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Genders and Sexualities in East Asian Cultures
Arizona State University (Tempe Campus) II East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference
January 12-13, 2024
Genders and sexualities in East Asian cultures encompass a wide range of themes that enhance the scope of East Asian studies. In their plural forms, they foster a more inclusive and fertile ground for scholarly debates.
In the 2024 ASU East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, we encourage innovative ways of conceptualizing genders and sexualities in East Asian cultures. The keynote speakers are Professor Jin-kyung Lee, Associate Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature at the University of California San Diego and Professor Judit Kroo, Assistant Professor of Japanese Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. We invite papers from humanistic fields that address genders and sexualities through such perspectives including but not limited to studies in: the arts, linguistics, comparative film and literature, human and non-human relationships, diasporic identities, Asian American identities, religion, disability, performance, environment, migration.
Graduate Students Conference Program
Location:
Durham Hall
ASU Tempe Campus
851 S. Cady Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287
Room L1-18 (Jan 12), 218 (Jan 13)
Jan 12, 2024
ASU Tempe Campus Durham Hall L1-18
9:20–9:30: Greeting and Opening Speech
Lucas Klein, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Head of East and Southeast Asian Faculty (Arizona State University)
Women's Literature and Religion in Premodern China: 9:30–11:00 am
Respondent: Robert Ford Campany, Professor of Asian Studies (Vanderbilt University)
Xinci Fu, Ph.D. student in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies (University of California, Santa Barbara): “Without Female Voice”: Mid Tang (766-835) Courtesan Xue Tao’s Poetic Voice and Literary Agency in Exchange Poems
Luying Zhao, Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Arizona State University): Bloody Reborn: Female Pollution and its Redemption in 11-13th Century China, focusing on the True Scripture for Salvation from the Lake of Blood, [Revealed] by Yuanshi Tianzun
Jiangnan Li, postdoctoral fellow in Buddhist Studies (University of California, Berkeley): Politics of the Yunji qiqian: Song Empress Dowager Liu (r. 1022–1033) and Wei Huacun’s Hagiographies
Modern East Asian History: 11:15 am–12:45 pm
Respondent: Sungik Yang, Assistant Professor of History (Arizona State University)
Jiyeon Lee, M.A. student in Regional Studies East Asia (Harvard University): Sex Work or Sexual Exploitation?: An Analysis of the Discourse behind the Politics and Regulation of Prostitution in Japan and Korea
Xianda Huang, M.A. student in East Asian Studies (Yale University): When Will You Come Back?: A History of Cultural Opening in China through the Music of Teresa Teng, 1978-1995
Zhiqiang Liu, Ph.D. student in Comparative Culture and Literature (Arizona State University): Performing Feminism and Anti-Colonialism in Colonial Korea: Bodies and Spaces in Park Chan-wook’s Agassi/The Handmaiden
Lunch Break: 12:45 – 2:30 pm
Modern Korean Popular Culture: 2:30-4:00 pm
Respondent: Areum Jeong, Assistant Professor of Korean (Arizona State University)
Andy Lee, Ph.D. student in Film and Media Studies (University of Pittsburgh): Precarious Heterotopia of Horror: Korean High-School Horror as Social Metaphor
Sue Hyon Bae, Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Culture and Language (Arizona State University): Cancer Narratives as Vicarious Revenge
Keynote Lecture : 4:15–5:45 pm
Jin-kyung Lee, Associate Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature (University of California, San Diego): Proletarian Labor, Biophysical Devastations, and Capitalizing Equality in Colonial Korean Literature
Jan 13, 2024
ASU Tempe Campus Durham Hall 218
Desire, Gender, and Society: 9:30–11:00 am
Respondent: Xiaoqiao Ling, Associate Professor of Chinese (Arizona State University)
Francesco Papani, Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Arizona State University): A Sing-song Girl and a Young Man from a Noble Household: Crossing Gender and Social Class Boundaries in Chinese Performance Literature
Shiyun Qiu, M.A. student in Comparative Literature (Fudan University): Homoeroticism and Fetishized Desire of Late Imperial Chinese Literati: Mirror Passages in Pinhua Baojian
Chuwen Wendy Xiao, M.A. student in Regional Studies East Asia (Harvard University): Fruits and Fluids: Female Homosexual Eroticism and Pleasure in Qing Dynasty Erotic Albums
Japanese Literature and Culture: 11:15 am–12:45 pm
Respondent: Robert Tuck, Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature (Arizona State University)
Ava Bush, M.A. student in Regional Studies East Asia (Harvard University): The Yoshiwara as a Microcosm of Sex Work, Performance, and Ephemerality: A Case Study
Wei Lin Tan, M.A. student in Regional Studies East Asia (Harvard University): Mishima Yukio’s Kinjiki as Queer Theory
Hannah Karkari, curatorial assistant for Asian Art (Santa Barbara Museum): Boundaries of Femininity: Cross-dressed Women in Modern Japanese Visual Culture
Lunch Break: 12:45 – 2:30 pm
Keynote Lecture : 2:30-4:00 pm
Judit Kroo, Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Linguistics and Comparative Culture Studies (Arizona State University): Debating a Good Life: The Persistence, Flexibility, and Potential for Change in Gendered Ideological Norms
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