Association for Asian Studies 2021 Conference
AAS Panels with CU Faculty
The Association for Asian Studies annual conference will be held Sunday, March 21 through Friday, March 26. This year’s conference is being held virtually. To assist those who will be in attendance, we have compiled this list of CU presenters and their panel information. Information about the full conference is available at .
Monday, March 22, 2021 10am – 11:30am EDT
Coping with Abundance: Categories of Knowledge in Early Modern East Asia
- Marcia Yonemoto, Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. Panel organizer, discussant
Dialogism of Self and Others: Colonial and Decolonial Practices of Translation in the Japanese Empire
- Faye Kleeman, Professor of Japanese, Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado Boulder. Panel discussant
New Approaches to the Historiography of East Asian Art in the Twentieth Century
- “Locating the Origin of East Asian Art: Art Historical Canons in Early Twentieth Century Japanese Newspaper Illustrations” - Stephanie Su, Assistant Professor, Art and Art History, University of Colorado Boulder.
12:30pm – 2pm EDT
Asian Cinema and the Cultural Cold War: Images of Diplomacy, Revolution, and Emerging Nations
- “Counter-Occupying Americanism: 1960s Musicals of Taiwan and South Korea” - Evelyn Shih, Assistant Professor of Chinese, Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado Boulder
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT
Living Heritage & Historical Memory in Southeast Asia (I)
- “Rushing to Heritage: Civil society, local government, and the online politics of historic preservation in urban Indonesia” - Lauren Yapp, Asian Studies Program Director, University of Colorado Boulder
Roundtable: Global Asias: Undisciplining as An Emergent Field
- Jennifer Ho, Director, Center for Humanities & the Arts, University of Colorado Boulder. Panel Discussant
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 8:30am – 10:00am EDT
Excavating New Insights on Early Northeast Asia: How Archaeological Research is Revolutionizing the Study of Early Japan and Korea
- “Inscribing the Vernacular in Silla and Paekche: Evidence from Mokkan” - Marjorie Burge, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado Boulder
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT
Roundtable: Beyond Content-Based Instruction: Japanese Language Collaborations with Japanese Studies to Optimize Learning
- Susan Schmidt, Center for Asian Studies/American Association of Teachers of Japanese, University of Colorado Boulder. Organizer
- Danielle Rocheleau Salaz, Executive Director, Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder. Panel discussant
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT
Panel: Discourses of Chastity in Early Modern Vernacular Literature and Culture
- “The Chaste Concubine: Women's Conflict and Cooperation in Xiunü baojuan” - Katherine Alexander, Assistant professor of Chinese, Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado Boulder. Panel chair
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 8:30am – 10:00am EDT
A Rhyme for a Reason: Conceptualizing Euphony and Other Mnemonic Strategies in Pre-Modern Chinese Didactic Texts
- Matthias Richter, Associate Professor of Chinese, Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado Boulder. Panel discussant
Transmedia Communality: “The Peony Lantern” as Space, Medical Discourse, Visual Objects, and Performance
- “Fabrics of Medical Sensibilities: Approaching Extraordinary Diseases of the Mid-edo Period Through Transmedia Narratives” - Clarence I-Zhuen Lee, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado Boulder
Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT
Mediated Identities: Re-framing the Korean Subject Through Text, Screen, and Stage
- “Violent Vulnerability: The Politics of Care and Memory in South Korean Film and Literature” - Sue Heun Asokan, 兔子先生传媒文化作品ing Assistant Professor of Korean, Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado Boulder
Remaking the History of News in East Asia
- Timothy Weston, Associate Professor, History, University of Colorado Boulder. Panel discussant
The Six Dynasties–Tang Transition
- “Days Gone By: Showing Selves in Early Tang Autobiographical Shi-Poetry” - Xiaojing Miao, 兔子先生传媒文化作品ing Assistant Professor of Chinese, Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado Boulder. Panel chair
Friday, March 26, 2021 3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT
Mediating State-Society Relationships Across China, Korea, and the Philippines
- “Looking at Chu Music through the Lens of Manuscripts: On the Word Yan 延 in Geling 葛陵 Chu Manuscripts” - Chi Feng, Dual MA Student in Chinese and Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder