Schedule
Friday, February 13
11:30 AM
Registration
12:30 PM
Welcome and Opening Remarks (S010)
Prof. Alexander Zahlten, Chair of the Committee on Regional Studies East Asia
1:00 PM
Panel A1: Earths and Wires (S050)
Faculty discussant: Prof. Jie Li, Harvard University
Moderator: Xiyun Wu
Jixin Jia, PhD, University of Toronto
Ghost Town and a Cinematic Afterlife of Zomia: Opacity, Immiscible Times, Spatial Doubling
Changran Liu, Postgraduate Fellow, Yale University
Sweet Memories: Socio-cultural Legacies of the Changing Sugarcane Industry in Post-Reform Southeast China
Juntao Yang, MA, Columbia University
Unsettled Grounds: The Deep Now, Post-Wenchuan Documentaries, and the Aftershocks of Earthquake-Media
Panel A2: Straits and Archipelagos (S010)
Faculty discussant: Prof. David Wang, Harvard University
Moderator: Harry So
Lanqing (Catherine) Li, PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Islands’ Wetness: Rain, Desire, and Bodily Fluidity in Su Wei-chen’s Island of Silence — Toward an Inter-Asian Hydrological Unconscious
Xiangyu Li, PhD, Nanyang Technological University
Suturing Ruptures: Delineating Mainland Influences in Taiwanese Modernist Poetry under Martial Law
Ziyu Liu, MA, University of Pennsylvania
The “North” of the South: A Comparative Study of Women Migrant Workers’ Poetry across the Taiwan Strait
Edward Dehua Wang, MA, Duke University
Nanyang as Plant: Plant-being and Vegetal Representation of Georgette Chen
Panel A3: Frictions of Reform in the Late Qing and Republican Era (S020)
Faculty discussant: Prof. William Kirby, Harvard University
Moderator: Ruyi Liu
Sophie Cope, MA, American University
Double Indignity: The Funding and Founding of the First China Fulbright Program
Zhenyan Lu, PhD, King’s College London
Learning from the Enemy: Organisational Competition and Mutual Borrowing between the Communist Youth League and the Young Men’s Christian Association during the 1920s Anti-Christian Movement in China
Xianni Zhang, PhD, University of Michigan
Class Formation at the Periphery: Salt Workers, the May Thirtieth Movement, and the Making of the Working Class in Republican China
Xueyan Zhang, MA, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Translating Prussia into Late Qing China: Military Knowledge, Institutional Friction, and the Limits of Reform
2:30 PM
Tea Break (CGIS Concourse)
3:00 PM
Keynote Address (S010)
Prof. Yoon Sun Yang, Boston University
Toward Transpacific Literary Studies: Translation, Archives, and Gender
4:15 PM
Panel B1: Contested Narratives, Agentic Materials (S010)
Faculty discussant: Prof. Victor Seow, Harvard University
Moderator: Jiahe Wang
Yiqi Lin and Sihan Lin, MA, Beijing Normal University
Drawing Boundaries of Property: Forest Ownership and the Politics of Delineation in the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, Southwest China
Sufeng (Sophia) Xiao, PhD, Harvard University
Contouring Time: Temporal Infrastructures and Curatorial Boundary Work in Platform-Mediated Rurbanity in Zhejiang, China
Yunjie Zhang, PhD, Harvard University
Water as the United Front: Liquid Power and the Planned Remaking of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area
Botao Zhao, PhD, Yale University
Ripples from Afar: Modernity, Global Frictions, and the Disappearance of Horse Caravans in A Sino-Tibetan Frontier Village
Panel B2: Economies and Imaginaries of Digital China (S050)
Faculty discussant: Prof. Moira Weigel, Harvard University
Moderator: Yingying Rao
Yijian (Lexa) Lyu, PhD, University of Iowa
Staging the Future of Money: Delineation and Infrastructural Governance in China’s e-CNY
Jamie Tang, MA, Harvard University
Blurring the Line: Outsourced Algorithmic Management and Skill Exploitation in China’s Home-cleaning Platforms
Yixuan Wang, MA, University of Pittsburgh
Who Made This? Platform Ecology, Gen-AI Content Authenticity and AI Anxiety in China
Panel B3: Territories and Populations of/after the Imperial (S020)
Faculty discussant: Prof. Andrew Gordon, Harvard University
Moderator: Yutao Chen
Randy Garcia, MA, UC Berkeley
Race, Empire, and Migration: Japanese Expansionism and the Making of Japanese Brazil
Aaron Hopes, PhD, Stanford University
The Good Naichaa: Some Matters and Places Kept Unsettled Amidst Ongoing Japanizations of Northern Okinawa
Minah Kang, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Staging the Region: Geography of Empire’s Afterlives and the Institute of Pacific Relations
Yi (Yuuki) You, MA, Dartmouth College
Along the Recursive Grain: Bureaucratic Anxiety and the “Phantom Report” on Wartime Chinese Forced Labor
6:00 PM
Dinner (CGIS Concourse)
Saturday, February 14
8:30 AM
Breakfast and Late Registration (CGIS Concourse)
9:00 AM
Keynote Address (S010)
Prof. Paul Roquet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Drawing Out Computation in Japan: CGI Beyond Simulation
10:15 AM
Panel C1: Utopic/Dystopic Media (S010)
Faculty discussant: Prof. Chan Yong Bu, Harvard University
Moderator: Jieyan Wang
Seoeun Choi, MA, Columbia University
Of Flesh and Steel: Female Snipers on the War-Torn Korean Cinematic Landscape
Wenyu Zeng, MA, Dartmouth College
Rethinking Dictee: An In-Between Textual Space of Embodied Selfhood and Collective Becoming
Panel C2: Frontiers of the Corporeal and the Conceptual (S020)
Faculty discussant: Prof. Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University
Moderator: Brian Zhang
Yehan He, MA, University of Michigan
Translating Women’s Bodies Across Borders: “Yakaepile,” “Fuke,” and the Delineation of Healing in the Lancang–Mekong World
Xiaoqiao Liu, PhD, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Coherence, Difference, and Relation: Rethinking the Path of Sino-Western Comparative Philosophy in a Global Context
Hanzhi Zhang, PhD, University of Oxford
Documenting Transnational Materia Medica in Ming-Qing Transition: Michał Boym’s Flora Sinensis (1648) and its Contemporary Herbals
11:30 AM
Lunch (CGIS Concourse)
12:45 PM
Panel D1: Bodies in Extensions, Representations, and Subjectifications (S010)
Faculty discussant: Prof. Alexander Zahlten, Harvard University
Moderator: Seiyoung Jang
Ziyi Lin, PhD, University of Chicago
Bodies as “Human Camera:” The Ghostly Feminine as Optical Technologies for Rethinking Media and Techno-science in Modern Japanese-Horror Genre
Zhixin Pan, MA, Yale University
Body Across Borders: Imagining Sino-Japanese Female Solidarity in Hayashi Fumiko’s Wartime Writing
Natalia Wojas, PhD, Stanford University
When the Ruins Look Back: Memory and Matter in Postwar Japanese Performance
Qianwen Xue, MA, University of Chicago
Guerrilla Survival of Chinese Queers: A Whack-a-Mole Philosophy of Living in the Gaps
Panel E1: Earthly Things in/as Literature (S020)
Faculty discussant: Prof. Wai-yee Li, Harvard University
Moderator: Shuyi Ma
Clio (Zhichen) Luo, MA, University of Chicago
Balancing Heat and Clarity: Computational Analysis of Tea and Alcohol in Premodern Chinese Food Literature
Ranting Zhang, MA, Columbia University
Writing From the Ruins: Negotiating Historical Consciousness in Late Sixth-Century Fu Practice
Run Zhou, MA, Yale University
The Intervention of the Self: Personalization and Internal Reflection in Three Skeleton Stories
Panel E2: Modernities in Translation and Transculturation (S050)
Faculty discussant: Prof. Mingwei Song, Wellesley College
Moderator: Weiting Zhao
David Kolosov, PhD, Peking University
Across Borders: Poetics and Politics of Lu Xun’s Translation (based on Lu Xun's translation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls)
Zhenxu Qin, PhD, Hunan University
The Dissemination and Evolution of the Concept of weiwu in Modern China
Letian Xiang, MA, Nanjing University
Monsoonal Modernity: Wind, Affect, and the Non-Linear Structure of East Asian Experience
2:30 PM
Closing Remarks (S010)
Prof. Victor Seow, RSEA Director of Graduate Studies
For a detailed version with the speakers' abstracts, please refer to the program below.