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The following conference agenda is subject to change. All sessions are listed in Eastern (New York) time.
Friday, October 28
8:30 Welcome remarks, housekeeping notes, etc.
9:00-11:15 Panel 1 (multiethnic)
Chair-Discussant: Ralph Litzinger
Pum Za Mang — “Christianity, Modernity, and the Karen”
Lagai Zau Nan — “Revisiting the Centrality of Christianity in Modern Kachin Identity: An Analysis from a Post-missionary Kachin Theological Perspective”
Ziran Tang — “Miao identity at the crossroads: The reception of Western educational and religious messages by the indigenous populations of Weining, South-West China (1904– )”
11:45 Lunch
1:45-4:15 Panel 2 (Miao/A-Hmao)
Chair-Discussant: Louisa Schein
Gideon Elazar — “State Space and the Boundaries of Ethno-Christianity: Kunming’s Nationalities Village”
Chijui Hu — “Eschatological Beliefs in the Christianity of Minorities in Southwest China, 1950-1960”
Shuli Huang — “Sounding Revival: Hymns and Voices of Ahmao Christianity in Post-Revolutionary China”
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-6:45 Panel 3 (multiethnic)
Chair-Discussant: David Bradley
Aminta Arrington — “Schools, Symbols, and Singing: The Church as a Stage for the Display of Lisu Identity”
Xi Lian — “The Search for Ethnic Christian Communities on China’s Southeast Asia Frontier: A Bibliographical Excursion”
Neel Roberts — “Survey of Akha Believers of the First and Second Generations”
Saturday, October 29
8:30-11:30 Panel 4 (Lahu; overview)
Chair-Discussant: Kim-Kwong Chan
David Bradley — “Christianity and Writing on the China/Southeast Asia Borderland”
Lihong Lei — “Christianity, Ethnicity and Cultural Continuity: The Conversion of Lahu People on the Sino-Myanmar Borderland”
Jianxiong Ma — “The family of William Young among the Lahu:Baptist mission on the borders between Yunnan and Burma since the 1880s”
Yoichi Nishimoto — “Baptist church’s civilizing project and the Lahu response: A study on changes and continuities in the Lahu myths”
This session will have a 15-minute break in the middle
