Joint Conference
60th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
and
First Himalayan Studies Conference
October 28 to 30, 2011
Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Program
Friday, October 28
Session I: 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Panel 2
The Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalaya, Part I
Room 370
Panel 1
Indigenous Peoples and Struggles over Resources in
the Himalaya
Room 243
Organizer and Chair: Sarah Besky, U WisconsinMadison
1. Sara Shneiderman, Yale U
“Situating Darjeeling and Sikkim in the Himalayas
and South Asia”
Chair: Dilli Ram Dahal, Tribhuvan U
1. Janak Rai, U Michigan/Tribhuvan U
“Emplacing Histories and Re-imagining the Nation:
Place-making and the cultural politics of Dhimals'
indigenous activism in Nepal”
2. Tina Harris, U Amsterdam
“Haunting the Border and Flooding the Market: Trade
and the Indo-Tibetan Interface”
2. Mabel Gergan, U North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Resisting Hydropower Development in the Eastern
Himalayas, India.”
3. Mona Chettri, SOAS, U London
“Evolution of an Identity- The Political Re-definition
of the Gorkhas of the Darjeeling Hills”
3. Laya Prasad Uprety, Tribhuvan U
“Marginalization of Indigenous Tharu Community in
Common Property Resource Management: A Case
Study of an Indigenous Irrigation System from the
Tarai of Nepal”
4. Olivier Chiron, U Bordeaux
“Tourism in the Himalayan state of Sikkim: practices
and representations”
Panel 3
Geographical Research Across the Himalaya I: Local
Scale Studies
Room 270
4. Mingma Sherpa, U Massachusetts-Amherst
“Sherpa Conservation Governance in the Sagarmatha
National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal”
Organizer: John Metz, Northern Kentucky U
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1. Sarah J. Halvorson, Shah F. Khan, and Ulrich Kamp,
The U Montana
“Reconstructing Balakot, Northern Pakistan: A FiveYear Retrospective on the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake”
2. Mélanie Vandenhelsken, Austrian Academy of
Sciences
“Gurungs, ‘ethnic’ association and the state in Sikkim:
opposition and consent in the making of ethnicity”
2. Keith Brosak, U Montana, Missoula
“Between Conservation and Development:
Marginalization and resource access in the
Uttarakhand Himalaya.”
3. Mark Turin, Cambridge U/Yale U
“Mother Tongues and Multilingualism: Reflections on
Linguistic Belonging in Sikkim”
4. Sarah Besky, U Wisconsin-Madison
“Political Ecologies of Justice on Darjeeling Tea
Plantations”
3. Barbara Brower, Portland State U
“The Future of Himalayan Yak-herding: Resilience or
Collapse?”
4. Asheshwor Shrestha, Nepal Pvt. Ltd.
“Local knowledge inputs in prioritizing climate
change adaptation measures
– the case of Nepal”
Panel 6
Geographical Research Across the Himalaya-II:
Regional Scale Studies
Room 270
Chair: John Metz, Northern Kentucky U
Session II: 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
1. Karl Ryavec, U Wisconsin- Stevens Point
“Mapping the Indo-Tibetan Frontier in the Historical
Atlas of Tibet”
Panel 4
Current Research in Nepali Politics
Room 243
2. Stefan Fiol, U Cincinnati
“Unsettling Regionalism: Perspectives from the
Uttarakhand Himalayas”
Chair: Mahendra Lawoti
1. Mahendra Lawoti, Western Michigan U
“From mono-ethnic state to poly-ethnic polity:
Exclusion/Inclusion and Democracy in Nepal”
3. John (Jack) Shroder, U Nebraska - Omaha
“Constraints and Possibilities for Research on Physical
Environments in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya”
2. Dilli Ram Dahal, Tribhuvan U, Nepal
“Social Exclusion in Nepal: A Study of Yadavs of
Central Nepal Tarai”
Panel 7
Cultural, Social and Political Change in the Himalaya
Room 301
3. Dinesh Paudel, U Minnesota
“A Pre-History of the Maoist Movement: Nature,
Culture and the Emergence of Rebellious
Consciousness in Thabang of Nepal”
Chair: Laura Kunreuther, Bard C
4. Purna Nepali, Kathmandu U and Consortium for
Land Research and Policy Dialogue
“Political Economy of Scientific Land Reform in
Constitution Making Process of Nepal”
1. Brunson, Jan, U Hawaii
“The role of sons in post-monarchy, secular Nepal”
2. Atul Saklani and Bina Saklani, HNB Garhwal U
“Ritual, Food and Social Hierarchy as Represented in
the Culture of Uttarakhand Himalaya: An Anthropo Historic Perspective”
Panel 5
The Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalaya-II
Room 370
3. Nadine Plachta, U Berne
“Reflexivity in Relation to Tradition: the Education of
Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Nepal.”
Organizer: Besky, Sarah, U Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: Besky, Sarah, U Wisconsin-Madison
4. Om Gurung, Tribhuvan U
“The Question of Indigeneity and Identity in a Federal
Nepal”
1. Debarati Sen, American U
“Measured Invisibility: Ghumauri and the Challenges
of Worker Organizing in Darjeeling Plantations”
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Panel 8
Kamikaze, Hiroshima, and Manchuria: Historical
Memory and National Identity
Room 205
3. Annelies Ollieuz, U Oslo, Norway,
“‘Politicians and other educated people’: Political
parties as arenas of informal learning”
Chair: Hiromi Mizuno, U Minnesota
Discussant: Hiromi Mizuno
Session III: 1:30 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
1. R.W. Purdy, John Carroll U
“Men, Martyrs and Myth: Kamikaze and Islamist
Suicide Bombers”
Panel 11
Plenary: Rethinking the Himalaya: The Indo-Tibetan
Interface and Beyond
Room 250
2. Yuko Shibata, Saint John's U/C of Saint Benedict
“Spectacle Excess and the Volatility of Gaze:
Subverting Atomic Bomb Victimhood”
3. Lianying Shan, Gustavus Adolphus C
“Nostalgia and Identity Formation in Postwar Japan: a
Study of Popular and Literary Accounts of Manchuria”
Chair: Arjun Guneratne
Panel 9
Configuring Chinese Cinema and Literature: Crossculture perspectives
Room 300
2. Kathryn S. March, Cornell U
“The great (gender) divide”
1. Mark Liechty, U Illinois at Chicago
“ ‘Missing Links’: The Indo-Tibetan Interface in the
Tourist's Mind's Eye”
3. David Holmberg, Cornell U
“Rethinking the Interface: Shamanic Resilience”
Chair: Frederik Greene
4. Susan Hangen, Ramapo C
“The Concept of the Himalaya in an Era of Identity
Politics and Globalization”
1. Hong Zeng, Carleton C
“Female doubling and cultural identities of Hong
Kong and Shanghai”
5. P. P. Karan, U Kentucky
“The Cultural Geography of the Himalaya”
2. Hongmei Yu, Luther C
“Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: The
Cinematic Ambivalence of Chinese Masculinity”
Panel 12
Religion, Politics and Ritual in India, China and Japan
Room 370
3. Jessica Ka Yee Chan, U Minnesota, Twin Cities
“Cinematic Encounter: Lu Xun, Douglas Fairbanks,
and The Thief of Bagdad (1924)”
Chair: Roger Jackson, Carleton C
1. Michelle Folk, Concordia U/U Regina
“Food for Thought: The Ritual Activities of Mathas in
Medieval Tamilnadu India”
Panel 10
Education in Asia
Room 170
2. Jesse Palmer, Lawrence U
“Ennin as Transmitter of Mountain Religion Practices
from China to Japan”
Chair: Ruthanne Kurth-Schai, Macalester C
1. Sangsook Lee-Chung, U. of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
“Personalized Globalization, Vicarious
Cosmopolitans: South Korean “Geese-dad”
Academics”
3. Amy McNair, U Kansas
“On the Origin of the Medieval Chinese Buddhist
Sculpted Grottoes at Yungang”
4. Xi He, U Chicago
“Glorifying and Worshipping the Bodhisattva: An
Analysis of the Devotional Emotion in the
Lalitavistara”
2. Zhini Zeng, The Ohio State U
“Second-Culture Worldview Construction: Culture
Gains during Study Abroad”
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Panel 13
Videos: “Experiencing Jingdezhen: The Porcelain City
of China” and “All the Roads to Lhasa”
Room 150
Panel 16
State Power and Spatiality in Inland Tai Urban Spaces
Room 243
Organizer: Taylor M Easum, U Wisconsin, Madison
1. Gary Erickson, Macalester C
“Experiencing Jingdezhen: The Porcelain City of
China”
1. Ryan Ford, UW-Madison
“Tracing the Phrabang Image in upland and lowland
spaces: A local history of Northern Laos”
2. Wang Ping, Macalester C
“All the Roads to Lhasa”
2. Taylor M. Easum, U Wisconsin, Madison
“‘Micro-Colonization’: Scale and State Power in a Thai
Provincial City”
3. Jose Rafael Martinez, Ohio U
“Mallification of Space: The Globalization of
Landmarks in Vientiane”
Panel 14
Classical Chinese Literature and Art
Room 301
Chair: Hong Zeng, Carleton C
Discussant: Hong Zeng
Session IV: 3:30-5:15
1. Jane Parish Yang, Lawrence U
“Hegemonic Dreams/Fictive Dialogues: Channeling
Chinese Literati in 16th century Vietnamese
'Narratives of the Strange'”
Plenary address
2. Elizabeth Kindall, U St. Thomas
“A Painted Geo-Narrative as Quest Toward Sagehood”
Drona Rasali, Nepaldalitinfo.com
3. Ye, Qing, U Oregon
“Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Reading of Backyards
(Hou Ting) in Jin Ping Mei”
“Envisioning an equitable space for marginalized
people in Nepal: A journey of small strides
contributing to ‘change’ for social justice.”
3:45 – 5:00 p.m.
Room 250
Panel 15
Japanese Linguistics: Different Perspectives and
Implications for Japanese Language Instruction
Room 205
Organizer and Chair: Satoko Suzuki, Macalester C
Panel 17
Buddhism in China and Japan
Room 370
Michiko Todokoro Buchanan, U Minnesota
“Verb Ellipsis in Japanese”
Chair: Erik W. Davis, Macalester C
Natalie Dmyterenko and Rika Ito, St. Olaf C
“Japanese numerals and classifiers: The case of
number four and seven”
1. Yeonjoo Park, U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Buddhist Construction of Kami-Buddha Discourse in
Early Medieval Japan: The Logic of the Kami-Buddha
Combination in the Keiran shūyōshū”
Ritsuko Narita, Macalester C
“Transferability of the use of hearsay evidential
markers in L1 Japanese and L2 Japanese”
2. Chen Qin, The Ohio State U
“Sinification of Buddhism in the Transformation Text
of Mulian Rescuing His Mother from the Underworld”
Satoko Suzuki, Macalester C
“Linguistic Stereotypes and Style Manipulation in
Japanese Fiction”
3. Tomoko Yoshida, Independent scholar
““Respect the Gods, Even If You Do Not Worship
Them”: Medieval Buddhists’ Advice on Living in a
Religiously Plural World”
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4. Mark Graham, C of Wooster (OH)
“Fu De: Translating the Perfection of the Buddha into
Chinese Discourses of Virtue (De) and Sagehood”
Panel 20
Development Issues in Asia
Room 205
Chair: Liang Ding, Macalester C
Panel 18
Roundtable: Experiments in Content-Based
Instruction: Integrating Asian Language and Area
Studies at St. Olaf C
Room 300
1. Sudarshana Bordoloi, York U, Canada
“Development Implications of the Emerging Non Farm
Sector in India: The Case of Kerala”
2. Ajay Panicker, St Cloud State U
“State Power and Social Movements in the Neoliberal
Era: Examination of a People’s Movement in Kerala,
India”
Organizer: Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf C
Chair: Phyllis Larson, St. Olaf C
1. Luying Chen, St. Olaf C
“The Liberal Arts Content in a Fourth-year Chinese
Language Class”
3. Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee, C of Saint Benedict/Saint
John's U, Minnesota
“Are Asian Societies Penny-Wise but Pound-Foolish?
An Analysis of Ageing Populations, Female Statuses
and the Future of Economic Development in Japan,
China and India.”
2. Tomoko Hoogenboom, St. Olaf C
“Content-Based Instruction (CBI) in an Advanced
Japanese Course”
4. Yong-Chool Ha, U Washington, Seattle; Wang Hwi
Lee, Ajou U, South Korea;
Sunil Kim, U California, Berkeley
“Re-embedding: Institutional Scanning for the
Restructuring of Business-Labor Relations in Japan
and Korea”
3. Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf C
“Chinese-Language Components in Chinese History
Courses”
4. Kris MacPherson, St. Olaf C
“Applying CBI to a Research Methods Course”
Panel 19
The Politics of the Chinese Communist Party
Room 301
Panel 21
Narrating Modern Chinese Fiction and Theater
Room 270
Chair: Yue-him Tam, Macalester C
Chair: To be determined
1. Linlin Wang, U Texas at Austin
“Sacrifice for Resistance: the Grain Tax Collection of
the CCP in Jiangsu (1937-1945)”
1. Chun-yu Lu, Washington U in St. Louis
“A Love Story of Returning: Mu Rugai (1884-1961) and
Popular Romance in Manchukuo”
2. Charles Kraus, George Washington U
“The Centralizing State: Social Investigations, Political
Campaigns, and Regime Consolidation in Xinjiang,
1949-1955”
2. Li-Lin Tseng, Pittsburg State U
“The 1930s: Mei Lanfang, Beijing Opera, and European
Avant-garde Theater”
3. Steven Day, Benedictine U
“Faux Epistolary: Shi Tuo’s Shanghai Correspondence
and the Aesthetics of Literary Montage in Accounts of
Wartime Shanghai”
3. Sonja Kelley, Western Washington U
“Finished Business: The Impact of the Anti-Rightist
Movement on the Long-term Development of Visual
Art in the People’s Republic of China”
4. Haosheng Yang, Miami U
“Displaced Dream of Loyalist Romance: Yu Dafu and
His Poetry”
4. Joseph Yick, Texas State U-San Marcos
“Leftwing Journalism and Communist Politics in
British Hong Kong: Wen Wei Po in 1989”
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5:00-6:30 p.m.
Welcome Reception, Smail Gallery
6:45 8:00 p.m.
Himalayan Studies Conference Dinner,
Board Room, Weyerhaeuser Hall
8:00-9:30 p.m.
Keynote address: David Gellner,
“Upland Region or 'a World of
Peripheries'? Some Thoughts on
Himalayan Identities”
Saturday, October 29
Session V: 8:30 a.m. -10:15 a.m.
Panel 23
Tibet, China, India: mapping connections across
history, politics, and culture
Room 301
Panel 22
Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya-I: Ritual and
Practice
Room 243
Chair: Geoff Childs, Washington U in St. Louis
1. Adam Cathcart, Pacific Lutheran U
“Liu Shengqi in Lhasa: A New Window Into Tibet and
Chinese Assertions on the Plateau, 1945-1949”
Organizer: Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Rutgers U
Discussant & Chair: Sijapati, Megan Adamson,
Gettysburg C
2. Sarah Getzelman, The Ohio State U
“Imaging the Dalai Lama: Incarnations in Art and
Practice”
1. Ehud (Udi) Halperin, Columbia U
“Buffalo Sacrifice to the Goddess Hadimba: A
Complex Response to Modernity”
3. Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Université Laval
“TV across the Indo-Tibetan Interface: Indian TV as a
cultural mediator for ‘Newcomer’ Tibetans in
Dharamsala?”
2. Elizabeth Allison, California Institute of Integral
Studies
“At the Boundary of Modernity: Religion,
Technocracy, and Waste Management in Bhutan”
4. Tsering Wangchuk, U San Francisco
“In Search of the Hidden Land of Pema Koh: Tibetan
Pilgrims Reminisce about their Attempt to Reach the
Unreachable Land”
3. Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Rutgers U
“The Modernization of a Medieval Nepali Hindu
Tradition: Preliminary Observations of Recent
Changes”
Panel 24
Biodiversity conservation and sustainable
development in the eastern Himalaya of Yunnan,
China
Room 270
Organizer/Chair: Teri Allendorf, U Wisconsin-Madison
1. Jamon Van Den Hoek, U Wisconsin-Madison
“Local Drivers of Forest Cover Change Variability in
Tibetan Yunnan, China”
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2. Selena Ahmed, Tufts U
“Persistence and Transformation of Butter-Tea Food
Systems in Tibetan Yunnan, China”
Panel 27
Return the Chinese Gods to the Local and Rethink the
Social Complexity in the Studies of Chinese Religion
Room 352
3. Mary Saunders, U. Wisconsin-Madison
“Shifting cultivation: The decline of tartary buckwheat
farming in its center of origin”
Organizer: Liu Yilin, U Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: Tobias Zuern, U Wisconsin-Madison
4. Brian Robinson, U Wisconsin-Madison
“Livelihood and matsutake mushroom harvests in
Tibetan Yunnan, China”
Liu Yilin, U Wisconsin-Madison
“From the Lunar New Year Pictures to the Five Petty
Demons --A Gap Between the Pictorial and Theatrical
Representations of Zhong Kui in late Imperial China”
5. Jodi Brandt, U Wisconsin-Madison
“Sacred sites are refugia for Himalayan forest birds in
Tibetan Yunnan, China”
2. Tobias Zuern, U Wisconsin-Madison
“Polymorph Divine Beings--Pan Gu, Pan Hu, and the
Drum in a Report of a Ritual from Hunan”
3. Naparstek Michael, U Wisconsin-Madison
“Auntie's an Exorcist: Literary Consumption of Daoist
Exorcism”
Panel 25
Khumbu, Scholars’ Crucible: Four decades in the
Study of People and Place
Room 300
Discussant: Michael Naparstek, U. Wisconsin-Madison
Organizer: Barbara Brower
Chair: James Fisher
Discussants: Barbara Brower, James Fisher
Panel 28
Women in Late Imperial China: Literary, historical
and artistic perspectives.
Room 170
1. Jeremy Spoon, Portland State U
“The Heterogeneity of Khumbu Sherpa Ecological
Knowledge”
2. Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Washington State U
“Comparison of on-route and off-route villages in
Pharak”
Organizer & Chair: Ihor Pidhainy, Marietta C
1. Lee, Marion S., Ohio U
“Re-positioning painters of women in Late Imperial
China”
3. Lindsay Skog, U Colorado at Boulder
“Exploring global discourses in a sacred landscape:
Methods and theories”
2. Ihor Pidhainy, Marietta C
“How Men saw Women in Late Imperial China (and
consequently how they were judged): A case study of
Yang Shen and the women in his life.”
Panel 26
Alterity and Japanese Cinema
Room 205
3. LiduYi, McGill U
“Women Painters--Divinely Endowed Talents of Ming
and Qing and Art Collections”
Organizer and Chair: Heitzman, Kendall, Macalester C
4. George Qingzhi Zhao, Skidmore C
“Lives and political involvement of Kubilai Khan’s
wives: Chabui and Nambui in the Yuan dynasty”
1. Kendall Heitzman, Macalester C
“Slower, Lower, Weaker in Tokyo Olympiad”
2. Noboru Tomonari, Carleton C
“Burakumin and Masculinity: Mikuni Rentarō and
Postwar Japanese Cinema”
3. David Obermiller, Gustavus Adolphus C
“Agency and Orientalism in the Movies Teahouse of
the August Moon (1956) and Beat (1998)”
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Panel 29
Transnational Writing on Asian Themes
Room 370
Panel 31
Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigrant Labor:
Himalayan Diasporas
Room 301
Chair and Discussant: Wang Ping, Macalester C
Chair and Discussant: Laura Kunreuther, Bard C
1. Stephanie Cox, Carleton C
“The microscopic writing of Ying Chen, Francophone
Asian-Canadian writer”
1. Tina Shrestha, Cornell U
“The everyday immigrant-integration: Nepali refugees,
asylum seekers, and migrant workers in New York
City”
2. Puspa Damai, U Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Cannibal Himalaya? Reading Jamaica Kincaid's
Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya”
2. Tristan Bruslé, CNRS
““Qatar is like a jail”: Daily life in a Nepalese migrant
labor camp and the inmate metaphor.”
3. Cahill, Devon A, U Minnesota
“Penetrating Gotthard: Tawada, Travel, and the
Illusion of Identity”
3. Christie Shrestha, U Kentucky
“Resettlement of Bhutanese Refugees in Lexington,
Kentucky.”
Session VI: 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel 32
The Social Dimensions of Agriculture and Climate
Change in the Himalaya
Room 270
Panel 30
Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya-II: Language
and Discourse
Room 243
Organizer: Milan Shrestha, Arizona State U
Chair: Netra Chhetri, Arizona State U
Organizer: Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg C
Chair: Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Rutgers U
1. Milan Shrestha, Arizona State U
“Climate Change in the Nepal Himalaya: Examining
Vulnerability and Livelihood Security Issues”
1. Michael Baltutis, U Wisconsin-Oshkosh
“Venerating the Nation, Advertising Dharma:
Religious Language in Nepal’s 2006 People’s
Movement”
2. Netra Chhetri, Arizona State U
“Climate-induced innovation in agriculture: a
conceptual approach to understanding agricultural
adaptation to climate change”
2. Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg C
“Muslim Belonging and Place in Nepal: Reflections
on Contrasting Narratives and Contemporary Debates
in the Kathmandu Valley”
3. Deepa Joshi, Wageningen U
“‘Deconstructing Gender-Climate Myths: A Case
Study from the Darjeeling Himalaya’”
4. John Metz, Northern Kentucky U
“Beware of the Climate Change Bandwagon”
3. Michelle Kleisath, U Washington
“"Stop Saying 'Western,' Start Saying 'White'": an
argument for a renewed vocabulary in English
language literature on Tibetan Buddhism”
Panel 33
Family Planning, State Medicine and Mental Health in
Asia
Room 370
4. Holly Gayley, U Colorado-Boulder
“Reimagining Buddhist Ethics on the Tibetan Plateau”
Chair: Ron Barrett, Macalester C
1. Suryadewi E. Nugraheni, U Wisconsin - Madison
“How Indonesian Administrations Have Changed
Family Planning Policy”
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2. Byungil Ahn, Saginaw Valley State U
“State Medicine with a Socialist Face: The CCP’s
Programs for Maternity and Infant Health in the 1950s'
Urban Areas”
Panel 36
Gender and Women’s Roles in China
Room 170
Chair: David Buck, U Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Emeritus
3. Trude Jacobsen, Northern Illinois U
“The Curious Case of Sherlock Hare: Race, Class, and
Mental Health in British Burma”
1. Cronin Irena, U California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
“Changes in Gender Differentiation in Western Zhou
Elite Joint Burial Tombs, as an Indicator of Strength of
the Late Western Zhou Ritual Reform”
4. Prachi Priyam, Stanford U
“Schizophrenia in Varanasi: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry
into the Social Bases of Illness Experience”
2. He Man, Ohio State U
“Staging “(Free) Love” in Makeshift Stages:
Empowering Women in the Performative Culture of
1920s China”
Panel 34
Modernization and Shifting Meanings: Creating
Gender, National and Religious Identities
Room 205
3. John M. Knight, Ohio State U
“Comrade Jiang Qing or Madame Mao? How
Commentary on Jiang Qing Reflects the Changing
Roles of Women in Communist China”
Organizer: Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg U
Chair: Tanya Maus, Wittenberg U
4. Gregory Freitag, Ohio State U
“Cultural Imperialism or Feminist Intervention:
Rethinking Power Relations and the Gender Ideals of
Missionary Education in China”
1. Janice Glowski, Wittenberg U
“Powerful Partners: Buddhist Stupas and Peace
Language in the Tibetan Diaspora”
2. Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg U
“Kongzi and Mr. Science”
Panel 37
From the Cultural Revolution to the 2010 Expo: An
Analysis of Shifting Chinese Identity across Multiple
art Forms
Room 300
3. Tanya Maus, Wittenberg U
“Transformations of "Love" in Meiji Japan”
4. Terumi Imai, Wittenberg U
“Speech and Gender Shaping in Contemporary
Japanese”
Organizer and Chair: Natalie McMonagle, U St Thomas
1. Natalie McMonagle, U St Thomas
“Proletarians of the World Unite: Expanding Chinese
Identity through Propaganda Posters of the Cultural
Revolution”
Panel 35
Re-reading Classical Texts
Room 352
2. Carolyn Tillman, U St Thomas
“In Front of Tiananmen: Tourist Photography and
Identity in Two 20th Century Chinese Paintings”
Chair: Jim Laine, Macalester C
Discussant: Jim Laine, Macalester C
3. Joshua Feist, U St Thomas
“Creating and Preserving Narratives in the Act of
Appropriation: Between Night Revels of Han Xizai
and Night Revels of Lao Li”
1. Lisa W. Crothers, C of Wooster
“Pragmatics of Perfection: Diversities of the Perfected
Man in the Indian Epic, Mahabharata”
4. Katie Czarniecki, U St Thomas
“National Identity Through Architecture: The China
Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai”
2. Catherine Ryu, Michigan State U
“Placing The Tale of Genji on the Map of The Silk
Road Imaginaire: A Poetic Flight through the Figure of
a “Maboroshi””
3. William B. Noseworthy, U Wisconsin-Madison
“Establishing a Historical Context for Nai Mai Mang
Makah”
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Session VII: 1:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
1. Teri Allendorf, U Wisconsin-Madison
“Local residents’ perceptions of protected areas in
Asia”
Panel 38
Islam in the Himalayas: Representations, Boundaries,
and Identities
Room 243
2. Neil Carter, Michigan State U
“Acceptance Capacity for Tigers in Nepal: Implications
for Conservation of Predators in Human-Dominated
Landscapes”
Organizer: Rohit Singh, UC Santa Barbara
Chair: Jennifer Aengst, UC Davis
Discussant: Megan Sijapati, Gettysburg C
3. Narayan P. Dhakal, U Minnesota
“Assessment of Residents’ Social and Economic
Wellbeing and Perceived Biological Gains in
Conservation Resettlement: A Case Study of
Padampur, Chitwan National Park, Nepal”
1. Rohit Singh, UC Santa Barbara
“Narrative and History among Tibetan Muslims in
Kashmir: Rethinking Identity within the Indo-Tibetan
Interface”
4. Bhim Gurung, U Minnesota
“Values for and Tolerance Towards Tigers in Madi
Valley, Chitwan National Park, Nepal”
2. Jennifer Aengst, UC Davis
“Hyper-fertile and Against Contraception? An
Examination of Muslim Women’s Reproduction”
Panel 41
Tang Narrative
Room 370
3. Mona Bahn, DePauw U
“Being “Muslim” on India’s frontiers: Militarization
and Identity Politics in Kargil, India”
Organizer and Chair: William H. Nienhauser, Jr., U
Wisconsin-Madison
Discussant: Thomas Noel, U Wisconsin-Madison
Panel 39
Roundtable: Migration, Transnationalism and
Diaspora: Old and New Themes in Himalayan Studies
Room 301
1. Chunting Chang, U Wisconsin-Madison
“How the Heroines Drive the Plots in ‘Lingying zhuan’
and 'Liu Yi'”
Organizer and Chair: Sara Shneiderman, Yale U
2. Maria Kobzeva, U Wisconsin-Madison
“Zhou Bao in the Tang Fiction and Historical
Accounts.”
1. Sara Shneiderman, Yale U
“Trans-Himalayan Citizens”
3. Xin Zou, U Wisconsin-Madison
“Storytelling and Creativity in ‘Xie Xiao’e zhuan’
谢小娥傳 (The Account of Xie Xiao’e)”
2. Geoff Childs, Washington U in St Louis
“Migration, Family Change, and Elderly Care”
3. David Gellner, U Oxford
“Diasporic consciousness among Nepalis in the UK”
4. Kathryn March, Cornell U
“Festivals, Phones & Facebook”
Panel 42
Midwest Japan Seminar I
Room 300
Jeffrey Alexander, U Wisconsin-Parkside.
“The Beverage of the Masses: The Recovery and
Growth of Japan’s Postwar Beer Industry, 1945-1965”
Panel 40
Human Dimensions of Nature Conservation Models in
the Himalayas
Room 270
Organizer: Narayan P Dhakal, U Minnesota
Chair: David C. Fulton, U Minnesota
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Panel 43
India, China and Japan: Regional Power Politics in
Asia
Room 352
3. Elizabeth Coville, Carleton C
Joko Sutrisno, Indonesian Performing Arts Association
of Minnesota
“Teaching "Anthropology 110: Indonesian Music and
Cultures": Interdisciplinary Experiential Education in
Minnesota”
Chair: Andrew Latham, Macalester C
Discussant: Andrew Latham
4. Matthew Rahaim, U Minnesota
“Difference, Translation, and Commensurability in
Teaching Asia Survey Courses”
1. Mazumdar Arijit, U St. Thomas
“India in South Asia: Regional hegemony in the
twenty-first century”
2. Yuxin Ma, U Louisville
“China's Rise to Prominence: Competitor or Partner?”
3. Taka Daitoku, Northwestern U
“Decline or Renewal? High-Growth Japan’s Search of
Nuclear Capability and the Three Traditions of
Postwar Pacifism”
Panel 46
Plenary: Online Resources for Himalayan Studies:
Research, Collaboration and Partnership
Room 250
David Germano, U Virginia
Mark Turin, Cambridge U and Yale U
3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Panel 44
Unreeling China: Fact and Fantasy in Chinese Cinema,
1950-Present
Room 170
Plenary address
Organizer and Chair: Frederik Green, Macalester C
Discussant: Jennifer Feeley, U Iowa
Pratyoush Onta, Martin Chautari
1. Charles Laughlin, U Virgina
“Are We Having Fun Yet? Levity and Play in Chinese
Socialist Film Comedy”
“The past and future of Nepal Studies in Nepal.”
5:00-6:15 p.m.
2. Wei Yang, Sewanee U the South
“Branding Beijing: The Flattening of Time and Space
in Jackie Chan’s The Karate Kid”
Room 250
3. Frederik Green, Macalester C
“The Sky is the Limit: Feng Xiaoning’s Leitmotif
Cinema and the Popularization of State Myths”
Plenary: MCAA Presidential Speaker
Panel 45
Roundtable: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching
South and Southeast Asia
Room 205
Karma Lekshe Tsomo, U San Diego
“Changes and Challenges: Women in Asian Buddhist
Cultures.”
Organizer and Chair: Julia Byl, St. Olaf C
3:45-5:15 p.m.
1. Julia Byl, St. Olaf C
“Ephemeral Representations: Southeast Asia in the
Performative Moment”
Room 350
2. Thomas Williamson, St. Olaf C
“Universities Without Borders? Connecting Southeast
Asian and American Campuses”
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Panel 47
Tang Narrative-II
Room 370
Organizer and Chair: William Nienhauser, U WisconsinMadison
Discussant: Rania Huntington, U Wisconsin-Madison
1. Chen Wu, U Wisconsin-Madison
“Spaces in ‘Changhenge zhuan’ 長恨歌傳 (The Story
of the Song of the Everlasting Sorrow)”
2. Nan Ma, U Wisconsin-Madison
“Where Romance Ends, Politics Begins: Power,
Gender, and Anxiety of Speech in the Tang Tale
‘Lingying Zhuan.’”
3. Hai Liu, U Wisconsin-Madison
“Payment and Repayment in “Lingying zhuan” and
“Liu Yi”: A Balance Collapsed and Then Restored”
Panel 48
Midwest Japan Seminar II
Room 300
Monika Dix, Saginaw Valley State U
“Straightening the Wrinkles: Aging Ambivalence in
the Jōjin Ajari no haha no shū”
5:30 – 6:45 p.m. MCAA Business Meeting, Room 350
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. MCAA Banquet, Board Room,
Weyerhaeuser Hall
8:00 p.m.
Keynote Address: K. Sivaramakrishnan,
“Forests and the Environmental History
of India”
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Sunday, October 30
Panel 49
Health and Healing in the Himalaya
Room 243
2. Todd T. Lewis, C of the Holy Cross
“Tracking Buddhist Modernity in 20th Century Nepal:
The Sources for Chittadhar Hridaya’s Sugata
Saurabha”
Chair: Ron Barrett, Macalester C
Discussant: Ron Barrett
1. Sienna Craig, Dartmouth C
“Social Ecologies and Subjectivities: Narratives of
Health, Illness, and Medicines in Amdo (Qinghai
Province, China)”
Panel 52
Translating the Shiji (Grand Scribe’s Records)
Room 205
2. Bina Saklani and Atul Saklani, HNB Garhwal U
“Religion, Afflictions and Modernity: The role of
ritual in Healing in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, India”
Organizer and Chair: William Nienhauser, U WisconsinMadison
Discussant: Michael Naparstek, U Wisconsin-Madison
3. Murari Suvedi, Michigan State U
“Women’s Health Issues in Nepal”
1. Ying Qin, U Wisconsin-Madison
“When Historical Records Do Not Agree: The Case of
the “Zhao shijia” 趙世家 (Hereditary House of Zhao)”
2. Thomas Noel, U Wisconsin-Madison
“The Lords of Dian 滇: Early Han Imaginings of the
Noble Savage”
Panel 50
Democratization, Politics and Environment in Bhutan
Room 301
3. Lianlian Wu, U Wisconsin-Madison
"Gongshu Boying 公叔伯嬰 or Gongshu and Boying:
A Case of Mistaken Identity."
Chair: TBA
1. Christopher Candland, Wellesley C
“Tsa Trim Chenmo: The Constitution of Bhutan”
2. Kyle Lemle, School for Field Studies
Bryce Rosenbower, Hamline University
Robin R. Sears, School for Field Studies
Sonam Phuntsho, Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for
Conservation and Environment
“The Translation and Negotiation of Traditional and
Scientific Systems of Knowledge in Bhutanese
Community Forestry”
Panel 53
Literature and Cinema in Japan
Room 352
Discussant and Chair: Kendall Heitzman, Macalester C
1. Reichardt Travis, U Wisconsin Milwaukee
“The Noble Gangster: Seijun Suzuki's Portrayal of the
Yakuza in Japanese Chivalry Films of the 1960s”
3. Prashanti Pandit, U Houston Clear Lake
“In Search of Accountable Identity”
2. Gerald Iguchi, U Wisconsin-La Crosse
“Tanaka Chigaku, Buddhist Modernity, Nichirenism,
Affect”
Panel 51
Tracking Influences on Himalayan Buddhisms
Room 270
Chair: Todd Lewis
1. Erin H. Epperson, U Chicago
“Tracing out Trends in Tibetan Translations”
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