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<span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’re less than one month away from </span><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://ceas.uchicago.edu/content/literary-transversals-conference" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://ceas.uchicago.edu/content/literary-transversals-conference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Literary
Transversals: Modern East Asian and Diasporic Literature,” </span></a></span><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which will be held
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</span><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">April 22-23, 2022.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We'd appreciate if you would share the conference information
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">This two-day conference brings prominent scholars together to explore new cross-disciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches to the study
of East Asian literature. Our keynote speakers will be </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Rey Chow</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> (Andrew
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Timothy Yu</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> (Martha Meier
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">The complete list of participants (most of whom will be presenting in person), panel information, conference schedule, and registration links can
be found </span><a href="https://ceas.uchicago.edu/content/literary-transversals-conference" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">on
the conference website</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">. Please note that registration is
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">Susan Dan Su & </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">Emily Jungmin Yoon</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">PhD Candidates in East Asian Languages and Civilizations</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">University of Chicago</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000">Literary Transversals is co-sponsored by the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council, the Korea Foundation, and the Center for East Asian Studies
at the University of Chicago with generous support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.</span></p>
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