All Ming/Qing Forum members and prospective members are welcome to bring their ideas and join the conversation on Thursday evening just before the East Asia Social Event. (8:00-8:30 p.m., and we can walk over to the social event together.)

We will meet for 30 minutes in the Old Town Room at the Sheraton Grand. Agenda items: session topics for…[Read more]

We need to start planning our 2020 Forum Collaborative Session Proposal now. If you have any ideas about session topics and/or interested participants, please post to the brainstorm Google-doc below. Thank you!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14cJFY-3yhgnR_iOba0GUjYNXjnW1VBpRilt_y7ZGJO4/edit?usp=sharing

We need to start planning our 2020 Forum Collaborative Session Proposal now. If you have any ideas about session topics and/or interested participants, please post to the brainstorm Google-doc below. Thank you!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14cJFY-3yhgnR_iOba0GUjYNXjnW1VBpRilt_y7ZGJO4/edit?usp=sharing

Hope to see everyone there! Please share this with all your colleagues!

First 60 people get a free drink ticket, and everyone has a chance at the door-prize raffle for new books.

177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC…[Read more]

177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese, LLC Japanese to 1900, and LLC Korean<i></i> 8:45 PM–10:00 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019<i></i> Sheraton Grand – Chicago Ballroom VIII

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the 2019 conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, to be held from July 17-19, 2019, on the campus of Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China.  The deadline for receipt of abstracts has been extended to January 7. The ACCL welcomes papers on a…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the 2019 conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, to be held from July 17-19, 2019, on the campus of Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China.  The deadline for receipt of abstracts has been extended to January 7. The ACCL welcomes papers on a wide…[Read more]

Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association

July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois

Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]

Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association

July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois

Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]

Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association

July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois

Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Ming-Qing Forum,

My name is Guojun Wang. I am an assistant professor of Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University; and I am running for the LLC Ming and Qing Chinese group Executive Committee. Below is a brief introduction about myself and my participation in the Ming/Qing group.

1. My Research

I specialize in late imperial…[Read more]

Dear Members of the LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Forum,

I am honored to be nominated as a candidate of the executive committee of the LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Forum in 2018. My name is Yuanfei Wang, an assistant professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of Georgia. I obtained my Ph.D degree from the department of East Asian…[Read more]

Medical Humanism / American Literature

CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference

May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA

Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]