Pushing the Boundaries of East Asia: A Symposium for Master’s Theses-in-Progress

May 21, 4:30-8:30 pm
Social Sciences 224 (John Hope Franklin Room)

4:30-5:40 – Panel 1 – Transnational Linguistic and Spatial Practices

Rebekah Fabrizio (MAPH) – “The Epidemiology of ‘Get’ in Southeast Asia”

Paul Chu (MAPSS) – “Diversity in Unity: Investigating Social Difference and the Frame of Place within the Chicago Chinatown Neighborhood”

5:40-6 – Dinner

6:10-7:20 – Panel 2 – Nationalizing Pedagogy and Religion

Ding Siyuan (MAPSS) – “Learning to Argue Like a Modern Buddhist: The Problem of Mixin in the Invention of Modern Buddhism in China (1927-1937)”

Zeng Nanxi (CIR) – “Friend or Foe?: Constructing Japan’s Image in China’s Official Historical Narrative after 1949”

7:20-8:30 – Panel 3 – Imperial Masculinities

Juan Fernandez (MAPSS) – “Splendid Brown Bodies: Indigenous Masculinity and the Subjects of American Empire in Dean Worcester’s Philippine Photographs”

Erin Newton (PhD Student, History) – “Broken Fighting Spirit: Masculinity in Soldiers’ Psychiatric Sickbed Diaries during the Asia-Pacific War, 1937-1945”