THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
UChicago Participates at the 2023 Association for Asian Studies in Boston
Published on January 12, 2023 
The University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies is pleased to welcome faculty, students, alumni, and friends to its reception being held on Friday, March 17th at 7:30 pm in the Republic A room, 2nd Floor, of the Sheraton Boston Hotel.
The following is a listing of all University of Chicago participants who are presenting on topics related to East Asian studies*:
VIRTUAL, CHRONOLOGICAL
Jeffrey R. Tharsen
Associate Technology Director, Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History
https://digitalhumanities.uchicago.edu/project/jeffrey-tharsen/
Virtual Chair
Friday, February 17, 2023, 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM EST (Boston)
Location: Virtual
V1-100: Detecting Textual and Visual Copying of Sources in Chinese Local Gazetteers and Beyond
Ian B. Cipperly
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/ian-blaise-cipperly
Virtual Organizer
Friday, February 17, 2023, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM EST (Boston)
Location: Virtual
V1-409: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Tōshō Shrines: Delineating Sacred Space
Mark P. Bradley
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of International History and the College
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/mark-philip-bradley
Virtual Roundtable Discussant
Saturday, February 18, 2023, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM EST (Boston)
Location: Virtual
V2-606: Scholarly Publishing in Asian Studies
Ian B. Cipperly
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, February 17, 2023
Secular Incursions into the Sacred Spaces of Waka No Ura Bay and Kishū Tōshōgū
Henry Cheng
Presenter - Individual Paper
Friday, February 17, 2023
Defeating the New Caste System: Yu Luoke’s Battle in 1966-67, Beijing, China
IN PERSON, CHRONOLOGICAL
Kenneth Pomeranz
University Professor of Modern Chinese History
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/kenneth-pomeranz
Discussant
Thursday, March 16, 2023, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST (Boston)
Location: Hynes Convention Center - Meeting Room 202 (Second Level)
A020: A New Reckoning: The Firm and the State in Chinese Business History
Jacob Eyferth
Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, History, and the College
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/jacob-eyferth
Roundtable Discussant
Thursday, March 16, 2023 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST (Boston)
Location: Hynes Convention Center - Meeting Room 103 (Plaza Level)
A007: Revisiting Chinese Labor History from a Perspective of Technology
Yujie Li
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/yujie-li
Presenter - Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Location: Hynes Convention Center - Meeting Room 110 (Plaza Level)
Great Leap Forward As Technological Style: Two Case Studies of Labor and Technology in Reservoir Construction
Michael Fisch
Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College
https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/michael-fisch
Roundtable Discussant
Friday, March 17, 2023, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EST (Boston)
Location: Boston Sheraton Hotel - Back Bay D (2nd Floor)
B028: Disastrous Infrastructures: Logics and Lessons of Reconstruction
Yuting Dong
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of History
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/yuting-dong
Organizer
Friday, March 17, 2023, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST (Boston)
Location: Boston Sheraton Hotel - Dalton (3rd Floor)
C025: Labor and Knowledge Production in Modern Northeast Asia
Jacob Eyferth
Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, History, and the College
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/jacob-eyferth
Discussant
Friday, March 17, 2023, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST (Boston)
Location: Boston Sheraton Hotel - Dalton (3rd Floor)
C025: Labor and Knowledge Production in Modern Northeast Asia
Anthony Stott
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Department of Comparative Literature
https://complit.uchicago.edu/anthony-stott
Organizer
Friday, March 17, 2023, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST (Boston)
Location: Hynes Convention Center - Meeting Room 203 (Second Level)
D031: The Sensoria of the Urban Environment: Unearthing Alternative Spatial Pathways across “Japanese” Media
Stephanie Painter
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/stephanie-painter
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2023
Location: Boston Sheraton Hotel - Jamaica Pond (5th Floor)
What She Had: Property, Work, and the Imperative of Autonomy for Wives in the Qing
Ellen Larson
Center for the Art of East Asia Postdoctoral Instructor in Modern and Contemporary Asian Art, Department of Art History
https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/faculty/profiles/larson
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2023
Location: Hynes Convention Center - Meeting Room 210 (Second Level)
Spectral Ecologies: Post-Industrial Urban Aesthetics in Northeast China
Anthony Stott
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Department of Comparative Literature
https://complit.uchicago.edu/anthony-stott
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2023
Location: Hynes Convention Center - Meeting Room 203 (Second Level)
Context after the End of Monumental Public Space: Toward an Archipelagic Reimagining of Urban Resistance in the Theory and Design of Isozaki Arata
Yuting Dong
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of History
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/yuting-dong
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2023
Location: Boston Sheraton Hotel - Dalton (3rd Floor)
Translating Skills to Expertise: Building with Concrete and Brick in Japan’s Empire in Northeast China
Susan Su
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/susan-dan-su
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2023
Location: Boston Sheraton Hotel - Independence West (2nd Floor)
Infrastructural Fairy Tales: State-Led Development and Tibetan Transmedial Interventions into China’s Cultural Heritage Regime
Emily Jungmin Yoon
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/emily-yoon
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2023
Location: Hynes Convention Center - Meeting Room 107 (Plaza Level)
Ko Chŏng-Hŭi and the Transnational Feminine Minjung
Chelsea Foxwell
Associate Professor of Art History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
https://ceas.uchicago.edu/directory/chelsea-foxwell
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2023
Location: Boston Sheraton Hotel - Independence East (2nd Floor)
Meiji Wars and War Heroes across Visual Media: Truth and Legend
Jeffrey R. Tharsen
Associate Technology Director, Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History
https://digitalhumanities.uchicago.edu/project/jeffrey-tharsen/
Roundtable Chair
Saturday, March 18, 2023, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM EST (Boston)
Location: Boston Sheraton Hotel - Gardner B (3rd Floor)
F001: Computing Texts and Counting Meaning on the Margins: Challenges and Possibilities of Natural Language Processing in Asian Digital Humanities
Yuan Tian
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/yuan-tian
Presenter - Abstract
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Location: Boston Sheraton Hotel - Dalton (3rd Floor)
Distrust and Dependence: Foreign Firms and Judicial Disputes in Treaty Port Chongqing
Melissa Van Wyk
Assistant Professor in Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/melissa-van-wyk
Presenter - Abstract
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Location: Hynes Convention Center - Meeting Room 103 (Plaza Level)
Suspended Movements: Aerial Performance in Late 19th-Century Kabuki
Carl Kubler
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, Department of History
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/carl-e-kubler
Presenter - Abstract
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Location: Boston Sheraton Hotel - Riverway (5th Floor)
Clean Coolies: Reimagining the Asian Laboring Body in 19th-Century Massachusetts
Haun Saussy
University Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/haun-saussy-phd
Presenter - Abstract
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Location: Boston Sheraton Hotel - Back Bay C (2nd Floor)
Qidans and Chinese in Multimedia Dialogue: Reconsidering the “Deer in Autumn Forest” Paintings
Ziyi Lin
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/ziyi-lin
Presenter - Abstract
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Location: Hynes Convention Center - Meeting Room 201 (Second Level)
Geopolitical Teleportation in Digital Maps: The Gamic Tactic of Location Spoofing for Chinese Players of Pokémon GO
Bruce Cumings
Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History and the College, Department of History
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/bruce-cumings
Chair
Sunday, March 19, 2023, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EST (Boston)
Location: Hynes Convention Center - Meeting Room 202 (Second Level)
K026: Reexamining Divisions in the Korean Peninsula: Capitalism, Communism, and Beyond
Shirin Sadjadpour
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/shirin-mikiko-sadjadpour
Presenter - Individual Paper
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Location: Boston Sheraton Hotel - Commonwealth (3rd Floor)
"A Privilege of the Beautiful Sex": Redefining the Feminine Ideal in Wilhelmine Germany and Meiji Japan
Haeyoung Kim
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, Department of History
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/haeyoung-kim
Presenter - Abstract
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Location: Hynes Convention Center - Meeting Room 202 (Second Level)
Technopolitical Imaginaries in Post-Liberation North and South Korea
Thomas Gimbel
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, Department of History
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/thomas-gimbel
Presenter - Individual Paper
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Location: Hynes Convention Center - Meeting Room 103 (Plaza Level)
Gardens Against Democracy: Heian Jingu and the Naturalization of the Imperial System
Wang You
Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division
https://mapss.uchicago.edu/directory/wang-you
Presenter - Abstract
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Location: Boston Sheraton Hotel - Gardner A (3rd Floor)
Working with Farming Communities: Scholarly Explorations of Dike-Building Techniques in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1600-1850
*Please note that this listing may be updated with additional and/or revised information.
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