The 12th Lodz East Asia Meeting Overcoming Controversies in East Asia, leading academic conference on East Asia in Poland,will take place at the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the University of Lodz on June 2-3, 2016.The keynote speech will be delivered by professor Caroline Rose from the University of Leeds.

Ever since its first edition in 2002, the Lodz East Asian Meeting gathers scholars, researchers, and students from all disciplines that specialize in East Asian studies. Being the first academic conference of its kind in Poland, it has gradually become one of the most important venues for academic exchange in the field. In the previous years, it was possible to invite international speakers as well as renowned specialists to take part in the conference. The 2016 conference will focus on the examination of political, economic and social controversies and dilemmas in East Asia as well as ways of overcoming them. The selected papers will be published in the new book series run by the Department of East Asian Studies of Contemporary Asian Studies Series.

Abstract submission at www.leam.uni.lodz.pl   

Venue: University of Lodz, Poland

Language: English

Date: June 2-3, 2016

Proposal Submission Deadline: March 15, 2016

Announcement of Accepted Abstracts: March 31, 2016

Conference Fee: 80 EURO (graduate students 45 EURO)

Contact: leam@uni.lodz.pl