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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

Schedule of Events

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