Thursday, March 19, 2020
Bovines and People: Animal-Human Intimacies in an Inter-Regional Context
7:30 pm-9:15 pm
Organizer: Bradley Davis
Katherine Brunson (Wesleyan). "Archaeological Evidence for the Origins of Domesticated Cattle and Water Buffalo in China."
Peter Braden (UCSD). "Bovine Consumers in China's Energy Economy, 1936-1961."
Cassie Adcock (Washington University, St. Louis). "Good Breeding and the Cow Nation: Cattle Improvement in Colonial India."
Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University). "Grand Theft Buffalo: Bubalus bubalis and Property Law in Nineteenth Century Vietnam."
Worlds Transformed: Social and Environmental Change on Southeast Asian Mining Frontiers
7:30 pm-9:15 pm
Organizer: Thuy Linh Nguyen
Natasha Pairaudeau (Cambridge). "Borderland Corundrum: Kula Gem Mining at the Siam-Indochina Frontier."
Thuy Linh Nguyen (Mount Saint Mary College). "Coal, Water and Environmentalism in French Colonial Vietnam."
Nancy Peluso (Berkeley). "Laboring for Territory in Two "Golden” Ages."
Oliver Tappe (Hamburg). "Tin Mining in Laos: Labor, Livelihoods and Sociocosmological Relations."
From Nourishing Life to National Nutrition:
Diet and Health in Japanese History
7:30 pm-9:15 pm
Organizer: Joshua Schlachet
Joshua Schlachet (Arizona). ""Drowning in the Desires of the Mouth and Stomach": Diet and the Social Body in Nineteenth Century Japan."
W. Evan Young (Dickinson College). "Culinary Caregiving: Illness, Healing, and Diet in Early Modern Japan."
Kim Brandt (Columbia). "From Shokuyô to Macrobiotics: Postimperial Wellness in Transwar Japan and the World.”
Nathan Hopson (Nagoya University). "Nutrition as National Defense: State-Sponsored Nutritional Activism in Japan, 1920-1940."
Friday, March 20, 2020
Eating Inedibles: Rethinking Foods in Asian STS
9:00-10:45 am
Organizer: Lan Li
Jia-Hui Lee (MIT). "Cyber Organs: How Electric Noses and Artificial Tongues Determine Edibility."
Tristan Revells (Columbia). "Fire Wine and Spurious Liquors: Regulating Alcohol in Republican China (1910-1932)."
Anthony Acciavatti (Yale). "Knotty Materials: Edible Soy Proteins in the War on Hunger."
Lan Li (Rice). "Neither Pepper nor Corn: The Chemistry of Numbness in Mountain Peppercorn."
Victoria Lee (Ohio). "On the Edibility of Kōji in the Age of Cancer."
The Environmental Legacies of the Mongol Empire in Eastern Eurasia
11:15 am-1:00pm
Organizer: John Lee
George L. Kallander (Syracuse). "Case Study on the Hunt: Early Chosŏn Kings in a Post-Mongol World."
John S. Lee (Durham). "From Equine Frontier to Agrarian Bureaucracy: Mongol Ranches and Environmental Transitions in Chosŏn Korea."
Ian Matthew Miller (St. John’s). "Post-Mongol Tributary Economies and the Ming Empire in Southwest China."
Danielle Ross (Utah State). "Who Gets Father’s Pasture?: The Persistence of Chinggisid Inheritance Practices in the Kazakh Steppe, 1730s-1910s."
The Science of Plague in Asia: from Beijing to Bursa
11:15 am-1:00pm
Organizer: David N. Luesink
David N. Luesink (Sacred Heart). "Making Laboratory Science in China: The Manchurian Plague Prevention Service, 1912-1932."
Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers). "Plague Periodization Revisited: The Ottoman Empire between the Black Death and the Plague of Hong Kong."
Timothy Brook (UBC). "The Globalization of Yersinia Pestis: Is China Part of this History?"
Recovery, Reconstruction, and Resilience: Nine Years from the 3/11 Tohoku Triple Disasters
1:30-3:15 pm
Organizer: Daniel Aldrich
Peter Matanle (Sheffield). "Building Resilience to Disasters in the Era of Climate Change: Has Japan Sufficiently Imagined the Next Tsunami in Tōhoku?"
Kanako Iuchi (Tohoku). "Large scale rezoning in Tohoku – Rebuilding processes and preliminary results."
Florence Lahournat (Kyoto). "The vulnerabilities of resilience building."
Anna Vainio (Sheffield). "Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience in Tohoku: After the Tsunami."
Beyond the Slogan of “Green Sikkim”: Transecological and Transdimensional Relatedness in the Landscapes of Sikkim
1:30-3:15 pm
Organizer: Kalzang D. Bhutia
Kalzang D. Bhutia (UCLA). "Living in the forest, living with the forest: Negotiation and acknowledgement in the Green Medical traditions of west Sikkim."
Rongnyoo Lepcha (Sikkim). "Multiple meanings of mountains in Sikkim."
Mabel Gergan (Florida State). "Sacred claims and territory-making in India’s eastern Himalayan frontier."
The Vanishing River and its Protest Movement by the People of Teesta Valley of
Sikkim, Dzongu.
Political Economy of Water in Modern India and China: New Approaches with Meteorological Database and Spatial Analyses
1:30-3:15 pm
Organizer: Tomoko Shiroyama
Takeshi Hamashita 濱下武志 (The Oriental Library). "Meteorological change and the water system of Yangtze River at Hankou: 1870-1900."
Michihiro Ogawa (Kanazawa). "Reconsideration of the Great Famine (1876-1878) in Western India Using Datasets of Meteorology and Mortality.
Chang Liu (Tokyo). "Reconstruction of hydrological environment in Yangtze River basin in 1923~1955 and its application on modern Chinese history research."
Seemanta Sharma Bhagabati (Tokyo). "Reconstruction of the Great Famine of western India using hydrological model by improving historical reanalysis dataset with limited observed data."
Scratching the Surface of Fluff: Exploring the Ecological, Moral, Cultural and Geopolitical Dimensions of Japanese Food
1:30-3:15 pm
Organizer: Katarzyna J. Cwiertka
Aya Kimura (Hawaii). "Food and Preservation of Agrobiodiversity: Political ecology of tsukemono (pickles)."
Whitelaw Gavin (Harvard). "Food Loss and the Moral Economy of Konbini Ownership."
Samuel H. Yamashita (Pomona College). "The Geopolitical and Cultural Significance of the “Japanese Turn” in Fine Dining in the United States."
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka (Leiden). "The Myth of Washoku: Tweaking of History for the Nation-Branding Agenda."
Displaced in the Anthropocene: The Unfolding Climate-induced Migrant Crisis in Asia
3:45-5:30 pm
Organizer: Tani Sebro
Chair: Judith Shapiro
Discussants:
Anthony D. Medrano
Kevin McGahan
Tani Sebro
Wolfram Dressler
Communities at Work: Reappraisals of Local Autonomy in Late Qing and Early Republican China
3:45-5:30 pm
Organizer: Sarah Yu
James Lin (Washington). "Agricultural Science, Reform, and Imaginings of a Modern Agrarian China, 1911-1945."
Sarah X. Yu (UPenn). "From Plague Control to Public Health: Global-Local Collaborations in Shanxi, 1917—1928."
Joohee Suh (Xavier). "Protecting the Dead’s Home: Communal Efforts of Managing Dead Bodies in Late-Qing Shanghai."
Lei Duan (Michigan). "Sanctioned Violence and Local Power: Private Gun Ownership in Early Republican Guangdong."
Photography, History, and Ecology:
Composing China's Modern Landscapes
3:45-5:30 pm
Organizer: Shirley Ye
Shirley Ye (Birmingham). "Engineering Landscapes: Photography, Water, and Narrative."
Hanchao Lu (Georgia Institute of Technology). "Old Photos (Lao Zhaopian): Memory, Reflection, and Voice of the Everyday People."
William Schaefer (Durham). "Photography, Emergence, and Form: Wang Youshen's and Birdhead's Urban Ecological Mosaics."
Yajun Mo (Boston College). "Science and Fantasy: Photography and the Visualization of the Sino-Tibetan Frontiers."
Environment and Crisis in Northeast Asia
3:45-5:30 pm
Dreaming of a Sentient Land: Ecofeminism and Crises of Embodiment in Han Kang's The Vegetarian
Transnational hazard: A history of asbestos industry and responsibility in South Korea
Environmental Catastrophes of the Korean War
Japan’s Imagined Pelagic Empire: A Study of the Historical Development of
Imperialistic Discourse about Japanese Northern Sea (Hokuyō) Fisheries during the Interwar Years
Environmentalisms and Nonhuman Histories in Modern and Contemporary Japan
7:30-9:15 pm
Organizer: Livia Monnet
Livia R. Monnet (UdeM). "A Radical Ecology of Indefinite Alterlife: Post-Anthropocene Worlds and In/Nonhuman Agency in Seto Momoko's Experimental Short Films."
Margherita Long (UC, Irvine). "Care, Affect, Pedagogy: The Eco-Documentary of Iwasaki Masanori."
Christine Marran (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities). "Climate change and the Japanese modern novel."
Thomas Lamarre (Duke). "Colonies: A Bacterial History of (Japanese) Empire."
Saturday, March 21, 2020
The Politics of Imagining China’s Environment: A Historical Itinerary
9:00-10:45 am
Organizers: Wen-Yi Huang & Kathy Mak
Wen-Yi Huang. "Making Mountains: Environment and Migratory Experience in Fourth-through-Sixth Century China."
Kathy Mak (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University). "Reimaging Landscape: Water Control and the Ecotopia in Song Wenzhi’s Painting."
Elizabeth Lord (Brown). "The Polluting Other: Narrating China’s Environmental ‘Crisis’."
Discussant: Corey Byrnes (Northwestern)
Chair: Ling Zhang (Boston College)
The Aftermath of Transformation and Destruction:
Emerging Environments and Ecologies in East Asia
9:00-10:45 am
Organizer: Tomonori Sugimoto
Eleana Kim (UC, Irvine). "Cold War’s Nature: A Critical Historiography the DMZ’s De/militarized Ecologies."
Yen-ling Tsai (NCTU, Taiwan). "Love in Time of Snails: An Early History of the Golden Apple Snail Diaspora in Asia."
Shiho Satsuka (Toronto). "Paradox of Artificial Cultivation: Matsutake Science and Satoyama Forest Revitalization in Japan."
Tomonori Sugimoto (Yale). "Wasteland Ecologies: Indigenous Gardening and Foraging in Postindustrial Taipei."
From Sites to Sources: Reading Asia across the Anthropocene
9:00-10:45 am
Organizer: Anthony D. Medrano
Faizah Zakaria (NTU, Singapore). "Krakatau’s “Vibrating String”: Energy Anxieties in the Anthropocene."
Anthony D. Medrano (Yale-NUS). "Life among Fish: City and Science on the Bay of Bengal."
Joshua Gedacht (Rowan). "Powering Conquest and Empire: The Establishment of the Sabang Coaling Station and Seaport in Colonial Aceh."
Stefan Huebner (NUS). "The High-Growth Ocean: How Offshore Oil Promises and Embargo Fears Caused the West Pacific Exploration Rush (c. 1950s–1970s)."
Visual Cultures of Agriculture in Modern Asia
11:15 am-1:00 pm
Organizer: Liza Oliver
Liza Oliver (Wellesley). "Bovine Portraiture and Narratives of Ryot Self-Improvement in British India."
Ateya Khorakiwala (Columbia). "Technology is Inside Your Food: The Visual Landscape of Fertilizer, India c. 1970."
Diana Martinez (Tufts). "The Coconut Palace."
Re-imagining Borderland Governance:
Transforming Natural and Social Spaces in East and Southeast Asia
11:15 am-1:00 pm
Organizer: Adam Saltsman
Martin Fromm (Worcester State). "Nationalism, Modernization, and Environmental Conservation: A View from China’s Northeast Borderland."
Adam Saltsman (Worcester State). "Producing Cross-border Politics on the Periphery: Burmese Migrants and the Everyday Practice of Mediating Conflict in the Borderlands."
Téphanie Sieng (Université Paris Diderot). "Ratanakiri: From a Peripheral Borderland to an Integrated Crossroads of Trade."
Juliet Lu (Berkeley). "Rule through Rubber: Plantations and State Formation in the Sino-Lao Borderlands."
Revaluing the Environment:
Ecology, Disasters, and Animals in Premodern Korea
11.15 am-1:00 pm
Organizer: Youme Kim
Howard Kahm (Yonsei). "Begging for Rain: Socio-economic Effects of Climate in the Early Koryŏ Period."
Youme Kim (Yonsei). "Literary Representations of Bears and Human–Nature Relations in Premodern Korea."
Kyungmi Kim (Ewha Womans University). "The Ontology of Things– Representations of Non-Human Subjects in Korean Literature."
Urban Swamps, Sacred Highlands, Island Insurgencies and Bombed Embassies: Localization and the Microdynamics of State-Building in Southern Vietnam
11.15 am-1:00 pm
Organizer: David A. Biggs
Edward Miller (Dartmouth). "A State Born of Civil War: Localization, State-Building, and Violence in a South Vietnamese Province, 1954-1965."
Alvin Bui (Washington). "A Tale of Two Saigon Embassies: The Republic of China's Diplomatic Presence in the Republic of Vietnam."
Tam T. Ho (Vietnam National University, Hanoi). "Rebuilding The Nation Postwar: The Land Development Program of the Republic Of Vietnam in the Central Highlands (1957-1961)."
David A. Biggs (UC, Riverside). "Saigon's Swamp: Views of the City from the Mangrove Core."
Amphibious Histories: Rivers as Pulse and Flow in India and China
3:00-4:45 pm
Organizer: Prasenjit Duara
Yan Gao (Memphis). "An Amphibious World: Living in the Central Yangzi of Late Imperial China."
Chris Courtney (Durham). "From Otters to Crayfish: The Transformation of Wetland Cultures in Modern China."
Rohan D’Souza (Kyoto). "Inundation to Perennial Colonial Engineering and the Making of Modern rivers in South Asia
Sudipta Sen (UC, Davis). "The Ganges Delta and the Bay of Bengal World in the Age of Trade and Empire: A Foray into the Amphibious Pulse of History."
Searching as Interspecies Poetics
3:00-4:45 pm
Organizer: Doug N. Slaymaker
Keijiro Suga (Meiji). "Hunting as a Quest for What?"
Christophe Thouny (Ritsumeikan). "Hunting the everyday : Street observation, animals and waste in the urban jungle."
Doug N. Slaymaker (Kentucky). "I Wanna be your Dog: Interspecies desire in Matsuura Rieko’s Kenshin."
Linda Galvane (Stanford). "Poetic and Poietic Ruminations of Interspecial Coprophagia."
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Unpacking Authoritarian Environmentalism in Asia:
Different Contexts, Different Tools, Different Responses
9:00-10:45 am
Organizers: John Zinda & Yifei Li
Ole Bruun (Roskilde University, Denmark). " Environmental protection in the hands of the Vietnamese State: outlook, means and consequences."
Thorkil Casse (Roskilde). "Greening or broadening of stakeholder involvement in Vietnam’s version of environmental authoritarianism?"
Judith Shapiro (American University). "The “Green” State Pacifies its Frontiers: Environmental Authoritarianism in China’s Border Regions."
Yifei Li (NYU Shanghai). "The State on the "Green" Belt and Road: Big Data Environmentalism in the Age of Global China."
Whimsical Fauna:
Animals as Agents in Early and Medieval China and Inner Asia
9:00-10:45 am
Organizer: Petya Andreeva
Leslie Wallace (Coastal Carolina University Favorite). "Animals in the Tomb of Crown Prince Yide (706 CE)."
Rohan Sikri (Georgia). "Becoming an Animal: Perspectives on Species Difference in Chinese Philosophy."
Petya Andreeva (Parsons School of Design). "Composite Creatures and Their Social Lives: Image-Making in Ancient Inner Asia."
Benjamin Daniels (Berkeley). "Dragons in Early China: The Ecology of an Imaginary Animal."
Sustainability and Exclusion:
Differential Impacts of Resource Governance in Southeast Asia
11:00 am-12:45 pm
Organizers: Matthew J. Libassi & Juliet Lu
Lisa C. Kelley (Hawaii). "Explaining the Limitations of Corporate Sustainability Initiatives in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia’s Smallholder Cacao Sector."
Melissa Marschke (Ottawa). "Slavery Scandals Extended: Migrant Workers and Fishing Industries in Taiwan and Thailand."
Matthew J. Libassi (Berkeley). "Taming “Wild” Mining: Examining Governance of Informal Gold Production in Indonesia."
Balik Bukid: Philippine Agrarian Studies in the Age of Human Capital
11:00 am-12:45 pm
Organizer: Alyssa Paredes
Alyssa Paredes (Yale). "Is the Philippines Asia’s “Banana Republic?”"
Patricia Irene N. Dacudao (Ateneo de Manila University). "Land vs. Labor in Davao: Where Abaca was King and Laborers Reigned Supreme, 1898-1941."
Noah Theriault (Carnegie Mellon). "Low Volume, High Value, and the Labor in Between: Non-Timber Forest Products and Indigenous Rights in the Philippines."
Philip Cerepak (University of Wisconsin, Madison). "Mythmaking and the Philippine Coconut Administration: The Industrialization of Coconut By-Products and Copra Production, 1954-1972."
What is Chinese about Chinese food?
11:00 am-12:45 pm
Organizer: Gina Tam
Gina A. Tam (Trinity). "Chinese, Western, Local, Foreign: A History of Restaurant Typologies in Hong Kong, 1890-1930."
Michelle King (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). "From Connoisseur to Cook: Gender and Memory in Mid-20th Century Chinese Food Writing."
Yvon Wang (Toronto). "The Discourse of Dairy in Socialist China between Revolutions (1949-1966)."
Erica M. Cheung (UC, Irvine). "The U.S.A.’s Insatiable Appetite: “Canning” Chinese in the Cold War Era."
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