Intergenerational Graduate Student Conference

on Diversity in East Asia

A Three-Generational Approach to Synergy and Mentoring
for Honors, Masters, and Ph.D. Candidates

DESCRIPTION

The graduate students of Asian Languages and Literatures, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, at UMass Amherst are organizing a Graduate Student Conference that will be held on the UMass Amherst campus. The one-day event will take place on Saturday, May 6, 2006. We have chosen the broad topic of “Diversity in East Asia.” There will be two panels in the morning and two in the afternoon (the exact number of panels will depend on the number of paper proposals received). The conference highlights will be an after-lunch keynote address by a distinguished scholar in the field of East Asian Studies and a musical performance for festive closure.

The topic, Diversity in East Asia, is broad enough to be all-inclusive of different approaches to research on the arts and cultures of East Asia. To name only a few broadly defined issues: age, class, gender, race, migration and national identity in war and peace. Moreover, it may be interpreted from the standpoint of the research methods, thus encouraging original, interdisciplinary approaches.