London, UK
8th Jun 2019

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KU Leuven, Belgium
30th May – 2nd Jun 2019

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Oxford, UK
8–10th Jul 2019
Oxford University China Centre, Merton College and The Queen’s College are accepting applications for the Ancient Chinese Workshop with Professor George Starostin “Tracing Language Evolution in Ancient Chinese Texts”, which will be held on 8–10 July 2019.
It is generally recognized that “Old Chinese” is essentially a blanket term, covering a large variety of closely related but non-identical idioms that were spoken and written in various regions of Ancient China for at least a thousand years. However, despite extensive scientific literature on the subject, clear and precise methodology

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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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Department of Sinology Faculty of Oriental Studies Warsaw University
Warsaw, Poland
10th Jul 2019
Deadline:8th May 2019
The Department of Sinology at the University of Warsaw would like to kindly invite scholars of all related fields to participation and submitting paper proposals for a conference scheduled for July 10, 2019. The main theme of the conference is ”Perceptions of China’s Transformation in the Past Four Decades”. Our Chinese guests will represent Hong Kong University of Technology and Xiamen University. The list of Chinese participants includes:

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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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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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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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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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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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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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