Presentation

The XIXth Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS) is jointly organized by the Université Paris Diderot, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) and the Bibliothèque des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (BULAC). The EACS Conference will take place simultaneously with the European Association of Sinological Librarians (EASL)’conference, enhancing exchanging between researchers and librarians.

Scholars of Chinese studies from Europe and beyond are invited to sumbit proposas for individual lectures or for panels or to attend the conference as listeners. The ECAS board decided to subsume the thematic variety according to the following sections: 

• Linguistics & Languages
• Religion & Philosophy
• Art & Archaeology
• Premodern Literature
• Modern Literature
• Premodern History
• Modern History
• Politics and International Relations
• Economics and Society
• Law
• Anthropology & Sociology
• Gender
• Environment
• Media and Performing Arts
• Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
• Translation Studies
• Other

Please note the following deadlines and dates:

• December 6th, 2011 : opening of the online submission application

(http://www.univ-paris-diderot.fr/eacs-easl)

• Deadline for submission: February 29th  2012

• Notification of acceptance: early May 2012.

Accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference Abstracts.

• May 1st: opening of the online registration application
• June 15th: Deadline for registration of participants
• September 4th afternoon: registration at the conference venue
• September 5th-8th: conference

The organizers welcome the submission of abstracts for panel or individual papers to the XIXth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies: Deconstructing China. New Experiences. New Vistas.

All presenters must register (and pay registrations fees) to participate in the conference. All participants to the conference should be EACS members. Participants and attendants are advised to pay their EACS 2012 membership fees before registering for the Paris conference.

To submit your proposal 

Please first carefully read the guidelines

Submission guidelines

You are asked to give your name, your institution, the title of your proposal.

In case of a panel, only the organizer's name is required.

You have to select a maximum of five keywords.

You have to choose one of the following topics that best describes the abstract :

• Anthropology & Sociology
• Art & Archaeology
• Economics
• Environment
• Gender
• History (modern)
• History (pre-modern)
• Law
• Linguistics
• Literature (modern)
• Literature (pre-modern)
• Media and Performing Arts
• Politics and International Relations
• Religion & Philosophy
• Teaching Chinese
• Translation Studies
• Others

You are asked to upload your abstract. It should be in .doc (or .docx) format and conform to the following specifications :

• Single spaced, with margins of 2.54 cm (one  inch) all around
• Time new roman size 12 font
• Abstracts must be written in English (no Chinese characters are allowed).
• Maximum length:

1. For individual paper abstract: 350 words/2500 characters (including spaces, excluding title, keywords and contact information on author).
2. For panel abstract: 1000 words/6000 characters (including spaces, excluding title, keywords and contact information on author).

Acknowledgement of receipt of the submission will be sent to the e-mail address you entered in the form. If you do not receive the  confirmatory e-mail within 24 hours, please contact us at submissions.eacs2012@gmail.com.

Notification on acceptance of the proposal will be e-mailed by early May 2012. In case of a panel, the organizer should notify the other presentors of the acceptance.

For any inquiry on your submission please contact at:

submissions.eacs2012@gmail.com.

XIX Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS)

Paris, September 4th –8th 2012

General information

The XIXth Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS) is jointly organized by the Université Paris Diderot, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) and the Bibliothèque des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (BULAC). These three institutions have been recently relocated in a newly developed area of Paris, known as Paris Rive Gauche, a few streets south east of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Former industrial buildings have been rehabilitated while brand new ones have been commissioned from world-class architects.

The Université Paris Diderot was set up in 1970 as a consequence of the dismantling of the Université de Paris. From the very beginning, Paris Diderot (formerly Paris 7) had a department of Oriental Studies . Several famous French sinologists headed the department, notably Jacques Gernet and Léon Vandermeersch. Paris Diderot moved to Paris Rive Gauche in 2007.

The French National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations  was founded in 1795 as l’Ecole des Langues Orientales. Chinese language, litterature and civilisation have been taught since 1843 by leading sinologists such as Stanislas Julien, Paul Demiéville, Paul Pelliot, or Marcel Granet. The Chinese studies department is the largest of its kind in France. Since September 2011, the various departments long scattered throughout Paris have been brought together, and relocated with all the administrative services in a brand new building, 65 rue des Grands Moulins.

The Academic Library for Languages and Civilisations is a recent institution that has merged book collections in non Western languages from various Parisian libraries. The Chinese collection is made of 40 000 books, mostly in literature, linguistics, history and social sciences, counting monographies and periodicals. The INALCO and the BULAC are located in the same building.

The EACS conference will be a great opportunity to introduce the European sinological community to the human and documentary resources gathered in this new area of Paris. At the same time, it will greatly enhance the collaboration between these three major French institutions in Chinese studies.