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Call for Chapters for a collective monograph: Truths, Tensions, and Technologies in Asia
Olomouc Asian Studies (OLAS), Vol. 6
Submission deadline: 30th Apr 2026
Publisher: Palacký University Olomouc
Type of publication: Open Access (DOI assigned to each chapter), Print on Demand
Language of publication: English
Fields of research: Humanities, Social Sciences, Asian Studies
Expected publication date: Fall 2027 (no publication fees)
This collective monograph focuses on . . .
9th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics (extended deadline) – Italian Association of Chinese Linguistics (AILC)
17-18th Jun, 2026
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Extended deadline: 13th Feb 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 . . .
Member’s Publication: Annette Kieser
Kieser, Annette. Sekundäre Zentren Der Sechs Dynastien : Untersuchungen Zu Gräbern Am Yangzi-Mittellauf. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025.

Member’s publication: Maurizio Paolillo
Maurizio Paolillo (ed.), China and the West on the Silk Roads. Perceptions of the Other and Encounters from the Warring States to the Modern Era, Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria 2025

The term “Silk Road” (Seidenstrasse), coined by . . .
Call for Papers: Young Scholars Forum at the 13th International Conference of the European Association for Chinese Linguistics
Deadline: 28th Feb 2026

We would like to invite master’s students, doctoral candidates, and post-doctoral researchers (within 3 years of their PhD defense) to submit a paper to the . . .
Call for Application: 2026 Summer School – Models of Dialectical Thought in Chinese and Asian Philosophy
Ljubljana, Slovenia
4-7th Sep 2026
Deadline: 15th May 2026
The Department of Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana cordially invites PhD students and post-doctoral researchers to a summer school course on dialectical thought in Asian philosophies and cultures.
The summer school is based on the premise . . .
Volume 6.2 of the JEACS (Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies) is online!

The editors of the EACS Journal are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 6.2 (2025). The contents are accessible, as always, via https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/issue/view/745
We thank our authors and reviewers for their work . . .
Call for Applications: Olympia Summer Academy 2026
European Cultural Center of Delphi, Greece
14–19th Jul 2026
Deadline: 31st Jan 2026
Set in Delphi—one of the most iconic and inspiring landmarks of ancient Greece—the Academy combines rigorous academic training with an environment that encourages curiosity, dialogue, and bold thinking. Students engage with leading faculty, explore cutting-edge debates, and connect with peers from . . .
Call for Papers: Society for the Study of Early China 2026 Annual Conference
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
12th Mar 2026
Deadline: 14th Jan 2026
The Society for the Study of Early China is pleased to announce its 2026 annual conference. The conference will take place on Thursday, 12 March 2026, at the Vancouver Convention Center in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. It will be held in conjunction with the Association . . .
Full Scholarship: Critical Approaches to the History of East and Southeast Asian Contributions in the British Screen Industry
London, UK
Deadline: 13th Feb 2026
We encourage candidates who have knowledge and deep understanding of the ESEA community and their creative and cultural contributions in Britain, and those from non-traditional and under-represented backgrounds at doctoral level research.
You will be based in the Department of Cultural, Media and Creative Industries and supervised by . . .
Upcoming Conference: China Studies Between Worlds — Ten Years of Bridges, New Challenges 漢學跨越世界——十年搭橋,新的挑戰
Hong Kong, PRC
12-14th Aug 2026
The World Association for Chinese Studies celebrates its 10th anniversary conference in Hong Kong — a city that embodies the “between worlds” at the heart of our theme. Over the past decade, our annual gatherings have built bridges between Chinese and international scholars, fostering critical exchange across . . .
Upcoming Summer School: The China School — China’s Hi-Tech Rise: Catching up amid Competition and Cooperation
Milan, Shanghai, Shenzhen
14-28th Jul 2026
Deadline: 31st Mar 2026

The seventh edition of The China School offers a unique opportunity to step into the heart of innovation through an international learning platform that . . .
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)
8th International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse
Madrid, Spain
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
15-16th Jun 2026
The ISCLD is a biennial international symposium that advances the exchange of scholarship and emphasizes an empirical orientation in functional discourse studies of the Chinese language, with participation from local and international scholars, not only from linguistics, but also related fields of communication, sociology, anthropology, . . .
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 . . .
Member’s publication: Katherine Ngo & Kelly Ngo, eds.
Katherine Ngo & Kelly Ngo, eds., Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook, Lever Press.

This Open Access book is the first anthology of traditional Chinese children’s textbooks in a European language. The selection of . . .
Member’s publication: Lauren Walden
Walden, Lauren. Surrealism and the People’s Republic of China : From Mao to Now. Routledge, 2026

Chapter 4 ‘Chinese Surrealism in the 1980s’ is available open access and the introduction is available as a preview . . .
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 . . .
Member’s publication: Borevskaia Nina
Luo Maodeng (罗懋登) The Epic Tale of Palace Eunuch San Bao Voyage to the Western Ocean, 三宝太监西洋记通俗演义, Borevskaia Nina (Transl.)

In October 2025 the full Russian translation of the Chinese classical novel by . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Member’s Publication: Taru Salmenkari
Salmenkari, T. 2025, Global Ideas, Local Adaptations: Chinese Activism and the Will to Make Civil Society, Edward Elgar.

Exploring the boundaries, fringes, and inner workings of civil society, Taru Salmenkari investigates local forms of political agency in . . .
Member’s Publication: Béatrice L’Haridon, Grégoire Espesset
Lives and Power. Biographical Writing in Sima Qian’s Work and Beyond, in Ancient China and Rome, Coédition Hémisphères/Maisonneuve & Larose, 2025

In this volume derived from an international symposium held at the Collège de France . . .
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 . . .
Member’s Publication: Lingjie Ji
Lingjie Ji, Chinese Literature in English Sinology: Cultural Translation of Literary Knowledge, 1807-1901, Edinburgh University Press
In this book, I explore the fascinating Sino-British literary exchanges of the nineteenth century, highlighting how Chinese literature was understood as a knowledge category in the Anglophone world. I also discuss the significance of literary knowledge . . .
Member’s Publication: Halina Zawiszová, Giorgio Strafella, and Martin Lavička (Eds.) Olomouc Asian Studies, 2025
Member’s Publication: Halina Zawiszová, Giorgio Strafella, and Martin Lavička (Eds.) Olomouc Asian Studies, 2025

“Embodied Entanglements: Gender, Identity, and the Corporeal in Asia.” Edited by Halina Zawiszová, Giorgio Strafella, and Martin Lavička
We are excited to announce . . .
Member’s Publication: Simon Yongjun Zheng 郑永君
Simon Yongjun Zheng 郑永君 2025, A Study on the history of CICM in China and its Dutch-speaking Sinologist Jozef Mullie, 上海古籍出版社

Newly launched publication in China: A Study on the history of CICM in China and its Dutch-speaking . . .
Member’s Publication: Renata Vinci ed.
Vinci R. (ed.) 2024, Navigating the Mediterranean: Through the Chinese Lens: Transcultural Narratives of the Sea Among Land, Firenze University Press

The volume Navigating the Mediterranean: Through the Chinese Lens: Transcultural Narratives of the Sea Among . . .
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 . . .
Member’s Publication: Katherine Ngo
Ngo, K. (2025) Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China. Ann Arbor: Lever Press

New Open Access book on the Treasury of Elementary Learning (Youxue qionglin 幼學瓊林)
The is the first major European . . .
Member’s Publication: Lauren Walden
Lauren Walden. (2024) Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai. Hong Kong University Press

Surrealism in China initially gained a foothold in Shanghai’s former French concession during the early 1930s, disseminated by . . .
Member’s Publication: Jana S. Rošker

Jana S. Rošker, 2023. Humanism in Trans-Civilizational Perspectives: Relational Subjectivity and Social Ethics in Classical Chinese Philosophy. Cham: Springer.
Preview at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-37518-7
Jana Rošker is pleased to announce the publication . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
