Joint Conference of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs

and the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

October 28 to 30, 2011

Macalester College Saint Paul, MN

Conference websites http://www.macalester.edu/mcaa/

http://anhs-himalaya.org/hsc/

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Message from MCAA President

On behalf of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, I am delighted to welcome you to our 60th meeting. This year the conference is being held in conjunction with the First Himalayan Studies Conference organized by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. The Program Chair for both conferences is Professor Arjun Guneratne of Macalester College. As you can see from the program, Arjun has done a remarkable job in producing an integrated conference that deals with a broad range of topics ranging from climate change in the Himalaya to classical Chinese literature. I would like to extend our profound appreciation to him for all his efforts in ensuring that this conference will be intellectually enriching.

This year I have invited Dr. Karma Lekshe Tsomo as the MCAA presidential speaker. With scholarly interests in Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism, she is the author and editor of numerous books. She will speak on “Changes and Challenges: Women in Asian Buddhist Cultures" at 3:45 pm on Saturday. Her talk will be followed by the MCAA Business Meeting, which everyone is welcome to attend; wine and cheese will be served.

In keeping with MCAA tradition, our keynote speaker will be Professor Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and immediate Past President of the Association for Asian Studies. His talk, on “Forests and the Environmental History of India”, will take place on Saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. His talk will be preceded by the awarding of student prizes: the Sidney DeVere Brown and Mikiso Hane prizes for outstanding undergraduate papers and the Percy Buchanan prizes for outstanding papers written by graduate students.

Enjoy the conference!

Katherine Bowie

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Message from the President of the ANHS

Welcome to the First ANHS Himalayan Studies Conference. This conference marks ANHS’s new relationship as a Center in Developing Status with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). Support though CAORC, without which this conference would not be possible, is provided by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. We also owe a debt of gratitude to Arjun Guneratne for convening the conference, and Macalester College as the host institution.

When members of the ANHS Executive Council conceived this conference a year ago we decided to center on the theme “Rethinking the Himalaya: The Indo-Tibetan Interface and Beyond.” In doing so, we hope to provide continuity with a seminal 1973 conference and resulting volume, edited by Jim Fisher who we’re proud to have with us at this conference, titled Himalayan Anthropology: The Indo-Tibetan Interface. That groundbreaking conference and volume set the tone for decades of research highlighting the Himalayas as an important historical and contemporary crossroads of polities, economic transactions, and cultures. Our aims for this year’s conference are to assess where we’ve been, learn about new directions in present and future research, and broaden the international base for Himalayan Studies by forging new connections. Importantly, holding the ANHS conference in conjunction with the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs allows us to underscore ways that our research can contribute to scholarship on two areas that the Himalayan region straddles: South Asia and East Asia.

Highlights of this conference include our invited speakers:

Drona Rasali. Plenary Address “Envisioning an equitable space for marginalized people in Nepal: A journey of small strides contributing to ‘change’ for social justice.”

Pratyoush Onta. Plenary Address “The past and future of Nepal Studies in Nepal.”

David Gellner. Keynote Address “Upland Region or 'a World of Peripheries'? Some thoughts on Himalayan identities”

We are pleased that you can join us in taking this opportunity to see old friends, meet new colleagues, and devote a few days to scholarly exchange on the Himalayan region. We look forward to learning about your research, and encourage you to submit your papers to the ANHS-sponsored journal Himalaya. In the meantime, enjoy the conference.

Sincerely yours,

Geoff Childs

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6oth Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs

and

The First Himalayan Studies Conference Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Joint Conference Program

Friday, October 28 Registration: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m, Smail Gallery, Olin Rice Hall

Session I: 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Chair: Dilli Ram Dahal, Tribhuvan University Janak Rai, University of Michigan/Tribhuvan University “Emplacing Histories and Re-imagining the Nation: Place-making and the cultural politics of Dhimals' indigenous activism in Nepal” Mabel Gergan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill “Resisting Hydropower Development in the Eastern Himalayas, India.” Laya Prasad Uprety, Tribhuvan University “Marginalization of Indigenous Tharu Community in Common Property Resource Management: A Case Study of an Indigenous Irrigation System from the Tarai of Nepal” Mingma Sherpa, University of Massachusetts-Amherst “Sherpa Conservation Governance in the Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal”

Organizer and Chair: Sarah Besky, University of Wisconsin-Madison Sara Shneiderman, Yale University “Situating Darjeeling and Sikkim in the Himalayas and South Asia” Tina Harris, University Amsterdam “Haunting the Border and Flooding the Market: Trade and the Indo-Tibetan Interface” Mona Chettri, SOAS-University London “Evolution of an Identity- The Political Re-definition of the Gorkhas of the Darjeeling Hills” Olivier Chiron, University Bordeaux “Tourism in the Himalayan state of Sikkim: practices and representations”

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Organizer: John Metz, Northern Kentucky University Sarah J. Halvorson, Shah F. Khan, and Ulrich Kamp, University of Montana “Reconstructing Balakot, Northern Pakistan: A Five-Year Retrospective on the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake” Keith Bosak, University of Montana, Missoula “Between Conservation and Development: Marginalization and resource access in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.” Barbara Brower, Portland State University “The Future of Himalayan Yak-herding: Resilience or Collapse?” Asheshwor Shrestha, Nepal Pvt. Ltd. “Local knowledge inputs in prioritizing climate change adaptation measures—the case of Nepal”

Session II: 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Chair: Mahendra Lawoti, Western Michigan University Mahendra Lawoti, Western Michigan University “From mono-ethnic state to poly-ethnic polity: Exclusion/Inclusion and Democracy in Nepal” Dilli Ram Dahal, Tribhuvan University, Nepal “Social Exclusion in Nepal: A Study of Yadavs of Central Nepal Tarai” Dinesh Paudel, University of Minnesota “A Pre-History of the Maoist Movement: Nature, Culture and the Emergence of Rebellious Consciousness in Thabang of Nepal” Annelies Ollieuz, University of Oslo “‘Politicians and other educated people’: Political parties as arenas of informal learning”

Organizer and Chair: Sarah Besky, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Debarati Sen, American University “Measured Invisibility: Ghumauri and the Challenges of Worker Organizing in Darjeeling Plantations” Mélanie Vandenhelsken, Austrian Academy of Sciences “Gurungs, ‘ethnic’ association and the state in Sikkim: opposition and consent in the making of ethnicity” Mark Turin, Cambridge University/Yale University “Mother Tongues and Multilingualism: Reflections on Linguistic Belonging in Sikkim” Sarah Besky, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Political Ecologies of Justice on Darjeeling Tea Plantations”

Chair: John Metz, Northern Kentucky University Karl Ryavec, University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point “Mapping the Indo-Tibetan Frontier in the Historical Atlas of Tibet” Stefan Fiol, University of Cincinnati “Unsettling Regionalism: Perspectives from the Uttarakhand Himalayas” John (Jack) Shroder, University of Nebraska - Omaha “Constraints and Possibilities for Research on Physical Environments in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya”

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Chair: Laura Kunreuther, Bard College Brunson, Jan, University of Hawaii “The role of sons in post-monarchy, secular Nepal” Nadine Plachta, University of Berne “Reflexivity in Relation to Tradition: the Education of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Nepal.” Om Gurung, Tribhuvan University “The Question of Indigeneity and Identity in a Federal Nepal”

Chair: Hiromi Mizuno, University of Minnesota Discussant: Hiromi Mizuno R.W. Purdy, John Carroll University “Men, Martyrs and Myth: Kamikaze and Islamist Suicide Bombers” Yuko Shibata, Saint John's University/College of Saint Benedict “Spectacle Excess and the Volatility of Gaze: Subverting Atomic Bomb Victimhood” Lianying Shan, Gustavus Adolphus College “Nostalgia and Identity Formation in Postwar Japan: a Study of Popular and Literary Accounts of Manchuria”

Chair: Frederik Greene, Macalester College Hong Zeng, Carleton College “Female doubling and cultural identities of Hong Kong and Shanghai” Hongmei Yu, Luther College “Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: The Cinematic Ambivalence of Chinese Masculinity”

Jessica Ka Yee Chan, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities “Cinematic Encounter: Lu Xun, Douglas Fairbanks, and The Thief of Bagdad (1924)”

Chair: Ruthanne Kurth-Schai, Macalester College Sangsook Lee-Chung, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Personalized Globalization, Vicarious Cosmopolitans: South Korean “Geese-dad” Academics” Zhini Zeng, Ohio State University “Second-Culture Worldview Construction: Culture Gains during Study Abroad”

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Session III: 1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Chair: Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College Mark Liechty, University of Illinois at Chicago “ ‘Missing Links’: The Indo-Tibetan Interface in the Tourist's Mind's Eye” Kathryn S. March, Cornell University “The Great (Gender) Divide” David Holmberg, Cornell University “Rethinking the Interface: Shamanic Resilience” Susan Hangen, Ramapo College“The Concept of the Himalaya in an Era of Identity Politics and Globalization” P. P. Karan, University of Kentucky “The Cultural Geography of the Himalaya”

Chair: Roger Jackson, Carleton College Michelle Folk, Concordia University/University of Regina “Food for Thought: The Ritual Activities of Mathas in Medieval Tamilnadu India” Jesse Palmer, Lawrence University “Ennin as Transmitter of Mountain Religion Practices from China to Japan” Amy McNair, University of Kansas “On the Origin of the Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpted Grottoes at Yungang” Xi He, University of Chicago “Glorifying and Worshipping the Bodhisattva: An Analysis of the Devotional Emotion in the Lalitavistara”

Gary Erickson, Macalester College “Experiencing Jingdezhen: The Porcelain City of China” Wang Ping, Macalester College “All the Roads to Lhasa”

Chair: Hong Zeng, Carleton College Jane Parish Yang, Lawrence University “Hegemonic Dreams/Fictive Dialogues: Channeling Chinese Literati in 16th century Vietnamese 'Narratives of the Strange'” Elizabeth Kindall, University of St. Thomas “A Painted Geo-Narrative as Quest Toward Sagehood” Qing Ye, University of Oregon “Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Reading of Backyards (Hou Ting) in Jin Ping Mei” Discussant: Hong Zeng, Carleton College

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Organizer & Chair: Satoko Suzuki, Macalester College Michiko Todokoro Buchanan, University of Minnesota “Verb Ellipsis in Japanese” Natalie Dmyterenko and Rika Ito, St. Olaf College “Japanese numerals and classifiers: The case of number four and seven” Ritsuko Narita, Macalester College “Transferability of the use of hearsay evidential markers in L1 Japanese and L2 Japanese” Satoko Suzuki, Macalester College “Linguistic Stereotypes and Style Manipulation in Japanese Fiction”

Organizer: Taylor M. Easum, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ryan Ford, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Tracing the Phrabang Image in upland and lowland spaces: A local history of Northern Laos”

Taylor M. Easum, University of Wisconsin-Madison “‘Micro-Colonization’: Scale and State Power in a Thai Provincial City” Jose Rafael Martinez, Ohio University “Mallification of Space: The Globalization of Landmarks in Vientiane”

Chair: Lene Pedersen, Central Washington University Lene Pedersen, Central Washington University “Ties that Bind: Interdependence and Narratives of Tolerance In Changing Hindu-Muslim relationships on Bali” Ron Barrett, Macalester College “How to be a Brahmin-Aghori in Banaras: The Gentrification of Radical Asceticism” Erik W. Davis, Macalester College “Adoption, Fertility, Magic: Imagining Something Other Than Religious Syncretism in Southeast Asia”

Session IV: 3:30-5:15 p.m.

Chair: Erik W. Davis, Macalester College Yeonjoo Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Salvific Snake: The Logic of the Kami-Buddha Combination in Keiran shūyōshū” Chen Qin, Ohio State University “Sinification of Buddhism in the Transformation Text of Mulian Rescuing His Mother from the Underworld” Tomoko Yoshida, Independent scholar ““Respect the Gods, Even If You Do Not Worship Them”: Medieval Buddhists’ Advice on Living in a Religiously Plural World” Mark Graham, College of Wooster “Fu De: Translating the Perfection of the Buddha into Chinese Discourses of Virtue (De) and Sagehood”

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Drona Rasali, Nepaldalitinfo.com “Envisioning an equitable space for marginalized people in Nepal: A journey of small strides contributing to ‘change’ for social justice.”

Organizer and Chair: Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf College Luying Chen, St. Olaf College “The Liberal Arts Content in a Fourth-year Chinese Language Class” Tomoko Hoogenboom, St. Olaf College “Content-Based Instruction (CBI) in an Advanced Japanese Course” Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf College “Chinese-Language Components in Chinese History Courses”

Kris MacPherson, St. Olaf College “Applying CBI to a Research Methods Course”

Chair: Yue-him Tam, Macalester College Linlin Wang, University of Texas at Austin “Sacrifice for Resistance: the Grain Tax Collection of the CCP in Jiangsu (1937-1945)” Charles Kraus, George Washington University “The Centralizing State: Social Investigations, Political Campaigns, and Regime Consolidation in Xinjiang, 1949-1955” Sonja Kelley, Western Washington University “Finished Business: The Impact of the Anti-Rightist Movement on the Long-term Development of Visual Art in the People’s Republic of China”

Joseph Yick, Texas State University-San Marcos “Leftwing Journalism and Communist Politics in British Hong Kong: Wen Wei Po in 1989”

Chair: Liang Ding, Macalester College Sudarshana Bordoloi, York University, Canada “Development Implications of the Emerging Non Farm Sector in India: The Case of Kerala” Ajay Panicker, St Cloud State University “State Power and Social Movements in the Neoliberal Era: Examination of a People’s Movement in Kerala, India” Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University “Are Asian Societies Penny-Wise but Pound-Foolish? An Analysis of Ageing Populations, Female Statuses and the Future of Economic Development in Japan, China and India.” Yong-Chool Ha, University of Washington-Seattle; Wang Hwi Lee, Ajou University; Sunil Kim, University of California-Berkeley “Re-embedding: Institutional Scanning for the Restructuring of Business-Labor Relations in Japan and Korea”

Chair: Steven Day, Benedictine University Chun-yu Lu, Washington University in St. Louis “A Love Story of Returning: Mu Rugai (1884-1961) and Popular Romance in Manchukuo” Li-Lin Tseng, Pittsburg State University “The 1930s: Mei Lanfang, Beijing Opera, and European Avant-garde Theater” Steven Day, Benedictine University “Faux Epistolary: Shi Tuo’s Shanghai Correspondence and the Aesthetics of Literary Montage in Accounts of Wartime Shanghai” Haosheng Yang, Miami University “Displaced Dream of Loyalist Romance: Yu Dafu and His Poetry”

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5:00-6:00 p.m. Welcome Reception, Smail Gallery,

Olin Rice Hall 6:15 p.m. Himalayan Studies Conference Dinner, Board Room, Weyerhaeuser Hall 7:15 p.m. Announcement of Dor Bahadur Bista Award Introduction of Speaker: Geoff Childs Keynote address: David Gellner, Oxford University “Upland Region or ‘a World of Peripheries’? Some Thoughts on Himalayan Identities”

Saturday, October 29 Registration: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Smail Gallery, Olin Rice Hall 8:00 a.m. MCAA Board Meeting, Room 247

Session V: 8:30 a.m. -10:15 a.m.

Organizer: Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Rutgers University Chair: Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College Ehud (Udi) Halperin, Columbia University “Buffalo Sacrifice to the Goddess Hadimba: A Complex Response to Modernity” Elizabeth Allison, California Institute of Integral Studies “At the Boundary of Modernity: Religion, Technocracy, and Waste Management in Bhutan”

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Rutgers University “The Modernization of a Medieval Nepali Hindu Tradition: Preliminary Observations of Recent Changes” Discussant: Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College

Chair: Geoff Childs, Washington University in St. Louis Adam Cathcart, Pacific Lutheran University “Liu Shengqi in Lhasa: A New Window Into Tibet and Chinese Assertions on the Plateau, 1945-1949” Sarah Getzelman, Ohio State University “Imaging the Dalai Lama: Incarnations in Art and Practice” Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Université Laval “TV across the Indo-Tibetan Interface: Indian TV as a cultural mediator for ‘Newcomer’ Tibetans in Dharamsala?” Tsering Wangchuk, University of San Francisco “In Search of the Hidden Land of Pema Koh: Tibetan Pilgrims Reminisce about their Attempt to Reach the Unreachable Land”

Organizer and Chair: Teri Allendorf, University of Wisconsin-Madison Jamon Van Den Hoek, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Local Drivers of Forest Cover Change Variability in Tibetan Yunnan, China” Selena Ahmed, Tufts University “Persistence and Transformation of Butter-Tea Food Systems in Tibetan Yunnan, China”

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Mary Saunders, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Shifting cultivation: The decline of tartary buckwheat farming in its center of origin” Brian Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Livelihood and matsutake mushroom harvests in Tibetan Yunnan, China” Jodi Brandt, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Sacred sites are refugia for Himalayan forest birds in Tibetan Yunnan, China”

Organizer: Barbara Brower, Portland State University Chair: James Fisher, Carleton College, Emeritus Jeremy Spoon, Portland State University “The Heterogeneity of Khumbu Sherpa Ecological Knowledge” Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Washington State University “Comparison of on-route and off-route villages in Pharak” Lindsay Skog, University of Colorado-Boulder “Exploring global discourses in a sacred landscape: Methods and theories” Discussants: Barbara Brower, Portland State University James Fisher, Carleton College, Emeritus

Organizer and Chair: Kendall Heitzman, Macalester College Kendall Heitzman, Macalester College “Slower, Lower, Weaker in Tokyo Olympiad” Noboru Tomonari, Carleton College “Burakumin and Masculinity: Mikuni Rentarō and Postwar Japanese Cinema” David Obermiller, Gustavus Adolphus College “Agency and Orientalism in the Movies Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) and Beat (1998)”

Organizer: Liu Yilin, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair: Tobias Zuern, University of Wisconsin-Madison Liu Yilin, University of Wisconsin-Madison “From the Lunar New Year Pictures to the Five Petty Demons --A Gap Between the Pictorial and Theatrical Representations of Zhong Kui in late Imperial China” Tobias Zuern, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Polymorph Divine Beings--Pan Gu, Pan Hu, and the Drum in a Report of a Ritual from Hunan” Michael Naparstek, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Auntie's an Exorcist: Literary Consumption of Daoist Exorcism” Discussant: Michael Naparstek, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Organizer and Chair: Ihor Pidhainy, Marietta College Marion S. Lee, Ohio University “Re-positioning painters of women in Late Imperial China” Ihor Pidhainy, Marietta College “How Men saw Women in Late Imperial China (and consequently how they were judged): A case study of Yang Shen and the women in his life.” Lidu Yi, McGill University “Women Painters--Divinely Endowed Talents of Ming and Qing and Art Collections” George Qingzhi Zhao, Skidmore College “Lives and political involvement of Kubilai Khan’s wives: Chabui and Nambui in the Yuan dynasty”

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Chair and Discussant: Wang Ping, Macalester College Stephanie Cox, Carleton College “The microscopic writing of Ying Chen, Francophone Asian-Canadian writer” Puspa Damai, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor “Cannibal Himalaya? Reading Jamaica Kincaid's Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya” Cahill, Devon A., University of Minnesota “Penetrating Gotthard: Tawada, Travel, and the Illusion of Identity”

Session VI: 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Organizer: Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College Chair: Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Rutgers University Michael Baltutis, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh “Venerating the Nation, Advertising Dharma: Religious Language in Nepal’s 2006 People’s Movement” Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College “Muslim Belonging and Place in Nepal: Reflections on Contrasting Narratives and Contemporary Debates in the Kathmandu Valley” Michelle Kleisath, University of Washington “Stop Saying ‘Western,’ Start Saying ‘White’”: an argument for a renewed vocabulary in English language literature on Tibetan Buddhism” Holly Gayley, University of Colorado-Boulder “Reimagining Buddhist Ethics on the Tibetan Plateau”

Chair: Laura Kunreuther, Bard College Tina Shrestha, Cornell University “The everyday immigrant-integration: Nepali refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant workers in New York City” Tristan Bruslé, CNRS “’Qatar is like a jail’: Daily life in a Nepalese migrant labor camp and the inmate metaphor.” Discussant: Laura Kunreuther, Bard College

Organizer: Milan Shrestha, Arizona State University Chair: Netra Chhetri, Arizona State University Milan Shrestha, Arizona State University “Climate Change in the Nepal Himalaya: Examining Vulnerability and Livelihood Security Issues” Netra Chhetri, Arizona State University “Climate-induced innovation in agriculture: a conceptual approach to understanding agricultural adaptation to climate change” Deepa Joshi, Wageningen University “‘Deconstructing Gender-Climate Myths: A Case Study from the Darjeeling Himalaya’” John Metz, Northern Kentucky University “Beware of the Climate Change Bandwagon”

Chair: Ron Barrett, Macalester College Suryadewi E. Nugraheni, University of Wisconsin - Madison “How Indonesian Administrations Have Changed Family Planning Policy”

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Byungil Ahn, Saginaw Valley State University “State Medicine with a Socialist Face: The CCP’s Programs for Maternity and Infant Health in the 1950s' Urban Areas” Trude Jacobsen, Northern Illinois University “The Curious Case of Sherlock Hare: Race, Class, and Mental Health in British Burma” Prachi Priyam, Stanford University “Schizophrenia in Varanasi: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into the Social Bases of Illness Experience”

Organizer: Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg University Chair: Tanya Maus, Wittenberg University Janice Glowski, Wittenberg University “Powerful Partners: Buddhist Stupas and Peace Language in the Tibetan Diaspora” Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg University “Kongzi and Mr. Science” Tanya Maus, Wittenberg University “Transformations of "Love" in Meiji Japan” Terumi Imai, Wittenberg University “Speech and Gender Shaping in Contemporary Japanese”

Chair: Jim Laine, Macalester College Catherine Ryu, Michigan State University “Placing The Tale of Genji on the Map of The Silk Road Imaginaire: A Poetic Flight through the Figure of a “Maboroshi”” William B. Noseworthy, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Establishing a Historical Context for Nai Mai Mang Makah” Discussant: Jim Laine, Macalester College

Chair: David Buck, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Emeritus He Man, Ohio State University “Staging ‘(Free) Love’ in Makeshift Stages: Empowering Women in the Performative Culture of 1920s China” John M. Knight, Ohio State University “Comrade Jiang Qing or Madame Mao? How Commentary on Jiang Qing Reflects the Changing Roles of Women in Communist China” Gregory Freitag, Ohio State University “Cultural Imperialism or Feminist Intervention: Rethinking Power Relations and the Gender Ideals of Missionary Education in China” 12:25 p.m. Association for Nepal and

Himalayan Studies Annual Members’ Meeting,

Room 250 (Lunch provided)

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Organizer and Chair: Natalie McMonagle, University of St Thomas

Natalie McMonagle, University of St Thomas “Proletarians of the World Unite: Expanding Chinese Identity through Propaganda Posters of the Cultural Revolution” Carolyn Tillman, University of St Thomas “In Front of Tiananmen: Tourist Photography and Identity in Two 20th Century Chinese Paintings” Joshua Feist, University of St Thomas “Creating and Preserving Narratives in the Act of Appropriation: Between Night Revels of Han Xizai and Night Revels of Lao Li” Katie Czarniecki, University of St Thomas “National Identity Through Architecture: The China Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai”

Session VII: 1:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Organizer: Rohit Singh, University of California-Santa Barbara Chair: Jennifer Aengst, University of California Davis Rohit Singh, University of California-Santa Barbara “Narrative and History among Tibetan Muslims in Kashmir: Rethinking Identity within the Indo-Tibetan Interface” Jennifer Aengst, University of California-Davis “Hyper-fertile and Against Contraception? An Examination of Muslim Women’s Reproduction”

Mona Bhan, DePauw University “Being “Muslim” on India’s frontiers: Militarization and Identity Politics in Kargil, India” Discussant: Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College

Organizer and Chair: Sara Shneiderman, Yale University Sara Shneiderman, Yale University “Trans-Himalayan Citizens” Geoff Childs, Washington University in St Louis “Migration, Family Change, and Elderly Care” David Gellner, University of Oxford “Diasporic consciousness among Nepalis in the UK” Kathryn March, Cornell University “Festivals, Phones & Facebook”

Organizer: Narayan P. Dhakal, University of Minnesota Chair: David C. Fulton, University of Minnesota Teri Allendorf, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Local residents’ perceptions of protected areas in Asia” Neil Carter, Michigan State University “Acceptance Capacity for Tigers in Nepal: Implications for Conservation of Predators in Human-Dominated Landscapes” Narayan P. Dhakal, University of Minnesota “Assessment of Residents’ Social and Economic Wellbeing and Perceived Biological Gains in Conservation Resettlement: A Case Study of Padampur, Chitwan National Park, Nepal” Bhim Gurung, University of Minnesota “Values for and Tolerance Towards Tigers in Madi Valley, Chitwan National Park, Nepal”

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Organizer and Chair: William H. Nienhauser, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Madison Chunting Chang, University of Wisconsin-Madison “How the Heroines Drive the Plots in ‘Lingying zhuan’ and 'Liu Yi'” Maria Kobzeva, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Zhou Bao in the Tang Fiction and Historical Accounts.” Xin Zou, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Storytelling and Creativity in ‘Xie Xiao’e zhuan’

(The Account of Xie Xiao’e)” Discussant: Thomas Noel, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jeffrey Alexander, University of Wisconsin-Parkside. “The Beverage of the Masses: The Recovery and Growth of Japan’s Postwar Beer Industry, 1945-1965” Panel 44 Room 352 India, China and Japan: Regional Power Politics in Asia Chair: Andrew Latham, Macalester College Arijit Mazumdar, University of St. Thomas “India in South Asia: Regional hegemony in the twenty-first century” Yuxin Ma, University of Louisville “China's Rise to Prominence: Competitor or Partner?” Taka Daitoku, Northwestern University “Decline or Renewal? High-Growth Japan’s Search of Nuclear Capability and the Three Traditions of Postwar Pacifism” Discussant: Andrew Latham, Macalester College

Organizer and Chair: Frederik Green, Macalester College Charles Laughlin, University of Virgina “Are We Having Fun Yet? Levity and Play in Chinese Socialist Film Comedy” Wei Yang, Sewanee University of the South “Branding Beijing: The Flattening of Time and Space in Jackie Chan’s The Karate Kid” Frederik Green, Macalester College “The Sky is the Limit: Feng Xiaoning’s Leitmotif Cinema and the Popularization of State Myths” Discussant: Jennifer Feeley, University of Iowa

Organizer and Chair: Julia Byl, St. Olaf College Julia Byl, St. Olaf College “Ephemeral Representations: Southeast Asia in the Performative Moment” Thomas Williamson, St. Olaf College “Universities Without Borders? Connecting Southeast Asian and American Campuses” Elizabeth Coville, Carleton College Joko Sutrisno, Indonesian Performing Arts Association of Minnesota “Teaching “Anthropology 110: Indonesian Music and Cultures”: Interdisciplinary Experiential Education in Minnesota” Matthew Rahaim, University of Minnesota “Difference, Translation, and Commensurability in Teaching Asia Survey Courses”

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David Germano, University of Virginia Mark Turin, Cambridge University / Yale University

Pratyoush Onta, Martin Chautari “The Past and Future of Nepal Studies in Nepal.”

Organizer and Chair: William Nienhauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison Discussant: Rania Huntington, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chen Wu, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Spaces in ‘Changhenge zhuan’ (The Story of the Song of the Everlasting Sorrow)” Nan Ma, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Where Romance Ends, Politics Begins: Power, Gender, and Anxiety of Speech in the Tang Tale ‘Lingying Zhuan.’” Hai Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Payment and Repayment in “Lingying zhuan” and “Liu Yi”: A Balance Collapsed and Then Restored”

Monika Dix, Saginaw Valley State University “Straightening the Wrinkles: Aging Ambivalence in the Jōjin Ajari no haha no shū”

Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego “Changes and Challenges: Women in Asian Buddhist Cultures.”

5:30 – 6:45 p.m. MCAA Business

Meeting, Room 250 Wine and cheese in Room 241, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m. MCAA Banquet in the Board Room,

Weyerhaeuser Hall. 7:45 p.m. Welcome: Satoko Suzuki, Chair,

Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Macalester College

Announcement of Student Prizes

Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Katherine Bowie, President of the MCAA Keynote Address: K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University: “Forests and the Environmental History of India”

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Sunday, October 30

Session IX: 9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

Chair: Ron Barrett, Macalester College Sienna Craig, Dartmouth College “Social Ecologies and Subjectivities: Narratives of Health, Illness, and Medicines in Amdo (Qinghai Province, China)” Discussant: Ron Barrett, Macalester College

Chair: Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College Kyle Lemle, Bryce Rosenbower, Robin R. Sears, Sonam Phuntsho “The Translation and Negotiation of Traditional and Scientific Systems of Knowledge in Bhutanese Community Forestry” Prashanti Pandit, University of Houston-Clear Lake “In Search of Accountable Identity”

Chair: Todd Lewis, College of the Holy Cross Erin H. Epperson, University of Chicago “Tracing out Trends in Tibetan Translations” Todd T. Lewis, College of the Holy Cross “Tracking Buddhist Modernity in 20th Century Nepal: The Sources for Chittadhar Hridaya’s Sugata Saurabha”

Organizer and Chair: William Nienhauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ying Qin, University of Wisconsin-Madison “When Historical Records Do Not Agree: The Case of the “Zhao shijia” (Hereditary House of Zhao)”

Thomas Noel, University of Wisconsin-Madison “The Lords of Dian : Early Han Imaginings of the Noble Savage”

Lianlian Wu, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Gongshu Boying or Gongshu and Boying: A Case of Mistaken Identity.” Discussant: Michael Naparstek, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair: and Discussant: Kendall Heitzman, Macalester College Travis Reichardt, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee “The Noble Gangster: Seijun Suzuki's Portrayal of the Yakuza in Japanese Chivalry Films of the 1960s” Gerald Iguchi, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse “Tanaka Chigaku, Buddhist Modernity, Nichirenism, Affect” Lauren Prusinski, Valparaiso University “Wabi Sabi, Mono no Aware, and Ma: Tracing Traditional Japanese Aesthetics Through Japanese History” Abstracts of papers presented at the conference are available on the conference websites: http://www.macalester.edu/mcaa/ http://anhs-himalaya.org/hsc/

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Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs Prize Papers 2011

Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize Robert Hsu, Northern Illinois University. “Fear Nothing but Poverty: An “Il/legal” Motorbike Import Business in Burma.” Nan Ma, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Where Romance Ends, Politics Begins: Gender, Identity, and Anxiety of Speech in the Tang Tale “Lingying Zhuan” .” (There is no winner in either South Asia or Northeast Asia region) Sidney DeVere Brown Prize Zack Kaplan, University of Oklahoma, “Anti-Americanism in Zengakuren 1957-1960.” Mikiso Hane Prize Lauren Prusinski, Valparaiso University, “Wabi-Sabi, Mono no Aware, and Ma: Tracing Traditional Japanese Aesthetics Through Japanese History.”

Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

ANHS Senior Fellowship Award, 2011 The Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) annually awards senior fellowships for support of short-term research or other scholarly projects that will advance knowledge of the Himalaya-Karakoram-Hindukush mountain regions. The fellowship supports work focusing on any aspect of Himalayan studies.

Dr. Amanda Snellinger, Affiliate Scholar, The Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington Project Title: Transfiguration of the Political: From Student Activist to Politician in “New Nepal.” Dor Bahadur Bista Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper, 2011 Sarah Besky, University of Wisconsin, Madison “Moral Economies of Land, Labor, and Justice on Darjeeling Tea Plantations.”

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MCAA Executive Committee

President Katherine Bowie, University of Wisconsin

Vice President Yongming Zhou, University of Wisconsin

Past President Roy Hanashiro, University of Michigan - Flint

Executive Secretary Greg Guelcher, Morningside College

COC Representative Kai-wing Chow, University of Illinois

2011 Annual Meeting Program Chair Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College

Advisory Board

Northeast Asia Catherine Ryu, Michigan State University

Sumiko Otsubo, Metropolitan State University

China and Inner Asia Yongtao Du, Oklahoma State University Seungjoo Yoon, Carleton College South Asia Ali Riaz, Illinois State University

Southeast Asia Tom Williamson, St. Olaf College

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Year President Conference Location 2011 Katherine Bowie Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 2010 Roy Hanashiro Ohio State University, OH 2009 Robert Entenmann Miami University, OH 2008 Yasuko Ito Watt St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges, Northfield, MN 2007 Linda Cooke Johnson Washington University in St. Louis 2006 Aparajita Sagar University of Wisconsin-Madison 2005 Jacquetta Hill Michigan State University, East Lansing 2004 James L. Huffman University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul 2003 Parks M. Coble Illinois State University, Normal 2002 Gerald J. Larson Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 2001 Sally A. Hastings University of Nebraska, Lincoln 2000 David Buck Indiana University, Bloomington 1999 Richard M. Cooler Michigan State University, East Lansing 1998 Louis G. Perez University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1997 Daniel H. Bays Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 1996 Eleanor M. Zelliot University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1995 David Plath University of Missouri-St. Louis 1994 Winston Hsieh Western Illinois University, Macomb 1993 Donald Emmerson John Carroll University, Cleveland 1992 Koji Taira University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh 1991 Adrian Bennett University of Iowa, Iowa City 1990 Stephen Cohen Indiana University, Bloomington 1989 Rita Kipp Michigan State University, East Lansing 1988 Mikison Hane University of Wisconsin-Madison 1987 Ted Farmer St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges, Northfield, MN 1986 Harold Gould University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1985 Carl Landes Miami University, Oxford, OH 1984 Bonnie Oh Washington University in St. Louis 1983 Willard Elsbree University of Kansas, Lawrence 1982 Manindra Verma University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1981 Marleigh Ryan University of Missouri-Columbia 1980 Samuel Chu University of Iowa, Iowa City 1979 Clark D. Neher Ohio State University, Columbus 1978 Barabara Ramusack University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1977 Iwao Ishino Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 1976 Byron Marshall University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul 1975 Robert Crawford Ohio University, Athens 1974 Grant K. Goodman University of Kansas, Lawrence 1973 Barbara Teters Michigan State University, East Lansing 1972 Bernard Karsh University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1971 John Kie-chang Oh University of Wisconsin-Madison 1970 David Wurfel Indiana Indiana University, Bloomington

Presidents and Conference Locations of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs

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1969 Fred von der Mehden Oklahoma State University, Stillwater 1968 Jackson Bailey Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo 1967 Stanley Spector University of Kansas, Lawrence 1966 George M. Beckmann Wartburg College, Waverly, IA 1965 Earl Swisher University of Colorado, Boulder 1964 Ping-chia Kuo Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 1963 Fred Parrish University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1962 Yahva Armajami Washington University, St. Louis 1961 Solomon B. Levine Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA 1960 Sidney D. Brown University of Oklahoma, Norman 1959 Robert K. Sakai University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1958 Mitchell Smith University of Missouri-Columbia 1957 Rudolph Bjorgan Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 1956 Alfred Crofts University of Kansas, Lawrence 1955 Haridas Muzumdar Kansas State University, Manhattan 1954 Oswald P. Backus III University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1953 Percy Buchanan University of Kansas, Lawrence 1952 Percy Buchanan University of Oklahoma, Norman (Founder)

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Studies on Asia, the interdisciplinary journal sponsored by the Midwestern Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA), is published biannually. The online journal welcomes manuscripts on any and all aspects of Asia, past and present, and including translations, poetry, prose, and pedagogy. The journal covers a wide range of topics, review essays and book reviews. The website of the journal is: www.StudiesOnAsia.IllinoisState.edu

Editor: Ali Riaz Associate Editors: Noboru Tomonari, Carleton College Subho Basu, Syracuse University Book Review Editor: Greg Guelcher, Morningside College

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Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Executive Council

President Geoff Childs, Washington University in St. Louis Secretary John Metz, Northern Kentucky University Treasurer John Mock, University of California, Santa Cruz Editor, Himalaya, ex-officio Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College Council Teri Allendorf, University of Wisconsin, Madison Mary Cameron, Florida Atlantic University Sienna Craig, Dartmouth College Pradyumna P. Karan, University of Kentucky Mahendra Lawoti, Western Michigan University Milan Shrestha, Arizona State University Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College

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Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Editor: Arjun Guneratne

Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, is the continuation of Himalayan Research Bulletin (1981-2003) and the Nepal Studies Association Newsletter (1972-1980). They were all published by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, which was known as the Nepal Studies Association from 1972-2000. Himalaya (ISSN 0089-4834) is published annually. With the exception of the two most recent years of publications, a complete backfile of all issues is available on the web at http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/The current issues will become available in an electronic format two years after the date of publication To join, go to http://anhs-himalaya.org/join/index.html or complete the membership form on reverse and mail it in with you check

Himalaya seeks to promote understanding and appreciation of the region through the publication and support of original research and other important work, and to review scholarship, research, and other information of interest to members of The Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies and other Himalayanists. Himalaya is a peer-reviewed publication and publishes original articles, short reports on research, book reviews, reports of meetings, dissertation abstracts, professional announcements, photographs, and other interesting information from any and all fields relevant to the Himalayan areas of Asia. The journal is included in the collections of fifty major libraries in the United States, Asia, and Europe. It has developed from a mimeographed newsletter into its present form - as the major international journal for the region - through the efforts of its volunteer editors, the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) Council, and members who provide much of the material for each issue.

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Transportation and Parking

Directions to campus:

Although the official Macalester College address is 1600 Grand Ave., (St. Paul ---NOT Minneapolis), this will put you at the far end of campus from conference. Please enter at south end of campus from St. Clair Ave. The campus drive is 1 block west of Snelling Ave. Turn north on campus drive, then go about 1 block north to the first academic building on the right (east). The tennis courts are there. We will have signs pointing to registration. Registration and panels are in Olin/Rice Hall of Science, south end of campus. Banquets are in Weyerhaeuser Hall, 62 Macalester St.

Parking: See map on opposite page for parking.

Transportation options:

Taxis and Super Shuttle:

• SuperShuttle: Local Reservations (612) 827-7777 ext.2 (800) BLUE VAN (800-258-3826) • Airport Taxi 651-222-0000 • Diamond Cab 651-644-6655 • Yellow Cab (612) 308-9482

Hotel Shuttle between Holiday Inn and Macalester College:

The Holiday Inn St. Paul Downtown provides guests with a free shuttle for morning and evening departure times. Check with hotel for schedule. No shuttle service to and from airport.

Macalester Vans to Airport (Sunday only): Check times at Registration table.

Metro Transit Buses:

To plan your route, use Macalester College address of 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul --- NOT Minneapolis --- go to http://www.metrotransit.org/maps-schedules.aspx

Click on the "Trip Planner" button on right side of screen and fill in. Details for selected routes on the next page.

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Friday October 28, 2011 departing at:

Note: (rush hour) Regular Fare: $2.25 Senior fare: $2.25

• 7:05 am: o Walk 0.14 miles N from Holiday Inn STP to Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg. o Take Route: 63A Grand Av / St Thomas

7:15 AM depart from Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg 7:31 AM arrive at Grand Av & Snelling Av

• 7:30am: o Walk 0.14 miles N from Holiday Inn STP to Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg o Take Route: 63A Grand Av / St Thomas

7:54 AM depart from Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg 8:09 AM arrive at Grand Av & Snelling Av

Saturday October 29, 2011 departing at:

Note: Regular Fare: $1.75 Senior fare: $0.75

• 7:05am: o Walk 0.14 miles N from Holiday Inn STP to Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg o Take Route: 63A Grand Av / St Thomas

7:18 AM depart from Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg 7:32 AM arrive at Grand Av & Snelling Av

• 7:30am: o Walk 0.14 miles N from Holiday Inn STP to Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg o Take Route: 63A Grand Av / St Thomas

7:48 AM depart from Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg 8:02 AM arrive at Grand Av & Snelling Av

Sunday October 30, 2011 departing at:

Note: Regular Fare: $1.75 Senior fare: $0.75

• 8:00am: o Walk 0.14 miles N from Holiday Inn STP to Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg o Take Route: 63A Grand Av / St Thomas / Via Suburban

8:03 AM depart from Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg 8:16 AM arrive at Grand Av & Snelling Av

• 8:30am: Ask driver for transfer o Take Route: 74A Randolph Av / 46St Station

8:33 AM depart from 7 St W & Kellogg Blvd 8:46 AM arrive at Randolph Av & Snelling Av S Transfer busses

o Take Route: 84 Snelling Av / Rosedale 8:52 AM depart from Snelling Av & Randolph Av 8:55 AM arrive at Snelling Av & Grand Av

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Changes to the program The following paper has been moved from its original panel to Session II, Panel 4, “Current Research in Nepali Politics.” Annelies Ollieuz, University of Oslo. “‘Politicians and other educated people’: Political parties as arenas of informal learning”

The following individual papers and panels have been cancelled

Cancelled Panels:

Session III, Panel 16. State Power and Spatiality in Inland Tai Urban Spaces

Cancelled papers (The final version of the program has been edited to reflect these cancellations)

Session II, Panel 4: Purna Nepali, Kathmandu University and Consortium for Land Research and Policy Dialogue, “Political Economy of Scientific Land Reform in Constitution Making Process of Nepal.”

Session II, Panel 7: Atul Saklani and Bina Saklani, HNB Garhwal University, “Ritual, Food and Social Hierarchy as Represented in the Culture of Uttarakhand Himalaya: An Anthropo -Historic Perspective.”

Session V, Panel 26: Jemima Sherpa, Independent Scholar, “Learning about Us: reading anthropological texts from cultural exile.”

Session VI, Panel 32: Christie Shrestha, University of Kentucky, “Resettlement of Bhutanese Refugees in Lexington, Kentucky.”

Session VI, Panel 36: Lisa Crothers, “Pragmatics of Perfection: Diversities of the Perfected Man in the Indian Epic, Mahabharata.”

Session VI, Panel 37: Irena Cronin, UCLA. “Changes in Gender Differentiation in Western Zhou Elite Joint Burial Tombs, as an Indicator of Strength of the Late Western Zhou Ritual Reform”

Session IX, Panel 50. Bina Saklani and Atul Saklani, HNB Garhwal University, “Religion, Afflictions and Modernity: The role of ritual in Healing in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, India.”

Session IX, Panel 50. Murari Suvedi, Michigan State University. “Women’s Health Issues in Nepal.”

Session IX, Panel 51: Christopher Candland, Wellesley College, “Tsa Trim Chenmo: The Constitution of Bhutan”