Dates & Times
Friday, April 25, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Saturday, April 26, 9:00 am - 7:00 pm
Sunday, April 27, 9:30 am - 11:30 am
[Updated schedule of panels here. Booklet of abstracts available here.]
Location
Stanford University
Stanford Humanities Center [map]
Event Description
The Han, a colossal category of identity that encompasses ninety-two percent of the population of mainland China and ninety-eight percent of Taiwan, is the largest ethnic group on earth. The first-ever Critical Han Studies Conference will analyze the Han from a host of vantage points, featuring presentations by leading scholars, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students from Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America.
Sponsors
This conference is made possible through the generous support of the American Council of Learned Societies/Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for Scholarly Exchange, Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford College Humanities & Science Office of the Dean, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University Department of History, Hewlett Fund.
Contact
For further information, please contact Professor Thomas S. Mullaney in the Department of History at tsmullaney@stanford.edu
Conference Participants (alphabetical by surname)
Keynote Speakers
Mark C. Elliott, Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University
Dru C. Gladney, President, Pacific Basin Institute and Professor of Anthropology, Pomona College
Xu Jieshun, Founding Director, Han Nationality Research Center, Guangxi University for Nationalities
Featured Speakers and Discussants (* = Discussant)
Nicole Barnes, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Sylvie Beaud, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Ethnology, University of Paris 10, Nanterre
Naran Bilik, Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology, Carleton College
Erica Brindley, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies and History, Pennsylvania State University
Clayton Brown, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History and Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh
Melissa Brown, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Uradyn E. Bulag, Reader in Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Kevin Carrico, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
Chen Huaiyu, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of the West
Chen Zhihong, Ph.D. candidate, History Department, University of Oregon
Tamara Chin, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Eva S. Chou, Associate Professor, Department of English, City University of New York, Baruch College
Robert Culp, Associate Professor, History & Asian Studies, Bard College
Frank Dikötter, Professor of Modern History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Chair Professor of Humanities, University of Hong Kong
C. Patterson Giersch, Associate Professor, Department of History, Wellesley College
*Stephane Gros, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
*Stevan Harrell, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
*John Herman, Associate Professor, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University
Hung Li-wan, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica
Jiang Yonglin, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University
Tong Lam, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto
Françoise Lauwaert, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Université libre de Bruxelles
James Leibold, Lecturer in Asian Studies and Politics, La Trobe University
Lin Hsueh-yi, Ph. D. candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
*Jonathan Lipman, Professor, Department of History, Mount Holyoke College
Luo Wenqing, Associate Professor, College of Foreign Studies, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Ph.D. Candidate, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Haiyun Ma, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Fort Lewis College
*Charles F. McKhann, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Whitman College
Jeff McClain, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Illinois
Thomas S. Mullaney, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University
*David Schaberg, Associate Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA
Leo K. Shin, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Christopher Sullivan, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography, University of California Berkeley
Sun Jiang, Associate Professor, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
Donald S. Sutton, Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Nicholas Tapp, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Australian National University
Emma Teng, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher Vasantkumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hamilton College
Florent Villard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, Institute of Transtextual and Transcultural Studies (IETT), University of Lyon - Jean Moulin
Wang Ming-ke, Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Wang Peihua, Professor, Department of History, Beijing Normal University
Scott Writer, Ph.D. candidate, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
Xie Linxuan, Research Associate, College of Foreign Studies, Guangxi University for Nationalities
Gang Zhao, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Akron
Conference Committee
Thomas S. Mullaney
Department of History
Stanford University
James Leibold
Asian Studies Program
La Trobe University
Stéphane Gros
Sociétés et Cultures en Himalaya
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique