Nürnberg, Germany
14-16th Nov 2025
Extended Deadline: 27th Jul 2025

The history of the Sinograph (zi 字) goes well beyond the confines of China proper. Its geographic and technological movements exceed the limits of the Sinosphere and have been . . .

Leuven, Belgium
Deadline: 31st Jul 2025

The Early Modern History Research Group and KU Leuven offer an environment where intellectual creativity and independence thrive. We promote the lively exchange of ideas, and provide strong intellectual, moral, and logistical support to our PhD students, postdocs, and other collaborators.​

Visit the . . .

Ghent, Belgium
9-11th Sep 2025
Apply before: 10th Aug 2025

On behalf of the organizing committee headed by Prof. dr. Laura De Giorgi, President of EACS and Prof. dr. Bart Dessein, scientific coordinator of the ‘ReConnect China’ project, we are happy to invite applications of PhD students and junior post-docs (maximum 2 years post-doc . . .

University of Zurich, Switzerland
Hybrid format
11–13th Jul 2025

The workshop will explore various modes of reasoning in Chinese philosophical traditions.
Online attendance is possible.
For registration, please visit: www.aoi.uzh.ch/registration
This workshop explores how processes of thinking and reasoning are reflected in traditional Chinese philosophy — including forms that are not easily captured by formal . . .

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 . . .

Deadline: 20th Aug 2025

The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Starting from the legacy of this conflict, we shall devote the tenth Issue of DIVE-IN to historical narratives, memories and literary representations of war and violence in a feminine perspective by taking as . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

Leuven, Belgium
Deadline: 15th Sep 2025

The University of Leuven (Belgium) has a vacancy for a full-time tenure track professor in Chinese Studies with proven expertise in the field of Chinese thought. Candidates should hold a PhD in Chinese Studies/Sinology or in a specific discipline, with a dissertation focused on China. Candidates are . . .

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 . . .

Olomouc, Czech Republic
21-22nd Nov 2025
Deadline: 15th Jul 2025

Organised by the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc. The central theme of ACAS 2025 is “Truths, Tensions, Technologies.” The conference will be held on November 21–22, 2025, in Olomouc, Czech Republic, and the abstract submission deadline is July 15. More information can . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

28th Jul, 2025
Tokyo, Japan
Deadline: 25th May 2025

Global Asian Studies (GAS) at the University of Tokyo will be holding a symposium in summer
2025 to discuss issues surrounding women and disease in medical and metaphorical
transformations. Organized by GAS and Dr. Shu Yang from Western Michigan University in the
United States, this post-Covid symposium aims . . .

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. . . .

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 . . .

Collective Volume Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation (De Gruyter). This book explores Chinese society through the notion of networks—as a concept, a social reality, and a method—in order to reveal its complexity and fluidity during a pivotal period, . . .

Keller, A., and Chemla, K. (eds.) (2024) Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World. Textual Criticism, Critical Editions and Translations of Scholarly Texts in History. Book series: Archimedes ed. J. Buchwald. Cham: Springer Nature.

2024/2025 Second Semester (March-July)

The webinar is organized as part of the Research Training Group (RTG) Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, hosted by Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies. The RTG has also launched a monthly podcast series Enemy Encounters which features . . .

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 . . .

Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
Deadline: Open until filled

Faculty Recruitment
Jiangnan University School of Humanities
Education Major
Full-time Faculty Position

Position Overview
Position Title: Intermediate Lecturer
Research Direction: Education History and Culture
Location: Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
Application Deadline: Open until filled
Start Date: Flexible

Position Requirements
We are seeking a highly qualified individual . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

Deadline: 30th Nov 2025

The editors of JEACS invite submissions of articles for an upcoming special issue tentatively titled “Ink in Chinese History, Literature, and Culture”, to be published in 2026.

The chief goal of this issue is to shift the focus away from the mainstream of ink . . .

27–29th Nov 2025
Trier University, Germany
Deadline: 31st Mar 2025

The China-Europe Research Platform on Chinese Migration to and Beyond Europe (CERPE) is delighted to announce the 8th annual workshop, which will focus on the multifaceted phenomenon of Chinese migration and the complex negotiations of identities by Sinophone diasporas. This workshop seeks to deepen . . .

Deadline: 15th Mar 2025

Thanks to the generous support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the EACS will continue the Travel Grant scheme in 2025. The scheme aims to support researchers who wish to undertake specialised research in one of the major European sinological libraries or museums for Chinese art. Visits should normally . . .

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 . . .

The editors of the EACS Journal are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 5 (2024). This issue contains a special section on ‘Commentary and Exegesis’ in poetry and fiction, history, and thought, stretching from the early imperial period . . .

University of Mons, Belgium
28th Oct 2025
Deadline: 15th Mar 2025

This conference is the first of a biennial conference cycle launched by the ChinEAsT (Chinese and East Asian Languages, Translation and Cultures) laboratory of the University of Mons.
As one of the most significant topics to have emerged in the field of translation studies, . . .

Ngo, K. (2024) Ordering Tang China: Cultural Memory, Emperor Taizong and the Essentials. Ann Arbor: Lever Press

New Open Access book on a seventh-century Chinese anthology for imperial governance

14-28th Jul 2025
Milan, Beijing, Shanghai
Deadline: 30th Apr 2025

Organized by the Research Center on Contemporary China (CSCC) and the Graduate School of Management of Polytechnic University of Milan, The China School represents an extraordinary opportunity to experience firsthand the ongoing . . .

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 . . .

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).

Lammer, Christof. Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China. New York: Berghahn Books. 2024.

Polarizing images of authoritarian, socialist or culturalist otherness compromise analyses of the Chinese state. Still, such images produce effects beyond academia . . .

Ariane Knüsel, Ralph Weber. Hier & Jetzt (Zurich), 2024, 352 p.

The books is based on extensive archival research, interviews with diplomats, business representatives, and sinologists, as well as a large . . .

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 . . .

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

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .