Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 4-11, 1999

Volume 28, Number 7

Yale hosts day-long conference on Asian studies

This year the New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies will take place on the Yale campus Saturday, Oct. 9.

The annual, day-long event will be held in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. It is being hosted by the Council on East Asian Studies.

The conference will bring together scholars from the New England region to present innovative research on modern and pre-modern issues related to East, South and Southeast Asia. Over 80 panelists are scheduled to make presentations, and over 200 scholars and students from around the area are expected to attend.

Event co-chairs Valerie Hansen, professor of history, and Mimi Yiengpruksawan, professor of history of art, have designed the conference to include four sessions, each consisting of five concurrent panels. A lunchtime banquet will feature an address by Susan Mann, professor of history at the University of California at Davis and current president of the Association for Asian Studies.

The conference will begin with registration at 8:30 a.m. on the first floor of Luce Hall. The first panel session will begin at 9 a.m. Panel sessions two, three and four will begin at 10:45 a.m., 2:15 p.m. and 4 p.m., respectively. A few of the many topics that will be discussed are imperial Chinese literary texts, 19th-century intelligentsia, the art of Chinese fiction, theater culture in Shanghai during the turn of the century, the aftermath of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima and gender perception among Japanese women in the United States.

The luncheon will take place at The Graduate Club, 155 Elm St., 12:30-2 p.m.

The conference is open to all Yale faculty, staff and students. On-site registration will be available on the day of the conference for those interested in attending the panel sessions but not the luncheon. Pre-registration is required for the luncheon. For a program and registration information, call (203) 432-3426, send email to shoshana.litt@yale.edu, or visit the conference's web site at www.yale.edu/ceas under "Events."

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