Paris, France
21st Nov 2025
Venue
Salle Françoise Héritier
Institut des Civilisations du Collège de France
52, rue du Cardinal Lemoine
75005 Paris
Program
9.15-9.30
Institutional Greetings
Anne Cheng (Collège de France)
Laura De Giorgi (EACS)
9.30-11.00
Session 1 EACS and Chinese Studies: History and Future
Chair: Anne Cheng (Collège de France)
Marianne Bastid-Bruguière (ASMP, EHESS), Reviving a Republic of Letters among sinologists in Europe:
Kristofer Schipper and Yves Hervouet at work with friends and colleagues to establish the EACS in the 1970s.
Mugur Zlotea (University of Bucharest), Chinese Studies in Romania after the fall of Communism.
Bart Dessein (University of Ghent), Why the EACS matters.
11.00 Coffee break
11.30-13.00
Old and New Challenges for Sinology
Chair: Karine Chemla (CNRS)
Hans van Ess (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Challenges for traditional approaches to Sinology in challenging times
Olga Lomová (Charles University, Prague), Sinology between China and Europe in the time of artificial intelligence and global polarization
Roel Sterckx (University of Cambridge), Sinology, a curriculum at a crossroads? A view from the United Kingdom
14.30-16.30
Sinological Research: Understanding China between Past and Present
Chair: Gilles Guiheux (Universitè Paris Citè)
Fredrik Fällman (University of Gothenburg), Fine traditions”— reflections on an empty propaganda phrase as metaphor for Sinological research (“优良传统”——以空虚宣传口号为汉学研究隐喻的反思).
Tiziana Lippiello (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Educating to Change the World: The Transformative Journey of the Four Books
Wolfgang Behr (University of Zurich), The conceptual prehistory of ‘brainwashing’/xinao”
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (University of Vienna), How to become a world power: three chances for China in 1918, 1943 and 1971 and what they mean for today’s world power strategy
16:30 Coffee Break
17.00
Special event
Delphine Spicq (Collège de France), Presentation of rare books of the Chinese Library of the Collège de France
Attendance is upon registration writing to eacs2025paris@gmail.com
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