2002 Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies will be help from
April 4-7th at Marriott Hotel (Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660
Woodley Road, N.W. Washington, DC 20008) in Washington D.C.

I would like to announce some of the Asian art panels at the
conference.

A Korean art session scheduled on Thursday evening, 7-9 p.m. (Session
3).

"ISSUES OF MODERN KOREAN ART: WESTERN INFLUENCE AND BEYOND
ORIENTALISM."

"Modernity in the Traditional Style Portrait Paintings of Ch'ae Yong-
sin," by Junghee Lee

"Art and Politics: Picasso's Korean War Paintings and Abstract Art of
Korea and Japan, 1950s-1960s," by Young-mok Chung.

"Beyond the Mimicry: Suk-Nam Yoon's Images of Women in 20th Century
Korea" by Whui-yeon Jin

"Reconstructing the Korean Body: Nam June Paik as Specular Border,"
by Jieun Rhee. Discussant: Frank Hoffmann.

An inter-area, interdisciplinary panel, scheduled for 10:45 a.m.
Sunday April 7:

EDGY THINGS: ASSERTING IDENTITIES THROUGH MATERIAL CULTURE
Indigenism, Identity, and the Dictatorship in Contemporary
Philippine Painting (Cherubim Quizon, SUNY-Stony Brook)

Pina Textiles and the Project of Philippine Nationalism: Negotiating
Regional Production and Indentities for a Global Market (B. Lynne
Milgram, York University)

Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation in Yaeyama: Symbol of
Island Identity (Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, Institute for Okinawan
Studies, Hosei University)

Sticky Rice, Fermented Fish, and the Course of a Kingdom: the
Ethnicity of Food in Northeast Thailand (Leedom Lefferts, Drew
University)
Discussant: Theodore Bestor, Harvard University Amanda Mayer
Stinchecum, Independent Scholar, Brooklyn, New York

April 6, Saturday 10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

Session 134. Public Spectacles: The Politicization of Art in Japan,
1950s-1990s

The Third Path: Redefining TenkÂ?E Time, and the State in Abe Kpbo s
Enomoto Buyo*, Mark Gibeau

Creativity and Constraint in Amateur Manga Production, Sharalyn
Orbaugh
A Triumph of Democracy? Lady Chatterley, Japanese Judges, and
Obscenity, Ann Sherif
Parody Journalism of Akasegawa Genpei's Sakura gaho*, Reiko Tomii

"National Ornaments: East Asia and Exhibitionism at the Turn of the
Twentieth Century" (Session 2, 7:00 Thursday, April 4).

Lisa Langlois (Art History, University of Michigan) will be
presenting a paper entitled "The Phoenix Hall and the Japanese Lady's
Boudoir: Gender and National Identity at the World's Columbian
Exposition of 1893."

Angus Lockyer (History, Wake Forest) will be speaking on "The
Economics of Identity: Expositions, Entertainment, and Late Meiji
Japan." The other two papers are China-related.

Miraculous Tales of the Ashikaga: Shogunal Patronage of Painted Engi
In Medieval Japan" (Session 52; organized by Melissa McCormick)

Friday 10:45 AM-12:45 PM, April 5 Import/Export--Art/History--
Japan/West" (Session 92; organized by Elizabeth Lillehoj)

Friday 3:15-5:15 PM, April 5

"Image and Materiality in Early Modern Japan" (Session 177; organized
by Louise Cort) Saturday 5:00-7:00 PM, April 6

"Celebrating the Nation: Commemoration, Spatiality, and National
Identity in Tokyo " (Session 216; organized by Tessa Morris-Suzuki)
10:45 AM-12:45 PM, Sunday, April 7

Papers:

Rei Okatamoto, "Modernity, National-Cultural Identity, and Prewar
Japanese" in Session 10 7:00-9:00 PM, Thursday, April 4

Anna Beerens, "Chinese Tea and the Perfect Japanese Gentleman: Ueda
Akinari's Seifusagen Dissected", and Margarita Winkel, "A Japanese
Representation of Life in China during Qing Rule," in Session 11.
7:00-9:00 PM
Thursday, April 4

Leila Wice, "Cross-Dressing as Crime in Edo and Tokyo," in Session 33
8:30am-10:30am, Friday, April 5

Christopher A. Bolton, "Other Voices: Abe Kobo on Film," And William
O. Gardner "Interface as Performance Space: Tsutsui Yasutaka's
Encounters with Electronic Media," in Session 72 1:00-3:00 PM,
Friday, April 5

Scott Alexander Lineberger, "The Collaborative Creation of
The Illustrated Biography of Basht the Elder," in Session 91
3:15-5:15 PM, Friday, April 5

Sharalyn Orbaugh, "Creativity and Constraint in Amateur Manga
Production," and Reiko Tomii, "Parody Journalism of Akasegawa
Genpei's Sakura gaht," in Session 134 10:45 AM-12:45 PM, Saturday,
April 6

William Marotti, "Trains and Guillotines: Art and Direct Action in
the Early 1960s," and Bill Mihalopoulos, "Memory and History: the
Ethnography of Imamura Shthei," in Session 198 8:30-10:30 AM, Sunday,
April 7

I hope some of you can attend.

Sincerely yours,

Junghee Lee