Plans for the 2003 annual meeting of the New York Conference
on Asian Studies (NYCAS) are shaping up very nicely. It will take place Oct. 17-18 at the
University Inn and Conference Center,
near the University at Buffalo’s Amherst
campus. The host institution, the
University at Buffalo, anticipates
a stimulating two days focusing on the theme, Walls in Asia. A tentative schedule of events can be found
on the conference website, http://wings.buffalo.edu/asian/NYCAS03. There you will also find an on-line
registration form, ready to take your registration.
Highlights of the conference include:
- A
Friday evening lecture/performance of Monkey King stories
from Beijing opera: The
Monkey Knows no Walls.
- A
Saturday plenary address by Ayesha Jalal, Professor of History at Tufts
University and leading scholar
on India-Pakistan partition, on Holes in the Wall: India’s
Partition Revisited.
- A
Friday address by AAS president James L. Watson of Harvard
University, on The Other
Side of the River: Hong Kong’s Border
Saga, 1898-2003.
- A
major exhibition of Chinese abstract art since the late 1980s: Chinese Maximalism.
It will open October 17, and NYCAS members may visit the exhibition
after the Beijing opera
performance.
- Asia
in the Classroom: A Workshop on China
for Teachers, Friday, October 17.
Over 100 papers
were proposed for panels, and the program committee had to be selective. The program, which begins on Friday at 1:00, is shaping up with thirty-four panels and
a healthy geographical and thematic distribution. There are several creative, cross-regional
panels. Additionally there will be five
round-tables, including one with Robert Gosende, SUNY
Associate Vice-Chancellor for International Programs.
Deadlines:
- Registration
deadline for panel and roundtable participants, August 1. The names of later registrants will not
appear in the printed program, to be distributed at the conference.
- University
Inn and Conference Center
lodging must be reserved by September 23.
(716)636-7500. It will be
difficult to find lodging at the last minute, for the conference takes
place during UB’s Homecoming Weekend.
- General
registration deadline, October 1.
See the conference website to register on-line.
Inquiries:
Contact the Asian Studies Program at UB. (716)645-3474; asian-studies@buffalo.edu
NYCAS ’03 Update. August 8, 2003
The New York
Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS) annual meeting will take place in Buffalo
October 17-18, 2003. It is shaping up well. The panels and roundtables for the conference
have been set. There will be 35 panels
and six roundtables. There are a large
number of cross-border and interdisciplinary panels. The preliminary schedule for panel sessions
is now posted on the conference website, http://wings.buffalo.edu/asian/NYCAS03. We made every effort to accommodate special
requests for time slots, and regret that we were not successful in every
case. We are recruiting chairs those
panels which lack them.
On-line
registrations are coming in rapidly.
Notice to presenters and panel/roundtable chairs:
Please
check the Schedule of Panels on the website and check for correctness of paper
titles, presenter’s names, order or papers, etc. Communicate any corrections to Thomas Burkman, program chair, at the e-mail address below. Most participants have preregistered,
and others who preregister by September 1 will still
have their names entered in the final, printed program. Please send copies of your paper or its
current state to other panel members by September 1 if possible,
and at the latest by September 15.
Workshop for schoolteachers
Asia in the
Classroom: A Workshop on China for Teachers
will take place in conjunction with the NCYAS meeting, on Friday, October 17,
starting at 8:00 a.m. at University
Inn and Conference Center. For a brochure, contact the International
Education Center
at (716)834-2150 or iec@bnwc.org
Deadlines:
- University
Inn and Conference Center
lodging must be reserved by September 23.
(716)636-7500. It will be
difficult to find lodging at the last minute, for the conference takes
place during UB’s Homecoming Weekend.
- General
registration deadline, October 1.
See the conference website to register on-line.
Inquiries:
Contact the Asian Studies Program at UB. (716)645-3474; asian-studies@buffalo.edu