Torino, Italy
26th Jun – 7th Jul 2017
Deadline: 26th May 2017
Torino World Affairs Institute (T.wai) is an independent, not-for-profit research centre which conducts research on the international relations of East Asia, Chinese foreign/domestic policy, and changing world politics.Each year, T.wai organizes the TOChina Summer School in partnership with the Department of Culture, Politics, and Society of the University of Torino. The summer school has been successfully held since 2007 with the support of Fondazione CRT, helping outstanding students, young scholars, and engaged professionals reflect on the complexity of China’s development from a plurality of

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Berlin, Germany
9th Jun 2017
Throughout Chinese history uneven and unreliable distribution of water has been a challenge. Providing access to sufficient water supply as well as flood control is regarded as essential for regional economic development and social stability. It is widely acknowledged that China’s technological achievements in water conservation and developing hydropower supported the tremendous improvement of agricultural productivity as well as the rapid industrial and urban development. It is however also obvious that water use is often far from sustainable. Whereas many regions in Chinas are confronted with serious water shortages and deteriorating water quality others have to deal with social and political conflicts related to the construction of large dams and management of interregional and transboundary rivers.

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Witten, Germany
18–23rd Aug 2017
Deadline: 31st May 2017
Every participant contributes a paper, summed up in a short oral presentation. Please send your application form including a paper title until May 31, 2017 by email to the organizing committee wacs@china-studies.com . Please send the abstract (200 words, if possible also 500 Chinese characters, if not, translation will be provided) until June 15, 2017 by email to the organizing committee wacs@china-studies.com . Please send the paper (10.000 words) until July 1, 2017 by email to the organizing committee wacs@china-studies.com (no extension possible, papers not submitted until July 15 will be considered rejected)

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Rome, Italy
24–28th Jul 2017
Deadline: 31st May 2017
Organization and collaborations: Research Center on Contemporary China (www.cscc.it), in collaboration with University of Rome Tor Vergata, with the patronage of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sponsor: ZTE, Foundation Fruttadoro Orogel, Jilitour, Città della Scienza, Location: Villa Mondragone, Frascati, Rome (http://www.villamondragone.it/),

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Barcelona, Spain
26–30th Jun 2017
Deadline: 31st May 2017
The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is delighted to announce a new edition of the PhD Summer School: Translation, Intercultural and East Asian Studies. The PhD Summer School is organized by the Department of Translation, Interpreting and East Asian Studies, and it will be held at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (UAB) during the week of 26th June to 30th June 2017. This week-long summer school aims at promoting quality research by encouraging the exchange of ideas and experiences amongst young researchers and providing a forum within which students and lecturers can share interests and experiences. The PhD Summer School offers seminars, workshops and tutorials with internationally renowned scholars. It is open to postgraduate students from all over the world seeking to further their studies at MA, PhD or postdoctoral level.

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Olomouc, Czech Republic
21st Oct 2017
Deadline: 31st Jul 2017
It is undoubtable that Marxism and the Russian Revolution of 1917 changed the nature and course of the entire Russian empire. However, the revolutionary wave

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Vienna, Austria
26–27th Jun 2017
Deadline: 15th Apr 2017
Over the past decade, scholars, and especially young scholars, have been engaged in truly multi-sited and
sometimes even transregional fieldworks focusing on the everyday life experiences of Chinese individuals,
families and other groups living in African countries. We would like to critically engage with, and thoroughly
reflect on ethnographic research that focuses on the (re)construction of social identities, class (re)making
and issues of race/ethnicity and gender, small-scale entrepreneurship, labor relations, livelihood, or the
multiple meanings of migration. Studying a field where the transnational is almost tangible, poses not only
organizational, but also multiple methodological and theoretical challenges, about which there is
surprisingly little discussion.

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Glasgow, Scotland
13–14th Oct 2017
Deadline: 1st May 2017

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Saint Petersburg, Russia
21–25th Aug 2017
Deadline: 25th Apr 2017
Organizers: St.Petersburg University, the Hermitage Museum, Kunstkamera
The second Summer School “Traditional China: a Closer Distant View” (August 21-25, 2017) at the Faculty of Asian and African Studies of St. Petersburg State University, focuses on important matters of the present-day Chinese studies in Russia. The Summer School presents a 5

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University of Sheffield, UK
14–15th Jun 2017
Deadline: 16th Apr 2017
BPCS’s annual conference: Papers will be selected on the basis of the quality of the abstract submitted.
Our theme this year: “From local to global: regional aspects of China” We will accept topics from a wide spectrum of the Humanities and Social Sciences, including but not restricted to:
– History, Art, Religions
– Education, Public Health, Public Policies
– Heritage, Traditional and Modern Culture
– Politics, Economics, Media Studies

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Trier, Germany
Deadline: 6th Apr 2017
Location and Date: Trier University on July 21–23 2017.
Conference languages: Chinese and English (Chinese is preferred)
Selected scholars from Europe accepted for the conference will receive free accommodation in Trier during the conference. If funds are sufficient, a travel subsidiary may also be granted. We are mainly looking for participants affiliated to European institutions. Young scholars are especially welcome. To register, please send your personal information, the title of the paper and a Chinese or English abstract of about 300 characters or words to Prof. Dr. Christian Soffel <soffel@uni-trier.de> until April 06 2017.

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Saint-Petersburg, Russia
29–30th Jun 2017
Deadline: 1st May 2017
History of Chinese studies in the capital of Russian empire Saint-Petersburg starts from the decree issued by Emperor Peter the Great (1672 -1725) about establishing the Academy of Sciences almost 300 years ago. During three centuries, with establishment of institutions for comprehensive studies of China, Saint-Petersburg has been a leading center of studies in Chinese history and culture, among which the Asian Museum established in 1818, and now reorganized into the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the RAS, has been one of the most important centres. The collection of manuscripts housed in the IOM of the Russian Academy of Sciences is the largest collection of Oriental manuscripts in Russia and one of the second-third largest and most valuable ones in the world. In 1854 a decree was issued about

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Lampeter, UK
4-8th Sep 2017
(New) Deadline: 15th May 2017
Chinese objects often lead seemingly dormant lives in private collections and museums across Europe, especially in small institutions without specialist curators. This workshop aims to introduce participants to the issues, both theoretical and practical, involved in researching, curating and exhibiting Chinese objects from small museums or private collections. These include questions of preservation and presentation, as well as interpretation.
We will select 20 MA and PhD students in Chinese Studies from all over Europe. Applications by advanced undergraduates will also be considered.

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Jena, Germany
18–22nd Sep 2017
Deadline: 31st Mar 2017
The Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT) is the largest professional meeting of Oriental Studies in Germany and one of the most important scholarly Orientalist congresses in the world. The range of disciplines encompasses the Ancient and Modern Middle East, including North Africa, as well as all of Asia, with particular emphasis on Central, South and South East Asia. The DOT is administered by the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG), which entrusts a university with the organization of the congress. The first DOT took place in 1921 in Leipzig. In 2017, for the first time in history, the DOT will be held at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Thuringia.

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Oxford, UK
3–7th Jul 2017
Deadline: 15th Mar 2017
Oxford University China Centre, The Queen’s College and its Workshop for Manuscript and Text Cultures (WMTC), and Merton College are accepting applications for the Summer Workshop on Ancient Chinese Palaeography and Phonology at Oxford, 3-7 July 2017. The workshop will be guided by two leading experts in the fields of ancient Chinese phonology and palaeography Professor William Baxter from the University of Michigan and Professor Chen Jian from Fudan University. The workshop will focus on analysis of *”Zhai gong zhi guming” 祭公之顧命 from the collection of bamboo slips acquired by Tsinghua University. The participants are expected to have a good knowledge of the source text

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Barcelona, Spain
13–14th Jul 2017
Deadline (proposals): 30th Apr 2017
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In the last decade global and local structural shifts are triggering up transformations in migration flows, and bringing about new modes of mobilities (directions, typologies and aims) between China and Spain. These evolving realities are also reshaping translational links and practices between the two countries. This workshop aims to examine continuities and transformations of Chinese migration in Spain in the background of the emerging realties mentioned above. Hence, the workshop seeks to gather together current research on Chinese migration in Spain in order to identify new investigation needs,

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Olomouc, Czech Republic
29th May – Jun 2nd 2017
Extended Deadline: 7th May 2017
Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, would like to invite you to its international summer school, titled: Bordering and Othering: how Inner Asian Identities Have Been Shaped. The main aim of this Summer School is to delve into the ways that identities in China and Inner Asia have been changing, shaped and re-shaped depending on political, economic, and social changes that have taken place in each of the cases that will be analysed during the week that the Summer School will be taught.

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24–25th Nov 2017
Deadline: 30th Jun 2017
当代中国文化和经济的世界影响力存在明显的“不相称性”，针对当代中国文化，我们认为应该尊重文化自身的发展规律，围绕“生成”这一文化发展的根源问题展开讨论，博采众长，集思广益。本论坛由会林文化基金和中国文化国际传播研究院主办。
一、论坛主题：当代中国文化影响力生成
来稿可涉及但不限于：文化影响力的内涵与表现；世界文化影响力生成的关键因素；优秀文化影响力生成的案例研究；制约当代中国文化影响力的原因；等等
二、时间、地点
时间：2017年11月24日（周五）－25日（周六），地点：北京师范大学京师学堂，会议语言：中文、英语（届时有同声传译）

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University of Oxford
Somerville College, UK
September 28-30, 2017
Deadline: 15th Apr 2017
The sixth conference on the history of the humanities, ‘The Making of the Humanities VI’, will take place at the University of Oxford, Humanities Division and Somerville College, UK, from 28 till 30 September 2017.
Goal of the Making of the Humanities (MoH) Conferences
The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.

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Leiden, the Netherlands
14-17th Sep 2017
Following the success of The Middle Period Chinese Studies Conference held in 2014 at Harvard University, we welcome paper proposals for the second conference of this kind to be held at Leiden University, September 14-17, 2017.

Continuing the innovative format of the 2014 conference, we will organize sessions around various dimensions: time period, theme, and method. Every paper will be discussed in at least three of these sessions.

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24–27th Aug 2017
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Deadline: 15th Nov 2016

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