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Robert Campany (REL) published the following two articles in 2006:

"Secrecy and Display in the Quest for Transcendence in China, ca. 220 B.C.E.-350 C.E.” History of Religions 45.4 (May).

"Two Religious Thinkers of the Early Eastern Jin: Gan Bao and Ge Hong in Multiple Contexts.” Asia Major 3rd ser.18.1 (Spring).

In January, Campany presented the paper “The Functions of Narratives in the Self-Presentation and Reception of Xian-Seekers,” at the International Conference on the World of Thought in Early Medieval China held at the National University of Singapore.

Also in January, he presented two papers, “Seekers of Transcendence in Early Medieval China: A Performance-Reception Model” and “Some Aspects of Chinese Thought, ca. 450-250 B.C.E.,” at the University of Southern California.

In February, he presented two papers, “Transcendence-Seekers in Early Medieval China: A Performance-Reception Model” and “Death and Immortality in Early China,” at Boston University.

Sara Friedman (ANTH/GNDR/EALC) presented the paper “The Ties that Bind: Female Homosocial Bonds as Counterintimacies” at the April workshop “On Chinese Kinship and Relatedness: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives,” sponsored by the University of Manchester and the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon.

Scott Kennedy (EALC/POLS) presented the paper “The Political Economy of Standards Coalitions: Contrasting Wireless LAN and Home Networking Standards Development” at the workshop “China 's Technology Standards Policy: Implications for the United States and China,” organized by the National Bureau of Asian Research (Seattle). The workshop took place in January at the Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management, Beijing.

While there, he also participated in Salon No.108, “Lobbying and Business Associations in China,” a discussion group on business associations in China.

In February, he presented the paper “Conquering the Middle Kingdom: Globalization and Foreign Political Influence in China,” at the research colloquium "Corporate Political Activities in an Internationalizing Economy" at the Free University, Amsterdam.

In March, he participated in “Discussion of The Business of Lobbying in China,” hosted by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies's Reading Group on Law & Society at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

In March he also gave a talk titled “The Chinese Dragon: Economic Competitor and Military Threat?” for the Indiana University Men's Faculty Club.

Ethan Michelson (SOC/EALC) presented the paper “Guanxi in the Chinese Legal System” at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in February.

In April at the annual conference of the American Asian Society, Michelson organized a panel titled “Reassessing Village Governance and its Future in China: Findings from Three Recent Rural Surveys.” He also presented the paper “‘Peasants' Burdens' and State Response: Explaining the Causes and Predicting the Consequences of Popular Tax Resistance in Rural China.”

Michelson has organized a panel for the Law and Society Association's (LSA) July conference titled “Popular Legal Advice: Comparative and Historical Research on Rights Consciousness and the Media.” He will also present two papers: “Dear Lawyer Bao: Institutional Change, State Power, and Popular Resistance in China ” and “Challenges and Coping Strategies in China 's Criminal Defense Bar.”

Anne Prescott (EASC) gave a talk on “Japanese Koto: An Ancient Instrument in Modern Times” for the Asian Studies Center at Michigan State University in March.

Michael Robinson (EALC) participated in a colloquium on the topic of Korean colonial literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in January.

Michiko Suzuki (EALC) presented the paper “Constructing Abnormality: The Female Invert and Sexology in Prewar Japan” at the annual Indiana University Cultural Studies Program conference in February.

Natsuko Tsujimura (EALC/LING) published the paper “A Constructional Approach to Mimetic Verbs” in M. Fried and H.C. Boas (eds.) Construction Grammar: Back to the Roots published by John Benjamins.

In January, Tsujimura was a discussant on the panel “Linguistic Research and Language Teaching” and presented the paper “Linguists and Language Teaching: Challenges and Opportunities” at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque.

In March, she presented a paper with Kyoko Okamura (Ph.D. in LING) titled “Language Change and Language Pedagogy” at the Fifth International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese, held at San Francisco State University.

Yasuko Ito Watt (EALC), as an invited guest speaker, presented “The Five Cs and Anime and Manga as Instructional Materials” at the 18th Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in March.

Also in March, Watt served as the head judge at the Twentieth Annual Midwest Japanese Language Speech Contest at the Consulate General of Japan in Chicago.

Illinois/Indiana East Asia Initiative

As part of the joint effort between the East Asian Studies Center and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the following Indiana University professors taught graduate seminars at UIUC this semester:

Michael Robinson (EALC) on colonialism and post-colonialism in Asia

Greg Kasza (EALC/POLS) on comparative welfare systems

Scott O'Bryan (EALC/HIST) on development as historical construct

Jeff Wasserstrom (HIST/EALC) on global cities

Gardner Bovingdon (CEUS) and Sara Friedman (ANTH/GNDR/EALC) co-taught on nationalism and ethnic politics

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