When

What

Where

Friday, 4:00 pm

Miami University Art Museum tour

Art Museum
Patterson Ave.

5:00 pm

Cocktail hour
Everyone invited

Shriver Center
Multipurpose Room

5:30 pm

Eric Shepherd, Chinese Storyteller Performance
University of South Florida
Everyone invited

Shriver Center
Multipurpose Room
6:30 pm Banquet
Greeting by Karen Schilling, Dean of College of Arts and Science, Miami University		 Shriver Center
Heritage Room
7:50 pm Student Prize Award Ceremony Shriver Center
Heritage Room

8:00 pm

Presidential Address: Asia's New Religious Pluralism
by Robert Hefner, President of AAS

Shriver Center
Heritage Room

Saturday, 7:00 am

MCAA Board Breakfast

Shriver Center
Anna Symmes Harrison Room

8:15 am

Midwest Japan Seminar
The Kamo Festival as Mise-en-Scène in Mid-Heian Literary Texts
Naomi Fukumori, The Ohio State University
Mantetsu Democracy
Emer O’Dwyer, Oberlin College

Shriver Center
Bystrom-Reid Room

8:15 am

Encountering Asia: Workshop for K-12 Teachers
See page 10 for details

26 Irvin Hall

12:15 pm

Photography Exhibit: Seeing is Believing – Two bodies of recent work by Jon Yamashiro, exploring World War II Japanese Internment campsites.

Hiestand Hall Gallery
Maple Street

1:30 pm

The Study of Oneself & One’s People in Prose Writer’s Workshop by Kao Kalia Yang
Explore, meet, and discuss with a young writer from the Hmong community – the power of a movement founded on words to change, to transform, to create the life of a people on the written page.

100 Art

3:30 pm

Presidential Panel – Round Table Discussion
Ethnicity and the Nation-State
Chair/Moderator: Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf College, MCAA President
Linda Benson, Oakland University
Michael Robinson, Indiana University
Thomas Williamson, St. Olaf College

100 Art

5:30 pm

MCAA Business Meeting

100 Art

7:15 pm

Midwest Japan Seminar Dinner

Wild Bistro
37 E. High St. Oxford