Berkistan 2024 | Institute of East Asian Studies

Dates: Friday - Saturday, April 19-20, 2024
Location: UC Berkeley
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley; Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University(link is external)

Call for Proposals (PDF file)

Introduction

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 taking place the following spring. Currently-enrolled graduate students at any institution are encouraged to apply. Accepted presenters will generally not be allowed to present a second time at subsequent conferences. Papers will be selected by a joint faculty-student committee of China specialists at the two institutions. Local faculty and graduate students will serve as discussants for the selected papers. Applicants are encouraged to present papers associated with ongoing or projected dissertation research.

Conference registration is free. Presenters will be provided with shared lodging, Friday dinner, and Saturday lunch. Partial travel assistance available for students who cannot find other funding.

Each year the conference also features a keynote address from a prominent Chinese studies scholar and alumni scholar, chosen by the student organizing committee.

Keynote Speaker:

Jinying Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

Alumni Keynote:

Jianqing Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Washington University in St. Louis

Organizing Committee:

Mathew Beauchemin, Graduate Student, Film and Media, U.C. Berkeley
Puck Engman(link is external), Assistant Professor, History, UC Berkeley
Delaney Chieyen Holton, Graduate Student, Art and Art History, Stanford University
Andrew Jones(link is external), Louis B. Agassiz Professor of Chinese, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, UC Berkeley
Haiyan Lee(link is external), Walter A. Haas Professor of the Humanities and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Xiying Lin, Graduate Student, History, UC Berkeley
Ban Wang(link is external), William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies, Stanford University
Lingjia Xu, Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University

Institute of East Asian Studies

Introduction

Keynote Speaker:

Alumni Keynote:

Organizing Committee:

Conference Schedule

Directions

Directions to the Berkeley campus

By BART

From Interstate 80

From Highways 24/13

Parking

2024 Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities

Introduction

Keynote Speaker:

Alumni Keynote:

Organizing Committee:

Conference Schedule

Directions

Directions to the Berkeley campus

By BART

From Interstate 80

From Highways 24/13

Parking