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2025 Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities

Overview

APRIL 11, 2025 (HALF DAY) TO APRIL 12, 2025 (ALL DAY)
STANFORD

 

The application for the 2025 Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities is now OPEN. Interested students from all institutions within the U.S. and abroad must complete the online application form below, which contains a description of the paper topic and its significance (up to 250 words) and a short bio (up to 100 words including current institutional affiliation). Please note that proposals should address primary sources and current scholarship related to their paper topic. Applicants are welcome to present papers associated with ongoing or projected dissertation research, but the papers need not be generated by thesis work. 

To learn more about the purpose of this conference, and to see past conference programs, please click here.

Proposals/bios Due: November 15, 2024, 11:59 pm PT
Date of Acceptance Notification: Early January, 2025
Final Paper Submission Deadline (if accepted): March 29, 2025, 11:59 PM PT
Conference Date: April 11 -12, 2025

Apply here

Please address all inquiries regarding logistics to Ms. Ekaterina Mozhaeva, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford (mozhaeva [at] stanford.edu). For technical issues with the application submission form, contact John Groschwitz (jgroschwitz [at] stanford.edu (jgroschwitz[at]stanford[dot]edu)). The conference schedule will be posted in early winter 2025.

Keynote Speaker:

Margaret Hillenbrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture, University of Oxford

Alumni Keynote:

Xiaoyu Xia, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Studies in the Princeton Society of Fellows, Princeton University

Organizing Committee:

Weihong Bao, Associate Professor, Film and Media & East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Kelly Fan, Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Kola Heyward-Rotimi, Graduate Student, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford
Andrew Jones, Louis B. Agassiz Professor of Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, U.C. Berkeley
Haiyan Lee, Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures & Comparative Literature, Stanford
Maggie Sun, Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Ban Wang, Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford
Ting Zheng, Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford