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Conference Schedule

March 28-29, 2024 | Hayward Room (Hanover Inn)

Thursday, March 28
9:00-9:20 AM // Welcome Remarks

Matthew F. Delmont, Associate Dean of International Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies & Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, Dartmouth College

9:30-11:00 AM // Keynote Address

Ma Vang, Associate Professor of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Merced
"Teaching (from) the Archives"

Discussants:
Ed Miller, Associate Professor of History & Chair of Asian Studies, Dartmouth College
Jodi Kim, Professor of English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College

11:00 AM-11:10 AM // Coffee Break  

11:10 AM-1:00 PM // Against the Archival Grain 

Yi Lu, Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth College  
Socialism on Sale: Grassroots Archives Market in Contemporary China
Sunmin Kim, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College
Category Traversing: Early Korean Student-Migrants Eluding the U.S. State
Jiajing Wang, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
Uncovering the Truth behind "Diseased Pork" in 19th Century California: Insights from Archival Research and Dental Calculus Analysis


Discussant: Jinah Kim, Professor of Communication Studies, California State University, Northridge 

1:00 PM-2:00 PM // Lunch

2:00 PM-4:00 PM // Colonial Archives of Race and Architecture 

Lynne Horiuchi, Independent Scholar
Researching Records for Building Japanese American Confinement Sites at the National Archives and Records Administration 
Sean McPherson, Associate Professor of Art History, Bridgewater State University
Between Empires and Generations: Reconstructing Shifting Agendas in the Architecture of Transnational Buddhism
Sujin Eom, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Dartmouth College
Fugitive Archives: Architecture, Police Photography, and Decolonial Futures

Discussant: Charles L. Davis II, Associate Professor of Architectural History, University of Texas at Austin  

6:00 PM Reception (invitation only)

Friday, March 29
10:00 AM-12:00 PM // Archiving the Unarchivable 

Josephine F. Ong Guarini Dean's Asian American Studies Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
Constructions of Chamorro-Filipino Deviance: Chamorro-Filipino Relations in Late 19th Century Spanish-occupied Guåhan/Guam\
Youjeong Oh, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Archival Activism: Introducing Collection of Historical Records of Jeju Democratic Movement
Jesook Song, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Postcolonial to Decolonial: Transition or Blinding History?

Discussant: Yoonkyung Lee, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto 

12:00 PM-1:00 PM // Lunch

1:00 PM-3:00 PM // Performing the Archives 

Hosu Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology, College of Staten Island 
Into the Ground: Land as Disruptive Archive and Dissenting Politics for the Disappeared since the Korean War
Yeong Ran Kim, Digital Media Fellow, Sarah Lawrence College
Thinking with Pinks: Collaborative Aesthetics in the Creation of Queer Worlds
Preeti Singh, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
Writing Postcolonial Authoritarianism: The Transnational Archives of the Indian National Emergency (1975-1977)

Discussant: Erin E. Collins, Assistant Professor of Geography, Dartmouth College

6:00 PM Dinner (invitation only)