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Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) Annual Meeting
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Ohio State Univ., 1858 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus, OH
Naomi Shiraishi, Japanese Cataloging Librarian, CV Starr East Asian Library
CJK Funnels Updates
8:30 a.m. @ William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library Room 150 (Ohio State University)
Naomi Shiraishi, Japanese Cataloging Librarian, CV Starr East Asian Library
“Can ChatGPT Catalog CJK Materials?”
OCLC CJK User Group Workshop and Meeting
3 p.m. @ William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library Room 150 (Ohio State University)
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Peter Zhou, Director and Assistant University Librarian, CV Starr East Asian Library
Faculty Plenary Session: State of East Asian Studies (Discussion and Q&A)
11:40 a.m. @ Union ABC (Hyatt)
Peter Zhou, Director and Assistant University Librarian, CV Starr East Asian Library
“Library Management and Leadership Skill Development”
CEAL Membership Forum: Dialog with Former CEAL Presidents
3:10 p.m. @ Union ABC (Hyatt)
Naomi Shiraish, Japanese Cataloging Librarian, CV Starr East Asian Library
CJK Electronic Resources: Metadata and Discovery Environments
6:30 p.m. @ Union ABC (Hyatt)
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Sebastian Nehrdich, Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab
“MITRASearch: Building Information Retrieval Systems for Classical Asian Languages in the Age of AI”
Library Technology Committee (CLT) - TechAsia Expo: Digital Frontiers in East Asian Studies
4:30 p.m. @ Union ABC (Hyatt)
Toshie Marra, Librarian for Japanese Collection, CV Starr East Asian Library
CJM & NCC Informal Business Meeting
8 p.m. @ Milton Caniff Room (Hilton)
Friday, March 14, 2025
Jianye He, Librarian for Chinese Collections, CV Starr East Asian Library
Roundtable on SCSL Journal
10 a.m. @ William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library Room 150 (Ohio State University)
Jianye He, Librarian for Chinese Collections, CV Starr East Asian Library
“Provide Access to Extended Resources through Cross-Institutional Collaborations”
Research Forum, hosted by the Committee for Scholarly Activities
10:45 a.m. @ William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library Room 150 (Ohio State University)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Rosalie Liu, Group in Asia Studies
“Publicizing Peeping: Propaganda, Infrasture, and Media Culture in Modern China, 1942-1949”
1-003. Information and Media Environment in China and Taiwan.
7 p.m. @ Room B142 (Convention Center, Level 2)
Anatol Klass, PhD Candidate, Department of History
“Kuomintang Experts in a Maoist Ministry: The Nationalist Legacy in the People’s Republic of China’s Foreign Policy Bureaucracy after 1949”
1-010. Blurred Boundaries: Propaganda, Knowledge Production, and the Chinese Communist Party’s Statecraft, From the 1920s to the Present
7 p.m. @ Marion (Hyatt, 2nd Floor)
Lisandro Claudio, Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
1-043. New Histories of Capitalism in Southeast Asia
7 p.m. @ Room A113 (Convention Center, Level 1)
Friday, March 14, 2025
Aidan Lee, PhD Candidate, Department of History
“ ‘Where the Land is Barren and the People are Poor’: The Political and Environmental Legacy of Veteran Labor in Eastern Taiwan, 1954-1964”
2-007. Domestic Politics, International Implications: New Directions in Taiwanese Political History
9 a.m. @ Union E (Hyatt, 2nd Floor)
Winnie Wong, Professor, Department of Rhetoric
2-018. On Copying: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
9 a.m. @ Fayette (Hyatt, 2nd Floor)
Laura Nelson, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Pedagogy, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
2-041. Body, Illness, and Management
9 a.m. @ Room A210 (Convention Center, Level 2)
Khánh Minh Bùi, PhD Candidate, Department of History
3-047. Teaching the Second Indochina War and its Legacies at 50 (1975-2025): Approaches in Vietnam and the United States
11 a.m. @ Room A220 (Conference Center, Level 2)
(CANCELLED) Sophie Volpp, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
4-006. The Authority of Lowly Intermediaries in Late Imperial China
1:30 p.m. @ Room A125 (Convention Center, Level 1)
Jonathan Wu, PhD Candidate, School of Music
“Imagining China from Africa: Musical Meditations and Transnational Networks in Kenya”
4-017. Alternative Cosmopolitanisms: Ethnographic Perspectives from Transnational Asia
1:30 p.m. @ Room A223 (Convention Center, Level 2)
Rebekah Linh Collins, Lecturer, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
“Problems of Being in a Country at War: Three Short Stories from the Republic of Vietnam”
4-045. War Unending: The Longue Durée of Vietnamese Political, Cultural, and Literary Conflicts
1:30 p.m. @ Room B246 (Convention Center, Level 2)
Peter Zinoman, Professor, Department of History
4-046. State of the State: Securitization and Authoritarian Legacy Under Vietnamese Communist Rule
1:30 p.m. @ Clark (Hyatt, 2nd Floor)
Lester Hu, Assistant Professor, Department of Music
“Subjects in Sound: Sulfurs and Songs in Eighteenth-Century Taiwan”
5-004. Encountering Foreign Sounds: Aural Perception and Power in Premodern Chinese Texts
3:30 p.m. @ Room A123 (Convention Center, Level 1)
Chris Chan, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
“Plastics and Publics: Reimagining Oceanic Waste in the Taiwan Strait”
5-022. Plastic as Method and Asia as Plastic
3:30 p.m. @ Room A221 (Convention Center, Level 2)
Nancy Peluso, Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
5-044. Remaking Property in Island Southeast Asia
3:30 p.m. @ Room B230 (Convention Center, Level 2)
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Yisheng Tang, PhD Student, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
“Mimetic Selves and Aesthetic Intimacy: Reading Sōseki through Literary Friendship”
6-035. Ways of Self-Fashioning: Mimetic Twists, Turns, and Tactics in Japanese Literacy History
8:30 a.m. @ Room A122 (Convention Center, Level 1)
Lisandro Claudio, Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
6-045. Rethinking Philippine Intellectual History
8:30 a.m. @ Champaign (Hyatt, 2nd Floor)
Weihong Bao, Associate Professor, Department of Film and Media
7-019. Landscape as a Figure of Connection: Human, Environment, and Power in Modern Chinese and Sinophone World
10:30 a.m. @ Room A220 (Convention Center, Level 2)
Andrea Jung-An Liu, PhD Candidate, Department of History of Art
“Environmental Order and Imperial Ideology: Tange Kenzō’s Architectural Vision of Imperial Japan in Asia and Beyond”
7-033. Confrontations on the Border: Defining Modern Japanese Art in Transnational Contexts
10:30 a.m. @ Room A114 (Convention Center, Level 1)
Ling Hon Lam, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
“Time to Perform: How Dream of the Red Chamber Became a Novel Through Cinema”
8-011. Trans/mediating the Dream: Gender, Performance, and Temporality
2 p.m. @ Morrow (Hyatt, 2nd Floor)
Lynn Jenkins, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
“Magical Realism in the Topos of Tokyo: From Izumi Kyōka to Anime”
8-034. Magical Realism in Japan
2 p.m. @ Room B242/B243 (Convention Center, Level 2)
Elora Shehabuddin, Professor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Late-Breaking Session. Biplob in Bangladesh: The July 2024 Uprising and its Afterlives
4 p.m. @ Union A (Hyatt, 2nd Floor)
Sean Cronan, PhD Candidate, Department of History
“The Scholar-Envoys: Early Ming Diplomacy with Đại Việt, 1368-1404”
9-011. Revisiting Rulership and Imperial Order of Ming China (1368-1644)
4 p.m. @ Madison (Hyatt, 2nd Floor)
Chiaoning Su, Oakland University, Richard J. Haddock, George Washington University, Addrienne Wu, Global Taiwan Institute, Hsin-I Cheng, Santa Clara University, Merlin Boone, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Christine Lin, University of California College of Law San Francisco
9-015 - Becoming "Taiwanese" in the United States: A Conversation on Identity, Memory, Activism, and its Policy Implications
4 p.m. @ Clark (2nd Floor, Hyatt)
Richard Tran, Visiting Scholar, Critical Theory
“The Idea of the ‘Human’ Among the Vietnamese Scholar Gentry and French-Educated Younger Generation, 1900-1945”
10-024. Liminal Moments, Liminal Figures: States of Anticipation or Becoming in Vietnam Studies
6 p.m. @ Room B232 (Convention Center, Level 2)
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Min Lee, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
11-013. China Without China? Rethinking Ethnography in the PRC
9 a.m. @ Room A111 (Convention Center, Level 1)
Bonnie McClure, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture
“ ‘Unbearable Feelings’ in Japanese Myth: Poetry, Snake/Monster Deities, and the Abjection of the Other”
11-019. Threads of Myth-Information: Clashing Lineages and Changing Stories in Japanese Mythology
9 a.m. @ Room A215
Khánh Minh Bùi, PhD Candidate, Department of History
“ ‘Cài hóa gái lỡ lầm’ [‘Converting Mistaken Girls’]: Prostitutes and Rehabilitation in Socialist Sài Gòn (Hồ Chí Minh City) (1975-1985)”
11-027. New Feminist Knowledge in Southeast Asia
9 a.m. @ Room B231 (Convention Center, Level 2)
Alexandra Dalferro, Program Director, Center for Southeast Asia Studies
“Family Stories: Loving and Ambiguous Affinities of Fieldwork.”
11-030. Kindred Others: Making Kin and Building Worlds in Thailand
9 am @ Room B242/B243, [Convention Center, Level 2]