Asia as a region with global diasporas and ancient pasts encompasses many different "worlds" comprised in political, ecological, religious, medical, diasporic and other forms within different spaces, times, media and experiences. This student workshop focuses on the exploration and experience of these worlds. Where do they overlap? How are they changing? Embracing the broadest possible understanding of Asian places, cultures, peoples, environments, diasporas and traditions, this student conference features graduate paper presentations, special performances, keynote lectures and an exhibit of undergraduate research posters.

 

In-person only, open to the public.

 

PARKING

 

Complimentary parking is available in Lot 1 for this conference. Please follow the directions below:

 

Link for Parking: https://www.offstreet.io/location/WGPDEJ11

Step 1: Enter your license plate in the “License Plate Number”

Step 2: If the plate is non-California, select the appropriate state for the plate

Step 3: Press ‘Park’ - Your permit will be completed! Park in any BLUE space in the lot.

 

SCHEDULE

 

Friday, May 2

 

WELCOME

9:30 - 10:00 am | INTS 1113

 

PANEL 1: EURASIAN CIRCULATIONS (PROF. SAHIN ACIKGOZ)

1015 - 1200 pm | INTS 1113

 

* Başak Yağmur Karaca, History, USC 

Armenian Moneylenders Across Borders: A Look into Armenian Moneylenders' Intra-

imperial Role in the Late Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean and Istanbul

 

* Betul Sancak, History, UCR

Nadir Shah’s Religious Diplomacy and Ottoman Resistance: Reassessing

Confessional Boundaries in the 18th Century

 

*Samyak

Decoloniality expressed through a Mouth-mask

Muni Ratnacandra’s Code of Ethics for an Ideal Layperson in Post-colonial India

 

* Wang Xinbo, History, Nankai University – China

Living Spaces, Information Networks, and Cultural Landscapes: Nomadic Camps in

Asia from the Medieval to the Modern Era

 

LUNCH - 12:00 - 1:00 PM - OUTSIDE/INSIDE INTS 1111

 

PANEL 2: EXPRESSIVE CULTURES (PROF. EMILY HUE)

1:30 - 3:15 PM pm | INTS 1113

 

* Viet-Hai Huynh, Music, UCR

Cosplaying Dystopia: Techno-Orientalism and Cyberpunk at Raves

 

* Na An, Dance and Critical Dance Studies, UCR

“忍 ” Endurance in Motion: A Self-Exploration of an Alternative Miao Identity and Its

Possibilities

 

* Maya Shah, Ethnic Studies, UCR

South Asian American Racializations

 

* Ophelia Xu, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, UCSB

Queer Echoes from Taiwan: Listening, Longing, and Identity of Mainland Listeners

 

KAI MATA PERFORMANCE & TALK: “PRIDE AS PROTEST: QUEER LIBERATION

THROUGH CELEBRATION”

4:00 - 5:30 PM | INTS 1128

 

UCR WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL @ UNIVERSITY THEATRE

7:00-9:00pm

 

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Saturday May 3

 

PANEL 3: NATURES & MATERIALITIES (FACULTY RESPONDENT TBA)

9:30 - 11:15 AM

 

* Kai Suter, Southeast Asian Studies, UCR

UNESCO and The Ifugao

 

*Xinqian Zhang, Art History, UCR 

Imperial Botany in Ruins: Yuanmingyuan’s Engraved Gardens as Sites of Epistemic

Violence and Ecological Nostalgia

 

* Sydney Conley, History, Cal State Long Beach

The Porcelain Trade in Southeast Asia: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy and Southeast

Asian Appropriations/Adaptations

 

* Nathan Daniel Welch, Anthropology, UCR

A probable case of metastatic carcinoma from the Bronze Age Mogou cemetery site

(1750-1100 BCE) in Gansu, China.

 

PRESENTATION ABOUT THE ASIAN LEGACY LIBRARY: MANUSCRIPT

PRESERVATION IN POST-SOCIALIST MONGOLIA

11:30 - 12:00 PM | INTS 1113

 

* Dr. Baatra Erdene-Ochir (ALL and 84,000 research scholar, UCSB, Zanabazar

University)

 

LUNCH 12:00 - 1:00 PM 

OUTSIDE/INSIDE INTS 1111

 

ASIAN WORLDS POSTER RECEPTION 12:00 - 1:00 PM

INSIDE INTS 1111

 

* Yang Yufan, Global History, Nankai University

Reassessing the Transformation and Expression of Pearl S. Buck's Thought in the

Context of Transnational History

 

* Wu Weize, History, Xi'an University

Conflict and Contact: the interactions between Gannan and Minyue in Ming and

Qing Dynasties

 

* Melanie Zhang, Religion, Columbia University 

Kūkai’s Vision in a Time of Crisis: How a Buddhist Monk Won Imperial Favor While

Criticizing State Ideology in Early Japan

 

* Hong Ha, Political Science, UCR 

Human Capital, Governance, and Foreign Direct Investment: Rethinking the 'Race

to the Bottom' in Low- to Middle-Income Countries

 

* Camilo Miller Vergara, History, UCR 

Hmong Resistance and State Evasion through Opium Cultivation: Northern

Thailand, 1970 to the Present.

 

* Sam Agustin, Psychology, UCR 

The Role of Intersectionality on Queer Filipina Women’s Lived Experiences

 

*Quan Bui, History, UCR 

Marginal Worlds: Sabatier’s Rhadé Experiment

 

PANEL 4: IMAGINING CHINA, CHINA IMAGINING (PROF. XIAO CHEN)

1:15 - 3:00 PM | INTS 1113

 

* Yuexiang Hao, Social Sciences, The University of Chicago

Memory for Forgetfulness: Imaging the Soviet Union in Chinese Popular Culture,

1966-1976

 

* Siyao Hao, Continuing and Professional Ed, UCDavis

Customs and Transit Tax: The Game between China Xizang's (known as Tibet)

Border and South Asia Trade Tax in Late Qing Dynasty

 

* Xin Hu, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, UNC – CH

Haunting Archives: Colonial Entanglements in Huang Chunming’s Cheers, Soldier!

 

* Anni Perheentupa, Comparative Languages and Literatures, UCR

Emanations of a Mystical World: the Imagined Past in 2ch Horror Stories

 

PANEL 5: CROSSROADS & MANIFESTATIONS (PROF. Matt King)

3:15 - 5:00 PM | INTS 1113

 

* Nichole Emmanuelle Dalafu Poblete, History, UCR

Nameless Assistance: The Roles of Filipinos in the Natural History of the Philippine

Islands during the Late 18th Century

 

* Mohammad Ulil Rosyad, Interdisciplinary Studies, PTIQ University, Indonesia

Pop Culture in Da'wah: Walisongo’s Qur’anic Approach and Its Contemporary

Manifestations in Indonesia

 

* Nicholas Lavis, Religious Studies, UCR

Over the Fractured Nation, the Weizza Flies: Myanmar’s Historical Making and

Unmaking of the Secularist National Subject

 

* HUANG Jingjing, Chinese Studies, The University of Hong Kong

Remapping Contested Landscapes of Northeast Asia: Travelogues as "Dispositif" of

Power, Affect, and Transnational Encounters (1905-1931)

 

CONCLUDING COMMENTS, SURVEYS, BEST PAPER PRIZE VOTING

5:10 - 5:40

 

RECEPTION

6:30 - 9:00 PM