The purpose of the Association is to promote and foster, by every possible means, all scholarly activities related to Chinese Studies in Europe. The Association shall not engage in any political activity.
L’Association a pour but de promouvoir et de favoriser par tous moyens toutes activités scientifiques relevant des études chinoises en Europe. Elle n’aura aucune activité politique.
University of Milan, Italy
16-17th Dec 2021
Deadline: 10th Dec 2021
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
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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
Scythe and the city, 镰刀与城市. 以上海为例的死亡社会史研究, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Presses, 2021.
Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
Deadline: 22nd Dec 2021
The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a Professorship for Cultural and Social Anthropology with a focus on East Asia (W2 / Associate Professor) at the Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East and East Asia in the Department of Classical World and Asian Cultures. The professorship is to be filled by 01.10.2022 on a fixed-term basis until 30.09.2027. The professorship is planned as part of the Elite Master’s degree programme ‘Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures’ (SDAC) which was established in
The aim of the EACS mailing list is to provide EACS members with information about academic events (conferences, workshops, seminars and webinars, lecture series, roundtables, special panel sessions, interviews, summer and winter schools, and similar academic events that include more than just one speaker or presenter); calls for papers or conference presentations; job advertisements (including academic positions at all levels at universities, research centres and libraries; Ph.D. and postdoc scholarships); travel, study or research grants as well as fellowships; events of general interest to EACS members, such as China-related lecture series, exhibitions, festivals or cultural events organized by or in collaboration with a Chinese Studies
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:
On 3 November 2021, the French sinologist Jacques Pimpaneau died in Paris at the age of 87. Born in Paris in 1934, Jacques Pimpaneau started studying Chinese in 1954 (Langues O’), and from 1958 to 1960 he studied at Peking University, as one of the first French students who obtained a scholarship for China. After his return to Europe, he studied at Oxford University. From 1963 to 1999, he was professor of Chinese literature at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO). From 1968 to 1971, he was detached to the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1972, he created the Museum Kwok On in Paris. Among his major works are Promenade au jardin des poiriers. L’Opéra chinois classique, Éditions Kwok On, 1983; Chine: Histoire
7-11th Dec 2021
Online | KAST (UTC+9)
Organized by Seoul National University.
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
7 January 1928 – 17 October 2021
On 17 October 2021, Léon Vandermeersch, one of France’s most renown sinologists, passed away. Léon Vandermeersch started his career in Vietnam as secondary school teacher and later as curator of the Louis Finot Museum from 1951 to 1958. After appointments in Kyoto and Hong Kong, he obtained his PhD from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1975 with a study of Chinese classical institutions. He became professor at the Université Paris-VII, and, since 1993, he was professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études until his retirement in 1993. He was also director of the Maison franco-japonaise in Tokyo (1981–1984) and director of the École française d’Extrême-Orient (1989–1993). Among his most well-known works are Wangdao: ou, La voie royale
Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Position: Researcher (Assistant Professor)
Type of contract: Research position, with limited teaching duties (60 hours frontal teaching/year). Length of contract: 3 years, expected start between January and February 2022. Research duties: The Researcher will play a key role in prototyping a Toolkit for Sustainability Discourse Analysis (ToSuDA). ToSuDA’s purpose is to assist in the characterization of discourses vs different sustainability paradigms, by indexing textual and propositional features based on their proximity to different attitudes toward (a) human welfare and (b) environmental sustainability. In consideration of China’s emergent role in the global environmental
2022 Edition
Deadline: 31st Mar 2022
The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions in either English or German for edition 45, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2022‒23. All papers submitted will undergo double-blind peer review. The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (BJOAF) has been published since 1978 by the Faculty of East Asian Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. It serves as an international forum for academic publications on East Asian research. To get an idea of the scope of topics and research approaches that have received coverage in the Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies, please view the PDF files of back issues at
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
Deadline: 12th Nov 2021
Freie Universität Berlin
GEAS at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for its international and interdisciplinary PhD program East Asian Studies again (GEAS) for start in October 2022. Up to 9 candidates can be accepted. GEAS offers a social science-based, structured 3(-4)-year PhD program with a regional focus on East Asia (China, Japan, Korea). Doctoral dissertations at GEAS are expected to analyze the institutional environment of social, political, cultural and economic actors in the East Asian region. All dissertation research at GEAS will be conducted in the context of the three interconnected research lenses of its academic profile: 1. the origin and change of institutions in East Asia, 2. the effects institutions have on processes, related to
Online | University of Bergen
Organized by Julia Marinaccio
This year the Chinese Communist Party pompously celebrated its 100th anniversary. Today, the party has over 92 million members and, for over 70 years, has continuously ruled a country as large as 9.6 Mio km2. In his speech on 1 July, officially marking the party’s centenary, ‘paramount’ leader Xi Jinping stated that China’s rise is a “historical inevitability,” making clear that the party is here to stay. The poised speech prompted wide international attention and debate about China’s standing and how it will shape our future. China’s position in the world has clearly changed over the past 70 years, and the party’s contribution to the country’s development is undeniable. However, as variegated the country and its society are,
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
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
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
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
Deadline: 15th Jan 2022
The Board of the European Association for Chinese Studies is pleased to announce again the EACS Young Scholar Award (YSA). The purpose of this award is to encourage research in Chinese studies among young scholars, especially, but not exclusively, scholars studying and working at European institutions. The Young Scholar Award is made possible through the generous support by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. It was first awarded during the 2004 EACS biennial conference in Heidelberg. Many papers submitted by shortlisted candidates in previous competitions have now appeared as peer-reviewed publications. The next YSA will be announced at the 24th biennial conference
University of Helsinki
Fall Semester 2021
Spotlight Taiwan Helsinki is organized by Department of Cultures at University of Helsinki, with the support of Taiwan’s Ministry of Cultures, Taipei Representative Office in Finland and Centre for East Asian Studies at University of Turku. The first two talks of the online lecture series “Spotlight Taiwan – Academic Lectures on Taiwan” will be held respectively by Prof. Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics and Political Science) on 24 September, and Prof. Ann Heylen (National Taiwan Normal University) on 1 October. Time below is Helsinki time, which is 1 hour
Every Thursday at 5:00 pm CET
Starting 16th Sep, 2021
The goal of the project is to introduce research practices in different sub-fields of Sinology that scholars adopt, but are
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
Spirit Consonance in Chinese Landscape Painting and Some Kantian Echoes. Published by Lexington Books, 2021.
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 good faith of researchers and in the transparency of academic research on China, and firmly believes that such approaches contribute significantly to the sustainability of international relations.
Open-access and peer-reviewed
Eine transgenerationale Sicht auf Politik und Emotion in der Volksrepublik China.
