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#### Panel A: (De)constructing Nation: Gendered Bodies in the Making of Modern Korea

Discussant: **Professor Carter Eckert** (Harvard University)

Location: K262 Bowie-Vernon

Time: 3:30PM – 5:00PM

**Ye Seul Byeon**, University of Chicago, "Fallen Bodies, Moving Bodies: Itinerant Death in Colonial Korea"

**Dayeon Jung**, Seoul National University, “Feminine Bodies Locked in Colonial Korea”

**Joo Kyung Lee**, Columbia University, "Strange Intimacies: Reading for Migration and Prostitution in Kang Youngsook's Rina and O Chong-hui 'Chinatown'"

**Kyooeun Jang**, Harvard University, ““Flexible Ceilings: A Study on Gendered Labor in the Digital Creative Industries in South Korea”

#### Panel B: Urban Fabrics Unraveled

Discussant: **Professor Nara Dillon** (Harvard University)

Location: CGIS ROOM K107

Time: 3:30PM – 5:00PM

**Yonghui Chen**, Harvard University, "A Social Critique of Beijing Old City Historic Preservation since 1949"

**Erin Yook**, Harvard University, "Rice as Revolution: Frontiers of Resistance in the Mekong Delta"

**Sulim Kim**, Columbia University, "Ondol Socialism: the Defining Process of Socialist Life in North Korean Urban Spaces"

#### Panel C: Reimagining the boundary of novelistic styles in Pre-modern East Asia

Discussant: **Professor Keith Vincent** (Boston College)

Location: K252 Shklar Room

Time: 3:30PM – 5:00PM

**Nina Farizova**, Yale University, "Boundaries of Poetic Thought: Seijutsu Shincho Poems of Manyoshu"

**Yuyao Cheng**, National University of Singapore, "Weaving the Hagiographies into 'Immortal History': The Making and Publishing of Lidai Shenxian Tongjian in the Qing Dynasty"

**Wenting Ji**, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Combined Beauty: A Comparative Study on Two Pairs of Ideal Women in A Dream of Red Mansions and The Tale of Genji"

#### Panel D: Transmission and Displacement in Literature

Discussant: **Professor Sarah Frederick** (Boston University)

Location: CGIS South S020 Belfer Case Study Room

Time: 9:00AM – 10:30AM

**Rebecca Choong Wilkins**, Harvard University, "Sinophone Port Cities: Seducing Melaka in Peranakan Chinese literature"

**Jade Heyman**, University of Cambridge, "Yoshimoto Banana's Fictions: Investigating the Publishing Import of Contemporary Japanese Literature in the West"

**Wenchu Zhu**, Harvard University, "Carnival on the ‘Square’: Amateur Internet Literary Criticism in the Chinese Cyberspace”

**Kate Costello**, University of Oxford, "Can a Machine Translator Be a Surrealist? Hsia Yu's Pink Noise and the Poetics of Artificial Language"

**Haruka Umetsu Cho**, Harvard University, "Voices of War Trauma in Postwar Japan: Reading Hikaru Okuizumi’s The Stones Cry Out from the Perspective of Bodies, Religion, and Histories"

#### Panel E: Reframing Regionalism in East Asia

Discussant: **Dr. Maria Adele Carrai** (Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program)

Location: CGIS South S030 Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room

Time: 9:00AM – 10:30AM

**Yun Yu**, University of Oxford, "Dispute or Cooperation? A Novel Way of Understanding China-Japan Territorial Dispute"

**James Evans**, Harvard University, "Blurring China's Borders: One Belt One Road as Extension of Domestic Control"

**Diana Schnelle**, Ruhr University Bochum, "The Asian Super Grid: New Impetus for Northeast Asian Regionalism?"

**Hai Guo**, University of Leeds, "Time, Repetition, and Trauma: Psychoanalytic Understanding of Time in International Relations and Nanking Massacre Debate as a Case Study"

#### Panel F: Art and Visual Culture in Context

Discussant: **Professor Eugene Wang** (Harvard University)

Location: CGIS South S040

Time: 9:00AM – 10:30AM

**Maciej Kurzynski**, Stanford University, "Aesthetics without Boundaries: The Thought of Gao Ertai"

**Linlin Chen**, Peking University, "Interaction between Painting and Literature in Chinese Art: The Case of 'The Red Cliff'"

**Ki Chow**, University of Texas at Austin, "On the Illustrations of Haishang hua Liezhuan"

**Emmelle Korell**, Free University Berlin, "Constructing the Other: Tibet Seen Through Chinese Travel Guidebooks"

#### Panel G: Traversing Boundaries in Education

Discussant: **Dr. Si Chen** (Harvard University)

Location: CGIS South S020 Belfer Case Study Room

Time: 10:45AM – 12:15PM

**Kunisuke Hirano**, University of Michigan, "Refusing the Mainstream: Strategizing for Uncertain Futures through Educational Choices in Contemporary Japan"

**Sohn Bola**, The University of Texas at Austin, "Ethnic Boundary: The Influence of Ethnic Stereotypes on Education in Multicultural Communities of South Korea"

**Nathaniel Curran** and **Sulafa Zidani**, University of South California, "Traversing Boundaries: How Korean and Chinese Students in the US Navigate National, Intra-Asian, and Cosmopolitan Identity"

**Derrick Tu**, York University, "Internationalization and Undergraduate Music Programs: Hearing Soundscapes of Chinese Identity in Hong Kong."

#### Panel H: Transnationalism in the Age of Empire

Discussant: **Professor** **Franziska Seraphim** (Boston College)

Location: CGIS South S030 Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room

Time: 10:45AM – 12:15PM

**Daniel Walden**, Harvard University, "Finding the Music of a "Great Common Goal": Tanaka Shohei's Just-Intonation Instruments as Tools of Reciprocal Transnational Musical Exchange"

**Peng Hai**, Harvard University, "Imposing Nationalism on Diaspora Peoples: Korean Chinese in the Master Narrative of Chinese Nationalism"

**Moxi Zhang**, University of Hong Kong, "Medical Hong Kong under Japanese Occupation: An Alternative History of Hong Kong, 1941-1945"

**Susan Paige Taylor**, Harvard University, "Cataloging Korean Culture: The Space of Book Collecting in Colonial Seoul"

**Jiani He**, University of Cambridge, "Literacy in Which Language: The Origin of the Trilingual Policy towards the Jirim League (1901-1911)"

#### Panel I: Re-examining Boundaries in Chinese Politics in Xi Jinping's "New Era"

Discussant: **Professor Xiang Zhou** (Harvard University)

Location: CGIS South S020 Belfer Case Study Room

Time: 1:15PM – 2:45PM

**Hanyu Zhao**, Harvard University, "The Politics of Poverty Alleviation in Rural China: Xi Jinping's War on Poverty"

**Yuan He** and **Nikita Markachev**, University of Cambridge, "'Learning from Daqing': The Enduring Legacies of China's Petroleum Spirit"

**Rebekka Aasnes Sagild**, University of Oslo, "Deconstructing the Narrow Boundaries of Individual Political Inclusion – the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Contemporary PRC Politics"

**Siv H. Oftedal**, King's College London, "Chinese Communist Party Rhetoric of Continuity - Three Metaphors Bridging Political Boundaries"

#### Panel J: Global, Regional, and Local: Crossroads in Pre-modern East Asia

Discussant: **Professor Eugenio Menegon** (Boston University)

Location: CGIS South S030 Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room

Time: 1:15PM – 2:45PM

**Jonas Ruegg**, Harvard University, "The Fluid Borders of Ryukyu: Yonaguni Island and Deep Histories of the East Taiwan Sea"

**Yiyun Peng**, Cornell University, "Indigo People: Production, Mobility and Migration in Highland Southeast China, 1500-1870"

**Sangjae Lee**, Harvard University, "Strategic Reconstitution: Hansongsunbo (1883-1884) and its Scholarly Articles"

**Seung won Namgung**, Seoul National University, "Old Soldiers in New Clothes: Korea's Local Militia Army in the First Half of the 17th Century"

#### Panel K: Media Across Boundaries

Discussant: **Professor Daisy Du** (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Harvard University Visiting Scholar)

Location: CGIS South S020 Belfer Case Study Room

Time: 3:00PM – 4:30PM

**Yuxing Zhang**, Columbia University, "Crystalizing Multifarious Power Discourses in Modern Prison: A Study of the Beijing No. 1 Prison as Technology"

Pin Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, "Cinema Across Boundaries: He Feiguang and His Wartime Productions"

#### Panel L: (De)constructing Myths of Migration

Discussant: **Professor Fanmei Wang** (University of Science and Technology, Beijing; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar)

Location: CGIS South S030 Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room

Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM

**Jingyu Mao**, University of Edinburgh, "Performing Ethnicity at the Frontier of Interactive Service - Exploring Ethnic Minority Migrants' Work and Personal Lives in Southwestern China."

**Lizhou Hao**, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, "Blurring Boundaries: Religious Interaction of Jingpo/Kachin Ethnic Minority at the Border of China and Northern Myanmar"

**Jonathan Yainishet**, University of Göttingen, "Refocusing the Ethnic Lens: North Korean Migrants and Boundary Making in South Korea"

**Sunai Naoko**, Laval University, "Illegalization and Run-away Infrastructure: Remaining Chance and Reproduction of Exploitation for Vietnamese Migrant Workers in Japan

#### Panel M: Identity and Body Politics

Discussant: **Professor Susan Greenhalgh** (Harvard University)

Location: CGIS South S040

Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM

**Zihao Lin**, Freie Universität Berlin/Humboldt University of Berlin, "Constructing Deaf Imaginaries in Post-Socialist China: The Case of an Essay Contest (2016)"

**Xuting Zhang**, Columbia University, "Visualizing Disability: Japan's Paralympic Performance in Rio and its Aesthetics of the Alterity"

**Mark Bookman**, University of Pennsylvania, "On Modernity and Mobility: Fictional Fugusha and Idealized Impairment"

**Shoan Yin Cheung**, Cornell University, "Therapeutic Transformations and the New Care of the Body in Low-Growth Japan"



 

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