Ohio State Faculty and Students to Present at 2025 Association for Asian Studies Conference

February 26, 2025

Ohio State Faculty and Students to Present at 2025 Association for Asian Studies Conference

East Asian Studies Center

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