Organized in 1998, the purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for graduate students to present their research from any discipline in the Humanities and Social Sciences that pertains to East Asia. Students also have a chance to meet and interact with professors from the CU campus as well as from other universities. Past keynote speakers have included: Stephen Bokenkamp (Indiana), Ted Fowler (UC-Irvine), Peter Hays Gries (CU-Boulder), Jane-Marie Law (Cornell), Michael Nylan (UC-Berkeley), and Marcia Yonemoto (CU-Boulder).