The 2025 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference will be held in Columbus, OH from March 13-16, 2025. The following EASC faculty and graduate students will present at the conference. The complete program can be viewed here. A PDF of Ohio State presenters can be viewed here:

Thursday, March 13

Chinese Theater Collaborative (CTC): Writing for Public-Facing, Open-Access Digital Humanities
Pat Sieber and Julia Keblinska, Facilitators
Pre-Conference Workshop
March 13, 9:30am-4:30pm
Room A125, Level 1, Conv. Center

Friday, March 14

Intersecting Dialogues: Diverse Perspectives in Nuosu Yi Scholarship
Mark Bender, Chair
March 14, 9:00-10:30am
Room B140, Level 1, Conv. Center

Performing Cosmology: Exploring Motion Capture, Machine Learning, and AI in Reenacting Dunhuang Cave Mural Dance Schemas
Menghang Wu, Presenter
March 14, 9:00-10:30am
Room A222, Level 2, Conv. Center

Military Culture and the Sociocultural Implications of War in Early Medieval China
Meow Hui Goh, Chair and Discussant
March 14, 9:00-10:30am
Hyatt, Union C, 2nd Floor

Mediating Global Asias: Race and Gender from a Transnational Communication Perspective
Corinne Sugino, Discussant
March 14, 9:00-10:30am
Room B142/143, Level 2, Conv. Center

Critical Thinking, Cultural Representation, and Intrinsic Bias in a ChatGPT-assisted College Chinese Language Classroom
Yi-Ting Wang, Presenter
Friday, March 14, 11:00am-12:30pm
Room B246, Level 2, Conv. Center

Asian Immigration to the US along the Southern Border: Changing Policies and Possibilities
Joyce Chen, Chair
March 14, 11:00am-12:30pm
Hyatt, Union A, 2nd Floor

Experiencing Advanced Democracy: How Overseas Study Influences Chinese Students’ Political Attitudes
Haifeng Huang, Presenter
Friday, March 14, 11:00am-12:30pm
Hyatt, Union B, 2nd Floor

The Canceling of Zhang Zhehan: China’s State-Sponsored Cancel Culture
Yang Lai, Presenter
Friday, March 14, 11:00am-12:30pm
Hyatt, Union C, 2nd Floor

Only Play for an Hour a Day: Negotiating Adult Supervision through Home Videogames in 1980s Japan
Keita Moore, Presenter
Friday, March 14, 11:00am-12:30pm
Room A214, Level 2, Conv. Center

Learning from a Wise Man: Nanjing’s Central Weekly, Dai Jitao, and the KMT’s Pedagogical State
Chris Reed, Presenter
Friday, March 14, 1:30-3:00pm
Room A121, Level 1, Conv. Center

Chinese Performing Arts: A State of the Field Roundtable in Honor of David L. Rolston’s Retirement
Patricia Sieber, Chair and Discussant
March 14, 1:30pm-3:00pm
Room A113, Level 1, Conv. Center

Evaluating the Pedagogical Value of ChatGPT in Facilitating Chinese Character Proficiency for English-Speaking University Students in the US
Qianqian Zhang, Presenter
Friday, March 14, 1:30-3:00pm
Room B246, Level 2, Conv. Center

Let's Get the Word Out: Collaborative Pathways for Disseminating Asian Studies Research for the Classroom
Janet Smith, Discussant
Friday, March 14, 1:30-3:00pm
Hyatt, Fayette, 2nd Floor

Joko Widodo’s Willing Allies: Elites, Masses, Voting for President, and Indonesia’s Democratic Regression
William Liddle, Presenter
Friday, March 14, 1:30-3:00pm
Room B233, Level 2, Conv. Center

From Imperial Image to Global Icon: The Life Cycle of Cixi’s 1904 Portrait
Lingran Zhang, Presenter
Friday, March 14, 3:30-5:00pm
Room A225, Level 2, Conv. Center

Picturing East Asia—Celebrating Our Teaching, Julia F. Andrews
Christina Wei-Szu Burke Mathison, Chair
Keyu Yan, Presenter
March 14, 3:30-5:00pm
Hyatt, Union A, 2nd Floor

China’s Influence in Central Asian Republics
Felix Chang, Chair
March 14, 3:30-5:00pm
Room A113, Level 1, Conv. Center

Migration and Transformations in Japanese Antiquity
Marshall Unger, Discussant
March 14, 3:30-5:00pm
Hyatt, Champaign, 2nd Floor

Bluebeard Transfigured: Literary Incarnations of a Demonic Protagonist in Japanese Popular Historical Fiction
Artem Vorobiev, Presenter
Friday, March 14, 3:30-5:00pm
Room B233, Level 2, Conv. Center

Saturday, March 15

A New Perspective on Place in East Asian Linguistics
Mineharu Nakayama, Discussant
March 15, 8:30-10:00am
Hyatt, Union C, 2nd Floor

Tainan, The City of Meishi: Place, Language, and Belonging in Southern Taiwan
Paul Ueda, Presenter
Saturday, March 15, 8:30-10:00am
Hyatt, Union C, 2nd Floor

Same City, Different Linguistic Landscape: Identity Shift and Language Usage of Chinese Vancouverites
Marjorie Chan, Presenter
Saturday, March 15, 8:30-10:00am
Hyatt, Union C, 2nd Floor

Recasting the Three Kingdoms for Mongol Domination over China
Jaehyuk Lee, Presenter
Saturday, March 15, 8:30-10:00am
Room B233, Level 2, Conv. Center

Manga's Soft Power in the 21st Century - Engaging the Next Generation of East Asian Studies Scholars
Kay K Clopton, Discussant
Keita Moore, Discussant 
Saturday, March 15, 8:30-10:00am
Room A111, Level 2, Conv. Center

Mapping the New World: A GIS Visualization of the World Imagining in Modern Chinese Adventure Fiction
Xuezhao Li, Presenter
Saturday, March 15, 10:30am-12:00pm
Hyatt, Union E, 2nd Floor

Interrogating Interracial Intimacies: Memsahib as the “Situational Subaltern” in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Anglo-Indian Households
Sucharita Sen, Presenter
Saturday, March 15, 10:30am-12:00pm
Room A224, Level 2, Conv. Center

Jiang Qing on TV: Technics, History, and Media Transition
Julia Keblinska, Presenter
Saturday, March 15, 10:30am-12:00pm
Room B140/B141, Level 1, Conv. Center

Situating World Heritage—Comparative Perspectives on Ohio’s Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks and Asian Sites
Naomi Fukumori, Chair
John Low, Discussant
March 15, 10:30am-12:00pm
Hyatt, Union A, 2nd Floor

New Databases for the Study of Chinese History
Fangqi Wen, Chair
March 15, 10:30am-12:00pm
Room B240, Level 2, Conv. Center

The Lure of Religious Aesthetics: Transcultural Artistic Terms and Practice in Twentieth-Century East Asia
Julia Andrews, Discussant
March 15, 10:30am-12:00pm
Room B231, Level 2, Conv. Center

Landscape as a Figure of Connection: Human, Environment, and Power in Modern Chinese and Sinophone World
Max Woodworth, Discussant
March 15, 10:30am-12:00pm
Room A220, Level 2, Conv. Center

Interactive Dialogues in Virtual Reality (VR): Challenges and Impacts of Creating Interactive VR Materials for Learning East Asian Languages and Cultures
Matthew Steinhauer and Ying-Shan Wu, Poster Presentation
Saturday, March 15,10:30am-12:00pm
Exhibit Hall Foyer, Level 1, Conv. Center

From the Kotan to the Gallery: A Reevaluation of Ainu “Tourist Art”
Mia Kivel, Presenter
Saturday, March 15, 10:30am-12:00pm
Hyatt, Marion, 2nd Floor

Making the Invisible Visible: Documenting Asian and Asian American Histories in Ohio through a Collaborative Digital Edition
Pranav Jani, Chair
Ann Marie Davis, Discussant
March 15, 2:00-3:30pm
Hyatt, Union A, 2nd Floor

State, Society, and Violence in the Making of Modern East Asia
Haifeng Huang, Chair
March 15, 2:00-3:30pm
Room B244/245, Level 2, Conv. Center

Environment, Climate Change, and Migration in South Asia
Sucharita Sen, Chair
March 15, 2:00-3:30pm
Room A224, Level 2, Conv. Center

Confronting the Climate: The Social Construction of Environment and the Birth of Tourism in Colonial South Asia
Ujaan Ghosh, Presenter
March 15, 2:00-3:30pm
Room A224, Level 2, Conv. Center

Urgent Animations and the Afterlives of Japanese Imperialism in Taiwanese Contemporary Art
Namiko Kunimoto, Presenter
March 15, 4:00-5:30pm
Room A215, Level 2, Conv. Center

Hello Kitty! Unbearable Cuteness and Waves of Desire: What’s an (Asian Female) Body to Do?
Nancy Tewksbury, Poster Presentation
Saturday, March 15, 4:00-5:30pm
Exhibit Hall Foyer, Level 1, Conv. Center

Sunday, March 16

Commemorating Kim Min-gi (1951-2024): Morning Dew of Korean Democracy, Backstop of Music and Theater
Pil Ho Kim, Chair
Sunday, March 16, 9:00-10:30am, 
Room B142/143, Level 1, Conv. Center

Hindu Succession Act, Secular Politics, and Framing the Female Subject
Illa Nagar, Presenter
Sunday March 16, 9:00-10:30am
Room B230, Level 2, Conv. Center

Bodies of Knowledge: Learning from Emotions, Play, and Desire in Late Ming China
Patricia Sieber, Chair and Discussant
March 16, 10:45am-12:15pm
Room A123, Level 1, Conv. Center

Teaching East Asian Indigeneities and Minority Cultures
Mark Bender, Discussant
March 16, 10:45am-12:15pm
Room A220, Level 2, Conv. Center

Crossing the Line: Text and Switching Allegiance during the Three Kingdoms (220–265)
Meow Hui Goh, Presenter
Sunday, March 16, 10:45am-12:15pm
Room A124, Level 1, Conv. Center

The Philippines Is in! : Searching for Mars in the Transpacific Digital Diaspora
Maya Cruz, Presenter
Sunday, March 16, 10:45am- 12:15pm
Room A214, Level 2, Conv. Center