Globalizing East Asian Studies

Monday, April 4, 2005

A workshop focusing on teaching strategies for bringing discussion of China, Japan and Korea into undergraduate classes and placing the experiences of these countries into the broadest possible international context.

Presenters:

IU faculty members
Martin Lewis (Geography/Asia, Stanford University)
Kären Wigen (History/Japan, Stanford University)
Rana Mitter (History/China, Oxford University)
Adam McKeown (History/Chinese Diaspora, Columbia University)

The workshop included lunch followed by two panels, each of which began with a short presentations by an IU faculty members and a guest speaker, but were devoted primarily to free-flowing discussion between panelists and the audience.

This event was open to all interested students and faculty and members of the public.

SCHEDULE

Introduction - Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Director, EASC)
"World Regions and Oceanic Linkages: Historical Connections between East Asia and the Philippines" by Martin Lewis and
"How to work with maps: Cartography in the History Classroom" by Kären Wigen

Panel 1: EAST ASIA THROUGHOUT THE CURRICULUM

Moderator, Heidi Ross (Comparative Education)
Presenters: Adam McKeown and Lynn Struve (History/China)

Panel 2: TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS, BORDERLANDS AND DIASPORAS

Moderator, Rick Wilk (Anthropology/Gender studies, IU)
Presenters: Rana Mitter and Anne Prescott (EASC/Japanese
Music)

Events held in conjunction with this workshop

The Center for Law, Society, and Culture hosted a mini-symposium on Immigration Law

Adam McKeown, associate professor of history at Columbia University, spoke about “Asian Migration and the Globalization of Modern Sovereignty, 1880-1910.” Commentators were Professor John Nieto-Phillips, IU History and Latino Studies, and Law Professor John Scanlan.

McKeown teaches the history of the United States and East Asia, with specializations in the Chinese diaspora, international migration control, and global approaches to history. His publications include Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900-1936 (2001), “Ritualization of Regulation: Enforcing Chinese Exclusion, 1898-1924,” American Historical Review 108 (2003): 377-403, and “Conceptualizing Chinese Diasporas, 1842 to 1949,” Journal of Asian Studies 58 (1999). He is currently working on the history of the modern passport and the systematization of identity documentation procedures across the Pacific.

Follow-up Discussion

A discussion of the implications of globalization for research on and the organization of knowledge about East Asia.

This discussion was limited to faculty from IU and other campuses.