Joint Conference 60th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs and First Himalayan Studies Conference October 28 to 30, 2011 Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota Program Friday, October 28 Panel 2 Session I: 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. The Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalaya, Part I Room 370 Panel 1 Indigenous Peoples and Struggles over Resources in Organizer and Chair: Sarah Besky, U Wisconsin- the Himalaya Madison Room 243 1. Sara Shneiderman, Yale U Chair: Dilli Ram Dahal, Tribhuvan U “Situating Darjeeling and Sikkim in the Himalayas and South Asia” 1. Janak Rai, U Michigan/Tribhuvan U “Emplacing Histories and Re-imagining the Nation: 2. Tina Harris, U Amsterdam Place-making and the cultural politics of Dhimals' “Haunting the Border and Flooding the Market: Trade indigenous activism in Nepal” and the Indo-Tibetan Interface” 2. Mabel Gergan, U North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3. Mona Chettri, SOAS, U London “Resisting Hydropower Development in the Eastern “Evolution of an Identity- The Political Re-definition Himalayas, India.” of the Gorkhas of the Darjeeling Hills” 3. Laya Prasad Uprety, Tribhuvan U 4. Olivier Chiron, U Bordeaux “Marginalization of Indigenous Tharu Community in “Tourism in the Himalayan state of Sikkim: practices Common Property Resource Management: A Case and representations” Study of an Indigenous Irrigation System from the Tarai of Nepal” Panel 3 4. Mingma Sherpa, U Massachusetts-Amherst Geographical Research Across the Himalaya I: Local “Sherpa Conservation Governance in the Sagarmatha Scale Studies National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal” Room 270 Organizer: John Metz, Northern Kentucky U 1 1. Sarah J. Halvorson, Shah F. Khan, and Ulrich Kamp, 2. Mélanie Vandenhelsken, Austrian Academy of The U Montana Sciences “Reconstructing Balakot, Northern Pakistan: A Five- “Gurungs, ‘ethnic’ association and the state in Sikkim: Year Retrospective on the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake” opposition and consent in the making of ethnicity” 2. Keith Brosak, U Montana, Missoula 3. Mark Turin, Cambridge U/Yale U “Between Conservation and Development: “Mother Tongues and Multilingualism: Reflections on Marginalization and resource access in the Linguistic Belonging in Sikkim” Uttarakhand Himalaya.” 4. Sarah Besky, U Wisconsin-Madison 3. Barbara Brower, Portland State U “Political Ecologies of Justice on Darjeeling Tea “The Future of Himalayan Yak-herding: Resilience or Plantations” Collapse?” 4. Asheshwor Shrestha, Nepal Pvt. Ltd. “Local knowledge inputs in prioritizing climate Panel 6 change adaptation measures Geographical Research Across the Himalaya-II: – the case of Nepal” Regional Scale Studies Room 270 Chair: John Metz, Northern Kentucky U Session II: 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. 1. Karl Ryavec, U Wisconsin- Stevens Point Panel 4 “Mapping the Indo-Tibetan Frontier in the Historical Current Research in Nepali Politics Atlas of Tibet” Room 243 2. Stefan Fiol, U Cincinnati Chair: Mahendra Lawoti “Unsettling Regionalism: Perspectives from the Uttarakhand Himalayas” 1. Mahendra Lawoti, Western Michigan U “From mono-ethnic state to poly-ethnic polity: 3. John (Jack) Shroder, U Nebraska - Omaha Exclusion/Inclusion and Democracy in Nepal” “Constraints and Possibilities for Research on Physical Environments in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya” 2. Dilli Ram Dahal, Tribhuvan U, Nepal “Social Exclusion in Nepal: A Study of Yadavs of Central Nepal Tarai” Panel 7 3. Dinesh Paudel, U Minnesota Cultural, Social and Political Change in the Himalaya “A Pre-History of the Maoist Movement: Nature, Room 301 Culture and the Emergence of Rebellious Consciousness in Thabang of Nepal” Chair: Laura Kunreuther, Bard C 4. Purna Nepali, Kathmandu U and Consortium for 1. Brunson, Jan, U Hawaii Land Research and Policy Dialogue “The role of sons in post-monarchy, secular Nepal” “Political Economy of Scientific Land Reform in Constitution Making Process of Nepal” 2. Atul Saklani and Bina Saklani, HNB Garhwal U “Ritual, Food and Social Hierarchy as Represented in the Culture of Uttarakhand Himalaya: An Anthropo - Historic Perspective” Panel 5 The Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalaya-II 3. Nadine Plachta, U Berne Room 370 “Reflexivity in Relation to Tradition: the Education of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Nepal.” Organizer: Besky, Sarah, U Wisconsin-Madison Chair: Besky, Sarah, U Wisconsin-Madison 4. Om Gurung, Tribhuvan U “The Question of Indigeneity and Identity in a Federal 1. Debarati Sen, American U Nepal” “Measured Invisibility: Ghumauri and the Challenges of Worker Organizing in Darjeeling Plantations” 2 Panel 8 3. Annelies Ollieuz, U Oslo, Norway, Kamikaze, Hiroshima, and Manchuria: Historical “‘Politicians and other educated people’: Political Memory and National Identity parties as arenas of informal learning” Room 205 Chair: Hiromi Mizuno, U Minnesota Discussant: Hiromi Mizuno Session III: 1:30 p.m.-3:15 p.m. 1. R.W. Purdy, John Carroll U “Men, Martyrs and Myth: Kamikaze and Islamist Suicide Bombers” Panel 11 2. Yuko Shibata, Saint John's U/C of Saint Benedict Plenary: Rethinking the Himalaya: The Indo-Tibetan “Spectacle Excess and the Volatility of Gaze: Interface and Beyond Subverting Atomic Bomb Victimhood” Room 250 3. Lianying Shan, Gustavus Adolphus C Chair: Arjun Guneratne “Nostalgia and Identity Formation in Postwar Japan: a Study of Popular and Literary Accounts of Manchuria” 1. Mark Liechty, U Illinois at Chicago “ ‘Missing Links’: The Indo-Tibetan Interface in the Tourist's Mind's Eye” Panel 9 2. Kathryn S. March, Cornell U Configuring Chinese Cinema and Literature: Cross- “The great (gender) divide” culture perspectives Room 300 3. David Holmberg, Cornell U “Rethinking the Interface: Shamanic Resilience” Chair: Frederik Greene 4. Susan Hangen, Ramapo C 1. Hong Zeng, Carleton C “The Concept of the Himalaya in an Era of Identity “Female doubling and cultural identities of Hong Politics and Globalization” Kong and Shanghai” 5. P. P. Karan, U Kentucky 2. Hongmei Yu, Luther C “The Cultural Geography of the Himalaya” “Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: The Cinematic Ambivalence of Chinese Masculinity” Panel 12 3. Jessica Ka Yee Chan, U Minnesota, Twin Cities Religion, Politics and Ritual in India, China and Japan “Cinematic Encounter: Lu Xun, Douglas Fairbanks, Room 370 and The Thief of Bagdad (1924)” Chair: Roger Jackson, Carleton C 1. Michelle Folk, Concordia U/U Regina Panel 10 “Food for Thought: The Ritual Activities of Mathas in Education in Asia Medieval Tamilnadu India” Room 170 2. Jesse Palmer, Lawrence U Chair: Ruthanne Kurth-Schai, Macalester C “Ennin as Transmitter of Mountain Religion Practices from China to Japan” 1. Sangsook Lee-Chung, U. of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign 3. Amy McNair, U Kansas “Personalized Globalization, Vicarious “On the Origin of the Medieval Chinese Buddhist Cosmopolitans: South Korean “Geese-dad” Sculpted Grottoes at Yungang” Academics” 4. Xi He, U Chicago 2. Zhini Zeng, The Ohio State U “Glorifying and Worshipping the Bodhisattva: An “Second-Culture Worldview Construction: Culture Analysis of the Devotional Emotion in the Gains during Study Abroad” Lalitavistara” 3 Panel 13 Panel 16 Videos: “Experiencing Jingdezhen: The Porcelain City State Power and Spatiality in Inland Tai Urban Spaces of China” and “All the Roads to Lhasa” Room 243 Room 150 Organizer: Taylor M Easum, U Wisconsin, Madison 1. Gary Erickson, Macalester C “Experiencing Jingdezhen: The Porcelain City of 1. Ryan Ford, UW-Madison China” “Tracing the Phrabang Image in upland and lowland spaces: A local history of Northern Laos” 2. Wang Ping, Macalester C “All the Roads to Lhasa” 2. Taylor M. Easum, U Wisconsin, Madison “‘Micro-Colonization’: Scale and State Power in a Thai Provincial City” Panel 14 3. Jose Rafael Martinez, Ohio U Classical Chinese Literature and Art “Mallification of Space: The Globalization of Room 301 Landmarks in Vientiane” Chair: Hong Zeng, Carleton C Discussant: Hong Zeng 1. Jane Parish Yang, Lawrence U Session IV: 3:30-5:15 “Hegemonic Dreams/Fictive Dialogues: Channeling Chinese Literati in 16th century Vietnamese 'Narratives of the Strange'” Plenary address 2. Elizabeth Kindall, U St. Thomas “A Painted Geo-Narrative as Quest Toward Sagehood” Drona Rasali, Nepaldalitinfo.com 3. Ye, Qing, U Oregon “Envisioning an equitable space for marginalized “Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Reading of Backyards people in Nepal: A journey of small strides (Hou Ting) in Jin Ping Mei” contributing to ‘change’ for social justice.” 3:45 – 5:00 p.m. Panel 15 Room 250 Japanese Linguistics: Different Perspectives and Implications for Japanese Language Instruction Room 205 Panel 17 Organizer and Chair: Satoko Suzuki, Macalester C Buddhism in China and Japan Room 370 Michiko Todokoro Buchanan, U Minnesota “Verb Ellipsis in Japanese” Chair: Erik W. Davis, Macalester C Natalie Dmyterenko and Rika Ito, St. Olaf C 1. Yeonjoo Park, U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Japanese numerals and classifiers: The case of “Buddhist Construction of Kami-Buddha Discourse in number four and seven” Early Medieval Japan: The Logic of the Kami-Buddha Combination in the Keiran shūyōshū” Ritsuko Narita, Macalester C “Transferability of the use of hearsay evidential 2. Chen Qin, The Ohio State U markers in L1 Japanese and L2 Japanese” “Sinification of Buddhism in the Transformation Text of Mulian Rescuing His Mother from the Underworld” Satoko Suzuki, Macalester C “Linguistic Stereotypes and Style Manipulation in 3. Tomoko Yoshida, Independent scholar Japanese Fiction” ““Respect the Gods, Even If You Do Not Worship Them”: Medieval Buddhists’ Advice on Living in a Religiously Plural World” 4 4. Mark Graham, C of Wooster (OH) Panel 20 “Fu De: Translating the Perfection of the Buddha into Development Issues in Asia Chinese Discourses of Virtue (De) and Sagehood” Room 205 Chair: Liang Ding, Macalester C Panel 18 1. Sudarshana Bordoloi, York U, Canada Roundtable: Experiments in Content-Based “Development Implications of the Emerging Non Farm Instruction: Integrating Asian Language and Area Sector in India: The Case of Kerala” Studies at St. Olaf C Room 300 2. Ajay Panicker, St Cloud State U “State Power and Social Movements in the Neoliberal Organizer: Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf C Era: Examination of a People’s Movement in Kerala, Chair: Phyllis Larson, St.