APARC 2008-2009: MOBILITY

In the 2008-2009 academic year, APARC looks at how mobility in Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific produces discourses of identity, power, and sociality. This theme of mobility explores a variety of intersecting and interrelated topics, including transnationalism, migration, trade and consumption, and cosmopolitanism, as well as spatial categories, such as frontiers, boundaries and border zones.

APARC 2009 GRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE

MOBILITY IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC-AMERICAS

21 February 2009, 9 AM - 5:00 PM

HUMANITIES 210, UCSC

Free and open to the public.

Please join us for this interdisciplinary conference on how mobility in Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific produces discourses of identity, power, and sociality.

In addition to graduate presenters, guest  speaker Dr. Hyung Pai, Associate Professor in East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, will lead a special afternoon seminar with attendees.

Please email aparc.ucsc@gmail.com for the seminar reading packet.

C O N F E R E N C  E    S C H E D U L E

9 AM          Refreshments

9:30 AM     Panel I

• Chinese Crossing the Line: The First Attempt at Immigration Control along the U.S.-Canada Border, 1882-1885
Beth-Lew Williams, History, Stanford University

•The Mexican-Pacific Connection: the case of the Compañía Mexicana de Navegación del Pacífico (1884-1888)
Ruth Mandujano Lopez, History, University of British Columbia

•Sailing on the Sea of Neoliberal Capitalism: A Study of Multi-ethnic Seafarers working on board Ocean-going Container Ships
Andrew Liang Wu, Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

•Cultivation and the Feral Frontier in the Ogasawara Islands
Colin Tyner, History, University of California, Santa Cruz

11:00 AM    Panel II: Oceanic Thinking

•The Shipping Lanes of the Global Market
Fritzie de Mata, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

•Add Water: Rethinking the Ocean in Culinary Cultures of Asia/Pacific/America
Stephanie Chan, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

•Beyond Counterhegemony: The Ocean and Resistance in Asian American Literature
Melissa Poulsen, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Godjira, Monstrous Elementality, and Atomic Spatiality in the Wake of World War II
Tim Yamamura, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

12:30 PM    Lunch Break

1:30 PM     Panel III

•Dhan Gogal Mukerji’s Immigrant Pilgrim in Caste and Outcast
Swati Rana, English, University of California, Berkeley

•"We cannot all go back/to the land": Konai Helu Thaman's Local Motions
Erin Suzuki, English, University of California, Los Angeles

• Virgins, Saints, and Fallen Women: The Representation of Women in Colonial-Era Filipino Devotional Art
Marya Rosenberg, Asian Studies, University of Hawaii

2:45 PM     Seminar with Dr. Hyung Pai, Associate Professor in East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara:
Touring Japan's Mythical Homelands: The Search for Authenticity and the Marketing of Heritage Destinations in the Empire (1905-1945)

Please email aparc.ucsc@gmail.com for the seminar reading packet