Exploring Asian Connectivities: Topics, Methods, and Implications
1st Global Asian Studies Joint Workshop [IASA and CLASS/CoHASS]
24 March 2023, Friday
SHHK Conference Room (SHHK-05-57)
0900 – 0930

Registration and Breakfast

0930 – 0945

Welcome and introduction by Assoc Prof Joyce Pang
Associate Dean (Research), College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CoHASS);
Director, Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS)
Opening Remarks by Prof Shigeto Sonoda
Deputy Director, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (IASA), The University of Tokyo

0945 – 1115

Theme 1: Asian Perspectives on Global Mobility
1a: Global mobility in the 1980s in South Korea
Asst Prof Jiyoon Kim, Assistant Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
1b: Dairy and Diaspora: Postponed Reform on the Guangming Overseas Chinese Farm of Shenzhen
Assoc Prof Zhou Taomo, Associate Professor, School of Humanities, NTU
1c: Superdiversity, temporality and the (geo)politics of ‘integration’: Interrogating differential inclusion in non-Western
citizenship regimes
Assoc Prof Laavanya Kathiravelu, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, NTU
1d: Inter-Asian Digital Infrastructures
Prof Jack Qiu, Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU
Panel Discussion and Q&A – 30 mins

1115 – 1145

Coffee and Tea

1145 – 1300

Theme 2: Historical and Cultural Narratives in Intra-Regional Dialogue
2a: Orientalism from Within?: Representation of Southeast Asia in History Textbooks of Japan, China, and Thailand"
Asst Prof Pattajit Tangsinmunkong, Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo2b: Futures in Culture: (Could there be) A South-East/South-East Conversation?
Dr Jennifer R. Cash, Lecturer, School of Humanities, NTU
2c: Temple Crimes: East-West cinematic Space as Cultural Connectivity
Assoc Prof Ian Dixon, Associate Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU
Panel Discussion and Q&A – 30 mins

1300 – 1430

Lunch

1430 – 1545

Theme 3: Representations and Expressions of Chinese Philosophy
3a: Philosophy of Chinese music and science
Assoc Prof Yuki Tanaka, Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
3b: Reshaping Confucianism: A Progressive Inquiry
Prof Li Chenyang, Professor, School of Humanities, NTU
3c: Chinese Landscape Painting & its Connection to Chinese Living Philosophy
Assoc Prof Ng Woon Lam, Associate Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU
Panel Discussion and Q&A – 30 mins

1545 – 1615

Afternoon Tea

1615 - 1730

Theme 4: Health, Well-being, and Medicine in Asia
4a: Challenges and Prospects for Cross-boundary Cancer Studies as Asian Studies
Dr Norie Kawahara, Project Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
4b: Misleading information in health and its specific cultural connotations
Prof Peter J. Schulz, Visiting Professor at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, & Lee Kong Chian Schoolof Medicine, NTU
4c: Polyglot Asian Medicine
Asst Prof Michael Stanley-Baker, Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, & Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU
Panel Discussion and Q&A – 30 mins
End of workshop