#  29th Harvard East Asia Society Conference 

 





**Delineations:** **Temporality, Boundaries, and Imaginaries of East Asia**



 

February 13, 2026

 

 

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The Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference is an annual event that provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference invites young scholars to present their research to their peers and renowned scholars in relevant fields. Participants will also meet others in their research area and forge new professional relationships.

This year's conference is entitled “**Delineations: Temporality, Boundaries, and Imaginaries of East Asia**.” What do we do when we draw the line? We delineate to describe, to trace, to portray, and to mark out the vagueness and ambiguities that find purchase in scholarship. How does navigating between liminalities inform our understanding of East Asia? This year’s conference theme, Delineations, asks scholars to re-examine how a world created entirely of ascriptions reveals intrinsic and extrinsic connections among subjects, space, borders, history, and time. We invite scholars to consider lines of inquiry that make (or unmake) our past and future understandings of a global East Asia.

The 2026 HEAS conference will be held in person from Friday, February 13 to Saturday, February 14, 2026.

For more information, please visit heasconference.hsites.harvard.edu



 

 

 



 

 

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