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Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) Annual Meeting- March 5th-13th
March 5, 6:15pm – 6:30pm
CEAL Committee on Technical Processing (CTP) Workshop program (online)
CGCRB (The Cataloging Guidelines for Chinese Rare Books) update, CJK BIBCO, SACO, CONSER Updates
Naomi Shiraishi, Japanese Cataloging Librarian
Presents the CJK SACO (Subject Authority Cooperative Program) report
March 11, 10:00 am - noon
Vancouver Convention Center West Meeting Room 301
Plenary Session I - Keynote Speakers
Peter Zhou, Former Asst University Librarian & Dir Emeritus of C.V. Starr East Asian Library
“East Asian Collections in the 21st Century: Reflecting on the Past and Embracing the Future”
March 11, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Vancouver Convention Center West Meeting Room 301
Plenary Session II - Roundtable Discussion
Peter Zhou, Former Asst University Librarian & Dir Emeritus of C.V. Starr East Asian Library
One of the key guests in the roundtable discussion
March 11, 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Vancouver Convention Center West Meeting Room 301
ERMB (Electronic Resources Metadata Standards Best Practices) program: Librarians as Partners in Knowledge Infrastructure: Metadata & Collaborative East Asian Digital Projects
Facilitator: Naomi Shiraishi, Japanese Cataloging Librarian
March 12, 10:15am – 11:15am
Vancouver Convention Center West Meeting Room 301
CEAL Committee on Technical Processing (CTP) program
Haiqing Lin, Head, Technical Services
“Cataloging Chinese Film Posters: Challenges and AI Solutions”
March 12, 11:30am - 12:30 pm
Vancouver Convention Center West Meeting Room 301
CJM (Committee on Japanese Materials) program: Collaborating to Build Local and Global Collections and Communities for Japanese Studies
Toshie Marra, Librarian for Japanese Collection, Program Chair and host
March 13, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
At Robson Square Campus, University of British Columbia
800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC, V7Z 3B7, Canada
NIJL-NCC CDDP Digitization Grant Program Report and Open Discussion on Issues related to Japanese Codicology
Toshie Marra, Librarian for Japanese Collection
“Making Original Research Materials Available to All: Japanese Manuscripts Collection at the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, UC Berkeley”
March 13, 10:15am - 11:00 am
University of British Columbia, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs,
CHOI CONFERENCE ROOM (room 120)
SCSL (Society for Chinese Studies Librarians) Research Forum hosted by the Committee for Scholarly Activities: Lightning talks
Jianye He, Librarian for Chinese Collections
“Unusual Research and Collection Development Trips: My Experience of Attending AAS-in-Asia Conferences (2024 & 2025)”
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference
Vancouver Convention Centre
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Lani Alden, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Language and Cultures, UCB
Panel 103: AI, the Humanities, and Asian Studies: Is This Our “Calculator Moment?”
Thursday, March 12, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 109
Vincent Tran, Ph.D. candidate, History, UCB
Panel 111: Beyond Borders and States: Southeast Asian Refugees and Movements in the Late 20th Century
Thursday, March 12, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 119
Paper 4: Divided Transnational Vietnamese Anti-Communism: The Question of Reconciliation and Harmony
Sophie Volpp, Chair, Center for Chinese Studies & Comparative Lit., UCB
Panel 127: Contesting the “Villain”: History, Literature, and Narrative Antagonisms in Early Modern and Modern China
Thursday, March 12, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 213
Ling Hon Lam, Associate Professor & Interim Chair, East Asian Cultures and Languages, UCB
Panel 129: Cultural Technique, Media, and Literature: An Early Modern Chinese Reflection
Thursday, March 12, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 215
Friday, March 13, 2026
Peter Zinoman, Professor and Chairman, History & South and Southeast Asian Studies, UCB
The Life and Work of Gerard Sasges
Friday, March 13, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: VCC, Room 102 Liberal
Diana J. Martinez, Assistant Professor, College of Environmental Design, UCB
Panel 222: Author meets critics: Diana J. Martinez’s Concrete Colonialism: Architecture,Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines.
Friday, March 13, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: VCC, Room 120
Mia Yun, Graduate Student, Music, UCB
Panel 250: “I See Beauty in a Million Pieces of Glass”: Affective Strategies, Performing Bodies, Hybrid Identities, and Imagined Geographies in KPop Demon Hunters
Friday, March 13, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: VCC, Room 304
Paper 4: K‑pop refrains, Internal Repetition, Pattern Symbolism, and Challenging Narrative Hierarchy in Kpop Demon Hunters
Wen-hsin Yeh, Professor, History, UCB
Panel 300: Mentor, Teacher, Scholar, Friend: Remembering Janet Theiss (1964-2025)
Friday, March 13, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 201
Gillian Hart (Emerita), Geography, UCB
Panel 320: Internationalist Southeast Asians: Towards a Conjunctural Framework
Friday, March 13, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 118
Qingyang Freya Zhou, Ph.D. candidate, German and Film Studies, UCB
Panel 322: Revolutionary Replays: Cold War Legacies and Transnational Media Aesthetics in North
Korean Context
Friday, March 13, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 120
Paper 4: Queering Mount Paektu: North Korean-East German Socialist Sisterhood Through A Love Affair in Pyongyang (2022)
Tianyue Zhang, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCB
Panel 341: Between Hand and Mind: Labor, Knowledge, and Professional Identities in Republican and Socialist China
Friday, March 13 @ 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 218
Paper 2: The Labor of Reading: Typesetting and Revolutionary Vision in 1930s Chinese Literature
Solihin Samsuri, Ph.D. candidate, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UCB
Panel 416: Miracles, Magic, and the Invisible in Islamic Asia
Friday, March 13, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: VCC, Room 113
Paper 2: Pengembaraan: The Wonders of Wandering in the Malay Hikayat Hang Tuah
Jiahe Mei, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCB
Panel 419: Nonhuman Modernism in Transnational Asia
Friday, March 13, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: VCC, Room 118
Paper 1: The Blind Cave Fish: Perception, Adaptation, and Ye Shengtao’s Pedagogical Poetics
Joshua Gabriel Acosta, Ph.D. candidate, Ethnic Studies, UCB
526: Health Messaging in the Philippines: Histories, Strategies, and Futures
Friday, March 13, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: VCC, Room 202
Paper 2: “The Island of Living Hope”: Leprosy Eradication Publicity in the Late American Colonial Philippines
Anthony Morreale, Ph.D. candidate, History, UCB
Panel 527: The Question of Value(s) in Vietnamese Social Life
Friday, March 13, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: VCC, Room 203
Paper 3: Gilbert Chieu’s Enlightened Renewal Movement 1907-1909
Sylvia Tiwon, Associate Professor, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UCB
Panel 528: Performing Counterworlds and Imaginative Futures in Contemporary Indonesia and Beyond
Friday, March 13, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: VCC, Room 204
Paper 3: Transformational Poetics in Papuan Literature
Nancy L. Peluso (Emerita), Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UCB
Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony
Friday, March 13, 5:30 PM - 7:15 PM
Location: VCC, Ballroom C, Level 1
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Piper Prolago, Ph.D Candidate, History of Art, UCB
Panel 607: Art and Transpacific Imperialisms
Saturday, March 14, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
Paper 3: On Display: Stephanie Syjuco’s Haptic Interventions in the Archive of Imperial Philippine Photography
Alex Chow, Ph.D. candidate, Geography, UCB
Panel 614: Global Asia's Crossroads Between Settler Colonialism, Diaspora, and Indigeneity Part I: Contested Settlement, Unsettled Indigeneity
Saturday, March 14, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: VCC, Room 110
Paper 2: Who Counts as Indigenous? Rethinking Settler Colonialism and Emotional Legitimacy in Hong Kong
Xiying (Lillian) Lin, Ph.D. candidate, History, UCB
Panel 615: Rethinking Revolution
Saturday, March 14, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: VCC, Room 111
Paper 1: Revolution Through Other Eyes: Village Interpretations of Communist Power in Western Fujian
Thomas B. Gold (Emeritus), Sociology, UCB
Panel 631: The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies, Transnational Intellectual Networks, and the History of U.S.-China Relations
Saturday, March 14, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: VCC, Room 207
Jiahui Shen, Ph.D candidate, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCB
Panel 642: Longue durée Perspectives on Secularization in the Sinophone World
Saturday, March 14, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: VCC, Room 219
Paper 2: Narrating the Sacred: Imperial Religion in the Hanshu “Treatise on the Suburban Sacrifices”
Zijing Fan, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCB
Panel 643: Making “Textbooks” for Cultural Expertise in Premodern China
Saturday, March 14, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: VCC, Room 220
Paper 3: A Chinese Novel as Manchu Generals’ “Ancient Military Manual”: The Readership of Sanguo Zhi Yanyi from Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century
Yan Long, Associate Professor, Sociology, UCB
Panel 647: Global Health Imaginaries and Governance in Autocratic Southeast Asia
Saturday, March 14, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: VCC, Room 302
Min Jee Lee, Ph.D. candidate, Sociology, UCB
Panel 734: (Non) Return of the Diaspora
Saturday, March 14, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: VCC, Room 210
Paper 4: In-between: Transnational Liminality and the Making of Diasporic Citizenship by Hwagyo Chinese in South Korea
Puck Engman, Assistant Professor, History, UCB
Panel 741: “Bad” People in the People’s Republic of China: Criminals, Enemies, and Villains under Mao
Saturday, March 14, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: VCC, Room 218
Paper 2: Prisoners Under Mao: New Evidence, New Interpretations
Zina Wang, Ph.D. candidate, Rhetoric, UCB
Panel 742: Neural Networks and the Making of “Intelligence” in East Asia, 1980s-2020s
Saturday, March 14, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: VCC, Room 219
Paper 3: Qian Xuesen and the Marxist Thinking Machine
Miryam Sas, Professor & Chair, Comparative Literature & Film and Media, UCB
Panel 818: East Asian Media Theory: Emergence, Horizons, and Possibilities
Saturday, March 14, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 114
Nancy L. Peluso (Emerita), Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UCB
PRESIDENT'S PANEL 832: Novel Political Ecologies: Atmospheres, Cities, the Terraqueous, the Subterranean, and Labor
Saturday, March 14, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 208
Katherine Mezur, Lecturer, English and Comparative Literature, UCB
Panel 845: Trespassing Sounds: The Circulation of Japanese Music Across Cultural Fields
Saturday, March 14, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 220
Paper 4: Girl Glitch: The Medial Dramaturgy of Virtual Erasure in J-girl Pop Music Video
Virginia Shih, Curator, Southeast Asia and Buddhist Studies Collections, UCB Library
Panel 847: Marginalization, Violence, and Conflicts
Saturday, March 14, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 222
Paper 5: Beyond the Mainstream: Marginalized Voices in Sinophone Southeast Asian Studies
Luther Obrock, Assistant Professor, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UCB
Panel 02: Textures of History in Premodern South Asian Literature in Punjab, Kashmir, and the Himalayas, 2th-19th Centuries
Saturday, March 14, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
Paper 3: History from Above: Himālayan Poetics and Mughal Politics in 18th-Century India
Jvala Singh, Lecturer, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UCB
Panel 02: Textures of History in Premodern South Asian Literature in Punjab, Kashmir, and the Himalayas, 12th-19th Centuries
Saturday, March 14, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
Paper 4: Layers of the Historical Within the Sūraj Prakāś
Diana J. Martinez, Assistant Professor, Architecture, UCB
Panel 905: Imagining Urban Futures from Colonial to Postcolonial Asia: Temporality, Materiality, and Solidarity
Saturday, March 14, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
Virginia Shih, Curator, Southeast Asia and Buddhist Studies Collections, UCB Library
Panel 922: China’s Southeast Asian Studies: Emerging Trends and Promising Prospects
Saturday, March 14, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 120
Christian Gilberti, Ph.D. candidate, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UCB
Panel 923: Class, Race, and Politics in Modern Myanmar: Hidden Histories of Hierarchy
Saturday, March 14, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 121
Paper 1: Who Were “The King’s Burmese”? Talking About “Collaboration”, Class, and Race in
Colonial (and Modern-Day) Myanmar
Qiao Dai, Ph.D. candidate, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UCB
Panel 923: Class, Race, and Politics in Modern Myanmar: Hidden Histories of Hierarchy
Saturday, March 14, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 121
Paper 4: Conflating Location and Social Class: Rethinking “Lumyo” Through Vernacular Buddhist
Jātaka Narratives and Practices
Kate Chouta, Managing Editor, Institute of East Asian Studies, UCB
Panel 938: The East Asian War of 1592–1598 in Korean and World History: Lessons from Ryu
Sŏngnyong’s “Chingbirok” (Reprimands and Admonitions)
Saturday, March 14, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 216
Stella Kim, Assistant Professor, Korean Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCB
Panel 938: The East Asian War of 1592–1598 in Korean and World History: Lessons from Ryu
Sŏngnyong’s “Chingbirok” (Reprimands and Admonitions)
Saturday, March 14, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 216
Paula Varsano, Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCB
Panel 944: The Many Faces of the Medium in China’s Past, 400-1700
Saturday, March 14, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 222
Weihong Bao, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, UCB
Panel 945: The Materiality of Backdrops in Early Modern and Modern Chinese Media
Saturday, March 14, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: VCC, Room 301
Jvala Singh, Lecturer, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UCB
Panel 1006: The Role of Print in the Shaping of Political and Cultural Discourse in Colonial North India
Saturday, March 14, 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM
Location: VCC, Room 112
Paper 4: Between Reform and Nationalism: The Sūraj Prakāś in the Colonial Print Public Sphere
Join us at the UC Berkeley Reception
Saturday, March 14, 9:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel
Mackenzie Ballroom, Concourse Level
Sunday, March 15, 2026
Peter Zinoman, Professor, History and South and Southeast Asian Studies, UCB
Panel 1105: Liberal Economists and Liberal Economic Ideas in Vietnam
Sunday, March 15, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: VCC, Room 112
Lawrence Cohen, Professor, Anthropology, UCB
Panel 1122: Movement and Therapeutics in South Asia
Sunday, March 15, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: VCC, Room 208
Xuefei Luo, Visiting Scholar, Center for Japanese Studies, UCB
Panel 1201: Staging, Drawing, and Narrating Empire: Japanese Imperial Discourse Across Transregional Media
Sunday, March 15, 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Location: VCC, Room 103/104
Paper 4: Towards “The New World in Greater East Asia”: Female Intimacy in the Political Journey of
Women to Japanese-Occupied Southeast Asia (1942-1945)
Yan Long, Associate Professor, Sociology, UCB
Panel 1238: Societal Mobilization and Statecraft in Communist China: From Revolution to Pandemi
Sunday, March 15, 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Location: VCC, Room 302
Paper 4: Volunteering Without Voluntarism: Unobtrusive Control and State‑Building at the Community
Level During the COVID‑19 Pandemic