2018 SPAS Graduate Student Conference

Art by Emily Cardinali

Thursday, March 15, 2018

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.	Registration/Breakfast

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	Panel Session 1

Panel 1.1	Political Issues in East Asia
	Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
	Moderator: Lonny Carlile
	Matthew Crooke: "Betraying Revolution: The Foundations of the Japanese Communist Party" Sol-bi Kim: "Cartel Party in South Korea : Weakened Alignments in Party System Jake Sotiriadis: "Hegemonic Ideologies: Towards a Neo-Confucian, 'Greater China'?" Lee English: "Asian Just War Theory in Comparative History"

Panel 1.2	Nationalism & Identity I
	Center for Korean Studies Conference Room
	Moderator: Pattie Dunn
	Chang Liu: "Little Pink--A New Nationalist Group in Cyber China" Miae Lee: "The Exhibition of Negative History: The History Museum of J-Koreans in Tokyo Museum Studies" Rosi Imron: "Southern Thai-Muslimah Students’ Cultural Identity in their Learning Activities in Indonesia"


10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon	Panel Session 2

Panel 2.1	Cultural Phenomenon
	Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
	Moderator: Andre Haag
	Yen-Zhi Peng: "Localization of Japanese Popular Culture in Taiwan: Personification in Taiwanese Anime, Comic, Game (ACG) Field" Tokikake Ii: "How to Save a Life: 3.11 Disaster and Memorials in Japan" Sayo Sakamoto: "The Paradox of Fuji Keiko: Enka at the Boundary between Shinjuku and Furusato"

Panel 2.2	Household & Human Mobility
	Center for Korean Studies Conference Room
	Moderator: Cathryn Clayton
	Ekta Pandey: "Fake Medicines Real Risk to Digital India" Imelda Nin: "Household Energy Transition in Indonesia" Christopher Chapman: "The Taste of Home: Alcohol, Identity, and Health in Hawai'i's Japanese Diaspora" Sameer Saraswat: "Urban Mobility in Asia in the Age of Autonomous Vehicles"

12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.	Lunch

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	Panel Session 3

Panel 3.1	Defense Security
	Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
	Moderator: Sang-Hyop Lee
	William Beeson: "Japanese Security Strategic Change in US, Japan and China Relations, in 2012-2016: The Impact of Economic Development on Japanese Foreign Affairs" Ed Green: "Wolf at the Back Door: Would China Invade North Korea?" Priya Rashid and Ryan Dipaolo: "Strategic Symphony: Why US military Policy in Southeast Asia Must Be Coupled with a Major Investment in the Social and Political Development"

Panel 3.2	Gender Studies
	Center for Korean Studies Conference Room
	Moderator: Ming-bao Yue
	Hyejin Kim: "A Girl’s Han Represented in 'The Statue of Peace'" Clarisse Culla: "Analyzing Implications of Shifting Gender Dynamics in the Filipino Family on Labor Migration Patterns" Kyung-ok Kim: "Japanese Women's Labor and Childcare in the Hanaoka Mine, 1937-45" You Sotheary: "Gender Based Violence in Cambodia Women's Rights in Cambodia"
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Refreshments

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Panel Session 4

Panel 4.1	Literature & Cinema
	Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
	Moderator: Young-a Park
	Eun Young Seong: "Outside Storyteller: Shinya Eiko's Sinset’aryŏng and Zainichi Korean History" Siriwan Preechanarit: "Life and Death in 'Moonlight Shadow'” Yoonjung Park: "The Meaning and Expandability of 'Jikatagaku' in Inazo Nitobe's Thought" Adrian Alarilla: "Legitimating Visions: Imagining the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asian cinemas

Panel 4.2	Language / Literature
	Center for Korean Studies Conference Room
	Moderator:
&nbs;	Xiaolong Lu: "Preliminary Study on Interaction and Integration of Mandarin Words between Mainland China and Taiwan Faith Francisco: "Culture in Foreign Language Pedagogy: Examining the Gendered Japanese Language through Japan Foundation’s Marugoto Textbook" Yi Ren: "The Shift of Taiwanese Linguistic Identities During and After the Japanese Colonial Rule Matthew Kelty: "'Antek-Antek': The Shuttering of BPS-Affiliated Newspapers in 1965"