A number of panels have “TBA” listed as the moderator. The moderators for these panels are still To Be Assigned. Professor Ricardo Trimillos, chair of Asian Studies at the School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, UH Manoa, is working to fill these positions with appropriate scholars. As he recruits moderators this page will be updated.
Registration is ongoing, not just at the 8:00-8:30 time period
Friday, June 15, 2007
Conference Registration, coffee & rolls: 8:00-8:30
(Lobby of the Korean Studies Building (across the street from Moore Hall)
Session 1: 8:30-10:00
Panel 1A: Round Table -- The California Textbook Controversy: Issues in the treatment of Ancient India and of Hinduism in the California World History School Textbook
Moore 153B
Vishal Agarwal The Aryan Debate
Arumugswami Hindu History for Children
Kand Khanderao An Overview of the Textbook Controversy
Chirag Patel Women in Ancient India
Nalini Rao The One and the Many in Hinduism: literary and art historical evidences
Shiva Bajpai Moderator
Panel 1B: A Discussion on the Future of Asian Studies
Moore 153A
Jeffrey Barlow Editor, E-ASPAC
Robert Buswell AAS President-Elect
William Vanderbok ASPAC President
Linda Walton Council of Conferences Member
Panel 1C: Continuing Human Rights Issues in the Philippines
Moore 155B
Melisa Casumbal-Salazar Native Land Law, The Indigenous People's Rights Act, and
a Politics of Corporeality in the Contemporary Philippines
Marina Elena Clariza Human Trafficking in Mindanao
John Linantud Blurring the Line: The Catholic Church and the 2007 Philippine Elections
Robert Youngblood The Rhetoric Vs. The Reality: Human Rights in the Philippines, 1992-2006
Belinda Aquino Moderator
Coffee Break 10:00-10:30
(Lobby of the Korean Studies Building (across the street from Moore Hall)
Session 2: 10:30-12:00
Panel 2A: Maintaining Culture Overseas
Moore 153A
Elena Kolesova Paradise garden or prison in a quite suburb? An examination of one
Japanese educational institution in New Zealand
Alison Marshall Eating Chinese Being Chinese: Chinese customs on the rural Canadian prairies
Rositsa Mutafchieva The Burakumin Myth of Everyday Life: Reformulating Identity in Contemporary Japan
Kathleen Tomlonovic Moderator
Panel 2B: Okinawan Resistance, 1945-2007: Memory, Gender and Leadership
Moore 153B
Linda Angst The Making and Unmaking of Okinawa: Everyday Forms of Violence
Kyle Ikeda Re-working Memory: Remembering the Battle of Okinawa in the 21st Century
Rinda Ramnani-Yamashiro Break the Silence: Emergence of a Women's Anti-base Group in Okinawa
Vincent K. Pollard Moderator and Co-Discussant
Joyce Chinen Co-Discussant
Panel 2C: Globalization and Cultural Links
Moore 155B
Shu Hwa Lin Historic Chinese Textiles in the University of Hawaii: Expressions of
Political Rank and Economic Power
Jane Yamashiro The Japanese Diaspora?: Rethinking connections between people of Japanese ancestry
Alexander Yamato Transnational Adoption of Asian Children by Americans
Michael Aung-Thwin Moderator
Lunch Break, 12:00-1:30
(The Paradise Palms Café, next to Moore Hall, will be open today)
Session 3: 1:30-3:00
Panel 3A: Constructions of Gender in Asian Performing Arts
Moore 153B
Patrick Alcedo Exploding Gender Signifiers in a Philippine Festival
Carl Hefner Gender, Symbolism and Power: Ludruk Folk Theatre in East Java, Indonesia
Ricardo Trimillos Performing Masculinity in Philippine Folk Forms: Ang Lalaking Pilipino
Priscilla Tse “I am a Woman!” Gendering Female While Performing Male in Cantonese Opera
Fred Lau Moderator
Panel 3B: Development and Delivery of Public Services
Moore 155B
Tam Vu Education and Productivity in China: New Approach, New Results
David Pietz Building the State on the North China Plain
Stanley Toops Xinjiang and the Production Construction Corps
Hernani Yulinawati New Culture of Mass Rapid Transportation in Urban Asia: What do the people experience?
Cynthia Ning Moderator
Panel 3C: Internet Panel: Chinese Youth and the Internet (an Internet discussion from China)
Moore 155A
Jeffrey Barlow Moderator, in Moore 155A
Desheng (Tom) Yang Moderator, in Wenzhou, PRC
Panel 3D: Textual Representation
Moore 153A
Roger Y.M. Chan Constructing Ethnicity: Chinese Perceptions of Taiwanese Aborigines
in the Early Eighteenth Century based on Huang Shujing’s Barbarian
Customs Under Six Heads
Yunji Park Building up New Korea under colonizing suppression: Focusing on
Ki Rim Kim’s Modernism and his experimental poetry, Weather Chart
Qingyun Wu Where Is the Voice of Resistance: Nüshu andLao Tong in Lisa See’s
Snow Flower and Secret Fan
Linda Walton Moderator
Coffee Break 3:00-3:30
(Lobby of the Korean Studies Building (across the street from Moore Hall)
Session 4: 3:30-5:00
Panel 4A: Hearing "hidden messages" in Chinese-US communication exchange
Moore 153B
Paul Pedersen Facilitator
Lance Linke Facilitator
Panel 4B: The Russian Far East
Moore 155A
Gaye Christoffersen Do the People of the Russian Far East Matter in Russia's Foreign Policy?
Pushpa Thambipillai From the Far East or from Moscow? Strategies for Russia-Southeast Asia Ties
Judith Thornton Is the Sakhalin Energy Development for the People of the Island?
Tsuneo Akaha Moderator
John J. Stephan Discussant
Panel 4C: Power and Values in International Relations of Northeast Asia
Moore 155B
Kevin Cooney Chinese-American Hegemonic Competition in East Asia:
A new cold war or into the arms of America?
Kimie Hara Border Disputes in East Asia: Searching for Solutions in History
Hidekazu Sakai From an Adversary to an Ally: The Origin of the U.S.-Japan Alliance
as a Security Community
Jian Yang China's Foreign Policies: The Search for Comprehensive National Power
Yoichiro Sato Moderator
Panel 4D: Japan and the State at Home and Overseas
Moore 153A
Jonathan Dresner Leadership in Yamaguchi Prefecture in the Early Meiji Era
Frederico V. Magdalena Dabao-kou and the Construction of the Philippine State
Maria Elena P. Rivera-Beckstrom The Philippine Social Imaginary: Continuities and
Change in the Filipino Revolutionary Practice
Mai Wakisaka State, Civil Society and the Construction of Neo-Nationalism in Japan, 1990-Present
Gay Satsuma Moderator
S.H.A.P.S. Hosted Reception, 5:00-6:30
(School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, UHM)
Imin Center Garden Level Dining Room
5:00 - 5:30 Hawaiian music by the UHM Hawaiian Ensemble
5:30 - 6:00 Opening Program
6:00 - 6:30 Hawaiian music
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Conference Registration & Continental Breakfast, 8:00-8:30
(Lobby of the Korean Studies Building (across the street from Moore Hall)
Session 5: 8:30-10:00
Panel 5A: Media, History and Society
Moore 119
Jayson Chun A marriage, a protest, and a hostage crisis: Media events in early Japanese TV culture
Frederick Hoyt Rescuing Josephine Bracken Rizal from Cyberspace
George Totten, III Phoneticization and Chinese Characters in Light of the Need for Greater
Literacy in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam
Robert Valliant Moderator
Panel 5B: Environment and Sustainability: Part I
Moore 202
Shan Feng Population and Sustainable Development ?A case study of China
Zhijian Qiao The Fate of Environmental Determinism in 20th Centruy China -- The
Ideological Origin of Environmental Disaster in P.R.C.
Vincent K. Pollard Marriage, Children, and Chinese Law: Transformation and Diversity
during War and Revolution
Richard Baker Moderator
Panel 5C: Identity and Representation in Asian Film
Moore 423
Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua Adventurous Dankichi: Representing the Other in Bouken Dankichi
Irina Melnikova Screen Representations of Russian-Japanese Encounters : Film, Music and Cultural Identity
Shelly Xiaoling Shi Between Illusion and Reality Ja Zhangke’s Vision of present-day China in The World
Simin Tan Spectatorship and the Foreign Gaze in a Chinese Ghost Story
Mingbao Yue Moderator
Coffee Break 10:00-10:30
(Lobby of the Korean Studies Building (across the street from Moore Hall)
Session 6: 10:30-12:00
Panel 6A: Redefining Asia (China and Japan)
Moore 202
Man-houng Lin The Rise of the Pacific in Connecting Asia with the Larger World:
Taiwan as an alternative transship point to Hong Kong, 1895-1945
Jeong-Pyo Hong The Dragon Rises: Is China Going to Become a New Hegemon in Northeast Asia?
Mike Sugimoto The Geography of Nation: Time versus Space in the Geo-Body of Japanese National Identity
Linda Walton Asia in World History
David Pietz Moderator
Panel 6B: Marginalizing Discourses in Japanese History
Moore 423
Maren Ehlers The Koshirō of Ōno Domain: An Outcast Organization within Domain Society
Eiko Maruko Violence as a Discursive Weapon: Diet Politics in the 1950s
Hiraku Shimoda Making and Unmaking a Cautionary Tale: Aizu Domian in Imperial Historical Discourse
Jonathan Dresner Moderator
Panel 6C: Religion, Identity and Self
Moore 228
Zbigniew Igielski The Sikh Concept of Equality
Deepak Shimkhada Legitimatization of the Guhyeswari Temple and the Creation of Swasthani Brata Katha
Menaha Ganesathasan Self and Space in the Yogavasistha
Douglas Shrader Between Self and No-Self: Lessons from the Majjhima Nikaya
Ramdas Lamb Moderator
12:00-1:00 ASPAC Hosted Luncheon
(Imin Center Garden Level Dining Room)
Speaker: Ambassador Robert Salmon, State Department Advisor, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Session 7: 1:30-3:00
Panel 7A: Environment and Sustainability: Part II
Moore 423
John H. Barnett Agricultural Reforms During the Doi Moi Period: 1986-2002
Carmen Burch What Are Swiddeners Really Up To? -- Resilience Theory and
Local Reality in Upland Sulawesi
David Jones Composting the Soul: The Buddhist Self and Ecology
E. Bruce Reynolds Moderator
Panel 7B: Recording Japanese Experiences
Moore 202
Priscilla Blinco Japanese Travel Diaries: Historical Significance
Steven Kohl Japanese Castaways and the Founding of the Qing Dynasty
Noriko Kawamura Moderator
Panel 7C: Ethnic Conflict and Memory
Moore 119
Samantha Cherrington In What Other Light Can They Look Upon Us But As Invaders Of Their Country?
Jason Dondero Response to Internment: Cooperation Verses Resistance in the
Japanese American Community during World War II
Megan Jones Exhibits of Opinion: How Japan's World War II Museums are used to
Further Political Agendas
Jeffrey Barlow Moderator
Coffee Break 3:00-3:30
(Lobby of the Korean Studies Building (across the street from Moore Hall)
Session 8: 3:30-5:00
Panel 8A: The Geopolitics of Internationalization
Moore 228
Nguyen Manh Hung The Parameters of United States-Vietnam Relations
Yong-Bin Lee Balance of Rise between Dragon and Elephant: The Significance and
Paradox of Chindia’s Dual Rise in Global Geopolitics
Su Hwan Lim Is Peaceful Unification of South Korea Possible?
Gaye Christoffersen Moderator
Panel 8B: Islam and the State
Moore 202
Geoffrey Cook Pakistan’s Westward Gaze
Koushik Ghosh Malaysia: The State and Islam
Ram Roy Moderator
Panel 8C: Perspectives on the End of World War II in Asia
Moore 119
Noriko Kawamura The Myth and Reality of Emperor Hirohito's 'Sacred Decision' to End the Pacific War
Scott Kramer An American Homecoming: The Surrender of the Bonin Archipelago
E. Bruce Reynolds Surrender in Singapore: A Multinational Perspective
John J. Stephan Moderator
Panel 8D: New Perspectives on Japanese Popular Culture
Moore 423
Brad Ambury Rintaro's Metropolis as Intertext: Pop Culture Mediations on the Machine/Human
Janice Brown Being Everywhere: The Craze for Cute in songs and Poetry of the New Transnation
Shelina Brown Sounding Simulacra: Japanese Enka Song as a Liminal Site of Global Cultural Porosity
Eleanor Hogan What if Rice Refused to be Harvested?
Constance Orliski Moderator
5:15-6:15: ASPAC Annual Business Meeting (ABM)
(all registered conference participants are welcome)
Moore 289 (Tokioka room)
6:30: Annual Banquet (tickets must have been purchased before the conference)
Imin Center Garden Level Dining Room
Dr. Robert Busewll, AAS President-Elect speaking on Korean Buddhist Journeys to Lands Real and Imagined
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Conference Registration & Continental Breakfast, 8:00-8:30
(Lobby of the Korean Studies Building (across the street from Moore Hall)
Session 9: 8:30-10:00
Panel 9A: Managing Labor and Productivity
Moore 228
Youngjin Choi Aligning Labor Disputes with Institutional, Cultural, and Rational
Approach: Evidence from East Asian-invested Enterprises in China
Shiling McQuaide Writing the Chinese Labor: Changes and Continuities in labor Historiography
James Sobredo The Labor Migration of Filipino Nurses: Examining Supply and Demand,
Education Funding, and Demographics
Dean Alegado Moderator
Panel 9B: History, Identity and Modernity in Korea
Moore 119
Chizuko T. Allen Early Korean Women Seen in Royal Successions of Silla
Jong Myung Kim Buddhist Daily Ritual in Korea: Transformation and Characteristics
Jee-Yeon Song I am Mrs. Nobody: Korean Women’s Marriage Denial through Catholicism
in the Early 19th Century
Yunmi Won Excessively Modern: Changing Foodways of Korean Middle-class Women
in Globalized Korea
Robert Buswell Moderator
Panel 9C: Representing and Classifying "Culture"
Moore 202
Jeffrey Dym Kamishibai, What is it?: Some Preliminary Findings
Kathleen Tomlonovic Collectors, Connoisseurs, and Critics: The Song Dynasty Literati as Arbiters of Culture
In Yiu (yoyo) Globalization and Localization of the Seiyū Culture in an Asian Context
Megumi Yoshida Looking at A Continuity in Cultural Heritage: A Case-Study on
Chinese Philosophical Influences on Japanese Ikebana
Jayson Chung Moderator
Coffee Break 10:00-10:30
(Lobby of the Korean Studies Building (across the street from Moore Hall)
Session 10: 10:30-12:00
Panel 10A: Resistance and Ethnicity
Moore 228
Dean McHenry Is Economic Inequality a foundation of Separatist Identity?
An examination of Successful and Unsuccessful Movements in India
Shailaja Paik Dalit Patriarchy Disinterred
Movindri Reddy Ethnic tensions in Fiji and Trinidad: Indentured Indians and the legacy of British Colonialism
Nasir Uddin Breaking the Boundary between Hills and Plains: Transition in Everyday Life
among the Marginalized Pahari in Bangladesh
William Vanderbok Moderator
Panel 10B: Issues in Electronic Communication
Moore 202
Yanchun Liu Static or Dynamic Approach: Does It Matter? -- The Role of
Telecommunications in Regional Growth in China
Josefino Magallanes Exploring the Role of Internet Usage in New Venture Creation
James Paradise A Model of Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement in China
Jeffrey Barlow Moderator
Panel 10C: Japanese Nationalism Rising?
Moore 119
Tsuneo Akaha The Nationalist Discourse in Japan
David Arase Nationalism and 'Normal State': Japan's International Roles
David Fouse Nationalism in Japan's Alliance with the United States
Yoichiro Sato Moderator
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