Berkeley - Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities April 10-11, 2026 UC Berkeley
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. Read more
Jiahe Mei (梅嘉禾) is a Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. As a cultural historian of modern China, Jiahe explores how perceptual disabilities challenge normative historiography of media technology and revolutionary literature. Her other interests include medical history, Science and Technology Studies, China-Russia cultural exchanges, and critical theory.
The Center for Chinese Studies Working Group program is in support of research in the humanities and the social sciences, and provide opportunities for smaller groups of Berkeley faculty and advanced graduate students to share their research in progress, garner thoughtful and detailed feedback on papers or grants, brainstorm new projects, and discuss the latest published research related to their working group.
The Working Group awards range from $250-$750 for the academic year. New Working Groups have one full year to use the award funds. The funds can be used...
Elaine Zhu (朱庭萱) currently double majors in Comparative Literature and English as an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. Their academic pursuits include modern and translated literature in the Sinosphere, with a focus on queer studies.
Helina Li (李幸霖) is an undergraduate student double majoring in English and Computer Science, minoring in Chinese. Her current academic focus is on Chinese modern poetry within its original context as well as in connection to English contexts, and she is particularly interested in poetry's role in politics, movements, and change.
