A primary focus of the Confucius Institute at the University of Chicago (CIUC) is to support the study of issues in contemporary China. CIUC offers grants for activities such as research, travel, and conferences for faculty and students to support their China-related endeavors.

List of Conference Travel Grant grantees in 2010-2011 academic year

Paul Copp, Assistant Professor, Department of Est Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC)
Presented "Talisman-Seals, Ritual Manuals, and Manuscript Culture in Late Medieval Dunhuang" at the International Association of Buddhist Studies' conference.

Paola Iovene, Assistant Professor, EALC
Presented "Why I divorced my Robot Wife: Humans, Machines, and Callous Hands in Kehuan Xiaoshuo, 1978-1987" at the 2010 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.

Matthew Kapstein, Numata Visiting Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and the History of Religions, Divinity School
Presented "Buddhism and the Medieval Religions of China, Tibet and Japan" at the 2010 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.

Kattherine R. Tsiang, Associate Director, Center for the Arts of East Asia
Presented "Imaging the Divine in Chinese Art: Beyond Icons" at the 2010 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.

Judith Zeitlin, Professor, EALC
Presented "‘Mega’ versus ‘Mini’: Two Recent Trends in Chinese Opera Stage Productions" at the 2010 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.

Perry Ernest Caldwell IV,  PhD candidate, EALC
Presented "Conceptualizing Written Law in Early China: Philosophical Debates over the Nature of Law and the Influence of Writing" at the 2010 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.

Stephanie Clarey, MA student, MAPSS
Presented "Qing Zhen Noodles in Qing Zhen Spaces: Crafting Authentic Food in the Noodle Shops of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region" at the 2010 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.

Anup Grewal, PhD candidate, EALC
Presented "Close-Ups of Reality: Revealing Social Space and Proletarian Women's Experience in 1930s Chinese Reportage" at the 2010 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference.

Kwok Wai Hui, PhD candidate, History
Presented "From Modern Opera to Model Opera: The Red Lantern and the Politics of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" at the 4th Symposium on Beijing Opera organized by the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (中国戏曲学院).

Eleanor  S. Hyun, PhD candidate, Art History
Presented "Borders, Migration and Transnational Flow: Asian in Motion" at the 2010 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.

Yuhang Li, PhD candidate, EALC
Presented "Oneself as a Female Deity: Representations of Cixi Posing as Guanyin" at the 2010 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.

Chun Chun Ting, PhD candidate, EALC
Presented "The Besieged City of Sadness: The Search for Identity in Post-Handover Hong Kong" at the 2010 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference.

Jake Werner, PhD candidate, History
Presented "Shanghai’s movie theaters in the cultural transformation of the 1950s" at the "Industries of Chinese-Language Cinema: History, Reality, and Methodology" conference organized by Shanghai University.

Peng Xu, PhD candidate, EALC
Presented "Staging Cinematic Moments: A Case Study of the Longing Scene in the Kunqu Production Women in Love (Lianxiang ban, 2010)" at the 2010 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.