Friday, October 1
Opening Remarks (9 – 9:15 am)
- Natalie Sarrazin, NYCAS 2021 Conference Chair, SUNY Brockport
- Damita Davis, Chief Diversity Officer, SUNY Brockport
- Patricia Welch, President, NYCAS, Hofstra University
Plenary Session (9:15 – 10:45 am)
COVID-19 & Asian Life
Dean Jose Maliekal, Chair (SUNY Brockport)
Scapegoating in the time of coronavirus
Gita V. Pai, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse
Recasting the de-globalization narrative: responses to the pandemic in the developing world
Simran Keshwani, Macquarie University, Australia
‘Weaponized’ China’s Vaccine: intertwining international & Domestic Politics
Dechun Zhang, Leiden University, The Netherlands
“Corona Jihad” & the Indian Muslims: Islamophobia in the Times of Pandemic
Jemima Nasrin, University of Calcutta, India
Session A (11 am – 12:30 pm)
A1 Panel: Pandemic Culture
Shihyun Noh, Chair (SUNY Brockport)
Kumamon &Amabie: Embracing yuru-kyara & folklore in Japan's pandemic culture
Michael Maynard, Temple University
Corona Samhaengsi: Pandemic-Inspired Digital Acrostic Poetry Games in South Korea
Christina Han, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
Tenbun’s Last Call: Drinking Establishments in Japan Before & During COVID-19
Steven Fedorowicz, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan
A2 Panel: Migrants & the Pandemic (11 am – 12:30 pm)
Michael Laver, Chair (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Gendered Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Korean Immigrant Families Negotiate the Gendered Roles
Byung Soo Lee, University at Buffalo
Shiyuyuanwei (Expectations vs. Reality): Pandemic Narratives Among Chinese International Students
Zhaoying Chen, University of California, Irvine
Migrant workers in Japan before & during the Pandemic
Piyada Chonlaworn Tenri University Japan
What does it mean to be Singaporean? Reconstructing migrant worker identities in a neoliberal COVID-19 world
Kar Lok Pang, University of Oxford
A3 Panel: Pandemics & Asian Economies (11 am – 12:30 pm)
Lerong He, Chair (SUNY Brockport)
China Strengthening Her “Image” & “Influence” in South Asian BRI Countries in the Post-Pandemic Era
Bhavana Kumari, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Changes in banking sector in China & Russia in post-pandemic era
Ekaterina Serbina, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Science
The Covid-19 Pandemic as a World-Historical Event & the Indian Crisis
Monazir Khan, SUNY Binghamton
A Quantitative & Qualitative Approach to Understanding Key Drivers of Recovery & Growth for Southeast Asia in a Post-Pandemic Era
Vasanth Narayanan, Stanford University
A4 Roundtable: Exploring Contentious Politics in Thailand through Story Completion Exercises: Digital Ethnography in Pandemic Times (11 am – 12:30 pm)
Petra Desatova, Chair, (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies)
- Duncan McCargo, University of Copenhagen
- Saowanee Alexander, Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand
- Anyarat Chattharakul, Independent Scholar
Afternoon Keynote (12:45- 1:30 pm)
Introduction: Natalie Sarrazin
What this moment in time requires from Asian Americans
Jo-Ann Yoo, Executive Director, Asian American Federation
Session B (1:45 – 3:15 pm)
B1 Panel: Education & Inclusivity (1:45 – 3:15 pm)
Jie Zhang, Chair (SUNY Brockport)
The Pandemic Made It (Im)possible: Remote Teaching in the PRC
Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
In the Name of Education: Pandemic & the Digital Divide in Indian Education System.
Disha Ray, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, India
Building a sense of belonging & contributing to equity, diversity & inclusion: A Chinese female faculty’s journey in a US higher education institution
Zhang, Jie, SUNY Brockport
Reflections on Bengali Literary Canon Formation & Linguistic Engineering in a post-Pandemic World
Suhail Islam, Nazareth College
B2 Panel: Faith, Spirituality & the Pandemic (1:45 – 3:15 pm)
Priyam Rangan, Chair (SUNY Brockport)
COVID-19 Pandemic & Global Spirituality: A Causal Outline of Humanistic Sensitivity in Asia
Rev Wadigala Samitharathana Thero, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Reading The Pandemic as An Existential Moment: A View From India
Amrit Mishra, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India
COVID-19, Public Health & the Right to Political Dissent: The Case of Habib Rizieq & the Islamic Defenders Front in Indonesia
Megan Abbas Brankley, Colgate University
Faith & the political ecology of disease in South Asia: The post-pandemic thinking
Asif Mehmood, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
B3 Roundtable: Political Engagement of Asian/Pacific/American Artists in the Post Pandemic Era (1:45 – 3:15 pm)
Kyunghee Pyun, Moderator
- Kyunghee Pyun, Fashion Institute of Technology
- Soojung Hyun, Montclair State University
- Deborah Saleeby-Mulligan, Manhattanville College
- Joo Yeon Woo, University of South Florida
- Nicola Rodriguez, Independent Scholar
- Paige Johnston, Independent Scholar
- Nijia Cui, New York University
Saturday, October 2
NYCAS Executive Board Meeting (7 – 8:15 am)
Session C (8:30 – 10 am)
C1 Panel: Religious Change in Contemporary Vietnamese Society, (8:30 – 10 am)
Lauren Meeker, Chair (New Paltz)
Ritual Formalization & Intensification: The Cult of RITUAL “108 CHIÊU ỨNG ANH LIỆT” of the Ethnic Hainan Chinese in Vietnam
Tho Nguyen, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City
Dialogue Performance & the Creation of “Tradition” in the TẦM VU Vegetarian Festival in Long An, Vietnam
Diep Le, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City
Ghe ngo of the Khmer in the South of Vietnam: From a symbol in agricultural rituals to contemporary discourses
Chung Pham, Institute of Religious Studies, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences
Relic or Body? Afterlife Beliefs & the Conflicts of Urbanization in Vietnam
Hai Dinh, Department of Anthropology, Vietnam National University - Hanoi
C2 Panel: Cultural Appropriation in Arts (8:30 – 10 am)
Victor Vicente, Chair (Independent Scholar)
The "Empty" Shot in Chinese cinema
Siying Duan, Shanghai University, China
The Mikado, Or Cultural Appropriation During the Japan Craze
Bridget Dooley, Rochester Institute of Technology
A Comparative Analysis of Ubume（姑獲鳥）’s Images in Japanese & Chinese Cultures
Jian Wang, Independent Scholar
Korean Classical Musician’s Identities in Korean Film Music
Yoon Joo Hwang, University of Central Florida
C3 Panel: Governance & Law in Asia (8:30 – 10 am)
Neal Keating, Chair (SUNY Brockport)
Should I believe my Government? Indonesian Youth Movements, their social & digital connectivity’s for Future Employment, Support for Gender Equity- Anti Sexual Violence, & Searching for Common ground on Climate Justice & Anti-Racism (The Case Study of Aliansi Rakyat Bergerak)
Arie Setyaningrum Pamungkas, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Law & Labour: Domestic Workers in India
Audichya, Nikita, Maitreyi College University of Delhi/ Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
The Counterintuitive Approach of Vietnam’s Consumer Protection Law & Policy in the Digital Economy & a Way Forward
Hai Doan, University of Otago, New Zealand
Modern Grassroot Vietnamese Attitudes Towards ASEAN
David Owen, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
C4 Panel: Historical & Contemporary Politics (8:30 – 10 am)
Thamora Fishel, Chair (Cornell University)
The Shift in the Regime of Silence: Selective Erasure of the 1965 Massacre in post-New Order Indonesia’s Official Narratives
Suzanna Eddyono, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
A Nation Without Ethnic Essentialism? An Alternative Sino-Japanese Model of Civic Language Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Ashley Liu, University of Maryland
The Carnivalesque of “Big People”: Social Media Politics & Youth Uprising in Thailand
Moodjalin Sudcharoen, University of Chicago
The Reforestation of South Korea, the United States & the Anthropocene: Aid, Environmentalism, & the Cold War
James Podgorski, SUNY Binghamton
C5 Panel: Religion & Indigenous Beliefs(8:30 – 10 am)
Gareth Fisher, Chair (Syracuse University)
“Confucian Freedom: Practice, Morality, and Responsibility”
Zejian Zhou, St. Lawrence University (NYCAS Undergraduate Honorable Mention)
Hu Shih’s methodological awakening as a pragmatist: Historical perspective of the emphasis on Dewey’s philosophy
Daiki Yamashita, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, Japan
Mainstreaming indigenous knowledge in formal learning: the case of Pamulaan Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Education in the Philippines
Giselle Miole, Waseda University Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Japan
The Casualties of Nationhood
Shoaib Ekram, Rabindra Bharati University, India
Session D (10:15 - 11:45 am)
D1 Panel: Environmental & Social Responsibility (10:15 - 11:45 am)
Dean Jose Maliekal, Chair (SUNY Brockport)
The Land Question: Conceptualizing a Relational Environment
Surabhi Pant, University at Buffalo
Making it work here: a mixed-method research of Asian refugee employment experience in Buffalo, New York
Shiyue Cui, University at Buffalo
Migration & Citizenship in West Bengal: Some Reflections
Aditi Mukherjee, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Citizenry, Variety & Money in AIR’s Hawa Mahal
Shantam Goyal, University at Buffalo
D2 Panel: Artistic Reflections on the Nation (10:15 - 11:45 am)
Philip Guingona, Chair (Wells College)
Untouchable: On the Cultural Politics of Hands in Yan Lianke's Dream of Ding Village
Elise Huerta, Stanford University “Even if it Means Our Battles to Date are Meaningless” The anime Gundam Wing & Postwar History, Memory, & Identity in Japan
Genevieve Peterson, University of Massachusetts Boston
Photographs of the Injured: the Occupation of the Ottoman Bank (1896) & its Visual Representation
Baek Kyong Jo, Seoul National University, Korea
The Biopolitics & Self-contextualization in Chen Chieh-jen’s Realm of Reverberations
Hsin-Yun Cheng, University of Rochester
D3 Panel: Life in Modern Asia
Mark Nathan, Chair (University at Buffalo)
“A Dangerous Woman: Anna May Wong (黃柳霜) & Her American Dreams”
Li-Lin Tseng, Pittsburgh State University
Representation of Asian (Im)migrant Others in Korean TV Shows
Jeongyun Ko, Dong-A University, Korea
Our Perpetual Liberated Zone with Our Perpetual Companion: Korean Jeju Haenyeo & Jeju Ocean
Hee Sook Lee Niinioja, Independent Scholar
Social network range, but not size, is longitudinally associated with cardiac biomarkers in Korean older adults
Baldina, Ekaterina, Yonsei University, Korea
D4 Roundtable: Indigenous Peoples & Land Issues in Cambodia & Vietnam (10:15 - 11:45 am)
Neal Keating, Chair (SUNY Brockport)
- Glan Bubong, Independent Scholar
- Ria Bubong, Independent Scholar
- Sochea Pheap, Program Coordinator SIPDP
- Lorang Yun, Program Coordinator, BIPO
D5 Panel: Modern Japanese Literature (10:15 - 11:45 am)
Patricia Welch, Chair (Hofstra University)
1984 or 1Q84?: The Meta-Referential Properties of the Murikamiverse
Brigette Meskell, University at Buffalo
The Nuclear Beautiful in the Writings of Mishima Yukio
Scott Mehl, Colgate University
Elements or Models: Japanese Adaptations of Water Margin
Liu, Jionghao, Binghamton University,
(A)moral Absence: Three Considerations of Murakami Haruki’s “Barn Burning”
Adam DeCaulp, Rutgers University
Luncheon Keynote & Award Ceremony (12 - 1:15 pm)
- Welcome
- Marleigh Grayer Ryan Prize Winners, Tiantian Zheng
- Annual Meeting NYCAS and Election, Philip Guingona
- Keynote Address, Kamran Ali, incoming President, AAS - “Female Desire, Forbidden Love and Forgotten Archives: Sexual Politics in 1960s Pakistani Cinema” Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas at Austin
Session E (1:30 pm – 2:45 pm)
E1 Panel: Women in Premodern China (1:30 pm – 2:45 pm)
Siyin Zhao, Chair (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Emperor Wu Zetian & Her Gender Awareness
Lai, Yuki Rochester Institute of Technology
Urban Life, Status, & Roles of Women in Tang Chang’an
Holmbraker, Aidan, Rochester Institute of Technology
Influence of Neo-Confucianism on the Song Women’s Properties: Case Studies from Unmarried Daughters & Wives with no Sons
Iman, Evonne, Rochester Institute of Technology
E2 Panel: Reconfigurations of China in the World (1:30 pm – 2:45 pm)
Kristin Stapleton, Chair (University at Buffalo), Xin Fan (SUNY Fredonia), Discussant
Casting Transnational China
Guingona, Philip, Wells College
What Was Loving China? Revolutionizing Patriotism & Patriotizing Internationalism under Mao
Yue (Mara) Du, Cornell University
China’s Gyrations from Mao Zedong to Xi Zinping through a Personal Lens
Ross Terrill, Harvard University
E3 Panel: Tradition & Modernity in Contemporary China (1:30 pm – 2:45 pm)
Tiantian Zheng, Chair (SUNY Cortland)
The Criminal Justice System & Anti-Domestic Violence Law in Postsocialist China
Zheng, Tiantian, SUNY Cortland
Religious Activity Sites: Exploring Buddhism & Secularity in Post-Mao China
Gareth Fisher, Syracuse University
State Anti-Poverty Programs in Rural Ethnic China
Jinglin Piao, Cornell University
Taiji & Secret Cures: Traditional Health Culture & the Outbreak of Covid-19
John Abercrombie, Syracuse University
E4 Panel: The Belt-and-Road Initiative in Nepal & Pakistan (1:30 pm – 2:45 pm)
Heather Hindman, Chair (University of Texas, Austin)
The Feasibility of Nepal inspiring a Belt-and-Road Investment Dispute Resolution Mechanism between China & its Contiguous Neighbors
Daniel Loebell, Cornell University
The Himalayan BRI: a historic opportunity for Nepal's path toward alternative development
Dinesh Paudel, Appalachian State University
The making of a ‘new Dubai’: Infrastructural rhetoric & development in Pakistan
Mustafa Khan SOAS London
E5 ROUNDTABLE
“Creative Approaches in Pedagogy: Teaching during COVID-19”
Hiromi Dollase, Moderator
- Hiromi Dollase, Vassar College
- Patricia Welch, Hofstra University
- Mitsuaki Shimojo, SUNY Buffalo
- Mitsuko Takei, Hiroshima Shudo University
- Miho Fujiwara, Willamette University
- Junko Ikeda Swartzman, Binghamton University
- Yumiko Naito, Independent Scholar
- Keiko Miyajima, John Jay College
- Sayaka Abe, Middlebury College
- Mari Fujimoto, Queens College
- Nathen Clerici, SUNY New Paltz
Session F (3 – 4:30 pm)
F1 Panel: Performance & Cultural Identity (3 – 4:30 pm)
Natalie Sarrazin, Chair (SUNY Brockport)
"Hear the Difference": Musical Performance, Ethnography & the Notion of Cultural Affinity at Macau’s Lusofonia Festival
Victor Vicente, Independent Scholar
The Ascendancy of BTS, the Asian Boy Band in Overcoming the Privileges & Racial Overtones in the Light of Covid-19 Pandemic
Hanna Isath N, Independent Scholar
On Detour with Dinagyang Digital 360°: Delving into the Future of Philippine Dance Festivals
Jemuel Garcia Jr. University of California Riverside, USA/ West Visayas State University, Iloilo, Philippines
“From Heart to Heart” (以心伝心): Cross-Cultural Ethical Riding the Korean Wave Hallyu (韓流)
James Bretzke, John Carroll University
F2 Panel: Racial & National Identity (3 – 4:30 pm)
Walt Hakala, Chair (University at Buffalo)
Conflating Blackness & Rurality: Urban Politics & Social Control of Africans in Guangzhou
Guangzhi Huang, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Performing Race, Remaking Identity: Chinese Visual Artists in New York
Feng Chen, The New School
The indigeneity of Myanmar’s Rohingya - new evidence from the East India Company archive
Ronan Lee, Queen Mary University of London
“There are No Seeds Here”: Severing Seed Sovereignty in Mae La Camp
Terese Virginia Gagnon, Syracuse University, Marleigh Grayer Ryan Prize, Runner-up
F3 Panel: Asian Lives in Literature (3 – 4:30 pm)
Chair Nathen Clerici (SUNY New Paltz)
Finding the Way: The Search for English Language Scholarship on the Japanese Martial Arts
Tim Cooper, Siena College
The Sinophone Muslim Literary Tradition in Central Asia: A Study of the Emergence & Development of Dungan Literature
Kenneth J. Yin, City University of New York–LaGuardia
Doi Bansui, the Victor Frankenstein of Japanese New-Style Verse
Nicholas Albertson, Colgate University
The Rise of Afro-Eurasian Tourism: Individual Mobility & Transcultural Connectivity Along the Medieval Silk Roads
Baoli Yang, Brown University
F4 Panel: Gender, Sexuality & Discrimination (3 – 4:30 pm)
Mao Chen, Chair (Skidmore College)
“Flowers of the rear garden”: The People’s Republic of China’s Male Homosexological Lexicon
Andreanna Downing Zheng, Wells College
The Limits of Love: Gendering Secularism & the Crisis of Citizenship in India
Shahin Kachwala, SUNY Oneonta
(Re)Orienting Anti-Politics: Western Queer Subjectivity in Authoritarian China
Evan Zhao, University of Chicago
Caste & Race: Hierarchy & Marginalization in India & the US
Apurva Apurva, SUNY Oneonta
F5 Panel: Female Perspectives in Arts & Literature (3 – 4:30 pm)
Lauren Meeker, Chair (SUNY New Paltz)
What Can We Learn from Asian Science Fiction in the Post-Pandemic Era? Women Writers’ Representation of Cyborgs in Contemporary Chinese & Korean Science Fiction
Seoyeon Lee, University of Southern California
Musical Intimacies: a story of ethnographic filmmaking, an American-Burmese Hsaing ensemble, & a pandemic
Lauren Meeker, SUNY New Paltz
“Three Trees Make a Mountain”: Women & Contramodern Buddhist Volunteerism in Vietnam
Sara Ann Swenson, Dartmouth College (Marleigh Grayer Ryan Prize Winner)
Defending the Samurai: Alice Mabel Bacon & Meiji Japan at War
Joseph Henning, Rochester Institute of Technology