[Bilimsel Haber] CONF.- Asian Merchant Cultures at the Crossroads, March 9-11, Hofstra University

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Anna Feuerbach <Anna.M.Feuerbach@hofstra.edu>


CONF.- Asian Merchant Cultures at the Crossroads, March 9-11, Hofstra Univ.

Hofstra University Cultural Center and Hofstra University Asian Studies
Program presents: Asian Merchant Cultures at the Crossroads

March 9-11th 2006

Hofstra Cultural Center
200 Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York
USA

The development and movement of Asian merchant cultures provides a
fascinating perspective from which to view the cultures of Asia, as well as
other cultures with which they have interacted. This international
conference seeks to explore the various ways that Asian merchant cultures
intersect.

For additional information see: www.hofstra.edu/culture

Thursday, March 9, 2006

Panel I: The Culture and Politics of Globalization

Jeffrey L. Gower
Overcoming the Korean Discount:  Corporate Government Reform in South Korea

Takashi Kanatsu
IT Immigration Between Taiwan, South Korea and Silicon Valley

Karen Leonard
Renewing the Silk Road?  Indian and Pakistani Entrepreneurs in Uzbekistan

Panel II: Silk and Cotton Beyond the Silk Road

Juanjuan Peng
Cooperation Against Competition: Daxing and Yuhua Cotton Mills in Crisis,
1931-1937

David G. Wittner
Selling Modernity or Sold on Modernity: Marketing Silk and Meiji
Industrialization

Anatolii Trekhsviatskyi
Nations of Lower Amur and Sakhalin in the System of 'Nominal Vassalage' 
of the
Later Qing Empire

Kiyoko Yamaguchi
Chinese Mestizo Merchant Houses in the Philippines

Panel III: Literature of the Asian Diaspora

Patricia Welch
Travel, Imagination and Mythical Identity in Rui Umezawa's 'Symbiosis'

Dawn An
Perpetual Guest: Representations of the Hakka Shopowner in Jamaican
Literature: Patricia Powell's 'The Pagoda' and Margaret Cezair-Thompson's
'The True History of Paradise

Ronald Janssen
Importing the I-Ching Into Post-WWII U.S. Arts: Minor White, Jackson Mac 
Low and
John Cage

Panel IV: Cultural Mercantilism in China

Zuyan Zhou
Nostalgia for Mao's Ideology:  China's Cinematic Reaction to the Commercial
Culture in Recent Decades

Megan M. Ferry
Othering the Self and the Political Economy of Leisure: Chinese Travels to
Africa

Wenwen Du
Reversal of Misfortune: Commercializing the Red Classics

Chung-Yue Chang
Chinese Merchant Culture in Transition, a Philosophical Consideration

Friday, March 10, 2006

Panel V: Sogdian Merchants at Home

Olga Inevatkina
Early Sogdian Urbanism

Aleksandr Naymark
Sogdians and the Silk Road

Pavel Lurye
Sogdian Traders on the Roof of the World

Panel VI: Trade Networks of the Early Middle Ages

Jonathan Skaff
Sogdian Settlers and Merchants and Turfan Under Tang Chinese Rule in the 
Seventh
and Eighth Centuries

John Chaffee
Medieval Extraterritoriality:  Law and Maritime Merchant Communities in
Tang-Song China

Irina Arzhantseva
The Sogdian Factor and the Silk Trade on the Northern Caucasus

David Weinstein
Understanding Japanese Cities and Production Centers: History vs. Economics

Judith Lerner
Funerary Practices and Furnishings of Sogdians in China

Tigran Mkrtychev
Sogdiana, Sogdians and Buddhism

Panel VIII: Merchants of Islamic Asia

Luke Treadwell
Trading Networks and Traded Goods in the Eastern World and Beyond During The
Samaria Period (9th-10th Century)

Ann Feuerbach
Craftsmen, Merchants and Patrons of the Crucible Damascus Steel Sword Trade

Mika Natif
Books Across Eurasia: The Artistic Journey of Sa'di's Gulistan

Ramazan Bicer
Turkey's Cultural Structure as the Bridge between Asia and Europe

For more information about the conference, including on how to register, 
please
contact:

Hofstra Cultural Center
200 Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11549-2000
USA

Tel: (516) 463-5669
Fax: (516) 463-4793
E-mail: hofculctr@hofstra.edu

Web: <http://www.hofstra.edu/CampusL/Culture/Culture_Asian.cfm>




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