The 2017 Association for Asian Studies Conference was held in Toronto, Canada on March 16-19, 2017. The following EASC faculty and graduate students presented at the conference and in-conjunction conferences.

2017 Association for Asian Studies Conference

“In the Liberation Village: The Cinematic Landscape of an Early North Korean Refugee Settlement in Seoul”
Pil Ho Kim

“Unnatural Bodies: Art and the Lucky Dragon Incident”
Namiko A. Kunimoto

“Raising the Bar in the Treatment of Politeness in Pedagogical Materials”
Mari Noda

“The Interspecific Work of Care: Intimacy and Vulnerability in Orangutan Rehabilitation on Borneo”
Juno Salazar Parrenas

“Predicate-Marked Social Deixis in Japanese, Early and Late”
Charles J. Quinn

“’Mutual Defense’: Japanese Officers and Colonial Soldiers in the Manchukuo Army”
Ryan M. Schultz

“The Transregional Appeal of a Cantonese Songbook in Qing China: The Huajian ji
(1713), Language Ideology, and Literary Aesthetics in the Book Worlds of Guangdong and Jiangnan”
Patricia A. Sieber

“The Dying Voice: Narration and Inaudibility in Kurosawa’s Ikiru”
Kerim Yasar

2017 American Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference

“Rethinking 'exaptation' in the formation of the Japanese conjunctive particle si”
Frederick Bowman

“Japanese particle i: A study in early middle Japanese”
John Bundschuh

“Acquisition of Japanese lexicalization patterns of motion events by advanced-¬level English-¬speaking learners of Japanese”
Saori Nozaki

「実践的文法指導トレーニングのニーズとポイント」(Teacher training for grammar instruction)
Etsuyo Yuasa

2017 Chinoperl Conference

“A Tribute to Cantonese Opera Artist Luo Jiabao 羅家寶(1930-2016)”
Marjorie K.M. Chan