Conference at Columbia

The past two days, I attended the East Asia Grad Conference at Columbia, which I logged briefly at Frog in a Well.

There is always an interesting dynamic at these things, I felt rather overwhelmed when the moderator of my session said that my paper was the 'most ambitious' of all the papers at the conference. Although the prospect of falling on my face is intimidating, the idea that I might be putting together a decent dissertation is also an appealing challenge.

I met several nice people with whom I hope to keep in touch, and also got a few leads to pursue for my research.