Conferences and Workshops Archive

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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15^th Feb 2013
EHESS, Paris

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS

From 13 to 16 September 2012 The CHIME Foundation and Leiden University in The Netherlands will host a workshop on the topic of Chinese Instruments and Western Museums. Everyone with a passion for and research interest in Chinese instruments, and/or interest in how to present them in museum contexts, is encouraged to submit contributions. The meeting should be of interest

Deadline: 30^th Sep 2012

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Oriens Extremus assembles articles dealing with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian cultural and intellectual history from the beginnings until the modern age. The next issue of Oriens Extremus will feature a special section devoted to The Chinese Revolution: Creating a New World. It focuses on an epochal process that spectacularly culminated a century ago in the Chinese revolution of 1911. However, the political events may be seen as merely the most prominent manifestation of an underlying current that changed

Jerusalem, 1^st – 6^th May 2012
Deadline: 30^th Mar 2012

The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) is very glad to announce the forthcoming workshop “Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China”. The workshop, co-organized by Yuri Pines and Paul Goldin, is due on May 1-6, the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Applicants are most warmly welcome! For further details please visit our site: External Link
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Munich, 18^th - 19^th Jun 2012
Deadline: 8^th Apr 2012

A Continuation of the Workshop “Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered”
This workshop is especially aimed at post-graduate students of East Asian and Central Asian history, sociology, anthropology, political science, or ethnology (i.e. Sinology, Mongolian Studies, Korean Studies, Central Asian Studies etc.). Participants are asked to give a talk of no longer than 20 minutes.

Wellington, New Zealand, 13^th - 14^th Aug 2012
Deadline: 30^th May 2012

The Wellington Conference on Contemporary China is an annual event organized by the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre. Each year, this conference brings together leading China scholars to examine, debate and advance scholarship on issues of great significance in contemporary China studies.

Moscow, 18^th - 24^th Jun 2012
Deadline: 15^th Mar 2012

The classes will be held from 18 June (Monday) to 23 June (Saturday). A Moscow city tour is scheduled for 24 June (Sunday). Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
Time & Place, Courses, Participants, Requirements, Application, Contacts

Beijing, 6^th - 7^th Jul 2012
Deadline: 1^st Mar 2012

This conference aims to bring together doctoral candidates, post-doctoral researchers and recent PhDs based in China, either European nationals or affiliated with European research institutions, in order to produce an overview of the emerging problematics in Chinese studies. The focus of the conference is on contemporary China, in a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Manchester, 17^th - 18^th May 2012
Extended Deadline: 13^th Feb 2012

Convened by Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) and Confucius Institute (CI) Pathways to Cosmopolitanism PhD Program (Manchester and NUS) Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Culture (RICC)
Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC).
Questions of ethnic diversity and multi-culturalism lie at the heart of debates on cosmopolitanism. To what extent can the case of China

Munich, 12^th - 14^th Sep 2012
Deadline: 15^th Aug 2012

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We welcome papers for a conference on Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia, which will be held at the University of the Armed Forces, Munich, Germany from September 12 to 14, 2012.
This conference follows an earlier book project entitled “Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western Constructions and Eastern

Universität zu Köln
5^th May 2012
Deadline: Feb 15^th 2012

Nach dem Ausbruch der Revolution im Oktober des Jahres 1911 begann mit der Abdankung des letzten Kaisers am 1. Februar 1912 eine Phase des Umbruchs und des Wandels in China, die bis heute andauert. Seither prägten Phasen der

Łódź, 4^th - 5^th Jun 2012
Deadline: 28^th Feb 2012

Ever since its first edition in 2002, the Lodz East Asian Meeting gather scholars, researchers and students in all disciplines, specializing in East Asian studies. Being the first academic conference of its kind in Poland, gradually it became one of the most important venues for academic exchange in the field. After hosting eight conferences and publishing six volumes of studies, we hope to broaden its scope and turn it

Zürich, 30^th - 31^st Mar 2012
Deadline: 15^th Jan 2012

The University Research Priority Program Asia and Europe (University of Zurich) in collaboration with The Institute of East Asian Studies, Department of Sinology (University of Zurich), invite proposals for the Graduate Student Workshop.

Key themes: spaces & boundaries, environmental issues, body & gender, theories & methods
Download: Call for Papers (PDF)

Bangor University UK, Sep 7^th - 8^th 2012
Deadline: 20^th May 2012

The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to focus on questions of ‘cultural translation’ in all its forms and constructs.
As global identity becomes increasingly defined by questions of communication across languages and
cultures the role of ‘translation’ becomes key in the forging of new subjectivities.

St. Petersburg, June 27^th – July 1^st 2012
Deadline: March 1^st 2012
Faculty of Asian and African Studies of St.Petersburg State University, International
Guo Moruo Academy and Guo Moruo Museum of CASS cordially welcome paper
proposals for the 5th International Conference “Issues of Far Eastern Literatures”, dedicated
to the 120th anniversary of outstanding Chinese writer, scientist and calligrapher Guo
Moruo (1892-1978).
Download: Call for Papers (PDF)

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Technische Universität Berlin, November 25^th – 27^nd 2011

“Kontinuität und Umbruch in Chinas Geschichte und Gegenwart”
[Continuity and Change in China’s Past and Present]
Aus Anlass des 100-jährigen Jubiläums der Xinhai-Revolution thematisiert die Jahrestagung der DVCS die Kontinuitäten und Umbrüche, die in Geschichte und Gegenwart Chinas zu erkennen sind.

External Link… Read more ⤻