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Conference Program | Monday 22 May / Tuesday 23 May |
Monday, 22 May 2017 | ||
9:15 | Tea and Coffee | |
9:30 - 9:55 | Opening Remarks Darragh Paradiso, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Consulate Kendall Johnson, Head, School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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10:00 - 10:45 | Ackbar Abbas (UC Irvine) “The False, the Fake, and the Posthumous: Theory and Culture in Asia” |
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11:00 - 11:45 | Chris Patterson (Hong Kong Baptist University) “Transpacific Studies and the Post-Democratic Era” |
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11:45 - 1:00 | Lunch | |
1:00 - 1:45 | King-Kok Cheung (UCLA) “Transpacific Chinese American Literatures” |
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2:00 - 2:45 | Susette Min (UC Davis) “Foreshadowing the Era of Trump in Select Works and Trends of Contemporary Asian/American Art” |
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3:00 - 3:45 | Thuy Linh Tu (New York University) “A Laboratory of Skin: Medicine, Militarism, and U.S. Race-Making in the Mekong Delta” |
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4:00 - 4:45 | Joseph Jeon (Pomona College) “Love in the Time of TRIPS: Toward an Asian/American Political Economy in Transnational Korean Cinema” |
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5:00 - 5:45 | Valerie Soe (San Francisco State University) “A Tale of Two Blockbusters: Asian Representations in The Great Wall and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” |