program of the workshop (工作坊議程表)

Asian American Studies in Asia: An International Workshop Institute of European & American Studies Academia Sinica Taipei, TAIWAN  June 4-5, 2010 Program
Day 1 (June 4)
9:10-9:40	Registration
9:40-10:00	Welcoming Remarks Te-hsing Shan (單德興), Director of IEAS
10:00-12:00 Session 1	The States of Asian American Studies I
	Moderator	Pin-chia Feng (馮品佳), NCTU, Taiwan
	Panelists	Kun Jong Lee, Korea University, Korea “Korean/Asian American Literary Studies in Korea, 1964-2009”
		Manju Jaidka, Panjab University, India “Asian American Studies in India, circa 2010”
		Mie Hihara, Kyoto Women’s University, Japan “How Asian American Studies Has Evolved in Japan with a Focus on Asian American Literature Studies”
12:00-1:30	Lunch Break & Guided Tour (Museum of the Institute of History & Philology)
1:30-3:30 Session 2	The States of Asian American Studies II
	Moderator	Hsinya Huang (黃心雅), NSYSU, Taiwan
	Panelists	Oscar Campomanes, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines  “Filipino/Asian American Studies in the Philippine Academy: Problems, Patterns, Prospects”
		Amie Parry, NCU, Taiwan “The Question of Asian American Studies in Asia: Toward a Critical Comparativism”
		Viet Nguyen, USC, USA “Transpacific Crossings: Intersections of Area Studies, Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies”
4:00-6:00 Special Session	Transpacific War Memories
	Moderator	Te-hsing Shan (單德興), Academia Sinica
	Panelists	Wing Tek Lum (林永得), Bamboo Ridge, Hawaii
		Gayle Sato, Meiji University, Japan “Atrocity Photo Poetry: A Reading of Wing Tek Lum’s ‘Nanjing Series’”
6:00-8:00	Welcome Reception @ IEAS, Academia Sinica
Day 2 (June 5)
9:30-10:00	Registration
10:00-12:00 Session 3	Ethnicity, Diaspora, and Nation
	Moderator	Wen-ching Ho (何文敬), NTNU, Taiwan
	Panelists	Yingjian Guo (郭英剑), Minzhu University, China “Facing Shadows: Where is the Homeland of the Writer as Migrant?”
		Hyungji Park, Yonsei University, Korea “Imagined Asias, Imagined Americas: Reading Asian american Literature Across the Pacific”
		Tee Kim Tong (張錦忠), NSYSU, Taiwan “Chinese American Literature, Asian American Literature . . . in Taiwan: A Diasporic Sinophone Malaysian Perspective”
12:00-1:30	Lunch Break & Guided Tour (Hu Shi Memorial & Museum of the Institute of Ethnology)
1:30-3:30 Session 4	Re-articulating “Asia”
	Moderator	Iping Liang (梁一萍), NTNU, Taiwan
	Panelists	Candace Fujikane, University of Hawaii, USA “Asian Settler Colonialism and Anarcha-Indigenism: Critical Asian American Studies Before and After the Fall of Empire”
		Rika Nakamura (中村理香), Seijo University, Japan “Repositioning Themselves as Western and Minority Subjects: Internationalizing/Locating Asian American Studies in ‘Asia’”
		Kyung-sook Shin, Yonsei University, Korea “Theorizing the Difference Between Asia and Asian America: Poetics of Asian American Literature”
4:00-6:00 Roundtable	Asian/American Studies in the Era of Globalization: Tasks and Possibilities
	Moderator	Yu-cheng Lee (李有成), Academia Sinica
	Panelists	Lisa Yoneyama, UCSD, USA Hyungji Park, Yonsei University, Korea Oscar Campomanes, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines  Yingjian Guo (郭英劍), Minzhu University, China  China Kuan-hsing Chen (陳光興), NCTU, Taiwan
6:00-6:15	Closing Remarks by Andy Wang, Academia Sinica
6:30	Dinner Banquet