Intergenerational Graduate Student Conference

on Diversity in East Asia

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

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

We are honored to welcome Professor David L. Howell as keynote speaker to our Intergenerational Graduate Student Conference on "Diversity in East Asia." Professor Howell is currently Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies and also a member of the History Department at Princeton University. He specializes in the field of early modern Japanese history, in particular the socio-economic history of the Tokugawa and Meiji periods (1600~1912). His earlier publications include Capitalism from Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery (University of California Press, 1995) . His keynote address will be on his recently published book, Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan (University of California Press, 2005), which examines changes in status diversity and polity from the Tokugawa to the Meiji period.

All are invited to attend the keynote presentation.