		5th Annual CUEAGA Conference 2004

Conference dates: February 20, 21, 22, 2004.

Location: Eaton Humanities (HUMN) Rooms 250 and 1B50.

Free and open to all students, faculty and general public.

Boulder weather. Our zipcode is 80302.

Directions to CU.

Friday, February 20, 2004

4:30-5:30 p.m.	Registration. (HUMN 250).
5:30-7:00 p.m.	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Jane Marie Law, Cornell University, Department of Religious Studies.
	"Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be: Reflections on Hermeneutics, Critical Theory and the Problem of Agency in Ethnographic Field Research." (HUMN 250).
7:30-9:00 p.m.	Welcome dinner for keynote speakers & presenters.

Saturday, February 21, 2004

8:30-9:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast service.
9:00-11:30 a.m.	Language (HUMN 1B50)	Gender (HUMN 250)
	Patrick McAloon. "Remembering Who Our Customers Are: Definitions of Advanced Chinese Language Skill at the Dawn of Performance-based Language Pedagogy."	Nicole Barnes. "New and Commodified Women: From Xin Funu to Funu Shangpin Hua in Republican China."
	Jane Jia Si. "Breaking Through the Canton Jargon: Missionaries, Dictionaries, and Language Conflicts in Early Nineteenth Century China."	Rachel Cochran. "Old Woman, New Woman: The Struggles of the Modern Female in Tamura Toshiko and Natsume Soseki."
	Patricia Yarrow. "Japlish: 'A Blade of Glass', a Study in Interlanguage."	Setsu Kawada. "A Shifting Sense of Gender Performance in J-Pop: Are They Becoming Masculine?"
		Saeko Ogihara. "Gender and Language Socialization in Japanese Children."
11:30-1:00 p.m.	Lunch at UMC, Room 425. RSVP to CUEAGA required.
1:00-3:30 p.m.	Literature (HUMN 1B50)	Politics (HUMN 250)
	Chia-lan Chang. "Feng Menglong's Discourse on Qing: A Textual Analysis on Sanyan Stories."	Charlotte Eubanks. "The Uncanny Value of Folklore in an Age of Revolution: Yanigata Kunio and the Grimms."
	Bruce Esplin. "Back to the River: On the Trail of a Japanese Journalist in Wartime China."	Masaki Matsubara. "Inventing Zen Tradition and Its Authenticity: The Inside Problems of Tradition Maintenance in Contemporary Rinzai Zen."
	Marc Lowenstein. "The Shishôsetsu Tradition in Taishô and Shôwa Japan: A Study of Select Works by Kasai Zenzô and Dazai Osamu."	Jonathan Pettit. "Li Bo's Writing on the Wall."
	Galina Siarheichyk. "The Comic Hero as a Harbinger of Social Change"

4:00-5:30 p.m.	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Peter Gries. University of Colorado, Boulder. Department of Political Science. (HUMN 250).
6:00 p.m.	Dinner: on your own or with a member of Team CUEAGA. The on-campus movie is "Master of the Flying Guillotine" at the nearby Muenzinger Building. 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.Hong Kong, 1975. Cantonese/Mandarin with English subtitles. $4 CU students. $5 otherwise.

Sunday, February 22, 2004

8:00-8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast service.
8:30-11:00 a.m.	Religion (HUMN 1B50)	Ethnicity (HUMN 250)
	Ying Bao. "Religion, Rebellion and Revolution in Zhao Shuli's Early Life and Writings."	Kilic B. Kanat. "Ethnic Relations in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of China."
	David Boyd. "The Deification of Li Hongzhi: Why Falun Gong is a Religion and Why It Says It's Not."	Bryna Tuft. "A Jungian Analysis of the Seven Dream Stories in Lu Xun's Ye Cao."
	Liyan Shen. "Xie Zhaozhe's 'Five-fold Miscellaneous Offerings', and the Literati of the Late Ming Period."	Nell N. Zhang. "Ethnic Tourism, Modernity and Nostalgia."
	Patricia Yarrow. "Locality and Traditional Saké in Modern Japan: The Cup that Binds."

Directions

These events will take place in the Humanities (HUMN) building, which is located along Pleasant Street where Macky Drive 'T's' into it. However, there is no predictable public parking nearby.Park off campus and expect a ten-minute walk, or park in the Euclid Auto Park near the Broadway/Euclid intersection, just blocks from US36. Expect a five-minute walk north the HUMN. CU Boulder campus University webmap.

Arriving by car

If you are coming to the event from outside of Boulder, for directions to the city and the university as well as parking information, please visit the Directions by car site.

The nearest available parking is at the Euclid AutoPark. It costs $1.50 per hour from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm, and there after is a one-time flat fee of $2.00 until midnight. There is also limited metered parking ($1.25/hr) in lot 306 and on the streets near the UMC. Additional parking information please view the UCB Visitor Parking Page.

For personalized driving directions, check out any of the on-line map sites such as Map Quest or Yahoo Maps.

Arriving by bus

There are many RTD bus lines that make stops nearby. The closest stop to the Humanities (HUMN) is the Broadway/Pleasant Drive intersection. The stop for the UMC is on the Broadway/16th intersection. Bus routes stopping here include the Hop, Stampede, Skip, 203, 204, and several regional routes. Once in Boulder, consider taking the Skip, a local route that runs north-south on Broadway and stops near Pleasant Drive.

About the SKIP bus

SKIP Fares: $1.25
60¢ for seniors, students, Medicare and disabled riders
FREE with your ECO, Neighborhood, CU or RTD pass
Comes every 10-15 minutes on weekday evenings
Free park-n-Rides at both ends of its route
Easy to use bike racks on every bus (no permit required)

The RTD website includes system maps and bus schedules. You can call RTD's Telephone Information Center at 303-299-6000.

CUEAGA Sponsors

The Japanese Ensemble and Dr. Jay Keister from CU's Music Department generously provided Japanese minyo (folk) dance performances and musical ambience.

We thank the following for their generous financial support:

East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC).

Religious Studies.

Contemporary Literature.

United Government of Graduate Students (UGGS).

Center for Asian Studies (CAS).

President's Council of Colleges and Schools.

Fund for the Support of Diversity.

Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.

Council of Colleges and Schools.

Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.

CUEAGA Sources

We thank the following for their services and support:

Tozando, Kyoto, Japan. Sent unprinted tenugui (handtowel) material.

Goodbye Blue Monday, Boulder, CO. Printed the tenugui.

Sushi Zanmai, Boulder, CO, Japanese restaurant. Presenters dinner.

Sandy Adler, behind-the-scenes staff for EALC webserver support.

Eric Sherrill (ALTEC) for technical support.

Center for Asia Studies (CAS).

Dr. Michael Breed.

UMC Catering.

Kinko's.

Team CUEAGA 2004

The dedicated CU EALC graduate students who produced this year's CUEAGA conference:

Nicole Barnes: meeting rooms, food, dinner, & plane tickets.

Rachel Cochran: CAS, advertising & posters.

Jonathan Pettit: funding & finances.

Saeko Ogihara: materials, meeting organization & airport transportation.

Bryna Tufts: UGGS.

Kimberly Wendelin: housing, ground transportation, volunteer coordinator, programs.

Patricia Yarrow: website, database, logo, tenugui, cd's, & email.

Special Lurkers: David Boyd, Charlotte Eubanks & Marc Lowenstein.
Event Runners: Yu-hua Chang, Noriko Day, Amy Hilbert, Kristin Johnston, & Mariko Lowenstein.

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