Events & Calls for Papers
Monday, December 15th, 2025
Call for Applications: MA Chinese Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Summer Term 2026
Online Info Session: 16th Dec 2025
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
The Chair of Sinology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg invites applications for its two-year Master of Arts program Chinese Studies with an Optional Focus. This program is taught entirely in English and is designed to deepen your understanding of Chinese society, . . .
Utopias and Their Pursuit: A Comparative Study of the East and West 理想社會與其實踐:東西方歷史的跨文化對話
Notre Dame Global Beijing, PRC
20-22nd Dec 2025

Major religions and spiritual traditions articulate their own visions of utopia, and these ideals have shaped the political and social foundations of their respective civilizations. . . .
Call for Applications: 2026 Venice-Princeton Summer School with the two tracks in Classical Chinese and Classical Japanese/Kanbun
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
6th Jul – 7th Aug 2026
Application Deadline: 15th Mar 2026

The 2026 Venice-Princeton Summer School with its two tracks in Classical Chinese and Classical Japanese/Kanbun is now open for applications. The Summer . . .
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Symposium: ‘(In)visibility: seeing, making visible, keeping hidden’
Venice, Italy
14-16th Apr 2026
Deadline: 1st Dec 2025

Organized by PhD students of the 40th doctoral programme in Asian and African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Accessing and producing . . .
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 . . .
Call for Papers: 9th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics Italian Association of Chinese Linguistics (AILC)
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
17-18th Jun 2026
Deadline: 30th Jan 2026
The Italian Institute of Oriental Studies Department at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, warmly invites both members and non-members of the Italian Association of Chinese Linguistics (AILC) to participate in the 9th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics. . . .
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 . . .
Call for papers – International Conference: Teaching Chinese Language and Translation to/from Chinese at a Crossroad
Mons, Belgium
16–17th Mar 2026
Deadline: 28th Nov 2025
To mark the tenth anniversary of the inclusion of Chinese as a main language in the curriculum at the University of Mons, the ChinEAsT laboratory of the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation – School of International Interpreters (FTI-EII) at the University of Mons is pleased . . .
Online Course – Worldmodels & Ontologies: Visions of Reality in Chinese Thought (Fall 2025)
16th Oct—18th Dec 2025
We are pleased to announce the online course “Worldmodels & Ontologies: Visions of Reality in Chinese Thought”, running from Thursday, 16 October to Thursday, 18 December 2025. This seminar is designed in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Zurich, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and National Chengchi University . . .
International conference: Teaching, Identity, and Language Policies and Planning through the lens of huawen jiaoyu / zhongwen xuexiao

Bergamo, Italy
15-17th Jan 2026
Deadline: 15th Oct 2025
Building on the research undertaken by the members of the PRIN PNRR ECCO-Italy (Education of Children of Chinese Origin in Italy), this conference seeks to provide a scholarly platform for . . .
Call for Papers: The 26th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS)

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
21–25th Jul 2026
Deadline: 30th Nov 2025
The conference is organized by the EACS in collaboration with the Department of Asian and North African Studies . . .
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 . . .
Call for Papers: The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature 2026 Biennial Conference
National University of Singapore
25-26th Jun 2026
Deadline: 15th Oct 2025
Location: National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore, 119260
Co-organized by the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature and the Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. The conference is also . . .
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 . . .
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: 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 . . .
