2010 Program

1:00 PM Introductory Remarks

1:15 PM (Mis)Communication: Media and Audience in Japan and China

• Mia Lewis (CC '10), “Painting Worlds with Word: Ateji in CLAMP's Manga”
• Sayuri Shimoda (CC '10), “Thought Control in the Meiji and Taisho Periods: A Methodology to Examine the Effect of the 1883 Decree and 1909 Press Law”
• Daniel O. Kanak (CC '10), “Changes in Chinese Consumer Behavior: Repercussions of Sino-Japanese Political Conflict and Negative Country Image (CI) and Japanese Business Response”

2:10 PM Language and Identity in Central Asia

• Christine Kwon (CC '10), “Reading the Signs: Language Policy and Change in Post-PRC Tibet”
• Arfiya Eri (Georgetown '10), “The Fourteenth Ethnicity or Disappearing Ethnicity? Bilingual Education and Uyghur Identity in 21st Century Xinjiang”
• Grace Zhou (CC '10), “Essentialist Legacies and Shifting Identities: Language in Central Asian Nation-Building”

3:05 PM Community Narratives in Contemporary China

• Chris Morales (CC '10), “Neighborhood Change and the Social Construction of Community Identity in Weigongcun, Beijing”
• Tania O’Conor (CC '10), “Finding a Voice on the Web: A Case Study of a Naxi Online Community”

3:55 PM Closing Remarks