UCLA Center for
East Asian Studies
Third Annual Graduate Student Symposium on 20th Century China
The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Center
for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago will host the third
annual graduate symposium on twentieth-century China, April 12-13, 2002.
Part of a year-long workshop devoted to interdisciplinary studies of
modern Chinese culture and society, the symposium will create a forum for
graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s from different institutions to
present their work and have in-depth discussions. The symposium has been
very successful in the past two years, and we are pleased to be able to
continue providing a forum for exchange among graduate students for a
third year. We encourage participants to approach the entirety of
twentieth-century Chinese cultural history as an interconnected and
dynamic process. The two-day event will seek presentations from
disciplines such as, but not limited to, literature, historiography,
drama, music, art, architecture, cinema and media studies. Proposals
focusing on Taiwan and/or Hong Kong also are welcome. Graduate students
and faculty members at the University of Chicago will be actively involved
in the symposium. We will provide lodging for visiting panelists and may
be able to provide modest funds to defray travel costs. We ask that
faculty of Asian studies at various institutions please call their
graduate students' attention to this event. Paper proposals, no more than
two pages in length and with a cover letter, should be sent to: Krista Van
Fleit at the address below. Please do not send faxes or email attachments.
For more information, please contact either the faculty sponsor of the
project, Professor Xiaobing Tang (xtang1@midway.uchicago.edu), or student
coordinator Krista Van Fleit (kjvanfle@midway.uchicago.edu).
See the Webpage for the workshop and symposium at: http://cas.uchicago.edu/china20.
The deadline for receipt of proposals is March 1, 2002.