What is the future of East Asian Studies? As the humanities increasingly integrates quantitative analysis, and social science moves ever farther from questions of culture or regional difference, what research questions are best positioned to drive analysis of East Asia? If we were to open a countervailing tendency, which areas harbor the greatest potential?
Host: Steve Ridgely, Director of the Center for East Asian Studies
Keynote Presentations:
Tani Barlow
T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor, Asian Studies
Rice University
John Treat
Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages & Literatures
Yale University
Panelists:
Paola Iovene, University of Chicago
Christine Marran, University of Minnesota
Nirvana Tanoukhi, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Louise Young, University of Wisconsin–Madison