Asian Studies
Asian Comparative Literature and Film
Frederik Green, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105; 651-696-6000; fgreen@macalester.edu
Asian Studies Business Meeting+
Christopher Lupke, Washington State University, P.O. Box 642610, Dept of Foreign Lang & Cultures, Pullman, WA 99164-2610; 509-335-2755; fax 509-335-3708; lupke@wsu.edu
Chinese Literature and Film since 1900
Cecile Lagesse, 367 Cedar street Room 401, New Haven, CT 06510; 203-901-6996; cecile.lagesse@yale.edu
Description: Hakka Ethnicity and Filiality, the Absence of History, and Poetry that Isn't Poetry
Chinese Literature before 1900*
Haihong Yang, 605 Woodside Drive, #6, Iowa City, IA 52246; 641-657-9419; haihong-yang@uiowa.edu
Japanese Modern Literature and Film I*: Limning the Contemporary in Postwar Japanese Fiction and Film
Peter Tillack, 329 Reid Hall, PO Box 172980, Bozeman, MT 59717-2980; 406-994-6441; tillack@montana.edu
Description: Although conceived of as “area-focused”, the issue of the nature and timing of “the contemporary” in modern Japan resonates with and is related to debates on the nature of postmodernity in the West
Japanese Modern Literature and Film II*: Spectral Bodies
Miri Nakamura, 262 High St Fisk Hall 3rd Floor, Department of Asian Languages, Middletown, CT 06459; 860-685-3453; mnakamura@wesleyan.edu
Description: This panel aims to open up a critical line of inquiry about how the fields of literary and film studies may participate in discussing the phantasmagoric aspect of the human body and go beyond representation in their textual analyses
Modern Chinese Poetry
Liansu Meng, 785 Mix Ave Apt A, Hamden, CT 06514; 734-649-3428; lmeng@umich.edu
Description: This panel explores different Chinese conceptions of what might be called a poem, from more obvious poetic texts to other cultural forms less commonly thought of as poetry. Papers cover the early twentieth century to the present day.
Southeast Asian Languages and Literatures: Theoretical and Practical Approaches*
Chatwara Suwannamai, Arizona State University, 1050 S Forest Mall, Campus Mail Code 1011 Tempe, AZ 85281; 480-965-7718; chatwara@hotmail.com
Description: The session is open to ongoing research, research papers, and general topics related to teaching Southeast Asian (SEA) Languages, SEA languages and linguistics, SEA literatures, and SEA cultures
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