Deadline: 30th Sep 2019
The next International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM X) will be held on 1-5 May 2020 in Taiwan at Academia Sinica, Taipei, in alliance with ASHM 10th (the Asian Society for the History of Medicine). The theme will be “Challenges to Asian Medicines.” Further information is available at the conference website: http://www.ictam-ashm.com
Panel and Paper proposals may be submitted by one or more persons, and should take the form of an abstract of 300 words outlining the topic of the panel or the paper. We encourage papers

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Sofia University, Bulgaria
12-13th Dec 2019
Deadline: 30th Aug 2019
One of the most profound changes in the world in the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century is undoubtedly the rising of China. It’s opening to the outside world has had the effect of a tectonic shift in the world economy, sending out gravitational waves that have affected all corners of our planet. Back in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, it was the West that actively engaged with a conservative, technologically backward Chinese world of former grandeur, disturbing regional balances,

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Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Deadline: 22nd Nov 2019
The PhD students of the Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS) at Freie Universität Berlin invite young scholars to present their research at the 2019 Graduate Conference on the topic “Sovereignty and Institutions in East Asia”. The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to investigate how the concept of sovereignty has been developed and institutionalized in the modern and contemporary sociopolitical landscape of the region. More specifically, it wishes to explore the universality and particularity of the conceptual

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Romont, Switzerland
14–16th Feb 2020
Deadline: 15th Sep 2019
The Vitrocentre and Vitromusée Romont are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for an international conference on Chinese reverse glass painting and related research fields including other media to be held at the museum in Romont, Switzerland on February 14–16, 2020.
The workshop is jointly organized by the Vitrocentre and Vitromusée Romont and the Section of East Asian Art History (KGOA) at the University of Zurich. It will be held in conjunction with an important exhibition of Chinese reverse glass

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Venice, Italy
5-6th Dec 2019
Extended Deadline: 20th Jun 2019
Within the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign promoted by the UN, the journal DEP. Deportate, esuli, profughe/DEP. Deportees, exiles, refugees is organising an international conference on the theme of women’s rights to reproductive freedom. Control of women’s fertility has ancient origins, but it was only from the beginning of the 20th century, especially in Europe and the United States, that movements advocating birth control were born, the first birth control clinics

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University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
16–20th Sep 2020
Deadline: 15th Aug 2019
The Board of the EAAA is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 3rd EAAA conference to be held at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, between 16th and 20th September 2020. The conference is jointly organized by the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA), the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Ljubljana and the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia. The University of Ljubljana is the oldest and largest scientific and research institution in Slovenia; it is also the only institution in the country where the

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Venice, Italy
5-6th Dec 2019
Deadline: 20th Jun 2019
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies – Department of Economics Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Within the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign promoted by the UN, the journal DEP. Deportate, esuli, profughe/DEP. Deportees, exiles, refugees is organising an international conference on the theme of women’s rights to reproductive freedom.

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Utrecht, Netherlands
19-23rd Aug 2019
International relations are shifting as multilateral trade and cooperation are being renegotiated by the US and UK. Meanwhile, China is launching the New Silk Road (or One Belt One Road) that could potentially span and integrate major parts of the world across the Euro-Asian continents.
Based on the UU-led international research project on the New Silk Road, this course will explore how these new relationships are affecting cooperation between Chinese and European

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3-5th Oct 2019
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
Deadline: 31st May 2019
The Oriental studies Department Institute of Linguistics RSUH in cooperation with Confucius Institute (RSUH) and the Association for the Advancement of Sinology in Russia 3 – 5 October, 2019 is holding the first international conference “Chinese Linguistics and Sinology”. The conference is dedicated to the memory of the remarkable Soviet-Russian linguist of Tan Aoshuan (1931-2017). Prominent Scholars will be making presentations at the conference

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University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (Honolulu)
5–9th Jan 2020
Updated Deadline: 15th Sep 2019
The Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is launching and organizing the first Hawai‘i International Conference on Chinese Studies (HICCS). This annual conference will provide a venue for scholars and educators in Chinese Studies to discuss the future directions of research on China and Chinese-speaking communities throughout the world. The interdisciplinary atmosphere will give scholars and advanced graduate students an international forum on the pedagogical

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Heidelberg, Germany
15-17th Nov 2019
Deadline: 31st Jul 2019
The annual DVCS conference will take in November at the University of Heidelberg.
Die Jahrestagung der DVCS widmet sich in diesem Jahr der Bedeutung von Orten für die Produktion, Aufbewahrung und Weitergabe von Wissen. Orte sind keine neutralen Einheiten oder leeren Bühnen, sondern ermöglichen, begünstigen oder aber beschränken bestimmte Handlungs- und Denkweisen. Sie üben dadurch konkreten Einfluss darauf aus, wie Wissen in seinen vielfältigen Formen hervorgebracht und verarbeitet wird.

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Rome, Italy
7-8th Nov 2019
Deadline: 15th Jul 2019
Organised by the Department of Foreign Languages, Literature and Culture of Roma Tre University. The Workshop addresses PhD students and postdocs.
The workshop addresses PhD students and postdoc research fellows exploring the field of modern and contemporary Sinophone Literature, and intends to promote a positive exchange among scholars. Each participant will introduce his/her research project, which will be followed by a group discussion. By contributing to the global debate on Sinophone Studies, the workshop aims

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Trier, Germany
20-21st Sep 2019
Deadline: 30th Jun 2019
A conflux of several cultures –Chinese (both as national culture and very diverse local cultures), Austronesian indigenous, Japanese, and Western –modern Taiwan is a very fascinating setting for a literary community. Taiwanese authors explore this lifeworld from a multitude of perspectives in their works, nativist, diaspora, indigenous, modernist, LGBT literature, science fiction/fantasy, poetry or blogs to name a few. The cultural pluralism of Taiwan becomes increasingly visible in literature with works published

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Venice, San Servolo Island, Italia
1-7th Sep 2019
Deadline: 30th Apr 2019
Marco Polo (MaP) – Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections. Our purpose is training young scholars and practitioners for a critical and ethically grounded study of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The School draws from the concept of cosmopolitanism and its vision of a global community of fate, committed to overcoming anthropogenic threats to the survival and thriving of natural ecosystems and human civilization. Trainees will uncover potentials and shortcomings of the BRI in fostering change towards this goal, by exploring

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Wuhan University, P.R. China
15-17th Nov 2019
Deadline: 3rd Jun 2019
The period spanning from 1991 to 2008 represents in many ways the “Golden Age

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Beijing Normal University, P.R.China
30th Nov 2019
Deadline: 30th Jun 2019
The 10th Annual Meeting of Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture will be held on Friday, November 29, 2019, at Beijing Normal University. We now would like to invite you to our forum, and would greatly appreciate your contribution to the international communication of Chinese culture.
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Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Department III, Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
14-15th May 2020
Deadline: 15th May 2019
Conveners: Shih-Pei Chen, Masato Hasegawa, and Alexis Lycas
For over two millennia of Chinese imperial history, geography played an integral role not only in local and state administration, but also in literary and visual representations. As officials and literati collected and organized geographical data and knowledge, such efforts at local levels demonstrated both proximity to and distance from the centers of imperial authority. Why and how did officials and literati represent localities? How did they structure spatial information? Where do we find the

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Beijing, P.R. China
19-22nd Sept 2019
Deadline: 31st Mar 2019
European Foundation for Chinese Music Research CHIME
Chinese Music Research Institute, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing
We would like to remind you of the upcoming CHIME meeting in September in Beijing, our first gathering in the People’s Republic since the very memorable CHIME meeting held in Yulin (Shaanxi) in 2006! We are very proud that our host, this time, will be the Central Conservatory off Music in Beijing. The dates are 19 to 22 September 2019. As usual, you can expect a lively event, packed with live concerts, panels, films, paper sessions, workshops and more. The evident nearness and availability

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Bond University, Queensland, Australia
28-30th Aug 2019
Deadline: 5th Apr 2019
The international conference ‘Confucianism and World Disharmony: The Quest for Harmony in Difference’ will be held from Wednesday 28th August to Friday 30th August 2019 at Bond University on the Gold Coast, Australia.

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Vienna, Austria
25–26th Oct 2019
Deadline: 11th Jan 2019
A Decade of Intercultural Discovery – Marking the tenth anniversary of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies
Taiwan Studies Centers are among those institutions attempting to both analyze Taiwan and make the country better known internationally and academically. The Centers are the result of years, even decades, of Taiwan-related academic work. However, the majority of Taiwan Studies programs have not reached their first decade. Thus the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies is a milestone worth celebrating.

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