Boston University at the AAS, Toronto March 16-19, 2017

We are delighted that Boston University will be well represented in the following sessions at the AAS (Association for Asian Studies) Annual Meeting in Toronto from March 16-19, 2017.

Thursday 3/16/17  7:30-9:30 pm  Panel 10. J ROUNDTABLE
Eating Japan
Chaired by Laura Miller, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Discussants:
Linda H. Chance, University of Pennsylvania
Cody Poulton, University of Victoria
Anne McKnight, Shirayuri University
Merry White, Boston University
Yukiko Hanawa, New York University

Thursday 3/16/17 7:30-9:30 pm Panel 28. C
Taking Care of the Rich and Poor in Contemporary China
Chaired by Jean C. Oi, Stanford University
Anti-Communities: Precarious Living in Shanghai’s Hidden Slums
Shuang Lu Frost, Harvard University
Comparing Social Welfare in Subnational China: Firm Power,
Employers’ Preferences and Incentives of Local Politicians
Hao Chen, Boston University
Pauper Economics: The Economy of Begging in Northwest China
Adam K. Frost, Harvard University
Dual Pension Regimes in China: Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Yujeong Yang, University of Michigan
The Globalization of Chinese Internet Companies
Lianrui Jia, York University

Friday 3/17/17  10:30 am-12:30 pm  Panel 47. J
Beautiful Boys and Glamour Girls: Gender, Youth and Emergent Modernity in Japan and Korea
Chaired by Brian R. Bergstrom, McGill University
Symbol of the Future or its Ornament? Representations of Educated Young Women in 1900s-1910s Japan
Miyabi Abbie M. Yamamoto, One.Trans.Literacy
Beautiful Little Citizens: The Bishōnen of Japan’s Earliest Boy’s Magazines
Brian R. Bergstrom, McGill University
Korea’s Communist Glamour Girls
Ruth A. Barraclough, Australian National University
The River Sumida: Narratives of Growing Up in Meiji Tokyo
Christophe Thouny, University of Tokyo
Discussant: Yoon Sun Yang, Boston University

Friday 3/17/17 12:45-2:45 pm  Panel 84. J
Accomplices of Reading: Print Media, Cultural Politics and the Literary Imagination in Interwar and Cold War Japanese Writing
Chaired by Brian R. Hurley, Syracuse Univeristy
For “A Most Excellent Civilization”: The Popularization of Transcendental Knowledge in the Journal Shichō
Nathan Shockey, Bard College
Fractures of the Imperial Culture Industry: Kawabata Yasunari, Mei Niang, and the Manchukuo Short Story
Stephen F. Poland, Harvard University
A Woman Writes War for “Housewives” and “History”: Yoshiya Nobuko’s Asia Reportage and Fiction
Sarah Frederick, Boston University
The Fiction of the Free Market: Cold War Neoliberalism and Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro
Brian R. Hurley, Syracuse University

Friday 3/17/17 12:45-2:45 pm  Panel 85. J
Vulgar Sounds: The Aural Politics of Hierarchy and Memory in Modern Japan
Chaired by Hiromu Nagahara, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Battle of the Drums at the Imperial Palace, 1934
Hiromu Nagahara, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vulgar Voicings: Diva Misora Hibari and Postwar Japan’s Badness
Christine R. Yano, University of Hawaii
Vulgarity and Enticement: Chindon-ya’s Genealogical Performances
Marie Abe, Boston University
Sound as Memory of 3/11
Carolyn S. Stevens, Monash University
Discussant: Jennifer Robertson, University of Michigan

Friday 3/17/17 5:15-7:15 pm  Panel 150. BC
Modern Intimacies: Romantic Love and Conjugal Projects in East and Southeast Asia
Chaired by Nancy J. Smith-Hefner, Boston University
Seeking Intimacy outside of Marriage: Off-Farm Employment, Romantic Encounters, and Marital Instability in Contemporary China
Ke Li, Framingham State University
Romantic Love and the Marriage Market in Southwest China
Keping Wu, Sun Yat-sen University
Of Children and Lovers: Marriage, Morality, and Romance in Vietnam
Merav Shohet, Boston University
A New Romance? Individuality and Social Obligation in Indonesian Love and Marriage
Nancy J. Smith-Hefner, Boston University
Discussant: Holly Wardlow, University of Toronto

Saturday 3/18/17 8:30-10:30 am  Panel 192. SEA
Religious Spaces, Identities, and Transformations in Southeast Asia
Christian Political and Social Responses to Increasing Islamization in Malaysia
David Guo Xiong Han, Nanyang Technological University
Female Patronage of Religious Space in 19th-Century Nanyang: A Case Study on Chinese Sectarian Vegetarian Halls in Singapore
Nationalist Transformations: Music, Ritual, and the Work of Memory in Cambodia and Thailand
Jeffrey M. Dyer, Boston University
The Ambivalent Cultural Capital of Trance and Ecstasy: The Stigma of Possession in Thai Buddhism
Erick D. White, Cornell University
The Monk who was a Woman: Quan Am Thi Kinh and the Domestication of Buddhism in Vietnam
Cuong Mai, Appalachian State University

Saturday 3/18/17 3:00-5:00 pm  Panel 271. SEA
Beyond Exceptionalism: Critical Perspectives on Indonesian Islam and Democracy – Sponsored by the Indonesia and Timor-Leste Studies Committee (ITLSC)
Chaired by Jeremy M. Menchik, Boston University
Proximity as Threat: Sectarianism in Indonesia
Jessica Soedirgo, University of Toronto
Crafting Indonesian Democracy: Inclusion-Moderation and the Sacralizing of the Postcolonial State
Jeremy M. Menchik, Boston University
Rebranding Islam: Public Diplomacy, Soft Power, and the Making of “Moderate Islam” in Indonesia
James B. Hoesterey, Emory University
Religious Freedom for All? State, Islam and Religious Conflict in Indonesia
Kikue Hamayotsu, Northern Illinois University
Discussant: Gregory J. Fealy, Australian National University

Saturday 3/18/17 3:00-5:00 pm  Panel 277. C
Information, Texts, and Intermediaries in the Making of Global Knowledge about Late Imperial China
Chaired by Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia
Imperium Imperii: The Qing Empire in the Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth-Century World
Devin Fitzgerald, Harvard University
Court Missionaries as Imperial Informants in Late Imperial China and Europe
Eugenio Menegon, Boston University
Chinese in London, 1792: The Puzzle of What was Not Known
Henrietta Harrison, Oxford University
Seeing the Qing State through “all the Gazettes of China”
Emily Mokros, Albion College
Discussant: Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia

Saturday 3/18/17 5:15-7:15 pm  Panel 288. J ROUNDTABLE
Teaching Translation and Interpreting in a Global Age – Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ)
Discussants:
Anna Zielinska-Elliott, Boston University
Stephen B. Snyder, Middlebury College
Yoshihiro Mochizuki, University of Michigan
James L. Davis, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Saturday 3/18/17 5:15-7:15 pm Panel 296. SEA
(Mis-)Leading Religion and Politics: Islamization(s) in South and Southeast Asia
Chaired by Aida M. Arosoaie, Nanyang Technological University
The Bureaucratization of Islam and Its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia: Outlines of a Collaborative Research Project
Dominik M. Müller, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Which Islamization? According to Whom? Varieties of Shariah Normativization in Indonesia Today
Robert W. Hefner, Boston University
Islamizing the Law in Malaysia
Kerstin Steiner, Monash University
Righteousness and Honour: Bottom-Up Islamization in Malaysia and India
Aida M. Arosoaie, Nanyang Technological University
Discussant: Patricia Sloane-White, University of Delaware

Sunday 3/19/17 10:45 am-12:45 pm  Panel 361. C
Defining Fengshui: New Scholarly Approaches to Chinese Geomancy
Chaired by Ole Bruun, Roskilde University
Fengshui and Gravesite Positioning in Tang-Dynasty China (618-907)
Claire Yi Yang, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Legislating Fengshui: Grave Custom and Grave Law in 10th- to 16th-Century China
Ian Matthew Miller, St. John’s University
The Living Earth of Nanbu County: Fengshui and Land Administration in Early-20th-Century China
Tristan G. Brown, Columbia University
Wind-Water Polities: Fengshui, Forests, and the Lineage Village Landscape
Christopher Reed Coggins, Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Discussant: Robert P. Weller, Boston University