European Summer School in Chinese Digital Humanities: New Foundations in Digital Chinese Studies
20-23rd Jun 2022
Aix-en-Provence, France
Deadline: 20th Mar 2022
Upcoming Events
Call for Papers – Conference: Categories, Digital Reconfiguration and Mobility in China
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
18-20th May 2022
Deadline: 15th Feb 2022
The conference is a joint opening conference for the Network Categorizing People and Resources in Contemporary China (CatCh) and the Moving Data – Moving People (MDMP) project on mobility and China’s social credit system. The conference aims to provide an open interdisciplinary forum for discussing the potential of categorization and configuration as original and innovative approaches to study social life, relations, practices,
Call for Papers: Biographies of Numbers
7–9th Jul 2022
Erlangen, Germany
Deadline: 31st Jan 2022
We invite proposals for a conference which will explore the life of numerically framed knowledge from a global historical perspective on quantification. It is based on the assumption that numbers have their own biographies and are not simply the objective reflection of reality but socially, politically, culturally, and historically constructed knowledge and at the same time powerful agents which represent, transform, and recreate individual lives, social worlds, political spheres, nature, or other entities. Following the global trajectory of a single number from its production and global dissemination to the divergent narratives surrounding its numerical value, we aim
Upcoming Event: “A decade of China’s media going global: issues and perspectives”
Online | Paris Aubervilliers
31st May 2022
Deadline: 15th Feb 2022
The year 2012 stands as a significant milestone in China’s government-led external communication activities. It was in early 2012 that Beijing launched television broadcasting and production centers in Washington, DC, USA (CCTV America, now CGTN America) and Nairobi, Kenya (CGTN Africa). Later in the year, it began publishing an African weekly edition of the English-language newspaper China Daily — European and Asian weekly editions launched in 2010. Set in motion under the leadership of President Hu Jintao, China’s global media expansion, part of a larger “going out” policy for the economy in general, sought
Call for Papers: Making Gender in China – Third Biennial Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender
29th Mar–3rd May 2022
Online | York University, Toronto
Deadline: 7th Jan 2022
We are pleased to announce that the Third Biennial Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender (CHANGE) will be hosted virtually by York University, Toronto. 2hr panels will be held weekly as a virtual conference series on Tuesdays, Toronto time (EST, UTC-5). The theme of the conference will be ‘Making Gender in China.’ We seek to explore how gender is enacted, negotiated, and disrupted through objects and in the process of making them. How does scrutinizing things (a poem, a cookbook, a translation, a sword, a piece of furniture, noodles,
Second Call for Papers:
The 34th Deutsche Orientalistentag DOT – 100th Anniversary
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
12–17th Sep 2022
Extended Deadline: 31st Dec 2021
The 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT) is organized by the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft and will take place at the Freie Universität Berlin from 12th to 17th September 2022. The submission deadline for abstracts is 31.12.2021 and 01.10.2021 for panel proposals. We welcome early abstract submissions. “The DOT was first organized by the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG) in Leipzig in 1921. The DMG is the oldest association of German Orientalists. Its members dwell mostly on languages and cultures of the Middle East, parts of Asia
Call for Papers: 10th Conference “Issues of Far Eastern Literatures”, Dedicated to the 1250th anniversary of Bo Juyi
St. Petersburg
Hybrid: Offline | Online
30th Jun – 2nd Jul 2022
Deadline: 1st Feb 2022
Saint Petersburg State University and Nanjing University cordially welcome paper proposals for the 10th International Conference “Issues of Far Eastern Literatures”, dedicated to the 1250th anniversary of outstanding Chinese man of letters Bo Juyi (772-846). The conference will be held on June 30 – July 2, 2022 in Saint Petersburg and will include the following panels: 1. Bo Juyi and his contribution to Chinese literature (poetry and essays, literary ties, translation into
Lecture Series 2021/2022 New Perspectives on Modernity in China
Online | University of Göttingen
Since the nineteenth century, China is offering perspectives on modernity that are often unexpected and therefore challenge Western assumptions about the nature of modernity. In this lecture series, we will look at Chinese history, philosophy, religion, politics etc. presenting current research that is addressing unsettling questions triggered by these developments.
Peng Guoxiang: The Understanding and Practice of “Five Religions” in Early 20th Century China: The Works and Views of Feng Bingnan (1888-1956)
Date & Time Nov 12, 2021 12:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Please register individually for each event:
Call for Papers: Online International Workshop “Premodern Chinese Literature as an Archive of Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Life Culture”
2–4th Jun 2022
Deadline: 15th Jan 2022
Hosted by the Institute of East and South Asian Cultural Studies, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (Germany), the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE-PSL) and Research Center on East Asian Civilizations (CRCAO), Paris (France) and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Verona (Italy)
Traditional Chinese vernacular literature, in particular fictionalized narrative (xiaoshuo 小說) and singing drama (xiqu 戲曲), including prosimetric forms (shuochang 說唱), has often been
Sichuan Religions Online Lecture Series
Oct 2021 – June 2022
Please join us for the Sichuan Religions Online Lecture Series! This series of nine talks will present some of the findings from the multi-year research project ‘Mapping Religious Diversity in Modern
2nd Call for Papers of the conference “Beyond Free Will: Variety in Understanding of Choice, Luck, and Necessity.”
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
Call for Papers: Workshop on the History and Practice of Archaeology in China
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
Call for Papers and Panels: The 24th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS)
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