CALL FOR PAPERS

China Postgraduate Network

 

In association with

British Association of Chinese Studies

Supported by

British Inter-University China Centre

White Rose East Asia Centre

Manchester Graduate Centre in Politics

Manchester Centre for International Politics

 

invites postgraduate students to present papers relating to

China and Chinese Studies

 

23-24 April 2009

University of Manchester

 

The China Postgraduate Network (CPN) is delighted to announce that it will hold its 2009 annual conference at the University of Manchester on 23-24 April 2009.  The conference provides an environment for students to present their ideas and receive feedback from other students and scholars in the field, as well as to engage in some lively debates about the future of Chinese Studies.  We are also delighted to announce that a keynote address will be given by Prof. Shih Chih-yu, Professor of China Studies at the National Taiwan University.

 

There is no over-arching theme for the conference. We are keen to emphasise that the event is open to all young scholars, PhD, masters and final-year undergraduate students working in broadly related discipline areas. This is a chance to present works in progress, dissertations nearing completion or anything that might stimulate fruitful discussion among your peers. 

The conference will be organised into panels and we particularly want to encourage proposals regarding their theme and content, which may be disciplinary or inter-disciplinary; in other words, they may be organised around any topic relating to the study of China. A panel will consist of three paper-presenters as well as a discussant, who will comment on the papers of that panel. After each panel there will also be time for open questions, feedback and discussion.

You may also propose an individual paper, in which case the organisers will try to match you up with other individual papers and place you in a suitable panel. In order to facilitate discussion, presenters will be asked to provide a 3,000-4,000 word paper to accompany their talk and to speak for approximately twenty minutes each.

 

 

Abstract Submission: Deadline for submission of brief abstract of proposed presentations, and names of participants of suggested panels: 1 March 2009.

Abstracts should be no longer than 200-300 words. For any further information or to register an interest in attending the event, please send an email to the address below. 

 

Contact: Astrid Nordin, Convenor China Postgraduate Network.

astrid.nordin[at]postgrad.manchester.ac.uk