THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
UChicago Participates at the 2022 Association for Asian Studies Conference
Published on March 3, 2022
This year, the annual Association for Asian Studies conference is taking place March 24-27 at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center and the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Resort Hotel, in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The conference includes a full program of both in-person events and online sessions.
The Association for Asian Studies annual conference is the largest academic conference worldwide dedicated exclusively to Asian Studies research with topics covering all countries in Asia across 30 academic disciplines. The AAS annual conference is the ideal setting to meet face-to-face with senior and junior faculty in the field as well as students, administrators, librarians, foundation and museum staff, and program managers alike.
Below is a comprehensive listing of University of Chicago faculty and staff who are participating in this year's conference with a focus on East Asian studies (by order of date/time):
IN PERSON
Kyeong-Hee Choi
Associate Professor in Modern Korean Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/kyeong-hee-choi-phd
Discussant
Friday, March 25, 2022, 11:30am – 1:00pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Room 305A
C28: Ironic Globality: The Cold War and Korean Print and Reading Culture
Ariel Fox
Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/ariel-fox-phd
Organizer, Paper Presenter
Friday, March 25, 2022 1:30pm – 3:00pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Room 316A
D04: Toward a Theory of Late Imperial Chinese Media: Paper-Money-Body-Internet
Bruce Cumings
Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor Department of History The College Chair, Committee on Korean Studies, CEAS
https://ceas.uchicago.edu/directory/bruce-cumings
Chair
Friday, March 25, 2022 1:30pm – 3:00pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Room 307A
D25: Transnational Perspectives on North Korea and Latin America
Eilin Rafael Pérez
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/eilin-rafael-p%C3%A9rez
Paper Presenter
Friday, March 25, 2022 1:30pm – 3:00pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Room 307A
D25: Transnational Perspectives on North Korea and Latin America
Carl Kubler
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/carl-e-kubler
Paper Presenter
Friday, March 25, 2022 3:30pm – 5:00pm HST (Hawaii)Location: Room 309
E17: Transcolonialism in the Asia-Pacific
Lucien Sun
PhD student in East Asian visual and material culture
https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/graduate/profiles/sun
Paper Presenter
Saturday, March 26, 2022 12:30pm – 2:00pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Room 307B
G02: c. 1200: Art & Architecture in and around the Song
AG Alia Goehr
University of Chicago Teaching Fellow in the MA Program in the Humanities & Department of Comparative Literature
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alia-goehr-74456a45/?trk=public_profile_browsemap
Organizer, Paper Presenter
Saturday, March 26, 2022 12:30pm – 2:00pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Room 312
G06: Buddhist Mediations of Feeling in Early Modern China and Japan
Yujie Li
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/yujie-li
Organizer, Paper Presenter
Saturday, March 26, 2022 4:00pm – 5:30pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Room 313B
H04: Building Infrastructure in the Time of Transition: Politics and Technology from the ROC to the Early PRC
Thomas Lamarre
Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/thomas-lamarre
Chair, Discussant
Saturday, March 26, 2022 4:00pm – 5:30pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Room 308A
H17: Imperial Intersections: Juxtaposing Japanese Empire Beyond East Asia
Michael Bourdaghs
Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/michael-k-bourdaghs-phd
Saturday, March 26, 2022 4:00pm – 5:30pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Room 317A
H21: (Re-)Producing East Asian Social Imaginaries in/as Musical Practice, 1950-1991
Julie Chu
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College
Associated faculty, Divinity School
https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/julie-chu
Discussant
Saturday, March 26, 2022 6:00pm – 7:30pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Room 301A
J15: The Social Lives of Asian Infrastructure: A Roundtable on Methodology
Yueling Ji
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/yueling-ji
Paper Presenter
Sunday, March 27, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am HST (Hawaii)
Location: Room 324
K03: Contested Classicism in Modern Transitions: Chinese Classic-Style Poetry after 1917
Kenneth Pomeranz
University Professor of Modern Chinese History and in the College
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/kenneth-pomeranz-phd
Chair, Discussant
Sunday, March 27, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am HST (Hawaii)
Location: Room 301A
K09: New Perspectives on the Shanxi Merchants: Locating Histories of Capitalism along the Sino-Inner Asian Frontier
Alex Murphy
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/alex-murphy
Paper Presenter
Sunday, March 27, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am HST (Hawaii)Location: Room 318A
K11: After Images: Redrawing Sensation, Corporeality, and Nationhood in Modern East Asia
VIRTUAL
Jiayi Chen
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/jiayi-chen
Virtual Organizer, Virtual Paper Presenter
Thursday, March 24, 2022 12:30pm – 2:00pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Virtual
A-V3: In-between Media: The Culture of Interface from Early Modern to Contemporary China
Shuting Zhuang
PhD Student in Anthropology at University of Chicago
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuting-zhuang-57325461/
Virtual Organizer, Virtual Paper Presenter
Friday, March 25, 2022 3:30pm – 5:00pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Virtual
E-V35: Gendering the Nation and Nationalizing Gender/Sexuality in Contemporary China
Paola Iovene
Associate Professor in Chinese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/paola-iovene-phd
Virtual Chair
Friday, March 25, 2022 3:30pm – 5:00pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Virtual
E-V41: Leisure, Hobbies, and the State in Socialist China
Lilian Kong
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/lilian-kong
Virtual Paper Presenter
Saturday, March 26, 2022 10:30am – 12:00pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Virtual
F-V38: Gendered Labor and Healing Aesthetics in Contemporary East Asian Media
Yasser Nasser
21-22 Rudolph Field Research Fellows
https://cissr.uchicago.edu/directory/yasser-nasser
Virtual Discussant
Saturday, March 26, 2022 6:00pm – 7:30pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Virtual
J-V46: Methods and Concepts in China-India Studies: Humanities
Joshua Byun
PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago
https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/joshua-byun
Virtual Paper Presenter
Sunday, March 27, 2022 10:45am – 12:15pm HST (Hawaii)
Location: Virtual
L-V43: Perception and Preference in U.S.-East Asia Relations: Interdisciplinary Approaches in the Study of Foreign Policy
Austin Carson
Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago
https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/austin-carson
Virtual Co-Author
Sunday, March 27, 2022 10:45am – 12:15pm HST (Hawaii)Location: Virtual
L-V43: Perception and Preference in U.S.-East Asia Relations: Interdisciplinary Approaches in the Study of Foreign Policy