IEAS is gearing up for another strong showing at the annual Association for Asian Studies conference in Seattle this month. Come see us throughout the conference at the IEAS Publications booth (#310). Join us for the ever-popular UC Berkeley Reception on Saturday, March 16 from 9-midnight in the Grand Ballroom (2nd Floor, Sheraton). And be sure to check out new scholarship on China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and beyond in the many sessions featuring UC Berkeley scholars (see list below or click here for a downloadable PDF).
UC Berkeley Presents @ Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) Annual Meeting
March 12-14
Tuesday, March 12th
1:30-4:30 PM, SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRAY
Pre-Conference Workshop]: Committee on Technical Processing (CTP) Pre-conference
Naomi Shiraishi, Japanese Cataloguing Librarian, C.V. Starr East Asian Library
SACO Updates
Wednesday, March 13th
6:30 – 7:30 PM , SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER
Committee on Electronic Resource Metadata: Standards and Best Practices Session
Haiqing Lin, Head, Technical Services, C.V. Starr East Asia Library
AI and Digital Integrity
7:40 – 9:30 PM, SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER
Committee on Chinese Materials Special Session: Crisis versus Responses
Jianye He, Librarian for Chinese Collections, C.V. Starr East Asian Library
No More Losing Access: Chinese Serials in a Challenging Time
UC Berkeley Presents at AAS, March 14-16
Thursday, March 14th
SESSION A032 Area of Study: Northeast Asia
7:00 PM-8:30 PM, SHERATON, SENECA, 4TH FLR-UNION ST. TOWER 4TH FLR
Selling Science: Marketing Medicine, Health, and Modernity in Republican China and Interwar Japan
Presenter Peiting C. Li, University of California, Berkeley
Arguing Efficacy: Patient Experience, Doctors’ Knowledge, and Commercial Cures in Republican Shanghai Medical. Print Media
SESSION A046 Area of Study: Southeast Asia
7:00 PM-8:30 PM, SHERATON, WILLOW B, 2ND FLR.
Emerging Trends in Southeast Asian Politics: Deeper Democratic Backsliding or Trickles of Emancipation?
Discussant Lisandro Claudio, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, March 15th
SESSION B012 Area of Study: East and Inner Asia
9:00 AM-10:30 AM, SHERATON, CAPITOL HILL, 3RD FLR.
Pan-Socialist Cultural Exchange between China and the World
Presenter Matteo Cavelier Riccardi, University of California, Berkeley
Models of Reality: Replicating Pictorial Magazines in Carlo Lizzani’s La Muraglia Cinese and Ba Jin’s “Comrade Huang Wen-Yuan”
SESSION B021 Area of Study: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
9:00 AM-10:30 AM, SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 607
Knowing Empire, Making Revolution: Juxtaposing East Asian Revolutions Beyond Borders
Presenter Hu Hsu, University of California, Berkeley
Training Confucian Citizens: Wang Yangming’s Neo-Confucianism in the Nationalist Social Mobilization
SESSION B032 Area of Study: Northeast Asia – Korea Focused
9:00 AM-10:30 AM, SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 602
Blueprints of Distress, Trauma, and Alternative Futures: Korean Literature of War, Colonization, and Immigration
Discussant Kevin Shadel, University of California, Berkeley
SESSION B045 Area of Study: Southeast Asia
9:00 AM-10:30 AM, SHERATON, KIRKLAND, 3RD FLR.
Ecologies of Art and Visual Culture in/of Southeast Asia
Chaired by Trude Renwick, University of Hong Kong (UCB PhD, Anthro),
Presenter Katherine Bruhn, Illinois State University (UCB PhD, SSEAS 2023)
Nature, God, and the Local: Southeast Asian Modernisms
Presenter Melissa Carlson, University of California, Berkeley (PhD 2023)
Ecology Bounded: Landscapes, Isolationism, Mothering, and Van Gogh in Modern Art in Burma
SESSION B046 Area of Study: Southeast Asia
9:00 AM-10:30 AM, SHERATON, MEDINA, 3RD FLR.
Emotional Practices and Ethical Reflection in Burmese Buddhism
Presenter Qiao Dai, University of California, Berkeley
Consciousness of Religious and Cultural Identity in Early Konbaung Burmese Jātaka: An Analysis of U Obatha’s Translation of the 18th Century Candakumārajātaka
SESSION C021 Area of Study: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
11:00 AM-12:30 PM, SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 606
Global Blackness and Trans-Asian Racial Forms-Special Recognition by AAS Diversity and Equity Committee
Chaired & Discussant Andrew Jones, University of California, Berkeley
SESSION D011 Area of Study: East and Inner Asia
2:00 PM-3:30 PM, SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 212
Religion, Literati Culture, and Technocratic Capacity in the Song State (960–1279)
Presenter Jiangnan Li, University of California, Berkeley
The Neglected Liaisons: Technocrats and Buddhist Clerics at the Imperial Court in Song China (960-1279)
SESSION D018 Area of Study: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
2:00 PM-3:30 PM, SHERATON, MEDINA, 3RD FLR.
Classification of Overseas Chinese: Negotiating the Legal, Social, and Political Status of Chinese Diaspora Communities from the Late Qing to the Cold War
Presenter Anatol E. Klass, University of California, Berkeley
“Nationals of a Friendly Nation”: The Republic of China’s Efforts to Shield the Chinese Diaspora from South African Apartheid
SESSION D023 Area of Study: Inter-Area/Border Crossing,
2:00 PM-3:30 PM, SHERATON, ISSAQUAH A, 3RD FLR.
Phantoms and Afterlives of Imperial Infrastructures across Japan, Taiwan, and the Transpacific Archipelagos
Presenter Wendy Wan-ting Wang, University of California, Berkeley
“Savage Borders:” Mountain Infrastructures, Early Photography, and the Indigenous Futurity of Taiwan
Discussant Miryam Sas, University of California, Berkeley
SESSION E015 Area of Study: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
4:00 PM-5:30 PM, SHERATON, JEFFERSON B, 4TH FLR-UNION ST. TOWER
Destabilizing Identities in Studies of Global Asias
Discussant Andrew Leong, University of California, Berkeley
SESSION E024 Area of Study: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
4:00 PM-5:30 PM, SHERATON, MEDINA, 3RD FLR
Staged Encounters: Intercultural Theater in China, Taiwan, and United States
Chaired & Discussant Sophie Volpp, University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, March 16th
SESSION F023 Area of Study: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, SHERATON, KIRKLAND, 3RD FLR.
The Books That Traveled Too: Historic Japanese Diaspora Literature Archives
Discussant Andrew Leong, University of California, Berkeley
SESSION F027 Area of Study: Northeast Asia
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 606
Gender, Work, and Family in Contemporary Korea
Presenter Soosun You, University of California, Berkeley
The Collapse of the Patriarchal Bargain? Status, Duty, and Gender Backlash in South Korea
SESSION G015 Area of Study: East and Inner Asia
2:00 PM-3:30 PM, SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 201
Status and Community in Early China
Presenter Yifan Zheng, University of California, Berkeley
“Endless Bounty out of One Mouth”: Status Currency and the Commodification of Orders of Honor in Early Imperial China
SESSION G031 Area of Study: Northeast Asia – Korea Focused
2:00 PM-3:30 PM, SHERATON, WILLOW B, 2ND FLR.
The Long 1980s of South Korea
Presenter Kevin Shadel, University of California, Berkeley
Reading of Sin Hak-Ch’Ŏl’s History of Modern Korea Painting Series
SESSION G032 Area of Study: Northeast Asia – Japan Focused
2:00 PM-3:30 PM, SHERATON, MADRONA, 2ND FLR.
Collectivism and Its Limits in Contemporary Art in Japan: Feminism, Community Activism, and Life Practices
Presenter Miryam Sas, University of California, Berkeley
When Collectivism Cannot be Formed: Women Artists and Feminism in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s Disjunct Collectivity: Women Photographers of the 1960s-70s
SESSION H013 Area of Study: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
4:00 PM-5:30 PM, SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 617
China and the Socialist World: Circulation of Knowledge and Cultural Practices
Presenter Edward J. Tyerman, University of California, Berkeley
Wind from the East: Cinematic Exchange and the Politics of Collaboration on the Eve of the Sino-Soviet Split
SESSION J012 Area of Study: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
5:45 PM-7:15 PM, SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 617
The Embodied Methodology: The Body at the Forefront of Asian Studies
Chair and Presenter Pratiti Ketoki (UCB Asian Studies MA, 2023)
Recentering the Body: Benjali Detective in Rituporno Ghosh's Period Piece
Presenter Cynthia Rahman, University of California, Berkeley
Centering Indian Lives in the Context of Deeply Divided Israeli Society
Sunday, March 17th (Happy St. Patrick's Day, East and Southeast Asianists!)
SESSION K020 Area of Study: Northeast Asia – Korea Focused
9:00 AM-10:30 AM, SHERATON, CAPITOL HILL, 3RD FLR.
Dynamic Space: Where the Korean Popular Music Industry Meets Diaspora
Presenter Franchesca V. Ulloa, University of California, Berkeley
Between Screens and Courtrooms: Following the Exclusive Contract Issues in K-Pop and How Fandoms Respond
SESSION K030 Area of Study: South Asia
9:00 AM-10:30 AM, SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 604
South Asia’s Forgotten Partition: Rethinking the Separation of Burma and India in 1937
Chaired and presented by Christian Gilberti, University of California, Berkeley
Burmese Students in Colonial India and Debates Surrounding National Education in Burma c. 1885-1937
SESSION K031 Area of Study: Southeast Asia
9:00 AM-10:30 AM, SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 307
Free World Asia: Circuits and Sounds of Craft, Art, and Region
Chaired and presented by Alexandra Dalferro, University of California, Berkeley
Cold Shoulders: Currents of Style-Fashion-Dress and Craft Industries in Thailand during the Cold War
SESSION K035 Area of Study: Southeast Asia
9:00 AM-10:30 AM, SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 306
Unsettling Approaches: Dismantling the Intellectual Building Blocks of History Writing in Burma
Presenter Penny Edwards, University of California, Berkeley
Embroidering the Truth
SESSION L012 Area of Study: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
10:45 AM-12:15 PM, SHERATON, LESCHI, 3RD FLR.
Sacred Spaces and Virtuality: A Buddhist Perspective
Presenter Simona Lazzerini, University of California, Berkeley
Esoteric Training and Sacred Knowledge: The Role of Nichiren Buddhist Priests on Social Media