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Narratives of Free Trade 2009 - From South China to North America 2010 - Tale of Ten Cities 2011 - Asian American Graphic Narratives 2012 -
New Perspectives on Transnational Chinese Culture and History 2013 - Chinese Filmmakers in the United States 2015 -
Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy in American Popular Culture Since 9/11. 2016

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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
10:00 - 10:45 Ackbar Abbas (UC Irvine)
“The False, the Fake, and the Posthumous: Theory and Culture in Asia”
11:00 - 11:45 Chris Patterson (Hong Kong Baptist University)
“Transpacific Studies and the Post-Democratic Era”
11:45 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 King-Kok Cheung (UCLA)
“Transpacific Chinese American Literatures”
2:00 - 2:45 Susette Min (UC Davis)
“Foreshadowing the Era of Trump in Select Works and Trends of Contemporary Asian/American Art”
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”
4:00 - 4:45 Joseph Jeon (Pomona College)
“Love in the Time of TRIPS: Toward an Asian/American Political Economy in Transnational Korean Cinema”
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”