The East Asian Graduate Association will host the second annual EAGA conference on April 15 and 16 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The title of the conference is "On the Edge: Subversion and Reaction."
"The purpose of the conference is to provide a formal, public forum for young researchers nationwide to freely present their research on China or Japan and be reviewed by professional scholars and their peers," said Benjamin Tompkins, a conference coordinator.
The keynote speaker is David B. Honey of Brigham Young University. Honey's speech, "Pernicious Poets and the Subversion of Orthodoxy: Magic in the Literary Tradition of China," will be held in the Hale Sciences building, room 230, beginning at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 15.
Honey is an associate professor of Chinese at BYU. His research interests include Chinese historiography on Inner Asian nomads, classical scholarship, poetry and Cantonese literati. His manuscript for a book on the history of sinology titled "Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology" is currently under consideration for publication. A Chinese translation, by Liaoning Education Press, is underway.
The conference will continue on Friday, April 16, in the University Memorial Center, room 159, with a panel on Japanese literature at 11 a.m. and a panel on China at 2 p.m.
All events are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
"We hope that the conference will help to increase awareness of China and Japan, in addition to our department and graduate organization at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder and in the local community," Tompkins said.
The department of East Asian languages and civilizations offers master's degrees in four separate tracks: Chinese language and literature, Japanese language and literature, Chinese language and civilization and Japanese language and civilization.
The department also offers doctoral degrees in Chinese and Japanese tracks in Comparative Literature in conjunction with a special program in the department of comparative literature and humanities.