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Session 1: Perspectives on the First Greater East Asian War and Its Aftermath, circa. 1560–1620

Gunpowder Technology, Qi Jiguang, and the Japanese Invasion of Korea (1592–1598), Laichen Sun

A Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness: The Priest Keinen’s "Korea Day by Day," Jurgis Elisonas

Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Yang Hao and the Siege of Ulsan, 1597–98, Kenneth M. Swope

Leaving Out Hideyoshi: Transformations in Maritime East Asia, 1590–1620, John E. Wills, Jr


Session 21: Contesting Imperial Succession: Comparative Perspectives from Pre-Modern Asia

The Second Empire: The Ottoman Succession Revisited, Baki Tezcan

The Woman in the Accounts (hisab) of Men: Sultana Raziyya and Early Sultanate Society, Sunil Kumar

Second in Kyoto? Capital Politics and Regional Legitimacy in Sixteenth-Century Japan, Ronald K. Frank

Obscured Vision: Mirza Hakim, Akbar, and the Mughal Empire, Munis D. Faruqui


Session 41: Asian Diasporas: Locating Home in Globalization

Transnational Communities without a Consciousness? The Case of Japanese Brazilian Return Migration, Takeyuki Tsuda

Suspended Migrants, Nationalist Heroes: The Making of Filipino Seafarers, Steven McKay

Instituting Diasporic Consciousness: The Chinese State and El Centro Chino Panameņo, Lok Siu

Seductions of Home and Narratives of Counter-Modernity in the Vietnamese Diaspora, Hung Thai


Session 62: The Audience Question in Asian Media

Hollywood, Globalization, and Film Markets in Asia: Lessons for China? Stanley Rosen

Hollywood’s Receptions in China, 1897–1950, Zhiwei Xiao

Hong Kong Cinema and Its Japanese Female Fans: A Comparative Study of Film Spectatorship Practices, Lori Hitchcock

Interrogating the Regional Audience: Gendered Imaginings of Asia, Technology, and Oshin, Stephanie DeBoer


Session 82: The Asia-Pacific War as Transnational Encounter: Experience, Representation, and Memory

Asia between Colonialism and Postcolonialism: The Japanese-Indonesian Encounter in Wartime Java, Ethan Mark

Between the National and the Transnational: Japan’s Pan-Asianism through the Lens of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, Yiman Wang

War and Remembrance on Peleliu, Palau: History and Tourism for Islanders, Americans, and the Japanese, Stephen C. Murray


Session 100: Transnational Histories of Japanese Food Culture

Western Dining in the Edo Period, Timon Screech

"You Are All Sanpaku": Zen Macrobiotics and the Post-WWII Recuperation of Japan, Kim Brandt

MSG: Japan’s Greatest Contribution to World Cuisine? Jordan Sand


Session 120: Asian Responses to Terrorism: Pakistan, China, Japan and Southeast Asia since September 11, 2001

Al-Qaeda and Its Associated Groups in Southeast Asia: Threat and Response, Rohan Gunaratna

Terrorism: Implications for Pakistan’s Security, Salma Malik

A New National Security Agenda? The Impact of the "War on Terrorism" on Japanese Security Thinking, Sheila Anne Smith

Terrorism and Chinese Security, Andrew Scobell


Session 140: AAS Presidential Panel: The Global Soybean: North American Producers, East Asian Consumers, and the Biotech Revolution

Japanese Buyers, Canadian Farmers, and the Moral Economy of Non-Transgenic Soybeans, Gavin H. Whitelaw

Chinese Responses to Genetically Modified Foods: The Soybean as Test Case, Yuhua Guo

Resisting American Imports: Food Politics in South Korea, Okpyo Moon

Taiwan and the Biotech Revolution: Competition and Globalization, Kwang-ok Kim


Session 160: Replaying Modernity and Globalism in East Asia

"New Beijing, New Olympics": The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in China’s Quest for Modernity, Susan E. Brownell

Fashioned Modernities vs. State Authority, Tiantian Zheng

An Unpopular Pill: Modernity, Globalism, and Japanese Birth Control, Allison M. Alexy

Migrant Perspectives on Japanese Modernity, Joshua Hotaka Roth


Session 180: Discussions of Percussions: Drumming up "Veri-Asians" of Identities and Tradition

Samulnori: Playing to a Different Beat, Keith Howard

The (Unconscious) Aesthetics of Timbre in (Electronic) Tabla Music, Lowell Lybarger

The Sound of Fascism or Folklore? Ensemble Taiko Drumming and the Politics of Performance in Contemporary Japan, Shawn Bender

Changing (Heart) Beats: From Japanese National Identity and Nostalgia to the Taiko Rhythms of Citizens of the Earth, Millie Creighton


Session 200: Swords across the Borders: Transnational Currents in East Asian Popular Fiction

It All Started with a Monkey: Sarutobi Sasuke, Tachikawa Bunko, and the Origins of Ninja Fiction, Scott C. Langton

The Martial Arts in Dystopia: Xiang Kairan’s "Unofficial History of Sojourners in Japan," John Christopher Hamm

The Body Aesthetics in Chinese Martial Arts Novels, 1920s–1940s, Tze-lan D. Sang