In Search of Fortune: Migration and Risk in the Pacific World
March 9-10, 2018
FRIDAY, MARCH 9
10:15-12:00 | “The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics”
Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University
This paper is part of the Davis Center Seminar. To attend and to receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper, email Jennifer Goldman at jhoule@princeton.edu.
12:00pm | Lunch
1:30 -3:00pm | Panel 1 | Mobility and Uncertainty at Sea
“Uncertain Seas: Mobility, Migration, and Deep History in the Pacific”
Matt Matsuda, Professor of History, Rutgers-New Brunswick
“The Sea is an Occupation: Asian Seamen and the Tides of Empire”
Jason Oliver Chang, Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Chair: Janet Chen, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University
3pm | Coffee
3:30-5pm | Panel 2 | In Search of Education
“Scholastic Argonauts: Educational Migration and Risk for Chinese Students in the US, 1870-1930”
Emma Teng, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“The Filipino Woman in Early Twentieth Century America”
Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley
Chair: Bryna Goodman, Professor of History, University of Oregon
SATURDAY, MARCH 10
9am | Light Breakfast
9:30-11:30 | Panel 3 | Identity and Politics in the Imperial Pacific
Eiichiro Azuma, Alan Charles Kors Term Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
“Celebrating Risk: Turning Pacific Histories into Regional Prestige in Imperial Japan”
Anne Giblin Gedacht, Assistant Professor of History, Seton Hall University
“Moving and Mobilizing East and West”
Moon-Ho Jung, Associate Professor of History, UW Seattle
Chair: Jeremy Adelman, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton University
11:30am | Lunch
1:00-3:00pm | Panel 4 | Authority and Control
“Consent and Risk: Sex, Labor and the Page Act”
Grace Peña Delgado, Associate Professor of History, UC Santa Cruz
“Disputing Communities: ‘Chinese’ Justice in Qing Sichuan, British Weihaiwei, and Dutch Batavia”
Quinn Javers, Assistant Professor of History, UC Davis
Benjamin Mountford, David Myers Research Fellow in History, La Trobe University
Chair: Hendrik Hartog, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty; Professor of History, Princeton University
3pm | Coffee
3:30-5:00pm | Panel 5 | Return Migration and Those Left Behind
“Break the Cycle!: Korean Chinese Re-Interpretations of the “Korean Dream” in Yanbian, China”
June Hee Kwon, Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow, New York University
“Deferral and Intimacy: Long-Distance Romance and Thai Migrants Abroad”
Andrew Alan Johnson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
Chair: Sandra Bermann, Cotsen Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University