Conference Schedule

(All panels will take place in Rehm Library on the third floor of Smith)

.................... Friday, November 4 ....................

Lunch and Welcome
12:00-1:30
Hogan 402

PANEL 1
Morality, Respectability, and Propriety
1:30-3:30

Tejaswini Ganti, New York University: Of Lechers and Loose Women: Gender, Class, and "Respectability" in the Bombay Film Industry

Nancy Smith-Hefner, Boston University: Reproducing Respectability: Sex and Sexuality Among Middle-Class Javanese Youth

Mark Liechty, University of Illinois at Chicago: Consumer Propriety: Ijjat in Middle-Class Kathmandu

Ann Marie Leshkowich, College of the Holy Cross: Woman, Buddhist, Entrepreneur:
Gender, Asian Values, and the Spirit of the Middle Class in Late Socialist Vietnam

Discussant: Laurel Kendall, American Museum of Natural History

PANEL 2
Gender, Family, and Social Topography
3:45-5:45

Rebecca Ruhlen, University of Washington, Seattle: Seeking, Using, and Ruing the "Spaces Between": Middle-class Subjectivity and Work in South Korean Feminist Activism

Lisa Hoffman, University of Washington, Tacoma: Naturalized Differences: Culture, Gender, and Professionals in Post-Mao China

Merry White, Boston University: Families Without Values: Ideology and Ordinary Life in Japan

Lynne Milgram, Ontario College of Art and Design: Negotiating a New Urban Activism: Marketscapes, Class, and Values in the Secondhand Clothing Industry in the Philippines

Discussant: Mary Steedly, Harvard University

Dinner for participants
6:00-7:30
Hogan 320

.................... Saturday, November 5 ....................

Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:30
Moran Lounge, 4th floor, Smith Hall

PANEL 3
Geographies of Class, Part 1:
Class-ified Places
8:30-10:30

Li Zhang, University of California, Davis: Intersecting Space, Class, and Consumption: The Cultural Politics of the New Middle-Class Making after Mao

Michael Pinches, University of Western Australia: “Asian Values," Social Segregation and Fantasies of Affluence: Urban Space and the Emergent Filipino Middle Classes

Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University: The Siwilai Process: Elias, Evolution, and the Performance of Respectability in Bangkok

Thamora Fishel, California State University, Long Beach: Marketing, the Media, and the Provincial Middle Class: Reading Local Newspapers in Thailand

Sara Friedman, Indiana University: Cultivating Status and Re-envisioning Class in Late Socialist Rural China

Discussant: Robert Weller, Boston University

PANEL 4
Geographies of Class, Part 2:
Marginal Middle Classness
10:45-12:30

Johan Lindquist, Stockholm University: Becoming Underclass: Indonesian Migration and the Spectre of the Middle Class

Louisa Schein, Rutgers University: Mobility, Ethnicity, and the Chinese Marriage Market

Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine: Comparatively Queer: Homosexuality and Transgenderism in Southeast Asia

Discussant: Susan Rodgers, College of the Holy Cross

Lunch
12:30-1:45
Hogan 320

PANEL 5
Educated Classes
1:45-3:30

Mark Lincicome, College of the Holy Cross: From Pan-Asianism to Asian Values: Regional Culture, National Politics, and Schooling in Twentieth-Century Japan

Noriko Muraki, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Challenging Asian Values?: College Women and the Transformation of Middle-Class Citizenship in Contemporary Japan

So Jin Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: South Korean “Educational Manager Mothers”: Confucian Values or the Neo-Liberal Transformation of the Middle-Class Maternal Subjectivity?

Discussant: Ted Bestor, Harvard University

PANEL 6
Governing Values
3:45-5:30

Melissa Pashigian, Bryn Mawr College: Proliferating Knowledge and the Moral and Economic Discourses of In Vitro Fertilization in Vietnam

Audrey Mouser, Brown University: Family First: Bringing Your Heart Home to the Right Kind of Family

Carla Jones, University of Colorado, Boulder: Flexible Piety: Middle-Class Consumption, Islamic Values and Nationalism in Urban Indonesia

Discussant: Budi Susanto, S.J., Sanata Dharma University

Reception
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery
5:30-7:00
Refreshments and viewing of Recent Acquisitions: Selections from the Permanent Collection, featuring 19th and 20th c. Indonesian textiles from the Anne and John Summerfield Collection.

Dinner for participants
7:30-9:00
Local Restaurant

.................... Sunday, November 6 ....................

Brunch and Discussion for Participants
9:00-11:00
Beechwood Hotel

Class-ifying "Asian Values" is being sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross, with funding provided by the May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust.