Conference Sessions

Panel 8 | Salon C
Consuming Meiji Japan

Chair: Roderick Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Adam Coldren, Michigan State University, “Making Martyrs, Branding Traitors: Using the Dead to Define the Nation in Meiji Japan, 1868–1890”
• Sherry Huang, University of Chicago, “Light and Shadows of Bunmei Kaika:
  Meiji Japanese Cityscape Prints and the Tension between Tokyo’s Public Space as Conceived and Lived”

Panel 9 | Studebaker
Confucianism in Chinese Empires and Modern States

Chair: Liang Cai, University of Notre Dame

• Liang Cai, University of Notre Dame, “Confucians’ Criticism on Mutual Responsibility System (lianzuo 盓韘)”
• Paul Goldin, University of Pennsylvania, “The Early Textual Basis of the Confucian Doctrine of the ‘Uncrowned King’ (suwang 慒魦)”
• Avery Hsu, University of Notre Dame, “Filial Piety Embodied in Asian American Family Systems”
• Xiaoqing Diana Lin, Indiana University Northwest, “Confucian Learning and Contemporary Chinese Nationalism, 1990s–2010s”

Panel 10 | St. Joseph
Transformed Epistemology in Pre-Modern and Modern China

Chair: Sijian Wang, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, “Floating Frontiers: The Miaodao Archipelago and the Shaping of the Bohai Sea in the Qing Dynasty”

• Emma Hsu, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, “Fractal Episteme: Viewing the Macartney Mission with Distance and Angle”
• Guanran Cui, Binghamton University, “Understanding Disease:
  Modern Medical Practice in China's Plague Pandemic, 1917-1918”
• Nakota DiFonzo, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, “For a World in the Making: Teaching Internationalism at the University of Shanghai, 1907–1952”

Panel 11 | Salon A
Chinese Art

Chair: Jincheng Liu, University of Notre Dame

• Xiyun Wu, University of Notre Dame, “The Personal is Communal: Passive Bodies in Ma Liuming’s Fen-Ma Liuming’s Lunch I (1994) and Zhang Huan’s 65 Kilograms (1994)”
• Shuya Ye, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, “Regional and Cultural Dialogues in Modern Asian Art: Xu Beihong and Chang Xiufeng’s Artistic Exploration in India”

Panel 12 | Auburn
Health in South Asia

Chair: Santosh Kumar, University of Notre Dame

• Muhammed Saad Kamil, University of Notre Dame, “Health and Immunization in South Asia”
• Prakash B K, University of Notre Dame, “Unraveling the Impact of Structural Violence of Caste on the Healing Process of Mental Health Patients in Nepal”
• Shriniwas Gautam, University of Notre Dame, “COVID-19, Returnee Migrant Workers, and Options for Their Reintegration in Agricultural Communities in Nepal”

Panel 13 | Salon B
Sex and Sexuality in Contemporary China

Chair: Xian Wang, University of Notre Dame

• Zoey Siyuan Liu, Duke University, “Candies for Ladies: Emerging Discourses Surrounding Female Sex Toys on Weibo in Chinese Cyberspace”
• David Marchionni, Michigan State University, “Dancing against Disease: Queer APIDA/A Nightlife amid the HIV/AIDS Crisis”

Panel 14 | Colfax
Gender and Religion in Premodern East Asia

Chair: Alexander Hsu, University of Notre Dame

• Hin Ming Frankie Chik, University of Pittsburgh, “The ‘Confucianization’ of the Classics in the ‘Yiwen zhi’ of the Hanshu”
• Andrew Tschirki, University of Southern California, “Dialogical Preaching—Shōkū and His Responses Towards Women’s Concerns”

Panel 15 | Colfax
Modern Chinese Film

Chair: Dong Yang, Grinnell College

• Ana Catarina Leite, National University of Singapore, “The Fishermen of Amangau, Macau as a Place of Honest Labor during the Cold War”
• Ruoyi Bian, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, “Why Does Dongfang Bubai Have to Be a Woman?”
• Lu Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, “Digital Cinephilia and Bit-Sized Storytelling: The Evolution of Participatory Film Culture in Postmodern China”
• Dong Yang, Grinnell College, “Pensive Disengagements: Camera Consciousness and Techniques of Visual Concealment in the New Chinese Documentary Films”

Chair: Hiromi Mizuno, University of Minnesota

• Charo D’Etcheverry, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Laura Miller, University of Missouri–St. Louis
• Susan Westhafer Furukawa, Beloit College
• Ethan Segal, Michigan State University

Panel 17 | Studebaker
Writing about and with Chinese Women

Chair and Discussant: Cara Wallis, University of Michigan

• Angelina Yajie Chen, Indiana University Bloomington, “Listening as Feminist Method: Ethics of Care in a Migrant Women’s Hub in South China”
• Yun Feng, University of Minnesota, “Homebound Women in Rural E-commerce: Self-Formation between Patriarchal Family and Digital Empowerment in Rural China”
• Daniela Licandro, University of Milan, “Women, Violence, and Agency: The Battered Woman in Zhang Tianyi’s Like Snow Like Mountain”

Chair: Julia Kowalski, University of Notre Dame

• António Eduardo Hawthorne Barrento, University of Lisbon, “Newly-Wed, Newly-Toured: The Lure of Honeymoon Travel in Republican China”
• Li-Lin Tseng, Pittsburg State University, “From ‘Gimmick Trick Shows’ to a Modern ‘Motion Picture Industry’: Shanghai Cinema in Transition, 1896–1937”
• Iris Wang, Winona State University, “The Environmental Transformation of the Dagu Bar and the Rise of Modern Tianjin City”

Chair: Cecilia Kim, University of Notre Dame

• Inha Park, University of Notre Dame, “The Distance to Korea: The Untold Italian Representations of the Korean War”
• Haerin Do, University of California, Irvine, “Dendrochronology: Korean Argentine Migration and Labor History Inscribed in the Materiality of Wood”
• Kyung Mo Kang, University of Notre Dame, “The North Koreans’ View of Human Rights Crisis and Prosecution”

Chair: Susan Ostermann, University of Notre Dame

• Kalpana Jha, University of Victoria, “South Asian Borders: Political Masculinities and the Control Problematique”
• Tipu Sultan, University of Bielefeld, “Globalization and Gender Roles: Redefining Gender Role Attitudes among Dual-Earner Couples in Pakistan”

Panel 21 | Salon C
Japanese Literature and Art

Chair: Michael Brownstein, University of Notre Dame

• Yue Wang, Washington University in St. Louis, “Eat a Life, Make a Life: Posthuman Love in Murata Sayaka’s Life Ceremony”
• Matthew Shorten, Williams College, “Music, Memory, and Materiality: Coalescing Aural and Visual Experience in Suzuki Harunobu’s Floating Worlds”
• Yuefan Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, “China in Translation: Ema Saikō and Her Chinese Poetry in Nineteenth-Century Japan”
• Elsa Chanez, Washington University in St. Louis, “Through a Cat’s Eye: Disease, Filiality and Yokai in Ogino Anna’s Short Story ‘Neko Jya’”

Panel 22 | Salon B
China’s Local Histories

Chair: Tarryn Chun, University of Notre Dame

• Yuheng Cao, independent scholar, “Between the War and Peace: The Great Wall Region from the Qin-Han Period to the Ming Dynasty”
• Wanze Ma, Zhejiang University, “Information Matters: A History of the Lu Lineage”
• Wenjie Hua, Wuhan University, “Invoke Immortals: A Social History of Jianghuai Built on Divination and Techniques (1900–1949)”

Panel 23 | Salon A
Qing China: Religion and Law

Chair: Michael Brose, Indiana University Bloomington

• Yuhan Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, “Writing the Queue:
  The Entanglement of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Male Subjectivity in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese Literature”
• Xinyi Fu, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “Calculating Qing 擼:
  Karmic Bookkeeping in Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan”
• Yujie Pu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, “Competing Modernities: The Regulation of ‘Mental Illness’ in Late Qing Legal Reforms (1901–1909)”

Panel 24 | Auburn
Generic Transformations in Late Imperial and Republican Chinese Literature

Chair: Michel Hockx, University of Notre Dame

• Ziwei Jiang, McGill University, “The Gender of Justice in Republican Chinese
  Detective Fiction”
• Yan Liang, Grand Valley State University, “Pear and the Lonesome Beauty: Cultural Symbolism of Plants in Traditional Chinese Literature”

Panel 25 | Studebaker
Reimagining East Asian Popular Culture: State, Aesthetics, and Capital in the Digital Age

Chair and Discussant: Fenglin Selina Ju, University of Michigan

• Siyu Shen, University of Pennsylvania, “The Power Dynamics Among Fan Groups,
  Weibo, and the Governmental Censorship Around The Untamed”
• Xiaodan Wang, Duke University, “Alienation of Labors and Fans in Digital Economy—From Digital Labor to Emotional Labor”
• Yining Lilia Yan, Duke University, “Cultural Authenticity and Appropriation through Chinese Video Games: A Case Study of Genshin Impact”
• Fenglin Selina Ju, University of Michigan, “Digital Intimacy and Intermedia Storytelling in Chinese Otome Games—A Case Study of Light and Night”

Panel 26 | St. Joseph
Ancient China Today: Everyday Daoism and Digital History

Chair: Alexander Hsu, University of Notre Dame

• Adrian Zheng, University of Notre Dame, “Use of ‘Uselessness’: Zhuangzi’s Challenge to Modern Success Metrics”
• Joseph Kirner, University of Notre Dame, “Daoist Spontaneity in Musicianship”
• Victoria Ryan, University of Notre Dame, “Ancient Chinese Primary Sources Examined through the Lenses of Social Networks, Geographical Mobility, and Criminal History”
• Brisny Rodriguez Flores, University of Notre Dame, “Lü Buwei and Shu-li Tzu: Comparative Analysis of Official Careers from Qin State to Qin Dynasty”

Panel 27 | Colfax
Thinking with Geography: States and the Spatial

Chair: Caroline Hughes, University of Notre Dame

• Vikram Das, Heidelberg University, “Connection, Disconnection:
  Merging Identities and Histories of Belonging in the Thar Desert of Pakistan”
• Hamraz Ahmad, Deakin University, “Tea Commerce and Development: Spatial Reproduction of State through Quetta Cafes in Islamabad”
• Manoka Y, Kent State University, “Law of War and Geography: Exploring Article 20 of the Paris Peace Accords and Its Impact on Southeast Asian Conflict and Genocide During the Vietnam War”

Panel 28 | Wright
Religions on the Premodern Silk Road

Chair: Alexander Hsu, University of Notre Dame

• Ronghu Zhu, University of Chicago, “Travel and the Cult of the Marīci-deva Sutra in Medieval Dunhuang”
• Chun Chen, University of Minnesota, “Gifts from Central Asia: A New Explanation for Tomb of the Dancers’ Murals”

Panel 29 | St. Joseph
Asians and Asiatowns in the Midwestern US

Chair: Jennifer Huynh, University of Notre Dame

• Daniel Zipp, University of Maryland, “Authenticity in Asian American Urban Placemaking: The Rebranding of Asiatown”
• Tao Wang, Iowa State University, “For God, Gold, and Glory: Iowans in China at the Turn of 20th Century”
• Jarita Bavido, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, “Beyond Chinatown: Chinese-Americans in Small Towns of the Upper Midwest, 1875–1943”

Panel 30 | Auburn
Other Feminisms: Transnational Queer-and-Trans Cultural Studies

Chair and Discussant: Tani Barlow, Rice University

• Jieming Zhu, University of Chicago, “Translating Family Abolition: Queering China’s Marxist-Feminist Encounters in the 1920s–30s”
• Zehao Pan, University of Chicago, “Militant Neoliberal Feminism: The Rise of TERFism on Chinese Social Media”
• Aling Zou, University of Alberta, “Queer Feelings as Archives: Lai Xiangyin’s Qihou (Thereafter)”
• Youyuan Zhang, University of Chicago, “Queer Women, Chinese, International Students: Educational Mobility and Transnational Migration”

Panel 31 | Conrad
Midwest Japan Seminar #1

Chair: Charo D’Etcheverry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Kazue Harada, Miami University, Ohio, “Symptomatic Absence: Ethical Writing of History and Science in Ueda Sayuri’s The King of Ruin”

Panel 32 | Studebaker
Language and Thinking: The Fundamental Logic behind Chinese Verb Resultative Complements and Modality

Chair: Jincheng Liu, University of Notre Dame

• Yongping Zhu, University of Notre Dame, “Do People Think Differently When They Speak Different Languages? A Discussion of the Structure of Chinese Verb Resultative Complements”
• Ying Lu, Beijing Union University, “The Interplay and Constraints between Speaker Beliefs and Discursive Evidence—Evidence from Three Sets of Modal Adverbs”
• Jincheng Liu, University of Notre Dame, “Realis and Irrealis Modalities in Chinese”

Panel 33 | Grissom
Governance in Southeast Asia

Chair: John Harold Barnett, Emporia State University

• John Harold Barnett, Emporia State University, “Blue Economy: Cambodia 2015–2023”
• Thanh-Binh Le, independent researcher, “The Impact of Birth Plannedness:
  A Cultural Approach”
• Emma Willoughby, University of Michigan, “The Making of ‘Wet Markets’:
  Political and Economic Insights from Vietnam”

Panel 34 | Colfax
The Business of Contemporary Chinese Religion

Chair: Xueying Wang, University of Notre Dame

• Lanfu Yang, University of Iowa, “Beyond Stereotypes: On Commercialization of Buddhist Temples in Contemporary China”
• Xianghong Feng, Eastern Michigan University, “‘Embrace Buddha’s Feet and Pray for Help Only When in Trouble’: Consuming Everyday Religion in the Central South China”

Panel 35 | Grissom
Gender and Youth in Contemporary Chinese Internet Literature

Chair: Michel Hockx, University of Notre Dame

• Wanze Ma, Zhejiang University, “Becoming Gendered: The Gender-Divided Market
  of Chinese Online Fiction”
• Haosheng Yang, Miami University, “Disguised Identities and Desires: A Feminist Reading of Chinese BL Stories”
• Hongfen Shen, Shantou University, “Transformation of Self-development and Identity in Young Adult Narratives of Growth in China’s Digital Era”

Panel 36 | Colfax
Working History: Fiction and Narrative in the PRC

Chair: Xian Wang, University of Notre Dame

• Yuzhe Li, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “Rural Labor Intimacy: Socialist Cooperative Craftsmanship in Agricultural Collectivization Fictions of the 1950s China”
• Xian Wang, University of Notre Dame, “Taming Mountains and Rivers: Labor Glorification and Reshaping Socialist Landscapes in Chinese Arts and Literature, 1950s–1970s”
• Lavinia Xu, Washington University in Saint Louis, “Gendered History of the Cultural Revolution: Women’s Troubled Memories in Tie Ning’s Novels”

Panel 37 | Auburn
Islam and Asian Modernities

Chair: Ebrahim Moosa, University of Notre Dame

• Muhammad Ahmed Bin Tariq, University of Melbourne, “The Discourse of English Education: Manners, Comportment and the Emergence of Modern Madrasas”
• Farhan Munir Abbasi, Quaid-i-Azam University, “From Ritualism to Extremism:
  A Radical Transformation of Shrines in Punjab”

Panel 38 | Conrad
Midwest Japan Seminar #2

Chair: Kazue Harada, Miami University Ohio

• Hannah Marie Airriess, Indiana University, “Becoming Mr. Everyman: Middlebrow Media and Salaryman Masculinity in Japan’s Era of High Economic Growth”

Panel 39 | Studebaker
Locating Digital Spaces

Chair: Amanda Kennell, University of Notre Dame

• Liang Cai, University of Notre Dame, “Geomobility of Elites and Identity Construction Before Qin’s Unification of China (ca. 390–221 BCE)”
• Jesse Drian, University of California, Los Angeles, “Digital Spaces for Exploring
  the Archives”
• Amanda Kennell, University of Notre Dame, “Drinking with Dazai at Bungo Stray Dogs’ Bar Lupin”

Panel 40 | St. Joseph
Building a Chinese Nation-State in Twentieth-Century East Asia: Postwar Emotions and Transnational Knowledge Production

Chair: Luming Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

• Cruz (Wenhao) Guan, The Ohio State University, “Teaching National Humiliation in Chinese Geography Textbooks and Teacher’s Manuals, 1902-1937”
• Luming Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, “Competing Colonialities: Nation-State Building and Nation-Empire Construction of Chinese and Japanese Migration Projects in Manchuria”
• Xiaoyan Ren, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, “‘Obstructed Embrace’:
  the ID Card Institution in Shanghai, 1945–1949”

Panel 41 | Wright
Gender and Justice

Chair: Pavithra Rajendran, University of Notre Dame

• Tasnia Symoom, University of Kentucky, “Exploring Intergroup Dynamics in Attitudes Towards Gender-Based Violence: A South Asian Perspective”
• Hira Noor, University of Notre Dame, “Education and Changing Violence-Justifying Attitudes of Men and Women in Patriarchy: New Empirical Evidence from Punjab, Pakistan”
• Ami Kitada, University of Kansas, “Productivity over Menstrual Justice: Reinforcement of Neoliberal Self-care through the Japanese Government’s Promotion of Femtech”
• Pavithra Rajendran, University of Notre Dame, “Societal Stigmatization of Survivors of Sexual Crimes and the Response of the Law: A Spotlight on India”

Panel 42 | Colfax
CJK in the University Classroom

Chair: Chengxu Yin, University of Notre Dame

• Mina Kim, University of Texas at Austin, “Designing Curriculum with Reality: Exploring Innovative Methods to Teach Korean Culture in a Less Commonly Taught Language”
• Congcong Ma, University of Notre Dame, “Promotional Strategies for College Chinese Language Class”
• Janet Federici, University of Notre Dame, “Teaching Herself inside the Language Classroom: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation Conflicts”
• Chengxu Yin, University of Notre Dame, “Relationship-Rich Teaching in CFL: Strategies and Implementation”

Panel 43 | Conrad
International Relations in and beyond Asia

Chair: Kyle Jaros, University of Notre Dame

• Hoang Trung Vu, University of South Florida, “Can Vietnam’s ‘Bamboo Diplomacy’ Withstand Future Regional Conflict?”
• Samuel Green, Mississippi State University, “The Failure of Anson Burlingame’s 1868 Treaty, and Moderate U.S.-China Policy Reforms under President Ulysses S. Grant”
• Keisha Brown, Tennessee State University, “Sino-Black Relations and the Formation of Chinese-Jamaican Communities and Identities”
• Kyle Jaros, University of Notre Dame, “From ‘Old Friends’ to ‘New Cold War’: Explaining Variation in Subnational US-China Relations, 2012–2022”

Panel 44 | Wright
Memory and Writing in Modern China and Hong Kong

Chair: Duosi Meng, University of Illinois Chicago

• Xinyang Zhou, University of Chicago, “In Their Own Words: Republican Chinese Children’s Everyday Life in Diaries, 1930s–1940s”
• Hanzhang Ye, University of Minnesota, “The Battle Ground of Memory: An Investigation of the Interactive Dynamics of Memory of the Second World War in Postcolonial Hong Kong”
• Duosi Meng, University of Illinois Chicago, “Outside the Window: Chinese and Jewish Exile Writers in Shanghai (1938–1948)”

Panel 45 | Grissom
Japan at and after War

Chair: Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame

• Matthew Winters, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Japanese Attitudes Toward National Security Posture and Development Assistance”
• Ray Matsumoto, Washington State University, “An Analysis of Japanese Identity and Collective War Memory through the Japanese Settlers Abandoned in Manchuria”
• Ran Wei, Washington University in St. Louis, “The Power of Nostalgia: Materiality, Solidarity, and Resistance in the 16mm Film The Kamagasaki Cauldron War (Tsukiyo no Kamagassen, 2017)”

Panel 46 | Studebaker
Knowing the Sea: Knowledge and the Marine World in China, Past and Present

Chair and Discussant: Brigid Vance, Lawrence University

• Joo-hyeon Oh, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, “Clam Towers: On the Nature of Natural Knowledge in Late Imperial China”
• Kejian Shi, Washington University in St. Louis, “Pearls on the Move: Knowledge and Consumption of Pearls in Late Imperial China”
• Zihan Feng, Washington University in St. Louis, “The Textility of Maritime Encounters: Making Encyclopedic Novels of the Ocean in Contemporary China”

Panel 47 | St. Joseph
Roundtable: Learning from and Teaching through Envirotechnical Disasters

Chair: Anna Geltzer, University of Notre Dame

• Noriko Hanabusa, University of Notre Dame
• Joshua Kuiper, University of Notre Dame
• Jessica McManus Warnell, University of Notre Dame

Panel 48 | Auburn
Asian America: Internment, Exclusion, and Inclusion

Chair: Eun-Young Julia Kim, University of Notre Dame

• Shuma Iwai, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, “We Sold Everything We Could and Became ‘Enemy Aliens’: Exile of Japanese Americans”
• Manoka Y, Kent State University, “Anti-Asian Racism: Deportation of Cambodian Americans”
• Eun-Young Julia Kim, University of Notre Dame, “Images of Asian Americans in the Public Discourse of Asian American Centers in the U.S. Higher Education”

Panel 49 | Grissom
Commerce, Art, and the Sea in Premodern Japan and India

Chair: Roderick Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Michelle Damian, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, “‘A Rare Sight’: Commemorating Whale Encounters in Early Modern Japan”
• Daniel Feldbaum, Michigan State University, “What’s in a Wave: Maritime Commodities of a Thirteenth Century Japanese Estate”
• Garrett Field, Ohio University, “A Royal Fleet in the Indian Ocean: Boat Building, Sailing, and Seamanship in the Dhivehi Poem, ‘Dhivehi Arumaadhu Raivaru,’(1804)"

Panel 50 | St. Joseph
Policy and Production in Modern China and Japan

Chair: Joshua Eisenman, University of Notre Dame

• Karol Żakowski, University of Lodz, “Comparative Analysis of Decision-Making Processes over the Income-Doubling Plan and the Plan for Remodeling the Japanese Archipelago”
• Ruifeng Dong, University of Minnesota, “Regulating the Brands: Baijiu Industry During the Economic Reform Era in the People’s Republic of China”
• Joshua Eisenman, University of Notre Dame, and Wenhui Yang, Peking University, “Strength in Numbers? The Effects of Chinese Communist Party Membership on Agricultural Production (1949–1987)”

Panel 51 | Wright
Dalit Questions

Chair: Nikhil Menon, University of Notre Dame

• Subhas Yadav, University of Notre Dame, “Caste/Race Conundrum: Proposal from South Asia”
• Tathagata Bhowmik, Case Western Reserve University, “The Creation of Neoliberal Cultural Commodities out of Subaltern Artists: The Case of Indian Baul Musicians”

Panel 52 | Conrad
Contemporary Korean Literature and Music

Chair: Yeonhee Yoon, University of Notre Dame

• Tanner Rogers, University of Minnesota, “The Urban, the Rural, and the National:
  A Spatial Analysis of Pak Bom-sin’s ‘Lying Like a Blade of Grass’”
• Moisés Park, Baylor University, “K-Cuba: Documenting Korea, Koreas, and/or Koreans in Cuba”
• Amanda Sikarskie, University of Michigan, “K-Pop Idols as Brand Ambassadors”

Panel 53 | Studebaker
New World Encounters: The Reception and Influence of Phonology, Philology, and Philosophy in China, 1700-2000

Chair and Discussant: Lionel Jensen, University of Notre Dame

• Woohui Park, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, “Contested Understandings of Chinese Scientific Method in the Twentieth Century East Asia”
• Rhonda Huo, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, “Manchu Language in Rewriting Chinese Fanqie in the Eighteenth Century”
• Xinting Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, “Comparing Eastern and Western Political Meritocrats”

Panel 54 | Auburn
Asian American Literature

Chair: Hana Kang, University of Notre Dame

• Ina Choi, University of Pennsylvania, “Precarious Intimacy: Affective Embodiment of Hak Kyung Cha’s Language, Material and Body”
• Hana Kang, University of Notre Dame, “Navigating Identities: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Korean American Adolescent Male Characters in Multicultural Literature”

Panel 55 | Colfax
Nation, Ethnicity, and Narrative in Contemporary China

Chair: Karrie Koesel, University of Notre Dame

• Chris White, The Ohio State University, “Remembering Ancestors in Contemporary China: Organic ‘Sinicization’ of Chinese Protestantism”
• Karrie Koesel, University of Notre Dame, “Telling China’s Story Well: How the PRC Uses Positivity to Persuade Global Audiences”

Panel 56 | Studebaker
The Work of Religion in Southeast Asia

Chair: Taylor Easum, Indiana State University

• Huong Nguyen, University of Arkansas, “‘We Are Making Our Own Deity’: The Cult of King Trieu from Perspective of Religious Sites’ Committees”
• Joe Evans, Villanova University, and Sr. Ngoc Nguyen, LHC, Marquette University, “Ethical Responsibility for the Catholic Church to Act to End Human Trafficking: Nepal and Vietnam Case Studies”
• L Diana Seng Hkawn, University of Notre Dame, “Exploring Kachin Traditional Practices as a Decolonial Approach to Healing Trauma in Kachin”
• Rachel DeGaugh, University of Notre Dame, “Charity, Philosophy, and Disability Rights: Buddhist and Christian Constructions of Disability in Asia”

Panel 57 | Colfax
Language at Large: Education, Linguistics, Hybridity

Chair: Naoki Fuse, University of Notre Dame

• John Peterson, University of Notre Dame, “Japanese Language Ideology through the Analysis of English Loanwords in Domestic Japanese Ramen Advertisement”
• Lacey Young, University of Notre Dame, “The Usage of Hawaiian Pidgin English in Asian Americans in Hawai’i”
• Naoki Fuse, University of Notre Dame, “Linguistic Theory on Language Education: The Influence of Language-as-Process Theory on Japanese Language Education after WWII (1945–1965)”

Panel 58 | Auburn
Japanese Fashion and Festivals

Chair: Nobuko Adachi, Illinois State University

• Elise Ulrich, Illinois State University, “Toeing the Line: Irezumi and Tatū”
• Nobuko Adachi, Illinois State University, “How Might a Cultural Practice Be Sustained?: Survival Strategies in the Soma Nomaoi Cavalry Festival in Fukushima, Japan”
• Kimiko Tanaka, James Madison University, “Japanese Festivals—Community Wisdom, Solidarity, and Challenge”
• James Stanlaw, Illinois State University, “Learning From Shōgun Today:
  Japanese History and Western Fantasy Redux ... and Reduxed Again”

Panel 59 | St. Joseph
Natalism and Education in Contemporary China and the Philippines

Chair: Susan Blum, University of Notre Dame

• Arienne Louise Calingo, University of Notre Dame, “The State of Religious Freedom in Philippine Schools: Assessing Religious Freedom Challenges and Opportunities in the Philippine Education System”
• Jingxue Zhang, University of Kentucky, “Strategic Maternities: Reconfiguring the Role of ‘Peidu Mama’ in Transnational Migration”
• Ruonan Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, “From Population Science to Eugenics Knowledge: A Biopolitical Analysis of the One-Child Policy in China”

Panel 60 | Conrad
China in Asia: Belt and Road and More

Chair: Joshua Eisenman, University of Notre Dame

• Daniel Loebell, Northwestern University, “BITs, BRI, or Both: How India’s Contiguous Allies Use Triangulation to Redefine the Investor-State Legal Regime”
• Yinlin Wan, Waseda University, “Tough Choices for Host Countries in the Cracks:
  The Successes and Failures of China-Japan Infrastructure Aid Projects in Southeast Asia”