2013 Texas Asia Conference:
Tradition and Transition The University of Texas at Austin Department of Asian Studies Graduate Conference ______
Friday November 1st & Saturday November 2nd 2013
All conference events take place in the Student Activity Center (SAC); see map attached.
Day 1 Friday, Nov 1st – Legislative Assembly Room (Student Activity Center 2.302) 8:30 to 9:30 AM – Welcome Breakfast and Registration 9:30 to 9:45 AM – Welcome Address: Professor Martha Selby, UT Dept. of Asian Studies Chair 9:45 to 11:00 AM – Panel I: Transitioning Identities in Diaspora (SAC 2.302)
1. Rupa Pillai (University of Oregon) – “A Village Puja in the City” 2. Fan Cui (Shanghai University) – “Renewing Traditional Rituals in the Cross-frontier: Reproductive Boundaries in China-Vietnam Transnational Ethnic Groups” 3. Randi Clary Wickham (UC Santa Barbara) – “An 'En-Kaur:' Female Sikh Identity and Bhai Vir Singh's Legacy” 4. Mung Ting Chung (UT-Asian Studies) – “Yu Kwang-chung 's Multiple Displacements: America, Hong Kong and Taiwan (1958-85)”
11:00 to 11:30 AM – Coffee/Tea Break
11:30 to 1:00 PM – Panel II: Shifting Ideologies: Colonialism, Capitalism, & the Nation-State (SAC 2.302)
1. Kevin Johnson (University of Washington) – “A Fistful of Loans: Exploring Hagiographies of Microfinance Pioneers Muhammad Yunus, Ela Bhatt, and Vikram Akula” 2. Stephanie Hanna (University of Washington) – “The Enduring Legacy of Japanese Orientalism and Nostalgia Towards Korea” 3. Roanne Kantor (UT-Comparative Literature) – “Common Ground: Aesthetics of Filth as Community Markers in South Asia” 4. Brigit Stadler (University of Washington) – “Back in the DPRK: History and Myth- Making in Foreign Tourism to North Korea” 5. Sheela Jane Menon (UT-English) – “Commodifying Race, Consuming the Nation: Tracing the Contours of the ‘Malaysia, Truly Asia’ Campaign”
1:00 to 2:00 PM – Lunch (SAC 3.112 – 3rd Floor Balcony Room)
2:00 to 3:00 PM – Panel III: Art, Broadcast Media, Film, & the Self: Innovations of Representation in National Culture (Part I) (SAC 2.302)
1. Kyung Sun Lee (UT-RTF) – “Web of Wired Towns: Critical Historiography of Early Community Broadcasting In Rural Korea” 2. Timothy Shea (UC San Diego) – “In Circulation: Early Histories of Contemporary Chinese Art from China’s Art Academies, 1977-1985” 3. Jens Bartel (Columbia University) – “Recasting the Past: Problems of Iconography and Patronage in the Large-Scale Screen Paintings of Mauryama Ōkyo”
3:00 to 4:15 PM – Panel IV: Transformations of Style in Poetic Texts (SAC 2.302)
1. Ishan Chakrabarti (University of Chicago) – “From Courtly Love to Devotional Poetry: Rāmānandarāya's Jagannāthavallabhanāṭaka and its Adaptation by Locanadāsa” 2. Christopher Diamond (University of Washington) – “City of the Turks: Urban Encounters in Vidyāpati’s Kirttīlatā” 3. Andrea Gutierrez (UT-Asian Studies) – “Words from the Horse’s Mouth: Aśvaghoṣa’s Epic Poetry, Animal Bodies, and Human Nature” 4. Maria Robinson (University of Washington) – “The Poet’s Liberation: Transcendence of Sorrow in the Poetry of Mahadevi Varma”
4:15 to 5:15 PM – Keynote Address 1: Prof. Daniel Stevenson – Professor of Chinese Buddhism, Department of Religious Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence (Legislative Assembly Room, SAC 2.302)
6:30 PM Dinner at Clay Pit Contemporary Indian Cuisine, 1601 Guadalupe @ W. 16th Street
DAY 2 Saturday, Nov. 2nd – Student Activity Center 2nd Floor Meeting Room (2.120) 10:00 to 10:30 AM – Breakfast 10:30 to 11:30 AM – Panel V: Hindu Traditions in History and Context: Upaniṣads, Tantra, and Haṭhayoga (SAC 2.120)
1. Daniel Brusser (University of Washington) “To See the Forest for the Trees: Envisioning the Worlds of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad” 2. Jason Melrose (University of Washington) – “The Power of the Impure: The Use of Transgression in Vāmamārga Hindu Tantra” 3. Seth Powell (University of Washington) – “The Progenitors of a Haṭhayoga Tradition: Yogins and Munis”
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM – Panel VI: Art, Broadcast Media, Film, & the Self: Innovations of Representation in National Culture (Part II) (SAC 2.120)
1. Elizabeth Rodwell (Rice University) – “Big Media, Little Projects: The Emergence of Interactive Television in Japan” 2. Tupur Chatterjee (UT-RTF) – “Size Zero Begums and Dirty Pictures: The Contemporary Female Star in Bollywood” 3. Andrea Wright (Brown University) – “Parlor or Salon: Beauty and Modernity in Contemporary India”
12:30 to 1:30 PM – Lunch (SAC 3.112 – 3rd Floor Balcony Room)
1:30 to 2:45 PM – Panel VII: Crossing Borders and Navigating Modernity: The Movement of Tradition (2nd Floor Meeting Room, SAC 2.120)
1. Joel Gruber (UC Santa Barbara) – “Emanating from Samyé to Cyberspace: The Proliferation and Digitization of ‘The Stainless One’” 2. Claire Robison (UC Santa Barbara) – “Indian Hare Krishnas in Contemporary Mumbai: Representation and the Changing Articulation of Hindu Tradition” 3. Philip Deslippe (UC Santa Barbara) – “The Udana Karana Order of Buddhists, Wandering Bishops, and Lineages That Fall Beyond Traditional Frameworks” 4. Adam Krug (UC Santa Barbara) – “Divining Exile: Mapping Tibetan Buddhist Traditions in Diaspora”
2:45 to 4:00 PM – Panel VIII: Plurality & Hybridization: Changing Conceptions of Practice in Religion & Medicine (2nd Floor Meeting Room, SAC 2.120)
1. Erin Newton (UT-Asian Studies) – “Mental Health in Meiji Period Japan” 2. Aike P. Rots (University of Oslo) – “Ancient Tradition or Modern Invention? Reinterpreting Shinto in Twenty-first Century Japan” 3. Emm Simpson (UC Santa Barbara) – “The Power of Precedent: Referencing Chinese and Buddhist Traditions in the Hachiman Gudōkun” 4. Jens Borgland (University of Oslo) – “Traditions of Buddhist Law”
4:00 to 4:15 PM – Coffee/Tea Break (Legislative Assembly Room, SAC 2.302)
4:15 to 5:15 PM – Keynote Address II: Prof. Patrick Olivelle, Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit and Indian Religions, Dept. of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin – "On Fakes and Forgeries: Grafting New Scions onto Old Stock” (Legislative Assembly Room, SAC 2.302)
6:00-8:00 PM: Closing Reception at Prof. Leoshko’s House for Panelists, Faculty, and Volunteers ______
Sponsored by the South Asia Institute, the Department of Asian Studies, and the Center for East Asian Studies, along with the China Endowment, the Mitsubishi Japan Studies Endowment, the POSCO Korean Studies Endowment, the Department of History, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts.