University of Hawaii
School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies
17th Annual Graduate Student Conference
People, Places, and Emerging Ideas in Asia and the Pacific:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Asia and the Pacific
-a conference highlighting current graduate research-
Thursday and Friday,
23 - 24 March 2006
Center for Korean Studies on the UHM campus
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
12:00-1:30 McCaulay Keynote Address
Dr. Aihwa Ong
Topic: "Self-fashioning Shanghainese: Translating Across Spheres of Value"
Co-sponsored by SHAPS, the Center for Chinese Studies, and the International Cultural Studies Program
Location: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
4:30-5:30 Opening Reception
Location: Tokioka Room, Moore Hall 319
| Thursday, March 23, 2006 | |
| 8:00-8:30 | Location: Center for Korean Studies Lobby Coffee and Tea Service |
| 8:30-10:15 |
Changes in Body and Mind
Location: Center for Korean Studies Seminar Room Faculty Discussant: Christine Yano Shoko Baba A Compromise of Modernity: The Nude Controversy in Meiji Japan Judith Humbert Educational Transformation: Aotearoa New Zealand Sandra Barrier-Heinz Beautiful Bodies, Sick Bodies: Transcending Health Concerns Through Discourses of Identity and Cultural Revitalization in Polynesia Jason Erb Dr. Ishizuka Sagen and the Construction of Nutritional Sciences in Japan |
| 8:30-10:15 |
Transformations
Location: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium Faculty Discussant: Nancy Cooper Zilia Papp Migration and Monsters: Rediscovering Japanese Yokai Art in Contemporary Media Jessica Jacob Chasing Tale: Hanuman, Simple Simian to Sex Magnet Sonja Sironen Aragetram: The Transformation of Ritual |
| 10:30-12:15 |
Orientalism and the Making of Other
Location: Center for Korean Studies Seminar Room Faculty Discussant: Barbara Andaya Adam Fong Out of the East: Understanding the World Through the Records of Thirteenth-Century Voyagers Marianna Lucia Aguon Hernandez "Savaged" in Their Own Stories: An Analysis of the Colonial and Catholic Influences on Chamorro Legends Kirian Sagoo Colonial Construction of Malayness: The Influence of Population Size and Composition Charlotte D'Evelyn Music for Personal Transformation: Eastern Exoticism in the New Age Market |
| 10:30-12:15 |
Borders
Location: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium Faculty Discussant: Bryce Beemer Peter Hourdequin A Contemporary Analysis of Malaysia's Security Culture with a Special Emphasis on Malaysia-Thailand Relations vis-à-vis the Southern Thailand Muslim Insurgency Bradford Napier A Comparison of Pakistan and South Korea's Security Concerns Ryoko Yamamoto Foreigners in the Policing Gaze: Transnational Migration and Law Enforcement in Japan |
| 12:15-1:00 | Lunch Break |
| 1:15-3:00 |
Politics of Identity
Location: Center for Korean Studies Seminar Room Faculty Discussant: John Goss Kinuko Maehara To Okinawa and Back Again: Realization of Positive Marginality of Okinawan Kibei Nisei in Hawai'i William Owens Identity Politics in the Southern Provinces of Thailand: The Malay Muslims in Global Context Jerome Klena There and Back Again: The Search for Identity Among the Japanese Diaspora in Brazil |
| 1:15-3:00 |
Identity Through Literature
Location: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium Faculty Discussant: Joel Cohen Geoff Ashton Rasa as Moral Force: The Aesthetics of Moral Motivation in the Classical Kavya Daniel White Negotiating Identity: Practices of Consumption and Self-Fashioning in Wataya Risa's Keritai Senaka Turro Wongkaren Priyayi Culture and the Creation of Capitalist Class in Indonesia Mayumi Hisamoto Yuhi by Lee Yangji: Zainichi's Dual Perspectives in Japanese Autobiographical Narrative (I-novel) |
| 3:15-5:00 |
Education in National Identities
Location: Center for Korean Studies Seminar Room Faculty Discussant: Dru Gladney Anthony Medrano Beyond Manila: A History of Public Education in Mindanao and Sulu, Philippines, 1899-1913 Bong-gi Sohn Implementation Problems in the Korean CLT Curriculum: Are Teachers to Blame? Whi Chang Political Ideology Education in North Korea: Communist Morals for People's School Erica Connolly University of Tokyo in Meiji Japan: A Focum for Nationalism |
| 3:15-5:00 |
Perspectives on Development
Location: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium Faculty Discussant: Jim Spencer Bandana Bhattarai Promotion of Rural Urban Linkages for Rural Regional Development of Nepal: A Gender Focused Perspective Peter Hsu China's Regional Disparity: An Analysis of the Western Development Strategy Haina Lee Participation of Civil Society in Chunggye-Chun Restoration Project: A Long March Toward Decision-Making |
| Friday, March 24, 2006 | |
| 8:00-8:30 | Coffee and Tea Service Location: Center for Korean Studies Lobby |
| 8:30-10:15 |
Reinterpreting the Past
Location: Center for Korean Studies Seminar Room Faculty Discussant: Ric Trimillos Shinji Kojima Okinawa: War Memory Chong Wang Interpreting Zheng: Politics of Dramatizing a Historical Figure in Japan, China, and Taiwan Ka F Wong The Anatomy of Eroticism: Re-imaging Sex and Sexuality in the Late Ming Erotic Novel "The Wild History of the Embroidered Couch (Xiuta yeshi, ca. 1597)" Erwin Legaspi Rewriting History at the End of a Rattan Stick: Cultural Revisions and (Re)Interpretations Within the Filipino Martial Arts |
| 8:30-10:15 |
Reactions to Globalization: Civil Society
Location: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium Faculty Discussant: Belinda Aquino Mefi Hermawanti Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) in Indonesian Disaster Relief: Aceh, West Timor, and the Failure of Globalization Soo Sun Choe Agrarian Heritage and the Future of Sustainable Agriculture in South Korea Herman Kelen Conservation and Local People's Rights: A Case Study from Komodo National Park, Indonesia |
| 10:30-12:15 |
Taiwan Indigenous Studies
Location: Center for Korean Studies Seminar Room Faculty Discussant: Yingche Li Yeong Han Lau The Indigenous Dynamics of Amis and Paiwan Food Plants Karen Huang Paiwanic Strata in Rukai: A Linguistic Evidence of Cultural Contact in Prehistory Taiwan Da-Wei Kuan Re-imaging the Nature: A Critical Review of the Environmental Conservation and Eco-Politics in Indigenous Maliqwan River Valley, Taiwan Kuan-Hung Chen Anticipating Taiwan Indigenous Philosophies |
| 10:30-12:15 |
Identity Through Performance
Location: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium Faculty Discussant: Vincent Pollard Sonja Hinz Soviet Influence on Dance in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan Pui Sze Priscilla Tse Performing Masculinity: Male Impersonation in Cantonese Opera William Connor III "I am Tibetan": Representation of Tibetan Pop Music Frank Episale The Nation, the State, and the Puppet |
| 12:15-1:00 |
Prehistoric Polynesia
Location: Center for Korean Studies Seminar Room Shawn S. Barnes Connections in Prehistoric West Polynesia: The View from Samoa Kelley Esh Prehistoric Subsistence in Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Evidence from Recent Excavations at Anakena Beach |
All events are free and open to the public