Conferences and Workshops Archive

Hybrid | Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
21–22nd Nov 2025

You are cordially invited to attend the 19th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS) addressing the theme of “Truths, Tensions, Technologies” as online audience members. The participation is free of charge, but subject to registration.

The conference is organized by the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc and takes place on November 21–22, 2025 in Olomouc, Czech Republic. All sessions (with the exception of Sessions 2D, 3D, and 7D) will be streamed via Zoom.

The program of the conference is available here:
https://kas.upol.cz/files/users/123/ACAS_PROGRAM_2025.pdf

The Book of Abstracts is available here:
https://kas.upol.cz/files/users/123/Conference_Guide_ACAS_2025.pdf

The times provided are in CET (Central European Time, UTC +1, Prague).

The online audience registration form is available here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVC2gUeR-q8ytD86J8qijtVVjO-SjS82outiRsPaWv511kJA/viewform

Further information about the conference can be found at the conference website:
https://acas.upol.cz/

We are looking forward to your participation!… Read more ⤻

Birmingham, UK
27-28th Nov 2025

Get ready to dive into the art world and visual culture of Chinese social media! Welcome to The Art of Chinese Social Media! Join us at the Birmingham School of Art for two days filled with insights, networking, and creativity. This conference seeks to explore the artistic strategies and visual cultures generated from Chinese social media to reflect broader sociopolitical dynamics in the context of Xi Jinping’s increasing digital censorship and control. How do platforms like Weibo, Douyin/TikTok, and WeChat construct new forms of artistic practice and cultural expression within the new age of ‘digital China’ and the deglobalising world? In what ways do contemporary artists and communities remediate social media to challenge power asymmetries, and foster digital democratisation through reclaiming agency and individual empowerment?

The conference welcomes contributions that can develop disciplinary perspectives and critical inquiries on the art and aesthetics of Chinese social media in the fields of visual arts, digital media, design, performing arts, and cultural studies.… Read more ⤻

Ghent, Belgium
9-11th Sep 2025
Apply before: 10th Aug 2025

On behalf of the organizing committee headed by Prof. dr. Laura De Giorgi, President of EACS and Prof. dr. Bart Dessein, scientific coordinator of the ‘ReConnect China’ project, we are happy to invite applications of PhD students and junior post-docs (maximum 2 years post-doc experience) to participate in the Specialist Course ’50 Years of EU-China Relations’.

Venue: Conference Centre ‘De Abt’, Lange Kruisstraat 4, 9000 Gent, Belgium (https://www.deabt.gent/)

Marking the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the European Union and the People’s Republic of China, this ‘Specialist Course’ will assess the history and trajectory of these relations in the fields of economy, politics, cultural diplomacy, scientific collaboration, and the importance in these fields of the presence of overseas Chinese in the European Union. Lectures on each of the topics will be conducted by a leading academic in the field. The objective of the Specialist Course is also to, apart from assessing these different domains in their historical and future perspectives separately, foster cross-disciplinary understanding.… Read more ⤻

University of Zurich, Switzerland
Hybrid format
11–13th Jul 2025

The workshop will explore various modes of reasoning in Chinese philosophical traditions.
Online attendance is possible.
For registration, please visit: www.aoi.uzh.ch/registration
This workshop explores how processes of thinking and reasoning are reflected in traditional Chinese philosophy — including forms that are not easily captured by formal or discursive logic. One avenue we pursue is the connection between vision and thought as developed in Chinese philosophical traditions. While the metaphor of vision in the European context often represents intellectual clarity or timeless truths, Chinese philosophical texts engage vision differently: as a means of attending to change, process, and the situatedness of the observer. The workshop brings together perspectives from Chinese philosophy, Buddhist studies, and related fields to examine how distinctions between discursive and non-discursive modes of thought are articulated — or problematized — in Chinese traditions, and how these approaches may offer alternative ways of understanding reasoning itself.… Read more ⤻

27th Jun 2025
Birmingham, UK

The 3rd CCVA PhD Forum will be held on 27th June, and it is open for registration. For the full forum programme please see below.
The 3rd CCVA PhD Forum 2025 opens for registrationIn response to the increase of doctoral projects in the field of Chinese arts, design, media, and visual culture, the CCVA PhD Forum is designed as a UK-wide platform to support PhD students further, enhance intellectual exchanges of ideas and critical debates, expand the participation of young generation scholars, and celebrate our achievement of up-to-date doctoral research. As a summer event to complement our winter conference, the CCVA PhD Forum aims to provide a unique space for all students within and beyond the UK, who are conducting doctoral research, new PhDs (awarded within 12 months), as well as for supervisors, advisors, and examiners, and those who are interested in pursuing a PhD in the future, to share, debate and innovate.… Read more ⤻

Olomouc, Czech Republic
21-22nd Nov 2025
Deadline: 15th Jul 2025

Organised by the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc. The central theme of ACAS 2025 is “Truths, Tensions, Technologies.” The conference will be held on November 21–22, 2025, in Olomouc, Czech Republic, and the abstract submission deadline is July 15. More information can be found in the attached CfP or on the conference website: acas.upol.cz.

Göttingen, Germany | YouTube livestream
19th May 2025

On May 19th and May 21s (Monday and Wednesday) Göttingen will host a conference on “Identity, Ignorance, and the Politics of the Self” that is co-organized by Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen University) and Wang Hui (Tsinghua University). The conference will host a range of renowned artists and writers (e.g. Xu Bing, Yu Hua, Steffen Kopetzky) and internationally renowned scholars.

Venue

Paulinerkirche (Papendiek 14, 37073 Göttingen)

Conference Program
Monday, May 19, 2025
14:00 – 19:15
https://www.youtube.com/@centreformoderneastasianst8840
Online Option: YouTube Livestream

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Oxford, United Kingdom
4th Jul 2025
Deadline: 9th May 2025

The organisers Jacob Fordham (London School of Economics and Political Science), Simon Lam (University of Oxford) and Paul Napier (University of Oxford) invite proposals for a workshop to take place in Oxford, United Kingdom, on 4 July 2025.

The “History of South China: Sources, Methods, and New Approaches” workshop aims to bring together contributions which utilize new sources, methods, and approaches in exploring the many histories of the South China region, including Macau and Hong Kong, across all periods. It caters to the growing interest amongst historians of China based in the United Kingdom and Europe on histories from below, often through the foregrounding of local and regional voices. Moving away from perspectives of the “nation-state” and “party-state”, the workshop instead seeks to emphasise the diversity of local and regional voices that often become subsumed in traditional national-level narratives.

The workshop also aims to examine the broader applicability of innovative methodologies developed by scholars working on this region.… Read more ⤻

Turin / Milan, Italy
30th June – 11th Jul 2025
Deadline: 9th Jun 2025

🌏 In June 2024, 54 PhD candidates, graduate students, young scholars, and professionals came together in Turin, Italy, for the 18th edition of the Hashtag#TOChina Summer School — two high-intensity weeks of advanced training on the politics, political economy, and foreign policy of contemporary Hashtag#China.

📅 The 19th edition of the program will take place from June 30 to July 11, 2025, at the Università degli Studi di Torino and Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, in partnership with John Cabot University. Join one of Europe’s leading summer programs on contemporary China.

👉 Online applications are open until June 9: https://lnkd.in/eJ427AB
General information: https://www.tochina.it/training/tochina-summer-school… Read more ⤻

Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
16-20th Jun 2025
Deadline: 2nd Mar 2025

The 12th edition (2025) of the EACL Summer School in Chinese Linguistics will be held from 16th June to 20th Jun 2025 in the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, the Czech Republic.
The goal of the summer school is to provide an opportunity for MA and PhD students affiliated to European universities to be exposed to areas in Chinese linguistics which might not be available in their home institution.

The 12th edition of the EACL Summer School in Chinese Linguistics has the following 4 courses (for each course, 1.5 hours per class, 3 classes in total):

“Topics in the syntax of predicate phrases in Mandarin” (Huba Bartos, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
“Chinese morphology” (Bianca Basciano, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
“The Chinese nominal” (Joanna Ut-Seong Sio, Palacký University Olomouc)
“Invitation to Phonological tone” (Lian Hee Wee, Hong Kong Baptist University)

There will also be 2 special seminars (1.5 hours per seminar):

“A practical introduction to Shuo Wen Jie Zi” (David Uher and Tereza Slamenikova, Palacký University Olomouc)
“Keywords of post-1989 intellectual discourse: metaphors of social change and intellectual choice in the ‘debate on the spirit of the humanities’ (1993-1995)” (Giorgio Strafella, Palacký University Olomouc)

Students must attend all classes in all 4 courses, and fulfill other course requirements, if any.… Read more ⤻

26-27th Jul 2025
Deadline: 15th Apr 2025

The “Iserlohner Kreis” is a loose circle of young social scientists working on China. Our annual workshop will be held from 26 to 27 July 2025 at Haus Villigst in Schwerte, Germany. This year, our discussion will centre on new research topics and challenges in Chinese Studies.

The workshop aims at young scholars looking to discuss their master’s theses, dissertations and habilitations as well as their completed or ongoing research projects, applications and academic articles in an informal setting. Beyond social science research on the Sinophone world, we also particularly welcome interdisciplinary work. Participants may present thematic trends and new findings from their own projects, their work on theoretical categorisations and practical methodology as well as related challenges. The workshop is intended as a platform for specific problems and receiving constructive peer feedback.

Leuven, Belgium
13-15th Jun 2025
Deadline: 31st Mar 2025

This year’s annual conference of the China Work Group (China AG) will be held on June 13-15, 2025 at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), in Belgium.
Founded in 1992 as a work group for young researchers, the China AG aims to further exchanges between junior scholars from Sinology, Chinese studies, and related fields of research. The annual conferences promote the presentation of ongoing or recently finished research projects and discussions of current challenges and experiences with teaching.

Furthermore, they provide a space for networking and informal conversations about one’s ownresearch.

We ask junior scholars (starting from the BA level up to those interested in a doctorate, postdocs etc.) to send us title and abstract (200-250 words) of their presentations. Contributions on all academic topics relating to China are welcome, explicitly including interdisciplinary approaches. We also accept suggestions of desired topics for discussions concerning teaching.

The main conference language is English, but presentations may be delivered in other commonly spoken languages.… Read more ⤻

Trier University, Germany
1–5th Sep 2025

International Workshop from Project TAP “Taiwan as a Pioneer – Local Innovation in the Dynamics of Global Megatrends”

For our final project year, we would like to invite academics and young scholars researching Taiwan to our 4th International Workshop from 1 to 5 September 2025 at Trier University. If your research contributes to Taiwan’s Responses to Global Mega-trends or apply innovative methods to Taiwan Studies, we would like to encourage you to join our program. The TAP team engages with a broad range of topics, approaches, and methods. We invite submissions that explore local responses in Tai-wan (climate change responses, innovation technologies, digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, migration, demographic changes, and rapid urbanisation). We particularly invite submissions that address Taiwan’s innovative role and responses to global dynamics and megatrends. We also favor innovative methodologies, methods, and new perspectives on Taiwan studies.

Submission Instruction & Timeline

For those interested, we ask for your submission of a working title, abstracts, and CV by 15 April 2025.… Read more ⤻

KU Leuven, Belgium
1-3rd Jul 2025
Deadline: 20th Feb 2025

From antiquity to the present, rarely has a topic been discussed as widely in China as revenge. Literature, philosophy, law, theater, cinema, and many more fields have dealt with revenge for over two millennia and continue to negotiate it to this day. While in philosophical texts often
described as governed by ritual and specific rules, revenge can likewise be rampant, brutal, and used to defy social and political expectations, as found in Chinese novels and contemporary movies. Folk tales portray outlaws as heroes for taking revenge, whereas lawful state servants become the target of the joke. Conversely, the Triads operate outside the boundaries of the law, while their actions strictly conform to their self-imposed ritual codices, such as when and how to take revenge. And Chinese opera and theater have long used revenge for entertainment, while in recent years consumers have used entertainment products for revenge buying.… Read more ⤻

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 an alternative realm characterized by a decentralized network of communication and unparalleled connectivity.

For detailed Call for Paper, please visit
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/online-symposium-virtual-spaces-and-new-horizons-humanities-digital-age

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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 can find all the information in the following link: https://eventos.ugr.es/iv-congreso-aeeao-2025/

Important dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: December 8, 2024.
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: February 5, 2025
Deadline for registration: 4 April 2025
Scholarship application period: March 3 – March 14, 2025 (see scholarship information)
Notification of scholarship resolution: March 31, 2025

We encourage you to participate and to share this information with those who may be interested.

Social Networks and Webs Commission
IV Congress of the Spanish Association of East Asian Studies
AEEAO
https://www.esasiaoriental.es/congreso/iv-congreso-aeeao-granada-2025/… Read more ⤻

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 of their lives. Prospective participants are encouraged to submit proposals that resonate with this theme. However, presentations of any new research in the broad area of Chinese music studies are also welcome, whether these engage with the theme or not.

CHIME: Worldwide Platform for Chinese Music (https://www.chimemusic.net/)

New digital media provide for “repackaging” of traditions, access to distant events, gestures of sharing and commemoration, and spaces (and toolkits) for new creation, online learning, critical commentary, or playful remixing. We might study these situations in several ways:
•     as platforms and tools for new kinds of musical creation, curation, and participation
•     as spaces for new formats of presentation, repatriation, and commemoration
•     as settings where performance facets like musical expression, liveness, or authenticity are open to striking reformulations
•     as a source of musical materials, influences, threats, or inspirations
•     as contexts that raise expanded economic and reputational possibilities as well as ethical or legal concerns

We welcome proposals that address one or more of these questions, or which pose other questions related to the digital futures for Chinese music, as well as those relating to new research more broadly.… Read more ⤻

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 on East Asia and Southeast Asia and its global connections in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are particularly welcome to apply.

School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom
Keynote speaker: Professor Su Lin Lewis (University of Bristol)

Potential topics/themes may include, but are not limited to:

• Women and informal diplomacy
• Women in international and transnational organisations
• Gender and cultural diplomacy
• Gender and war
• Gender and propaganda
• Gender and decolonisation
• Masculinities
• Gendered discourses in diplomatic sources

The workshop aims to be a starting point for a future publication project.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short biographical note by 8 December 2024 to LopesH@cardiff.ac.uk… Read more ⤻

13-14th Dec 2024
Florence, Italy

The primary goal of this conference is to bring new insights about European Sinophone studies, as well as to bridge the gap between researchers from Europe who explore the Sinophone “from” Europe and those who investigate the Sinophone “in” Europe, with a particular emphasis on the latter. Together, we will delve into what we call “Sinophone Europe” – a complex space where cultures, histories, and identities converge, intertwine, and evolve. The conference will take place on 13-14 December 2024, in Florence, Italy. The initiators of this project are Valentina Pedone (University of Florence) and Rebecca Ehrenwirth (University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich).

Website: https://sinophoneeurope.com/… Read more ⤻

7-9th Nov 2024
Trier University, Germany
Deadline: 12th Sep 2024

The Taiwan as a Pioneer (TAP) project at Trier University, Germany, is excited to announce a workshop for a diverse group of lecturers about Taiwan, including Ph.D. candidates, postdocs, and established scholars. The workshop, scheduled from 7 to 9 November 2024, will be conducted in English, Chinese, German, and Taiwanese. We aim to delve into Taiwan-related class content subjects, develop teaching recommendations, and foster connections among Taiwan-related lecturers.

We are open to receiving paper submissions on various topics, focusing on teaching Taiwanese languages, culture, and related fields. The questions addressed in the presentations of this workshop can be theoretical as well as practical ones, such as:
• important aspects of Taiwanese language and culture for intercultural teaching of German- or English-speaking students
• influence of Taiwan’s different languages (Mandarin, Taiwanese Southern Min & Hakka, Austronesian languages) on language and especially culture classes
• application of literature, films, songs, podcasts, etc.… Read more ⤻

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Deadline: 17th Sep 2024

The Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the scientific disciplinary sector CULTURES AND LANGUAGES OF CENTRAL, SOUTH, EASTERN AND SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA – Cod. GSD 10/ASIA-01

Candidates should submit a research project in English on one of the topics and research themes within the scope of the Marco Polo Research Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections. The topics may cover different spaces, times (from Neolithic times to the present day), and themes (from modern geopolitics to religious identities, to archaeological sites). The main focus should be on trans-Eurasian interactions, intercultural contact, and exchange, particularly at the crossroads of the ostensible European-Asian divide. The project should be based on rigorous scholarship that would contribute to international academic conversations within and across diverse disciplines. These include but are not limited to history, international relations, economics, environmental studies, literature, languages, archaeology, art history, philosophy, religion, anthropology, geography, music, social sciences, and the digital humanities.… Read more ⤻

15-16th Oct 2024
Paris, France

Organized by Lia Wei and Manuel Sassmann, Funded by the ANR (French Research Agency) project Altergraphy https://altergraphy.hypotheses.org/

Location: Auditorium du Pôle des langues et civilisations, 65 Rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris

Inscriptions can open up a world extending far beyond chisel marks on the stone surface. In eight roundtables, we propose to explore the rich cultural history of epigraphy in East Asia. By striding out its multiple dimensions of time and space, both physical and imaginary, scholars from the sinographic sphere with diverse disciplinary backgrounds will attempt to chart together the Epiverse. The experimental format of this conference aims at facilitating present and future collaborations in the field, and defining common research paths on stone inscriptions and inscribed landscapes.

Guests: Hilde De Weerdt (KU Leuven); Yolaine Escande 幽蘭 (CNRS/CRAL/EHESS); Michael Hatch (Trinity College); Shao-Lan Hertel 何小蘭 (Cologne East Asian Art Museum); Lee Sunkyu (KU Leuven); Li Ziyi 李子怡 (China Academy of Art); Jonathan Pettit (University of Hawaii); Sakata Gensho 坂田玄翔; Thomas Hahn (UC Berkeley); Shi Tianyu (Hamburg University); Shin Jeongsoo 신정수 (Academy of Korean Studies); Yan Weitian 閻緯天 (Indiana University); Aida Yuen Wong 阮圓 (Brandeis University); Xue Lei 薛磊 (Oregon State University).… Read more ⤻

University of Music, Drama and Media Hannover, Germany
Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim, Germany
3-6th Oct 2024

Urgent contemporary challenges have brought sustainability (可持续性) into sharp focus as a basic concern across musical worlds and research into music and sound. What are the historical and contemporary threats to the vibrancy of traditions and practices in Chinese music (technological, economic, political developments) and how have people acted to secure dynamic futures (heritage work, education, advocacy)? How has Chinese music been affected by the acute climate and environmental crisis, and can it become a potent force for change? Against these backdrops, how do individual musicians and researchers build lasting careers?

We welcome the following forms of proposal engaging with the broad theme of sustainability and Chinese music:

1. Individual paper (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions): submit an abstract of max. 250 words
2. Panel sessions of three to four papers: submit a panel abstract of max.

20-22nd Nov 2024
Deadline: 18th Mar 2024

« Illustration as a Mode of Commentary in Chinese Textual Traditions », the first workshop of the research program entitled « Commentary and the Dissemination of Knowledge », at the CRCAO (https://www.crcao.fr/), will take place online from the 20th to the 22nd of November 2024.
The call for paper and all information about the organization of the workshop are available on the conference website: https://commentillustrate.sciencesconf.org/
To submit a proposal, the deadline is March 18th 2024.… Read more ⤻

Riga, Latvia
23-26th May 2024
Deadline: 25th Mar 2024

Dear esteemed colleagues and scholars,
We are delighted to invite you to present your paper at our upcoming conference on the dialogue of Asian civilizations, which have experienced intense transformations, from a new angle evaluating their ancient traditions along with Western influences and offering universally relevant ideas based on the Asian heritage in times of accelerated globalization. This event aims to bring together scholars, researchers, and experts from diverse fields to explore the possibilities for the further evolution of the world from the perspective of the strategies proposed by Asian countries.
Conference Details:
· Date: May 23-26, 2024
· Venue: University of Latvia, Raiņa bulvāris 19, Riga, Latvia
Latvian Academy of Sciences, Akadēmijas laukums 1, Riga, Latvia
· Theme: Dialogue of Asian Civilizations in Accelerated Globalization
· Working language: English
Conference homepage address with a link to the registration sheet:
https://www.baas2024.lu.lv/
conference e-mail: baas2024lv@gmail.com

Looking forward your participation,
Agnese Haijima
Associate Professor
University of Latvia
Department of Asian studies

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University of Cambridge, UK
20–22nd Sep 2024
Deadline: 31st Mar 2024

The VIEWS project (Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems) at the University of Cambridge is now accepting paper proposals for its first conference.

Writing is an intrinsically visual practice. How script looks—and how it is seen—are often of crucial importance. This conference asks how we may approach the study of the visual aspects of writing. What factors contribute to the way writing looks? How socially and culturally dependent are they? What difference does it make to think of writing as a visual phenomenon and practice? What sensory and aesthetic factors attend the production of written material and encounters with them, by people of differing levels of literacy?

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars and practitioners from a diverse range of backgrounds and approaches to explore methodologies for studying these aspects of writing practices. We invite papers that address these questions from a wide range of perspectives (e.g.,… Read more ⤻

University of Cambridge, UK
8–10th Jul 2024
Deadline: 23rd Feb 2024

This international conference aims to bring together scholars working on practices of record-keeping, historiography, and hagiography in the Buddhist tradition and in related cultural fields. Recent years saw a steadily growing interest in the impact of Buddhism on historiography and hagiography, in tandem with an unprecedented increase in the availability of textual and visual primary sources. Ambitious digitization projects and the changing landscape of the digital realm offer new opportunities to study premodern and contemporary practices of writing and narration. In this three-day conference, we seek to foster an interdisciplinary discussion on practices of textual and visual recording, storytelling, and memory in Chinese Buddhism and beyond – past, present, and future.

本次國際會議旨在匯集從事佛教傳統及相關文化領域研究的學者，探討文獻保存、史學書寫與聖徒傳記等主題。近年來，學界對佛教之於史學和傳記的影響產生日益濃厚的興趣，同時可用的文本及視覺一手材料也前所未有地增加。宏大的數位化項目（尤其是古代資源）及數位領域的變化為研究古代和當代的書寫及敘事實踐提供了新的機會。在這場為期三天的會議中，我們著眼於文字及視覺記錄、故事講述與記憶保存等方面，希望促進有關中國佛教及其他文化語境（過去、現在和將來）的跨學科討論。

This conference is generously sponsored by the Tzu Chi 慈濟 Foundation and hosted by the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.

此次會議由台灣佛教慈濟基金會慷慨贊助，並由劍橋大學亞洲和中東研究學系主辦。

The conference will take place at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, United Kingdom, on 8-10 July 2024 (08/07/2024-10/07/2024).… Read more ⤻

Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Deadline: 26th May 2019

The 2019 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 the school also covers 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.

Local tradition includes religion, philosophy, local custom and folklore. Modernity is the complex of capitalism, communism, consumerism, free market economy, and globalisation, jointly shaping the South and East Asian cultures. In particular, the school focuses on the latest developments in Asian fantasy literature, including internet literature, modern historiographic fiction, and science fiction.

The notion of literature here includes the full written cultural record, including its visualisations (film, theatre, comics, etc.) in the modern Asian cultures using both primary texts and translations.… Read more ⤻

International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures
Renmin University of China, Suzhou, PRC
22–26th Aug 2024
 
The International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures (ICSATC) at Renmin University of China, holds its sixth Ph.D. Student and Young Scholar workshop on August 22–26, 2024, in Suzhou (near Shanghai). Four renowned scholars from Ancient Chinese, Greek, and Latin Literature will present lectures and seminars on the topic of “First Books,” that is, the early development of book culture in these different ancient civilizations. Student research activities will complement the lectures. The principal language of instruction and interaction is English.

Meeting Place: Renmin University of China, Suzhou campus

Instructors:
Prof. emeritus Glenn Most, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Greek Literature)
Prof. emeritus Denis Feeney, Princeton University (Latin Literature)
Prof. Jianwei Xu, Renmin University of China (Chinese Literature)
Prof. Martin Kern, Princeton University (Chinese Literature) 

Schedule:
August 21: Arrival and registration
August 22–25: Lectures, seminars, and research activities
August 26: Student presentations and plenary conclusion

Following the workshop, students are invited to stay in Suzhou, a World Heritage site for its beautiful gardens and canals, for an international conference on the same topic, to be held on August 28–29.… Read more ⤻

Munich, Germany
1-2nd Jun 2024

The annual conference of the China Work Group (China-AG) will take place at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich on June 1st and 2nd, 2024.
The goal of the China AG as a work group of young scholars from the field of Chinese cultural studies of the German-speaking sphere, founded in 1992, is to further exchange between junior scholars in Sinology and connected disciplines. The annual conference serves to present ongoing or recently finished research projects, as well as to discuss current challenges in university teaching. Contributions dealing with occurring problems of junior scholars (research contents as well as practical) and how to constructively cope with them are of particular interest.
Junior scholars (including those interested in a doctorate, PostDocs, etc.) are cordially invited to hand in title and a brief description (ca. 200‒250 words) of their presentations. Contributions on all academic topics relating to China are welcome, especially including interdisciplinary approaches, as well as suggestions of desired topics for the discussion of academic teaching.… Read more ⤻

Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Ljubljana, Slovenia
13-17th Sep 2023
Registration deadline: 31st Jul 2023

For a comprehensive overview of the conference, including the preliminary conference programme, location map, registration details and details on accompanying events, please visit the official conference website: https://ea-aaa.eu/conference-eaaa/… Read more ⤻

25th International CHIME Conference, Heidelberg Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS)
1-4th Oct 2023

Exactly 25 years after the last International Chime Conference in Heidelberg that focused on “Barbarian Pipes and Strings,” we return to the city by the Neckar and the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) that now houses the CHIME Collection to reconsider musical practices in China from a transcultural perspective.

From Confucian debates about the “musics from Zheng and Wei” to more contemporary disputes on “lascivious musics” and “spiritual pollution”—Sunny Side Kong Yiji 阳光开朗孔乙己 just being one of the more recent examples—from controversies over ownership and copyright in old and new folksong or regional opera; to complaints about exoticism on the one hand and self-orientalism on the other—the question of how dangerous, strange or (in)authentic sounds and musics are and who “owns” them, has been important to music-making in China—even while melodies, instruments and sounds from afar have, for the longest of times, been considered some of its most “typical” elements.… Read more ⤻

24-29th Jul 2023
Reggio Emilia, Italy
Deadline: 31st May 2023

Great power competition or multipolar world? China will play a crucial role in both scenarios. It is therefore essential to decipher Beijing’s strategies and interactions with Western countries and the Global South. Engage with our leading scholars to acquire key interdisciplinary tools and new knowledge to keep up with this epochal change. Join our unique summer school.

Visit this announcement’s website at: https://summerschool.cscc.it/… Read more ⤻

University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy
6-7th Jul 2023
Deadline: 31st Dec 2022

Organizers: Dr. habil. Phillip Grimberg (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg), Dr. Federico Brusadelli (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
The Yongzheng Emperor 雍正 (1678-1735) and his reign (1723-1735), overshadowed by the towering personalities of his father, Emperor Kangxi (1662-1722), and his son, Emperor Qianlong (1736-1796), remains an obscure figure in Chinese history with a rather bleak reputation. He ascended the throne after his father’s death under suspicious circumstances that haunted him for the rest of his life and would shape his image to this day. Nevertheless, the emperor was a shrewd statesman and an
efficient administrator who fought rampant corruption within the government and court society, as well as a gifted artist and patron of the arts who laid the foundation for his son’s splendour. The goal of this workshop, which coincides with the 300th anniversary of Yongzheng’s accession to the throne, is to examine the multi-faceted personality of this often overlooked Chinese emperor in all its facets and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.… Read more ⤻

Online | Zoom
14th Oct 2022

The Ukrainian Associations of Sinologists, jointly with A. Krysmkyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Science of Ukrainian and Helvetica Publishing Group, is pleased to invite you to an international online conference “Analyzing the Sinophone Narrative on the Russian Invasion in Ukraine” that will take place on 14 October 2022 at 3-7 pm Kyiv time (GMT+3) on Zoom. The programme of the event and the sign up form are accessible at https://sinophone-narratives.org/ . Looking forward to welcoming you at the event!… Read more ⤻

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, Oceanica and Africa. The DOT has since been established as the largest and most important event of German cultural studies on Africa and Asia. The 34th DOT at the Freie Universität Berlin marks its 100th anniversary. Participation is open to all scholars, students and members of the public worldwide and does not require membership in the DMG. The languages of the conference are all common scholarly languages.”… Read more ⤻

University of Oslo
8th Sep 2021
3:00—4:30 pm CET
21:00 Beijing, 09:00 am Washington DC

Due to unforeseen circumstances this event will be postponed by one week. The new time is 8th of September 3pm Oslo time. All welcome!

China’s economic reforms have caused rapid growth for a period of forty years. The Chinese Communist Party’s gradualist approach to reform was not inevitable. What were the alternative routes and why were they abandoned? What new obstacles for further Chinese economic development may change its future course?

For more information and to sign up for this event, visit:

External link…… Read more ⤻