The New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS) will be held at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York 12203 October 19-21, 2000.

The theme of the Conference is:

"Asian Discourses Before And After Western Colonization
And
In The Next Millennium."

The theme would explore the past values in Asian societies prior to Orientalism, Eurocentrism, and Westernization. Have the latter constructed a new context that has led to the reimagining of cultural and ethnic identities (ethnic nationalism, for instance?) due to acculturation to post colonial and post modern modes of thought and with what consequences in the next millennium? How these post colonial and post modern values would be reimagined in the next millennium? Panels and papers addressing these and other issues will be welcomed.