Friday, April 4
Venue: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
8:30-9:15 Breakfast and coffee for presenters and discussants
9:15-9:45 Andrew N. Weintraub (University of Pittsburgh)
Welcoming Remarks
9:45-10:15 Bart Barendregt (Leiden University)
The Voices of Asian Modernity Project
Panel 1: Chair: Nicole Constable (University of Pittsburgh)
10:15-11:00 Christine R. Yano (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa)
Diva Misora Hibari as Voice of Postwar Japan’s Modernity
Discussant: Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh)
11:00-11:15 Tea and coffee
11:15-12:00 Sooi-Beng Tan (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
Musical Voices of Vernacular Modernity:
Women Singers of Colonial Malaya
Discussant: Farzaneh Hemmasi (University of Toronto)
12:00-1:30 Lunch for presenters and discussants
Panel 2: Chair: Todd Reeser (University of Pittsburgh)
1:30-2:15 Jean Ma (Stanford University)
Gender, Modernity, and the Death of the Singer
Discussant: Andrew N. Weintraub (University of Pittsburgh)
2:15-3:00 Amanda Weidman (Bryn Mawr College)
Female Voices in the Public Sphere: Playback Singing and
Performance in South India
Discussant: Christine R. Yano (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa)
3:00-3:15 Tea and coffee
Panel 3: Chair: Nancy Condee (University of Pittsburgh)
3:15-4:00 Madhuja Mukherjee (Jadavpur University)
4:00-5:30 Film Showing: Kim Loo Sisters: Portrait in Four-Part Harmony
5:30-5:45 Discussion with Director Leslie Li
6:00-8:00 Dinner for presenters and discussants
Saturday, April 5
Venue: Martin Room, Sennott Square
8:30-9:00 Breakfast and coffee for presenters and discussants
Panel 4: Chair: Charles Exley (University of Pittsburgh)
9:00-9:45 Ricardo D. Trimillos (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa)
Enacting the nation through voice, body, and gender: Filipina
singers from the close of the Philippine-American War to
the onset of martial law (1912-1972)
Discussant: Yiman Wang (UC Santa Cruz)
9:45-10:30 Hee-sun Kim (Kookmin University)
From Female Dance Divas to K-pop Girl Groups:
Gender, Sexuality, and the Body in Popular Music of
South Korea from the 1980s to the 2000s
Discussant: Sooi-Beng Tan (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
10:30-10:45 Tea and coffee
Panel 5: Chair: Gavin Steingo (University of Pittsburgh)
10:45-11:30 Jennifer Milioto Matsue (Union College)
Female Passivity or Musical Democracy?:
Making Music with Hatsune Miku
Discussant: Joshua D. Pilzer (University of Toronto)
11:30-12:15 Usha Iyer (University of Pittsburgh)
The Bhadramahila as Public Performer: Sadhona Bose
and Female Stardom in Indian Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s
Discussant: Bart Barendregt (University of Leiden)
12:15-1:15 Lunch for presenters and discussants
Panel 6: Chair Shalini Ayyagari
1:30-2:15 Rosie Thomas (University of Westminster)
Fearless Nadia, Woman and the Whip: From Cabaret Dancer to Circus Queen
Discussant: Usha Iyer (University of Pittsburgh)
2:15-3:00 Joshua D. Pilzer (University of Toronto)
The “Comfort Women” and the Voice of East Asian Modernity
Discussant: Amanda Weidman (Bryn Mawr College)
3:00-3:30 Tea and coffee
Panel 7: Chair Heesun Kim (Kookmin University)
3:30-4:15 Charles Exley (University of Pittsburgh)
Pioneer in Dance, Song, and Stage: Tokuko Takagi
Discussant: Ricardo D. Trimillos (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa)
4:15-5:00 Farzaneh Hemmasi (University of Toronto)
Sirens of the Secular Modern:
The Politics of Iranian Female Pop Vocalists in Exile
Discussant: Jennifer Milioto Matsue (Union College)
5:30-7:30 Dinner for presenters and discussants
8:00-10:00 Kiran Ahluwalia in Concert, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Sunday, April 6
Venue: Martin Room, Sennott Square
8:30-9:00 Breakfast and coffee for presenters and discussants
Panel 8: Chair Gabriella Lukacs
9:00-9:45 Bart Barendregt (Leiden University)
Princess Siti and the Peculiarities of Post Islamist Pop
(A view from Malaysia)
Discussant: Jean Ma (Stanford University)
9:45-10:30 Yiman Wang (UC Santa Cruz) The Acoustic Ladies:
Remediating “Chinese” Femininity and (Inter)nationality
in Early Talkies
Discussant: Rosie Thomas (University of Westminster)
10:30-10:45 Tea and coffee
10:45-11:45 Wrap-up and discussion
11:45-1:00 Lunch for presenters and discussants