Conferences

12th EACL Summer School in Chinese Linguistics

16th Mar 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Call for Papers: BACS Annual Conference 2025

5th Jan 2025

University of Leicester, UK
3-5th Sep 2025
Proposal deadline: 28th Feb 2025

The 2025 British Association for Chinese Studies annual conference will be held at the University of Leicester (UK) on 3-5 September 2025. We are now inviting proposals for conference presentations. As usual, the conference committee welcomes proposals from a broad range of disciplines as long as the topics are related to the field of Chinese Studies. This year, we are accepting both individual papers and pre-constituted panel proposals.

For individual papers:

The individual proposal shall include the following information, all in the same document.
• A title
• 5-6 key words
• An abstract (maximum 300 words) for a 20-minute presentation.
• Speaker’s short biography (maximum 150 words), including aOiliation.
• Speaker’s email address.

For pre-constituted panels
The panel proposal shall include the following documents
• A panel title and format

We encourage submission that embraces a range of scholarship. In addition to the conventional presentations of research papers, the panel may adopt a different format, such as roundtable discussions, pedagogic forums, curated Q&A, open-floor dialogues, or working-in-progress workshops.… Read more ⤻