Events & Calls for Papers

Monday, December 15th, 2025

Call for Papers: Workshop – Qing China in Global Perspectives

UCL History Department, London, UK
5-6th Jun 2026
Deadline: 1st Dec 2025

The Centre for Central and East Asian Studies, invites paper proposals for a two-day workshop on Qing China in Global Perspectives, to be held on 5–6 June 2026, hosted by the UCL History Department. Professor Cameron Campbell (Hong Kong University of Science . . .

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Call for Papers – Rethinking Comparison in Sinology

Valletta, Malta
4-6th Nov 2026

Deadline: 28th Feb 2026

The Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Malta, with the support of the Confucius Institute at the University of Malta, is pleased to announce the second edition of the Chinese Studies Conference in . . .

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EACS Early Career Scholar Award 2026

Deadline: 1st Mar 2026

The Board of the European Association for Chinese Studies is pleased to announce again the EACS Early Career Scholar Award (formerly Young Scholar Award). The purpose of this award is to encourage research in Chinese studies among young scholars, especially, but not exclusively, scholars studying and working at . . .

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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 . . .

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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 . . .

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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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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 . . .

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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 . . .

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