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Accepted Papers and Panels:
Panel # 1: Structural Economic Reforms and Human Security in South Asia
Chair: Judy Whitehead
whitja01@uleth.ca
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Presentation |
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Varughese, Anil |
Politics of Suicide: Neoliberal Policies and Human Security in Southern India |
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Shareef, Shawkat |
NGOs, Donors and the Politics of Sustainable Forestry for Poor Women in Bangladesh |
Slide Projector |
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Sharma, Shalendra |
Over a Decade of Economic Reforms in India : Impact on Growth, Poverty and Human Security |
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Nuruzzaman, Mohammed |
Linking Theory and Practice: The State of Human Security in South Asia Today |
Overhead |
Panel # 2: Christianity as Critique in Asian contexts
Chair: Ryan Dunch
ryan.dunch@ualberta.ca
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Presentation |
AV |
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Dunch, Ryan |
Missionaries as Collectors, Consumers and Producers of Chinese Print Culture: The Pedagogical Connection |
Overhead |
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Semple, Rhonda |
Caring for Communities: Mission Identities in the Nineteenth Century North Indian Landscape |
Overhead |
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Baker, Don |
The Rise and Fall of Christian Political Influence in South Korea |
Overhead |
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Pek, Unsok |
A Roman Catholic Bishop and A Korean Shaman: Ways of Making Sense of Life |
Overhead |
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Hansen, Ian |
Is Christianity an Asian Value? |
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Panel # 3: Literature and War in Pre-Modern Asia
Chair: X Jie Yang
xyang@ucalgary.ca
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Presentation |
AV |
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Zhang, Yimin |
Military Actions of Ming Literati Against the Manchu Invasion: A Case Study of Yan Ermei, 1603-1679 |
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Takagaki, Cary Shinji |
Tensions and Resolutions in an Eschatological Context: The End of Buddhism in 13th Century Japan |
Overhead |
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Yang, X. Jie |
A Triumphant Return in Defeated Tears: Pictorial Expressions from Medieval Japonese Scrolls |
Slide Projector |
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Harding, John |
Butchery Beyond Battle : Cutting Practice and Execution in the Hagakure |
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Panel # 4: Dimensions of the Chinese Reform Experience: The Media, Village Elections, and Urban Planning
Chair: Timothy Cheek
t.cheek@ubc.ca
Discussant: Kenneth Foster
kwfoster@politics.ubc.ca
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Fang, Janet |
A Snapshot of the Intellectual History of Hong Kong Wen Wei Po Around 1989 |
Overhead |
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Williams,Erin Elizabeth |
Popular Electoral Support for Party Members in Chinese Village Elections: An Alternative Interpretation of Elections Results |
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Cao, Dawei |
Market Driven Planning Process in China |
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Zhao, Derek X. |
Multinational Financial Companies in China: A Strategic Review of a U.S., a French, and a Belgian Bank |
Overhead |
Panel # 5: Formation and Transformation of Welfare Policy in East Asia
Chair: Ping-Chun Hsiung
pchsiung@utsc.utoronto.ca
Discussant: Ito Peng
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Presentation |
AV |
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Song, Jesook |
Meanings of “Productive” in ‘Productive Welfare State’: South Korean Social Policy 1997-2001 |
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Zhang, Weiguo |
Welfare of Childless Elderly in Rural North China |
Slide Projector |
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Hsiung, Ping-Chun |
Gender Politics in Policy Making: A Case Study of Taiwan |
Overhead |
Panel # 6: Transnationalism and Identity
Chair: TBA
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Presentation |
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Angeles, Leonora
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Trans Nationalism and State Feminism: Women's Movements' Engagement with States, Civil Societies and International Development Agencies in the Philippines, 1986-2002 |
Overhead |
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Wu, Anne Chin-Yen |
"Taiwanese" Identities Unwrapped – Tensions and Linkages Among Taiwanese Communities in Toronto |
Overhead |
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Jefremovas Villia-Maria |
Falling Between the Cracks: The Case of Sagada Igorot Women in the 20th Century |
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Panis, Maria Cristina |
Under Construction: A Critical Analysis of Identity and Identity Formation Among Filipino Women in Canada |
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| Lee, Jo-Anne | Bubble Tea and Me: "Sometimes I Don't Feel Chinese / Asian Enough" | Overhead |
Panel # 7: Transnationalizing Japan
Chair: Joseph Kess
koe@uvvm.uvic.ca
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Presentation |
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Kess, Joseph & Igarashi, Yuk. |
Language Maintenance Practices vs. Internationalization Policies in Japan: Tension or Linkage? |
Overhead |
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Tan, Kevin |
Bodies of Culture: Aikido and the Transnatioalism of the Martial Arts |
Overhead |
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Yoshida, Kaori |
Cultural Globalization and Regionalization: Anime Confronting the West and Asia |
Overhead |
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Riley, Yoko |
A New Approach to Teaching Japanese Reading |
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Iwai, Tsuneko |
A New Mode of Self-Expression?: The Changing Pattern of Japanese Assertive Behaviour |
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Panel # 8: Difficult Times and Changing Worlds: Literary Responses to the Qing Conquest
Chair & Discussant: Allison C.D. Bailey
abailey@interchange.ubc.ca
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Swatek, Catherine |
The Trauma of the Ming Collapse as Reflected in the Plays of Li Yu (c.1586-c.1667) |
Overhead |
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Li, Xiaorong |
My Small Window: The Boudoir in Women's Poetry During the Ming-Qing Transition |
Overhead |
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| Dia, Lianbin | Performance, Nostalgia, and Mixed Loyalties: A Case Study of Literati Spectatorship During the Ming-Qing Transition | Overhead |
Panel # 9: Is the Medium the Message? Exploring Meaning in South Asia
Chair: Tanya Boughtflower
t_boughtflower@hotmail.com
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Presentation |
AV |
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Boughtflower Tanya |
Becoming the Message In Ramlila |
Slide Projector |
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Datta, Anisha |
Fair's Unfair: Simulations of Consumption and Career in Indian Advertising |
Slide Projector |
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Millar, Eve |
Dung, Divinity and Democracy: Traces of the Sacred Cow in the Art of Sheela Gowda |
Slide Projector |
Panel # 10: Asia – US Relations
Chair: Ken Coates
ken.coates@seatosky.ca
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Presentation |
AV |
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Idris, Nor Azizan |
Malaysia – Us Relations After September 11, 2001 |
Overhead |
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Wang, Jian Yan |
China: Under Fire from the United States (A Tentative Study of China 's WTO Membership in its Third Year) |
Overhead |
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Ikeda, Satoshi |
Is 21C US Empire Another Tributary System?: A Comparison with the East Asian Tibutary Trade System and a Critique of Japanese Neo-Mercantilism |
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Sohrab, Siravand |
Capitalist Work, Gender Ideology and the Emergence of Religious Nationalism in the Middle East: Globalization and its Critique |
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Panel # 11: Popular Asian Religions
Chair: TBA
Discussant: Han Kim Chang
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Presentation |
AV |
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Kim, Dongkyu |
Possibility of Reconciling an Insider’s View and an Outsider’s View in Study of Korean Shamanism |
Overhead |
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Baker, Don |
Changing Concepts of Religion in Modern Korea |
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Ferzacca, Steve |
Blood and Religion(s) in Indonesia |
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Mabley, Bruce |
Les origines juridiques et islamiques des talibans en Afghanistan |
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Rodriguez, Hillary |
Rattling the Devil's Sabre: Some Socio-Political functions of the Public Durga Puja Celebrations in Banaras |
Slide Projector |
Panel # 12: Eccentrics and Anomalies in Early Modern and Modern Japan
Chair: Peter Nosco
peter.nosco@ubc.ca
Discussant: Janice Matsumura
jmatsumu@sfu.ca
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Brown, Janice |
Changing the Subject: Gender, Poetry and Construction of the Eccentric Persona in the Early Works of Hayashi Fumiko |
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Brecher, Puck |
Oddballs by Any Other Name: Comparing Eccentrism in tne Hosa kyosha-den and Kinsei kijin-den |
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Newmark, Jeffrey |
Ideological Convergence in Early Modern Japan : Oshio Heihachiro and Ikuta Yorozu's 1837 Uprisings |
Panel # 13: Development on the Margins
Chair: TBA
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Presentation |
AV |
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DeKoninck, Rodolphe & Leblond, Jean-Philippe |
Pour une analyse géopolitique des hautes terres d’Asie du Sud-Est |
Overhead |
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Leblond, Jean-Philippe |
L’arrêt de la déforestation en Thaïlande : le fruit du développement économique? |
Overhead |
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Nayak, Bhabani Shankar |
Development, Empowerment or Alienation in the Tribal Areas of Orissa: A Case of Globalization in India |
Slide Projector |
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Pham, Thanh Hai & DeKoninck, Rodolphe |
Les défis de l’aménagement et de la gestion du parc national de Ba Be, dans le Nord montagneux du Vietnam |
Slide Projector |
Roundtable # 14: The Tensions and Promises of Democracy: Reflections on Taiwan’s 2004 Presidential Elections
Chair: Scott Simon
ssimon@uottawa.ca
Discussant: Joseph Wong
joewong@chass.utoronto.ca
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Presentation |
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Wong, Joseph |
Roundtable Discussant | Overhead |
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Poy, Vivienne |
Roundtable Participant | Overhead |
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Corcuff, Stephane |
Roundtable Participant | Overhead |
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Laliberte, Andre |
Roundtable Participant | Overhead |
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O'Brien, Marie |
Roundtable Participant | Overhead |
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Simon, Scott |
Roundtable Chair | Overhead |
Panel # 15: Constructing a Civil Social Sphere in the Late-Communist Countries: China and North Korea
Chair: Seong-Sook Yim
yims@cetase.umontreal.ca
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Presentation |
AV |
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Yim, Seong-Sook |
Constructing a Civil Social Sphere in the Late-communist Countries: China and North Korea |
Overhead |
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Girouard, Etienne |
Driving Force for Reform and Political Change in China and North Korea |
Overhead |
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Perron, Véronique |
Rise and Enlargement of Second Social Sphere in North Korea |
Overhead |
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Lee, Regina |
Making a Religious Freedom in the DPRK |
Overhead |
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Zhang, Xiangyi |
Chinese Youth’s Choice: Confucianist and Mammonist TV Drama |
Overhead |
Panel # 16: Gender and Violence in Asian Media
Chair: Jennifer Jay
jjay@ualberta.ca
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Presentation |
AV |
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Ng, Maria |
Appropriating East Asian Masculinity: From Lowbrow Literature to Pulp Hero |
Overhead |
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Jay, Jennifer |
Masculinity and Violence in East Asian Cinema |
Overhead |
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Nguyen, Julie |
Impacts of Multinational Corporate Advertising on Gender Equity in Vietnam in Globalization Context |
Overhead |
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Dhruvrajan ,Vanaja |
Struggles for Hegemony and Representation of Women in the Media |
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Panel # 17: Philanthropy, Social Policy and Authority in Colonial Asia, 1850-1955
Chair: Van Nguyen-Marshall
vannguyenmarshall@trentu.ca
Discussant: Judy Whitehead
whitja01@uleth.ca
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Presentation |
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Kasturi, Malavika |
Law, Charity and Philanthropy: The Charitable Endowments Acts and the Politics of 'Sacred' and 'Secular' Gifting in Colonial India |
Overhead |
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Nguyen-Marshall, Van |
Challenging the Moral Authority of French Colonial Rule: Vietnamese Elite and Famine Relief in the Early 20th Century |
Overhead |
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Sewell, William |
Reinventing Imperialism: Morality in Japanese Manchuria |
Slide Projector |
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Watt, Carey |
Charity, Voluntarism and the State in Colonial and Postcolonial India, c. 1890-1955 |
Overhead |
Panel # 18: Security Issues and South Asian Policies
Chair: Reeta Tremblay
reetact@vax2.concordia.ca
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Presentation |
AV |
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Tremblay, Reeta & Schofield, Julian |
Kin State Politics in Kashmir |
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Schofield, Julian & Tremblay, Reeta |
Tribal Focoism in Kashmir |
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Raju, Saraswati |
Structural Economic Reforms, Gender and Human Security in South Asia with Special Reference to Urban India |
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Panel # 19: China Off Center
Chair: Jan Walls
jwalls@sfu.ca
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Presentation |
AV |
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Li, Hua |
Cultural Quandary of Contemporary Chinese-Tibetan Writers |
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Lee, Jennifer Wen-Shya |
Taiwanese Youth's Civic Identities and Their Attitudes Toward Nation |
LCD |
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Luk, Pik-Ki |
Mapping an Alternative Space in and for Post-Colonial Hong Kong: Navigating the Dot by the Parasite Collection |
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Panel # 20: Japan in Asia , Asia in Japan
Chair: Satoshi Ikeda
satoshi.ikeda@ualberta.ca
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Presentation |
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Wenran, Jiang |
Sino-Japanese Relations in the Energy Sector |
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Chang, Yu |
Nationalism, Historical Memory and the Media in Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations |
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| Flumerfelt, Joshua | The JMSDF: Clearing a Path Through the Minefield of History | Slide Projector |
Panel # 21 : Making Space for Progress: Defining China Through Official and Unoffical Social Practices
Chair: Tina Mai Chen
chentm@ms.umanitoba.ca
Discussant: Richard King
rking@uvic.ca
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Presentation |
AV |
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Flath, James |
Print Culture and the Treaty Port Identity – Colonial Modernity in Shanghai Graphic Arts, 1890-1910. |
Slide Projector |
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Chiasson, Blaine |
Another Night at the Opera? Russian Opera and Chinese Nationalism in 1920’s Harbin |
Overhead |
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Chen, Tina Mai |
Rural Utopias: Soviet Film and the Transformation of the Chinese Countryside in the 1950s |
Overhead |
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Sedo, Tim |
Playing on the Bodies of Global Capitalism: Skateboarding and Contemporary Chinese Urban Space |
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Panel # 22: Politics, Economy, Socialism and History (Taiwan Studies)
Chair: TBA
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Presentation |
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Bedeski, Robert |
The U.S. – China – Taiwan Triangle: Risks and Opportunities |
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Bu, Nailin |
Acceptance of Supervisory Direction in Typical Workplace Situations, A Comparison of US, Taiwanese and PRC Employees |
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Hunter, Gordon |
The CIO Role in Canada and Taiwan: Enhancing Understanding |
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Lary, Diana |
Using the Past for the Present: Interpretations of Cheng Ch’eng-kung |
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Szonyi, Michael Andor |
Emigration and Identity in Jinmen (Quemoy), 1880 to 1949 |
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Panel # 23: Relations entre developpement et environment dans la pénisule indochinoise
Chair: Yann Roche
roche.yann@uqam.ca
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Presentation |
AV |
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Audette, Philippe |
La cartographie comme outil d’évaluation des politiques environnementales du Vietnam: le cas du Parc National de Cuc Phuong |
LCD |
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Dang, Vu Khac |
Impact de la topographie sur l’aménagement dans la région montagneuse de la province Quang Nam, Vietnam |
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Mottet, Eric |
Politiques de surveillance du risqué d’inondation à Ninh binh (Vietnam ) |
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Roche, Yann |
Enjeux de la gestion des ressources naturelle au Laos |
Overhead |
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Gilbert, Alexandra |
Les dynamiques locales de développement au Vietnam : une étude de cas de la commune de Cat Que |
Overhead |
Panel # 24: Future of Japanese Business
Chair: Jim Tiessen
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Presentation |
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Ursacki-Bryant, Teri Jane |
The New Black Ships: Foreign Institutional Investors and Restructuring in Japanese Business |
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Holroyd, Carin |
Science as Business: The Commerce of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Robotics and Health Care in Japan |
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Tissen, Jim |
How Does Japan Do It? A Comparison of Japan and Canada's Health Care Systems |
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Panel # 25: Asian International Relations
Chair: Alan Smart
asmart@ucalgary.ca
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Charron, Claude-Yves |
Beyond Twenty-Five Years of Canadian and Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA) to China: Issues and Challenges Ahead |
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Hsu, Yon |
Between Monologue and Dialogue: A Bakhtinian Approach Towards the Parodox Across the Taiwan Strait |
Slide Projector |
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Lin, Wen-lung Laurence |
The Strategic Symbiosis Between the US and Taiwanese Nationalism Since 2000 |
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Panel # 26: Aboriginal Studies (Taiwan Studies)
Chair: TBA
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Beaupre, Charles |
A Comparative Analysis of Aboriginal Folk Tales in Canada and Taiwan |
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Russell, Terence C. |
The Development of Taiwanese Aboriginal Writing Since the 1980’s |
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Simon, Scott |
Development and Indigenous Rights: Emerging Perspectives from Taiwan |
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Wes, Heber |
Cooperation and Exchange in Aboriginal Education: Taiwan and Canada |
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Panel # 27: Working Asia
Chair: Marta Rohatynskyj
mrohatyn@uoguelph.ca
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Lin, Ting-Sheng |
Tensions et relations - Le regime de travail en Chine |
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Selvadurai, Sivapalan |
Retail Modernization in the Supermarket and Sundry Sector: Case of Labuan Town (East Malaysia ) |
Slide Projector LCD |
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Rohatynskyj, Marta |
Methodological Questions in the Study of the Impact of Globalization on the Poor in Madhya Pradesh, India |
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Panel # 28: Japanese Economy at a Crossroads
Chair: Teri Jane Ursacki-Bryant
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Alexander, Jeff |
Before the Big Four: Competition and Industrial Policy in Japan 's Postwar Motorcycle Industry, 1945-1960" |
Overhead |
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Waldichuk, Tom |
Active Farm Communities on the Edge of Large Cities in Japan: Examples of How Individual Farm Households Have Adapted... |
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Panel # 29: Asian Insights Towards the Construction of Peace
Chair: Don Baker
dbaker@interchange.ubc.ca
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Presentation |
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Chung, Edward |
Toward a New World Order: Confucian Reflections on Peace, Security and Harmony |
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Fai, Ghulam-Nabi |
Peace Initiatives in South Asia: The Issue of Kashmir ” |
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Arghirescu, Diana |
Des fondements de la pensée éthique confucéen: éléments pour un dialogue interculturel |
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Chang, Chia-Ning |
War, Ideology, and Religious Salvation: Kamei Katsuichiro and his Autobiography of Sin |
Overhead |
Panel # 30: Education, Culture and Health (Taiwan studies)
Chair: TBA
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Presentation |
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Chang, Wei Ching |
The Yin and Yang of Health Care Reforms: Taiwan versus Canada |
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D’Ailly, Hsiao |
The Role of Choice in Children’s Learning: A Distinctive Cultural and Gender Difference in Efficacy, Interest, and Effort |
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Jay, Jennifer |
Tension and Conflict in East Asian Cinema: Ang Lee’s Wedding Banquet, Kwans Lan Yu and Yon Fans Peony Pavilion |
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Smart, Josephine |
Conspicuous Consumption, Food Symbolism, and Emergent Disease Risks in Chinese Societies |
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Panel # 31: Rethinking Kinship and Social Organization
Chair: Sara Dorow
sdorow@ualberta.ca
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Newberry, Jan |
A Javanese Family: 50 Years After Hildred Geertz |
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Sciban, Lloyd |
Yee Hong Community Wellness Foundation: Improving Elder Care for Chinese Canadians |
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Xing, Wei |
Patterns and Determinants of Interethnic Marriages in Urban China in the Early 1990s |
Overhead |
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Park, Sinae |
Formation of a New Ideal for Women: The Image of "Virtuous Woman" During Late Chosŏn Korea Found in the "Hansan Yi-ssi kohaengnok" |
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Panel # 32: Ethics of Development
Chair: O.P. Dwividi
odwivedi@uoguelph.ca
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Dwivedi, O.P. |
Ethics of Development / Ethics in Development : Overview |
Overhead |
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Parella, Anthony |
Title forthcoming |
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Whitehead, Judy |
Common Property Resources and Primitive Accumulation in Development Planning |
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Mohan, Nanita |
Title forthcoming |
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Panel # 33: Marginality and Empowerment in South Asia
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Presentation |
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Meadowcroft, Keith |
Ambedkar's Two Conversion Movements and his Strategy for Dalit Emancipation |
Overhead |
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Wilson, Margot |
In the Lineage of the King: Conversion, Identity and Why the Rajbanshi Claim to be Kshatriya |
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Gannon, Shane |
The Dalit Movement: A Case Study on the Dialectics of the Local and the Global |
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Bhatti, Faquir M. |
South Asian Contribution to British Culture 1950-2000 |
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Panel # 34: Community and Identity
Chair: Carin Holroyd
carin.holroyd@seatosky.ca
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Presentation |
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Watson, Mark |
Rethinking the Boundaries of the Indigenous World from Japan: Kanto Resident Ainu and Urban Indigenous Studies |
Overhead |
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Dorow, Sara |
Brokering Cultural Identity: Chinese Facilitators of Transnational Adoption |
Overhead |
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Coates, Ken |
Trans-Pacific Families: Reflection on North American Adoptions from Asia |
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| Chagar, Rajeni | Feminist Internationalism: An Unacceptable Approach for South Asian Women |
Panel # 35: Identity Trouble: Huaqiao, Taiwanese and Loyal Cadres in Chinese State Propaganda
Chair: Timothy Cheek
t.cheek@ubc.ca
Discussant: Dr. Wu Guoguang
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Presentation |
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Yang, Meng-Hsuan |
K.M.T. in Taiwan: Propaganda and Resinicization |
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Peterson, Glen |
Making Propaganda Work: Official Constructions of Huaqiao (Overseas Chinese) Identities in the Early PRC |
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Cheek , Timothy |
Language & Power in Mao's Revolution: The Discursive Construction of the Loyal Cadre in the Yan'an Rectification Movement, 1942-44 |
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Manning, Kimberly Ens |
Resentment, Resistance and Rights: The Institutional Origins and Consequences of the 1958 Mobilization of Women |
Panel # 36: Reforming Asia ?
Chair: Wenran Jiang
wenran.jiang@ualberta.ca
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Presentation |
AV |
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Zhu, Ni |
Chinese Courts in Context: In Search for a Modern Image in an Era of Changes |
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Gravel, Caroline |
Enviornmental Policy in China: The Case of the Pudong District |
Overhead |
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Hawley, Michael |
Radhakrishnan's Nation |
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| Smeltzer, Sandra |
The Anwar Affair: Role of Mainstream and Alternative Malaysian Media |
Luncheon Guest Lecturers:
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Presentation |
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| Kawakatsu, Heita | Title forthcoming |
