Conference Program Panels

Session I: 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, October 30, 1999

 

Roundtable A: Making Cultural Connections with Japan: The PhilaNipponica Project
Chair: G. Cameron Hurst III, University of Pennsylvania

Frank Chance, Princeton University
Barbara Horowitz, Masterman School, Philadelphia
Vincent t. Felton, Philadelphia School District
Charles J. Young, Bodine High school for International Affairs
Maria E. Mills-Torres, Philadelphia School District

 

Panel 1: Crossing Boundaries: Cultural Identities of Lingnan in the Ming-Qing Transition
Chair: James H. Carter, Saint Joseph's University

"Three Martyred Poets of the Late Ming: Poetry, Anthologies, and the creation of Local Guangzhou"
Steven B. Miles, University of Washington

"The Many faces of Da Shan: Buddhist Diffusion, Overseas Trade, Artistic Thievery and the Politics of Guangzhou in the Late Kangxi Era"
Charles Wheeler, Yale University

"Hanke's Political Exile and His Literary and Religious Activities in Liaodong"
Chi-hung Yim, New York University

Discussant: James H. Carter, Saint Joseph's University

 

Panel 2: Tourism and National Identity in Asia
Chair: Wayne McWilliams, Towson State University

"Consuming the (Domestic) Other: Tourism and National Identity in New Order Indonesia"
Robert Sheperd, George Mason University

"Tourism in Japan"
Yoshie Endo, University of Pennsylvania

"Tourism and National Identity in Modern China and Japan"
David C. Prejsnar, Community College of Philadelphia

Discussant: Wayne McWilliams, Towson State University

 

Panel 3: Undergraduate Panel: Life in Cambodia after Pol Pot: Can Justice Be Done?
Chair: Ann Hill, Dickinson College

 

Panel 4: Cult and Polity in Asia
Chair: Gerald Sullivan, Victoria University of Wellington

"Pilgrimage and History in Highland Bali or why did the people of Sukawana visit Bayung Gede"
Gerald Sullivan, Victoria University of Wellington

"The Creation of Boundaries: History Writing in Medieval Northern Thailand" Justin McDaniel, Harvard University

"Contemporary Reconstruction of the Bodong Sect of Tibetan Buddhism"
Jennifer Carnahan, University of Virginia

Discussant: Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University

 

Panel 5: Past into Present: Some Twentieth Century Japanese Women Writers
Chair: Minna Doskow, Rowan University

Nancy Hume, Community College of Baltimore County
Minna Doskow, Rowan University
Harriette Grissom, Atlanta College of Art
Discussant: Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania
            Titles to be announced

 

11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Annual Business Meeting, Luncheon, and Address by Prof. Susan Mann, President of the AAS: "Narrating Lives in Other Times and Places"

 

Session II: 1:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Saturday

 

Roundtable B: Precious Records: Women's Lives and Roles in Asian Societies
Chair:  Anne Birdwhistell, Richard Stockton College of N.J.
Susan Mann, University of California at Davis, author of Precious  Records:  Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century
 Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania
 Ann Hill, Dickinson College
 Wakaba Tasaka, Dickinson College

 

Panel 6: From Local Practice to National Identity: Religion and Nationalism in Early 20th Century Asia
Chair: Neil Englehart, Lafayette College

"Appropriating Saints as Symbols in Hindu Nationalist Discourse"
Robin Rinehart, Lafayette College 

"Japan's Secular Crusade against Headhunting in Taiwan, ca. 1895-1915"
Paul Barclay, Lafayette College

"Buddhism as a State Religion in Thailand"
Neil Englehart, Lafayette College

 

Panel 7: Education and Identity in Modern East Asia
Chair: Michael J. Seth

"Choosing Between Two Models: The Creation of the South Korean Education System, 1945-1951"
Michael J. Seth

"War on Peace(able) People: Textbook Representations of the Japanese Ethnic Nation as Asian Victim in the Asia-Pacific War"
James J. Orr, Bucknell University

"Japanese Adult Learning: Karaoke Naraigoto"
Hideo Watanabe, University of Pittsburgh

 

Panel 8: Text and Materiality in Modern Japan
Chair: Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania

The Injured Body of the Individual and of the Nation: The Body in Japanese Atomic Bomb Literature"
Noriko Horiguchi, University of Pennsylvania

"'Translation' in Modern Japanese Theater"
Maki Morinaga, University of Pennsylvania

"Performance in Japanese Religion"
Mary Kruse Zambrana, temple University

Discussant: Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania

 

Panel 9: Won Buddhism and Ethical Concerns
Chair: Dorothy Perkins, Independent Scholar

"Culture, Commitment and Co-existence: Buddhist Ethics from the Won Buddhist Perspective"
Jin Young Park, New York State University at Stonybrook

"Dharma Continuity in Won Buddhism: Teachings of Ven. Sot'aesan and Ven. Chongsam"
Bokin Kim, Won Buddhist Temple

"The Circle Broken and Unbroken: Zen and Won Buddhism"
Dorothy Perkins, Independent Scholar

 

Panel 10: Representations of Bali I
Chair: Jason Berman, Temple University

"Bloomsbury in Bali"
Kimberly Dukes, Temple University

"The Ubud Style of Painting: Indigenous or Western?"    
Stephanie Takaragawa, Temple University

Bali: Gay Paradise?
Nayck Feliz, Temple University

Discussant: Kurt Behrendt, Dept. of Art History, Temple University

 

Session III: 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

 

Roundtable C: Burma: Past, Present, and Future Prospects
Chair: Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University

Dan Orzech, Philadelphia Burma Roundtable
Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Cornell University
Rev. Clifford Gilson
Rosemary Gilson

 

Panel 11: Ethnic Identity and the Politics of Difference in Japan, China and Tibet
Chair: Wing-Kai To, Bridgewater State College

"Constructing Majority Ethnicity: Cantonese Culture and the Politics of Difference in South China"
Wing-Kai To, Bridgewater State College
"A Monk Inspired Intifada?"
Sumi Colligan, Massachusetts College of the Liberal Arts
"National Identity and the Politics of Culture: Japanese Identity in regard to Hokkaido and Taiwan"
David Prejsnar, Community College of Philadelphia
"The Politics of Cultural Identity and Minority Women in China"
Linda Lindsey, Maryville University
Discussant: Ann Hill, Dickinson College

 

Panel 12: Aspects of Ethnic Identity and Nationalism: India, Japan, and Vietnam
Chair: Carl Walters, St. Andrews College

"Indian Nationalism"
Carl Walters, St. Andrews College
"The Political Construction of Ethnic Identity and Nationalism: Community Leaders Contend for Cultural Authenticity in Representational Strategies"
Hoa Tran, Temple University
"Transformational Acculturation: Nativeness vs. Nationalism"
Keiko Takioto Miller, Mercyhurst College

 

Panel 13: Hindustan: Cultural Nationalism in Desai's Later Novels
Chair: Janet M. Powers, Gettysburg College

Indrani Mitra, Mount St. Mary's College, "Clear Light of Day: Reweaving the Cultural Fabric"
Madhu Mitra, College of Saint Benedict (MN), "The Soul and Spirit of a
Vanishing India: The Cultural Politics of In Custody"
Jan Powers, Gettysburg College, " Embedded Nationalisms in Baumgardner's
Bombay"
Discussant: Uma Satyavolu, Penn State-Mount Alto

 

Panel 14: Whose Body, Whose Space? Gender and Identity in Film, Dance, Writing
Chair: Pallabi Chakravorty, Temple University

"WHOSE BODY? Women Writing the Body after the War"
Doug Slaymaker, University of Kentucky

Agency in Tradition: Gendered Identity in India's Kathak Dance"
Pallabi Chakravorty, Temple University

"The Negotiated Space of Women in Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern and the ambivalent space of the colonized subject"
Sunita Peacock, Slippery Rock University

Discussant: Diane C. Freedman, Community College of Philadelphia

 

Panel 15: Representations of Bali II
Chair: Kimberly Dukes, Temple University

"The Balinese Muse: Calon Arang and Western Performance Theory"
Sharon Kornelly, Temple University

"Why Bali? The Popularization of Bali in American Culture"
Jason Berman, Temple University
"Intimate Representations: the Bali Bra"
Denise O’Brien, Temple University
Discussant: Kurt Behrendt, Temple University

5:45 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.    Reception
7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.     Annual Banquet and Address by Prof. E-Tu Zen Sun, Winner of the 1999 MAR/AAS Lifetime Achievement Award. "Beware of Those Shoals: Interpreting Asian History"

 

Session IV: 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Sunday, October 31, 1999

 

Roundtable D: Room 110
Presidential Roundtable: Themes and Issues in Ethnic and Cultural Nationalism.

Chair: Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
Participants: Jonathan Lipman, Mt. Holyoke College;
Mary Osirim, Bryn Mawr College; Nancy Eberhardt, Knox College

 

Roundtable E: Room 112
Changing College Pedagogy in China: The U.S. China Foundation Project

Chair: Fay Beauchamp, Community College of Philadelphia
Discussant: Lesley Solomon, Cherry Hill School District

 

Panel 16: Disease, Medicine and Empire: the Case Studies of Colonial Behar and Bengal
Chair: Chandrika Paul, Shippensburg University

Disease in Colonial Berar
Laxman D. Satya, Lock Haven University

The Legitimization of Western Medicine: The Work of Countess of Dufferin Fund in Colonial Bengal, The Early Phase from 1885-1900
Chandrika Paul, Shippensburg University

Discussant: Robert Young, West Chester University

 

Panel 17: Individual Papers on Japanese Literature and Women
Chair: Reiko Itoh, Gettysburg College

Japanese Women and Housewives
Reiko Itoh

Narrating Life: Death in Furui Yoshikichi's Tani
Erik R. Lofgren, Bucknell University

Banana Yoshimoto: Japan's Hippest Writer
Jennifer Jameson, Gettysburg College

 

Session V: 11:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.

 

Panel 18: Individual Papers on Chinese and Japanese Buddhism

Sankai Ibutsu and its Mythological Implications
Masako Nakagawa, Villanova University

Bodhisattva in Landscape: Iconography of Landscape in Dunhuang Sutra Illustrations
Haewin Kim, University of Pennsylvania

 

Panel 19: Gender Themes in Japanese Culture
Chair: Diane C. Freedman, Community College of Philadelphia

Changing Values among Japanese Families
Elaine S. Padilla, Rockland Community College

The Image of Japanese Women In Japanese and American Cinema
Regina S. Oboler, Ursinus College

Play, Power and Persuasion: Gender Representations in Genji Art
Diane C. Freedman

 

Panel 20: Transition and Reform in Asian Economies

Public Attitudes toward Employment Practices in Japanese Society: An Examination of Intergenerational Differences
Michael LoPresti, Salem-Taikyo University; Dai Tanno, Aomori Public College; Junko Sato, Aomori Public College

Can the Tiger Still Hunt?: Korea in Transition
Peter M. Beck, Korea Economic Institute

Muddling Through?: Economic Reform in Vietnam
J. Robert Cambria, Cambria Consultants

 

Panel 21: Individual papers on South and Southeast Asia

Chair: Ely Marquez, Community College of Philadelphia

Towards an Interpretation of South Asian Environmental History
Laxman Satya, Lock Haven University

Domesticating the English Language: a Comparison of Selected South and Southeast Asian Writers in English
Ely Marquez, Community College of Philadelphia

1:15 p.m. Annual Meeting Concludes