NEWS: Nine BU scholars in Seattle at Association for Asian Studies Meeting, March 31-April 3, 2016

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Later this month, nine BU scholars and faculty members will head to Seattle to participate in the annual conference for the Association of Asian Studies (AAS).  Covering regions from East Asia, South Asia, to Southeast Asia and in areas such as anthropology to gender and sexuality to communications to business management, the AAS is aimed at bringing together academics and professionals knowledgeable about Asia’s history and how the region is in modern day.

Below is a list of the BU scholars and their panels. For a full program and description of the panels, please click here.

China and Inner Asia
PANEL: Chinese Christianity Revisited: The John Sung Papers and Chinese Evangelistic Materials – Sponsored by CEAL Committee on Chinese Materials
“Class and Conversion: An Exploration in the Journals of John Sung” by Daryl Ireland, BU School of Theology

PANEL: Crisis and Intervention: Local Histories of State and Society in Qing China
Discussant: Eugenio Menegon, BU History

Inter-Area Border Crossing
PANEL: Colors in East Asian Civilizations: Concept, Materiality, and Art
Discussant: Richard Laursen, BU Chemistry

PANEL: Migrant Choreographies: Dancing across China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Europe
“Dancing Pictures: “Mei Lanfang’s ‘The Goddess Spreads Flowers’ and the Inherent Ambiguity of Modernism” by Catherine Vance Yeh, BU Modern Languages and Comparative Literature

PANEL: Muslim Moralities in Asian Capitalisms – Sponsored by the South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA)
“Capitalism and the Struggle for an Islamic Economic Ethics in Contemporary Indonesia” by Robert W. Hefner, BU Anthropology

PANEL: Nuclear Trauma and Its Musical Responses
“Sounding Affective Alliances in Post-3.11 Japan” by Marie Abe, BU Musicology

PANEL: Wilful Gods: Divine Agency and Ritual Efficacy in South and East Asia
Discussant: Robert Weller, BU Anthropology

Japan
PANEL: Japanese Literary Historiography: Past, Present, and Future
“Reconfiguring the Gordian Knot: Japanese Literary Historiography and the wa/kan Divide” by Wiebke Denecke, BU Modern Languages and Comparative Literature

Southeast Asia
PANEL: Beyond Commodification: Mass-Produced Religious Objects and Deep Authority in South and Southeast Asia
“The Mass-Mediated Reproduction of Charisma within a Diasporic Sufi Community” by Frank J. Korom, BU Department of Religion