About this Event
John M. Clayton Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, USA
https://maraas.org/message-president#overlay-context=about-maraasThe Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS) will hold their annual conference at the University of Delaware in Clayton Hall on November 2-3, 2024. The MAR/AAS conference provides an excellent opportunity for students to learn, network, and be inspired.
Interdisciplinary approaches create new knowledge by breaking boundaries and barriers and providing new lenses for critical inquiries. As a research area, Asian Studies has been interdisciplinary and cross-border from the beginning. This year, researchers with various academic backgrounds will share their thoughts on the challenges and opportunities interdisciplinarity brings to Asian Studies.
The MAR/ASS conference will hold three panel sessions on Saturday, November 2nd, and a Pop Culture and Teaching About Asia Forum for K-12 Educators co-organized by Dr. Shuhan C. Wang. On Sunday, November 3rd, after two panel sessions, the conference will conclude with the Complimentary Brunch and the Annual Presidential Roundtable featuring the keynote speech “Time, Religion, and Civilization: Missionary Almanacs in Southern China in the Early Nineteenth Century” given by Dr. Yuanchong Wang from the University of Delaware.
The Annual Business Luncheon will spotlight AAS Vice President Dr. Nancy Peluso of the University of California, Berkley, in a keynote speech, after the featured speech, “Looking for China” by Bill Einreinhofer, producer, director, educator, and writer who created Emmy Award-winning nonfiction video content. At the Dinner Banquet on Saturday night, the 2024 Distinguished Asianist Award will be presented to Dr. Kathleen (Kathy) Uno, retired Temple University professor of modern Japanese history.
The conference has been made possible in part by Delaware Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands Wisdom. Co-sponsors at the University of Delaware include the Asian Studies Program, Office of the Provost, College of Arts & Sciences, Center for Global and Area Studies (CGAS), and Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures. Additional sponsors include the Association for Asian Studies, Greater Philadelphia Asian Studies Consortium (GPASC), and National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA) at the University of Pittsburgh.
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