22 – 23 February 2024
| Humanities Gateway Building | University of California, Irvine
Program at a Glance
Thursday, 22 February
9:30AM Registration Opens (HG 1030)
10:00-11:15AM Pre-Conference Publication Workshop: Tina Chen (HG 1030)
11:15AM-12:30PM Lunch Break (on your own)
12:30-1:30PM Opening Plenary: Wendy Cheng (HG 1030)
1:45-3:15 PM Parallel Sessions (HG 1010, 2200, 2341, 3200, 3301)
3:30-5:00 PM Parallel Sessions (HG 1010, 2200, 2341, 3200, 3301)
Friday, 23 February
8:30-9:00 AM Morning Coffee/Tea (HG 1030)
9-10:30AM Parallel Sessions (HG 1010, 2200, 2341, 3200, 3301)
10:45-11:45 AM Roundtable: Navigating Academia as an Asian Woman (HG 1030)
11:45AM-1:00PM Lunch Break (on your own)
1-2:30PM Parallel Sessions (HG 1010, 2200, 2341, 3200, 3301)
2:45-4:15 PM Parallel Sessions (HG 1010, 2200, 2341, 3200, 3301)
4:30-5:30PM Closing Plenary: Nadine Attewell (HG 1030)
Schedule
| Thursday, 22 February | |
| 9:30AM | HG 1030: Registration Table Opens |
| 10:00AM-11:15AM | HG 1030: Publication Workshop Tina Chen (The Penn State University) Open to all scholars interested in learning more about publishing Global Asias scholarship. RSVP here. |
| 11:15AM-12:30 PM | Lunch Break (on your own) |
| 12:30PM-1:30 PM | HG 1030: Opening Plenary Wendy Cheng (Scripps College)Cold War/Martial Law Formations of Taiwanese America |
| 1:45PM-3:15 PM | HG 1010: Carcerialities Toni Nicole Hays (UC Irvine)Rezoning Home: Post-Incarceration Returns in John Okada’s No-No Boy and Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine.” Kylie M. Ching (UC Irvine)Tomie Arai: Multiple Returns of the Japanese American Incarceration Katarina Yuan (UCLA)More-than-Human Incarcerations of the Asian Diasporic Frontier Yuan Gu (UC Irvine)Rehabilitation Practices within the Veil of China’s Prisons: A Provincial Exploration of China’s Prison Rehabilitation Approaches |
| HG 2200: Migrations Carolyn Areum Choi (Princeton University)Sub-imperial Mobilities: Educational Migration and Tourism from South Korea to Saipan and the Philippines Qi Pan (Tufts University)From Global Sojourn to National Redemption: Encounters with Otherness in Hu Shih’s Study Abroad Journey Ailin Zhou (UC Santa Cruz)Death as Home(be)coming: Chinese American Graves in North California | |
| HG 2341: Foods Laura Li (UC Irvine)Reimagining Intimacies: Food Art, Ritual, Performance, and Queer Feminist Activism in the Sinosphere Diaspora Trinh Dang (UC Irvine) Spectacularization of phở: a story of colonialism, empire, and nation-making Christie Yamasaki (UC San Diego) Canned Food Carcerality: Prisoner and Refugee Foodways and Memories of Camp | |
| HG 3200: Temporalities Yunning Zhang (University of Chicago)“Miyako no bicuni: Racializing Mystical Time in the Early Modern Transpacific” Joshua Bender (UC San Diego)“Wandering on the Wings of Fantasy”: Unfixing Legibility in Philippine Experiences of Modernity” Yaqi Wang (UC Irvine)”The Flipped Reality: The Problem of Time Image in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure” | |
| HG 3301: Translations Jennifer Junwa Lau (University of Toronto Mississauga)”Chinese” Literary Encounters: Sino-West Relations and the Medium of Poetry Allan Zheng (UC Riverside)Diasporic Disconnections in Jean-Baptiste Phou’s My Mother’s Tongue (2021) Huiyin Zhou (Duke University)Citational Intimacies, Presence, and Play in Chinese Queer Feminist Collective Poetry-Writing | |
| 3:30PM-5:00 PM | HG 1010: Woman, Mother, Warrior: Vietnamese Women and Their Literary and Global Asias Circulations Kelly Nguyen (UCLA)More than Symbols: Vietnamese Women, Classical Traditions, and Feminist Epistemologies Phung N. Su (UC San Diego)From Good Warriors to Good Mothers: The Changing Faces of Vietnamese Womanhood Catherine H. Nguyen (Emerson College)Mothers, Mothering, and the Maternal in Aimee Phan’s We Should Never Meet |
| HG 2200: Violences Grayson Lee (University of Toronto)Against the K-Cop Wave: South Korean Subimperialism and the Neoliberal Production of South Korean State Violence as Global Export Katrya Ly (UC Riverside) Transnational Sacrifice: From the Secret War in Laos to the American University Michelle Okawa (CSU Long Beach) Techno-Orientalism, Sex Work, and the Disruption of Imperialist Narratives in Westworld Daniel Kim (Brown University) “You Are There Because You Are There”: The Awkward American Presence in the Films of Bong Joon-ho | |
| HG 2341: Spaces Lucy Zi Wei Fang (UC Irvine)Promiscuous Vocabularies: Post-1987 Spatial Imaginaries of Post-1987 Taiwan in The Membranes and Vive l’Amour Lemin Gao (New York University)Closer and Apart: Balconies in Modern Urban Sinophone Literature Keyu Yan (The Ohio State University) Remaking Spaces: Agency and Queerness in the Art of Tseng Kwong Chi (1950-1990) Angela Cai (Princeton University)The Poetics of Detention and Belonging: Spatializing Angel Island Immigration Station | |
| HG 3200: Revolutions Jian Ren (Rutgers University)The Cuban Revolution: A Chinese History Kaiyang Xu (University of Southern California) Secondhand Clothing and Vlog-making: A Transmedia Process of Forming Sino-African Connections Yixin Xu (UC Riverside)Revolutionizing Gender Narratives: The Role of Netflix’s ‘Wave Makers’ in Taiwan’s MeToo Movement and Beyond | |
| HG 3301: Healings Chengyuan Huang (UC Irvine)Bodymind in Contemplation: Traditional Chinese Medicine Imagery in Hung Liu’s Work Quynh Truong (UC Riverside)Vulgar: Governance of Queer Affect in Market-Socialist Media Xiangu Qi (UC Irvine)(Re)presenting Diasporic “China”: Imperfect Bodies and Empowering Mourning in Wet Season Natasha Israt Kabir (Southern Illinois University)A Voice to the Voiceless: Refugees with Disabilities and Language Divide Accessing Braille and Rohingya-friendly Sign Language through an Inclusive Justice System | |
| Friday, 23 February | |
| 8:30AM-9:00AM | HG 1030: Morning Coffee/Tea |
| 9:00AM-10:30 AM | HG 1010: Infrastructures in a Time of Global Asia (Part I of II): Mapping Infrastructures Ann Ngoc Tran (University of Southern California) Phantasmatic Geography: Riverine Wars in the Mekong Delta Jason Vu (University of Southern California) Eyes in the Sky: Aerial Reconnaissance and the Aesthetics of Capture Elliott Jun (City University of New York) Forts / Factories / Fragility |
| HG 2200: Histories Youngoh Jung (UC San Diego)Searching for Solidarities in the Transnational Korean Diaspora Archive: Rethinking Disciplines, Methods, and National/Ideological Boundaries Victoria Huynh (UC Berkeley)Home in the World: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Exiled Imagination Xuening Kong (Purdue University)”Women as Backers: Women’s Role in Supporting Chinese Borderlanders’ Transnational Lives, 1899-1945 | |
| HG 2341: Ecologies Suchen Ding (UC Irvine) Visualizing Nuclear Crisis: Media Infrastructure, Godzilla and the Eco-Media Event Ziyang Li (UC San Diego)The Global Gold that Overflows: Gold Rush, Ecology, and Asian American Identity in How Much of These Hills is Gold | |
| HG 3200: Movements Ben Han (Stanford University)The Foolish Monkey Who Moved the Mountains: Socialist Realist Animated Films 1961-1964 Qindian Chen (UC Irvine)The Decline of Overseas Chinese Pro-Democracy Movements Amanda Su (UC Berkeley)Socialist Aesthetics and the Taiwanese Independence Movement Yiping Cai (UC Irvine) From Vernacularization to Internationalization: Chinese NGO in Global China | |
| HG 3301: Post/Socialist Indigenization in Asia: Remediation and Irreparability Yanshuo Zhang (Pomona College)Indigenous Articulations: Understanding the Multimedia “Mother Tongue Movement” of the Qiang People of China Kang Kang (Northwestern University)Death of a Deer Friend: Mourning and Irreparability in the Postsocialist Taiga Maria Romanova (Northwestern University)Arctic Dreams and Deaths: Impossibility of Grief in Postsocialist Sakha Republic | |
| 10:45AM-11:45AM | HG 1030: Roundtable on Navigating Academia as an Asian Woman Chair: Julia H. Lee (UC Irvine) Panelists: Nadine Attewell (Simon Fraser University), Tina Chen (The Penn State University), Wendy Cheng (Scripps College) Moderator: Sophie Mariko Wheeler (UC Irvine) |
| 11:45AM-1:00PM | Lunch Break (on your own) |
| 1:00PM-2:30 PM | HG 1010: Infrastructures in a Time of Global Asia (Part II of II): Reclaiming Infrastructures Jennifer Jihye Chun (UCLA) and Judy Ju Hui Han (UCLA) The Everyday Life of Protest: Care, Reflexivity, Solidarity Wei Si Nic Yiu (UCLA) Quietness as Labor Strategy: Listening to Chinese Massage Workers’ Sonic Labor Strategies Wesley Attewell (University of Hong Kong) Diasporic Logistics and the Afterlives of Empire Chris Chien (Tulane University / Simon Fraser University) “Free and Not-In-Time”: Person-to-Person Feral Couriering and the ‘Prospect’ of Repurposing Logistics Infrastructure |
| HG 2200: Bodies Zoe Hing-Portnoff (UC Irvine)Ornate Surfaces and Grotesque Bodies: Footbinding on Display Deborah Mozo Hernandez (Wilfrid Laurier University)“Confidently Beautiful”: Miss Universe and Colonial Conceptions of Beauty in the Philippines Minwoo Jung (Loyola University Chicago) Flexible Masculinities: Negotiating Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in Global Asia Drew Trinidad (UC Riverside)Spectacular Body-Texts: Diasporic and Transnational Fan Navigations of K-Pop Survival Show Boys Planet (2023) | |
| HG 2341: Belongings Viola Lasmana (Rutgers University)Badminton and the Politics of (Be)Longing Gunn Phikrohkit (UC Irvine)Far-From-Home Phenomen(ology): Nostalgic Memories, Situatedness, and the (Re)Making of Thailand/Home in the Thai Diaspora Minu Park (UC Irvine)Can Diaspora Be a Hero?: Multiverse as Diaspora Narrative in Black Panther and Everything Everywhere All At Once Demetrius Tien (UC Irvine)Being “Cambodian” in Angkor The Lost Empire of Cambodia and Afterparties: Stories | |
| HG 3200: Senses Dong Yang (Grinnell College)The Atmosphere of Aphasia: Tracing Inexpressiveness in East Asian New Wave Cinema Shelby Oxenford (University of Texas at Austin)The Past Is Never Dead: Faulkner in Murakami Haruki’s “Barn Burning” and Lee Chang-dong’s Burning Carlo Tuason (University of Southern California)Out-Sounding Hong Kong: Logistical Noise and Performing the State in Victoria Harbour | |
| HG 3301: Relational Surfaces Suiyi Tang (University of Southern California)Bodies Undone: Vitalism and Ornamentation in Sayaka Murata’s “A First Rate Material” Issay Matsumoto (University of Southern California)The Muumuu Tribe Finds Naked Paradise: Japanese Women and Trans-Pacific Aloha Wear, 1960s and 1970s Tania Sarfraz (University of Southern California)Slashing through Genre: Zibahkhana and Transnational Affect | |
| 2:45PM-4:15 PM | HG 1010: Diasporic (After)Lives: Building Different Worlds through Insurgent Protest Elizabeth Son (Northwestern University)Korean Diasporic Performances for Peace and the Politics of Hope Jinah Kim (CSU Northridge)Archives of Unfinished Work: Transpacific Aesthetic Engagement with StateViolence Crystal Mun-hye Baik (UC Riverside)Activating the Activist Archive: Oral History and Rest as Praxis |
| HG 2200: Hauntings Ann Thuy-Ling Tran (CSU Long Beach)Fragmented Spaces of Horror: Intergenerational H/ồnting, Un/translation, and Healing in Vietnamese Global and Diasporic Cultural Production Steven Beardsley (UC San Diego)Sexy Spirits, Bawling Baklas and Babaylans, and Garish Gaydars: Reading Monstrous Intimacy in in the Philippine Film Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings Jiyon Byun (UC Irvine)Undead Bodies and Precarious Homes in Sang-ho Yeon’s Seoul Station (2016) Charlotte Pu (UCLA)Strange Mother, Freak Baby: Dystopian Reproductive Futurity in Ling Ma’s Fiction | |
| HG 2341: Markets Tianyun Hua (UC Davis)Financializing Environment: Rubber Estates, Chinese Labor, and Literature in Early 20th Century Siyu Zhang (University College London)Settlers or Nomads:Consumption,Informal Employment and Identity of Tibetan Township Youth Hareem Khan (CSU San Bernardino)“Real over Perfect”: Ayurvedic Beauty Companies and the Selling of Global India Miguel Angel Quirarte Hernandez (UC Irvine)”Revolutionary Commerce and Aloof Diplomacy: Mexico-Japan Relations during the Huerta and Carranza Regimes, 1913-1917″ | |
| HG 3200: What is Home?: On Homecoming, Nostalgia, and Reconstruction in Asian American Literature Audrey Fong (Chapman University)Searching for answers, searching for home: Experiencing another’s nostalgia in Kathy Chow’s Seeing Ghosts Ian Koh (Chapman University)If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar: Representing Transnational Solidarity in Poetry Justine Trinh (Washington State University)Home is not where the heart is: Home and memory in Lan Samantha Chang’s Hunger Respondent: Yvonne Cha (UC Irvine) | |
| HG 3301: Global x Asias: Memories of Unfamiliar Relations Ayaka Yoshimizu (The University of British Columbia)Where Transcontinental Railways Meet Transpacific Human Trafficking Networks Christine Kim (The University of British Columbia)Situating North Korea within Socialist Lifeworlds | |
| 4:30PM-5:30 PM | HG 1030: Closing Plenary Nadine Attewell (Simon Fraser University)Intimacy as Method: Relation Work in the Archives of Global Asia |