Conferences and Workshops Archive

Leicester, UK
24 – 25th Sept 2014

“The first international conference in the UK hosted by the University of Leicester’s China Studies Research Alliance (ChiSRA).” As China has grown economically, its cultural and political landscape has changed profoundly. As well as raising living standards, China now needs to satisfy its people’s growing desire for world-class education, healthcare, food and water security, clean environments and cultural influence in arts and technology.

President Xi Jinping’s ‘China Dream’ points to a vision for how China will engage the world for the next two to three decades. But media and China-watchers the world over have been asking what it all means.

Our conference will explore the  ‘China Dream’ in a provocative and exciting way, with speakers from a range of disciplines in the arts and social sciences.

Visit the conference website at: External link… … Read more ⤻

Perth, Australia
26th- 28th Feb 2015
Deadline: 25th Nov 2014

The International Conference Buddhism & Australia 2015 will be held on 26-28 February, 2015 in Perth, Western Australia. This conference investigates the history, current and future directions for Buddhism in Australasia and main theme for Buddhism & Australia 2015 will be Buddhist Symbols and Symbolism

The organizers are open to proposals for contributions on Buddhism history, philosophy, texts as well for proposals on any related theme All Buddhists, scholars and members of the general public interested in Buddhism are invited to present their papers in this coming conference. Researchers across a broad range of disciplines are welcomed as well the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.

What to Send

Proposals may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information:
a) author(s);
b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme
c) email address,
d) title of proposal,
e) body of proposal; no more than 300 words,
f) up to 10 keywords.… Read more ⤻

Macquarie Univ. Sydney, Australia
Dec 9th – 11th 2014
Deadlines: Early Jul and Oct 2014

You are cordially invited to the international symposium “Reading the Old in the Light of the Newly Discovered: Chinese Philosophy and Ancient Chinese Texts” organized by Chinese Studies, Department of International Studies (Languages and Cultures), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, to be held on 9-11 December 2014.
The symposium aims to explore a topic of scholarly importance: traditional Chinese thought in the newly recovered ancient texts.
In the past four decades, the discovery of previously unknown texts dating to the fourth century BCE and to the Han Dynasty, as well as older versions of known texts, has revolutionalized the study of early Chinese philosophy and history.  The texts are of great significance in understanding the development of major strands in Chinese thought and allowing us a fresh opportunity to ask crucial questions about ancient Chinese culture and history. Experts and key researchers in the fields of early Chinese writing and classical Chinese thought are being invited to contribute to the discussion of the topics in terms of modes of manuscript production, Chinese intellectual history, and new interpretations of Chinese thought in these newly recovered texts from this formative period of Chinese philosophy.… Read more ⤻

Hanover, Germany
11th – 12th Dec 2014
Extended Deadline: Jul 31st 2014

Venue: Conference, Herrenhausen Castle, Hanover/Germany

The international conference China in the Global Academic Landscapes deals with the academic implications of the growing global significance of China in general and its university sector in particular. Among other subjects, we will reflect upon the massive transformations of China’s research and tertiary education sectors, as well as their international entanglements. Yet the conference will not solely deal with academic structures and policies: rather, it will pay due attention to important epistemological challenges and changes. For instance, focusing on the social sciences and humanities, we will debate whether the current transformations in the global academic landscapes (and their underlying sociologies of knowledge) will also have an impact on the future directions that research might take in single fields.

The conference will take place on December 11th and 12th 2014 in Herrenhausen Castle in Hanover/Germany. It will convene renowned researchers and academic policy-makers from Europe, East Asia, North America and other parts of the world.… Read more ⤻

Heidelberg, Germany
11th – 13th Jul 2014

On a scale unprecedented and unmatched anywhere else in the world, China over the course of the last century has enjoyed a tremendous increase of historical source texts through excavation. Manuscript texts retrieved particularly from early but also from medieval sites have multiplied the volume of text that is available to us from those periods and have brought to light whole new genres of literature, breathtaking historical information, and hitherto unknown script styles. Most of these manuscripts have been recovered during well-documented archaeological excavations, but an increasing number are also being discovered by illegal digging and subsequently sold without any information on their archaeological origins.

The pluralistic origins of these sources, as well as the richness of their contents and broad range of their forms, have created new practical, theoretical, and methodological challenges, among them questions of standards and classification. A reappraisal is called for, not only of the explanatory models that historical sources themselves supply us with, such as the narrative of the sudden unification of the script under the First Emperor, but also of long-cherished criteria, beliefs, and practices that we use to apply to our subject, such as criteria to distinguish between different hands, the belief that traditional sources have already provided us with a good grasp of what was considered orthodox and what not, and the practice of studying manuscripts only on the basis of transcriptions of their text.… Read more ⤻

Paris, France
6th – 10th Jul 2015

The 14^th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (14^th ICHSEA) will take place in Paris, 6-10 July 2015. It is organised under the auspices of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), on behalf of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine (ISHEASTM).

The conference is the latest in a series of major international meetings that have taken place in Europe, East Asia and America since 1990. It will bring together researchers from all over the world to present and discuss their latest research relevant to the history of science, technology and medicine in East Asia from antiquity up to the present day.

Panels and plenary lectures will address the theme of the Conference, “Sources, locality and globalisation: science, technology and medicine in East Asia”.  But proposals for panels and individual presentations relating to the wider area covered by this series of conferences are also warmly encouraged.… Read more ⤻

Oxford, UK
21st – 22nd May 2015
Deadline: 31st Dec 2014

Several scholars have agreed to lend their support to an initiative from Dr Peter Rowan, the UK National Director of OMF International, to hold a two-day conference at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS), Woodstock Road, Oxford, in Spring 2015, to mark the 150 years since the foundation of the China Inland Mission/OMF.  Among those supporting this initiative are Dr Patrick Fung (General Director OMF, Singapore), Dr Tom Harvey (OCMS), Professor David Killingray (School of Advanced Study, University of London), Professor  Gary Tiedemann (Shandong University, formerly SOAS, London), Professor Charles Weber (Wheaton College, IL), Dr Paul Woods (OCMS), and Dr Zheng Yangwen (University of Manchester).

The focus of the conference will be on the role played by Chinese Christians in the shaping of Protestant and Catholic Christianity within China over the past century-and-a-half.  This is not to ignore the significant role of foreign missionaries whose accounts have been well told, but to redress the balance and to bring to life the very important contribution of the many indigenous Christians, often marginalised in western-told histories, who spoke the language, understood the cultures, and were often the primary active agents in helping to spread a knowledge of the gospel. … Read more ⤻

London, UK
23rd – 24th Apr 2015
Deadline: 1st Jul 2014

A 2-day international conference to be held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR), School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK, on Thursday 23 – Friday 24 April 2015.

Can translation be said to define the contemporary ethos (Alexis Nouss, 2007)? This conference asks to what extent the concept of ‘ ranslation’ and images of translators and interpreters have been employed to talk about ideas well beyond the activity of rendering a text into another language. Is the early 21st Century a time of especially intense ‘translation talk’? Have there been other times and places in which one can identify a similar cultural fascination or anxiety connected with the idea of translation?

This conference explores the idea of ‘translation talk’, in other words, the many
and varied ways in which translation as an activity and the translator as a figure have been interpreted and given cultural significance.… Read more ⤻

Frankfurt, Germany
4th - 5th Jul 2014

Casino Anbau 1.802
Campus Westend
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Organizer: Zhiyi Yang, Jun.-Prof. Dr.
Department of Sinology

Sponsor: Confucius China Studies Program

Program

July 04, 2014

9:30-10:00 Opening Ceremony 開幕式
Speaker: Vice President Prof. Lutz-Bachmann; IZO-Director Arndt Graf
10:00-10:30 Keynote Speech 主題報告

Beijing, PR China
2nd – 3rd Sep 2014
Deadline: 25th May 2014

China is dramatically increasing its media presence in the world. Within the next few months CCTV will establish in Europe its third Media Hub, after Africa and the USA. Xinhua has expanded its operations and includes 24 hour television news. The quality and range of publications, radio and television channels and online information has developed rapidly in several languages. Chinese media are supplying facilities and training to the media of many other countries, even as they also soak up the experience and knowledge of the most advanced media industries. Not only national media but provincial media are entering the world’s markets.    

Download the full call for papers here…

The deadline for abstracts is 25 May 2014. Successful applicants will be notified early in June 2014. Abstracts should be 200 words. They must be accompanied by the presenter’s name, affiliation, email and postal addresses, together with the title of the paper and a 150-word biographical note on the presenter.… Read more ⤻

3rd – 5th Jul 2014
Nanjing University, PR China
Deadline: 30th Apr 2014

We are writing to invite the submission of papers for an international Symposium on the Supervision of postgraduates in TCSL, to be held at Nanjing University from July 3rd to 5th, 2014. The Symposium will aim to address the issues of training and supervision of research students – both MA and Ph.D – in the field of  TCSL. This will be the third symposium in a series, and follows the success of earlier symposia held in 2012 and 2013 at the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield in the UK. Both symposia were attended by leading figures in the fields of TCSL from all over the world.

Papers are invited from both established researchers and research students. Papers presented in the first two symposia focused mainly on the design and provision of courses for MA and PhD students of TCSL, and on promoting the development of Chinese linguistics and the quality of learning and teaching Chinese as a second language.… Read more ⤻

Nottingham, UK
18th – 19th Jul 2014
Deadline: 20th Mar 2014

The conference explores China’s global linkages from a multidisciplinary perspective. We welcome presentations on economics, international relations, politics, people-to-people relations, media, and historical and cultural linkages. Presenters are also greatly encouraged to share their methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. The conference aims to promote international co-operation between early career academics, creating opportunities for networking and future academic exchange.
Panel sessions will include, but are not restricted to:

anthropology

business and finance

economics

history

international relations

politics

sociology 

Registration details and schedule:

（1） A paper title, abstract (maximum 300 words in English) and short bio to be sent by 20th March 2014 to sccsphdconference@gmail.com

（2） The selected participants will be notified by 20th April 2014.

Who can apply?

We invite current and recent PhD students working on China at academic institutions in the UK and abroad.

Organisers: School of Contemporary Chinese Studies PhD Student Conference Committee, University of Nottingham.… Read more ⤻

29th – 30th Apr 2014
Changchun, PR China

Organized by Jilin University School of Economics and, University of Amsterdam Business school. We invite submission of empirical, theoretical and applied research addressing approaches, challenges and prospects of technology entrepreneurship for building innovation-based economy.
Publication opportunity: In addition to conference proceedings, selected best papers from the conference will be submitted for publication in the Technology Analysis & Strategic management Journal.
 
We are proud to announce that the conference keynote speakers are Nobel Prize Laureate (2011), professor Dan Shechtman from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. In his keynote he will address  the topic of “Technological Entrepreneurship ” A Key to the Well Being of the World”.

And professor James Fleck, Editor in Chief of the Technology Analysis and Strategic Management Journal, former Dean of the Open University Business School, UK, will give the opening note on: “Trends in Research on Innovation: A Perspective from an International Journal”.… Read more ⤻

Paris, France
26th – 27th Jun 2014
Deadline: 15th Feb 2014

Interdisciplinary, intercultural and interinstitutional partnership with Paris Sorbonne (Paris 4, OMF), Sorbonne nouvelle (Paris 3, CERC), Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (Marge), Charles de Gaulle Lille (CEAC), Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris 1, Hicsa) and l’ENS Lyon (CERCC et IAO). Logistically and technically supported by Réseau Asie (CNRS) and Escom (FMSH)
The conference will take place at: Bâtiment Le France, 190, av. de France, Paris 13e
The conference aims to explore notions related to the cognitive aspects of aesthetic emotion, both in regard to its manifestations and the theorization of its forms. It seeks to investigate how emotional perception is framed by terms which foreground the levels, nuances and different aspects of the aesthetic emotion, a human phenomenon with unclear contours.
The assumption behind this endeavour is that artistic experience contributes to the reconfiguring or our cognitive perception of the world, combining perceptive/interpretative mechanisms with an emotional experience belonging to the realm of affects.… Read more ⤻

Hangzhou, PR China
16th -18th May 2014
Deadline: 28th Feb 2014

Host: School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University. The relationship between education and social inequality has aroused increasingly acute concern in many Asian societies over recent years. This conference will invite participants to consider what we can learn from the experiences of developed and developing societies, within Asia and beyond, regarding the relationship between education, equality and stability or ‘harmony’ – both within particular societies, and in their relations with each other. This theme is intended to stimulate debate over what different societies can teach us regarding the balance to be struck between education’s role in promoting economically-relevant ‘skills’, and the other vital roles that it performs – in terms of political socialization, the distribution of opportunity, and the fostering of those capabilities necessary to the pursuit of a fulfilling life.

http://cesa2014-hznu.com

The conference will feature keynote addresses by the following distinguished scholars:

• Prof. WANG Yingjie (Beijing Normal University, President of the China Comparative Education Society)
• Prof.

Tübingen, Germany

10th – 11th Jan 2014

Deadline: 15th Dec 2013

Organised by polylog in cooperation with the Forum Scientiarum at the University of Tübingen and the Society of Intercultural Philosophy.

A culture neither is a homogenous entity nor does she seal herself and block influences from other cultures. On the contrary, cultural reality ever since has been coined by the exchange between different social groups and their respective cultural life forms. This holds true for intra- just as for intercultural dimensions. Therefore, cultures must not be differentiated by any kind of essential character. However, the notion of culture does not become meaningless either. Cultures do not dissolve and merge into a transcultural society in which all different cultural life forms would mix at will.

One important reason for the consistency of cultures despite their heterogeneity and their continuous alteration may be found in their historicity. Alteration due to intra-cultural changes or intercultural exchange does not contradict historical continuity but, on the contrary, is part of the history of any culture.… Read more ⤻

Univ. of Manchester, UK
15th – 16th May 2014
Deadline: 5th Jan 2014

An international conference organised by Centre for Chinese Studies and Department of Religions and Theology.
Christianity came to China four times: with the Nestorians during the Tang dynasty (618-907), the Franciscans during the Mongol-ruled Yuan dynasty (1271-1368), the Jesuits during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), and with the Protestants ever since the Opium War (1839-42) and during the Republican Era (1911-1949).  But four times it seems they disappeared as these dynasties and the Republican regime vanished from the map of China.  The study of Christianity in China has flourished in recent year (Richard Madson, Lian Xi, Ryan Dunch, Alvyn Austin, Daniel Bays, to name a few).  But the re-emergence and popularity of Christianity in the post-Mao era has raised new questions about the ways in which historians have studied the history of these missions/missionaries.  The churches, converts and practices they left behind have resurfaced in the post-Mao era. … Read more ⤻

27th - 28th Mar 2014

Rome, Italy

Deadline: 30th Nov 2013

Jointly organized by Dr. Luigi Moccia (Rome, Italy) and Dr. Martin Woesler (Bochum, Germany)

Europe and China do not only share the same continent Eurasia, but grow closer together also economically. Although their cultures and traditions differ, both sides can profit from each other through mutual understanding on

Saint Petersburg, Russia

25th – 29th Jun 2014

Deadline: 10th Mar 2014

Faculty of Asian and African Studies of St.Petersburg State University and Society of Lao She Studies cordially welcome paper proposals for the 6th International Conference “Issues of Far Eastern Literatures”, dedicated to the 115th anniversary of outstanding Chinese writer Lao She (1899-1966). The conference will be held on June 25 – 29, 2014 in Saint Petersburg and will include the following panels:

1. Lao She and his contribution to Chinese literature;
2. The trends in Chinese literature of XX and XXI centuries;
3. New tasks in the study of classical Chinese literature in the age of globalization and informatization;
4. Far Eastern literatures in Russia & Russian literature in the Far Eastern & South-East Asian countries: translation, perception and interference;
5. Literatures of Far East & South East Asia: past and present;
6. Modernizing the Tibetan literary tradition

Working languages of the conference will be Russian, Chinese and English. The papers will be published prior the conference commences.… Read more ⤻

University of Parma, Italy
28th - 30th Aug 2014
Deadline: 1st Mar 2014

CASLAR is a biennial conference with the goal to bring together scholars from all over the world whose research focuses on
the acquisition, development and use of Chinese as a second language to survey available knowledge in the field, exchange
ideas and initiate research projects. The conference is a part of the CASLAR movement

Canberra, Australia
23-24 April 2014
Deadline: 15th Dec 2013

This two-day conference investigates the production, circulation and consumption of printed material in Australia, China, and Britain in the long 19th century, when technological improvements in printing, engraving, papermaking, and transport made the production and distribution of texts easier and increased opportunities for education led to rising literacy rates. Over the century, the proportion of travellers to and migrants from these three areas also increased. How did the movement of people across space and culture influence publishing and reading practices? Is the nation a relevant framework for examining histories of print culture and its circulation in this period? In what ways have histories of reading and print culture in Australia, China and Britain intersected? How has the relationship between reading and its contexts been theorized and researched? We aim to bring scholars interested in the history of reading and print culture across these different national contexts into conversation with each other, and to provide a forum for discussing the state of the discipline, in Australia and globally.… Read more ⤻

Ulaanbaatar University, Mongolia
7th – 9th Aug 2014
Deadline: 9 Jan 2014

We invite the submission of paper abstracts for a three-day international conference organized from 7-9 August 2014 by the International Unit for Central and Inner Asian Studies (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), in collaboration with the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS, Leiden, the Netherlands), and hosted by Ulaanbaatar University (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia).

About the Conference

The conference aims to highlight the current state of knowledge in research on the history of Central and Inner Asia since the twelfth century until the present day. Taking into account recent developments in historiography questioning any form of epistemological “centrism” (particularly when centred on the Occident), the proposed conference will contribute to the debate on the role and position of Central and Inner Asia during much of the second millennium. In order to achieve our goal of questioning and discussing our present knowledge and understanding, we suggest tracing socio-historical systems and long-term historical legacies.… Read more ⤻

Kyiv, Ukraine
6th Dec 2013
Deadline: 31st Oct 2013

The 7th Scientific Conference “Chinese Civilization: Tradition and Modernity” will be held in Kyiv, Ukraine, at A. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies. The Conference activities will be organized with the following sections:

• “Political and Socio-economic Issues of China’s Modern Development”
• “Chinese Civilization Studies: History, Philosophy, Culture”
• “Theoretical and Applied Issues of Chinese Linguistics and Literature”

Working languages – Ukrainian, Russian, Chinese, English.

Presentation    15-20 minutes
Report        5-10 minutes

Abstracts of presentations and reports must be edited and reviewed; length of the abstract cannot exceed 5000 characters including spaces. Abstracts will be accepted in electronic form only, MS Word or RTF format. The deadline for application submissions is October 31, 2013.

To take part in the Conference, please, send an application for participation and your abstract to e-mail info@sinologist.com.ua. The abstracts will be posted on the website http://www.sinologist.com.ua.

Abstract requirements:

• Use only the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet for transliteration.

Helsinki, Finland
5th - 6th Jun 2014
Deadline: 15th Jan 2014

Plenary speakers: Anne Cheng, Professor at the Prestigious Collège de France in Paris (intellectual History of China)

Adrian Holliday, Professor of Applied Linguistics at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK) in the Department of English & Language Studies

Jinan, Shandong, VRC
24th - 28th Aug 2015
Deadline: 30th Nov 2013

As an International Affiliated International Organization of the International Committee on the Historical Sciences, SHARP is in a position to organize three sessions during the week-long conference to be held in Jinan, in Shandong Province of Eastern China, August 24 to 28, 2015. This is a call for papers with a due date of 30 November 2013.

The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem
1st – 4th Jul 2014
Deadline: 5th Nov 2013

The “New Directions in the Study of the Mongol Empire” Summer School aims to scrutinize the empire from a holistic perspective. It looks at the Mongol Period not only as a chapter in the annals of China, Iran, Russia or Inner Asia, but as a multi-faceted phenomenon in its own right – one that combined elements from various Asian imperial traditions (particularly steppe, Islamic, Persian, and Sinitic empires) and made them its own–and which has had a broad and enduring impact on world history.

This summer school will convene some of the leading scholars in the history of the Mongol Empire, all of them contributors to The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire currently in preparation and edited by Michal Biran and Hodong Kim. Each scholar will give a lecture concerning the new and provocative aspects of his/her chapter, which cover themes ranging from political history through material culture and religious exchange to military technology and institutional history.… Read more ⤻

The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem
29th Jun – 1st Jul 2014
Deadline: 1st Nov 2013

The ERC project Mobility Empire and Cross – Cultural Conquest in Mongol Eurasia will sponsor an international conference in 29 June July 2014. The conference will examine how various forms of mobility – of people, ideas and artifacts – were instrumental in creating economic social, cultural and intellectual exchanges in the realm ruled by the Mongol empire and its successor states (and beyond) in the 13th and 14th centuries, and what was the impact of these movements. Culture is meant here in a broad definition, including also reference to religious and artistic and exchanges. The conference also aims to reconstruct and characterize commercial, religious and intellectual/scientific networks that operated in the Empire on a local, regional, and continental scale. Papers, for instance, can also deal with a certain migrant groups, a cultural biography, the study of a text or artifact, or larger questions of an aspect of mobility that led to meaningful transformation.… Read more ⤻

Sønderborg, Denmark
4th – 6th Nov 2013

Western intellectuals, and thus also media and the political elites, have long based their approach to reality on the fundamental assumption that the same basic processes underlie all human thought. In other words, how people make sense of the world around them was the same for everyone and everywhere. The implications of this assumption are many, from plain intellectual arrogance to war, over a wide array of
misunderstandings and animosities, resulting in a host of lost opportunities.
Contemporary engagements with Asia – be they political or intellectual – are often based on routine presumptions of either universal similarity or cultural difference. However, in an era of increasing globalization and shifting world order, both these presumptions appear problematic.

Keynote Speakers

The following speakers will inspire our proceedings:

Nandita Chaudhary, Associated Professor, Lady Irwin College, Delhi University

Jan-Olof Nilsson, Associate Professor, Department of Soc
iology, Lund University

Jaan Valsiner, Professor, Department of Psychology Clark University

Niels Bohr, Professor of Cultural Psychology, University of Aalborg

More Keynote speakers TBA

Undoubtedly culture matters.… Read more ⤻

Philadelphia, USA
27th – 30th Mar 2014

Each spring, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) holds a four-day conference devoted to planned programs of scholarly papers, roundtable discussions, workshops, and panel sessions on a wide range of issues in research and teaching, and on Asian affairs in general.

Connect with your colleagues at next year’s largest gathering of Asianists, March 27-30, 2014 in PHILADELPHIA, PA.

The 2014 AAS Annual Conference (PHILADELPHIA)

THE CALL FOR PAPERS IS CLOSED. Panel Organizers will receive a decision regarding proposal acceptance during the week of September 23, 2013.

REGISTRATION: Registration will open in October, 2013. See the registration page for rate information.

EXHIBITS & PROGRAM ADS: We will begin accepting applications in October, 2013. See the exhibit/ad/sponsor page for rate information.

HOUSING: We will open hotel reservation booking at the conference rate in October, 2013 See the housing page for conference rate information.

MEETINGS-IN-CONJUNCTION: Meeting space request forms will be available in November, 2013

Visit the conference website at: External Link

 … Read more ⤻

National Univ. of Singapore
17th – 19th Jul 2014
Deadline: 31st Oct 2013

‘On behalf of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), the Asia Research Institute (ARI), and the Faculty of the Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) of the National University of Singapore (NUS), we are pleased to invite colleagues in Asian studies to submit proposals for organized panels and roundtables (no individual paper proposals accepted) to be presented at the inaugural AAS-in-ASIA Conference to be held July 17-19, 2014 at the National University of Singapore.

The Program Committee for the AAS-in-ASIA conference seeks proposals dealing with all regions of Asia on subjects covering a wide range of scholarly disciplines and professional fields under the theme “Asia in Motion: Heritage and Transformation.” Proposals addressing this theme are encouraged on topics as diverse as political and economic changes, literary and cultural expression, environmental sustainability, media and pop cultural production, food and energy policy, new models for Asian enterprise and business, as well as issues of globalization and urban growth.… Read more ⤻

Ghent, Belgium
18th – 20th Dec 2013

organized by the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies Studies in cooperation with the Buddhism in Motion Group of the KHK Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe at Ruhr University Bochum.

The conference will take place in “Het Pand”, conference centre of Ghent University, on 18, 19 and 20 December 2013.

Key-note speaker:

Tansen Sen, Baruch College, the City University of New York (USA)

Other speakers:

Andrea Acri, Christoph Anderl, Susan Andrews, Shashi Bala, Claudine Bautze-Picron, Sven Bretfeld, Megan Bryson, Kristina Buhrman, Jinhua Chen, Michael Como, Max Deeg, Bart Dessein, Licia Di Giacinto, Geoffrey Goble, Kaiqi Hua, Sun Jian, Ryan Jones, Bryan Levman, Peiying Lin, Rob Linrothe, Ilona Manevskaia, Carmen Meinert, Jessie Pons, Henrik H. Sørensen, Arvind Kumar Singh, Steven Trenson, Christian Uhl, Ben Van Overmeire, Sem Vermeersch and Michael Willis.

This conference is sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the University of Ghent and the Ruhr Universität Bochum.… Read more ⤻

SOAS, University of London, UK
14th Oct 2013

Professor Paul G. Pickowicz (University of California). Since 1990, independent filmmaking has been on the rise in China. This illustrated lecture offers a broad survey of representative works. Independent filmmaking in China does not fall into a single, neat category. Instead, it is known for its thematic and artistic diversity. Some of the work reflects on history and memory, some of it engages in what might be called individual identity searches, and some of it amounts to investigative journalism. With the rise of the internet, the social impact of independent, non-state sector filmmaking grows day by day and those interested in the complexities of “restless” China would be wise to familiarize themselves with its tangled dynamics.

Speaker Biography

Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and inaugural holder of the UC San Diego Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History.… Read more ⤻

Haifa, Israel
25th -26th May 2014
Deadline: 31st Dec 2013

We are delighted to announce that the 12th Biennial Conference of Asian Studies in Israel will take place at the University of Haifa, Israel, on Sunday-Monday, May 25-26, 2014. Priority will be given to thematic panels, but individual paper submissions will also be considered for inclusion into an appropriate panel. The deadline for submitting proposals for either organized panels or individual papers is December 31, 2013. The results will be announced by late January 2014.

This year, the conference encourages papers submitted on the theme ?Asia as an Idea/Asia as a Consolidating Unity.?

Within this theme, we particularly invite you to submit a proposal in the following domains:

1. Asia as a Single Entity: Can it be regarded as a political and cultural entity and what makes it as such?
2. The Making of a Continent: Historical perspectives on the ideas, currents, movements, and empires that made Asia into a continent.

Ljubljana, Slovenia
3rd – 5th Oct 2014
Deadline: 21st Mar 2014

organized by the Department of Asian and African Studies, Ljubljana University in collaboration with the Scientific Research Center of the Slovene Academy for Science and Art. Venue: Ljubljana, ZRCA SAZU.

The aim of the STCS conferences, organized by the Department of Asian and African studies at Ljubljana University is to encourage and advance the study of specific topics related to China and East Asia through the exchange of information across disciplinary lines and to strive for create and maintaine a multidisciplinary space for the fruitful exchange of ideas on different types, images, and categories of East Asian cultures.

The 2014 conference is dedicated to the intellectual currents of Contemporary Modern Confucianism and their impact upon modern East Asian societies.

In the 21st century, Asian societies redrew the map of progress: the balance of economic power, if not the political one, is shifting from the Euro-American to the Asian region.… Read more ⤻

Aarhus University, Denmark
27th – 28th Mar 2014
Deadline: 1st Nov 2013

In this workshop, we aim to bring together scholars working within and across the three phases of studies abroad: before, during and after. This will allow us to explore the reflections, strategies and institutional arrangements that propel the decision to study abroad; the importance of the cultural encounters that take place in the foreign setting; as well as the overall impact of student migration on Chinese society.

Keynote Speakers

DAVID ZWEIG (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
VANESSA FONG (Amherst College)

Higher education enrolment in the People’s Republic has quadrupled since the turn of the century. In the same period, educational migration has undergone a rapid increase and Chinese nationals today make up the largest group of international students globally. This traffic of talent is institutionally encouraged by the internationalisation of higher education abroad and by Chinese policies that are no longer driven by the fear of ‘brain drain’.… Read more ⤻

SOAS, University of London, UK
27th Sep 2013

Who is Fu Manchu? A sinister Chinaman? A criminal genius? A racist myth?

The Centre of Chinese Studies will be hosting a public seminar to mark the première of The Fu Manchu Complex by British-Chinese actor and writer Daniel York.

York’s satirical comedy examines the pervasive influence of a literary and cinematic creation that populates

Univ. of Western Australia, Perth
8th – 10th Jul 2014
Deadline: 29th Nov 2013

This conference invites presentations addressing shifts, continuities, innovations and tensions in Asia. We welcome engagement from scholars and practitioners in the humanities, social sciences and other sciences, as well as interdisciplinary explorations of Asia and Asia-Australia relations.

The pace of globalisation has made contestation of national borders a key part of both lived realities and academic analysis. Global problems increasingly demand international engagement and cross-disciplinary approaches.  As an integrating theme of the 20th Biennial ASAA (Asian Studies Association of Australia) Conference we focus on both senses of border-crossing – national and disciplinary – in the multipolar world.

Conference Theme

Although ‘landscape’ as a metaphor is well-worn, ‘-scape’ remains a productive suffix, spawning terms such as ethnoscapes, technoscapes, mediascapes, ideoscapes and so on, to account for the movement of peoples, technologies, money, images, ideals and ideologies throughout the world. This Conference seeks to emphasise the involvement of Asia as a region of origin, transmission and reception in such flows, extending from the local to the global in scale.… Read more ⤻

Aarhus University, Denmark / CHIME,

21-24 August, 2014

Deadline: 16th Feb 2014

China is filled with sounds; indeed, some people would say that it is a noisy place. Some sounds immediately come to mind, for example those of music, radio and TV broadcasts, along with blaring loudspeakers, public announcements and street conversations, or speech/language and communication more generally. Some types or notions of sound may be difficult to grasp or to categorize, for example the sound of a city, sounds of progress, sounds of revolution or sounds of change.

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Sounds may be deliberately produced (and manipulated), or may be brought forth unintentionally, and they can be direct and physical or indirect and abstract (or both at the same time). To all events, sounds appear everywhere, with a variety of different intentions and meanings; the same can be said for noise and silence.
Aarhus University and CHIME invite scholars from all disciplines to explore ‘sounds & noise’ in China.… Read more ⤻

5th - 6th Sep 2013
Deadline: 3rd Sep 2013
SOAS, University of London, UK
Max Weber is not only celebrated as a founder of modern social science but also for his view that modern capitalism was the achievement of a uniquely Western rationalism. His celebrated study of China argued that its legal institutions and ethical and religious culture had prevented a similar development there. But he also drew on his knowledge of China in developing his ideas of bureaucracy, authority and legitimacy.

Göttingen, Germany
22nd 24th Nov 2013

"Over the past 20 years, the development of modern knowledge in China has been a focus of much research. Core topics of debate have included whether the late Ming-early Qing period already contained indigenous elements of modern science; that is, the relative weight and importance of internal traditions and their dynamic developments vis-à-vis external, mostly Western factors. Many projects have focused on the reception

Philadelphia, USA
26^th Mar 2014
More than 40 scholars attended the Society’s first annual conference on 21 March 2013 and heard a broad range of outstanding papers. We hope the second annual conference will be even more successful. As in 2013, the second SSEC conference will take place the day before the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting and at the same venue.

The organizing committee invites individual proposals for presentations of 15-20 minutes concerning any aspect of early China studies. Submit proposals in PDF or DOC format to SSECconference2014@gmail.com. Each proposal should include the presenter’s name, institutional affiliation and rank, contact information, paper title, and an abstract not to exceed 250 words in length. The deadline for proposals is November 15, 2014.

All are welcome to attend the SSEC conference in Philadelphia. If you are not a current member of the Society for the Study of Early China, we urge you to become one now by ordering its journal, Early China (see www.earlychina.org… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 15^th Nov 2013
Olomouc, Czech Republic
25th - 27th Sept 2014

The board of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology is pleased to announce the establishment of EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY (EAAA).
The association shall:
- encourage and advance all academic and scholarly activities related to Asian Art and archaeology in all countries of Europe;

Leiria, Portugal,
20th – 22nd Feb 2014

The Portuguese Institute of Sinology is currently organizing its 9th International Sinology Forum, to be held on 20, 21 and 22 February in Leiria (Portugal) on the topic “China: Tradition and Modernity”.
For this purpose it is welcoming papers from specialists on China, in particular researchers, scholars and postgraduate students.
 
China is a huge country with a history stretching over millennia. An immeasurable number of its customs and values have lasted down the ages, surviving the impact of successive waves of modernity that have assailed it. Some of the old values came down to us often confused with habits or traditions. And so it is that, with every aspect of contemporary Chinese society being deeply rooted in tradition, the country is at the same time experiencing a period of increasing creativity. Tradition and modernity are in fact complementary, and together they may represent socio-cultural equilibrium. With the theme ‘China: Tradition and Modernity’, the 9th International Sinology Forum will address the various contemporaneities of this extraordinary country, looking at their philosophical, cultural, economic and social facets.… Read more ⤻

SOAS, London, UK
19th - 21st Jun 2013

This conference is jointly organized by the Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the Research Centre for Translation Studies at the Chinese University Hong Kong (CUHK).
This conference is sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (Taiwan) and the Research Centre for Translation Studies at CUHK.
Please note that the venue of this conference is at the SOAS Vernon

Heidelberg, Germany
4th – 6th Oct, 2013
Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies. Making a major contribution to the global history of science and knowledge, this conference aims to reconstruct the standards of validity that governed scholarly discourses in late imperial China. By recovering the implicit criteria of truth or credibility that were encoded in argumentative practices, we seek to interrogate how Chinese scholars made and maintained shared assumptions about validity and veracity in the absence of explicit logical systems. Scholars of early-modern European science have explicated how scientists and philosophers developed distinct “cultures of reasoning” by creating logical mechanisms for assessing the validity of observations and truth claims. We seek to demonstrate that reasoning was not unique to European culture, for late imperial Chinese scholars also developed shared standards to assess and critique the validity of arguments long before they encountered “Western learning.” By analyzing concrete and historically situated argumentative practices, we hope to reconstitute the rules of argumentation in late imperial China from the ground up, and within the diverse intellectual contexts in which they emerged.… Read more ⤻

Zhuhai, Jinan University, PR China

29th – 30th Nov 2013

We are delighted to announce the following researchers as our keynote speakers:

–  Professor Roberto Valdeón (University of Oviedo, Spain)
–   Professor Myriam Salama-Carr (University of Salford, United Kingdom)
–   Associate Professor Henrik Gottlieb (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
–   Dr. Saihong Li (University of Salford, United Kingdom)
 

RATIONALE

In translation studies the usual paradigms involve thinking about the two languages and the problems of communicating between them. It is assumed that any qualified or certified translator/interpreter is ‘functionally bilingual’ and has a high degree of competence in the grammatical and semantic properties of two or more languages. However, the question that is seldom asked is ‘What is one language?’ Is English one language? Is Chinese? Is Arabic? There are vast differences in cultural value, and in cultural assumptions, between an ‘English’ interpreter from China who has an Australian accent and one who has a British accent.… Read more ⤻

Heidelberg, Germany
4th – 8th Aug 2013
Deadline: May 31st 2013

The Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at Heidelberg University welcomes applications for its Summer School 2013 "Sites of Knowledge: Space, Locality, and Circulation between Asia and Europe." It will take place from August 4 to 8 in Heidelberg, Germany.

This year's Summer School will explore the significance of space and locality for the generation and circulation of knowledge. Starting from the premise that space and place shape the social interactions in which knowledge is made and remade, the Summer School will address questions such as: Is all knowledge local? Does the situatedness of knowledge preclude claims to 'truth' and 'universality'? And how can we best conceptualize the liminal spaces in which knowledge is traded or transmitted? Individual sessions will focus on selected places involved in circulations of knowledge between and within early modern Asia and Europe, ranging from courts, schools, academies, temples, and observatories to print shops, bazaars, roadhouses, ports and ships.… Read more ⤻

Barcelona, Spain

1^st Jul 2013

The fourth symposium for young researchers is aimed at students who are about to begin their research, master students, doctoral students, and students who have recently completed their PhD theses. The objective of the symposium is to provide a scientific forum within which the next generation of researchers can exchange ideas and present the research they are carrying out in the field of Translation, Interpreting, Intercultural Studies and East Asian Studies.

As well as papers presented by participants, there will be a plenary lecture given by internationally renowned researcher.

The symposium will take place on the 1st of July 2013 at the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Papers are welcomed on topics relating to the research interests of the Department of Translation and Interpreting. These include:

Translation and Interpreting

• Specialized translation
• Literary translation
• Audiovisual translation and media accessibility
• Interpreting
• Information and communication technologies in translation
• Translator and interpreter training
• History of translation and interpreting
• Interculturality, ideology and the sociology of translation and interpreting
• Textuality and translation
• Cognitive studies in translation and interpreting
• Professional aspects of translation and interpreting
• Empirical research in translation and interpreting

East Asian Studies

• East Asian languages and literatures
• Politics and international relations in East Asia
• Culture, thought, and interculturality in East Asia
• Economy of East Asia

The languages of the symposium are Catalan, Spanish and English.… Read more ⤻

Barcelona, Spain
24th Jun - 1st Jul 2013

The PhD Summer School, now in its fourth edition, is organised by the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. This week-long summer school aims at promoting quality research by encouraging the exchange of ideas and experiences amongst young researchers and providing a forum within which students and lecturers can share interests and experiences.

Manchester, UK
May 9^th 2013

This one-day symposium brings together professionals, academics, curators and artists from the fields of publishing in China and the UK to discuss the changing character of print and art book publishing; the developing role of self-publishing and artists’ book initiatives, and the impact of online

Tsinghua University Beijing, China

May 11^th 2013

The French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) and the Centre Franco Chinois cordially invite you to attend the following workshop: 法國現代中國研究中心及中法中心誠邀閣下參加以下研討會：WORKSHOP “CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH ON CHINESE WOMEN” 當代中國女性研究研討會

Venue: Wenbei Building, Room 206 05 月11 日 清華大學文北樓 206 室

SESSION 1: Property Ownership and Gender Inequality Speakers: Tang Can (Researcher, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Sally Sargeson (Research Fellow, Australian National University), and Leta Hong Fincher (Ph.D. Candidate, Tsinghua University) Discussant: Aurore Merle (Assistant Professor, Sociology Department of Tsinghua University) 论坛1: 物产与性别不平等 主講：唐灿（中国社会科学院社会学研究所家庭与性别研究室研究员），Sally Sargeson (澳大利亚国立大学研究员) ，及洪理达 (清华大学社会学系博士生) 评论: Aurore Merle 梅晓红 (清华大学社会学系讲师)

SESSION 2: Feminism and Gender studies in contemporary China Speakers: Feng Yuan (Independent Scholar) and Guo Yuhua (Professor, Sociology Department of Tsinghua University) Discussant: Jean-Philippe Béja (Researcher，CNRS, SciencePo Paris) 论坛2: 当代中国的女权主义和女性研究 主講：冯媛（独立学者）和郭于华（清华大学社会学系教授） 评论: Jean-Philippe Béja 白夏 (巴黎政治学院教授，法国国家科研中心研究员)

For registration, please contact: contact@beijing-cfc.org

Download the program 下載程序表 as PDF

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SOAS, London, UK

7^th June 2013

Venue: G50, Russell Square Campus Main Building, SOAS, University of London

Workshop Schedule

10:30AM Registration and Coffee

11:00AM Keynote Speech
Prof. Rosemary Foot (Oxford)
‘The Disruption of China's Resurgence: Reflections from an IR Perspective’

12:00PM Lunch

1:30PM Session 1: Southeast Asia and Geopolitics
Moderator: Dr. Stephen Hopgood (SOAS)

Dr. Alan Collins (Swansea)
‘The South China Sea Dispute: A State-Induced Security Dilemma’

Dr. Cheng-Chwee Kuik (Oxford)
‘Malaysia between the Great Powers: Policy Tradeoffs in a Small State’s Alignment Choice’

Dr. Jurgen Haacke (LSE)
‘Myanmar: Now a Site for
Sino–US Geopolitical Competition?’

Discussant: Dr. Evelyn Goh (Royal Holloway)

3:30PM Coffee Break

 
4:00pm Session 2: Southeast Asia and Non-conventional Security
Moderator: Dr. Dafydd Fell (SOAS)

 
Dr. Lee Jones (Queen Mary)
‘Non-Traditional Security, Political Economy and State Transformation: The Case of Avian Influenza in Indonesia’

 
Dr. Elena Barabantseva (Manchester)
‘Marriage Migration and Security on the Sino-Vietnamese Border’

 
Discussant: Dr.… Read more ⤻

Auckland, New Zealand,
22-24 November 2013
The University of Auckland this year hosts the twentieth conference of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society.  Panels and papers which respond to the theme are particularly invited and will be considered for publication, but the conference will cover the full range of disciplinary and area studies approaches to East, Southeast and South Asia and all paper and panel proposals will be given full consideration.

Boulogne-sur-mer, France
25^th - 28^th Sep 2013
Deadline: 10^th Apr 2013

Organization: Université du Littoral Cóte d'Opale, in collaboration with the GRSL (Group Societies, Religions, Secularism), EPHE-CNRS, France, and with colleagues from the Palaces Museum, Beijing, China.

Conference languages: French, English or Chinese.

The organisers of the conference welcome contributions on the following themes, around the Symbols of Chinese Imperial Power

Seoul, Korea
14^th – 15^th Jun 2013
Deadline: 12^th Mar 2013

On behalf of the International Society for Lu Xun Studies(ISLS), together with The Korean Society of Modern China, and some other institutes concerned. We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 4th Academy Forum of International Society for Lu Xun Studies (ISLS): Seoul Forum, from 14-15 June , 2013.
The purpose of this forum is to promote international academic research and communication on Lu Xun. Because of your outstanding research on Lu Xun, We cordially invite you to vibrant exchange of academic research and ideas at our upcoming forum. Your participation will surely make this forum more meaningful. We hope you will join us and submit your paper at the forum .We have also invited some other outstanding experts and scholars from Korea, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, America etc. I believe this forum will provide a valuable opportunity for participants to strengthen cooperation, discover resources, and facilitate a better understanding on the study on Lu Xun.… Read more ⤻

Université Lumières Lyon 2, France
24^th – 25^th Oct 2013

Organised by Terminology and Translation Research Center (Université Lyon 2)

The discovery of tea goes back to Chinese antiquity, and, according to Arab legends, Mohammed
was healed by coffee. Both drinks have centuries of history to show for. Today, carried into the four
corners of the world, these two are the drinks most frequently consumed daily, right after water (and
actually, there is quite a rivalry between them for the title). This geographic and historical pervasion
makes an inquiry into their cultural representations in language and practice seem fruitful.

Numerous scientific papers have already dealt with the impact of tea and coffee on our bodies, so
we would like to take a closer look at their description and appreciation as cultural objects in
different contexts. PR and marketing have strongly changed the image of tea and coffee: We now
talk of origins and growing areas, like with wine.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 1^st Apr 2013

Editors: Brian Bergen-Aurand, Nanyang Technological University, Mary Mazzilli, Nanyang Technological University, Hee Wai Siam, Nanyang Technological University. This collection invites essays considering the evolving relation among National, Transnational Chinese, and Sinophone Cinemas and conceptualizations and deployments of embodiment and the body. It seeks to consider multiple aspects of Transnational Chinese and Sinophone Cinematic production, distribution, exhibition, and reception (critical and theoretical). And, it strives to consider bodies located in different times, places, and situations. The editors seek perspectives on Transnational Chinese and Sinophone Cinemas in terms of representation and function, identification and recognition, as phenomenological encounter, material process, “lived experience,” “sensation,” where cognitive, emotional, and corporeal processes meet. These essays will engage with Transnational Chinese and Sinophone Cinemas in the light of new approaches to the traditional mind/body divide.

This volume on Transnational Chinese Cinema calls for examinations of these issues in all forms. The editors invite essays that consider these (and other related) topics:

Transnational Chinese and Sinophone Cinemas and affect
Transnational Chinese and Sinophone and Sinophone Cinemas and the senses
Transnational Chinese and Sinophone Cinemas and the body
Transnational Chinese and Sinophone Cinemas and cognition
Transnational Chinese and Sinophone Cinemas, Sensation, Sensuality, and Sentiment
Transnational Chinese and Sinophone Cinemas as materially-embodied structure
Desire and Disgust
Bodies in cinema and bodies at the cinema
Audio-visual-haptic Reception
Questions of Gender, Sex, Sexuality
Questions of Race, Class, Ethnicity
Questions of Religion and the body in Transnational Chinese Cinemas
Questions of the body politic and Transnational Chinese Cinemas
(Dis)ability and Crip Theory
Kinship, Age, and Attunement
Norms and Ideals
Cyborgs, Avatars, and Virtuality
Embodiment and disembodiment
New media and new cinematic experiences
New media and the Posthuman body

The submission deadline is 1 April 2013 (for 500-word abstracts).… Read more ⤻

London, UK.
9^th – 10^th Sep 2013.
Deadline: 17^th May 2013.

Organized by the India Media Centre and the China Media Centre of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) of the University of Westminster, London. The notion of soft power, associated

with the work of Harvard political scientist Joseph Nye, is defined as ‘the ability to attract people to our side without coercion’. Nye’s concept, whose focus is primarily on the United States, has been adopted or adapted by countries around the world. It has generated much debate about the capacity of nations to make themselves attractive in a globalizing marketplace for ideas and images.

Date: 9 and 10 September 2013

Venue: University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS

This two-day international conference will explore competing and contrasting approaches to soft power in India and China, the world’s two fastest growing economies, whose rise is set to reconfigure global power equations in a multi-polar world.… Read more ⤻

Moscow, Russia
16^th – 18^th Oct 2013
Deadline: 15^th May 2013.

Hereby we cordially invite you to take part in the 20th International Conference on China, Chinese Civilization and the World: History, Modernity and Future Prospects which will take place at the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Moscow, on October 16-18, 2013. The main theme of the Conference shall be “China in the Epicenter of Global Problems Facing the Asia-PacificRegion”.

The Conference shall be organized by the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies,together with RAS Academic Council on Comprehensive Studies of Modern China,Russia-China Friendship Association and Russia-China Committee for Friendship,Peace and Development.

Apart from two Plenary Sessions, the conference proceedings shall include theround-table discussion on Prospects for Sino-Russian Interaction in the Asia-Pacific Region (Moderator: Academician Mikhail L. Titarenko) as well as thefollowing panels:

• China in the Global Policy and Economy Today (Moderator: Prof. Dr. VladimirYa. Portyakov)
• RF and PRC : Interaction at the Global and Regional Levels (Moderator: Prof.

15^th Feb 2013
EHESS, Paris

Workshop organized by Chloé Froissart (Rennes 2 University, CECMC) and Anthony J. Spires (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) under the PROCORE France-Hong-Kong joint research program, the Center for Research on Modern and Contemporary China, School for Higher Studies in Social Sciences and the Asia-
Pacific Research and Expertise Network

Friday, February 15, 2013
Room 640, block A, EHESS 190-198 avenue de France 75013 Paris

The development of social organizations and protest movements is one of the outstanding
phenomena of the transformation of authoritarian regimes such as China and Cuba, but also of
newly “democratized” countries whose institutional modes of functioning remain chiefly
authoritarian, such as Russia. Beyond the ambiguity of the term “civil society” exported from
twenty years by the actors of international cooperation, this workshop will investigate citizen
mobilization to defend the rights of other citizens and how it serves to transform authoritarian
regimes from within.

We propose to overcome divisions between a deterministic perspective, which has long
prevailed in political science -that of transitology- and a purely sociological perspective only
focused on practices and discourses of social actors, to take into account the relationship
between the social and the political.… Read more ⤻

INALCO, Paris

1^st - 2^nd Jul 2013

International conference organised by:- The Centre of Chinese Studies (CEC, ASIEs, Inalco), - The Centre of Korean Studies (CECO, ASIEs, Inalco) - The Institute of Confucian Philosophy and Culture (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul) The organising committee is pleased to invite colleagues and Ph.D students interested in Neo- Confucianism to submit abstracts for this international conference regarding the construction

21^st – 22^nd  Feb 2013
Boulder, USA

A special conference in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the UCB Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations. All sessions in Old Main Chapel. For further details please contact Paul W. Kroll Professor of Chinese Dept. of Asian Languages & Civilizations University of Colorado Mail.

Thursday, February 21 

9:00 Welcoming Remarks
Steven Leigh, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

9:15 “Shen Who Couldn’t Write: Liu Jun (430-464) and Poetry”
Robert Joe Cutter, Arizona State University

10:30 “An Offering to the Prince: Wang Bo’s ‘Fu on Lotus Picking’”
Ding Xiang Warner, Cornell University

11:45 – 1:15 lunch break

1:15 “Re-creating the Odes: The Performative Space of One Extra Syllable”
Ping Wang, Princeton University

2:30 “Who Wrote That? Attribution in Northern Song ci”
Stephen Owen, Harvard University

3:45 – 4:15 refreshments, Old Main 3rd floor

4:15 “When There Is a Parallel Text in Prose: Reading Lu You’s
1170 Yangzi River Journey in Poetry and in Prose”
Ronald C.… Read more ⤻

23rd – 27th Sep 2013.

Münster, Germany.

Since 1921, the German Society for Oriental Studies (Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft) has organized the German Oriental Studies Conference (Deutscher Orientalistentag), normally once every three years. In 2013 the DOT will take place for the first time in Münster.

The panels and individual presentations will be grouped into the following sections:

• African Studies
• Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology
• Arabic Language and Literature
• Byzantine Studies
• Coptology and the Christian Orient
• Egyptology
• Indo-European Linguistics
• Indology and South Asian Studies
• Iranian Studies
• Islamic Studies
• Japanese Studies
• Jewish Studies
• Korean Studies
• Old Testament Studies
• Ottoman Studies
• Semitic Studies
• Sinology
• Southeast Asian Studies
• Turkic and und Central Asian Studies
• Art and Archaeology
• Law
• Historical Anthropology and Material Culture
• Politics, Economy and Society

Cooperation between sections in the form of interdisciplinary panels (ideally consisting of 3-6 presentations) are especially welcome.

To register, submit the following information as doc/odt and as pdf document by e-mail to dot2013@uni-muenster.de… Read more ⤻

Queen’s, University of Oxford
Wed 30^th Jan 2013, 6 pm

We are pleased to announce the second meeting of the interdisciplinary Workshop on Manuscript and Text Culture (WMTC) at Queen’s, University of Oxford. The paper of the workshop will be given by Martin Kern (Princeton), Astor Visiting Fellow and Fellow Commoner of Queen’s, on Wednesday 30 January at 6 pm in The Queen’s College. The title of the talk is:

‘The “Jinteng” Chapter of the Shangshu and its Newly Discovered Manuscript Version from ca. 300 BCE: Comparison and Methodological Considerations’.

If you are interested in attending, please email: wmtc@queens.ox.ac.uk

Further information about the workshop can be found here: http://wmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk/ (The site is still under construction, so please don’t mind its current appearance..)

Location: The Queen’s College, University of Oxford (Memorial Room). High Street, Oxford, OX1 4LU

Abstract:

The “Jinteng” Chapter of the Shangshu and its Newly Discovered Manuscript Version from ca. 300 BCE: Comparison and Methodological Considerations

Among the exciting new bamboo and silk manuscript finds from early China are texts that have counterparts in the received literature and thus reveal new insights into the formation of the ancient textual tradition.… Read more ⤻

Extended Deadline: 31^th Mar 2013
Turku, Finland, 11^th – 14^th Jun 2013

As China develops rapidly it faces a number of challenges with/in its natural environment, social structure, governance system and ethnic policies just to name a few of the more salient fields. How can China’s policy makers, ordinary citizens, companies and popular organizations respond to their changing situations? Ultimately, would a richer and more developed China also require more responsible government towards its citizens, environment and region? At the same time, the world is facing a more powerful and self-confident China. With its might growing also its responsibilities to the rest of the world grow. How should and could the global community support China’s development into a responsible superpower, or is it even possible?

The 11th NACS conference organizers particularly welcome papers or panel proposals touching the theme of responsibility, but as a comprehensive conference bringing together China researchers in the Nordic area and beyond, also proposals on other China-related fields and topics such as, but not limited to, politics, economy, society, history, gender studies, cultural studies and humanities are welcome.… Read more ⤻

5^th – 6^th Apr 2013
Delhi, India

A central feature of China’s modern experience has been a series of often rapid transitions. In fact, since the middle of the 20th century China’s history can be periodized by significant events as markers of transition. While there has been the obvious transition from a command economy to market socialism, there have been no less significant social, political/ideological and cultural transitions which have released new forces, created new styles of functioning, changed the locus of power and pressure within the state, transformed institutions and given rise to new subjects for the consideration of the state and the law in China. The conventional view is that most transitions have been a fallout, if at times unintended, of China’s economic reforms. However, this misses the fact that the modern Chinese state is a work in progress, it has been in transition since its inception in 1950 and the economic reform was but one event, albeit an important one, in this process of transition. … Read more ⤻

Edited by Paolo Santangelo, Sapienza University of Rome
Deadline: 31^st Mar 2013

We notice that the issue of MING QING STUDIES 2012 is going to be published by Aracne Publishers. MING QING STUDIES is a yearly publication, both on line and in printed form, which continues the positive experience of Ming Qing yanjiu. It intends to give a contribution to the debates on historical and cultural questions in late imperial China and pre-modern and modern East Asia, thanks to the cooperation of several scholars in Italy and abroad. Although this publication focuses on late imperial China, its scope is broadened to the whole East Asia area, with its new cultural and anthropological features which are manifested in this fundamental period of transition from local to global history. 

Download the full call for papers PDF

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Université Paris Diderot, France
Deadline: 30^th Nov 2012

The SAW project (Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World) organises a conference 'Shaping the sciences of the ancient world: Text criticism, critical editions and translations of ancient and medieval scholarly texts (18th-20th centuries)', which will take place 17-21 June 2013 in Paris. We now invite proposals for papers on the conference topics. Information and the call for papers are available at External Link.

15^th - 17^th Nov 2012, New Delhi, India
Deadline: 25^th Aug 2012

Organizers: Hemant Adlakha, Institute of Chinese Studies & Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India) & ISLS Park, Jae Woo, President, International Society of Lu Xun Studies (ISLS), Seoul (S. Korea) & Hankuk University, Seoul Venue: India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi, India

Lu Xun (1881-1936) has been regarded as the biggest symbol of the twentieth century Chinese

Halle/Saale, Germany 27 - 29 Jun 2013
Deadline: 1^st Sep 2012

Organizers: Stevan Harrell (University of Washington). Gonçalo Santos (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology). Venue: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale.
For thousands of years, Chinese societies approached the dilemmas of social support through a system we call

CHIME Leiden, Netherlands
Extended Deadline: 20^th Apr 2012

REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS