The Oscar Lee Symposium of Undergraduate East Asian Research aims to bring together undergraduates from various disciplines at Columbia and other universities in the Northeast region of the US in a half-day conference of panels discussing East and
Southeast Asia.

The 2009 Oscar Lee Symposium will take place on Friday, April 24, 2009 from 1pm-4pm in
Kent 403. Please save the date and RSVP to eastasiasymposium@gmail.com! Refreshments will be served. Business casual attire is recommended.

Friday, April 24, 2009, 1PM-4PM, Kent Lounge 403

1:00 PM Introductory Remarks

1:15 PM Recovering the Individual: Contemporary Asian Art
- Madeleine Boucher (CC ’09), “Beyond Pop: Imagery and Appropriation in Contemporary
Chinese Art”
- Tina Le (CC ’09), “Bui Xuan Phai: Authenticity in Vietnamese Art”
- Benjamin Shaffer (CC ’09), “Documenting in an Age of Cruelty: Zhu Chuanming’s Extras
and the Amateur-Auteur”

2:10 PM Soft Power in Asia
- Avram Sand (CC ’09), “Buying Bali Hai: Evolving Taiwanese Foreign Policy in the Pacific
Islands, 1988-2008”
- Jeffrey Kwong (Harvard ’09), “Using Popular Culture to Explain Sino-Korean Bilateral
Ties and Prospects for Future Regionalization”

3:10 PM Rice and Steel: Urban Development in Northeast Asia
- Elizabeth Berger (CC ’09), “Central Places in Neolithic China: A Regional Comparison”
- Michael Tannenbaum (CC ’10), “Growth and Games: The Effect of the 1972 Winter Olympics
on the Population of Sapporo”
- Jisung Park (CC ’09), “The Political Economy of South Korean Rice Subsidies”

3:55 PM Closing Remarks