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Tuesday, April 29th, 2025

Members’ Publication: Christian Henriot (ed.)

Collective Volume Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation (De Gruyter). This book explores Chinese society through the notion of networks—as a concept, a social reality, and a method—in order to reveal its complexity and fluidity during a pivotal period, . . .

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12th EACL Summer School in Chinese Linguistics

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 . . .

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Enemy Encounters in East Asia Webinar Series

2024/2025 Second Semester (March-July)

The webinar is organized as part of the Research Training Group (RTG) Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, hosted by Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies. The RTG has also launched a monthly podcast series Enemy Encounters which features . . .

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Call for Papers: China Work Group 2025

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

This year’s annual conference of the China Work Group (China AG) will be held on June 13-15, 2025 at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), in Belgium.
Founded in 1992 as a work group for young researchers, the China AG aims to further exchanges between junior scholars . . .

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Vacant Position: Intermediate Lecturer at Jiangnan University School of Humanities

Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
Deadline: Open until filled

Faculty Recruitment
Jiangnan University School of Humanities
Education Major
Full-time Faculty Position

Position Overview
Position Title: Intermediate Lecturer
Research Direction: Education History and Culture
Location: Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
Application Deadline: Open until filled
Start Date: Flexible

Position Requirements
We are seeking a highly qualified individual . . .

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Member’s Publication: Lauren Walden

Lauren Walden. (2024) Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai. Hong Kong University Press

Hong Kong University Press, 2024

Surrealism in China initially gained a foothold in Shanghai’s former French concession during the early 1930s, disseminated by . . .

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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 . . .

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Call for Papers: Chinese On the Move — Migrations and Representations Across Time in Europe and Beyond

27–29th Nov 2025
Trier University, Germany
Deadline: 31st Mar 2025

The China-Europe Research Platform on Chinese Migration to and Beyond Europe (CERPE) is delighted to announce the 8th annual workshop, which will focus on the multifaceted phenomenon of Chinese migration and the complex negotiations of identities by Sinophone diasporas. This workshop seeks to deepen . . .

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Call for Papers: The 3rd Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) PhD Forum

27th Jun 2025
Deadline: 31st Mar 2025
School of Art, Birmingham City University, UK

The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University aims to foster new understandings and perspectives of Chinese contemporary arts, design, and visual culture through interdisciplinary practices and theoretical studies. Following the 17-year success of our CCVA Annual . . .

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Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Library Travel Grant 2025

Deadline: 15th Mar 2025

Thanks to the generous support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the EACS will continue the Travel Grant scheme in 2025. The scheme aims to support researchers who wish to undertake specialised research in one of the major European sinological libraries or museums for Chinese art. Visits should normally . . .

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Member’s Publication: Kelly Ngo

Ngo, K. (2024) Ordering Tang China: Cultural Memory, Emperor Taizong and the Essentials. Ann Arbor: Lever Press

Ann Arbor: Lever Press, 2024

New Open Access book on a seventh-century Chinese anthology for imperial governance

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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 . . .

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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).

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Call for Papers: International Workshop “Gender, Diplomacy, and Global Connections in Modern Asia”

Cardiff University, Wales, UK
10th Jun 2025

This one-day workshop explores different ways in which gender intersected with practices of formal and informal diplomacy in modern Asia.
We invite proposals from researchers of all career stages for 20-minute presentations.
Proposals considering the role of gender in international, transnational, transimperial, and decolonial histories with a focus . . .

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Special Issue: mediAzioni — “Advanced Technologies, Methods and Materials for Human Health and Well-Being: A Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspective”

Submission deadline: May 4th 2025

A special issue of the review “mediAzioni” (an international open-access, refereed journal that promotes interdisciplinary work in the humanities, https://mediazioni.unibo.it/), titled “Advanced Technologies, Methods and Materials for Human Health and Well-Being: A Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspective,” is scheduled for November 2025 and will be edited by: Sabrina . . .

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Member’s Publication: Christof Lammer

Lammer, Christof. Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China. New York: Berghahn Books. 2024.

Polarizing images of authoritarian, socialist or culturalist otherness compromise analyses of the Chinese state. Still, such images produce effects beyond academia . . .

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Call for Papers: Upcoming Conference: Around the Sino-French Institute (1921-1950): student diaspora, circulation of knowledge and Sino-French institutional relations

Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France
26
28th May 2025
Deadline: 30th Jul 2024

Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3 – IETT (Institut d’Etudes Transtextuelles et Transculturelles)
Exchanges between China and France in the field of education, and more particularly higher education, are still under-researched and under-recognised. Based on the experience of the Sino-French Institute in Lyon, . . .

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Call for Papers: The 24th ISCP conference “Addressing Global Crises and Reimagining Solutions through Chinese Philosophy”

Ljubljana, Slovenia
20-23rd Jun 2025
Deadline: 15h Oct 2024

“The conference will revolve around the compelling theme of “Addressing Global Crises and Reimagining Solutions through Chinese Philosophy”
The current crises, such as aggressive wars, severe environmental disasters, unequal distribution of resources, viral pandemics, etc., are global problems that cannot be fully solved within the narrow . . .

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Open Positions in Modern Chinese Literature

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Deadline: 31st Jan 2023

Open positions – Professor(s) / Associate Professor(s) / Assistant Professor(s) in Modern Chinese Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Department/ Institution: Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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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 . . .

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CrossAsia Online-Survey: “Chinese Studies Research Conditions in Europe”

Deadline: 5th Sep 2021

Between research needs and access to resources – Getting an overview of the situation in different countries in Europe

Despite the growing importance of Asia-related expertise, European researchers and their communities often have only limited access to digital material published on Asian and international markets because researchers are comparatively small in number and dispersed over institutions, countries . . .

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Statement by the EACS Board regarding the sanctions issued by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs against European China researchers 

The European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) supports and advocates for independent academic research on China and hence disapproves of the People’s Republic of China’s reaction to foreign governments’ and administrations’ diplomatic actions by holding directly responsible academic researchers, their relatives, and their institutions in Europe. As an independent professional academic association of European scholars, EACS trusts in the . . .

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In Memoriam: Stefano Zacchetti

Professor Stefano Zacchetti, who died on 29 April 2020 at the age of 52, was one of the world’s most distinguished scholars and teachers in the field of Buddhist Studies. His untimely death has shocked all of us who knew him and were fortunate enough to be his friends and colleagues. An intellectual of the highest order whose boundless . . .

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