Event Report on the CUBASGA conference
21st CUBASGA Graduate Conference Feb. 14-15th, 2020
Keynote Addresses:
5:05 p.m. Friday, February 14, 2020
Professor David C. Schaberg, University of California, Los Angeles
“Before Sincerity: Literary Pragmatics and Early Chinese Poetics”
12:30 p.m. Saturday, February 15, 2020
Professor David L. Howell, Harvard University
“The Strange Case of the Castaway Princess and Other Stories of Japan in the Pacific”
The 21stýĻƷ Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) graduate student conference took place on February 14thand 15th, 2020 in Norlin library. Thirty-one presenters from University of Colorado, Boulder and other institutions presented their research in front of a supportive audience and received feedback from CU's faculty and the conference’s visiting keynote speakers – David C. Schaberg and Prof. David L. Howell– who are leading scholars in the fields of Asian studies.The conference facilitated academic conversation and networking among graduate students from across the U.S. The audience included both CU undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members as well as a general audience.