Preliminary Schedule of Events

The following is the current schedule of events.

Please note: All panels will be held on the campus of Amherst College, in Chapin and Fayerweather Halls. The evening reception and dinner will be held at the Lincoln Campus Center on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Panel formats should conform to AAS practices. Each presenter should give speak for approximately 20 minutes. This will allow for discussion time with fellow panelists and the audience. The order listed below may not necessarily be the order of presentations.


Saturday, October 20th

Panels at Amherst College, Fayerweather and Chapin Halls

8:00-8:30	Registration Fayerweather foyer/hallway Coffee and pastries Fayerweather foyer/hallway
8:30-9:45 Panels	(1) Individual Papers: Importation and Assimilation: Re-Contextualizing Asia Arts Fayerweather 113 Stephen M. Forrest, UMass Amherst Fan Zhang, Smith College Museum of Art Discussion moderator: Tom Rohlich, Smith College (2) Individual Papers: Defining "Religion" in Meiji Japan Chapin 203 Hidehiko Kurita, Harvard-Yenching Institute / Tohoku University Seiji Hoshino, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University Discussant: Trent Maxey, Amherst College (3) Individual Papers: Hermeneutics and History: Creating an Artistic Past in Medieval and Early Modern China Fayerweather 117 Yue Zhang, University of Toronto Ji Hao, Holy Cross Yingzhi Zhao, Harvard University Discussant: David Schneider, UMass Amherst (4) Individual Papers: Industry and National Identity in Postwar East Asia Chapin 201 Akiko Sato, Osaka University Derek Levine Hunju Lee, UMass Amherst Discussant: Steve Platt, UMass Amherst
10:00-11:30 Panels	(5) Panel: In Her Own Image: Self-Representations in Late Imperial Chinese Women's Writing Chapin 201 Chair: Grace S. Fong, McGill University Haihong Yang, University of Delaware Wanming Wang, McGill University Yu Zhang, University of North Dakota Discussant: Ellen B. Widmer, Wellesley College (6) Panel: Defining and Redefining Friends: Literary Representations of Friendship in Traditional Chinese Genres Chapin 203 Sujane Wu, Smith College Maria Franca Sibao, Emory University Elena S. Y. Chiu, UMass Amherst Discussant: Vincent Leung, University of Pittsburg (7) Individual Papers: The Poetics of Power: Space, Ritual, and Text in Early East Asia Fayerweather 113 Irena Cronin, UCLA Joshua Frydman, Yale University Christina Han, University of Toronto Discussant: Stephen Miller, UMass Amherst (8) Individual Papers: The Art of Upheaval in Modern East Asia Fayerweather 117 Ariel Fox, Harvard University Po-Chen Tsai, University of Chicago Hwa Young Caruso, Molloy College Discussant: Bruce Baird, UMass Amherst
11:30-1:00	Complimentary lunch Lewis-Sebring Dining Room, Valentine Hall
1:00-2:30 Panels	(9) Panel: Challenges of Teaching Category IV Languages in the United States Chapin 201 Mohamed Hassan, Five Colleges and Amherst College Cornelius C. Kubler, Williams College Wako Tawa, Amherst College Seungja Kim Choi, Yale University (10) Panel: Traversing the Transnational: Consumption, Identity, and Contemporary Asian/U.S. Mass Culture Fayerweather 113 Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut Laura Wright, University of Connecticut Michelle H. S. Ho, SUNY Stony Brook (11) Panel: The Rhetorical Uses of Anecdotes in Early China Chapin 203 Sarah A. Queen, Connecticut College Du Heng, Harvard University Andrew Meyer, Brooklyn College Discussant: Paul Goldin, University of Pennsylvania (12) Individual Papers: Making a Modern Woman: Literature and the Feminine in Prewar Asia Fayerweather 117 Xiaoling Shi, Allegheny College Molly Des Jardin, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University Fang Lu, Boston College Sailaja Joshi, Simmons College Discussant: Paola Zamperini, Amherst College
2:30-3:00	Coffee Break Fayerweather foyer/hallway
3:00-4:30 Panels	(13) Workshop: Teaching about Japan with freely available internet-based resources Chapin 203 Victoria Lyon Bestor, North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources Susanna Fessler, SUNY Albany Sharon Domier, Five Colleges (14) Panel: Moving Fashions: Narratives of Identity and Performance in Chinese Sartorial Culture Chapin 101 Rachel Silberstein, University of Oxford Tim Sedo, Concordia University Paola Zamperini, Amherst College (15) Panel: Feminine Tolerance, Anguish, and Vengeance in Japanese Literature, Film, and Theater Fayerweather 113 Minae Savas, Bridgewater State University Robin Tierney, Bridgewater State University Michael Chan, Yale University Discussant: Amanda Seaman, UMass Amherst (16) Panel: The May Fourth Legacy Revisited: Language and Politics in Republican China Fayerweather 117 Yurou Zhong, Columbia University Gal Gvili, Columbia University Liansu Meng, University of Connecticut Discussant: Yibing Huang, Connecticut College (17) Panel: The Chinese Classical Period in Recent Research Chapin 201 A Taeko Brooks, UMass Amherst E. Bruce Brooks, UMass Amherst Karen Turner, Holy Cross College Alvin P. Cohen, UMass Amherst Paul Ropp, Clark University Discussion moderator: Dennis Graflin, Bates College

Evening events at UMass Amherst (Lincoln Campus Center, 10th floor)

5:00-6:00	Reception
6:00-8:00	Dinner Keynote speaker: Theodore Bestor, Harvard University and President, Association for Asian Studies