Fifth Annual Consortium for Asian and African Studies

"Asia and Africa Across Disciplinary and National Lines"

Fifth Annual Consortium for Asian and African Studies Symposium

"Asia and Africa Across Disciplinary and National Lines"
October 3 – 4, 2014

Friday, October 3
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM     Registration & Welcome Remarks
9:30 AM – 11:15 AM     Panel I: Narrating Nation, Ethnicity, Identity

Discussant: Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Department of History, Columbia University

    Jeong Park (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) - "To Be Accepted as a Tribe: Nubians' Struggle for Nationality in Post-independence Kenya"
    Andrea Rosengarten (London School of Economics, Columbia University) - "Other ‘Coloureds’: Constructions of a Socio-Racial Category in Colonial Namibia under South African Rule, 1915-1939"
    Kristin Roebuck (Columbia University) - "Provincializing Eugenics: The Persistence of ‘Race Hygiene’ in Japan after Its Decline in the West"
    Jasur Khikmatullaev (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies - "Questions of nationality and educational reform in Russian Turkestan"

11:15 AM – 11:30 PM     Break
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM     Panel II: Environmental and Ecological Histories

    Brian Lander (Columbia University) - "Rethinking the Environmental History of the Central Yangzi Wetlands"
    Belinda Archibong (Columbia University) - "The Long-Term Impacts of Precolonial Geography and Institutions on Access to Public Infrastructure Services in Nigeria"
    John Doyle-Raso (Columbia University) - "’We are not making a mountain out of a molehill’: British development experts, Lake Victoria, and the Owen Falls Dam, 1953-55"

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM     Lunch Break
2:30 PM – 4:15 PM     Panel III: Language, Politics, and History

Discussant: Manan Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Columbia University

    Karima Laachir (University of London) - "The Politics of Language and Culture in the ‘Reading together’ of the Moroccan Novel in Arabic and French"
    Andrew Ollett (Columbia University) - "The Languages of Literature: Comparative perspectives from South Asia and Europe"
    Alain Désoulières (Centre d'étude et de Recherche sur les Littératures ) and Marie-Sybille de Vienne (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales) - "Comparing mid 16th Cent. Portuguese Historiography with local South / South East Historiography: about Asian navigation"

4:15 PM – 4:30 PM     Break
4:30 PM – 6:15 PM     Panel IV: Strategies of Economic and Political Development

Discussant: Robert J. Barnett, Director, Modern Tibet Studies Program; Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Tibetan Studies

    Oyebanke Oyelaran-Oyeyinka (Columbia University) - "Informal Sector Employment, Industrial Clusters and Urban Poverty in Africa: A Lagos Case study"
    Kyu-Deug Hwang (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) - "Developmental State in South Korea and Botswana Compared: Some Critiques"
    Clay Eaton (Columbia University) - "Ethnic Welfare Associations and the ‘Collective Farms’ of Wartime Singapore"
    Ali Golmohammadi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) - "The petition box: Its efficiency and transition to modernization in Qajar Iran and Edo Japan"

Saturday, October 4
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM     Registration
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM     Panel V: Migration, Expulsion, and Exile

Discussant: Jose C. Moya, Professor, Department of History, Columbia University

    John Straussberger (Columbia University) - "The Many Uses of Exile: Espionage, Political Opposition, and Debating ‘the Nation’ during Guinea’s First Republic, 1958-1984"
    Sara Cosemans (Columbia University) - "The Politics of Dispersal: East African, British, and Indian approaches towards the Asian diaspora in the aftermath of British imperialism, 1967-1974"
    Aiko Nishikida (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), Ken Shimizu (University of Tokyo), Shingo Hamanaka (Yamagata University, Yutaka Takaoka (Middle East Research Institute of Japan), and Masaki Mizobuchi (Nagoya University of Commerce and Business) - "Multidisciplinary Research on Cross-Border Arab Migration: A Comparison between Sweden and Jordan"

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM     Break
11:15 AM – 12:45 PM     Panel VI: Social Networks Then and Now

    Nathanael Mannone (University of London) - "From the Lived Experience to the Theoretical: Interdisciplinarity and cultural production in revolutionary Tunisia"
    You Kyung Kim, Hyo-Bok Lee, Ah Ram Lee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) - "Exploring Antecedents of Intimacy and Attitudes toward Nation Brand"

12:45 PM – 2:30 PM     Lunch Break
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM     Panel VII: Colonial/Postcolonial Experience

Discussant: Charles K. Armstrong, The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, Department of History, Columbia University

    Hiroaki Yamanishi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) - "Japanese New Religions in postcolonial South Korea and Taiwan: the case of Tenrikyo"
    Isabel Kim Dzitac (London School of Economics, Columbia University) - "Excluding by Inclusion: Liminal Colonialism and Malleable Identities in Rural Colonial Korea during the Asia ¬Pacific War, 1937 to 1945"
    Carolyn Lamboley (London School of Economics, Columbia University) - "Fluid Notions of Belonging in a World of Overlapping Empires: Muhammad Bayram V in Cairo and the Riw?? al-Magh?riba at Al-Azhar, 1879-1914"

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM     Break
4:15 PM – 5:45 PM     Panel VII: Transgressive Personhood in Modern Japan and Korea

    Pau Pitarch Fernandez (Columbia University) - "The Artist as Criminal in the Taish?-era Fiction of Tanizaki Jun’ichir?"
    Hayang "Yumi" Kim (Columbia University) "The Figure of the Hysterical Woman in Interwar Japan"
    Jonathan Kief (Columbia University) - "Eom Ho-seok's 'Proletarian Humanism' and the Re-population of the Literary Canon in 1950s-1960s North Korea."

5:45 PM – 6:15 PM     Summary Session