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Thursday, January 16th, 2025
Call for Papers: Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies — Edition 2025
Deadline: 30th Apr 2025
The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions in either English or German for
edition 48, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2025‒26.
The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (BJOAF) has been published since 1978 by . . .
Member’s Publication: Kelly Ngo
Ngo, K. (2024) Ordering Tang China: Cultural Memory, Emperor Taizong and the Essentials. Ann Arbor: Lever Press
New Open Access book on a seventh-century Chinese anthology for imperial governance
Call for Participation: Conference — “Lessons Learned: Navigating Experiences from Sino-European Cooperation for Future Global Engagements”
7-8th Jul 2025
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Submission deadline: 31st Jan 2025
We invite (in particular, but not exclusively) contributions from researchers in the fields of Sinology, East Asian Studies, Political Sciences, Philosophy/Ethics, Innovation Research as well as practical reports and contributions to discussions from . . .
Upcoming Summer School: The China School — China’s Hi-Tech Rise: Strategies, Players and Perspectives
14-28th Jul 2025
Milan, Beijing, Shanghai
Deadline: 30th Apr 2025
Organized by the Research Center on Contemporary China (CSCC) and the Graduate School of Management of Polytechnic University of Milan, The China School represents an extraordinary opportunity to experience firsthand the ongoing . . .
Paris Graduate School of East Asian Studies: Scholarships for Master 1 and Master 2 students — Academic year 2025-2026
Université Paris Cité, France
Deadline: 17th Jan 2025
The SMARTS-UP program of Université Paris Cité aims at promoting the internationalization of Master’s courses and attracting the best foreign students. For 2024-2025, 160 grants of 10,000 € are available for incoming foreign students in the various Master programs.
Candidates should submit their application online between . . .
Call for Papers: BACS Annual Conference 2025
University of Leicester, UK
3-5th Sep 2025
Proposal deadline: 28th Feb 2025
The 2025 British Association for Chinese Studies annual conference will be held at the University of Leicester (UK) on 3-5 September 2025. We are now inviting proposals for . . .
Call for Papers: Online Symposium jointly organised by SOAS and Tsinghua University “Virtual Spaces and New Horizons: Humanities in the Digital Age”
22-23rd Apr 2025 | Zoom
Abstract due: 10th Jan 2025
This is part of the UK-China Humanities Alliance International Forum Series, ‘World Maps and World Cultures’.
From the inception of BBS to the rise of Facebook’s metaverse, virtual spaces continue to attract a wide audience with a promise for . . .
IV Congress of the Spanish Association of East Asian Studies “East Asian Studies in the current global landscape: new contexts, new challenges”
Universidad de Granada, Spain
4-6th Jun 2025
Deadline: 8th Dec 2024
The IV Congress of the Spanish Association of East Asian Studies will take place on June 4, 5 and 6, 2025 with the common thread: East Asian Studies in the current global landscape: new contexts, new challenges. You . . .
Call for Papers: 28th CHIME International Conference “Digital Futures for Chinese Music”
University College Cork, Ireland
4–8th Jul 2025
Deadline: 15h Jan 2025
In this conference we focus on the various ways new media (digital media especially) provide spaces for preserving, creating, playing, sharing, teaching, or discussing music, and the ways these spaces are impacting what musicians, culture bearers, and others do in the musical part . . .
Olympia Summer Academy 2025
European Cultural Center of Delphi, Greece
14-19th Jul 2025
Deadline: 31st Jan 2025
The 2025 Olympia Summer Academy is co-organized by the Navarino Network and the China Program of the Institute of International Relations (IDIS).
<!– . . .Call for Papers: International Workshop “Gender, Diplomacy, and Global Connections in Modern Asia”
Cardiff University, Wales, UK
10th Jun 2025
This one-day workshop explores different ways in which gender intersected with practices of formal and informal diplomacy in modern Asia.
We invite proposals from researchers of all career stages for 20-minute presentations.
Proposals considering the role of gender in international, transnational, transimperial, and decolonial histories with a focus . . .
Special Issue: mediAzioni — “Advanced Technologies, Methods and Materials for Human Health and Well-Being: A Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspective”
Submission deadline: May 4th 2025
A special issue of the review “mediAzioni” (an international open-access, refereed journal that promotes interdisciplinary work in the humanities, https://mediazioni.unibo.it/), titled “Advanced Technologies, Methods and Materials for Human Health and Well-Being: A Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspective,” is scheduled for November 2025 and will be edited by: Sabrina . . .
2024—2025 Enemy Encounters in East Asia Webinar Series
16th Oct 2024—12th Feb 2025
Hybrid – Heidelberg, Germany | Zoom
By the Research Training Group “Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East” at Heidelberg University, Germany. As previously announced the Aftermath of the . . .
Member’s Publication: Christof Lammer
Lammer, Christof. Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China. New York: Berghahn Books. 2024.
Polarizing images of authoritarian, socialist or culturalist otherness compromise analyses of the Chinese state. Still, such images produce effects beyond academia . . .
Call for Applications: Two-year MA program – Chinese Studies
Erlangen, Germany
Deadline: 15th Feb 2025
The Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East and East Asia – Sinology of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg University (https://www.sinologie.phil.fau.de/) now invites applications for the new two-year MA program – Chinese Studies with an Optional Focus (https://www.sinologie.phil.fau.de/jgjuhz/ba-ma-moeglichkeiten/chinese-studies-with-an-optional-focus/) – that is completely taught in English.
It is open to . . .
Call for Papers: Kick-off conference “Towards ‘national rejuvenation’: Sun Yat-sen’s vision for China revisited”
Traveling lecture series “China in der Welt/China in the world”
7th Mar 2025
Deadline: 7th Nov 2024
Organized by the China Knowledge Network (CKN) Germany at TU Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2025 is . . .
Call for Papers: Sonic Histories of East Asia
Ca Foscari, University of Venice, Italy
15-17th May 2025
Deadline: 1st Nov 2024
Over the past decade, sonic approaches to East Asia have attracted scholars from across fields of . . .
Member’s Publication: Ariane Knüsel, Ralph Weber
Ariane Knüsel, Ralph Weber. Hier & Jetzt (Zurich), 2024, 352 p.
The books is based on extensive archival research, interviews with diplomats, business representatives, and sinologists, as well as a large . . .
Call for Papers: Upcoming Conference: Around the Sino-French Institute (1921-1950): student diaspora, circulation of knowledge and Sino-French institutional relations
Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France
26–28th May 2025
Deadline: 30th Jul 2024
Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3 – IETT (Institut d’Etudes Transtextuelles et Transculturelles)
Exchanges between China and France in the field of education, and more particularly higher education, are still under-researched and under-recognised. Based on the experience of the Sino-French Institute in Lyon, . . .
Call for Papers: The 24th ISCP conference “Addressing Global Crises and Reimagining Solutions through Chinese Philosophy”
Ljubljana, Slovenia
20-23rd Jun 2025
Deadline: 15h Oct 2024
“The conference will revolve around the compelling theme of “Addressing Global Crises and Reimagining Solutions through Chinese Philosophy”
The current crises, such as aggressive wars, severe environmental disasters, unequal distribution of resources, viral pandemics, etc., are global problems that cannot be fully solved within the narrow . . .
Member’s Publication: Jana S. Rošker
Jana S. Rošker, 2023. Humanism in Trans-Civilizational Perspectives: Relational Subjectivity and Social Ethics in Classical Chinese Philosophy. Cham: Springer.
Preview at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-37518-7
Jana Rošker is pleased to announce the publication . . .
Youth in Chinese History: Bibliography and Video-Papers
The research project ‘Youth in Chinese History: Education and Representations of Young People in Chinese Sources between Tradition and Modernity,’ coordinated by Giulia Falato (University of Parma, former Oxford University) and Renata Vinci (University of Palermo), included the organisation of the Youth in Chinese History Workshop at the China Centre, University of Oxford, in September 2023. . . .
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC)
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) has gone to press. It is available online here: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/mclc/35/2. Natascha Gentz and Christopher Rosenmeier
Table of Contents for Volume 35, Number 2 (Winter . . .
Members’ Publications: Voiced and Voiceless in Asia
Zawiszová, Halina, ed. / Lavička, Martin, ed. Palacky University Olomouc 2023.
This volume consists of 19 chapters that reflect the titular theme – Voiced and Voiceless in Asia – from a variety of angles, making use of diverse scholarly approaches and disciplines, while focusing specifically on China, India, Japan, and Taiwan. The . . .
Open Positions in Modern Chinese Literature
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Deadline: 31st Jan 2023
Open positions – Professor(s) / Associate Professor(s) / Assistant Professor(s) in Modern Chinese Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Department/ Institution: Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Call for Papers: Youth Political Mobilization and Socialization in Contemporary China
8th Sep 2022 (All day)
Virtual event, registration required
Deadline: 30th Mar 2022
2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the official establishment of the Chinese Communist Youth League (中国共产主义青年团, CYL), one of the largest youth political organizations in the world. As the Chinese Communist Party’s assistant and reserve force, the CYL is the Party’s main channel to socialize . . .
CrossAsia Online-Survey: “Chinese Studies Research Conditions in Europe”
Deadline: 5th Sep 2021
Between research needs and access to resources – Getting an overview of the situation in different countries in Europe
Despite the growing importance of Asia-related expertise, European researchers and their communities often have only limited access to digital material published on Asian and international markets because researchers are comparatively small in number and dispersed over institutions, countries . . .
Statement by the EACS Board regarding the sanctions issued by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs against European China researchers
The European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) supports and advocates for independent academic research on China and hence disapproves of the People’s Republic of China’s reaction to foreign governments’ and administrations’ diplomatic actions by holding directly responsible academic researchers, their relatives, and their institutions in Europe. As an independent professional academic association of European scholars, EACS trusts in the . . .
In Memoriam: Stefano Zacchetti
Professor Stefano Zacchetti, who died on 29 April 2020 at the age of 52, was one of the world’s most distinguished scholars and teachers in the field of Buddhist Studies. His untimely death has shocked all of us who knew him and were fortunate enough to be his friends and colleagues. An intellectual of the highest order whose boundless . . .