2025 Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities

Initiated in 2010, the annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities brings together current graduate students from across the U.S. and around the world to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in the humanistic disciplines.
The conference provides a window into current research in Chinese studies, and serves as a platform for fostering interaction among budding scholars of geographically disparate institutions, facilitating their exchange of ideas and interests. Specifically, the organizing committee hopes that this conference will encourage interdisciplinary scholarship within and between literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, film and media studies, musicology and sound studies, as well as the interpretative social sciences.
This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP here.
Keynote Speaker:
Margaret Hillenbrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture, University of Oxford
Facework, Artwork: ‘Internet Celebrity Face’ and the Aesthetics of Cosmetic Surgery
Alumni Keynote:
Xiaoyu Xia, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Studies in the Princeton Society of Fellows, Princeton University
“Estranged Characters: Lu Xun and the Orthographic Outliers of Modern China”
Please click here for the 2025 conference program.