The 27th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference

2024 HEAS Conference Poster

Welcome to the 27th Harvard East Asia Society Conference!

The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event which provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference allows young scholars to present their research to both their peers and to renowned scholars in relevant fields. All panels will be moderated by Harvard University faculty. The conference will also allow participants to meet others in their research area conducting similar research and to forge new professional relationships.

The theme of this year's conference is: Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia. The knot is a traditional form of art that can be found throughout China, Korea, and Japan, made from the orderly connection of different individual threads. The committee chose the figure of the knot to represent the intertwined memories, legacies, and histories of interaction between and throughout the different parts of the region we now call East Asia. We thus welcomed scholarship that attempts to bridge different spaces, times, and disciplines, which includes (but is not limited to) history, philosophy, religion, literature, art history, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, political science, gender studies, environmental studies, and law. Please find the conference schedule and booklet here.

The 2024 HEAS conference will be held from February 16 (Fri) - 17 (Sat), 2024. Participants should plan to arrive on or before February 16, 2024.

All of our participants have been selected, and accepted, so if you have applied but have not received any further communications that means that your abstract was not selected for this conference.

For further inquiries, please email us at heasconference@gmail.com.

 

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We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
 
Sincerely,

The 2024 HEAS Conference Committee:

Co-chairs: Ava Bush & Hao (Wendy) Wu

Treasurer: ChaoLiang Liu

Secretaries: Wei Lin Tan & Marissa Hauser

Reviewers: Han Na (Hannah) Jun, Zelin (Jacob) Wang, Yunzhi Liu, Shuhuai (Albert) Zhang, Lanna S. J. Gao, Xiaolong Yang, & Jingyi (Jacqueline) Yu

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HEAS would like to thank Harvard's Graduate Student Council, RSEA Program, and several other Harvard centers co-sponsoring the Conference: Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Korea Institute, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.