Harold Tanner                                                            Local Arrangements

Johan Elverskog                                                        Program Co-Chair

Hans Stockton                                                            Program Chair

Registration                                                      Foyer outside of Room 413

All panels                                                       Room 413

 

Business Meeting and Reception                       Golden Eagle Room A (3^rd Floor) (D5 on map)

SWCAS Breakfast                                           Radisson Hotel

Videoconference                                              Chilton Hall, Room 245 (D4 on map)

Saturday Lunch                                                Silver Eagle Room A (3^rd Floor) (D5 on map)

 

 

Conference Registration

 

Participants are encouraged to pre-register for the 34^th annual meeting. 

 

Pre-registration is $35.00.  Registration on-site is $40.00.

SWCAS membership is required for those presenting papers.  This is a very friendly $15.00.

 

Checks should be made out to:  Southwest Conference on Asian Studies and mailed with the Conference Pre-registration Form and Membership Form (available on our website) to:

 

Dr. Harold M. Tanner

Department of History

University of North Texas

P.O. Box 310650

Denton TX 76203-0650

 

 

Hotel – University Union Building Transportation

 

SWCAS provides complementary shuttle transportation between the Radisson Hotel and the University Union Building.  Shuttle times will be confirmed in the final program, available at registration.

 

October 7, 2005

 

Depart Radisson Hotel                                         8:00 a.m., 8:20 a.m., 8:40 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:00 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.

Depart University Union Building                        12:20 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:00 p.m., 7:15 p.m.

 

October 8, 2005

 

Depart Radisson Hotel                                         8:00 a.m., 8:20, a.m., 11:20 a.m., 12:00 p.m.

Depart University Union Building                        11:10 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 4:30 p.m., 4:45 p.m.

 

 

Panel and Events Schedule

 

 

Friday, October 7, 2005

 

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.          Panel 1                Pre-Modern Asian History

 

• Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University, “Rethinking ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ Mongolia.”

• David Bruce Jones, Independent Scholar, “The Downfall of China’s Matriarchal Society.”

• Jeremy Henderson, New Mexico State University, “The Story of the Stone, The First Modern Novel.”

Chair: Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University

 

10:45 – 12:15 p.m.        Panel 2                 Modern Asian History (A)

 

• Paul Clark, West Texas A&M University, “Language, Nation and the Concept of ‘Kokugo’ in Meiji Japan.”

• Charles D. Musgrove, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, “Curing the Contagious: Perceptions of Disease and the Translation of Medicine in Jiangnan, 1875-1949.”

• Margherita Zanasi, University of Texas at Austin. "Exporting Development: The League of Nations and Republican China (1931-1936)."

• Andrew Hall, University of North Texas, “The Development of a Puppet Ideology in Manchukuo.”

Chair: Harold Tanner, University of North Texas

 

12:15 – 1:45 p.m.          Lunch Break

 

1:45 – 3:15 p.m.            Panel 3                Contemporary Politics in Asia

 

• Erping Zhang, Association for Asian Research. “The Internet: An Agent for Social Change or Suppression?”

• Qiang Yan, University of Missouri-St Louis. “Realism, Nationalism, and China’s Taiwan Policy Since 1979.”

• Dennis Patterson, Texas Tech University. “Assessing the Future of Japanese Politics.”

• Carrie Liu Currier, Texas Christian University. “Labor and Identity:  Who is the Modern Beijing Woman?”

Chair: Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas (Houston)

 

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.            Panel 4                Modern Asian History (B)

 

• John H. Barnett, University of Arkansas, “Vietnamese Agriculture Reforms: The Land Laws of 1993 and 2004.”

• Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma, “Chinese Military Operation in the Vietnam War, 1965-68.”

• Angela Bratcher, University of Central Oklahoma, “Government Bureaucracy and the Five Silent Men: 1963-1965.”

Chair: Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma

 

5:15 – 7:00 p.m.            SWCAS Business Meeting and Reception

Golden Eagle Suite A, University Union

 

Please join us for a brief business meeting and complimentary reception (first drink is on SWCAS).  The reception is made possible by another kind gift from Mr. Keith Hudson, Seaboard Franchise Services Company.

 

7:00 p.m.                       End of Day

 

 

 

Saturday, October 8, 2005

 

7:15 – 8:00 a.m.            Complementary Breakfast              Radisson

 

This breakfast is brought to you courtesy of the SWCAS and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Information Division, Houston, Texas.

 

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.            Videoconference                     Chilton Hall, Room 245

 

Fifth Annual SWCAS – TECO Videoconference                          

In conjunction with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Information Division, in Houston, Texas, the SWCAS is pleased to offer this opportunity to receive a presentation from a top scholar in Taiwan.  This year’s speaker is Dr. Fu-san Huang, Research Fellow at the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, and Professor, Department of History, National Taiwan University.  Dr. Huang will speak on “The European Influence on Taiwan in the 17^th Century: The Dawn of Formosa.”

 

9:30  – 11:00 a.m.         Panel 5                 Religion in Asia

 

• Ivette Vargas, Austin College. “Bridging the Gap: Disease, Demons, and Religion in Tibetan Medicine.”

• Julius N. Tsai, Texas Christian University, “The Motif of the Mountain Journey in Early Medieval Daoist Narrative and Ritual Practice.”

• Charles Hammond, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, “Pu Songling's Belief Legends.”

• Valluvan Sivagnanam. Independent. “Evolution of the Asian Deity Murukan from the Indus Valley Prototype Ahmuvan and his Role as a Mediator in the Process of Cultural and Religious Spheres with Linguistic & Astronomical Implications.”

Chair: Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University

 

11:00 – 11:30                Morning Break

 

11:30 – 1:00 p.m.          SWCAS Complementary Lunch with AAS Speaker

                                      Golden Eagle Suite A, University Union 3^rd Floor

 

Dr. Mary Elizabeth Berry, University of California, Berkeley, Dean’s Professor of East Asian History.  “How Many People are in Your French Department?”

 

1:15 – 2:45 p.m.            Panel 6                 Chinese Cinema

 

• Jillian Baldwin, University of North Texas. “Room 2046: A Look at Film Reviews of and Color Usage within Wong kar Wai’s 2046”

• Chia-ju Chang, Trinity University, “Strange Women in Strange Worlds: a Non-Anthropocentric Reading of Urban Landscape in Transnational Chinese-speaking Cinema”

• Li Yang, University of Texas at Austin, “Art Film in China”

Chair: Jillian Baldwin, University of North Texas

 

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.            Panel 7                 The Arts

 

• Chang Tan, University of Texas at Austin, “Iconography or Semiotics: The Construction of ‘Chinese Experiences’ in Modernist Art.”

• Joan E. Mortensen, University of Texas at Dallas. “Xiong Foxi and the Origins of China’s Modern Theatre.”

• Bess Everett, Denison University, “Dance of the Fighter: Roles of Martial Arts in East Asia and America.”

• Marten Carlson, Denison University, "The Sexualization of Racism: Chinese Stereotypes in American Cinema."

Chair: Joan E. Mortensen, University of Texas at Dallas

 

 

End of Program