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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Olomouc, Czech Republic
8-12th Jul 2019
Deadline: 26th May 2019
Organized by the Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic and the European Association for Chinese Studies
This summer school is dedicated to the modern Asian cultural record. For the purpose of this summer school, we include literature, film, music and art, focussing primarily on China, but also covering topics related to Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Leading experts from around the world will offer theoretical and comparative courses resonating with the school’s central theme: the tension between the local tradition and modernity.

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2-10th Aug 2019
Xi’an 西安, China
Deadline: 30th Apr 2019
The Association for the Promotion of Xuanzang-associated Culture 玄奘文化促進會in Xi’an 西安, Shaanxi province, the From the Ground Up project based at the University of British Columbia (www.frogbear.org), Guiyuan Monastery 歸元寺 in Xi’an, Shaanxi, and the Jintai Academy 金臺書院, Shaanxi, cordially invite applications for a 9-day (August 2-10, 2019) program of lecture series, conference/forum, and fieldwork on Buddhism and East Asian Cultures at the Jintai Academy in Zhen’an, Shaanxi, China.

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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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Paris, France
Deadline: 5th Apr 2019
With the assistance from UBC’s SSHRC-sponsored international and interdisciplinary project on Buddhism and East Asian Religions (www.frogbear.org), the Tianzhu Global Network for the Study of Buddhist Cultures (tianzhubuddhistnetwork.org), whose founding members include UBC, McMaster, UC Berkeley, and Harvard in North America, and Ghent and INALCO in Europe, cordially invite applications for an intensive program on Buddhism and East Asian Cultures at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) in July. Lasting from July 7 to July 24, 2019, this program is composed of two segments: July 7 – 14 (Segment 1) and July 18-24 (Segment 2), with

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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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Hong Kong, PRC
23–25th May 2019
Deadline: 4th Jan 2019
Co-organized by Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies and Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
主題：百年流變：再思「五四」遺產
Theme: A Century of Change: Revisiting the Legacy of May Fourth
BACKGROUND
The Sixth Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies is now open for abstract submissions from Ph.D. candidates (i.e. after completion of qualifying examination) and Ph.D. graduates with less than five years of work experience.

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Vienna, Austria
16–17th May 2019
“The Catholic inquisitors of Europe who defended nonsense by cruelty, might have been confounded by the example of a barbarian, who anticipated the lessons of philosophy and established by his laws a system of pure theism and perfect toleration… a singular conformity may be found between the religious laws of Zingis khan and of Mr. Locke” (Gibbon 1914, 4, fn. 8.)
The 4th meeting of the Mongol Empire Spring Series will be held in Vienna on May 16-17, 2019. It is jointly organized by the Institute for Austrian Historical Research (University of Vienna) and the

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Melbourne, Australia
1–3rd Jul 2019
Deadline: 28th Feb 2019
The Chinese Studies Association of Australia cordially invites proposals in any area of Chinese Studies for individual or joint papers or for panels. Contributions addressing the conference theme, “Engaging Chinese Scholarship: New Directions, New Challenges”, are especially welcome. We look forward to putting together a wide-ranging,

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Erlangen, Germany
10–13th May 2019
Deadline: 21st Dec 2018
In the past decades, the history of science has experienced a number of paradigmatic changes, ranging from the postcolonial and poststructural turn to the cultural and social turn. These changes considerably shifted our understanding of the social, political and cultural function of knowledge in a rapidly globalizing world, a globalization that had already started in the 19th century. Owing to the long-held

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Venice, Italy
28–29th Jun 2019
Deadline: 30th Sep 2018
Conference Theme: “From the Local to the Global and Back. Translation as a Construction of Plural and Dialogic Identities of East Asia”
This Conference on East Asian Translation Studies (EATS) aims to provide a platform for translators and researchers working in the East Asian context (China, Korea and Japan in particular) to exchange ideas on issues related to translation. The first East Asian Translation Studies Conference was held at the University of East Anglia, UK, on 19-20 June 2014, which was successfully concluded with fruitful discussions

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Université de Mons, Belgium
2–4th May 2019
Deadline: 15th Jul 2018
Jointly organized by:
Université de Mons (UMONS), Faculty of Translation and Interpretation (FTI-EII) and School of Human and Social Sciences (ESHS)
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Maison des Sciences Humaines, East Asian Studies (EASt)
Organizing Committee:
Kevin HENRY (UMONS), Vanessa FRANGVILLE (ULB), Serge DERUETTE (UMONS),

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Berne, Switzerland
2–5th Jul 2019
Deadline: 15th Sep 2018
Chinese philosophy has since its pre-Imperial beginnings been concerned with knowledge – witness Zhuangzi’s argument with Hui Shi about knowing about the happiness of the fish. Furthermore, as this famous story makes clear, there is argument about what people

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