5th Dec 2021 | Online
Deadline: 15th Oct 2021
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the board of ISSCO has decided to arrange for three simultaneous regional workshops according to different time zones under the common theme of “The effects of COVID-19 on the Chinese diasporas worldwide”. Presenters are preferably ISSCO members, but non-members will also be eligible to submit paper proposals and/or participate as audience. ISSCO encourages all participants to become members of ISSCO to support our non-profit academic association.
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A Comparative Perspective on Environmental Thought in Early China and Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Online | University of Bern, Switzerland
9–12th Dec 2021
The environmental crisis has been one of the most serious challenges of our age. It includes climate change, natural disasters, destabilised ecosystems, energy resource depletion, air, soil, and water pollution, animal abuse, and rapidly increasing population. All these issues we are facing today have raised certain doubts about the modern focus on high economic growth and consumption industries and technologies that have been developed since the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions in the 17-18th centuries. It is clear that the philosophy and sense of values which have urged

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Vilnius University, Lithuania
20-23rd Jun 2022
Deadline: 1st Oct 2021
Contemporary Western discourse on freedom and choice – some of the most championed modern values – is usually anchored in the concept cluster of free will and autonomous choice. In turn, academic research on free will in philosophy (including experimental philosophy) and psychology is largely based on a limited conceptual framework with roots in particular debates in  Christianity and European philosophy. This framework is currently challenged by multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches applied in the fields of area

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Online | Sofia University, Bulgaria
19-20th Nov 2021
Deadline: 10th Oct 2021
The Chinese Studies Department at the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the Second International Conference “Current Issues in Contemporary Chinese and Oriental Studies”, which will be convened online on 19 – 20 November 2021. The academic event will mark the 30th anniversary of the Chinese Studies Program at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The aims of the anniversary conference are to present the latest research and current issues in Bulgarian and international

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22–24th Aug 2022
University of Oxford
Hybrid: Online and in Person
Deadline: 3rd Dec 2021
Organizers: Anke Hein (University of Oxford) & Julia Lovell (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Steering Committee and Discussants: Chen Xingcan, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Rowan Flad, Ye Wa
This call for papers invites contributions for a workshop to prepare an edited volume on the topic “The History and Practice of Archaeology in China”. If you are interested in being involved in this project, please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and a biographical note (50-100 words) to Anke Hein (anke.hein@arch.ox.ac.uk) and Julia Lovell

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Olomouc, Czech Republic
24–27th Aug 2022
Deadline 15th Jan 2022
The 24th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) will be held in Olomouc, Czech Republic, from August 24 to August 27, 2022. It is jointly organised by the EACS and the Department of Asian Studies at

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3rd Dec 2021
Deadline: 31st Oct 2021
It is usually acknowledged that Chinese philosophy bloomed during the Warring States, in an epoch of cultural and political division when thinkers or masters roamed from one state to the other, trying to present their ways of thinking and governing to the different rulers. Therefore, despite the antihistoric and monolithic Orientalist interpretation of China, this philosophy arose thanks to the richness of the divergence of

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Online | Milan, Italy
16th Dec 2021
Deadline: 15th Sep 2021
University of Milan (Italy) Department of Studies in Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication – Standard Arabic and Standard Chinese are both official languages of the UN with a huge number of users. However, as is well known, their respective impact on the cultural identity and political culture of speakers is vastly different. Standard Arabic (MSA) – the official language of 22 countries – lacks a centralized language policy as a consequence of the political fragmentation of the Arab-speaking world. This results in several competing national language academies, with different degrees of authority, ideally

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Online | Kaohsiung, Taiwan
23rd Aug – 6th Sep 2021
In 2015, professor Yang Rur-bin (楊儒賓) published In Praise of 1949 (1949禮讚)

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Online | Olomouc, Czech Republic
26–27th Nov 2021
Deadline: 30th Jun 2021
The Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc is currently accepting individual paper, organized panel, and research poster proposals for its 15th Annual Conference on Asian Studies to be held on November 26–27, 2021 in Olomouc, Czech Republic and online, using Whova, a conference (web)app. The general theme of the conference this year is Continuity and Change. We invite contributions that concern any region or culture in Asia and address the conference theme from a variety of perspectives. We welcome both synchronic and diachronic approaches grounded in a range of disciplines

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