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Babar Shahbaz

Babar Shahbaz06-26-2023 02:21 PM

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  • 1.  Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 06-08-2023 11:29 AM

    Are you interested in presenting at the AAS 2023 Annual Conference? Do you need assistance connecting with fellow Asianists or session organizers? Use the "Reply" button in the top right-hand corner of this message to post your research interests or proposed paper topic within this discussion.

    To connect with another community member and discuss a potential session, use the "Reply Privately" option to send them a direct message.



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    AAS Conference
    aasconference@asianstudies.org
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  • 2.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 06-20-2023 12:03 AM

    Dear Colleagues,

    I am Patrick Du, a Ph.D. student from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am looking for a session to join in. I am currently working on a paper about the Wenchang Cult (文昌信仰), religious beliefs in the God of Literature and Examination in late imperial China. This paper tries to explain the state and textual canonization of the Wenchang Cult in the Jiaqing period by placing it in the socio-historical context of mid-Qing. This study also touches upon the following topics: religious Confucianism, debates on orthodoxy, morality books, White Lotus Rebellion, and the Civil Service Examination. If you plan to form a panel related to these topics, please consider contacting me. Thank you!



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    Patrick Du 杜瞻湫
    Ph.D. student, TA
    Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    zhanqiu2@illinois.edu
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  • 3.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 06-21-2023 02:32 PM

    Dear Colleagues, 

    I am Yeonsu Lee, a first-year PhD from the University of Leeds. My research interests are broadly in Security Studies. My PhD project is looking at environmental security issues, risk in Security Studies in the Northeast Asian context. Particularly, I am interested in regional security dynamics and their impacts on environmental issues between China, South Korea, and Japan. My paper will discuss why Northeast Asian states do not form regional cooperation to deal with environmental challenges and how the concept of risk can be applied to explain the nature of environmental security issues while comparing the existential threats and military security issues which are deeply rooted in the Cold War and Japanese colonialism. This paper will cover environmental security issues, Northeast Asian security dynamics, historical legacies in Northeast Asian security, risk in Security Studies, and regional security complex theory(RSCT). If you are interested in forming a panel on environmental security issues, please contact me. I will be very pleased to present my work with you. Thank you for reading my post!



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    Yeonsu Lee
    University of Leeds
    ptyle@leeds.ac.uk
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  • 4.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 06-26-2023 02:21 PM
    Edited by Babar Shahbaz 06-26-2023 02:26 PM

     

     



  • 5.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 06-26-2023 02:25 PM

    Hi 

    I am professor of agricultural extension and rural development at University of Agriculture Faisalabad (Pakistan). I am looking for a panel. My research interests include: climate change related conflicts, gender and climate change, international land acquisition, land grabbing, agricultural cooperatives, agricultural extension.



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    Babar Shahbaz
    University of Agriculture Faisalabad
    babar.shahbaz@gmail.com
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  • 6.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-12-2023 03:50 PM

    I am Bruce Jones. Our team decoded China's earliest Land Grant documents and have used our research to show that three thousand years ago China had sustainable agriculture. The Emperors did not just grab land. They were methodical about which land they took and how they managed it. Starting at the mountain top they created a "Sacred Forest" to prevent erosion. Working downslope they created terraces, upriver water capture, orchards, village vegetable gardens, downslope millet fields, wheat fields, and flood plain polders and chinampas. 



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    David Jones
    Professor
    Tainan National University of the Arts
    Txrobotics@mac.com
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  • 7.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 06-27-2023 06:14 PM

    Dear Colleagues,

    I am an associate professor of Chinese at Oregon State University. I have a paper with the title of "From Uncle Tom's Cabin to modern Chinese drama," and I am seeking a session to join at the AAS onluine conference. I you are interested in my paper, please contact me at syu@oregonstate.edu.



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    Shiao-ling Yu
    Dr.
    Oregon State University
    syu@oregonstate.edu
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  • 8.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 06-28-2023 01:17 PM

    Dear Colleagues,

    I am Lois Hao, a post-doc fellow at Agnes Scott College. I recently received my PhD from Northwestern University, and my work focuses on women's marriage renunciation and reform movements in Republican China. I am seeking a Gender and Women's History/Studies session to join.

    I would love to share my research on young Chinese women studying in Japan and the US between 1890 and 1940 and how their experiences abroad shaped and changed their views on "modern womanhood," marriage and gender roles, individualism, and nationalism.

    I can join a session on East Asia or the larger Asian Pacific world. If you see my work as a good fit for your panel or are interested in knowing more about this paper, please contact me at luhao2014@u.northwestern.edu.

    Thank you so much for your time and attention!



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    Lu (Lois) Hao
    PhD candidate
    Northwestern University
    luhao2014@u.northwestern.edu
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  • 9.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-02-2023 01:14 AM

    Dear Colleagues,

    I am an associate professor of anthropology at Clemson University and am looking for a panel to join at the 2024 AAS in-person conference. Based on on-going fieldwork in a metropolis in northeast China, my paper discusses how identity politics unfolds in the villages-in-the-city, as well as the implications of such politics for the distribution of economic resources collectively-owned by these urban villages. China's rapid urbanization was accompanied by displacement, dispossession, and violence. The villagers, who are the native residents of the newly created urban spaces, responded to the urbanization processes through the negotiation of rights and identity. Such grassroots responses have made these rural communities constitutive sites of urbanity, instead of being a static and backward space that will eventually be overcome by the urban.

    If you are interested in my paper, please contact me at ywu5@clemson.edu.  Thank you!

    Yi Wu, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor of Anthropology

    Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice

    Clemson University

    Clemson, SC 29634



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    Yi Wu
    Associate Professor
    Clemson University
    ywu5@clemson.edu
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  • 10.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-04-2023 10:12 AM
    Edited by Sebestyén Hompot 07-04-2023 10:13 AM

    Dear Colleagues,

    my research topic is related to the globalization of the "wenming 文明" (civilization) discourse by the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC). I am interested, more broadly, in the global "discourse power" strategies of the PRC government, in its quest for reshaping norms and values of international relations, and the global order in general. I am also interested in case studies in this respect, i.e. I have a special interest in my country of birth, Hungary (PRC-Hungary relations and PRC discourse power in Hungary), and would be interested in comparative discussions. Those with similar interests and willingness to organize a joint panel, please do not hesitate to contact me.

    Sebestyén Hompot

    Ph.D. Graduate (June 2023) and Project Collaborator, University of Vienna, Austria

    e-mail: sebestyen.hompot@gmail.com

    Publications, CV, and more at:
    https://univie.academia.edu/Sebesty%C3%A9nHompot
    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sebestyen-Hompot
    https://twitter.com/HompotSebestyen
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebesty%C3%A9n-hompot-84b00ba1/


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  • 11.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-06-2023 03:58 PM

    Dear Colleagues, 

    I am Haiyi Li and I am a third-year PhD student from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. My interests lied in the intersection between law and gender. I studied the lived experience of widows in the eighteenth and nineteenth century rural China, by examining their collaboration, negotiation, and sometimes confrontation with their Kins in everyday life. My research engaged with multiple subjects, including practices of kinship, litigation and community mediation, property ownership, rituals of inheritance, Confucianism and law, cult of female chastity, and regulation of sexuality. I am also broadly interested in the dynamics between patriarchal structure and individual agency. I am seeking a panel on law, gender, or sexuality on either modern, or pre-modern East Asia. Please feel free to contact me if you find my research a good fit to your panel. I am also willing to form a panel with anyone who shares similar research interests. 

    Haiyi Li 

    Department of History 

    University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 



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    Haiyi Li
    University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
    haiyili2@illinois.edu
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  • 12.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-07-2023 06:19 AM
    Edited by Bianca Trifoi 07-07-2023 06:20 AM

    Hi everyone! My name is Bianca Trifoi, and I am a PhD Candidate at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., studying North Korean History. My dissertation looks at childhood in North Korea, specifically how the creation of a particular North Korean child in the 1950s-60s shaped North Korean national identity more broadly.

    For this conference I would like to present my work which analyzes how the North Korean state specifically identified and addressed issues related to childrearing in the 1950s-60s, and how these issues related to the North Korean state's concerns for survival in a global Cold War.  The paper explores what the new North Korean state identified as pressing problems within society in the 1950s-60s, especially problems relating to marriage, families, and childrearing, and the various ways in which the state sought to resolve these problems, including improving education, teaching proper motherhood to women, and promoting communist attitudes regarding families and childrearing among the youth and married couples.  

     My dissertation is still fairly early along in the research stage, but I expect to make major progress in the next few months. My research touches upon nationalism in Korea / East Asia, nation-building, the history of childhood, women and gender, especially family and parenting, history of socialism and Cold War history.  I would love to build a panel - if you are interested please contact me at btrifoi@gwu.edu

    Thank you!



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    Bianca Trifoi
    The George Washington University
    btrifoi@gwu.edu
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  • 13.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-07-2023 12:32 PM

    Dear Colleagues,

    My name is Adam DeCaulp and I am a 2nd year PhD Student at Penn State University.

    I would like to put together a panel exploring the uses of violence in cinematic traditions in Korea, Japan, China, and South East Asia. 

    My aspiration is that our papers would contribute to an approach toward violence in film as something more than mere fan service, genre constraint, nihilism, or metaphor.

    My own work seeks to analyze violent film apart from allegorical/metaphorical readings and instead investigate what an affirmative, rather than sublimating, engagement with violent film contents reveals about the diegetic world, and eventually the economic, social, and historical contexts that make a given film's production possible. My current paper considers the films of Kim Jee-woon within the broader context of post-IMF, violent South Korean cinema. As such, papers looking at Japanese, Chinese, or South East Asian films (or comparing any of these) would be particularly welcome.

    If you are interested please contact me at aqd6007@psu.edu.

    Thank you very much!



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    adam decaulp
    PSU
    aqd6007@psu.edu
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  • 14.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-07-2023 06:16 PM
    Edited by Gita Neupane 07-07-2023 06:25 PM

    Dear Colleagues, 

    I am Gita Neupane, a visiting faculty at the University of Idaho. I am looking for a session to join. I am working on a paper on online harassment, misogyny, and victim blaming. My paper analyzes misogynistic comments posted in response to TikTok videos related to a minor female singer who filed a statutory rape case against an adult male film celebrity in Nepal. Employing Critical Discourse Analysis and grounded theory, my study explores the underlying themes in these comments. The findings highlight the normalization of male involvement and the marginalization of the minor, despite the legal categorization of the case as statutory rape. Moreover, the study uncovers how netizens collectively reinforce structural sexism, engage in gender trolling, and perpetuate misogyny to justify victim blaming. The analysis further reveals the demoralization of the victim through victim-blaming discussions. Ultimately, this research argues that the misogynistic comments observed reflect deeply ingrained patriarchal thinking within online communities, which disregard the rights and experiences of female victims. 

    If you are organizing a panel around this topic, I would be very happy to be a part of the panel.


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    Gita Neupane
    University of Idaho
    gita@uidaho.edu
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  • 15.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-07-2023 10:05 PM

    Dear Colleagues,

    I am associate professor of architecture at the University of Minnesota. My paper will explore the question of (Taiwanese/Japanese) cultural identity expressed through built form. If you are organizing a panel related to this topic, I would love to be a part of it. Please contact me at lhsieh@umn.edu. Thank you very much.

    Lisa Hsieh, PhD



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    Lisa Hsieh
    Assistant Professor
    University of Minnesota
    lhsieh@umn.edu
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  • 16.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-08-2023 11:29 AM
    Edited by P. Rattanasengchanh 07-08-2023 11:39 AM

    Please look at the post I made after this one. Made some edits and could not figure out how to delete this one.



  • 17.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-08-2023 11:38 AM

    Hi all.

    My name is Dr. P. Mike Rattanasengchanh and I am an Assistant Professor of Asian and US history at Midwestern State University. 

    I am seeking 2-3 others to submit a panel to the next AAS conference. The theme can still be figured out but I was thinking of a panel about refugee/immigrant/diaspora communities, specifically about the historical memory of "their homeland's" history and key events that took place. As is explained further below, I look at how first and second generation Lao-Americans have differing narratives of Lao history and of the civil war that took place. This has led some members of the community to vote different politically, with the first generation being more republican and the second leaning towards democrat -- historical understanding being one factor in how they view politics.

    This is just a rough abstract below.

    My paper will be on my research with first and second generation Lao-Americans, specifically on how members within the refugee community have diverging memory and narratives of Lao history and its civil war during the Second Indochina war. Though it is not new that first and second generation immigrants, like the Lao, are not same due to differing assimilation experiences, their understanding of key moments in Lao history has shown a growing distance between older and younger groups. Through oral interviews and primary and secondary source research at several archives and libraries, older Lao-Americans view the U.S. bombing of Laos as necessary and see the American intervention as justifiable due to outside invasion and the request of the Royal Lao Government. The Lao born in the United States and some of the 1.5 generation disagree with their elders, criticizing the U.S. involvement and highlighting the resulting destruction caused by what they see as indiscriminate use of violence. This diverging memory or narrative has carried over into domestic politics being one factor in their political decision-making process. Most of the first generation lean towards the Republican Party, while the younger Lao-Americans are more liberal in their political views and vote more for the Democrat candidates. This is an important story about competing historical narratives that endure across generations and that can often lead to further misunderstandings within refugee communities who are already struggling to feel accepted in the United States.

    Please let me know if you are interested or know someone that might be.

    Best. Mike Rattanasengchanh, mike.rattanasengchanh@msutexas.edu



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    P. Rattanasengchanh
    Midwestern State University
    mike.rattanasengchanh@msutexas.edu



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    P. Rattanasengchanh
    Midwestern State University
    mike.rattanasengchanh@msutexas.edu
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  • 18.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-17-2023 02:02 AM

    Hello ! I am Dr Tana Trivedi, faculty at Ahmedabad University, Gujarat, India. My doctoral research is on contemporary Indo-Fijian poetry that articulates the complex layers of intra-generational memories that exist among the generations of Indians in Fiji, especially when it is about locating home in Fiji. A doubly diasporic community, the Indo-Fijians were first transported to the islands by the colonial sugar refining company in the early 20th century, and after Fijian independence, were once again forced to migrate out of Fiji due to political crises. Poetry is a cultural text that reflects the state of the nation and its people. Poetry also documents the memories of the community and its standing in the nation. I can share a detailed abstract if you think we can put together a panel. A panel around memories and home sounds very interesting, and I would really like to collaborate if you are still looking for panelists. Thank you!

    Warm regards

    Tana 



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    Tana Trivedi
    Ahmedabad University
    tana.trivedi@ahduni.edu.in
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  • 19.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-08-2023 05:15 PM

    Hello all! I'm interested in putting together a panel on games and gaming in Asian history. I'm working on a project currently that examines Thai political history through the lens of multiple board games developed in recent years that reflect both wester colonial biases as well as Thai political critiques of military dictatorship and royalist politics. Here is a draft abstract:

    Play and playfulness has a long history in Thai politics. While there has been significant scholarship on childhood games, gambling and gaming in Thai economic history, as well as a wide variety of research on the more recent impact of video games in Thailand, this project aims to use games and gaming as a lens through which to examine popular conceptions of Thai politics and history. In this essay, I examine two concrete examples of gamified representations of Thai politics and history: Koenig von Siam and Coconut Empire. Both games represent the potential and peril of pop cultural representations of Thai politics and history. The first shows the influence of mapping and colonial-era notions of competition through a popular genre of board game that reflects a more royalist-nationalist view of late-nineteenth century history. The latter, however, plays on popular critical notions of Thailand as a flawed democracy, and uses the coded language of gameplay to critique the entrenched military, royalist, and political elites in Thai society in the transition from Rama IX to the current monarch. I argue that although games might seem unserious by nature, they are in fact worthy of serious consideration, both as problematic avenues where conservative notions of history, identity, and power persist, and as a potentially powerful critique of the status-quo. As such, these games fit into a long history of Thai political argument couched in the language of play.  

    I am presenting this in Thai-studies circles, but I would very much like to connect with folks working on games and gaming across Asia. If you know of anyone who might be interested, or a panel that this topic might fit in, please contact me!



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    Taylor Easum
    Assistant Professor
    Indiana State University
    Taylor.Easum@indstate.edu
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  • 20.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-12-2023 01:22 AM

    Dear Colleagues,

    I am a Ph.D. candidate at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. My conference paper focuses on the poetry created by Chinese women (18th - early 20th centuries) in relation to garden paintings. Specifically, it explores how women from the elite class redefined their conventional subordinate identities in envisioned garden spaces through their poetic expressions on these paintings. 

    My paper would align well with panels discussing topics such as gender and women's history, cultural identity, and textual/pictorial representations of built forms. If you are interested in my paper, please do not hesitate to contact me at yuefanw2@illinois.edu. I am also willing to organize a panel with scholars who share similar research interests. Thank you for your attention and consideration.



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    Yuefan Wang
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    yuefanw2@illinois.edu
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  • 21.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-13-2023 09:44 PM
    Edited by Anna Zhang 07-16-2023 09:56 PM

    [Closed]

    Dear Colleagues,

    I am Anna Zhang, a Ph.D. student from Northeastern university, and my research focuses on Asian immigrants and labor. I am looking for a panel to join. My paper is titled "Gender and Work: Online Job Platforms of the Chinese Ethnic Economy" and discusses explicit and implicit gender discrimination in Chinese-language online platforms, examining the content of job advertisements. If you are interested in my paper or think my work would be a good fit for your panel, please feel free to contact me at zhang.an@northeastern.edu. Thank you!

    Edit: I am now committed to a panel and this post is closed. Thank you!

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    Anna Zhang
    Northeastern University
    zhang.an@northeastern.edu
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  • 22.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-15-2023 10:20 AM

    Dear Colleagues,

    My name is Joern Peter Grundmann, I am an assistant professor of Chinese Literature at National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, looking for a panel to join. My proposed paper is titled "The conception of vertical solidarity and connective justice in the ritual hymns from the Book of Songs." Below is a draft abstract:

    The central idea that informs vertical authority relations between a ruler and his agents in pre-Confucian China is referred to almost exclusively as de 德 "virtue" in early Chinese texts. What exactly de implies is still subject to heated debates. In sources that do discuss this topic in a reflexive manner, such as portions from the Book of Songs, the Book of Documents and the Zuo Tradition, we often find de paired with the compound weiyi 威儀. The study of the latter in its relation to de may therefore provide new insights into the nature and the concerns of morals in early China. 

    Commonly understood in terms of ritual decorum or awe-inspiring demeanor, weiyi, I argue, can be shown to symbolize self-restraint and exemplary deportment combined with awe-inspiring authority. As such, the term functions in various contexts, ranging from ritual feasts to the admonition of royal heirs and ministers, to delineate a notion of connective justice that would have served to consolidate the stability of the social hierarchy by justifying the model of social inequality with an overriding sense of vertical solidarity.

    My investigation focusses on the question how ritual hymns from the Book of Songs envision the institutionalization of vertical solidarity and connective justice in the context of ritual feasting with the help of the conceptual hendiadys "de – weiyi."

    If you are interested in my paper please contact me at joerngrundmann@daad-alumni.de. Many thanks!

    All best



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    Joern Peter Grundmann
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Chinese lit., NSYSU
    joerngrundmann@daad-alumni.de
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  • 23.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-16-2023 12:03 AM

    Dear colleagues,

    My name is Hannah Dahlberg-Dodd, and I'm a Project Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo. I'm looking for a panel on which I can talk about some aspect of my ongoing research on the media circulation of character speech through the lens of o-jōsama kotoba (which is relatively broad), and I'm flexible about specifically what aspect to focus on for AAS. Some possible options include:

    1) The linguistic phenomenon evident in Vtuber fan interaction
    2) The (re-)adaptation of Harlequin romance novels into the Japanese popular mediascape and their current role in isekai genres
    3) Linguistic creativity in online communities during the pandemic (and the current state thereof)

    If any of this sounds like something you could use in your panel, please feel free to contact me! Or perhaps, if you also have similar interests and no panel, we could look into making one. Either works!

    Best,

    Hannah Dahlberg-Dodd
    Project Assistant Professor
    The University of Tokyo



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    Hannah Dahlberg-Dodd
    Project Assistant Professor
    University of Tokyo
    haedodd@gmail.com
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  • 24.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-16-2023 09:43 PM

    Dear Colleagues, 

    I am Na Fu, a Ph.D. in Politics at the New School for Social Research, and will be starting my Postdoc at Watson Institution at Brown University this Fall. 

    I am looking for a session to join in. Please see the following abstract of my dissertation:

    We still consume food, clothes, and natural resources every day. Too often, in the post-industrial world, we don't know where they come from and how they are made. In the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region of China, today, a transformation is taking place on factory floors to upgrade mass production into digital and platform-oriented production networks. In the last decade, the shoe industry has been going through a process of fragmentation. This is where the size and scale of production are reduced from tens of thousands to hundreds or even dozens of workers in factories or workshops. My ethnographic research looks at such a reduction, which is not only caused by interest in industrial relocation, but more importantly, it is driven by automating the assembly line to serve a shift in shopping experience from store to online platforms (Taobao, Pingduoduo, and Amazon). Platform-driven and automation-based production is called "mass customization," which seeks to see production fragmentation as an opportunity instead of a challenge. Now, a shoe is made within 24 hours after the customer already paid online. Mass customization differs from mass production, leading to a further decentralized network of labor, space, and state implementation. Through adaptive changes in the case of the shoe industry, the shift of power between sectors (states, manufacturers, workers, and the market) has been challenging the discussion on state and market relations, social equality for the worker, and the urban and rural divide in China. 

    Please let me know if you are organizing a panel related to these topics, and contact me. Thanks.



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    Na Fu
    School
    New School
    funa@newschool.edu
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  • 25.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-16-2023 11:33 PM

    Hello,

    My name is Claire Elliot. I'm a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, looking to put together a panel focusing on affect, meditations, and/or death-related practices.

    My own paper looks at affects of corpse meditation in Northeast Thailand among male and female monastics. We could create interesting discussions along several different axes, such as by thinking about gendered meditations, treatments of the body after death, or affect and emotion in religious practice. Once we have a nice little group, we can refine it.



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    Claire Elliot
    University of Pennsylvania
    celliot@sas.upenn.edu
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  • 26.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-18-2023 03:38 AM
    Dear colleagues,
     
    I am Jung Eun Kwon, a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. I am currently seeking opportunities to join an in-person panel or collaborate with other scholars who share similar research interests.
     
    My research focuses on understanding young women's narratives and experiences of suicide, mental suffering, and care in South Korea. Additionally, I compare these experiences with the state's suicide project in the country. The core themes of my work revolve around gender, care, mental health, biopolitics, and medicalization.
     
    I am open to discussing various types of participation for our joint involvement, and I welcome any potential overlaps with my research, regardless of geographical area or discipline. If you believe our research interests align or if you have shared interests with my work, please feel free to contact me at juk78@pitt.edu. I am eager to connect with like-minded scholars and explore opportunities for collaboration.
     
    Thank you for consideration, and I hope to engage in fruitful discussions with you.
     
    Sincerely,


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    Jung Eun Kwon
    University of Pittsburgh
    juk78@pitt.edu
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  • 27.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-18-2023 04:26 AM
    Edited by Zhiyu Chen 07-18-2023 04:27 AM

    Graduate student seeking virtual panel on early modern natural knowledge, cultures and communications, & the Western Pacific Rim.

    Dear Colleagues,

    I am an incoming PhD student in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. I am looking to join a panel for my paper on the transfer of Chinese natural knowledge and the entangled construction of European colonial propaganda in the early modern Western Pacific Rim.

    The paper would be relevant to any panel on cross-cultural communication, the preservation and recovery of non-textual sources, and non-European mobility and diasporic identity. The case study I use is the Boxer Codex, a Spanish-language manuscript made in Manila towards the end of the sixteenth century, focusing especially on its depictions of Chinese deities and mythological creatures. The concept of selective permeabilities is particularly interesting in this context: What was the information order in the context of intra-Asian networks of commerce and mobility that predated and intersected European colonialism? What did it mean to make knowledge about China, when the Ming realm remained inaccessible for most Europeans?

    I look forward to hearing from interested panelists in the topic via email (zc305@cam.ac.uk). I am also excited to connect with anyone interested in this study more generally - if you are on Twitter, feel free to follow me @ZhiyuChenNC18.

    All the best,

    Zhiyu :) 



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    Zhiyu Chen
    Cambridge University
    zhiyu.melanie.chen@outlook.com
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  • 28.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-18-2023 12:30 PM

    Dear colleagues,

    I am Jing Li, a Phd candidate in cultural studies at Stony Brook University. My research focuses on the representation of rural China in Chinese cinema. More specifically, I look at how the aspects of sexuality, landscape, morality and Christianity are represented in independent cinema after 2000. If you share similar research interests in these topics, please do not hesitate to contact me at jing.li.6@stonybrook.edu. Look forward to engage fruitful conversations with you. Thanks!

    Best,



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    Jing Li
    Stony Brook University
    jldoc287@gmail.com
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  • 29.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-19-2023 02:02 PM
    Edited by Xuening Kong 07-19-2023 08:51 PM

    Dear Colleagues,

    I'm Xuening Kong, a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of History at Purdue University. I'm looking for a panel focusing on Global Asias, transnational studies, overseas Chinese, borderlands, and/or Chinese migration. 

    I'm currently working on my dissertation, "Identity Formation in Displacement: Chinese Migrants in U.S.-Mexico Borders, 1899-1945." Chapters of my diss cover historiographies in modern Chinese history, Asian American Studies, borderlands, Identity theories, women and gender. If you're interested in organizing a panel (or looking for a panelist) whose topic is relevant to the fields above, please contact me at kong58@purdue.edu. Thank you!



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    Xuening Kong
    Ph.D. Candidate
    Purdue University
    kong58@purdue.edu
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  • 30.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-20-2023 06:43 AM

    Dear Colleagues, 

    I am Yuang Marcus Liu, a graduate student at Columbia University. 

    I study Jewish refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe to Shanghai during the 1930s and 1940s, with a special focus on Chinese antisemitism, Shanghai's semi-coloniality and the contemporary dissemination of discourse on this historical event by the Chinese apparatus. The themes of my paper touch on refugees and colonialism in Asia as well as the contemporary fashioning of historical memory. 

    If you are looking for a panelist or are interested in building a panel together, please feel free to contact me! Thank you. 



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    Yuang Liu
    Columbia University
    yl5084@columbia.edu
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  • 31.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-20-2023 02:37 PM

    Hello,

    My name is Wendy Sun, an Assistant Professor working on Asian German Studies. My project is on the Transnational Narrative of the Sino-Jewish encounters in the Hongkou Ghetto. Broadly I am investigating multidirectional memory and how history is represented in contemporary media. If you are interested, please contact me at xiaoxue@ucsb.edu.

    Thank you. 



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    Wendy Sun
    Assistant Professor
    xiaoxue@ucsb.edu
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  • 32.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-21-2023 05:24 AM
    Hello esteemed scholars and researchers,
     
    I am Ling Li, a passionate PhD student from the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt in Germany.
     
    My current dissertation research delves into the fascinating dynamics of urban village land transformation and cultural governance, specifically in Shenzhen, Guangdong. I am deeply interested in exploring how powerful village clans and their shareholding cooperatives skillfully navigate their property and local identity, engaging in both cooperation and contention with the government amidst the land transformation process. My primary objective is to comprehend the profound influence of grassroots actors in shaping the outcomes of these interactions.
     
    In addition, my research encompasses the intriguing theme of traditional revival and civilization strategy. I am dedicated to understanding how these village clans and cooperatives navigate ancestral property and mental civilization, engaging in cooperation and conflict influenced by cultural values such as Confucianism and other traditional beliefs. Moreover, I am investigating how these clans collaborate with extended lineage networks across the world through various identity and ritual activities.
     
    If your research interests align with these captivating themes or explore similar aspects of urban village transformation, cultural governance, and the pivotal role of grassroots actors, I am excited to explore potential collaborations and exchange insights. Whether it involves organizing a panel group, co-authoring publications, or seeking joint funding opportunities, I am enthusiastic about cultivating enduring and fruitful partnerships with fellow scholars.
     
    If you are interested please contact me at ling.li@uni-erfurt.de.
     
    Thank you!
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    Ling Li
    Ph.D. student
    Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies
    University of Erfurt, Germany.
    ling.li@uni-erfurt.de
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    Ling Li
    ling.li@uni-erfurt.de
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  • 33.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-21-2023 01:10 PM
    Edited by Masami Kimura 07-21-2023 01:12 PM

    Dear Colleagues,

    My name is Masami Kimura, Lecturer at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.  I am well aware that I am making a last-minute effort, but I am interested in organizing a panel on "Anti-Communism in Cold-War Japan."  I hope to shed light on indigenous anti-Communist views/ sentiment, particularly of the "leftists" who are normally considered as Communist sympathizers and of ordinary people.  My presentation - if I can participate in AAS2024 - would be about anti-Communism of the Japan Socialist Party/ socialists during the Occupation period.  I am looking for people who also work on the above topic, taking any of the following (but not limited to) approaches: political history, intellectual history, social history, media/ cultural studies, and/ or literature.  If you are interested to make a panel together, please contact me at masamik520@gmail.com.

    Sincerely,

    Masami Kimura  



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    Masami Kimura
    Assistant Professor
    Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    masamik@hotmail.com
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  • 34.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-21-2023 03:32 PM
    Edited by David Kwok Kwan Tsoi 07-21-2023 03:32 PM

    Dear Colleagues,

    I am David Tsoi, a Ph.D. student from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research interests include transnationalism and migration, state-society relationship, geopolitics, and coloniality in Hong Kong and China. Using contemporary Hong Kong as a case study, my paper examines the relationship between coloniality and political subjectivity against a variegated history of ideological and material subjugation of ordinary people to colonialism, imperialism, and nationalism. This paper speaks to broader issues related to coloniality, subjectivity, state-building effort of China, geopolitics, as well as transnationalism. If you are interested in forming a panel, please feel free to contact me. Thank you.



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    Kwok Kwan Tsoi
    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
    ktsoi2@illinois.edu
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  • 35.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-21-2023 06:06 PM

    Dear colleagues, 

     

    I'm Dasom Lee, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at UC San Diego. I do research on International Migration; Race, Class, Gender; Qualitative Methods; Southeast and East Asia. I'm looking for a panel to join (also open to organizing one together). My dissertation examines the role of migration industry actors (marriage brokers, study abroad agencies, migrant non-profits, labor export companies, language tutoring centers, etc.) in the incorporation of migrant workers, marriage migrants, and students from Vietnam to South Korea. I will be happy to present parts of the findings around their relational making of racial and gendered identities prior to moving to the destination, the role of the intermediaries, and their use of online spaces to share information and tips. 

     

    I am also working on another paper featuring how South Korean employers of migrant workers adopt the narratives of the collective memory of national emigration and industrialization to justify their nativist and discriminatory practices against their employees. 

     

    If you are interested in any ideas above, please contact me at dal257@ucsd.edu. 



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    Dasom Lee
    University of California, San Diego
    dal257@ucsd.edu
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  • 36.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-23-2023 03:38 AM

    Hii Dasom lee

    I am a Ph.D. scholar from International Institute for Population sciences Mumbai, India. My area of interest is match with your cross-region marriage migration, role of agent in migration and the status of women who married from a far away. I would happy to connect with you.



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    Manisha Manisha
    kaushikmanisha104@gmail.com
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  • 37.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-23-2023 01:23 AM
    Edited by Agnese Dionisio 07-23-2023 01:23 AM

    Dear esteemed colleagues,

    I hope this message finds you well. My name is Agnese Dionisio, and I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. I am looking for a session to participate in, with a preference for the in-person component of the upcoming AAS 2024 conference. 

    My research interests primarily revolve around the topics of military sexual slavery, forced labor, and the broader issue of systematic oppression during the Japanese Empire. Specifically, I delve into the complex intersections of gender, race, and class, and their profound influence on the experiences of victims/survivors. I believe my proposed paper would be well-suited for a panel that revolves around themes such as war memory, systematic violence in East and Southeast Asia, or critical historiography. Additionally, I also engage with nationalism and revisionism. Consequently, I am equally drawn to panels that address narratives of historical trauma, nation-building, and myth-making.

    Should any of the aforementioned themes resonate with your research focus, I would be happy to discuss the possibility of collaborating on a panel together. Please feel free to reach out to me via email at a.dionisio@akane.waseda.jp. Thank you in advance for your consideration. 



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    Agnese Dionisio

    Ph.D. Candidate

    Waseda University

    a.dionisio@akane.waseda.jp


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  • 38.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-24-2023 12:42 PM
    Edited by Esuna Dugarova 07-24-2023 12:45 PM

    Dear all,

    I'm a visiting scholar at Columbia University and am looking to join a panel at the 2024 AAS conference. My paper examines power relations, trans-local agency, and (re)construction of Buryat-Mongolian identity through a gender lens. It explores linguistic, religious and care work arrangements in the context of patriarchal social norms, neoliberal welfare provision, and (de)colonial power structure. Based on fieldworks in Buryatia, Mongolia and India, the study discusses emerging trends, shifting gender dynamics, and intricate ethnonational identification amid geopolitical and socioeconomic transformations. 

    I can join a panel on topics related to gender, identity, racial and ethnic minorities, indigenous people, or Eurasian studies. If interested in the proposed paper, please email ed3020@columbia.edu. 

    Thank you,

    Esuna



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    Esuna Dugarova, PhD
    Columbia University
    ed3020@columbia.edu
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  • 39.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-25-2023 03:06 AM
    Edited by Sarah Sherweedy 07-25-2023 03:23 AM

    Dear All,

    I am Sarah Sherweedy, a Ph.D. cndadite in the Graduate School of Japanese Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS).

    My dissertation focuses on exploring the various narration styles utilized in the literary works of Dazai Osamu, analyzing their performative elements, and investigating the impact of traditional Japanese storytelling arts such as Rakugo and Gidayu on these styles. Additionally, I am examining the challenges associated with translating such narratives into English and Arabic.

    I'm looking for a panel to join and I am also open collaborating with others to organize one. Specifically, I am interested in presenting certain findings from my dissertation regarding the challenges encountered while translating Dazai's narratives into Arabic, with a focus on his novel "No Longer Human." In my presentation, I will analyze both direct and indirect translations, particularly exploring the complexities arising from the shifting of personal pronouns.

    If there are any panels related to "Translating Japan" / "Translating Asia", or if anyone is interested in presenting a paper on this subject, please feel free to contact me at Sarah.Sherweedy@gmail.com

    Thank you!

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    Sarah Sherweedy
    Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)

    Sarah.Sherweedy@gmail.com

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  • 40.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-26-2023 08:57 PM

    Dear Colleagues,

    My name is Weiyue Kan and I am a PhD candidate in the history department at the University of California, San Diego. I am currently seeking opportunities to join  an in-person panel for the AAS 2024.

    My research focuses on disability history,  gender history, family history, and the daily lives of common people in late imperial China. My project examines the daily lives of disabled individuals and their interactions with family, community, society and state in the Qing dynasty. My current paper delves into the individual and family context within which individuals with impairments were cared for and provided care. The core themes of my research revolve around family, gender, care and disability.


    If you are planning to form a panel related to these topic or if you believe my research aligns with your panel's  theme, I would be delighted to contribute. Please feel free to contact me at w1kan@ucsd.edu.

    Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to the opportunity of potentially collocating with you. 

    Best,

    Weiyue Kan

    phd candidate 

    UCSD

    w1kan@ucsd.edu 



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    weiyue kan
    University of California, San Diego
    zykwyer1@gmail.com
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  • 41.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-27-2023 05:25 AM

    Hello,

    I am in the process of arranging a panel that will explore the medical history of South Asia. My research focuses on the correlation between madness and ayurveda in India. I seek out fellow scholars examining any facets of medical history in South Asia.

    Best, Debjani

    Debjani Das

    Assistant professor

    Department of History

    Bidyasagar University

    India

    721102

    debjanidas1979@outlook.com

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    Debjani Das
    Vidyasagar University
    debjanidas1979@outlook.com
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  • 42.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-27-2023 07:14 AM

    Hey folks, 

    Does anyone here have/or know someone who is preparing a group for the #AAS2024 dealing with one of these themes: "tea culture in China" or "cross-cultural exchange east-west"? 
    I just received an email from the leader of my "panel" saying that he would not apply anymore due to personal reasons, and the other researchers gave up or found another group. So, I am now looking for a group to join. The Individual Paper proposal acceptance rate is relatively low, so I want to try it here first. 

    A bit about myself: My research involves a comparative analysis of the accommodation process of tea culture among the Jesuits in Japan and China. Currently, I am a PhD candidate at the University of Tokyo, and I'm also conducting research as a visiting scholar at Academia Sinica (Taipei); also, my presentation title 耶穌會士眼中的中國・日本茶文化和教堂建築之接待空間的關係 was accepted to the 2023中央研究院明清研究國際學術研討會. 

    If anyone could help me find a group or offer guidance, I would truly appreciate it.

    Joanes Rocha

    (日) ホッシャ・ジョアネス; (中) 喬耐斯
    Architectural historian / 建築史家
    joanesrocha@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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    ホッシャ・ジョアネス　(Joanes ROCHA)
    東京大学大学院 工学系研究科 建築学専攻　
    The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering, 
    Department of Architecture
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    Joanes da Silva Rocha
    The University of Tokyo
    joanesrocha@gmail.com
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  • 43.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-27-2023 02:38 PM

    Dear Asian Studies Collegues,

    My name is Navneet Khan. I am PhD candidate at Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. I am working on Ethnic Groups and Distribution of Political Power in Afghanistan. I am looking for a session which considers my paper on Role of Ethnic Identity in the Political Conflicts of Afghanistan and its implications on South Asia and Central Asia. Looking forward to connect with you all distinguished fellows working on Asia.

    Kind Regards,

    Navneet Khan

    PhD Candidate,

    Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi.

    navahmad2294@gmail.com

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    Navneet Khan
    MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
    navahmad2294@gmail.com
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  • 44.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 07-28-2023 05:01 AM
    Edited by Arthur Stoffels 07-28-2023 05:02 AM

    Dear Asian Studies Collegues, 

    My name is Arthur Stoffels and I am a Ph.D student at the University Paul Valery Montpellier 3, France. I am working on Hoa Hao Buddhism and more specifically on the Hoa Hao communities living overseas (USA, Canada and Australia). 

    The aim of this paper is to open the discussion on the presence of these communities in these countries and to discuss the relationships between the different Hoa Hao communities around the world. To construct this framework, I draw on the work of Hoa Hao specialists such as Pascal Bourdeaux and Vo Duy Thanh who work on this religious group in Vietnam, but also some more theoretical concepts such as transmigrants by Nina Glick Schiller. The aim of this paper is to highlight the relevance of such research and to explore an aspect of Vietnamese studies that is not really well explored. Some similar works such as those on Caodaism in the USA have served as support for my own work.

    To reiterate, I plan to make a paper that focuses on the international relations between the different Hoa Hao communities to show how these relations play a role in: a) the activities of Hoa Hao Buddhists (economic, social, publishing, development); b) the religious heritage and how the overseas communities influence their own practices (beliefs, practices, celebrations); c) the way they view the history of Hoa Hao Buddhism in Vietnam and how they use it to create their own discourse on politics (national politics in Vietnam and international political relations of Vietnam).

    So I am looking for a panel interested in one of these topics. If you're interested by one of the topics I mention here, feel free to contact me at: arthurstof@gmail.com

    Keywords: Vietnam; Beliefs; Hoa Hao Buddhism; Politics; Transmigration; Refugees; Boat-People; Overseas Communities

    Kind regards,

    Arthur Stoffels
    Ph.D Student,

    University Paul Valery Montpellier, France



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    Arthur Stoffels
    University Paul Valery Montpellier
    arthurstof@gmail.com
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  • 45.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 08-03-2023 03:04 AM

    Dear colleagues, 

    I am Kelly Leite, PhD candidate. I am Brazilian and currently in my last lap to finalize my PhD in Asia studies at National ChengChi University in Taiwan. I research the Chinese and Taiwanese immigration in Brazil, including their economical and educational practices. I am looking for a session to participate in the coming AAS in Seattle. 

    Please feel free to contact me. Thank you! :)



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    Kelly Leite
    kelly_leite@hotmail.co.uk
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  • 46.  RE: Individuals seeking Sessions!

    Posted 08-07-2023 02:10 PM
    Edited by Kurtis Hanlon 08-07-2023 11:05 PM

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