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Call for Papers: Journal of Chinese Film Studies – A special issue on Transborder Flows and Chinese Cinemas

Jun 28, 2024

Deadline: 31st Aug 2024Ed. Chris Berry, Haina Jin Chinese cinemas have always been characterised by transborder flows, both of foreign films flowing in and Sinophone films flowing out. What foreign films have been popular in Chinese-language territories, with what audiences, when, and why? What Chinese-language films have found audiences overseas, in

Call for Papers: China-Workshop “Iserlohn 2024”

Jun 6, 2024

Schwerte, Germany27-28 Jul 2024Registration Deadline 15th Apr 2024 The “Iserlohn Network” is a loose circle of young social scientists working on China. Our annual workshop will be held from 27 to 28 July 2024 at Haus Villigst outside the town of Schwerte. The workshop aims at young scholars looking to discuss

Call for Papers: International Conference “Tradition and New Mission: Confucianism from the Perspective of Modernity”

Mar 4, 2024

Trier University, Germany6-7th Jul 2024Deadline: 29th Apr 2024 The emergence and the development of the notion of “modernity” in Europe is related to the industrial revolution, the rise of cities and scientific progress. It is accompanied by spiritual renovations, like “renaissance”, “reformation” and “enlightenment”. Their basic ideas and values are still

Summer School in Classical Chinese and Japanese/Kanbun (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & Princeton University)

Feb 26, 2024

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy1-26 Jul 2024Deadline: 15th Apr 2024 Visit one of the world’s most beautiful cities. Learn Classical Chinese or Japanese/Kanbun in an international environment. Get academic credits during a summer abroad. The Ca’ Foscari – Princeton Summer School in Classical Chinese and Classical Japanese/Kanbun is globally unique

Olympia Summer Academy: Cycle C: The Rise of China

Feb 15, 2024

Delphi, Greece9-12th Jul 2024Deadline: 29th Mar 2024 The Olympia Summer Academy and the European International Studies Association are pleased to announce the 22nd edition of their summer program in Politics and International Studies. Cycle C of the OSA is dedicated to China. The Olympia Summer Academy will take place from July

Call for papers: Volume on China and the Mediterranean in History

Feb 15, 2024

University of Malta, SpainDeadline: 10th Mar 2024 We are pleased to announce an open call for papers for an edited volume titled “China and the Mediterranean in History”. It will be edited by Wei Chen and Dennis Mizzi from the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures at the

6th BAAS (Baltic Association for Asian Studies) conference on the “Dialogue of Asian Civilizations in Accelerated Globalization”

Feb 15, 2024

Riga, Latvia23-26th May 2024Deadline: 25th Mar 2024 Dear esteemed colleagues and scholars,We are delighted to invite you to present your paper at our upcoming conference on the dialogue of Asian civilizations, which have experienced intense transformations, from a new angle evaluating their ancient traditions along with Western influences and offering universally

Workshop “Eurasian zones of contact: The Russian and Qing empires ”

Feb 15, 2024

Dublin, Ireland17th May 2024Deadline: 29th Feb 2024 This one day workshop, held at University College Dublin on 17 May 2024, develops international collaboration on zones of contact between the Russian Empire (1721-1917) and the Qing Empire (1636/1644-1912). These zones are, on the one hand, geographically defined borderlands in Central, Inner, and

International Conference “Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond.”

Feb 15, 2024

University of Cambridge, UK8–10th Jul 2024Deadline: 23rd Feb 2024 This international conference aims to bring together scholars working on practices of record-keeping, historiography, and hagiography in the Buddhist tradition and in related cultural fields. Recent years saw a steadily growing interest in the impact of Buddhism on historiography and hagiography, in

Summer School on Modern Asian Literatures and Cultures

Feb 3, 2024

Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech RepublicDeadline: 26th May 2019 The 2019 summer school is dedicated to the modern Asian cultural record. For the purpose of this summer school, we include literature, film, music and art, focussing primarily on China, but the school also covers topics related to Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

Workshop on West Lake History and Landscape Culture

Dec 25, 2023

Hybrid | Granada University, Spain25-26nd Jan 2024 We are launching a workshop on West Lake history and landscape culture on January 25-26, 2024 (10:00-6:00 pm, CET) at Granada University. The event will go hybrid. If you are interested, you can find the schedule and register link here:) https://www.westlakegranadaworkshop.com/home We also have

Call for Papers: Unfolding the Coromandel Screen: Visual Mobility, Inscribed Objecthood, and Global Lives

Dec 14, 2023

Hybrid | City University of Hong Kong22-25th Nov 2024Deadline: 20th Jan 2024 With the generous support of the Bei Shan Tang Foundation, the Department of Chinese and History at City University of Hong Kong will host a two-part academic event titled “Unfolding the Coromandel Screen” in celebration of the department’s tenth

China Work Group 2024. Current Challenges in Research and Teaching

Dec 11, 2023

Munich, Germany1-2nd Jun 2024 The annual conference of the China Work Group (China-AG) will take place at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich on June 1st and 2nd, 2024.The goal of the China AG as a work group of young scholars from the field of Chinese cultural studies of the German-speaking sphere, founded in

Call for Papers: The 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS)

Dec 2, 2023

Tallinn, Estonia27–30th Aug 2024 The conference is organized by the EACS in collaboration with the Department of Asian Studies at the Institute of Humanities of Tallinn University (TLU). Scholars in all areas of Chinese Studies from Europe and beyond are kindly invited to submit their proposals for contributions in one of

Call for Papers: Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies (JEACS), Volume 5 (2024)

Oct 28, 2023

Deadline: 17th Dec 2023 For its fifth volume, the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies (JEACS) invites scholars to submit papers on Exegesis and Commentary in the pre-modern, modern, and contemporary Chinese world. We welcome unpublished papers that consider commentary as textual material and analyse its linguistic, stylistic, and

Call for Papers: Conference “Asia in the mirror: self-representations, self-narratives, and perception of the other”

Jul 25, 2023

University of Cagliari, Italy18-20th Mar 2024Deadline: 27th May2024 The 21st century has been defined as the “Asian century”, a new global phase after the European and the American centuries. (Mahbubani 2022). If “the future is Asian” (Khanna 2019), Asia’s role as the leading continent calls for a radical rethinking of Western

Call for papers “Radical right in Europe and East Asia: Comparison and New Approaches in Research”

Jul 17, 2023

Deadline: 15th Aug 2023Vila Lanna, Prague14–15th Nov 2023 Masaryk institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of SciencesDepartment of Chinese Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic In spite of the considerable scholarly interest in the historical exploration of radical nationalism and fascism, the association between fascist and radical nationalist ideologies and

3rd Conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology

Jul 17, 2023

Faculty of Arts, University of LjubljanaLjubljana, Slovenia13-17th Sep 2023Registration deadline: 31st Jul 2023 For a comprehensive overview of the conference, including the preliminary conference programme, location map, registration details and details on accompanying events, please visit the official conference website: https://ea-aaa.eu/conference-eaaa/

Barbarian Pipes and Strings Reconsidered—Negotiating Authenticity in the Musics of China: Transcultural Perspectives

Jun 14, 2023

25th International CHIME Conference, Heidelberg Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS)1-4th Oct 2023 Exactly 25 years after the last International Chime Conference in Heidelberg that focused on “Barbarian Pipes and Strings,” we return to the city by the Neckar and the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) that now

International Conference: Beyond Comparison

Jun 13, 2023

Online | HybridMunich, Germany14 – 16th Jun 2023 This international conference is set to take place at the venue of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation. It is organised by the International Doctorate Programme “Philology. Practices of premodern cultures, global perspectives, and future concepts”. The conference topic is “Beyond Comparison. Towards

Prague Summer School of Chinese Poetry „Wang Wei across Time and Space“

Jun 13, 2023

Prague 1, Czech Republic4 – 8th Sep 2023Deadline: 15th. Jun 2023 Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation International Sinological Center in Prague invites applications for participation at Prague Summer School of Chinese Poetry „Wang Wei across Time and Space“ Date: September 4 – 8, 2023 Venue: Faculty of Arts, Prague 1, Czech Republic Tentative

2023 Cambridge Graduate Student Conference on East Asian Studies “Currents: Local Practices and Popular Beliefs in Buddhism”

Jun 13, 2023

University of Cambridge, UK6th – 7th Jul 2023 Like the flow of currents, the dissemination and diffusion of Buddhism in East Asian societies takes place in various directions. Robert E. Buswell Jr. conceptualises currents and countercurrents to describe the diverse regional strands of influence on the East Asian Buddhist tradition. Beside

Call for Papers: The WPR approach and policies on education in the digital age: China and its global peers

May 8, 2023

25-26th Oct 2023Leibniz Institute for Educational MediaGeorg-Eckert-Institut, Braunschweig, GermanyDeadline: 15th Aug 2023 In this workshop, we want to bring scholars together in order to use the ‘What is the problem represented to be’ approach created by Carol Bacchi to analyse policies on educational digitalisation in China and to explore the following

International Society of East Asian Philosophy (ISEAP): Third International Conference

May 8, 2023

15-16th SepUniversity of Edinburgh, ScotlandDeadline: 30th Jun 2023 Keynote Speakers Professor Geir Sigurðsson (University of Iceland)Dr. Sojeong Park (Sungkyunkwan University) Abstracts for individual papers and organized panels should be submitted to eastasianphilosophy@gmail.com by June 30, 2023 (Japan Time). For more details please see our website and kindly disseminate to those who

Call for Papers: China-Workshop „Iserlohn 2023“

Apr 24, 2023

Schwerte, Germany22-23rd Jul 2023Deadline: 10th May 2023The “Iserlohn Network” is a loose circle of young social scientists working on China. Our annual workshop will be held from 22 to 23 July 2023 at Haus Villigst near the town of Schwerte. This year, we focus on “Social Practices in Contemporary Chinese Studies”.

Summer School: The Rise of China in a Turbulent World – Alternative Perspectives

Apr 17, 2023

24-29th Jul 2023Reggio Emilia, ItalyDeadline: 31st May 2023 Great power competition or multipolar world? China will play a crucial role in both scenarios. It is therefore essential to decipher Beijing’s strategies and interactions with Western countries and the Global South. Engage with our leading scholars to acquire key interdisciplinary tools and

Call for Workshop Participation: Youth in Chinese History

Apr 6, 2023

Workshop Youth in Chinese History: Education and Representations of Young Peoplein Chinese Sources between Tradition and Modernity 14-15th Sep 2023Oxford University, Centre for Chinese Studies, Lucina Ho room OrganizersGiulia Falato (Oxford University)Renata Vinci (University of Palermo) In China, childhood and education have historically been intertwined with ritual practices and social relations,

Call for Papers: Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies 2023 Edition

Jan 17, 2023

Deadline: 30th Apr 2023 The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions in either English or German for edition 46, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2023‒24. All papers submitted will undergo double-blind peer review.The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (BJOAF) has

CfP – Conference: The Evolution of the Global Payments System – A GloCoBank Project Event

Dec 17, 2022

St Hilda’s CollegeUniversity of Oxford23-24 March 2023Extended Deadline: 2nd Jan 2023 The global payments system represents the underlying plumbing of globalisation, determining the efficiency and security of cross-border payments for goods and services. Despite its fundamental importance surprisingly little is known about the evolution of this system, especially the dynamics of

Call for Papers: The Lone Guardian. Politics, Culture, and Society in China under the Yongzheng Emperor

Nov 3, 2022

University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy6-7th Jul 2023Deadline: 31st Dec 2022 Organizers: Dr. habil. Phillip Grimberg (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg), Dr. Federico Brusadelli (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)The Yongzheng Emperor 雍正 (1678-1735) and his reign (1723-1735), overshadowed by the towering personalities of his father, Emperor Kangxi (1662-1722), and his son, Emperor Qianlong (1736-1796), remains

Call for Papers: 4th Biennal Conference of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP) “Interpretation and Reinvention”

Oct 25, 2022

Macerata, Italy16-18th Jun 2023Deadline: 31st Dec 2022 The 4th Biennal Conference of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP) will take place in Macerata (Italy) on June 16-18, 2023. The theme of the conference is “Interpretation and reinvention.” Every philosopher always has a forerunner to interpret. Any new philosophical theory is

Upcoming Conference on “Women’s transnational activism in the Twentieth Century: framing the Chinese case in a global perspective”

Oct 20, 2022

Ca’ Foscari UniversityOnline | Venice, Italy21st Oct 2022

First All-Mediterranean Chinese Studies Conference “Chinese Studies Beyond the Centre of Gravity”

Oct 12, 2022

1-3rd Feb 2023Deadline: 15th Nov 2022University of Malta The Department of Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of Malta and Confucius Institute at the University of Malta present the First All-Mediterranean Chinese Studies Conference “Chinese Studies Beyond the Centre of Gravity” The geographical location of Malta has

International Online Conference “Analyzing the Sinophone Narrative on the Russian Invasion in Ukraine”

Oct 6, 2022

Online | Zoom14th Oct 2022 The Ukrainian Associations of Sinologists, jointly with A. Krysmkyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Science of Ukrainian and Helvetica Publishing Group, is pleased to invite you to an international online conference “Analyzing the Sinophone Narrative on the Russian Invasion in Ukraine” that

Call for Papers: International conference hosted by IDK “Philology: Practices of premodern cultures, global perspectives and future concepts”

Oct 1, 2022

Beyond Comparison: Towards a Connected PhilologyLudwig-Maximilians-UniversityMunich, Germany14–16th Jun 2023Deadline: 30th Nov 2022 Much of the recent work on global philology has focused on pointing out parallels between philological methods and traditions in various cultures; that is, on straightforward comparison. This conference is focused rather on identifying and examining the actual connections

Call for Papers: Current Scholarship on the Book of Changes 易經

Sep 13, 2022

Among Chinese classics, the Book of Changes (or I Ching, Yijing) has been immensely popular among Western readers because of its graphic images, its method of divination, and its philosophy of change. But the Book of Changes is notoriously difficult to read due to its complex textual body and its competing

Upcoming Workshop: Legacy of the Tsinghua Logic School

Mar 10, 2022

21st Apr 2022 Venue: Hybrid The Joint Research Center for Logic, Tsinghua University In 1926, recently graduated from Columbia University, Jin Yuelin came back to China and founded the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University. With new appointments of Shen Youding and Wang Xianjun in subsequent years, the logic group grew very fast and

Second Call for Papers: The 34th Deutsche Orientalistentag DOT – 100th Anniversary

Dec 2, 2021

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany12–17th Sep 2022Extended Deadline: 31st Dec 2021 The 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT) is organized by the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft and will take place at the Freie Universität Berlin from 12th to 17th September 2022. The submission deadline for abstracts is 31.12.2021 and 01.10.2021 for panel proposals. We welcome

Online Seminar “China’s Economy: Challenges Created by the Reform Era”

Sep 5, 2021

University of Oslo 8th Sep 2021 3:00—4:30 pm CET 21:00 Beijing, 09:00 am Washington DC Due to unforeseen circumstances this event will be postponed by one week. The new time is 8th of September 3pm Oslo time. All welcome! China’s economic reforms have caused rapid growth for a period of forty

Call for Papers: Nr. 28 Other Modernities “Words, powers and pandemics”

Sep 5, 2021

Open Access Academic Journal To be published Nov 2022 Deadline: 15th Oct 2021 Edited by Ana María González Luna, Kim Grego, Giovanna Mapelli and Bettina Mottura The year 2020 has witnessed the forceful emergence of the theme of pandemic worldwide, highlighting the multifaceted mechanisms of reaction put into play against it. The activation of the

Invitation to “Thinking the Republic of China: An International Symposium”

Aug 21, 2021

Online | Kaohsiung, Taiwan 23rd Aug – 6th Sep 2021 In 2015, professor Yang Rur-bin (楊儒賓) published In Praise of 1949 (1949禮讚)

Upcoming Conference: “Historical Network Research in Chinese Studies”

Jul 8, 2021

Online | Harvard Zoom Jul 23—24th & 30—31st 2021 9:00 am — 11:30 am EDT Network analysis is a burgeoning field in East Asian digital humanities. In recent years, the digitization of source materials, the proliferation of databases, as well as the development of digital tools, have greatly facilitated the study of networks in

Call for Abstracts: ‘Taiwan: A Frontline of Democracy under Threat?’

May 22, 2021

Submission deadline: 13th Jun 2021 According to the ‘Democracy Index’

Call for Position Papers: “Chinese Identity in an Age of Anti-Asian Racism and #StopAsianHate”

May 22, 2021

British Journal of Chinese Studies Deadline: 15th Aug 2021 Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, racism against Chinese and other East and Southeast Asian communities has surged globally. At the same time, Chinese communities in different parts of the world have mobilised themselves to raise awareness of and fight against Sinophobia and

Virtual International Conference “Cosmopolitan Pasts of China and the Eurasian World”

May 22, 2021

Online | Munich, Germany 11-11th & 18-19th Jun 2021

International Workshop: “Dynamics of knowledge transmission and linguistic transformation in Chinese textual cultures”

May 14, 2021

Online | Paris, France 10-11th Jun 2021 The circulation and the dissemination of knowledge rely in essential ways on forms of linguistics transformation, alteration and manipulation. An apparently simple act such as adding a lexical gloss next to a term can potentially reveal the complex interpretative and translational processes that are needed in

Upcoming Seminar: “Taiwan’s Opportunities and Challenges During the Pandemic: Domestic Politics, Foreign Relations, and Global Health Strategies”

May 14, 2021

Online | Helsinki, Finland 25th May 2021 10:00-12:00 Helsinki Time 9:00-11:00 Copenhagen Time 8:00-10:00 London Time Between the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and spring 2021, Taiwan’s global visibility has increased thanks in large part to its successful handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak. It is now almost a cliché to elaborate the way in which

Upcoming Lecture: Ute Wallenböck “Tibetan Food(s) and Identity in a Global Context”

May 14, 2021

Online | Helsinki, Finland 9th Jun 2021 11:00-12:30 Helsinki Time 10:00-11:30 Prague Time Speaker: Ute Wallenböck (Masaryk University & Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic) My current research deals with the cultural aspects of Tibetan foods and beverages since I argue that everyday foods illustrate cultural identity: Food(s) are vehicles for expressing culture. In course of my

Call for Submissions: Sixth International Conference on Chinese Studies “The Silk Road”

Apr 13, 2021

5-6th Jun 2021 Deadline: 30th Apr 2021 The Sixth International Conference on Chinese Studies “The Silk Road”, organized by the Confucius Institute at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, will be convened ONLINE on June 4 – 5, 2021. The conference aims with the help of modern technology to continue and build on the

Call for Papers: Global Storytelling issue 2.1 – Special Issue on Serial Narrative: “Streaming and Seriality”

Apr 4, 2021

Deadline: 1st Aug 2021 Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images is a new journal founded by Editor-in-Chief Ying Zhu, hosted at Hong Kong Baptist University, and published by University of Michigan. This special issue of Global Storytelling will investigate how streaming media has impacted the production, distribution, and reception of

“Conversations on Chinese Philosophy” – A Virtual Symposium

Mar 2, 2021

Spring Semester 2021 Organized by Federico Brusadelli, Chiara Ghidini & Lisa Indraccolo. Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” – Centre for East Asian Studies. Tallinn University – Institute of Humanities MICROSOFT TEAMS – REGISTER HERE: https://cutt.ly/vkYG9fk March 4, 11.30 am CET – Jana Rosker, Lee Ming-huei, F. Heubel

EACS 2021: Call for Late-Breaking Session Submissions

Feb 7, 2021

Leipzig, Germany 24-28th Aug 2021 Deadline: 15th Mar 2021 The EACS 2021 is now accepting a limited number of late-breaking panel proposals for inclusion at the 23rd biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), which will be held in Leipzig from August 24 to August 28, 2021. Topical and timely late-breaking

Call for Papers: Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Volume 2 (2021)

Nov 28, 2020

Deadline: 31st Mar 2021 For its second volume, the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies invites scholars to submit papers dealing with aspects of youth in the pre-modern, modern, and contemporary Chinese world. We welcome unpublished papers that discuss the concept of youth and its impact on Chinese society especially

Upcoming online Workshop – “Wired China: Digital Media and Online Culture”

Nov 3, 2020

27-28th Nov 2020 Workshop held on Zoom University of Zurich, Switzerland Digital technologies have in the last

Call for Papers for the upcoming conference “Chinese Popular Culture in Translation and Transmission”

Oct 22, 2020

University of Leicester, UK 22–23rd Jul 2021* Deadline: 15th Jan 2021 Popular culture is elusive to define, yet through a multitude of forms and expressions, its influences across cultural boundaries are often effective, efficient and far-reaching. The conference will bring together academics, researchers and practitioners to exchange views and ideas about Chinese popular culture

Call for Papers: The XXXI International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa

Oct 22, 2020

St. Petersburg, Russia 23-25th Jun 2021 Deadline: 31st Jan 2021 The XXXI International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa: “Russia and the East. Сommemorating Centennial of Political and Cultural Ties” The 31st biennial International Congress on Source Study and Historiography of Asian and African Countries will be held at Saint

Call for Papers: Art, History and Culture of the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms

Oct 3, 2020

Deadline: Jan 31st 2021 In November 2019, the International Research Centre for the History and Culture of Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms (IRC) was co-established by the Yunnan Provincial Museum in China, the Woon Brothers Foundation in Singapore and Northumbria University, UK. The aim is to improve understanding of the history, culture, and

Call for Papers: China Sounds Abroad – Migration, Mobility, and Modernity

Jul 20, 2020

Aarhus University, DK May 6-8th 2021 Inspired by the aural turn in the humanities and China’s recent international propaganda endeavours, this international conference aims at establishing a new and innovative research agenda in the field of China Studies: a systematic investigation of the sonic dimension of China’s modern history and rising global presence.

Call for Papers: 14th Annual Conference on Asian Studies

Jun 27, 2020

Olomouc, Czech Republic 20-21st Nov 2020 Deadline: 16th Aug 2020

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Chinese Historical Networks in the Journal of Historical Network Research (Spring 2021)

Jun 4, 2020

Chinese historical network research is a burgeoning academic field. In recent years, the digitization of source materials, the proliferation of databases, as well as the development of digital tools, have greatly facilitated the study of networks in Chinese history. This special issue invites scholars from all disciplines to share their research

Call for Papers: International Conference “Dream and Reality in Tang Poetry”

May 28, 2020

Trier, Germany 10-11 Oct 2020 Deadline: 15th Jul 2020 The dream is one of the most specific and culturally important phenomena of the human psyche. It has been a concern to humans across numerous cultures for thousands of years. Initially, interpreting the meaning of dreams was considered to be the most important perspective. Today,

New book series “Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter”

May 2, 2020

Published by Springer (https://www.springer.com/series/15657) The book series provides a platform for the publication of studies on sciences in the ancient worlds that bring innovative methods into play and address new theoretical issues. It is predicated on the conviction that the history of ancient sciences raises theoretical questions and requires new methodologies in

Call for Papers: International Workshop “The Other in Chinese History and Thought: Territory, Race, Culture, Philosophy, Religion”

Apr 15, 2020

by Shubhangi Mehrotra Ghent University, Belgium 8-9th Feb 2021 Deadline: 15th May 2020 Conveners: Prof. Bart Dessein (Ghent University), Prof. Leigh K. Jenco (London School of Economics), Dr. Julia C. Schneider (University College Cork), Dr. Ady Van Den Stock (Ghent University) The figure of the “other” (or “Other”) looms large in contemporary philosophy as well as

Call for Papers: Yan Lianke Studies

Apr 15, 2020

Abstract Submission Deadline: 15th May 2020 We are seeking contributions to an edited volume focusing on Yan Lianke studies. The present edited volume focuses on how Yan Lianke has been received in and beyond mainland China, whilst presenting views of how Yan Lianke has been understood, interpreted, and appreciated in Japan, the

Call for Papers “The Seamy Side of the New Silk Road: Documenting Repression in the Uyghur Region”

Apr 7, 2020

Monde Chinois Nouvelle Asie n° 63 Deadline: 30th Apr 2020 The Uyghur region has a pivotal role in Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a gigantic infrastructure project that seeks to connect China to Russia, the Middle East and Europe. Regarded as “unstable” by the Chinese regime, the Uyghur region constitutes both

Call for Papers: 11th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-11)

Feb 2, 2020

Olomouc, Czech Republic 25-27th Sep 2020 Deadline: 20th Mar 2020 The 11th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL) will be held in Olomouc, Czech Republic. It is jointly organized by the EACL executive committee, the Department of Asian Studies (https://kas.upol.cz/en/), the Sinofon project (http://sinofon.cz/), the Department of English and American

International Workshop “Dynamics of knowledge transmission and linguistic transformation in Chinese textual cultures”

Feb 2, 2020

Verona, Italy 17-18th Sep 2020 Deadline: 31st Mar 2020 Organised by Barbara Bisetto (University of Verona, Italy) and Rainier Lanselle (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and CRCAO, Paris) Location: University of Verona, Verona (Italy). The circulation and the dissemination of knowledge rely in essential ways on forms of linguistics transformation, alteration and manipulation. Historically, practices

Call for Papers: “Uses and Representations of the Environment in the Chinese World” AFEC International Colloquium

Feb 2, 2020

Paris, France 12–13th Jun 2020 Deadline: 21st Feb 2020 From the insect outbreaks documented in the Spring and Autumn Annals (722–481 BCE) to the recent earthquakes in Sichuan, the Chinese world has been regularly affected by the changing conditions of the environment. As the Himalayan peaks continue to rise, the Yellow River to change

Call for Papers: Conference “East Asian Comics”

Feb 2, 2020

Université de Paris Campus Paris Diderot 19-21st Nov 2020 Deadline: 1st Apr 2020 In the context of the 2020 Comics Year launched by the French Ministry of Culture1, this conference focuses on a whole side of global comics through a regional approach : comics art in Eastern Asia. The aim is to look beyond American

Call for Papers: “Ukrainian Journal of Sinology Studies”

Feb 2, 2020

Deadline: 31st Mar 2020 “Ukrainian Journal of Sinology Studies” (UJSS) an international and interdisciplinary open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal publishing original research articles and significant

Call for Papers: Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies – Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 2020 Edition

Feb 2, 2020

Deadline: 1st May 2020 The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions in either English or German for edition 43, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2020‒21. All papers submitted will undergo double-blind peer review. The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (BJOAF) has been

Call for Papers: International Symposium “On the Boundaries of Here and Now”

Feb 2, 2020

Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy 1–2nd Oct 2020 Deadline: 30th Apr 2020 Today, more than ever before, interconnections, flows, interdependencies, crises and/or re-articulations of models and identity challenge the firmness of boundaries and the idea of homogeneity of presupposed, imagined identity communities that are predicated on these boundaries. In this instance, the academia across various

Summer School “Law and Governance in Contemporary China”

Feb 2, 2020

Amsterdam, Netherlands 18th Jul-1st Aug 2020 Deadline: 1st May 2020 How would a sound ‘China Strategy’ look? Should we do business with China, or reflect instead upon its historical relationship with human rights? Is the priority of China’s President Xi Jinping to strengthen his power and position within the government, or to create and

Sixth Biannual Ph.D. Student and Young Scholar Workshop “Text and Image in the Ancient World”

Feb 2, 2020

8–12th Jun 2020 Beijing, PRC Deadline: 15th Mar 2020 The International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures (ICSATC), hosted at Renmin University of China, holds its sixth Ph.D. Student and Young Scholar workshop on June 8-12, 2020. Four renowned scholars from the fields of Ancient Chinese, Japanese, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian Civilization will

14th International Conference on Daoist Studies (In Honor of Aleksandar Fedotov) “Daoism and Literature: Myths, Stories, Novels, Poetry”

Jan 31, 2020

Sofia, Bulgaria 9-12th Jun 2020 Deadline: 1st Apr 2020 Daoism in all its schools and dimensions has found vivid expression in literature—from the poetic format of the Daode jing through the fictional accounts in the Zhuangzi and the ecstatic poetry and mythology of the middle ages to extensive novels and alchemical poetry of late

Upcoming Conference: XIII International Research and Practice Conference «RUSSIA – CHINA: HISTORY AND CULTURE»

Jan 29, 2020

Kazan, Russia 8–10th Oct 2020 Deadline: 30th Jun 2020 We are glad to invite you to participate in the XIII International Research and Practice Conference «RUSSIA – CHINA: HISTORY AND CULTURE». This year the conference is devoted to such important historical events as: the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War

Sinologists in Bydgoszcz: The 1st International Conference on Chinese Languages, Literature and Culture

Jan 29, 2020

Deadline: 31st Jan 2020

Upcoming Conference “Radical Nationalism and Fascism in East Asia: New Approaches in Research”

Jan 29, 2020

Masaryk University, Czech Republic 25-26th Apr 2020 Extended Deadline: 14th Feb 2020 Despite intense scholarly interest in the history of radical nationalism and fascism, the connections between fascist/radical nationalist ideas and particular East Asian nationalist thinkers is an important theme that appears to have been mostly ignored by ‘Western scholars’. The European study of

International Conference “A Review of Changes. 70 years of the People’s Republic of China in an Interdisciplinary Perspective”,

Jan 8, 2020

Toruń, Poland Mar 12–13th 2020 October 1, 2019, marks exactly 70 years since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. This year also includes many anniversaries of events that have shaped modern China in a significant degree in terms of politics, society and culture. It is an opportunity to summarize, look at

Upcoming Conference: Reassessing Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present… and Future?

Dec 21, 2019

Newcastle University, UK 5-6th Jun 2020 If Wu Wenguang’s Bumming in Beijing (流浪北京, 1990) is considered to mark the birth of independent cinema in the People’s Republic of China (hereafter China) that cinema will be celebrating its 30th birthday in 2020. But if independence is defined as meaning production without government permission, China’s

CALL FOR PAPERS “Identity Politics in East Asian Popular Culture”

Dec 21, 2019

Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Deadline: January 6th 2020 20-21st Jul 2020 East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (EAJPC) The Journal for the East Asian Popular Culture Association The East Asian Popular Culture Association (EAPCA) is planning its second international conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the International Center of Taiwan Studies (ITSC), College of Liberal

Call for Papers: Upcoming Conference «Issues of Far Eastern Literatures» Dedicated to the 380 th anniversary of Pu Songling

Nov 23, 2019

Saint Petersburg, Russia 27–29th Jun 2020

Call for Papers: The Seventh Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies

Nov 23, 2019

Hong Kong, P.R.China 28-30th May 2020 Deadline: 3rd Jan 2020

Call for Papers: Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage

Nov 7, 2019

University of Oxford, U.K. 28-30th May 2020 Deadline: 30 Nov 2019 What we deem to be genuine or fake is not an objective determination, but something that we agree upon as communities. Debates about authenticity, moreover, are often intimately bound to question who owns the past and its representation. Please join us at Oxford

Call for Papers: Policies and Reforms of State-owned Enterprises in China

Nov 7, 2019

Deadline: 31st Mar 2020 Economic and Political Studies (EPS), an ESCI and Scopus listed journal hosted by Renmin University of China and published by Taylor & Francis Group, is calling for papers for a Special Issue on “Policies and Reforms of State-owned Enterprises in China”. In the recent US-China trade disputes, the issues

Call for Papers: “East Asia and Southeast Asia in the World Literary Space,” a special issue of Archiv orientální

Oct 7, 2019

Guest-editors: Kuei-fen Chiu (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) Táňa Dluhošová (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Archiv orientální , an indexed, peer-reviewed academic journal (A&HCI, Scopus, and ERIH Plus) published by Oriental Institute (Czech Academy of Sciences) dedicated to the cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, invites

International Workshop: Elites, Knowledge, and Power in Modern China – The formation and transformation of elites in modern China

Oct 2, 2019

Aix-Marseille University, France 7-9th Oct 2019 In the century that followed China’s forced entry into the world order shaped by the advancing Western empires (1832-1949), the nature of elite groups in China experienced a tremendous and radical transformation. The ruling group that had dominated the country for a millennium — a narrow elite

The 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS)

Sep 8, 2019

Leipzig, Germany 25-29th Aug 2020 Deadline: 6th Jan 2020 The 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) will be held at Leipzig University (Germany) from 25 August 2020 to 29 August 2020. Local organisation is provided by the Institute of East Asian Studies, Leipzig University. The EACS biennial conference is

Call for Applications: Autumn School Asia and Europe. Discourse, Circulation and Representation

Sep 8, 2019

30th Sep-4th Oct 2019 Zurich University, Switzerland Organized by the Doctoral Program Asia & Europe The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program Asia & Europe at Zurich University invites all interested doctoral students and early postdocs to a one-week intensive seminar program “Asia & Europe”. The program offers a stimulating and interactive learning experience, establishing an optimal

The Second International Conference of the Spanish Association for East Asian Studies “East Asian Studies during the Era of Connectivity”

Sep 8, 2019

Madrid, Spain 27-29th May 2020 Deadline: 29th Nov 2019 We are glad to announce the 2nd International Conference of the Spanish Association for East Asian Studies to be held at the Autonomous University of Madrid during 27th to 29th May 2020. This conference will be organized under the broader theme of “East Asian Studies

Workshop ‘Cultural and Intellectual Histories of Japanese-occupied China’

Sep 8, 2019

16th Sep 2019 London, UK This one-day workshop will bring together scholars from the Europe, Asia and North America to discuss cultural production and intellectual debates in Japanese-occupied China. Papers will cover topics as diverse as painting, photography, poetry, print media, music and ideologies. A draft programme and a poster for the event

International Conference on “Methodology of researching and teaching Chinese law”

Sep 8, 2019

Saint Petersburg, Russia 18th Oct 2019 Saint Petersburg State University in collaboration with the Polish Research Center for Chinese Law and Economy, the Finnish Center of Chinese Law and Chinese Legal Culture and Sino-Russian Legal Research Center of Jilin University is PLEASED TO INVITE YOU to the: International Conference on “Methodology of researching

Upcoming Conference: “China and the World: Language, Culture, Politics”

Sep 7, 2019

Sofia University, Bulgaria 12-13th Dec 2019 Extended Deadline: 15th Sep 2019

Call for Papers: Formulaicity and idiomaticity in CFL and CSL

Aug 11, 2019

Deadline: 31st Aug 2019 The CASRI research group “Formulaic language, idioms, situation-bound utterances” is seeking contributions to a journal special issue or a monograph focused on formulaicity and idiomaticity in Chinese as a foreign or second language (CFL/CSL respectively). A formulaic sequence is defined by Wray (2000, p. 465) as “a sequence, continuous

Upcoming Conference, Call for Panels and Paper Proposals: “Challenges to Asian Medicines”

Aug 11, 2019

Deadline: 30th Sep 2019 The next International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM X) will be held on 1-5 May 2020 in Taiwan at Academia Sinica, Taipei, in alliance with ASHM 10th (the Asian Society for the History of Medicine). The theme will be “Challenges to Asian Medicines.” Further information is available

Call for Papers: GEAS Graduate Conference 2019 “Sovereignty and Institutions in East Asia”

Aug 9, 2019

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Deadline: 22nd Nov 2019 The PhD students of the Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS) at Freie Universität Berlin invite young scholars to present their research at the 2019 Graduate Conference on the topic “Sovereignty and Institutions in East Asia”. The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum

Travel subventions to students and young scholars from European Institutions for the conference « New Perspectives in Chinese History » sponsored by Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange

Aug 9, 2019

16–18th Oct 2019 Paris, France Deadline: 26th Aug 2019 L’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO, French School of Asian Studies) and EFEO Peking Center, the Max Weber Stiftung (MWS, Max Weber Foundation) and its Branch Office in Peking, the Ecole des hautes études en Sciences sociales, Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et

Call for Papers: International Workshop on China and the West: Reconsidering Chinese Reverse Glass Painting

Aug 8, 2019

Romont, Switzerland 14–16th Feb 2020 Deadline: 15th Sep 2019 The Vitrocentre and Vitromusée Romont are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for an international conference on Chinese reverse glass painting and related research fields including other media to be held at the museum in Romont, Switzerland on February 14–16, 2020. The workshop is jointly

Call for Papers: International Conference – (Non) reproductive freedom. Experiences, theories, movements

Jun 16, 2019

Venice, Italy 5-6th Dec 2019 Extended Deadline: 20th Jun 2019 Within the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign promoted by the UN, the journal DEP. Deportate, esuli, profughe/DEP. Deportees, exiles, refugees is organising an international conference on the theme of women’s rights to reproductive freedom. Control of women’s fertility has ancient origins,

Call for Papers: The Third Conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA)

Jun 16, 2019

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 16–20th Sep 2020 Deadline: 15th Aug 2019 The Board of the EAAA is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 3rd EAAA conference to be held at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, between 16th and 20th September 2020. The conference is jointly organized by the European Association for Asian

International Workshop: Kneeling Women, Blinded Slaves International Workshop

Jun 16, 2019

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany 12-13th Jul 2019 Semantic analysis based on character interpretation once formed an indispensable part of traditional Chinese lexicography and has led to many fanciful claims and speculations. Thus, the character for the word nü, “woman”, , has been argued to depict a kneeling woman, a posture that reflects women’s

Call for Papers: International conference “(Non) reproductive freedom. Experiences, theories, movements”

Jun 5, 2019

Venice, Italy 5-6th Dec 2019 Deadline: 20th Jun 2019 Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies – Department of Economics Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Within the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign promoted by the UN, the journal DEP. Deportate, esuli, profughe/DEP. Deportees, exiles, refugees is organising an international conference on the

Ph.D. Summer School in Translation, Intercultural and East Asian Studies

Jun 5, 2019

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) 17-21st Jun 2019 The Ph.D. Summer School is organized by the Department of Translation, Interpreting and East Asian Studies, and it will be held at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (UAB) during the week of June 17th to 21st, 2019. Chris Berry, King’s College London Chinese Cinema beyond National

Call for Papers: “Chinese Linguistics and Sinology” The First International Conference

May 31, 2019

3-5th Oct 2019 Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow Deadline: 31st May 2019 The Oriental studies Department Institute of Linguistics RSUH in cooperation with Confucius Institute (RSUH) and the Association for the Advancement of Sinology in Russia 3 – 5 October, 2019 is holding the first international conference “Chinese Linguistics and Sinology”. The

Sinophone Literature across the Strait (China and Taiwan from the 19th Century to the Contemporary Ages)

May 28, 2019

Rome, Italy 7-8th Nov 2019 Deadline: 15th Jul 2019 Organised by the Department of Foreign Languages, Literature and Culture of Roma Tre University. The Workshop addresses PhD students and postdocs. The workshop addresses PhD students and postdoc research fellows exploring the field of modern and contemporary Sinophone Literature, and intends to promote a positive exchange

Call for Papers: Workshop “Exploring Sinophone Polyphony – Voices of Modern Literature in Taiwan”

May 28, 2019

Trier, Germany 20-21st Sep 2019 Deadline: 30th Jun 2019 A conflux of several cultures –Chinese (both as national culture and very diverse local cultures), Austronesian indigenous, Japanese, and Western –modern Taiwan is a very fascinating setting for a literary community. Taiwanese authors explore this lifeworld from a multitude of perspectives in their works, nativist,

Upcoming Conference: Within and without “China”: Changing identities between collective and individual self

May 15, 2019

London, UK 8th Jun 2019

Call for Papers: Ming Qing yanjiu 24.1 2020 – Special Issue “Collecting, Collections, and Collectors”

May 15, 2019

Deadline (abstracts): 31 May 2019 MING QING YANJIU, founded in 1992, is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated primarily to advanced studies of pre-modern China. This journal provides a forum for scholars from a variety of fields related to late imperial and early republican period that aim to have a cross-disciplinary discourse. Contributions in

Workshop “Tracing Language Evolution in Ancient Chinese Texts”

May 7, 2019

Oxford, UK 8–10th Jul 2019 Oxford University China Centre, Merton College and The Queen’s College are accepting applications for the Ancient Chinese Workshop with Professor George Starostin “Tracing Language Evolution in Ancient Chinese Texts”, which will be held on 8–10 July 2019. It is generally recognized that “Old Chinese” is essentially a blanket term,

Upcoming Conference: “Chinese Language: Topical Issues of the Chinese linguistics and Translation Studies, Pedagogy of Teaching Chinese”

Apr 3, 2019

18th Apr 2019 Moscow, Russia We invite you to participate in the First International Scientific and Practical Conference “Chinese Language: Topical Issues of the Chinese linguistics and Translation Studies, Pedagogy of Teaching Chinese”, which will be held on April 18, 2019 at MGIMO University. The purpose of the conference: sharing of the results

Call for Applications: Summer School “Uncovering Pathways of Change along the Belt and Road”

Apr 3, 2019

Venice, San Servolo Island, Italia 1-7th Sep 2019 Deadline: 30th Apr 2019 Marco Polo (MaP) – Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections. Our purpose is training young scholars and practitioners for a critical and ethically grounded study of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The School draws from the concept of cosmopolitanism and its vision

Call for Papers: PhD and Post-Doc Assembly: Contesting Modernity: the Left, China and the West

Apr 3, 2019

Wuhan University, P.R. China 15-17th Nov 2019 Deadline: 3rd Jun 2019 The period spanning from 1991 to 2008 represents in many ways the “Golden Age

Call for Papers – Upcoming Conference: ”Perceptions of China’s Transformation in the Past Four Decades”

Mar 26, 2019

Department of Sinology Faculty of Oriental Studies Warsaw University Warsaw, Poland 10th Jul 2019 Deadline:8th May 2019 The Department of Sinology at the University of Warsaw would like to kindly invite scholars of all related fields to participation and submitting paper proposals for a conference scheduled for July 10, 2019. The main theme of the

(10th Annual Meeting of Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture) China and the World: The Reach and Influence of Contemporary Chinese Culture

Mar 25, 2019

Beijing Normal University, P.R.China 30th Nov 2019 Deadline: 30th Jun 2019 The 10th Annual Meeting of Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture will be held on Friday, November 29, 2019, at Beijing Normal University. We now would like to invite you to our forum, and would greatly appreciate your contribution to the international

Call for Papers: Locality and Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China

Mar 19, 2019

Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Department III, Berlin, Germany Berlin, Germany 14-15th May 2020 Deadline: 15th May 2019 Conveners: Shih-Pei Chen, Masato Hasegawa, and Alexis Lycas For over two millennia of Chinese imperial history, geography played an integral role not only in local and state administration, but also in

2nd Call for papers: ‘Contrasts in Chinese Music’ 22nd CHIME meeting

Mar 15, 2019

Beijing, P.R. China 19-22nd Sept 2019 Deadline: 31st Mar 2019 European Foundation for Chinese Music Research CHIME Chinese Music Research Institute, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing We would like to remind you of the upcoming CHIME meeting in September in Beijing, our first gathering in the People’s Republic since the very memorable CHIME meeting held in

Summer School on Modern Asian Literatures and Cultures at the Palacký University Olomouc

Mar 14, 2019

Olomouc, Czech Republic 8-12th Jul 2019 Deadline: 26th May 2019 Organized by the Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic and the European Association for Chinese Studies This summer school is dedicated to the modern Asian cultural record. For the purpose of this summer school, we include literature, film, music and art, focussing

Call for Applications: 2019 International Summer Program of Lecture Series, Conference, Forum, and Fieldwork on Buddhism & East Asian Cultures

Feb 25, 2019

2-10th Aug 2019 Xi’an 西安, China Deadline: 30th Apr 2019 The Association for the Promotion of Xuanzang-associated Culture 玄奘文化促進會in Xi’an 西安, Shaanxi province, the From the Ground Up project based at the University of British Columbia (www.frogbear.org), Guiyuan Monastery 歸元寺 in Xi’an, Shaanxi, and the Jintai Academy 金臺書院, Shaanxi, cordially invite applications for a

Call for papers: SPECIAL ISSUE OF Deportees, Exiles, Refugees Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Feb 22, 2019

Deadline: 30th Jun 2019 The online journal of studies on women’s memory “Deportees, Exiles, Refugees” (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) announces a call for papers for a special issue focused on “Domestic violence against women in East Asian and South East Asian Countries: a multidisciplinary research” [provisional title]. The journal, published since

Upcoming Fifth Biannual Ph.D. Student and Young Scholar Workshop: “Authorship and Authority in the Ancient World”

Feb 16, 2019

Renmin University of China, Beijing, PRC 17–21st Jun 2019 Deadline: 15th Mar 2019 The International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures (ICSATC), hosted at Renmin University of China, holds its fifth Ph.D. Student and Young Scholar workshop on June 17-21, 2019. Four renowned scholars from the fields of Ancient Chinese, Greek, and

Call for Papers: International Conference “Taiwanese Philosophy and the Preservation of Confucian Tradition”

Feb 14, 2019

Ljubljana, Slovenia 10-12th Oct 2019 Deadline: 28th Feb 2019 Organized by University of Ljubljana, EARL Ljubljana, and TRCCS (Taiwan Research Center for Chinese Studies) in Taipei. Although the philosophical currents in modern and contemporary Taiwan belong to the most influential and important streams of thought in contemporary East Asian theory, they are still unrecognized

Call for Papers: Housing Markets in the Greater China Area – Economic and Political Studies (EPS)

Feb 12, 2019

Deadline: 1st Jun 2019 Economic and Political Studies (EPS, http://www.tandfonline.com/REPS), an ESCI and Scopus listed journal hosted by Renmin University of China and published by Taylor & Francis Group, calls for papers for a special issue on “Housing Markets in the Greater China Area”. The seemingly perennial surge in property prices has been

Call for Papers, International Conference: “Confucianism and World Disharmony – The Quest for Harmony in Difference”

Feb 12, 2019

Bond University, Queensland, Australia 28-30th Aug 2019 Deadline: 5th Apr 2019 The international conference ‘Confucianism and World Disharmony: The Quest for Harmony in Difference’ will be held from Wednesday 28th August to Friday 30th August 2019 at Bond University on the Gold Coast, Australia.

International and Intensive Program on Buddhism at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO)

Feb 11, 2019

Paris, France Deadline: 5th Apr 2019 With the assistance from UBC’s SSHRC-sponsored international and interdisciplinary project on Buddhism and East Asian Religions (www.frogbear.org), the Tianzhu Global Network for the Study of Buddhist Cultures (tianzhubuddhistnetwork.org), whose founding members include UBC, McMaster, UC Berkeley, and Harvard in North America, and Ghent and INALCO in Europe,

Symposiom: Rethinking Early Chinese Historiography

Feb 10, 2019

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 12-16th May 2019 The Chinese empire was renowned for high cultural prestige and exceptional productivity of history writing.

Call for Papers – International conference: Researching and Communicating Taiwan’s Cultural Diplomacy

Dec 15, 2018

Vienna, Austria 25–26th Oct 2019 Deadline: 11th Jan 2019 A Decade of Intercultural Discovery – Marking the tenth anniversary of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies Taiwan Studies Centers are among those institutions attempting to both analyze Taiwan and make the country better known internationally and academically. The Centers are the result of years, even

論文徵集 Call for Paper Proposals: 中國文化研究青年學者論壇 Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies 2019

Dec 15, 2018

Hong Kong, PRC 23–25th May 2019 Deadline: 4th Jan 2019 Co-organized by Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies and Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 主題：百年流變：再思「五四」遺產 Theme: A Century of Change: Revisiting the Legacy of May Fourth BACKGROUND The Sixth Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies is now open for abstract submissions

Upcoming Conference: “When China Faces the World: Engagement or Disengagement? Marking the Centenary Anniversary of the May 4th Movement”

Dec 15, 2018

The 4th meeting of the Mongol Empire Spring Series “The Mongols and Religion”

Dec 15, 2018

Vienna, Austria 16–17th May 2019 “The Catholic inquisitors of Europe who defended nonsense by cruelty, might have been confounded by the example of a barbarian, who anticipated the lessons of philosophy and established by his laws a system of pure theism and perfect toleration… a singular conformity may be found between the religious

Call for Papers: The 16th Biennial Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia

Nov 8, 2018

Melbourne, Australia 1–3rd Jul 2019 Deadline: 28th Feb 2019 The Chinese Studies Association of Australia cordially invites proposals in any area of Chinese Studies for individual or joint papers or for panels. Contributions addressing the conference theme, “Engaging Chinese Scholarship: New Directions, New Challenges”, are especially welcome. We look forward to putting together a

CfP: “Censorship and Self-censorship – China and Chinese Studies”

Nov 2, 2018

European Journal of Chinese Studies; Volume 1; No. 1, 2020 Deadline: 1st Dec 2018 For its first edition, the European Journal of Chinese Studies invites scholars to submit papers dealing with aspects of censorship and self-censorship in pre-modern, modern, and contemporary China. We welcome unpublished papers that discuss the historical continuities and discontinuities

Call for Proposals: The Oxford International History of East Asia Research Seminar Hilary (Spring) Term 2019 –

Oct 30, 2018

Oxford, UK Deadline: 25th Nov 2018 University of Oxford China Centre – The convenors, Mark Baker, Helena F. S. Lopes, Chinami Oka, Frances O’Morchoe, and Woody Wu invite proposals for the Hilary (Spring) Term 2019 session of the Oxford International History of East Asia Research Seminar.

11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia SCIEA

Oct 24, 2018

Erlangen, Germany 10–13th May 2019 Deadline: 21st Dec 2018 In the past decades, the history of science has experienced a number of paradigmatic changes, ranging from the postcolonial and poststructural turn to the cultural and social turn. These changes considerably shifted our understanding of the social, political and cultural function of knowledge in a

Call for Papers: The 3rd East Asian Translation Studies Conference (EATS3)

Aug 23, 2018

Venice, Italy 28–29th Jun 2019 Deadline: 30th Sep 2018 Conference Theme: “From the Local to the Global and Back. Translation as a Construction of Plural and Dialogic Identities of East Asia” This Conference on East Asian Translation Studies (EATS) aims to provide a platform for translators and researchers working in the East Asian context (China,

Call for papers: The Journal of Asian Studies, June issue 2019 “Meaning of Images in Chinese Tomb Art”

Aug 23, 2018

Deadline: 15th Jan 2019 The June 2019 issue will be dedicated to the meaning of motifs and themes in Chinese tomb art from the Zhou till Tang Dynasties. Motifs discovered in tomb complexes – on mural paintings, relief carvings, coffins or on burial goods – often tend to be regarded in an

Call for Proposals: The Oxford International History of East Asia Seminar

Jul 4, 2018

Deadline: 22nd Jul 2018 Autumn (Michaelmas Term) 2018 session The convenors, Mark Baker, Helena F. S. Lopes, Chinami Oka, Frances O’Morchoe, and Woody Wu invite proposals for the autumn (Michaelmas Term) 2018 session of the Oxford International History of East Asia Research Seminar. We invite fellow PhD students and early career researchers to submit

Call For Papers: International Conference: 40th Anniversary of China’s Reform and Opening-up: Institutional Change and Reconfigurations of China’s Political Economy

Jul 4, 2018

10–12th Oct 2018 Duisburg, Germany Organized by IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies. Organization Committee: Yuan Li, Nele Noesselt, Markus Taube IN-EAST, University of Duisburg-Essen The year 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of the Third Plenum’s decisions on opening-up and reform (1978). The experimental integration of market elements

Call for Contributions: Crossroads-Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World Deadline: late July (for the 2018 issue); manuscripts are welcome all the time.

Jun 2, 2018

Crossroads ISSN: 2190-8796 Editor in chief: Angela Schottenhammer Published by OSTASIEN Verlag The journal Crossroads-Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World is designed as an international forum for contributions related to the history of exchange relations in the East Asian world and beyond, that means, including

International Workshop “Fourty years of Reforms in China’s long XXth century of modernization. Exploring local and foreign sources of inspiration for economic and social institutions, manufacturing and technology.”

Jun 2, 2018

22–23rd Nov 2018 Leuven, Belgium Deadline: 30th Jun 2018 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Arts – OE East Asian and Arabic Studies, Sinology Research Unit Academic literature has devoted great attention to China’s late-development, particularly highlighting the role of investments and technology transfer from more advanced economies, the role of the State and the relationship

Fifth edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics

Apr 16, 2018

Milan, Italy 23rd Nov 2018 Extended Call Deadline: 30th Apr 2018 The Fifth edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics is promoted by the Italian Association of Chinese Linguistics (AILC) , it was already held in in Venice (2014), in Milan (2015), in Rome (2016) and in Naples (2017). It is aimed at

”4 May 1919: History in Motion“ International Conference – A Political, Social and Cultural Look at a Turning Point in the History of Modern China

Apr 16, 2018

Université de Mons, Belgium 2–4th May 2019 Deadline: 15th Jul 2018 Jointly organized by: Université de Mons (UMONS), Faculty of Translation and Interpretation (FTI-EII) and School of Human and Social Sciences (ESHS) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Maison des Sciences Humaines, East Asian Studies (EASt) Organizing Committee: Kevin HENRY (UMONS), Vanessa FRANGVILLE (ULB), Serge DERUETTE (UMONS),

Call for papers for an International Workshop ”The Invisible Within: Actors, Relationships and Activities in Chinese Migrant Families“

Apr 16, 2018

University of Central Lancashire, UK 15–16th Nov 2018 Deadline: 30th Apr 2018 The literature on Chinese families emphasises the power of the patriarchal, patrilineal and patrilocal structures and ideologies over family members, particularly women and younger generations. Reinforced by Confucian values, family members, within this patriarchal system, are expected to prioritise solidarity, filial piety,

Conference: “Between Appropriation and Refutation – On the Significance and Reception of Max Weber in China”

Mar 13, 2018

Beijing, PRC 20–21st Mar 2018 Organizers: Max Weber Foundation / China Branch Office and the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Peking University Max Weber himself has dealt with China in his study on “Confucianism and Taoism” (1915/1920). However, more important for the reception in China is his famous book “The Protestant Ethic

Call for Papers: International Conference on “Zhu Xi and Zhu Xi Studies” (Zhuzi xue 朱子學)

Mar 5, 2018

Trier, Germany 13–15th Jul 2018 Deadline: 4th Apr 2018 In order to commemorate the 888th anniversary of the famous Chinese thinker Zhu Xi, the Institute of Sinology at Trier University (Germany) will host an international conference on Zhu Xi and “Zhu Xi Studies” (Zhuzi xue 朱子學). Selected scholars from Europe accepted for the conference

Call for Papers to the 3rd CERPE Workshop on “Chinese in Europe: New mobilities and developments”

Feb 21, 2018

Barcelona, Spain 22-24th Nov 2018 Deadline: 1st Apr 2018 Organised by Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, East Asian Studies & Research Centre, Spain (https://cerao.uab.cat) in cooperation with Jinan University, School of International Studies/Academy of Overseas Chinese Studies, Guangzhou, China (http://sis-aocs.jnu.edu.cn) and Aarhus University, Dep. of Global Studies, Denmark (http://cas.au.dk/en/about-the-school/departments/global-studies/), and with the collaboration of Fundacio

Call for papers: Chinese objects and their lives

Jan 26, 2018

Paris, France Date: June 15th, 2018 Deadline: 23rd Feb 2018 Organizer: French Association for Chinese Studies – 法國漢學協會 – AFEC Venue: Institut National des langues et civilisations orientales – Inalco, Paris Over the last twenty years, material culture studies have occupied a growing place in the social sciences. These studies are founded on the idea that

Call for Submissions: Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (BJOAF)

Dec 12, 2017

Deadline: 1st Mar 2018 The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions, in either English or German, for edition 41, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2018. All papers submitted will undergo double-blind peer review. The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (BJOAF) has

Call for Papers – Upcoming Conference: “Dynamic Asia : Shaping the Future”

Nov 21, 2017

Riga, Latvia 13–15th Apr, 2018 Deadline: 15th Dec 2017 On behalf of the Baltic Alliance for Asian studies (BAAS), Latvian Society for the Study of Religions and the Centre for Korean Studies of the University of Latvia we are pleased to welcome both junior and senior scholars from a wide range of

East and West Contact and Dialogue: International Conference of Contemporary China Studies (2018) 东西方接触与对话：当代中国学研究国际研讨会

Nov 8, 2017

León, Spain 2–3rd May 2018 Deadline: 15th Mar 2018 The Confucius Institute at the University of Leon has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the international conference “East and West Contact: Current Issues in Contemporary China Studies” on 2nd-3rd May 2018. The aims of the conference are to present the latest research

Call for Proposals: The Oxford International History of East Asia Research Seminar

Nov 8, 2017

University of Oxford China Centre Deadline: 3rd Dec 2017 Spring (Hilary) Term 2018 – University of Oxford China Centre The convenors, Nelson K.H. So, Pete Millwood, Helena F.S. Lopes, Frances O’Morchoe, and Sheng Peng invite proposals for the spring (Hilary Term) 2018 session of the Oxford International History of East Asia Research Seminar. We welcome

International Symposium – Art and Translation: Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea

Oct 30, 2017

28-29th Oct 2017 This symposium plans to open up the discussion in art of the Post-China era in relation to both the historical and contemporary contexts of changing geo-political and cultural identities of Asian locales – Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea in particular, and the relationship of these issues to

Call for Papers: Engaging ‘China’: Perspectives from the Margins – Oxford China Humanities Graduate Conference

Sep 21, 2017

10–11th Jan 2018 Deadline: 15th Oct 2017 Keynote speakers: Peter K. Bol (Harvard), Henrietta Harrison (Oxford) Graduate students are invited to submit abstracts for the second annual University of Oxford China Humanities Graduate Conference, which takes the

Upcoming Conference: Marco Polo Research: Past, Present, Future

Sep 15, 2017

Tübingen, Germany 10–11th Oct 2017 Tue, 10.10.2017 8:00 Welcome Address by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Tübingen, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Leonhardt Introduction, Hans Ulrich Vogel, Ulrich Theobald Past Researches, Current Work, and Future Investigations on the Devisament du monde of Marco Polo, Philippe Ménard 1. Le Divisament dou monde: Transmission and Stylistic Issues

Oxford Ancient Chinese Workshop with Christoph Harbsmeier

Sep 15, 2017

Oxford, UK 29th Nov–1st Dec 2017 Deadline: 10th Oct 2017 Oxford University China Centre, Merton College and The Queen’s College are accepting applications for the Ancient Chinese Workshop with Professor Christoph Harbsmeier, which will be held on 29 November – 1 December 2017.

QU LEILEI: THE STARS AND AFTER – A conference at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Sep 15, 2017

24th Nov 2017 Oxford, UK 10.30am–4.45pm, Headley Lecture Theatre This international conference is held in conjunction with the exhibition Qu Leilei: A Chinese Artist in Britain, opening at the Ashmolean Museum in November 2017, showing the artist’s progression from calligraphic collage to an exploration of new ink language blending lively brushwork with western technique. The

XXVIII. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien (DVCS) Erinnern und Erinnerung, Gedächtnis und Gedenken: Über den Umgang mit Vergangenem in der chinesischen Kultur

Sep 14, 2017

27–29th Oct 2017 Vienna, Austria Teile der Vergangenheit im kollektiven Bewusstsein zu halten und gezielt zu vergegenwärtigen, prägt unmittelbar auch die subjektive Wahrnehmung des Individuums. Zu einer Kultur des Erinnerns und Gedenkens gehören gesellschaftliche Auseinandersetzungen,

10th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference Environmental Asia

Sep 13, 2017

Oslo, Norway 23–24th Nov 2017 IKOS – Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Global environmental degradation and climate change are possibly the greatest challenges of our times. They have roots in humanity’s long history of creatively making use of natural resources to generate change,

Call for Papers: 5th INTERNATIONAL STCS CONFERENCE FROM HEGEL TO MAO AND BEYOND – The Long March of Sinicizing Marxism

Sep 13, 2017

Ljubljana, Slovenia Apr 20–22nd 2018 organized by the Department of Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana Venue: Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana The main goal of the STCS (Specific Topics in Chinese Studies) conferences (organized by the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Ljubljana) is to use

New research on the History of Chinese Gardens and Landscapes

Jul 12, 2017

Sheffield, UK 26–27th Oct 2017 Date & time: 26 & 27 October 2017 Venue: The University of Sheffield, Landscape Department (Arts Tower) Booking required. This two-day conference held in the Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield will explore new research in the history of Chinese gardens and landscapes. Organised by Dr Jan Woudstra in conjunction

Upcoming Conference “Current Issues in Contemporary Chinese and Oriental Studies” organized by the Chinese Studies Program at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria, on the event of its 25-th anniversary

Jun 9, 2017

Sofia University, Bulgaria 1st Dec 2017 Deadline: 15th Jul 2017 The Chinese Studies Program at the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the conference “Current Issues in Contemporary Chinese and Oriental Studies” on 01 December 2017. The academic event

Call for Contributions: Crossroads (vol. 15) 2017

Jun 9, 2017

Deadline: early August (for the 2017 issue); nonetheless, manuscripts are welcome all the time. Crossroads ISSN: 2190-8796, Published by OSTASIEN Verlag. The journal Crossroads-Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World is designed as an international forum for contributions related to the history of exchange relations in the

Call for Papers: Ming Qing Studies 2018

May 14, 2017

Deadline: 30th Jun 2017 edited by Paolo Santangelo (Sapienza University of Rome) We are glad to inform you that the new edition of Ming Qing Studies 2017 is going to be published by Aracne Publishers in Fall 2017 (see contents below).Applicants are encouraged to submit abstracts for the next issue of Ming Qing

TOChina Summer School 2017

May 14, 2017

Torino, Italy 26th Jun – 7th Jul 2017 Deadline: 26th May 2017 Torino World Affairs Institute (T.wai) is an independent, not-for-profit research centre which conducts research on the international relations of East Asia, Chinese foreign/domestic policy, and changing world politics.Each year, T.wai organizes the TOChina Summer School in partnership with the Department of Culture,

1st World Conference for Chinese Studies and General Assembly World Association for Chinese Studies Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the German China Association

May 14, 2017

Witten, Germany 18–23rd Aug 2017 Deadline: 31st May 2017 Every participant contributes a paper, summed up in a short oral presentation. Please send your application form including a paper title until May 31, 2017 by email to the organizing committee wacs@china-studies.com . Please send the abstract (200 words, if possible also 500 Chinese characters,

Understanding Global China / summer school July 2017

May 2, 2017

Rome, Italy 24–28th Jul 2017 Deadline: 31st May 2017 Organization and collaborations: Research Center on Contemporary China (www.cscc.it), in collaboration with University of Rome Tor Vergata, with the patronage of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sponsor: ZTE, Foundation Fruttadoro Orogel, Jilitour, Città della Scienza, Location: Villa

PhD Summer School: Translation, Intercultural and East Asian Studies

Apr 18, 2017

Barcelona, Spain 26–30th Jun 2017 Deadline: 31st May 2017 The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is delighted to announce a new edition of the PhD Summer School: Translation, Intercultural and East Asian Studies. The PhD Summer School is organized by the Department of Translation, Interpreting and East Asian Studies, and it will be held

11th Annual Conference on Asian Studies: Commemorating October 1917: Re-thinking Marxism and the Russian Revolution in East and Southeast Asia

Apr 14, 2017

Olomouc, Czech Republic 21st Oct 2017 Deadline: 31st Jul 2017 It is undoubtable that Marxism and the Russian Revolution of 1917 changed the nature and course of the entire Russian empire. However, the revolutionary wave

Call for Papers: Workshop “Dialogues with Ethnography – The Lived Experiences of Chinese in Africa”

Apr 3, 2017

Vienna, Austria 26–27th Jun 2017 Deadline: 15th Apr 2017 Over the past decade, scholars, and especially young scholars, have been engaged in truly multi-sited and sometimes even transregional fieldworks focusing on the everyday life experiences of Chinese individuals, families and other groups living in African countries. We would like to critically engage with, and thoroughly reflect on

International Summer School: “Spreading the Word: Teaching Chinese as a Second Language”

Apr 3, 2017

Olomouc, Czech Republic 22–24th May 2017 Deadline: 28th Apr 2017 With several decades of China’s economic growth and general increase in its political and cultural influence throughout the world, popularity of Chinese has been on the rise as well. The summer school titled Spreading the Word will be dealing with various aspects of teaching

Call for Papers: “Understanding and Misunderstanding between the Far East and the West: Conference on East Asian studies in Remembrance of 210th Anniversary of Dr. Rev. Robert Morrison’s Arrival at China”

Apr 3, 2017

Glasgow, Scotland 13–14th Oct 2017 Deadline: 1st May 2017

“Traditional China: a Closer Distant View” A Sinological Summer School

Mar 27, 2017

Saint Petersburg, Russia 21–25th Aug 2017 Deadline: 25th Apr 2017 Organizers: St.Petersburg University, the Hermitage Museum, Kunstkamera The second Summer School “Traditional China: a Closer Distant View” (August 21-25, 2017) at the Faculty of Asian and African Studies of St. Petersburg State University, focuses on important matters of the present-day Chinese studies in Russia. The

PhD Fellowship in Chinese art, material culture, and archaeology at Leiden University sponsored by the Hulsewé-Wazniewski Foundation

Mar 26, 2017

Leiden, Netherlands Deadline: 24th Apr 2017 Faculty of Humanities, Leiden Institute for Area Studies and Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society are looking for a PhD Fellowship sponsored by the Hulsewé-Wazniewski Foundation (1,0 fte) Vacancy number 17-084 Selection criteria A Master’s degree in a relevant field. Candidates near completion of the degree will be considered. An

Call for Papers for the British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies 2017 conference ” “From local to global: regional aspects of China””

Mar 26, 2017

University of Sheffield, UK 14–15th Jun 2017 Deadline: 16th Apr 2017 BPCS’s annual conference: Papers will be selected on the basis of the quality of the abstract submitted. Our theme this year: “From local to global: regional aspects of China” We will accept topics from a wide spectrum of the Humanities and Social Sciences, including

Call for Papers: International Conference on “Confucian Canon Studies (jingxue 經學), Literary Genre and Literary Style”

Mar 26, 2017

Trier, Germany Deadline: 6th Apr 2017 Location and Date: Trier University on July 21–23 2017. Conference languages: Chinese and English (Chinese is preferred) Selected scholars from Europe accepted for the conference will receive free accommodation in Trier during the conference. If funds are sufficient, a travel subsidiary may also be granted. We are mainly looking

International conference «Folk images and Late Imperial China»

Mar 25, 2017

Saint-Petersburg, Russia 29–30th Jun 2017 Deadline: 1st May 2017 History of Chinese studies in the capital of Russian empire Saint-Petersburg starts from the decree issued by Emperor Peter the Great (1672 -1725) about establishing the Academy of Sciences almost 300 years ago. During three centuries, with establishment of institutions for comprehensive studies of China,

Registration Open: EACS Summer School 2017 “Hidden in Plain Sight: Materiality, Meaning and Accessibility of Chinese Objects in Local Collections”

Mar 23, 2017

Lampeter, UK 4-8th Sep 2017 (New) Deadline: 15th May 2017 Chinese objects often lead seemingly dormant lives in private collections and museums across Europe, especially in small institutions without specialist curators. This workshop aims to introduce participants to the issues, both theoretical and practical, involved in researching, curating and exhibiting Chinese objects from small

33. Deutscher Orientalistentag “Asia, Africa and Europe” German Oriental Studies Conference (DOT)

Mar 23, 2017

Jena, Germany 18–22nd Sep 2017 Deadline: 31st Mar 2017 The Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT) is the largest professional meeting of Oriental Studies in Germany and one of the most important scholarly Orientalist congresses in the world. The range of disciplines encompasses the Ancient and Modern Middle East, including North Africa, as well as all of

Summer Workshop on Ancient Chinese Palaeography and Phonology

Mar 10, 2017

Oxford, UK 3–7th Jul 2017 Deadline: 15th Mar 2017 Oxford University China Centre, The Queen’s College and its Workshop for Manuscript and Text Cultures (WMTC), and Merton College are accepting applications for the Summer Workshop on Ancient Chinese Palaeography and Phonology at Oxford, 3-7 July 2017. The workshop will be guided by two leading

Call for Papers: II International Workshop on Chinese Migration in Spain

Mar 8, 2017

Barcelona, Spain 13–14th Jul 2017 Deadline (proposals): 30th Apr 2017 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In the last decade global and local structural shifts are triggering up transformations in migration flows, and bringing about new modes of mobilities (directions, typologies and aims) between China and Spain. These evolving realities are also reshaping translational links and

International Summer School: “Bordering and Othering: How Inner Asian Identities Have Been Shaped”

Mar 8, 2017

Olomouc, Czech Republic 29th May – Jun 2nd 2017 Extended Deadline: 7th May 2017 Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, would like to invite you to its international summer school, titled: Bordering and Othering: how Inner Asian Identities Have Been Shaped. The main aim of this Summer

国际论坛征稿通知: “当代中国文化影响力生成”

Jan 20, 2017

24–25th Nov 2017 Deadline: 30th Jun 2017 当代中国文化和经济的世界影响力存在明显的“不相称性”，针对当代中国文化，我们认为应该尊重文化自身的发展规律，围绕“生成”这一文化发展的根源问题展开讨论，博采众长，集思广益。本论坛由会林文化基金和中国文化国际传播研究院主办。一、论坛主题：当代中国文化影响力生成来稿可涉及但不限于：文化影响力的内涵与表现；世界文化影响力生成的关键因素；优秀文化影响力生成的案例研究；制约当代中国文化影响力的原因；等等二、时间、地点时间：2017年11月24日（周五）－25日（周六），地点：北京师范大学京师学堂，会议语言：中文、英语（届时有同声传译）

Call for Papers and Panels: The Making of the Humanities VI

Jan 17, 2017

University of Oxford Somerville College, UK September 28-30, 2017 Deadline: 15th Apr 2017 The sixth conference on the history of the humanities, ‘The Making of the Humanities VI’, will take place at the University of Oxford, Humanities Division and Somerville College, UK, from 28 till 30 September 2017. Goal of the Making of the Humanities (MoH)

Call for Proposals: “The Oxford International History of East Asia Research Seminar”

Nov 5, 2016

Oxford, UK Deadline: 20th Nov 2016 Hilary term 2017 – University of Oxford China Centre The convenors, Pete Millwood, Helena Ferreira Santos Lopes and Nelson Kaiho So, invite proposals for the spring 2017 session of the Oxford International History of East Asia Research Seminar.

Postgraduate Workshop: “Refracting Gender in Modern China: New Voices, New Perspectives” to be held at SOAS, University of London

Oct 30, 2016

London, UK 17-19th Feb 2017 Deadline: 30th Nov 2016

Second Conference on Middle Period Chinese Humanities

Oct 12, 2016

Leiden, the Netherlands 14-17th Sep 2017 Following the success of The Middle Period Chinese Studies Conference held in 2014 at Harvard University, we welcome paper proposals for the second conference of this kind to be held at Leiden University, September 14-17, 2017. Continuing the innovative format of the 2014 conference, we will organize sessions

Call for Papers: (Extra)ordinary China: Practices of the Everyday

Oct 11, 2016

Oxford, UK 11-12th Jan 2017 Deadline: 1st Nov 2016

Conference: Fall 2017, Garden History Society

Sep 12, 2016

Sheffield, UK Deadline: 25th Sep 2016 Following the success of the “New approaches in Chinese garden history” conference in June 2015, Jan Woudstra of the department of Landscape (University of Sheffield, UK) is helping the Garden History Society to organise another conference on the theme of Gardens and Landscape history of China, to

Call for Papers: “The Second Conference of European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology”

Jul 27, 2016

24–27th Aug 2017 University of Zurich, Switzerland Deadline: 15th Nov 2016

Conference: “Digital Research in East Asian Studies: Corpora, Methods, and Challenges”

Jul 27, 2016

10-12th Jul 2016 Leiden, the Netherlands

Call for Panel Proposals: “Asian Medicines: Encounters, Translations and Transformations”

Jun 27, 2016

Kiel, Germany 6-12th Aug 2017 Deadline: 1st Aug 2016 International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM IX), to be held at the University of Kiel, Germany 6-12 August 2017. ICTAM is the leading international conference on the study of Asian medicine, and is organized every three or four years by the International

International Conference of Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture: “Diversity of Chinese Culture”

May 13, 2016

Beijing, China 25 – 26th Nov 2016 Deadline: 31st May 2016 The Chinese character, “文 (wen)”, when originally created, meant the patten that is made by various colors and yet appears to be harmonious. According to Zhouyi: the second part of Xici “That things fuse with each other is called ‘Wen’.” In the Book

Call for Papers: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (JCCA)

May 13, 2016

Deadline: 1st Jul 2016 (via Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA)) 1. The World of Art Museums in China This thematic Issue aims to explore how art museums in China have been transformed, established and developed in the context of the globalised art world: from the strategies that are being instituted to respond to

Call for Papers – International Conference: “Diversity of Chinese Culture – International Youth’s Understanding, Construction and Communication of Chinese Cultural Image”

Apr 23, 2016

Beijing, PRC 27th Nov 2016 Deadline: 30th May 2016 Venue: Jingshi Academy, Beijing Normal University. “Looking China Youth Film Project” is a cultural experience program sponsored by Huilin Foundation and

British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies 2016 Annual Conference “Dynamic China”

Apr 23, 2016

King’s College London, UK 23 – 24th Jun 2016 Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China has entered a new phase. Widely referred to as an era of realising the ‘Chinese dream’ and building the ‘new normal’, it is commonly characterised by notions of ‘slow growth’, ‘anti-corruption’, ‘middle income status’, and ‘urbanisation’. At

Call for Papers: Ming Qing Studies 2017

Mar 29, 2016

Deadline: 31st Jun 2016 We are glad to inform you that the new edition of Ming Qing Studies 2016 is going to be published by Aracne Publishers in Fall 2016 (see contents below). Applicants are encouraged to submit abstracts for the next issue of Ming Qing Studies 2017. The contributions should concern Ming-Qing

Call for Papers: 33rd Euro-Asia Management Studies Association (EAMSA) Annual Conference

Mar 29, 2016

Suzhou, PRC 27 – 30th Oct 2016 Deadline: 8th Jul 2016 Firms often cooperate across national borders using partnerships, alliances and joint ventures to fulfil a range of strategic objectives. The strategic drivers in particular are well known in the literature and can be reduced to four broad

Call for Papers: “Exploring the China Dream”

Mar 16, 2016

Stockholm University, Sweden 15-16th Aug 2016 Deadline: 25th Mar 2016 The research project “Exploring the China Dream. Trajectories and articulations of soft power in the sinophone world” would like to invite scholars and PhD students to the international conference to be held at Stockholm University, 15-16 August 2016. The project started thanks to the support of the STINT Initiation

Sixth Annual Summer Workshop “Studies of Asian Arts, Religion, and History”

Feb 1, 2016

Shanghai, China Jun 23rd – Jul 2nd 2016 Deadline: 15th May 2016 The National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Fudan University (IAHS), the East Asian Studies Department and Program of Princeton University, and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Asia of Tokyo University invite applications from

Call for Papers – Conference: CONfini, CONtatti, CONfronti (CONfines, CONtacts, CONtrasts)

Jan 31, 2016

Milan, Italy 22 – 23rd Sep 2016 Deadline: 1st Mar 2016 Department of Foreign languages and literatures, Department of Language mediation and intercultural communication, PhD programme in Linguistic, literary and intercultural studies in European and extra-European perspectives CONfini, CONtatti, CONfronti. The PhD programme

Call for Papers: Economic and Political Studies (EPS)

Jan 31, 2016

Economic and Political Studies (EPS) is a peer-reviewed journal hosted by Renmin University of China and published by Taylor & Francis Group (ISSN 2095-4816, CN 10-1049/C). It is published quarterly both in print and online (http://eps.ruc.edu.cn). With a notable focus on China, Economic and Political Studies aims to disseminate significant theoretical,

Call for Papers: “ISSUES OF FAR EASTERN LITERATURES” dedicated to the 120th anniversary of Mao Dun

Jan 26, 2016

St. Petersburg, Russia Jun 29th – Jul 3rd 2016 Deadline: 1st Mar 2016 St.Petersburg State University and China Association of Mao Dun Studies cordially welcome paper proposals for the 7th International Conference “Issues of Far Eastern Literatures”, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of outstanding Chinese writer Mao Dun (1896-1981).

Call for Papers: Chinese Economic Association (Europe/UK): The 27th CEA (UK) and 8th CEA (Europe) Annual Conference

Jan 26, 2016

Duisburg, Germany 1 – 3rd Sep, 2016 Deadline: 31st Jan 2016 CHINA’S NEW WAY OF INTEGRATION WITH THE WORLD: THE NEW SILK ROAD AND THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY Co-organized

Call for Papers: Diplomacy in the Age of Mongol Globalization

Jan 21, 2016

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem May 30 – 31st, 2016 Extended Deadline: 30th Jan 2016 The Mongols are famous for their uncompromising diplomacy. “Submit or Perish” was apparently the main message they initially addressed to others. These calls for submission were claims made by conquerors and leaders of a universal empire.

12th Lodz East Asia Meeting: “Overcoming Controversies in East Asia”

Jan 21, 2016

Lodz, Poland 2 – 3rd Jun 2016 Deadline: 15th Mar 2016 12th Lodz East Asia Meeting Overcoming Controversies in East Asia, leading academic conference on East Asia in Poland. The event will take place at the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the University of Lodz on June 2-3, 2016. The keynote speech will

Call for Papers: Making the New World – The Arts of China’s Cultural Revolution

Jan 21, 2016

London, UK 11 – 12th Nov 2016 Deadline: 1st Feb 2016 Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, Making the New World: the Arts of China’s Cultural Revolution, is a two-day international conference programmed by the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery.

Call for Papers: New European Research on Contemporary China Conference (3rd Edition)

Jan 7, 2016

Beijing, PRC 4 – 6th Jul 2016 Deadline: 15th Feb 2016 This conference aims to bring together doctoral candidates, post-doctoral researchers and recent PhDs based in China, either European nationals or affiliated with European research institutions, in order to produce an overview of the emerging problematics in Chinese studies. The focus of the

Call for Papers: China in Britain: 1760 to 1860

Jan 1, 2016

Manchester, UK 12-13th May 2016 Deadline: 30th Jan 2016 A conference organised by British Inter-university China Centre (BICC) and the Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS). 2016 marks the bicentenary of Lord Amherst’s embassy to China. This episode of history seems to have been largely forgotten by historians of Britain and China, and has generated

Workshop: „Production and popularization of knowledge in the Russian-East Asian Context“

Jan 1, 2016

Erlangen, Germany 8 – 9th Jul 2016 Deadline: 15th Feb 2016 Organized by Prof. Dr. Marc Matten and Prof. Dr. Julia Obertreis (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Andreas Renner (LMU Munich) und Dr. Frank Grüner (University of Heidelberg). The workshop addresses questions of history of knowledge and the history of science

Call for Papers: The Art of Transculturality: New Frontiers in Postsocialist China’s Avant-garde and Urban Culture

Nov 21, 2015

St. Gallen, Switzerland 27-29th Jul 2016 Deadline: 15th Dec 2015 This workshop aims to explore innovative ways of looking at the dynamics of transculturality in postsocialist China’s avant-garde and urban culture by bringing together artists, writers, art curators and scholars. Avant-garde literature and art today exist at the margins

Upcoming Workshop – “Divination and the Strange in Pre- and Early Modern East Asia and Europe” convened by Dr. Sophia Katz

Oct 4, 2015

Erlangen, Germany 27 – 28th Oct 2015 The International Consortium for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe” of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg is delighted to announce the Workshop IKGF seminar room in building D1 (Hartmannstr. 14, 91052 Erlangen)

Upcoming Lecture: Beauties at Work – Gender, Sexuality and Power in Urban China – Dr. Jieyu Liu

Oct 4, 2015

13th Oct 2015 St. Gallen, Switzerland 10.00-11.45, Room 23-001 (Classroom Pavilion) University of St. Gallen, Dufourstrasse 50, St. Gallen Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Lecture Series: “Interdisciplinary Explorations of China’s Changing Gender Dynamics, 1900-2015” Existing studies on gender and work in China, when touching upon sexuality, have examined the life of sex workers

Digital Text Analysis Workshop for Chinese and Manchu

Sep 23, 2015

Leiden, Netherlands30th Oct 2015 Do you want to learn how to mark up different kinds of information in Chinese texts? Do you want to know how to consult language and biographical dictionaries, maps, and other references sources all in one platform while reading Chinese texts on your computer? Do you want

Call for Papers: 21st Biennial Conference of the EACS 2016

Sep 23, 2015

St. Petersburg, Russia 22 – 28th Aug 2016 Deadline (Proposals): 15th Jan 2016 The 21st biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia on August 23-28, 2016. It is jointly organized by St. Petersburg State University, the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS

Second Call for Papers: Methods in L2 Prosody 2015 (ML2P-2015) Romance languages and Chinese at the crossroads

Sep 18, 2015

University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy30th Nov – 1st Dec 2015 Deadline: 11th Oct 2015 The fundamental role played by prosody in the achievement of a successful native-non-nativeinteraction has already gathered many researchers, students and listeners in two internationalconferences, held at the University of Naples L’Orientale in 2011 and at the University

Call for Proposals “Place” The 11th East-West Philosophers’ Conference

Sep 18, 2015

University of Hawai’i 25 – 31st May 2016 Deadline: 1st Nov 2015 Humanity takes up space. In this, humanity is no different from other species. Humanity also purposefully transforms space, but is not unique in doing so. Other species also reshape the spaces they occupy to serve their purposes: birds create nests, bees create

Call for Papers: Conference: “Methods in L2 Prosody 2015 (ML2P-2015) Romance languages and Chinese at the crossroads”

Jun 19, 2015

Naples, Italy30th Nov – 1st Dec 2015Deadline: 20th Sep 2015 The fundamental role played by prosody in the achievement of a successful native-non-native interaction has already gathered many researchers, students and listeners in two international conferences, held at the University of Naples L’Orientale in 2011 and at the University of Padua

International Summer School “The Wei Jin Nanbei Period and the Importance of Transition” in Ljubljana

Jun 19, 2015

Ljubljana, Slovenia2 – 9th Sep 2015Deadline: 1st Jul 2015 Department of Asian and African Studies at the University of Ljubljana is delighted toannounce the International summer school entitled “The Wei Jin Nanbei Period and theImportance of Transition”. The summer school is organized by the Department of Asian and African studies at

Call for Papers: 9th Annual Conference on Cultural and Social Anthropology of East Asia

Jun 19, 2015

Olomouc, Czech Republic23rd Oct 2015Deadline: 16th Aug 2015 The conference theme is focused on contemporary trends in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other East Asian societies, inviting an exploration into various areas, including lifestyle habits, rituals, cultural memory, consequences of globalization, changes in the family, visual culture, ethnicity, language, forms of communication

Call for Papers: Emerging Identities: Contemporary and Historical Chinese Migrations – The 9th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO)

Jun 19, 2015

Vancouver, Canada 6 – 9th Jul, 2016. Deadline: Oct 31st 2015 Founded in 1992 by Professors Wang Gungwu, Wang Ling-Chi and a multidisciplinary group of scholars, ISSCO is a scholarly organization that seeks to promote research and understanding of the historical and contemporary experiences of Chinese migrants and their descendants living outside

6th PhD Summer School: Translation, Intercultural and East Asian Studies

Jun 8, 2015

Barcelona, Spain29th Jun – 2nd Jul 2015Deadline: 21st Jun 2015The PhD Summer School is organized by the Department of Translation, Interpreting and East Asian Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and it will be held at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (UAB) during the week of June 29th to July

Call for Papers: The 4th International STCS Conference on Comparative Perspectives: Islam, Confucianism and Buddhism

Jun 8, 2015

Ljubljana, Slovenia11 – 13th Dec 2015Deadline: 25th Aug 2015 organized by the Department of Asian and African Studies, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana University, Venue: Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Aškerčeva 2, Ljubljana The aim of the STCS (Specific Topics in Chinese Studies) conferences, organized by the Department of Asian studies at Ljubljana

IIAS-CSEAS Winter School 2016 Mapping the Aesthetics of Urban Life in Asia: A Dialogue with the Arts

Jun 8, 2015

Kyoto, Japan 25 – 30th Jan 2016Deadline: 10th Jul 2015 We invite applications from PhD students – and especially students following a combined PhD/art, music and / or sound art track – for a unique IIAS-CSEAS coordinated international Winter School. We will explore the theme of “mapping the aesthetics of urban

International Summer School on Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism in Asia

May 30, 2015

Olomouc, Czech Republic22 – 27th Jun 2015Deadline: 1st Jun 2015 Project CHINET and the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, would like to invite you to its summer school, titled: “Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism in Asia.” This one-week intensive course will bring together scholars and

International Summer School of Chinese Linguistics

May 30, 2015

Olomouc, Czech Republic22 – 27th Jun 2015Deadline: 1st Jun 2015 Palacký University in Olomouc welcomes all students of Chinese language to participate in a one week international summer school. The school offers 16 lectures of world famous speakers on selected topics of Chinese linguistics – see the list of topics below!

International Conference: “Political Communication in the Medieval World, 800-1600”

May 15, 2015

Rome, Italy27 – 29th May 2015 Jointly organized by the ERC-research group “Communication and Empire: Chinese Empires in Comparative Perspective” (Leiden University) and the Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome (KNIR). This workshop brings together scholars with an interest in comparative political culture in order to discuss questions and methods in the study

Upcoming conference: “New approaches in Chinese garden history”

May 4, 2015

Sheffield, UK 18 – 19th Jun 2015 Research in Chinese garden history has burgeoned over the past thirty years, with a renewed interest being sparked by Maggie Keswick’s book The Chinese Garden (1978), a sumptuously produced volume that coincided with the end of the Cultural Revolution and the opening up of

Call for Applications: TOChina Summer School (9th edition)

Apr 17, 2015

Torino, Italy29th Jun – 10th Jul 2015 Deadline: 24th May 2015 Since 2007, the TOChina Summer School has welcomed outstanding graduate students, young researchers, practitioners and managers to one of Europe’s most engaging salons dedicated to analyzing China’s structural transformations in the socio-political, economic and cultural realms.

Call for Papers: Workshop “Argument alternations in Chinese”, embedded in the 9th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-‐9)

Apr 17, 2015

Stuttgart, Germany 24 – 25th Sep 2015 We invite anonymous abstracts for 30-‐minute talks (20+10) presenting new research into argument alternations in Chinese. Submissions may not exceed 2 pages (A4/letter) and must be written in English. The first line of the submission must be “Submission for the workshop on argument

Conference: The Shaping of Christianity in China

Mar 21, 2015

Oxford, UK21 – 22nd May 2015Deadline: 27th Mar 2015 A fresh look at the contribution of indigenous Christians The focus of the conference will be on the role played by Chinese Christians in the shaping of Protestant and Catholic Christianity within China over the past century-and-a-half. This is not to ignore

Call for Papers: EAMSA Conference 2015 “Theory and Practice in Bridging Europe and Asia: Contemporary Challenges in International Marketing”

Mar 21, 2015

London, UK28 – 31st Oct 2015Deadline: 17th Jul 2015 Conference Theme The massive expansion in globalisation has arguably been driven by successful development of theories and practices of international marketing that resulted in generating a colossal number of new customers and new competitors in the global marketplace. At the heart of

Call for Papers: The 5th International Symposium on Ethical Literary Criticism

Mar 21, 2015

Seoul, Korea2 – 4th Oct 2015Deadline: 1st Jun 2015 In order to promote international academic exchange in the field of literary criticism, East-West Comparative Literature Association of Korea will collaborate with the International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism (IAELC), the College of the Humanities and Institute of Trans Media World Literature

11th Lodz East Asia Meeting “East Asia Dynamics. Between Being Regional and Global“

Mar 21, 2015

University of Lodz, Poland 2 – 3rd Jun 2015Deadline: 22nd Mar 2015 The 11th Lodz East Asia Meeting (2–3 June 2015) proposal submission deadline has been extended to 22nd March 2015. We invite scholars,researchers and graduate students interested in presenting and discussing issues related to the growth of East Asia from

Conference on International Communication of Chinese Culture: World Value of Chinese Culture

Mar 21, 2015

Beijing, PRC27 – 28th Nov 2015Deadline: 15th May 2015 Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture, Beijing Normal University, invites scholars from a variety of backgrounds (Sinology, Cultural Studies, Sociology, International Relations, Arts, Communication, Demography, Geography, Musicology, Film Studies, Anthropology, History etc.) to propose sessions and papers for the Conference on

International Symposium “Language Diversity in the Sinophone World: Policies, Effects, and Tradition”

Mar 21, 2015

Göttingen, Germany 11 – 13th Jun 2015Deadline: 22nd May 2015 Language diversity is a ubiquitous feature in the sinophone world. In the past and present, language planning agencies in the area commonly – if not uncontroversially – referred to as ”Greater China” have responded differently to the challenges of multilingualism. After

EACS Event: “Traditional China: a Closer Distant View” A Sinological Summer School in Saint Petersburg

Mar 12, 2015

Saint Petersburg, Russia24 – 30th Aug 2015Deadline: 10th Apr 2015 The EACS Summer School “Traditional China: a closer distant view” at the Faculty of Asian and African Studies of St. Petersburg State University, focuses on important matters of the present-day Chinese studies in Europe. The Summer School presents a one-week intensive

Interdisciplinary Conference and Exhibition: Thinking Chinese 思華・華思

Mar 8, 2015

London, UK 31st Mar – 1st Apr 2015 A ground-breaking interdisciplinary two-day conference and exhibition presented by University College London and Ming-Ai (London) Institute. Both conference and exhibition explore the history of Chinese since the 19th Century who studied in Britain and became professionals, diplomats, scientists, writers, performers and

Call for Papers: International Conference “Media and Politics – Discourses, Cultures, and Practices”

Feb 27, 2015

University of Milan, Italy 27- 28th May 2015 Deadline: 20th Mar 2015 The Department of Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication and the Contemporary Asia Research Centre of the University of Milan are pleased to announce the organization of an international conference on “Media and Politics: Discourses, Cultures, and Practices” which will

Call for Papers: International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL)

Feb 24, 2015

Newcastle University, UK10 – 12th Dec 2015Deadline: 25th May 2015 The Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences (CRiLLS), Newcastle University, UK is delighted to announce a forthcoming conference— the International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL) on 10th – 12th December, 2015. The Symposium aims to promote

Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary conference – “To boldly go where no man has gone before: The Fascination with the Unknown: Time”

Feb 4, 2015

Berlin, Germany9 – 11th Jul 2015Deadline: 1st Mar 2015 The unknown and unfamiliar enthrall us. They exert a profound fascination. Following an interdisciplinary symposium, which explored the fascination with the unknown with regard to space (“To boldly go where no man has gone before – Fascination with the Unknown: Space”, 30

Call for Papers: Conference on Religions and Politics in Contemporary Chinese Societies

Jan 30, 2015

Olomouc, Czech Republic2 – 4th Apr 2015Deadline: 1st Mar 2015 Organizers: EU project CHINET, reg. no.: CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0152, Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc & Department for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University Brno Conference venue: Art Centre (Konvikt), Palacký University Olomouc, Univerzitní 3, Olomouc, Czech Republic Conference dates: April 2

MERICS European China Talent Program

Jan 30, 2015

Berlin, Germany6 – 8th May 2015 Deadline: 9th Feb 2015 The Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) strives to encourage European students and young graduates to deepen their engagement with contemporary China. By bringing together fifteen outstanding European students and graduates, the MERICS European China Talent Program provides a platform for

Colloquium on Emotions and Collective Imagery in Traditional China and Europe literary works as historical sources, emotions and art, imagery and self-deception

Jan 14, 2015

Rome, Italy2 – 3rd Feb 2015 Confucius Institute of Rome; Italian Institute of Oriental Studies Department / ISO –Sapienza University of Rome, Via Principe Amedeo 182/b – Classroom n. 7 PrincipeAmedeo, 182 Monday February 2 nd , Sapienza University of Roma I.S.O., h. 14.30

Call for Papers: 2015 SPAS Graduate Student Conference   on Asian Studies: “Against the Current: Transforming Perspectives in Asia”

Jan 6, 2015

Honolulu, HI, USA18 – 20th Mar 2015Deadline: 10th Jan 2015 The School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) welcomes papers, performances, and panel proposals for its 26 th annual graduate student conference. The conference will be held at the Center for Korean Studies

Call for Papers: “Zhu Xi and his Efforts for Renewal: Innovation, Social Reform and Epistemology 朱子知識論與社會革新” International Conference

Nov 7, 2014

Trier, Germany11 – 12th Jul 2015Deadline: 20th Nov 2014 The emergence of daoxue Confucianism in the 11th and 12th centuries is a pivotal point inthe history of Chinese thought, often considered to be the beginning of a new era (as thecontroversial term “Neo-Confucian” illustrates). During the second half of the 20

Call for Papers: CHESS Young Scholars Conference 2015 – Responding to China’s Environmental Crisis: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Oct 27, 2014

Vienna, Austria27 – 28th Feb 2015Deadline: 30th Nov 2014 Organized by CHESS (China and the Environment in the Social Sciences)Hosted by the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, AustriaKeynote speaker: Yu Xiaogang, Green Watershed Submissions are welcomed for the inaugural CHESS Young Scholars Conference to be held at the

Call for Papers: Studying Rural Chinese Society in the 21st Century: Emerging Themes and New Challenges

Oct 27, 2014

Jerusalem, Israel 9 – 11th Mar 2015 Confirmed keynote speaker: Jonathan Unger (ANU) Rural Chinese society is currently undergoing dramatic change. The previously rigid institutional divisions between rural and urban populaces are weakening; the Chinese government is investing ever greater resources in the improvement of rural life, and the speed of urban-rural

Call for Papers: 9th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-9)

Oct 27, 2014

Stuttgart, Germany24 – 26th Sep 2015Deadline: 30th Apr 2015 We invite anonymous abstracts for 30-minute talks (20+10) presenting new research into all areas of Chinese linguistics (excluding Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language). Submissions may not exceed 500 words and must be written in English. Presentations at the conference may be

Tibetan Cultural Event: Ritual in the Context of Science: Ceremony dealing with the subject of “Bön religion and divination” performed by the Venerable Lopön Trinley Nyima Rinpoche

Oct 14, 2014

Erlangen, Germany27th Oct 2014 The International Consortium for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication” at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg is one of ten Käte Hamburger Kollegs in Germany that foster pioneering research in the Humanities and are funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. The consortium has set

Call for Papers: Workshop “Networks and Communication in East Asia and Beyond in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries”

Sep 24, 2014

London, UK6 – 7th Mar 2015Deadline: 30th Nov 2014 The workshop entitled ‘Networks and Communication in East Asia and Beyond in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries’ will be taking place on 6 and 7 March 2015 at Senate House, University of London. This workshop sets out to explore the building of

Conference: “Martino Martini, man of dialogue (1614-1661). His works about China in the German and Italian cultures.”

Sep 23, 2014

Trento, Italia15 – 17th Oct 2014 In occasion of the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Jesuit China missionary Martino Martini (1614-1661), the Centro Studi Martino Martini of Trento and the Stiftungslehrstuhl für Missionswissenschaft of Würzburg University are pleased to announce the upcoming conference: Venue: Palazzo Geremia (Sala Falconetto)

Call for Papers: Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC)

Sep 17, 2014

Univ. of Kentucky, USA 23 – 25th Apr 2015 Deadline: Nov 10th 2014 Abstracts are invited in all areas and aspects of the field of East Asian studies. Paper presentations are 20 minutes followed by a 10 minute question and answer session. In addition for individual abstracts for paper presentations, proposals

Call for Papers: International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 9

Sep 15, 2014

Adelaide, Australia 5 – 9th Jul 2015Deadline: 30th Oct 2014 The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is the premier international gathering in the field of Asian Studies. It attracts participants from over 60 countries to engage in global dialogues on Asia that transcend boundaries between academic disciplines and geographic areas.

Call for Papers: XXV. Jahrestagung der DVCS “Recht und Gerechtigkeit”

Sep 15, 2014

Münster, Germany 7 – 9th Nov 2014 Deadline: 15th Oct 2014 Mit dem Tagungsthema „Recht und Gerechtigkeit“ laden wir zur Erkundung von Rechtsver-ständnis und Gerechtigkeitsempfinden im modernen und vormodernen China ein. Neben der Betrachtung von Konzepten und Definitionen beider Begriffe zielt eine der Leitfragen auf die Ergründung des Verhältnisses von Recht

International Conference „The Chinese Way“ (中国道路国际论坛)

Sep 9, 2014

Berlin, Germany20th Oct 2014 Deadline: 15th Sep 2014 INTRODUCTION AND TOPICS The stunning economical miracle in China reminds many of the German economical miracle after World War II. However, China’s rise with almost 10% annual growth rate lasts already more than 30 years. This is certainly a unique achievement in both,

Workshop: The Gongsunlongzi and Other Neglected Texts: Aligning Philosophical and Philological Perspectives

Aug 23, 2014

Zurich, Switzerland 27 – 29th Aug 2014 The Gongsunlongzi is one of the few early Chinese received texts dealing with problems of logic and epistemology. Unfortunately, philological inquiries suggest that most probably huge parts were only composed during the Chinese Medieval period (3rd–7th centuries AD). Philosophical studies on the text usually

Call for Papers: Conference on Migration, Religion and Asia

Aug 23, 2014

Olomouc, Czech Republic27 – 29th Nov 2014Deadline: 31st Aug 2014 The issues concerning both religiosity and migration have been discussed by scholars across different academic disciplines for a long time. Various theoretical and methodological tools are utilized to approach both of these social phenomena. In our symposium we focus particularly on

The 8th Annual Czech and Slovak Sinological Conference 2014

Aug 23, 2014

Olomouc, Czech Republic7 – 8th Nov 2014 The Czech and Slovak Sinological Conference provides a platform for experts, academics, and researchers from near and far to exchange their insights and thoughts on a wide spectrum of China related topics. Student presenters are also welcome and encouraged to participate. Papers on the

Conference: Reading the “Masters”: Contexts, Textual Structures, and Hermeneutic Strategies

Aug 23, 2014

Brno, Czech Republic5 – 6th September 2014 The conference focuses on interpretative approaches to the early Chinese “Masters” (zhuzi) in the light of recent developments in philology, textual criticism, manuscript studies, and the history of philosophy. The participants scrutinize approaches to zhuzi writings as “philosophical texts”, a term prone to evoke

Call for Papers: 2nd Annual Academic Conference of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies’ Specialty Committee for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge

Aug 23, 2014

Luoyang, China15 – 16th Nov 2014Deadline: 1st Oct 2014 Scholars, policy experts and activists working in the areas of protecting traditional knowledge and/or protecting traditional medical knowledge are invited to submit academic articles, review articles, research reports or essays. Papers may focus on any indigenous medical tradition or area of the

Conference: The “China Dream”: Passions, Policies and Power (Registration Open)

Aug 13, 2014

Leicester, UK24 – 25th Sept 2014 “The first international conference in the UK hosted by the University of Leicester’s China Studies Research Alliance (ChiSRA).” As China has grown economically, its cultural and political landscape has changed profoundly. As well as raising living standards, China now needs to satisfy its people’s growing

Call for Papers: International Conference “Taiwan: The View from the South”

Aug 13, 2014

Canberra, Australia6 – 8th Jan 2015Deadline: 1st Sep 2014 The Australian Centre on China in the World invites submissions for an international conference on all aspects of the study of Taiwan to take place in its award–winning new building. The conference aims to bring together scholars from Taiwan and around the

Call for Papers: 4th International Conference on Buddhism in Australasian Region

Jul 7, 2014

Perth, Australia26th- 28th Feb 2015Deadline: 25th Nov 2014 The International Conference Buddhism & Australia 2015 will be held on 26-28 February, 2015 in Perth, Western Australia. This conference investigates the history, current and future directions for Buddhism in Australasia and main theme for Buddhism & Australia 2015 will be Buddhist Symbols

Call for Papers: International Symposium “Reading the Old in the Light of the Newly Discovered: Chinese Philosophy and Ancient Chinese Texts”

Jul 7, 2014

Macquarie Univ. Sydney, AustraliaDec 9th – 11th 2014 Deadlines: Early Jul and Oct 2014 You are cordially invited to the international symposium “Reading the Old in the Light of the Newly Discovered: Chinese Philosophy and Ancient Chinese Texts” organized by Chinese Studies, Department of International Studies (Languages and Cultures), Macquarie University,

Call for Papers: International Conference Scholarships “China in the Global Academic Landscapes. New Horizons: Topical and Structural Challenges for 2020”

Jul 1, 2014

Hanover, Germany11th – 12th Dec 2014Extended Deadline: Jul 31st 2014 Venue: Conference, Herrenhausen Castle, Hanover/Germany The international conference China in the Global Academic Landscapes deals with the academic implications of the growing global significance of China in general and its university sector in particular. Among other subjects, we will reflect upon

International EASCM-Conference 2014: “Orthopraxy, Orthography, Orthodoxy. Emic and Etic Standards and Classifications of Chinese Manuscripts”

Jun 30, 2014

Heidelberg, Germany 11th – 13th Jul 2014 On a scale unprecedented and unmatched anywhere else in the world, China over the course of the last century has enjoyed a tremendous increase of historical source texts through excavation. Manuscript texts retrieved particularly from early but also from medieval sites have multiplied the

Call for Panels: 14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (14th ICHSEA)

Jun 30, 2014

Paris, France6th – 10th Jul 2015 The 14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (14th ICHSEA) will take place in Paris, 6-10 July 2015. It is organised under the auspices of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), on behalf of the International Society for

International and Interdisciplinary Conference: “Historical Consciousness and Historiography (3000 BC–AD 600)”

Jun 29, 2014

Merton College, Oxford, UK 17th – 19th Sep 2014 Despite ancient and modern critical attempts to separate formal historiography from other conceptions and representations of the past (e.g. myths, legends, folktales), the interpenetration between these strands of historical thinking has been observed in many fields of antiquity. For example, mythological and

Upcoming Conference: VII International research conference «Russia – China: History and Culture»

Jun 13, 2014

Kazan, Russia 9th – 11th Oct 2014 Kazan Federal (Volga Region) University, Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies; Confucius Institute of Kazan Federal (Volga Region) University; Russian Oriental Society; The main sections of the conference: – Actual issues of philology and methods of teaching Chinese; – Russian-Chinese relations, foreign relations; – History of China; – Chinese

Call for Papers: “The Shaping of Christianity in China: a fresh look at the contribution of indigenous Christians”

Jun 13, 2014

Oxford, UK 21st – 22nd May 2015Deadline: 31st Dec 2014 Several scholars have agreed to lend their support to an initiative from Dr Peter Rowan, the UK National Director of OMF International, to hold a two-day conference at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS), Woodstock Road, Oxford, in Spring 2015,

Call for Papers: International Conference: “Translation Talk”

Jun 4, 2014

London, UK 23rd – 24th Apr 2015 Deadline: 1st Jul 2014 A 2-day international conference to be held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR), School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK, on Thursday 23 – Friday 24 April 2015. Can translation

International Symposium “Back into Modernity: Classical Poetry and Intellectual Transition in Modern China” “拋入現代”：古典詩歌與現代中國的思想嬗變

Jun 3, 2014

Frankfurt, Germany4th – 5th Jul 2014 Casino Anbau 1.802Campus WestendGoethe University Frankfurt am Main Organizer: Zhiyi Yang, Jun.-Prof. Dr.Department of Sinology Sponsor: Confucius China Studies Program Program July 04, 2014 9:30-10:00 Opening Ceremony 開幕式Speaker: Vice President Prof. Lutz-Bachmann; IZO-Director Arndt Graf10:00-10:30 Keynote Speech 主題報告

International Conference “China’s Media Go Global”

May 7, 2014

Beijing, PR China 2nd – 3rd Sep 2014 Deadline: 25th May 2014 China is dramatically increasing its media presence in the world. Within the next few months CCTV will establish in Europe its third Media Hub, after Africa and the USA. Xinhua has expanded its operations and includes 24 hour television

20th Biennial Conference of the EACS 2014

May 6, 2014

Braga/Coimbra, Portugal22nd – 26th Jul 2014Extended Registration Deadline: 7th May 2014 From the origins of Sinology to current interdisciplinary research approaches: Bridging the past and future of Chinese Studies. The 20th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies will be held in Portugal in the cities of Braga and Coimbra between the 22nd and

Call for Papers: The 3rd Oxford Graduate Conference on Contemporary China: “Beyond Boundaries: China in Disciplinary and Area Studies”

May 5, 2014

Oxford, UK30th Jun – 1st Jul 2014Deadline: 1st Jun 2014 Keynote Panellists: Professor Rosemary Foot, FBA (Oxford), Professor Vivienne Shue, FBA (Oxford), Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies (UC Irvine)Contemporary Chinese Studies is flourishing as the country is weighted more and more on the international

Summer School: ‘Politics and Society of China and Chinese Language’

Apr 28, 2014

SOAS, University of London 23rd Jun – 24th Jul 2014 This combined language and politics course enables students to study Chinese language alongside a comprehensive introduction to Chinese politics and society. Students will undertake one of two levels of Chinese language. As well as the language students will be focusing on

Upcoming Conference: 11th Annual East Asia Security Symposium and Conference

Mar 16, 2014

Beijing, PR China30th Jun – 5th Jul 2014 A Multinational 5-Day Symposium: 30 June – 4 July 2014 Followed by an Invitational Conference: 5 July 2014 At the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. Sponsored by the University of New Haven, Global Studies Program and Bond University, East Asia Security Centre,

Call for Papers: Conference on International Communication of Chinese Culture: Discourse System and Cultural Image

Mar 16, 2014

Beijing, PR China28th – 29th Nov 2014Deadline: 30th Apr 2014 Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture, Beijing Normal University, invites scholars from a variety of backgrounds (sinology, cultural studies, sociology, international relations, arts, communication, demography, geography, musicology, film studies, anthropology etc.) to propose sessions and papers for the Conference on

Call for Papers: The Third Symposium on the Supervision of Research Students (SSRS) in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL)

Mar 2, 2014

3rd – 5th Jul 2014 Nanjing University, PR China Deadline: 30th Apr 2014 We are writing to invite the submission of papers for an international Symposium on the Supervision of postgraduates in TCSL, to be held at Nanjing University from July 3rd to 5th, 2014. The Symposium will aim to address

Call for Papers: International SCCS PhD Student Conference: “China Links: Connecting the World”

Jan 27, 2014

Nottingham, UK 18th – 19th Jul 2014Deadline: 20th Mar 2014 The conference explores China’s global linkages from a multidisciplinary perspective. We welcome presentations on economics, international relations, politics, people-to-people relations, media, and historical and cultural linkages. Presenters are also greatly encouraged to share their methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. The conference

Call for Papers: The 2014 International Jilin Conference ,Developing China’s Innovation-Base Economy Through Technology Entrepreneurship’

Jan 27, 2014

29th – 30th Apr 2014Changchun, PR China Organized by Jilin University School of Economics and, University of Amsterdam Business school. We invite submission of empirical, theoretical and applied research addressing approaches, challenges and prospects of technology entrepreneurship for building innovation-based economy.Publication opportunity: In addition to conference proceedings, selected best papers from

Call for Papers: International Conference: “Aesthetic Notions: Framing Emotional Perception”

Jan 24, 2014

Paris, France26th – 27th Jun 2014Deadline: 15th Feb 2014 Interdisciplinary, intercultural and interinstitutional partnership with Paris Sorbonne (Paris 4, OMF), Sorbonne nouvelle (Paris 3, CERC), Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (Marge), Charles de Gaulle Lille (CEAC), Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris 1, Hicsa) and l’ENS Lyon (CERCC et IAO). Logistically and technically supported by

Call for Papers: 9th Biennual Conference of The Comparative Education Society of Asia: “Education, Equality and Social Harmony: Asian Experiences in Comparative Perspective”

Jan 24, 2014

Hangzhou, PR China 16th -18th May 2014 Deadline: 28th Feb 2014 Host: School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University. The relationship between education and social inequality has aroused increasingly acute concern in many Asian societies over recent years. This conference will invite participants to consider what we can learn from the experiences

Call for Papers: 10th Lodz East Asia Meeting “New Dynamics of Europe-East Asia Regional Cooperation”

Jan 13, 2014

University of Lodz, PolandDeadline: 15th Mar 2014June 5th – 6th, 2014 The conference is an annual gathering of scholars interested in Asian affairs, especially their political and economic aspects. After the 2012 and 2013 edition’s success, when over 70 foreign guests participated (among others, from Japan, China, Taiwan, USA, Russia, Germany,

Conference: Chinese and Asian Geographical Views on Central Asia and its Adjacent Regions

Dec 30, 2013

Bonn, Germany10th – 11th Jan 2014 Poppelsdorfer Schloss, Meckenheimer Allee 169, 53115 Bonn, Germany Programme (preliminary) FRIDAY, 10 JANUARY 9:00 Roderich Ptak: Welcome speech Session 1: Chinese and East Asian Geographical Views on Central Asia I (chair: Valerie Hansen) 9:15 Niu, Ruji, “Mt. Tianshan: the Pivotal Line of Converging Asian

Call for Papers: International Conference: “EU-China Mass Communication”

Dec 15, 2013

Bruges, Belgium3rd – 4th Apr 2014 (TBC)Deadline: 5th Jan 2014 (Financially supported by the European Commission) The Inbev-Baillet Latour Chair of European Union-China Relations at the College of Europe invites experts to contribute papers which focus on EU-China mass communication. The papers will be presented at the International Conference on “EU-China

Call for Papers: IKGF Workshop “Knowing your Enemies: Intention Assessment and the Prospect of East Asian Security”

Dec 13, 2013

Erlangen, Germany23rd – 24th Jun 2014Deadline: 20th Jan 2014 Will history repeat the great conflicts of the twentieth century? Can mankind overcome the circularity of the anarchical international system? In the foundation of the science of international politics lies this utmost fear that civilizations will be fated to face a future

Call for Sessions and Papers: Conference on the socio-economic transition of China: “Opportunities and Threats”

Dec 12, 2013

3rd – 6th Apr 2014Olomouc, Czech Republic In recent decades, the world has witnessed the enormous economic, social, cultural and political development of China. As the most populous country in the world, China’s transition process influences directly one fifth of the world’s population and indirectly almost all the rest of the

Call for Papers: 4th Intercultural Interdisciplinary Colloquium: “On Historicity of Cultural Identity/es”

Nov 27, 2013

Tübingen, Germany 10th – 11th Jan 2014 Deadline: 15th Dec 2013 Organised by polylog in cooperation with the Forum Scientiarum at the University of Tübingen and the Society of Intercultural Philosophy. A culture neither is a homogenous entity nor does she seal herself and block influences from other cultures. On the

Workshop: “Letters and Notebooks as Sources for Elite Communication in China, 900-1300”

Nov 25, 2013

Pembroke College, Oxford, UK9th – 10th Jan 2014 The research group “Communication and Empire: Chinese Empires in Comparative Perspective” (Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS)) will host the international workshop “Letters and Notebooks as Sources for Elite Communication in Chinese History, 900-1300”

International Conference: “Usages du Livre du Changement (Zhouyi) sous les Song” / “On the Various Usages of the Yijing by Song Literati”

Nov 15, 2013

Paris, France21st – 22nd Nov 2013 The International Consortium for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies of Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe” of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg is delighted to announce this international joint conference together with the Collège de

Call for Papers: “The Glocalisation of Christianity in China”

Nov 15, 2013

Univ. of Manchester, UK15th – 16th May 2014Deadline: 5th Jan 2014 An international conference organised by Centre for Chinese Studies and Department of Religions and Theology. Christianity came to China four times: with the Nestorians during the Tang dynasty (618-907), the Franciscans during the Mongol-ruled Yuan dynasty (1271-1368), the Jesuits during

Call for Papers: “China & Europe – Fostering the mutual understanding between China and Europe by multi-level comparisons of their cultures, societies, and economies”

Nov 15, 2013

27th – 28th Mar 2014 Rome, Italy Deadline: 30th Nov 2013 Jointly organized by Dr. Luigi Moccia (Rome, Italy) and Dr. Martin Woesler (Bochum, Germany) Europe and China do not only share the same continent Eurasia, but grow closer together also economically. Although their cultures

Call for Papers: “Issues of Far Eastern Literatures”, dedicated to the 115th anniversary of Lao She (1899-1966)

Nov 6, 2013

Saint Petersburg, Russia 25th – 29th Jun 2014 Deadline: 10th Mar 2014 Faculty of Asian and African Studies of St.Petersburg State University and Society of Lao She Studies cordially welcome paper proposals for the 6th International Conference “Issues of Far Eastern Literatures”, dedicated to the 115th anniversary of outstanding Chinese writer

Call for Papers: 3rd International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research CASLAR

Oct 25, 2013

University of Parma, Italy 28th – 30th Aug 2014Deadline: 1st Mar 2014 CASLAR is a biennial conference with the goal to bring together scholars from all over the world whose research focuses onthe acquisition, development and use of Chinese as a second language to survey available knowledge in the

Call for Papers: Conference “Reading Communities and the Circulation of Print: Australia, China, and Britain in the 19th Century”

Oct 11, 2013

Canberra, Australia23-24 April 2014Deadline: 15th Dec 2013 This two-day conference investigates the production, circulation and consumption of printed material in Australia, China, and Britain in the long 19th century, when technological improvements in printing, engraving, papermaking, and transport made the production and distribution of texts easier and increased opportunities for education

Call for Papers: Conference “Changing Patterns of Power in Historical and Modern Central and Inner Asia”

Oct 11, 2013

Ulaanbaatar University, Mongolia7th – 9th Aug 2014Deadline: 9 Jan 2014 We invite the submission of paper abstracts for a three-day international conference organized from 7-9 August 2014 by the International Unit for Central and Inner Asian Studies (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), in collaboration with the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS, Leiden, the

Conference: Optimism and Scepticism regarding Progress in Late 19th-Century and Republican China

Oct 10, 2013

Erlangen, Germany29th – 31th Oct 2013 Convenor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich On behalf of the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication” at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg Prof. Thomas Fröhlich (convenor) invites to the conference on “Optimism and Scepticism regarding Progress in Late 19th-Century

Call for Papers: Scientific Conference “Chinese Civilization: Tradition and Modernity”

Oct 9, 2013

Kyiv, Ukraine6th Dec 2013Deadline: 31st Oct 2013 The 7th Scientific Conference “Chinese Civilization: Tradition and Modernity” will be held in Kyiv, Ukraine, at A. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies. The Conference activities will be organized with the following sections: “Political and Socio-economic Issues of China’s Modern Development” “Chinese Civilization Studies: History, Philosophy,

Call for Papers: “Intercultural Communication Between China And the Rest of the World: Beyond (Reverse) Essentialism and Culturalism?” 中国与外部世界间的跨文化交流：超越（反向）本质主义和文化主义？

Oct 9, 2013

Helsinki, Finland5th – 6th Jun 2014Deadline: 15th Jan 2014 Plenary speakers: Anne Cheng, Professor at the Prestigious Collège de France in Paris (intellectual History of China) Adrian Holliday, Professor of Applied Linguistics at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK) in the Department of English & Language Studies

Call for Papers: SHARP in China 2015: ICHS/CISH Conference: “Reading, Writing and the Book: New Histories / La Lecture, l’écriture et le livre: nouvelles perspectives”

Oct 9, 2013

Jinan, Shandong, VRC24th – 28th Aug 2015Deadline: 30th Nov 2013 As an International Affiliated International Organization of the International Committee on the Historical Sciences, SHARP is in a position to organize three sessions during the week-long conference to be held in Jinan, in Shandong Province of Eastern China, August

Summer School: New Directions in the Study of the Mongol Empire

Oct 8, 2013

The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem1st – 4th Jul 2014Deadline: 5th Nov 2013 The “New Directions in the Study of the Mongol Empire” Summer School aims to scrutinize the empire from a holistic perspective. It looks at the Mongol Period not only as a chapter in the annals of China, Iran, Russia

Call for Papers: International Conference “Mobility and Transformations: Economic and Cultural Exchange in Mongol Eurasia”

Oct 8, 2013

The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem29th Jun – 1st Jul 2014Deadline: 1st Nov 2013 The ERC project Mobility Empire and Cross – Cultural Conquest in Mongol Eurasia will sponsor an international conference in 29 June July 2014. The conference will examine how various forms of mobility – of people, ideas and artifacts

7th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference “The Power of Knowledge: Asia and the West”

Oct 4, 2013

Sønderborg, Denmark 4th – 6th Nov 2013 Western intellectuals, and thus also media and the political elites, have long based their approach to reality on the fundamental assumption that the same basic processes underlie all human thought. In other words, how people make sense of the world around them was the

AAS Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference

Oct 3, 2013

Philadelphia, USA27th – 30th Mar 2014 Each spring, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) holds a four-day conference devoted to planned programs of scholarly papers, roundtable discussions, workshops, and panel sessions on a wide range of issues in research and teaching, and on Asian affairs in general. Connect with your colleagues

Call for Proposals: Inaugural AAS-in-Asia Conference: “Asia in Motion: Heritage and Transformation”

Oct 3, 2013

National Univ. of Singapore 17th – 19th Jul 2014 Deadline: 31st Oct 2013 ‘On behalf of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), the Asia Research Institute (ARI), and the Faculty of the Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) of the National University of Singapore (NUS), we are pleased to invite colleagues in

International Conference ‘Network and Identity: Exchange Relations between China and the World’

Oct 3, 2013

Ghent, Belgium 18th – 20th Dec 2013 organized by the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies Studies in cooperation with the Buddhism in Motion Group of the KHK Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe at Ruhr University Bochum. The conference will take place in “Het Pand”, conference

Seminar: The Tangled Dynamics of Independent Filmmaking in Contemporary China. Paul Pickowicz

Oct 3, 2013

SOAS, University of London, UK14th Oct 2013 Professor Paul G. Pickowicz (University of California). Since 1990, independent filmmaking has been on the rise in China. This illustrated lecture offers a broad survey of representative works. Independent filmmaking in China does not fall into a single, neat category. Instead, it is known

Call for Papers: 12th Biennial Conference of Asian Studies: Asia as an Idea / Asia as a Consolidating Unity

Oct 3, 2013

Haifa, Israel 25th -26th May 2014Deadline: 31st Dec 2013 We are delighted to announce that the 12th Biennial Conference of Asian Studies in Israel will take place at the University of Haifa, Israel, on Sunday-Monday, May 25-26, 2014. Priority will be given to thematic panels, but individual paper submissions will also

Call for Papers: 3rd International STCS Conference on “Contemporary East Asia and the Confucian Revival”

Sep 26, 2013

Ljubljana, Slovenia3rd – 5th Oct 2014Deadline: 21st Mar 2014 organized by the Department of Asian and African Studies, Ljubljana University in collaboration with the Scientific Research Center of the Slovene Academy for Science and Art. Venue: Ljubljana, ZRCA SAZU. The aim of the STCS conferences, organized by the Department of Asian

Call for Papers: 20th Biennial Conference of the EACS 2014

Sep 24, 2013

Call for Papers: Workshop: Chinese Students Abroad: Reflections, Strategies and Impacts of a Global Generation

Sep 20, 2013

Aarhus University, Denmark27th – 28th Mar 2014Deadline: 1st Nov 2013 In this workshop, we aim to bring together scholars working within and across the three phases of studies abroad: before, during and after. This will allow us to explore the reflections, strategies and institutional arrangements that propel the decision to study

The Fu Manchu complex and Representations of East Asians in Contemporary Arts and Media

Sep 20, 2013

SOAS, University of London, UK27th Sep 2013 Who is Fu Manchu? A sinister Chinaman? A criminal genius? A racist myth? The Centre of Chinese Studies will be hosting a public seminar to mark the première of The Fu Manchu Complex by British-Chinese actor and writer Daniel York. York’s satirical

ASAA 20th Biennial Conference: AsiaScapes: Contesting Borders

Sep 17, 2013

Univ. of Western Australia, Perth8th – 10th Jul 2014Deadline: 29th Nov 2013 This conference invites presentations addressing shifts, continuities, innovations and tensions in Asia. We welcome engagement from scholars and practitioners in the humanities, social sciences and other sciences, as well as interdisciplinary explorations of Asia and Asia-Australia relations. The pace

Call for Papers: Conference “Sound, Noise and the Everyday: Soundscapes in China”

Sep 16, 2013

Aarhus University, Denmark / CHIME, 21-24 August, 2014 Deadline: 16th Feb 2014 China is filled with sounds; indeed, some people would say that it is a noisy place. Some sounds immediately come to mind, for example those of music, radio and TV broadcasts, along with blaring loudspeakers, public announcements and street

Call for Papers: 7th Annual Conference on Cultural and Social Anthropology of East Asia 2013 – Ethnic Groups, Ethnicity and Ethnic Policies in China

Sep 13, 2013

Olomouc, Czech Republic31st Oct – 2nd Nov 2013Deadline: 23rd Sep 2013Members of the sinological, anthropological and related communities are invited to propose sessions and papers for the Conference on Ethnic Minorities, Ethnicity and Ethnic Policies in China 2013. Organizer: EU project CHINET

Conference: Masters of Disguise? Conceptions and Misconceptions of “Rhetoric” in Chinese Antiquity

Aug 27, 2013

Sep 4th – 6th, 2013 Einsiedeln, Switzerland Conference Outline The Warring States period (475–221 A.C.) is considered both the golden age of Chinese “rhetoric”, and the epoch of maximum flourishing for early Chinese politicophilosophical debate. This historical period is characterized by

Conference: “Max Weber and China: Culture, Law and Capitalism”

Jul 24, 2013

5th – 6th Sep 2013 Deadline: 3rd Sep 2013 SOAS, University of London, UK Max Weber is not only celebrated as a founder of modern social science but also for his view that modern capitalism was the achievement of a uniquely Western rationalism. His celebrated study of China argued

Conference: Questioning Modernity 質問現代性 Critical Engagement with Western Knowledge in Late Imperial and Republican China 晚期中華帝國與民國時期針對西學的批判性交涉

Jul 24, 2013

Göttingen, Germany 22nd 24th Nov 2013 "Over the past 20 years, the development of modern knowledge in China has been a focus of much research. Core topics of debate have included whether the late Ming-early Qing period already contained indigenous elements of modern science; that is, the relative weight

The Society for the Study of Early China’s (SSEC) Second Annual Conference

Jul 8, 2013

Philadelphia, USA 26th Mar 2014 More than 40 scholars attended the Society’s first annual conference on 21 March 2013 and heard a broad range of outstanding papers. We hope the second annual conference will be even more successful. As in 2013, the second SSEC conference will take place the day before

European Association For Asian Art And Archaeology (EAAA) newly founded

Jul 5, 2013

Deadline: 15th Nov 2013 Olomouc, Czech Republic 25th – 27th Sept 2014 The board of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology is pleased to announce the establishment of EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY (EAAA). The association shall: – encourage and advance

9th International Sinology Forum

Jun 21, 2013

Leiria, Portugal, 20th – 22nd Feb 2014 The Portuguese Institute of Sinology is currently organizing its 9th International Sinology Forum, to be held on 20, 21 and 22 February in Leiria (Portugal) on the topic “China: Tradition and Modernity”. For this purpose it is welcoming papers from specialists on China, in

International Conference “Sinologists as Translators in the 17-19th Centuries: Archives and Context”

Jun 13, 2013

SOAS, London, UK 19th – 21st Jun 2013 This conference is jointly organized by the Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the Research Centre for Translation Studies at the Chinese University Hong Kong

International Conference “Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China”

Jun 12, 2013

Heidelberg, Germany 4th – 6th Oct, 2013 Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies. Making a major contribution to the global history of science and knowledge, this conference aims to reconstruct the standards of validity that governed scholarly discourses in late imperial China. By recovering the implicit criteria of truth or

Call for Papers: Globalisation – Challenges for Translators and Interpreters

Jun 10, 2013

Zhuhai, Jinan University, PR China 29th – 30th Nov 2013 We are delighted to announce the following researchers as our keynote speakers: – Professor Roberto Valdeón (University of Oviedo, Spain) – Professor Myriam Salama-Carr (University of Salford, United Kingdom) – Associate Professor Henrik Gottlieb (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) – Dr.

Call for Papers: Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World

Jun 6, 2013

Dalarna University, Sweden 2nd – 4th Apr 2014 Deadline: 15th Oct 2013 Updated leaflet… Globalising processes have led, in recent decades, to critical re-evaluations of the ways in which ‘culture’ has traditionally been understood. Global capitalism, worldwide diffusion and popularisation of communication technologies, as well as increased mobility of

Summer School in Chinese Studies 2013: History and Historiography in Imperial China and the Encounter with the West

Jun 6, 2013

Venice, Italy 2nd – 6th Sep 2013 Deadline: 24th Jun 2013 organized by European Association of Chinese Studies (third Edition), Department of Asian and North African Studies, Confucius Institute Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Summer School Ca’ Foscari University Venice

International Workshop: War of Ideas, Ideas of War – The Role of Military Thought in Early China

May 28, 2013

5th – 6th Jun 2013 Barcelona, Spain Co organized by: Albert Galvany (Pompeu Fabra), Paul van Els (U. Leiden) Funded by: Chiang Ching kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Marie Curie Actions Intra European Fellowships Location: Classroom 40.113, Campus Ciutadella, UPF, Ramon Trias Fargas 25 – 27, Barcelona Free admission. For

Anecdotes Workshop Chinese texts

May 28, 2013

Leiden, Netherlands 31st May – 1st Jun 2013 Featuring over a dozen presentations by specialists from a variety of nations and affiliations, the Anecdotes Workshop explores the various functions of anecdotes in early Chinese texts. Time: Friday Mai 31 and Saturday June 1 Venue: Blue Room of City Hotel Nieuw Minerva

Call for applications: Summer School “Sites of Knowledge: Space, Locality, and Circulation between Asia and Europe.”

May 21, 2013

Heidelberg, Germany 4th – 8th Aug 2013 Deadline: May 31st 2013 The Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at Heidelberg University welcomes applications for its Summer School 2013 "Sites of Knowledge: Space, Locality, and Circulation between Asia and Europe." It will take place from August 4 to

IV International Symposium for Young Researchers in Translation, Interpreting, Intercultural Studies and East Asian Studies

May 6, 2013

Barcelona, Spain 1st Jul 2013 The fourth symposium for young researchers is aimed at students who are about to begin their research, master students, doctoral students, and students who have recently completed their PhD theses. The objective of the symposium is to provide a scientific forum within which the next generation

PhD Summer School: Translation Studies, Intercultural Studies, East Asian Studies

May 6, 2013

Barcelona, Spain 24th Jun – 1st Jul 2013 The PhD Summer School, now in its fourth edition, is organised by the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. This week-long summer school aims at promoting quality research by encouraging the exchange of ideas

International Workshop: “Techniques of Prediction I: Chronomancy”

May 1, 2013

Erlangen, Germany May 7th – 8th 2013 Convenors: Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner (IKGF director), Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard (Univ. Heidelberg, Univ. Lille 1, IKGF Former Visiting Fellow) Location: Senatssaal (Schloss, Schlossplatz 4, 91054 Erlangen) Our workshop series’ focus is upon techniques of inductive or

Call for Papers: XXIV. Jahrestagung der DVCS “Raum und Grenze”

May 1, 2013

Würzburg, Germany 8th – 9th Nov 2013 Mit dem Tagungsthema „Raum und Grenze“ möchten wir zur Erkundung und Reflexionräumlicher Zusammenhänge in den China-Studien einladen. Im Sinne des „spatial turn“ in den Kulturwissenschaften soll eine Leitfrage dieser Tagung in der Auslotung des Erkenntnispotentials der Hinwendung zum Raum in

Symposium: From Print to Publishing: The Changing Role of the Book in China and the UK

May 1, 2013

Manchester, UK May 9th 2013 This one-day symposium brings together professionals, academics, curators and artists from the fields of publishing in China and the UK to discuss the changing character of print and art book publishing; the developing role of self-publishing and artists’ book initiatives, and

Workshop: Contemporary Research on Chinese Women 當代中國女性研究研討會

May 1, 2013

Tsinghua University Beijing, China May 11th 2013 The French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) and the Centre Franco Chinois cordially invite you to attend the following workshop: 法國現代中國研究中心及中法中心誠邀閣下參加以下研討會：WORKSHOP “CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH ON CHINESE WOMEN” 當代中國女性研究研討會 Venue: Wenbei Building, Room 206 05 月11 日清華大學文北樓 206 室 SESSION 1: Property

Workshop: Southeast Asia regional Security in the Context of Sino-U.S. Rivalry

May 1, 2013

SOAS, London, UK 7th June 2013 Venue: G50, Russell Square Campus Main Building, SOAS, University of London Workshop Schedule 10:30AM Registration and Coffee 11:00AM Keynote Speech Prof. Rosemary Foot (Oxford) ‘The Disruption of China's Resurgence: Reflections from an IR Perspective’ 12:00PM Lunch 1:30PM Session 1: Southeast Asia and Geopolitics Moderator: Dr.

20th NZASIA Biennial International Conference: “Environment, Dis/Location and Cultural Space”

Apr 15, 2013

Auckland, New Zealand, 22-24 November 2013The University of Auckland this year hosts the twentieth conference of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society. Panels and papers which respond to the theme are particularly invited and will be considered for publication, but the conference will cover the full range of disciplinary and area

International Conference “The Forbidden City, Imperial Palaces and Royal Courts: Symbols of Imperial and Monarchical Power in the East and West Compared”

Mar 17, 2013

Boulogne-sur-mer, France25th – 28th Sep 2013Deadline: 10th Apr 2013 Organization: Université du Littoral Cóte d’Opale, in collaboration with the GRSL (Group Societies, Religions, Secularism), EPHE-CNRS, France, and with colleagues from the Palaces Museum, Beijing, China. Conference languages: French, English or Chinese. The organisers of the conference welcome contributions on the

The 4th Academy Forum of International Society for Lu Xun Studies (ISLS): Seoul Forum

Mar 17, 2013

Seoul, Korea14th – 15th Jun 2013Deadline: 12th Mar 2013 On behalf of the International Society for Lu Xun Studies(ISLS), together with The Korean Society of Modern China, and some other institutes concerned. We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 4th Academy Forum of International Society for Lu Xun

Call for Papers: International Colloquium – Tea & Coffee: Cultural Representations in Language and Practice

Mar 17, 2013

Université Lumières Lyon 2, France 24th – 25th Oct 2013 Organised by Terminology and Translation Research Center (Université Lyon 2) The discovery of tea goes back to Chinese antiquity, and, according to Arab legends, Mohammedwas healed by coffee. Both drinks have centuries of history to show for. Today, carried into the

Call for Papers: Transnational Chinese Cinemas, Embodiment, Corporeality, and Desire

Mar 17, 2013

Deadline: 1st Apr 2013 Editors: Brian Bergen-Aurand, Nanyang Technological University, Mary Mazzilli, Nanyang Technological University, Hee Wai Siam, Nanyang Technological University. This collection invites essays considering the evolving relation among National, Transnational Chinese, and Sinophone Cinemas and conceptualizations and deployments of embodiment and the body. It seeks to consider multiple aspects

Call for Papers: Communicating Soft Power. Contrasting Perspectives from India and China

Feb 18, 2013

London, UK.9th – 10th Sep 2013.Deadline: 17th May 2013. Organized by the India Media Centre and the China Media Centre of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) of the University of Westminster, London. The notion of soft power, associated with the work of Harvard political scientist Joseph Nye, is

20th International Conference China, Chinese Civilization and the World: History, Modernity and Future Prospects

Feb 13, 2013

Moscow, Russia16th – 18th Oct 2013Deadline: 15th May 2013. Hereby we cordially invite you to take part in the 20th International Conference on China, Chinese Civilization and the World: History, Modernity and Future Prospects which will take place at the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Moscow, on October 16-18, 2013. The main theme of

Workshop: “Civil Society” development and transformation of authoritarian regimes

Feb 11, 2013

15th Feb 2013 EHESS, Paris Workshop organized by Chloé Froissart (Rennes 2 University, CECMC) and Anthony J. Spires (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) under the PROCORE France-Hong-Kong joint research program, the Center for Research on Modern and Contemporary China, School for Higher Studies in Social Sciences and the Asia-Pacific Research

Constructing and Interpreting the Daotong (Transmission of the Way) in the Perspective of Chinese and Korean Neo-Confucianism

Feb 4, 2013

INALCO, Paris 1st – 2nd Jul 2013 International conference organised by:- The Centre of Chinese Studies (CEC, ASIEs, Inalco), – The Centre of Korean Studies (CECO, ASIEs, Inalco) – The Institute of Confucian Philosophy and Culture (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul) The organising committee is pleased to invite colleagues and

Colloque international: Aesthetics of Phantasmagoria : Ghosts in the Far East in the Past and Present

Feb 4, 2013

Feb 21st – 23rd 2013 INALCO, Paris Une esthétique de la fantasmagorie : fantômes dans l’Extrême-Orient d’hier et d’aujourd’hui / Aesthetics of Phantasmagoria : Ghosts in the Far East in the Past and Present 21-23 février 2013, INALCO, Auditorium, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris Co-organisé par Vincent Durand-Dastès,

New Perspectives on Medieval Chinese Poetry

Jan 19, 2013

21st – 22nd Feb 2013 Boulder, USA A special conference in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the UCB Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations. All sessions in Old Main Chapel. For further details please contact Paul W. Kroll Professor of Chinese Dept. of Asian Languages & Civilizations University of Colorado Mail. Thursday, February 21 9:00

32. Deutscher Orientalistentag 2013

Jan 11, 2013

23rd – 27th Sep 2013. Münster, Germany. Since 1921, the German Society for Oriental Studies (Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft) has organized the German Oriental Studies Conference (Deutscher Orientalistentag), normally once every three years. In 2013 the DOT will take place for the first time in Münster. The panels and individual presentations

9th Łódź East Asia Meeting “Central Europe and East Asia”

Jan 10, 2013

University of Łódź, Poland 6th – 7th Jun 2013. The conference is an annual gathering of scholars interested in Asian affairs, especially their political and economic aspects. After the 2012 edition’s success, when over 30 foreign guests participated (among others, from Japan, China, Taiwan, USA, Russia, Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic) we

Second meeting of the interdisciplinary Workshop on Manuscript and Text Culture (WMTC)

Jan 9, 2013

Queen’s, University of Oxford Wed 30th Jan 2013, 6 pm We are pleased to announce the second meeting of the interdisciplinary Workshop on Manuscript and Text Culture (WMTC) at Queen’s, University of Oxford. The paper of the workshop will be given by Martin Kern (Princeton), Astor Visiting Fellow and Fellow Commoner

“Responsible China” the 11th biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for China Studies (NACS)

Dec 23, 2012

Extended Deadline: 31th Mar 2013Turku, Finland, 11th – 14th Jun 2013 As China develops rapidly it faces a number of challenges with/in its natural environment, social structure, governance system and ethnic policies just to name a few of the more salient fields. How can China’s policy makers, ordinary citizens, companies

“Transitions: State, Society and Culture in China” An international conference in honour of Professor V.P. Dutt

Dec 19, 2012

5th – 6th Apr 2013 Delhi, India A central feature of China’s modern experience has been a series of often rapid transitions. In fact, since the middle of the 20th century China’s history can be periodized by significant events as markers of transition. While there has been the obvious transition from

Global goes Local: Visualizing Regional Cultures in the Arts of Greater China

Nov 8, 2012

Deadline: 30th Nov 2012 Click to view Pdf… International Conference 27 – 29 June 2013 This international and interdisciplinary conference aims to create dialogue among specialists and practitioners from the fields of Fine Art, Art History, Museum Studies, Visual Culture, Cultural Studies and other relevant disciplines, examining the role and significance of local art and cultures

Call for papers: Ming Qing Studies 2013

Oct 18, 2012

Edited by Paolo Santangelo, Sapienza University of RomeDeadline: 31st Mar 2013 We notice that the issue of MING QING STUDIES 2012 is going to be published by Aracne Publishers. MING QING STUDIES is a yearly publication, both on line and in printed form, which continues the positive experience of Ming Qing yanjiu. It

Call for papers: Shaping the sciences of the ancient world

Oct 11, 2012

Université Paris Diderot, FranceDeadline: 30th Nov 2012 The SAW project (Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World) organises a conference ‘Shaping the sciences of the ancient world: Text criticism, critical editions and translations of ancient and medieval scholarly texts (18th-20th centuries)’, which will take place 17-21 June 2013 in Paris. We now

XIXth EACS CONFERENCE

Sep 8, 2012

Paris, September 5th – 8th 2012 Organizing committee: Gilles Guiheux (Univ. Paris Diderot), Christine Lamarre (INALCO), Soline Suchet (BULAC) -:¦:- The Venue, Call for Papers, Deadlines, Keynote Speakers -:¦:- The Venue The conference is jointly organized by the Université Paris Diderot, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)

Call for papers: International Conference China’s ongoing quest for cultural modernity into the 21st century: Legacy of Lu Xun

Aug 13, 2012

15th – 17th Nov 2012, New Delhi, IndiaDeadline: 25th Aug 2012 Organizers: Hemant Adlakha, Institute of Chinese Studies & Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India) & ISLS Park, Jae Woo, President, International Society of Lu Xun Studies (ISLS), Seoul (S. Korea) & Hankuk University, Seoul Venue: India International Centre (IIC),

Call for Papers: Workshop Is Chinese Patriarchy Over? The Decline and Transformation of a System of Social Support

Jul 14, 2012

Halle/Saale, Germany 27 – 29 Jun 2013Deadline: 1st Sep 2012 Organizers: Stevan Harrell (University of Washington). Gonçalo Santos (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology). Venue: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale.For thousands of years, Chinese societies approached the dilemmas of social support through a system we call

Reminder: Chinese Instruments and Western Museums Workshop

Apr 16, 2012

CHIME Leiden, NetherlandsExtended Deadline: 20th Apr 2012 REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS From 13 to 16 September 2012 The CHIME Foundation and Leiden University in The Netherlands will host a workshop on the topic of Chinese Instruments and Western Museums. Everyone with a passion for and research interest in Chinese instruments,

Call for Contributions: Oriens Extremus

Mar 18, 2012

Deadline: 30th Sep 2012 Oriens Extremus assembles articles dealing with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian cultural and intellectual history from the beginnings until the modern age. The next issue of Oriens Extremus will feature a special section devoted to The Chinese Revolution: Creating a New World. It focuses on an

“Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China” A Joint Research Workshop of the IAS & the ISF

Mar 7, 2012

Jerusalem, 1st – 6th May 2012Deadline: 30th Mar 2012 The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) is very glad to announce the forthcoming workshop “Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China”. The workshop, co-organized by Yuri Pines and Paul Goldin, is due on May 1-6, the Institute for

Call for Papers: “Political Strategies of Identity Building in Non-Han Empires in China:”

Mar 6, 2012

Munich, 18th – 19th Jun 2012 Deadline: 8th Apr 2012 A Continuation of the Workshop “Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered”This workshop is especially aimed at post-graduate students of East Asian and Central Asian history, sociology, anthropology, political science, or ethnology (i.e. Sinology, Mongolian Studies, Korean Studies, Central Asian Studies etc.). Participants are

The Wellington Conference on Contemporary China 2012

Feb 15, 2012

Wellington, New Zealand, 13th – 14th Aug 2012Deadline: 30th May 2012 The Wellington Conference on Contemporary China is an annual event organized by the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre. Each year, this conference brings together leading China scholars to examine, debate and advance scholarship on issues of great significance in

TOChina Summer School 2012

Feb 15, 2012

Torino, 25th Jun – 6th Jul 2012 Deadline: 21st May 2012 Click to view Pdf… The TOChina Summer School is delighted to announce that applications for the 2012 TOChina Summer School on the politics, foreign policy and political economy of contemporary China are accepted as of now. True to its tradition,

Third EACS Summer School in Chinese Studies – 2012 Edition: Chinese Folk Culture

Feb 6, 2012

Moscow, 18th – 24th Jun 2012Deadline: 15th Mar 2012 The classes will be held from 18 June (Monday) to 23 June (Saturday). A Moscow city tour is scheduled for 24 June (Sunday). Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, RussiaTime & Place, Courses, Participants, Requirements,

Call for Papers: “New European research on contemporary China” European Junior China Scholars Conference

Feb 5, 2012

Beijing, 6th – 7th Jul 2012Deadline: 1st Mar 2012 This conference aims to bring together doctoral candidates, post-doctoral researchers and recent PhDs based in China, either European nationals or affiliated with European research institutions, in order to produce an overview of the emerging problematics in Chinese studies. The focus of the

Call for Papers: “Cosmopolitan China” An International Conference

Feb 4, 2012

Manchester, 17th – 18th May 2012Extended Deadline: 13th Feb 2012 Convened by Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) and Confucius Institute (CI) Pathways to Cosmopolitanism PhD Program (Manchester and NUS) Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Culture (RICC)Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC).Questions of ethnic diversity and multi-culturalism lie at the heart of debates on

Call for papers: Conference on “Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia: East-West Perspectives”

Jan 17, 2012

Munich, 12th – 14th Sep 2012Deadline: 15th Aug 2012 We welcome papers for a conference on Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia, which will be held at the University of the Armed Forces, Munich, Germany from September 12 to 14, 2012.This conference follows an earlier book project entitled “Race

Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Symposium “Metamorphosen des Alltäglichen : 100 Jahre Wandel und Entwicklung in China (1912-2012)”

Jan 16, 2012

Universität zu Köln 5th May 2012 Deadline: Feb 15th 2012 Nach dem Ausbruch der Revolution im Oktober des Jahres 1911 begann mit der Abdankung des letzten Kaisers am 1. Februar 1912 eine Phase des Umbruchs und des Wandels in China, die bis heute andauert. Seither prägten Phasen der

8th Łódź East Asia Meeting: East Asia After Global Financial Crisis

Jan 12, 2012

Łódź, 4th – 5th Jun 2012Deadline: 28th Feb 2012 Ever since its first edition in 2002, the Lodz East Asian Meeting gather scholars, researchers and students in all disciplines, specializing in East Asian studies. Being the first academic conference of its kind in Poland, gradually it became one of the most

Call for Papers: Asian Postmodernities and their Legacies

Dec 20, 2011

Zürich, 30th – 31st Mar 2012Deadline: 15th Jan 2012 The University Research Priority Program Asia and Europe (University of Zurich) in collaboration with The Institute of East Asian Studies, Department of Sinology (University of Zurich), invite proposals for the Graduate Student Workshop. Key themes: spaces & boundaries, environmental issues, body &

Call for Papers: Cultural Translation and East Asia: Film, Literature and Art

Dec 6, 2011

Bangor University UK, Sep 7th – 8th 2012 Deadline: 20th May 2012 The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to focus on questions of ‘cultural translation’ in all its forms and constructs. As global identity becomes increasingly defined by questions of communication across languages andcultures the role of ‘translation’ becomes key

Call for Papers: “Issues of Far Eastern Literatures”

Jun 28, 2011

St. Petersburg, June 27th – July 1st 2012Deadline: March 1st 2012Faculty of Asian and African Studies of St.Petersburg State University, InternationalGuo Moruo Academy and Guo Moruo Museum of CASS cordially welcome paperproposals for the 5th International Conference “Issues of Far Eastern Literatures”, dedicatedto the 120th anniversary of outstanding Chinese writer, scientist

22nd Annual Conference of the German Association of Chinese Studies

Jun 27, 2011

Technische Universität Berlin, November 25th – 27nd 2011 “Kontinuität und Umbruch in Chinas Geschichte und Gegenwart” [Continuity and Change in China’s Past and Present]Aus Anlass des 100-jährigen Jubiläums der Xinhai-Revolution thematisiert die Jahrestagung der DVCS die Kontinuitäten und Umbrüche, die in Geschichte und Gegenwart Chinas zu erkennen sind. External Link

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