Berkistan 2022 | Institute of East Asian Studies

Dates: Friday - Saturday, April 22-23, 2022
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 1995 University Avenue
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:

Christine Ho, Associate Professor of East Asian Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Alumni Keynote:

Laurence Coderre, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, New York University

Organizing Committee:

Matteo Cavalier-Riccardi, Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures, U.C. Berkeley

Puck Engman(link is external), Assistant Professor, History, UC Berkeley

Aaron Gilkison, Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University

Andrew Jones(link is external), Louis B. Agassiz Professor of Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, U.C. Berkeley

Haiyan Lee(link is external), Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures & Comparative Literature, Stanford University

Jiahe Mei, Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures, U.C. Berkeley

Juliet Tempest, Graduate Student, Anthropology, Stanford University

Laikwan Pang(link is external), Professor of Cultural Studies and Head of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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

2022 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