CFP - 2023 Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities

Call for Proposals for the 12th annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities The Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities invites currently enrolled graduate students to submit paper proposals for the 12th annual conference, to be held on April 21-22, 2023, at Stanford University. Conference registration is free. Presenters will be provided with shared lodging, Friday dinner, and Saturday lunch. There is limited partial funding assistance for those who cannot find their own funding. Proposals/bios Due: November 21, 2022, 11:59 pm (Pacific Time) Application Instructions: To apply, please upload your abstract and a short bio (not a full CV) as a one-page document. For the abstract, include: Author Name, Main Title, Subtitle (optional), Keywords, and Abstract. The short bio must be no more than one quarter of a page. Please follow the link to apply: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/39e2c103b79644e0b858abd12593dbe3 About the conference: The annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities brings together current graduate students from across the U.S. and around the world to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in the humanistic disciplines. The conference provides a window into current research in Chinese studies, and serves as a platform for fostering interaction among budding scholars of geographically disparate institutions, facilitating their exchange of ideas and interests. The conference hopes to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship within and between literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, film and media studies, musicology and sound studies, digital humanities, as well as the interpretative social sciences. At the conference, graduate student presenters will receive feedback on their papers and presentations from the panel’s respondents. For more information about the conference, archived schedules, and the list of past presenters, please visit the website: https://ceas.stanford.edu/events/berkeley-stanford-graduate-student-conference-modern-chinese-humanities-1 The 2023 keynote speaker is John Crespi, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Colgate University. The 2023 alumni speaker is En Li, History, Drake University. Date of acceptance notification: Early January, 2023 Final paper submission deadline: March 31, 2023 Contact Information: ceas-communications@stanford.edu

Book Launch: The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism - 7 October

Book Launch: The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism Su Lin Lewis (Bristol) and Carolien Stolte (Leiden) will give a talk about their newly published book on 7 October (Friday). Chien-wen Kung (NUS) will our discussant and Taomo Zhou (NTU) will be our moderator.