Many DEALLers -- current faculty, graduate students and visiting scholars, as well as a number of our alumni – are presenting and/or chairing panels at 74th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA 2025) this fall, hosted by our East Asian Studies Center! (See Program Schedule).

DEALL Alumni Presenters:

· Litong Chen, Bangkok Chicago Christian International School. “Zhao Ziyong’s (招子庸) 1828 Yue Ou (粵謳): Some Linguistic Changes over the Past Two Centuries” (Marjorie K.M. Chan as co-presenter)

· Robert Del Greco, Oakland University. “March First Forever: Legacies of Colonial Independence Protests in Korea”

· Stephen Filler, Oakland University. “Gangster, Philanthropist, Boys’-Love Hero: Machida Ko’s Shimizu Jirocho”

· Hana Kang, University of Notre Dame. “Multilingualism and Identity in Pachinko: A Study of Language, Translation, and Cultural Displacement”

· Lindsey Stirek, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “Framing Indigenous Futures: Ainu Activism and Settler-Colonial Narratives in Golden Kamuy”

· Michael Tangeman, Denison University. “Focusing on Japan’s Periphery: Matsumoto Seicho’s Literature of the Outsider”

DEALL Visiting Scholar Presenters:

· Xiru Chen, Southeast University. “Performing Shamanize: Ritual Transformation in Northeast Chinese Comedy”

· Yaqi Linghu, Southwest Minzu University. “The Imagery of "Bone" within the Coyote Traces—Between Chinese Yi Culture and American Indian Culture”

· Guoqing Si, Minzu University of China. “Ethnic Identity and Ecology: A Study of Mongolian Writer Gerelchimeg Blackcrane’s Novels”

DEALL Current Graduate Student Presenters:

· Yuyang Han. “Grafting Naxi onto Chinese: Dreamlike World-Building in Nüren shi mi (女人是蜜, Women are ‘Honey’)”

· Xuezhao Li. “Modern Chinese Adventure Fiction: A Translational Genre of Colonial Modernity”

· Yan Li. “Acoustics of Mandarin Emotional Speech: Human vs. TTS Synthesis”

· Ai-Ling Lu. “From Misunderstanding to Understanding: Intersubjectivity in Chinese as a Foreign Language Intercultural Interaction”

· Qingke Sun. “Creaky Voice in Mandarin Chinese Tone 3: Its Perception and Significance”

· Ruofan Wang. “Subversive? China’s State Censorship and Homophone Substitution in Feminist Discourse”

· KuanYing Wu. “Wú Shèng, a Taiwanese Poet in the 1980s and the Creator of a Spiritual Escape for People in Every Era”

· Kaiyu Zhang. “Ancient Styles, Modern Voices: Origins of the Chinese Traditional Hanfu Garments Revival and Enthusiasts’ Motivations”

DEALL Current Faculty Presenters:

· Marjorie K.M. Chan. “Young Nezha: His Facial Expressions and What Emotions They Convey”

· Hayana Kim. “Futures of Activism in South Korea: Hologram Protest and Spectral Performativity of Public Assembly”

· Patricia Sieber. “Repurposing the Anecdote: Aesthetic Values, Multiethnic Sociabilities and the Feminization of Cultural Memory”
 

DEALL Faculty as Chairs/Discussants:

· Marjorie K.M. Chan, Naomi Fukumori, Meow Hui Goh, Hayana Kim, Keita Moore, Patricia Sieber, and Jianqi Wang