Upcoming Events

Call for Applications: EACS Autumn School “字 and the Search for Universalism”

Nürnberg, Germany
14-16th Nov 2025
Extended Deadline: 27th Jul 2025

The history of the Sinograph (zi 字) goes well beyond the confines of China proper. Its geographic and technological movements exceed the limits of the Sinosphere and have been directed towards other linguistic and medial spheres—in some cases, even the entire world. In modern times, such efforts have become entangled with political agendas of national unification. In premodern East Asia, however, Chinese, as a scripta franca, transcended linguistic boundaries both within a diverse empire and across the region. Its dominance was continually challenged by other languages (i.e., Sanskrit, Sogdian, Manchu) and by advocates and critics of multilingualism. Debates over whether to use Literary Chinese in language contact situations, to numerically “unicode” Chinese characters, to devise mechanical systems for typesetting, to apply Chinese as a common scholarly written language, or, conversely, to replace it with an international language (and/or to abandon it altogether), suggest that the past and present of the Sinograph remained strikingly relevant to the search for standards and universalisms.… Read more ⤻

Specialist Course ‘50 Years of EU-China Relations’ Organized by the ‘EACS’ in collaboration with the Horizon Europe Project ‘ReConnect China’

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

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

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

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

Workshop: Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy

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

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

Call for Papers – Upcoming Conference: Asian Languages in the History of Lexicography

Montpellier, France
23-25th Mar 2026
Montpellier University Paul Valéry
Deadline: 15th Oct 2025

Organized within the framework of the Chedil research project, funded by the French Research Agency (ANR-23-CE27-0008; https://chedil.hypotheses.org/), this conference invites submissions exploring the history of lexicography, particularly dictionaries involving Asian languages. We also welcome submissions on critical editions of linguistic manuscripts and on the contribution of digital humanities.

For the full call for papers, submission guidelines, and practical information, please visit the conference website: chedil-alhl.sciencesconf.orgRead more ⤻

Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS) “Truths, Tensions, Technologies.”

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

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

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Call for Papers – Performing Postsocialism: Cultures of Performance-Making in Twenty-First-Century
China

9-10th Apr 2026
University of Vienna, Austria
Deadline: 15th May 2025

Organized as part of a research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), this symposium invites proposals that address the relationship between performance and postsocialism in twenty-first-century China. Since its initial formulations in the late 1980s and 1990s, the notion of postsocialism has captured the ideological ambiguities and cultural contradictions brought about by China’s late-twentieth-century transition to a socialist market economy and integration into the global capitalist system in the new millennium. Postsocialism denotes a fluid condition of socioeconomic unevenness and temporal dissonance that mirrors the stratification of traditional values with historical experiences of revolution and reform, and the persistence of socialist-era practices and institutions alongside the affirmation of new societal dynamics and cultural formations. The tension and interplay between past legacies and futural aspirations continues to shape the postmillennial sociocultural landscape, reflecting the ongoing relevance of the postsocialist framework for the analysis of contemporary China.… Read more ⤻

Deadline Extended! Call for Papers: Museums in Motion. New frontiers in Chinese museum studies

University of Siena, Italy
13-14th Nov 2025
NEW Deadline: 10th Jun 2025

We are delighted to invite papers for the international workshop ‘Museums in Motion: New Frontiers in Chinese Museum Studies’, to be held in person and online at the University of Siena on 13-14 November 2025.

Studying Chinese museums is both an intriguing and rewarding pursuit, offering a valuable perspective on the histories and cultures of China and its unprecedented transformations over the past three decades. These institutions house an extraordinary wealth of historical, artistic, and cultural artefacts, providing deep insight into China’s long and complex past, as well as its multilayered interactions with the world today. From ancient bronzes and calligraphy to contemporary art and political exhibitions, museums in China serve as dynamic spaces where history is preserved, interpreted, and debated. They shape narratives, influence national and local identities, and even serve political functions. The way history and culture are presented—what is emphasized, omitted, or reframed—offers a revealing glimpse into China’s evolving relationship with its past and present.… Read more ⤻

3rd Prague Summer School of Chinese Poetry 2025: Nature in Chinese Language Poetry across Time and Space

Prague, Czech Republic
1-5th Sep 2025
Deadline: 31st May 2025

Registration is now open for the third Prague Summer School of Chinese Poetry 2025: Nature in Chinese Language Poetry across Time and Space, organized by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation International Sinological Center at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, on September 1-5, 2025.

Speakers: Michelle Yeh (UC Davis), Andrea Riemenschnitter (University of Zurich), Yang Zhiyi (Goethe University Frankfurt), Federico Picerni (University of Bologna) and Nikky Lin (National Taiwan Normal University).

For more information and the online application, see our website https://cckisc.ff.cuni.cz/cs/prednaskove-cykly/prague-summer-school-of-chinese-poetry-2025/

The application deadline is May 31, 2025. Notice of acceptance by June 15, 2025.… Read more ⤻

TOChina Summer School. Politics, Political Economy and Foreign Policy of Contemporary China

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

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

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

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

Call for Papers: The 18th CCVA Annual Conference – The Art of Chinese Social Media

6-7th Nov 2025
Birmingham City University
Deadline (Abstracts): 18th Apr 2025

With the rise of Chinese digital platforms and social media, a new landscape of visual cultural production and artistic communication has emerged, reshaping the ways of art making and aesthetics, the cultures and politics of display, and stimulating new participatory approaches in diversity. From the early days of bulletin board systems (BBS) like ‘Shui Mu Tsing Hua’ (1995) to the proliferation of platforms like WeChat (2011), Douyin (2016)/TikTok (2017), Kuaishou (2011), Weibo (2009), QQ (1999), and Xiaohongshu (Rednote) (2013), Chinese social media have become a vital site for artistic expression, community engagement, and political discourse. The development of social media entangled with critical issues of gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity, and identities has broadened the boundaries of existing concepts of contemporary art and visual culture, providing new methods, conditions and aesthetics.

The rapidly evolving social media with ‘Chinese characteristics’ has facilitated a wave of contemporary Chinese art and visual culture in various forms with key representations including Zhang Peili, Miao Ying, Cao Fei, Ge Yulu, Lin Ke, Jiao Xingtao, Huang Sunquan, and many others.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: Third Guangdong- Hong Kong- Macao Greater Bay Area Interdisciplinary Doctoral Forum

Deadline: 31st Mar 2025

We are pleased to call for the submission of papers to our third doctoral forum. This year the forum focuses on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Challenges: Innovation, Aspiration, Solution. Building on the success of the past two years, this forum has established itself as a valuable platform for fostering cross-disciplinary dialogues on pressing global issues. Our objective centres on exploring innovative, interdisciplinary solutions that can address emerging challenges facing our world today. This year, we continue to explore these interwoven challenges through the lens of interdisciplinary research, for further fostering new insights and deeper collaborations. We hope that these collective efforts will lead to more innovative, actionable and profound solutions, ultimately contributing to a more sustainable, equitable and inclusive future.

This forum is designed specifically for doctoral students (PhD in progress or newly graduated) who are conducting innovative research across diverse fields, including the humanities, social sciences, and natural and technical sciences.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: China Workshop of the Iserlohner Kreis “New issues and challenges in Chinese studies”

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

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

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

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Call for Participation – 4th International TAP Workshop: “Taiwan’s Responses to Global Megatrends”

Trier University, Germany
1–5th Sep 2025

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

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

Submission Instruction & Timeline

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

Call for Papers: International Conference – Intercultural Knowledge Transfer in (Transregional) Asian Religious Contexts

13-15th Nov 2025
University of Münster, Germany
Deadline: 31st Mar 2025

Religious traditions have long served as dynamic vehicles for the transfer and transformation of cultural knowledge across societies. In 19th and 20th century Asia, profound political, social, and cultural changes affected interactions between religious actors, institutions, and ideas, fostering unprecedented movements of knowledge within and beyond religious communities. This conference seeks to explore the mechanisms, actors, spaces and outcomes of intercultural knowledge transfer with a particular focus on East Asian and Indo-Persian regions. By examining these processes, the conference aims to deepen our understanding of how religious frameworks influenced the production, adaptation, and dissemination of knowledge across cultures. We invite papers that engage with the central question: How did religious contexts facilitate the transfer and transformation of knowledge in, about and across Asia from early modern times to the 20th century?

Send Abstracts to: knowledgetransfer2025@uni-muenster.de

Download this announcement’s official PDF:

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Workshop: ‘Quantifying Education in 20th Century China: Schools as Production Sites and Repositories of Statistics’

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
16-17 Jul 2025
Deadline: 1st Mar 2025

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard, Gus Tsz-kit Chan, Sijia Cheng
Education has long been central to Chinese modernization, with educational statistics playing a pivotal role in policy decision making. Literacy rates, years of education, physical parameters of students, and enrollment of women and ethnic minorities were important performance metrics of the state. In China, one of the earliest instances of nationwide school statistics can be traced back to the late Qing period, when the Ministry of Education produced histograms estimating the number of politically educated citizens needed for a proposed constitutional monarchy. Although national education reports were suspended in 1916 at a central level, educational statistics were revitalized under the Guomindang government in tandem with its re-centralization of political authority. In the 2000s, as quantitative history gained popularity, data from the Republican period experienced a new “afterlife.” Scholars addressed inconsistencies and gaps by developing revised estimates that restored and enhanced the legibility of old reports and surveys (Wang, van Leeuwen and Li).… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: BACS Annual Conference 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 ⤻

Olympia Summer Academy 2025

European Cultural Center of Delphi, Greece

14-19th Jul 2025
Deadline: 31st Jan 2025

The 2025 Olympia Summer Academy is co-organized by the Navarino Network and the China Program of the Institute of International Relations (IDIS).

This year’s course will run in two parallel cycles:

A: Geopolitical Risk Analysis
Kristin Fabbe, Chair in Business and Comparative Politics at the Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute.
Wolfango Piccoli, Co-president and Director of Research, Teneo.

B: Global China
Jérôme Doyon, Junior Professor at the Centre for International Relations (CERI) at Sciences Po Paris.
Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.

More Info & How to Apply:
Information regarding the program and the application process can be found here (https://olympiasummeracademy.org/academy/olympia-summer-academy-2025/), or contact us at olympia@navarinonetwork.org.

Application deadline: January 31, 2025.

Participation Fees (including accomodation in double occupancy rooms, breakfast and lunch, tuition, reading material, counseling and extra-curricular activities): 550€.
Registration Fee (non-refundable, paid upon admission to secure a place): 50€.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: Youth Political Mobilization and Socialization in Contemporary China

8th Sep 2022 (All day) Virtual event, registration required Deadline: 30th Mar 2022 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the official establishment of the Chinese Communist Youth League (中国共产主义青年团, CYL), one of the largest youth political organizations in the world. As the Chinese Communist Party’s assistant and reserve force, the CYL is the Party’s main channel to socialize youth in the official political discourse and practices, and mobilize them to support the current system. Despite the importance of the organization, English-language academic work on its history, politics and multifaceted role in contemporary China remains

15th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS) “Continuity and Change”

Online | Olomouc, Czech Republic 26–27th Nov 2021 Deadline: 30th Jun 2021 The Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc is currently accepting individual paper, organized panel, and research poster proposals for its 15th Annual Conference on Asian Studies to be held on November 26–27, 2021 in Olomouc, Czech Republic and online, using Whova, a conference (web)app. The general theme of the conference this year is Continuity and Change. We invite contributions that concern any region or culture in Asia and address the conference theme from a variety of perspectives. We welcome both synchronic and diachronic approaches grounded in a range of disciplines

China in the 17th Century: Trauma, Transition and Global Transformations

An International Workshop to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the journal Ming Qing Yanjiu 20-21st Oct 2021 This will be an online workshop hosted by the University of Naples "L'Orientale". Should the global situation allow it, it will be held as a hybrid event. Organized by : Prof. Donatella Guida, Dr. Federico Brusadelli. Keynote Lecture : Prof. Timothy Brook (University of British Columbia) Deadline for Abstract Proposals: Apr 25th 2021 Notification of Acceptance: May 25th 2021 Within the “global crisis” of the 17 th century (Parker 2013), that put under