#  29th Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Conference 

 





March 31, 2026

 

 

This year's HEAS Conference, entitled “**Delineations: Temporality, Boundaries, and Imaginaries of East Asia**” was held Friday, February 13th and Saturday, February 14th, 2026. 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? The conference theme, Delineations, asked scholars to re-examine how a world created entirely of ascriptions reveals intrinsic and extrinsic connections among subjects, space, borders, history, and time. Scholars were invited to consider lines of inquiry that make (or unmake) our past and future understandings of a global East Asia.

 ![Collage of photos from HEAS 2026](/sites/g/files/omnuum8766/files/2026-03/HEAS%202026%20Photo%20Collage%201.png)

 

 ![Collage of HEAS speakers and attendees 2026](/sites/g/files/omnuum8766/files/2026-03/HEAS%202026%20Photo%20Collage%202.png)

 



 

 

 



 

 

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