Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities
Initiated in 2010, 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. Specifically, the organizing committee hopes that this conference will encourage interdisciplinary scholarship within and between literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, film and media studies, musicology and sound studies, as well as the interpretative social sciences.
Applications are due in the fall of each year for the conference, which takes place the following spring. Currently-enrolled graduate students at any institution are encouraged to apply. Conference registration is free, and presenters will be provided with lodging by the conference organizers.
The application period for the 2013 conference is now over.
Submissions for the 2014 conference will be accepted beginning in mid-Summer 2013.
| Proposals/bios due: | November 16, 2012 (5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time) |
| Notification of acceptance by: | December 31, 2012 |
| Full papers due: | March 29, 2013 |
| Conference: | April 26-27, 2013 |
Past conference schedules and presenters:
2012 Conference schedule (U.C. Berkeley)
2011 Conference schedule (Stanford)
2010 Conference schedule (U.C. Berkeley)
Current and past faculty organizers:
Weihong Bao, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures & Film and Media Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Alexander Cook, Assistant Professor, History, University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Jones, Louis B. Agassiz Professor of Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley
Haiyan Lee, Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
Jean Ma, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Jason McGrath, Assistant Professor, Asian Languages & Literatures, University of Minnesota
Ban Wang, William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley
Past student organizers:
2012--Peiting Li, Evelyn Shih (University of California, Berkeley); Lauren Eidel Parker, Anna Pawlowski (Stanford)
2011--Fang Xie, Chenshu Zhou (Stanford); Laurence Coderre, Menghsin Cindy Horng (University of California, Berkeley)
2010--Jeannette Ng, Liu Xiao (University of California, Berkeley); Adrian Thieret, Zhang Yu (Stanford)