Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, Germany
22–23rd Apr 2027
Deadline: 7th Dec 2026

Organizers: Franziska Marliese Fröhlich (MPIWG) and Wiegand Körber (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Measuring instruments travel. What they measure does not.

2023: China’s National Bureau of Statistics publishes the share of the population deemed . . .

Deadline for abstracts: 28th Jan 2027

Special Issue: Affirmative Memories, Alternative Futures: Remembering Otherwise in Sinophone Cultural Worlds

In societies undergoing profound transformation, the past is a powerful and contested resource through which communities articulate claims to justice, negotiate collective . . .

Deadline: 31st Dec 2026

Guest Editors: MA Ran

This special issue of JCFS uses “vernacular new . . .

Cambridge, UK
Deadline: 15th Dec 2026

The Department of East Asian Studies, within the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, wishes to appoint to an Assistant Professorship in Modern Chinese History from 1 October 2027.

The successful candidate will hold a PhD (or will do so by the . . .

Simon Yongjun Zheng 鄭永君, Bringing China Home: Fr. Jozef Mullie — A Flemish Scheutist, Educator, and Sinologist, Leuven: F. Verbiest Foundation, Leuven Chinese Studies 49, 2026.

Hybrid: University College London, U.K.

Oct 2026 to May 2027

On behalf of the Centre of Central and East Asian Studies . . .

Geneva, Switzerland
Deadline: 31st Oct 2026

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Geneva is accepting applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Sinology (Modern and . . .

Basilio Brollo’s Dictionarium sinico-latinum (Chinese-Latin dictionary) – A Critical Edition of the Manuscript Rinuccini 22 (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana), John Benjamins, 2026.

John Benjamins, 2026

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 . . .

Language, Teaching, and Politics in Arabic and Chinese, edited by Chiara Bertulessi and Marco Aurelio Golfetto, Routledge, 2026.

We are pleased to announce the publication of the edited volume Language, Teaching, . . .

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 . . .

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality, edited by Jamie J. Zhao and Hongwei Bao, 2026 by Routledge.

We are excited to share the news that the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality now . . .

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 . . .

Youth in Chinese History: Educational Practices and Representations of Children and Young People Between Tradition and Modernity, edited by Giulia Falato and Renata Vinci, Routledge, 2026.

Youth in Chinese History brings together a series of interdisciplinary studies exploring . . .

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 . . .

Shu-Li Wang, In Search of National Ancestors – Heritage, Identity and Placemaking in China, Cambridge University Press, 2025.

This Element examines how international heritage discourses . . .

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.

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 . . .

Julie Yu-Wen Chen, Global Knowledge Production about China, Leiden University Press, 2026.

Julie Yu-Wen Chen’s new book Global Knowledge Production about China (Leiden University Press) . . .

Gotelind Müller, “Patriotic Education Bases in China. Modes of Citizen Formation between Nationalism, Local Identities, and Tourism”, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2026.

Renata Vinci. Il sinologo che non c’era: Alla riscoperta delle opere di Giuseppe Barone (1861–1924).

Giuseppe Barone (1861–1924), a brilliant and versatile Neapolitan scholar, devoted himself . . .

Sounds of Ink / 水墨的声音, Luo Qi and 30 Years of Calligraphyism / 洛齐与书法主义30年

The volume documents and provides an in-depth analysis of the Chinese . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

Sinophone Borderlands project (SINOPHONE) is SEEKING TALENTED AND AMBITIOUS POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS to jointly submit proposals for the European Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships MSCA-PF
Who are we searching for?

Potential candidates must hold a doctoral degree that was defended no longer than 6 years prior 15. September 2021. The postdoctoral fellows must receive a . . .