Events & Calls for Papers
Monday, June 16th, 2025
The 3rd CCVA PhD Forum 2025
27th Jun 2025
Birmingham, UK
The 3rd CCVA PhD Forum will be held on 27th June, and it is open for registration. For the full forum programme please see below.
The 3rd CCVA PhD Forum 2025 opens for registrationIn response to the increase of doctoral projects in the field of Chinese arts, design, media, . . .
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 . . .
Call for Papers – History of South China: Sources, Methods, and New Approaches
Oxford, United Kingdom
4th Jul 2025
Deadline: 9th May 2025
The organisers Jacob Fordham (London School of Economics and Political Science), Simon Lam (University of Oxford) and Paul Napier (University of Oxford) invite proposals for a workshop to take place in Oxford, United Kingdom, on 4 July 2025.
The “History . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Call for Papers: Repay Resentment with Straightforwardness? Exploring Revenge in the Chinese Context
KU Leuven, Belgium
1-3rd Jul 2025
Deadline: 20th Feb 2025
From antiquity to the present, rarely has a topic been discussed as widely in China as revenge. Literature, philosophy, law, theater, cinema, and many more fields have dealt with revenge for over two millennia and continue to negotiate it to this day. While in . . .
Fourth Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender — Voicing Gender in China
17-18th Jun 2025
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
Deadline: 1st Feb 2025
We are pleased to announce that the Fourth Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender will be hosted by the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle on 17-18 June 2025. Titled ‘Voicing Gender in China,’ the conference seeks to explore the multiple sites of . . .
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 . . .
Call for Papers: 28th CHIME International Conference “Digital Futures for Chinese Music”
University College Cork, Ireland
4–8th Jul 2025
Deadline: 15h Jan 2025
In this conference we focus on the various ways new media (digital media especially) provide spaces for preserving, creating, playing, sharing, teaching, or discussing music, and the ways these spaces are impacting what musicians, culture bearers, and others do in the musical part . . .
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).
<!– . . .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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .