Events & Calls for Papers
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
Upcoming Conference: Asian Art in a Precarious World, A CCC-CVAA Forum
13th Oct 2026
University of Westminster, London, U.K.
Deadline: 12th Oct 2026
A CCC-CVAA Forum (Contemporary China Centre, University of Westminster; Contemporary . . .
International Workshop: Linguistic Features as Text Structuring Devices in Early Chinese Texts: Digital Humanities Approaches and Beyond
Hybrid: Zurich, Switzerland
5–7th Oct 2026
The event may interest EACS members working on linguistics, literature, philosophy, and digital humanities. The workshop explores how early Chinese texts deploy linguistic features as integral components of meaning construction—ranging from sound . . .
CFP for ACLA 2027 panel – Poetry in the Shadows: Socialist Noir and Aesthetic Freedom in 1980s Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and China
Houston, Texas, USA
20-23rd Sep 2027
Deadline: 22nd Sep 2026
The 1980s represent a critical, yet highly under-researched decade in film studies. Frequently obscured by the towering grandeur of earlier revolutionary eras or the subsequent post-socialist New Waves of the 2000s, 1980s cinema across the socialist bloc suffers from low historical visibility, trapped in . . .
Call for papers: The fifth conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA)
University of Vienna, Austria
29th Aug–2nd Sep 2027
Deadline: 22nd Sep 2026
The conference is jointly organized by the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) and the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna.
Main aims of the . . .
International Workshop: Wild, Domesticated, and Displayed: Animals and Cultural Heritagization in Ethnic Areas of China
Hybrid: Paris, France | Zoom
28th May 2027
Deadline: 30th Oct 2026
Organized by Valentina Punzi (École pratique des hautes études/CRCAO) & Aurore Dumont (Université Paris Cité/CRCAO)
Through the history of the People’s Republic of China, the association between certain animal species and state-identified “ethnic minorities” (shaoshu minzu 少数民族) have . . .
Call for Papers: The 4th Biennial Conference Theorizing Sinophone Ecologies: Heterogeneity, Habitat, and the More-than-Human
The Society of Sinophone Studies (3S)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
28-29th May 2027
Deadline: 15th Sep 2026
The 4th biennial 3S conference titled “Theorizing Sinophone Ecologies” will convene at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It proposes a further reorientation of the field by thinking the Sinophone through . . .
Call for Papers: The Twelfth International Conference on Sino-Korean Linguistics (ICSKL)
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
9-10th Oct 2027
Deadline: 1st Aug 2026
The Organizing Committee of ICSKL-12 and Korean Studies at Ruhr University Bochum are pleased to announce that the next meeting of the International Conference on Sino-Korean Linguistics will be held 9-10 October 2027 at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany).
ICSKL-12 . . .
20th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS) – “Denial, Exclusion, Absence: Exploring the Negative Space in Asia”
Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.
20–21st Nov 2026
Deadline: 15th Jul 2026
The Department of Asian Studies welcomes contributions that engage with the conference theme from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary perspectives, with a focus on the languages, cultures, societies, and histories of Asia and their diasporic manifestations.
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Sofia University, Bulgaria
6-7th Nov 2026
Deadline: 15th Jun 2026
The Department of Sinology at the Centre for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” cordially invites you to participate in the jubilee academic conference marking the 35th . . .
Call for Papers – The 5th AEEAO International Conference: A Decade Looking Toward East Asia: Continuities, Transformations, and New Approaches
Barcelona, Spain
25-27th Jan 2027
Deadline: 21st Mar 2026
In 2026, the Spanish Association for East Asian Studies (AEEAO) marks its tenth anniversary—a decade during which East Asian Studies have gained increasing prominence amid a global context shaped by . . .
Call for Papers: Beyond Calligraphy: New Approaches in Contemporary Times
University of Bologna, Italy (in-person only)
15-16th Oct 2026
Deadline: 2nd Feb 2026
Final Conference of the ERC “WRITE” project (University of Bologna, GA. 949645) and the 19th Annual Conference of the Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts Asia (Birmingham City University)
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 . . .
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 . . .