Contested
 Spaces
 - 13th Annual 
East 
Asian 
Studies
 Graduate
 Student
 Conference
, University
 of
 Toronto
, March
 2,
 2013
 
 Keynote
 Address
 by
 Prof.
 Lisa 
Kim 
Davis
 (UCLA)


Using
 East
 Asia
 as 
a 
point
 of 
departure,
 Contested
 Spaces 
challenges 
speakers
 to 
interrogate
 our 
understanding 
of 
space 
and 
society 
in 
all 
disciplines 
including 
history,
 geography, 
sociology,
 literature, 
and 
anthropology.


We
 invite 
those 
interested
 in 
presenting 
papers
 to 
submit 
an 
abstract
 (300 
words
 maximum) 
with 
biographical 
information 
(name,
 affiliation, 
and 
research 
interests)
 by 
December
 7,
 2012.
 Presentations
 should
 be
 20
 minutes 
in 
length 
(1500‐2000
 word papers).

 Selected participants
 will
 be 
asked
 to 
submit 
completed
 papers 
by 
15 
February 
2013 
so 
that 
panel
 discussants 
may 
read
 papers 
in 
advance. 
Submissions 
may 
be 
for an 
individual 
or 

panel. 
Panel
 submissions 
must 
include 
one 
abstract
 per
 participant, 
up 
to 
3 
persons.


E‐mail 
submissions 
and 
queries 
to 
eas.gsc@utoronto.ca.