Complete Schedule for Download

Friday, February 4th

Registration: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Place: Kent Hall Lobby (in front of Starr Library)

Opening Remarks by Professor Robert Hymes: 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Kent 403

Session 1: 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
A. Political and Economic Authority in the Qing.....Kent 405
B. Transmission and Lineage in Chinese Buddhism.....Kent 411
C. National Tastes: Food, Sound, Image.....Kent 424
D. Gendered Modernities Across East Asia.....Kent 522D
E. Authorship and Agency.....Kent 522B

Session 2: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
A. Economy and Politics in Contemporary East Asia.....Kent 405
B. Frontiers of Chinese Communism.....Kent 411
C. Science and Knowledge in Early Modern Japan.....Kent 424
D. Architecture, Memory, and Ideology in Modern China.....Kent 522D
E. Writing and Genres in Imperial China.....Kent 522B


Reception for Keynote: 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Kent 403
Keynote Address by Professor Paul Anderer "Learn to Forget": 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm




Saturday, February 5th

Registration 9:30 am onwards
Place: Kent Lobby (in front of Starr Library)
Breakfast: 9:30 am - 10:15 am
Kent 403

Session 3: 10:30 am - 12:15 am
A. Change and Exchange Among Religions in Greater China.....Kent 405
B. Transcultural Performance and Film.....Kent 411
C. Landscape, Geography, Power.....Kent 424
D. Art and Politics: Cultural Production in the PRC.....Kent 522D
E. Constructing Cold War Sovereignty.....Kent 522B
F. Poetry in Tang-Song China.....Kent 522A


Lunch: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Kent 403

Session 4: 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
A. Chinese Literati Practices.....Kent 405
B. State, Individual, and Subjectivity in Modern Korea.....Kent 411
C. Governing the People: State Control in 20th Century China.....Kent 424
D. Ideologies of Japanese Empire.....Kent 522D
E. Power, Conflict, and Mediation in Tibetan Monasticism.....Kent 522B

Session 5: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
A. Transnational Japan.....Kent 405
B. Early China.....Kent 411
C. Marginality, Collaboration, and Empire.....Kent 424
D. Nation and Education in (Early) Modern China.....Kent 522D
E. Negotiating Cultural Forms in China and Korea.....Kent 522B

Session 6: 5:15 pm - 6:30 pm
A. Spaces in Flux: Navigating the Urban-Rural Divide.....Kent 405
B. Shaping Post-War Pacifism.....Kent 411
C. Adaptation and Identity: Chinese Motifs in Premodern Japan.....Kent 424
D. 20th Century Tibet.....Kent 522D

Banquet: 7:00 pm - Midnight
Place: Starr East Asian Library




A complete schedule of teh panels and papers is available for download here. Programs will also be available upon registration, February 4th. All events will be held in Kent Hall on the campus of Columbia University. See the Travel & Hotel link above for a campus map.