On October 20, Amherst College and UMass Amherst will host the New England Regional Association of Asian Studies Conference. The program is now available on-line, and it includes at least these two panels of interest:

The Rhetorical Uses of Anecdotes in Early China

• Sarah A. Queen, Connecticut College
• Du Heng, Harvard University
• Andrew Meyer, Brooklyn College
• Discussant: Paul Goldin, University of Pennsylvania

The Chinese Classical Period in Recent Research

• A Taeko Brooks, UMass Amherst
• E. Bruce Brooks, UMass Amherst
• Karen Turner, Holy Cross College
• Alvin P. Cohen, UMass Amherst
• Paul Ropp, Clark University
• Discussion moderator: Dennis Graflin, Bates College

I plan on attending, and hope to see other blogizens there!