sunday, Mar 22
11:00 am
Troubled Spaces: Traumatic Landscapes in East Asian Literature
Location: Sheraton , Sheraton: The Fens, 5th Floor
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