https://calenda.org Lodel 1.0 https://calenda.org/1361132 https://calenda.org/1361132 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries, dream representations in China and Japan made extensive use of speech balloons. Typically, a character has a dream that is represented within a balloon. This international one-day symposium is the second event organized within the Histoires de bulles program which aims to study the speech balloon as an object of knowledge, both in terms of its intrinsic characteristics and its visual and broader cultural ecosystem, with the ultimate goal of identifying an “economy of the balloon” and perhaps even sketching the outlines of a general theory. Study days Paris (75005) https://calenda.org/1177493 https://calenda.org/1177493 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200 The main ambition of this call is to examine the strategies mobilized by Chinese cultural actors and to question the role of digital platforms in the attempt to create a cultural contraflow that could gain worldwide recognition. What are the specificities of the Chinese cultural industries and to what extent can they provide an alternative to the contemporary globalized cultural landscape? How do musicians, directors, content producers or game developers navigate their commodified and supervised environment domestically and strengthen their chances of success abroad? To what extent do Chinese cultural platforms take part in the broadcast and the recognition of Chinese popular culture(s) beyond the country’s borders, be it in the West or in other nations of the Global South? Call for papers https://calenda.org/1176592 https://calenda.org/1176592 Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200 Inscriptions can open up a world extending far beyond chisel marks on the stone surface. In eightroundtables, we propose to explore the rich cultural history of epigraphy in East Asia. By striding outits multiple dimensions of time and space, both physical and imaginary, scholars from the sinographic sphere with diverse disciplinary backgrounds will attempt to chart together the Epiverse. The experimental format of this conference aims at facilitating present and future collaborations in thefield, and defining common research paths on stone inscriptions and inscribed landscapes. Conference, symposium Paris (75013) https://calenda.org/1167506 https://calenda.org/1167506 Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200 The pandemic, travel restrictions, and political ossification in China have all disrupted communications between Chinese scholars in the humanities and social sciences and their counterparts overseas. For this reason, there is a need to reengage with academic and intellectual trends in contemporary China. Taking inspiration from new methods in intellectual history and sociology of knowledge, we propose to focus specifically on the question of public knowledge. The conference will bring together a groups of scholars, including historians, social scientists and independent critics who, from a variety of geographical and disciplinary vantage points, are all engaged in observing and studying academic and intellectual trends in contemporary China. Conference, symposium Paris (75006) https://calenda.org/1150955 https://calenda.org/1150955 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200 From 11 to 13 April 2024 we organize in Geneva a Symposium about the promotion of Chinese culture and arts in the decades 1930-1950 by, and around, the Geneva Bibliothèque Sino-Internationale.This symposium aims at being an opportunity for exchange and discussion among 16 specialists to shed light on the Bibliothèque Sino-Internationale and on the circumstances and context of its action. The main focus is on the promotion of Chinese arts: painting, literature, music, theatre and opera. Conference, symposium Geneva (1201) https://calenda.org/1092309 https://calenda.org/1092309 Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200 This international workshop aims to revisit the foundational intellectual migration that drove thousands of Chinese to study abroad from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, from a long-term and comparative perspective. The participants will reassess its impact on modern China and their host countries in the light of new sources ad methodologies. Conference, symposium Aix-en-Provence (13) https://calenda.org/1021235 https://calenda.org/1021235 Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200 This monthly webinar proposes to address recent debates on epistemological and methodological tools realted to the study of “China”, and to examine them in the light of empirical field experiences. Through historical, sociological and anthropological investigations, the aim will be to identify concrete issues and propose critical approaches to reflect on them. Seminar https://calenda.org/1014540 https://calenda.org/1014540 Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200 The aim of this international workshop is to understand how nomadic and sedentary populations are involved together in different types of mobility, thus moving beyond the traditional dichotomy between sedentary/fixed Han Chinese and mobile minority peoples. In combining anthropological and historical approaches, this workshop will probe the evolution, influence, and tensions these various forms of mobility have on Chinese and non-Chinese populations spread across the margins of the Sinitic ecumene. It will furthermore challenge convergent or divergent practices of mobility in imperial and contemporary times by reflecting on the shared insights on mobilities and what these entail in terms of circulation, exchanges, and borrowings. Call for papers Paris (75005) https://calenda.org/865152 https://calenda.org/865152 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0200 This meeting is a continuation of the franco-german conference held in Berlin in 2014 about "Heroes and heroic myths : a social and cultural construction : Germany, France, Japan" (published in 2017 at Leipziger Universitätsverlag). After having studied those ambivalent constructions of warrior 'heroes', this new conference focuses on two other ambivalences associated with WWII : the position of host states towards exiles fleeing from nazism and the "survival ethic" of the exiles themselves. Call for papers Montpellier (34) https://calenda.org/673750 https://calenda.org/673750 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0200 This panel takes the prevalence of positivity in post-reform China as an invitation to investigate its opposites: the variety of negative ordinary affects that can be viewed as ensuing from state-induced “situations of restricted agency”. What can we learn from the various forms of negativity that morph out of the socio-political circumstances of post-reform China, and how to tread a fine line between the risk of romanticization and analytical dismissal? Under what conditions do the expression and performance of negative affects constitute “a manifestation of autonomy from state directives” in the context of pervasive “happiness” campaigns? Or is their work ambivalent, if not problematic, especially when they come to be associated with specific marginalized groups? Call for papers Leipzig https://calenda.org/580277 https://calenda.org/580277 Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0100 Un double prix récompense chaque année lors de l’assemblée générale de l'Association française d'études chinoises deux thèses de doctorat soutenues en France durant l’année précédente. Scholarship, prize and job offer Paris (75205) https://calenda.org/582051 https://calenda.org/582051 Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0100 This international conference in political studies and political philosophy wishes to explore the notion of compromise in its transnational dimension, in order to test the relevance of a cultural and global approach to compromise. The topics addressed by the conference are the following: Can we develop morally right and wrong compromise typologies? Can we propose a universal ethics of compromise or does compromise vary depending on the socio-cultural history of a country? To what extent is culture relevant in shaping types and norms of compromise? Conference, symposium Paris (75006) https://calenda.org/480411 https://calenda.org/480411 Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Recent success of Chinese reality television singing competitions broadcasted on national television or streamed directly on the internet, has shown the extent of musical genres represented in the Chinese world, from pop to folk via hip-hop or rock ’n’ roll. The popularity of new musical styles up to then considered as deviant as well as the recent attempts of the State to intervene directly on musical contents, tend to blur the distinctions between “mainstream” (流行) music, “popular” (民间) music as non-official, “underground” (地下) music or even “alternative” (另类) music. This call for papers aims at promoting a better understanding of the transformations of Chinese “musical worlds”, in the sense that Becker gave to “art worlds”, which stresses the role of cooperation and interactions between the different actors of the artistic sphere. Call for papers https://calenda.org/444504 https://calenda.org/444504 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Over the last twenty years, material culture studies have occupied a growing place in the social sciences. How does this growing interest in objects and material culture reveal itself in Chinese studies? Choosing from different disciplines and different periods, this AFEC workshop aims to examine how to approach objects in the humanities and social sciences—from everyday objects to natural objects, consumer goods, technical or scientific instruments, objects of study or devotion, or ritual objects and works of art. By bringing together specialists from different fields (history, art history, archaeology, technology, anthropology, literature, sociology, etc.), the workshop explores the life, trajectory and the possible metamorphoses of the value, status and function of objects, as well as the relationships these artefacts have with individuals—raising in addition questions of their social uses—by focusing on their religious, symbolic, political, economic, emotional or memorial dimensions. Study days Paris (75013) https://calenda.org/411808 https://calenda.org/411808 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0200 This afternoon event in Bath (United Kingdom) is aimed at postgraduate students and early career academics interested in Chinese art, whether as a career or as a source for their research. The afternoon will start with a visit to the Museum of East Asian Art Bath. Then three leading professionals in Chinese art in the United Kingdom will give a talk and questions/answers. A workshop will then invite participants to reflect on and prepare for a career related to the arts of China. Summer School Bath https://calenda.org/411814 https://calenda.org/411814 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0200 Organised by Dr Jan Woudstra in conjunction with the Gardens Trust, the event will look at new discoveries in the field from both professionals and post-graduate students from around the world. Dr Alison Hardie will introduce the conference and outline the importance that Maggie Keswick’s 1978 book The Chinese Garden, History Art and Architecture has played in the subject. It is a unique opportunity to hear speakers from UK and International institutions to present their new research in the field. Talks will cover subjects as wide-ranging as Jesuit water landscapes, gardens as museums, Feng Shui symbolism and botanical watercolours. Conference, symposium Sheffield https://calenda.org/410809 https://calenda.org/410809 Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0200 The department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies in the School of humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan invites applications for a fixed term position as assistant professor in history. Scholarship, prize and job offer https://calenda.org/381649 https://calenda.org/381649 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0100 Over the last decades, China has become a major player in the world trade and the European Union's second largest trade partner after the United States. Economic relations between the European Union and China now take up a variety of forms, including technological collaboration in new high tech ventures. Study days Paris (75004) https://calenda.org/375005 https://calenda.org/375005 Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0200 This project will explore how young Chinese cosplayers engage with the public at large to express new identities in spaces that are heavily regulated by social and political censoring mechanisms. On the one hand, this doctoral research will explore the structural organisation of Chinese cosplay (associations, conventions); on the other hand, it will look into specific bodily performances in public spaces. Scholarship, prize and job offer Brussels (1050) https://calenda.org/364476 https://calenda.org/364476 Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0200 Money is at once elusive and concrete. As a mode of economic exchange it exists within a relatively fixed playing field, with clearly delineated boundaries of benefits and costs. However, poor handling, bad advice, or even a bad turn at a game of chance can swallow money up in one fell swoop. The workshop will investigate this wide array of pre-capitalist, western and non-western contexts from the English Isles, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, and China between the Middle Ages and Early Modern times. Study days Cambridge https://calenda.org/355990 https://calenda.org/355990 Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0100 The organization of this seminar marks the beginning of the third and last phase of the SAW project. Our aim is to explore various facets of 19th and 20th century historical research about ancient mathematical sciences, especially those attested to by sources written in Chinese, the languages of the Indian subcontinent and cuneiform script. Seminar Paris (75013) https://calenda.org/353393 https://calenda.org/353393 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0100 This international conference aims to examine the policies of the smaller European powers towards China – and vice versa – during the Cold War. Thereby it focuses, on the European side, on both Western and Eastern Europe – regardless of whether a country was part of the NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Meanwhile, on the Chinese side, the conference proposes to include both Chinas, namely the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (RoC). While this should allow for the analysis of different relational constellations, the chronological framework – that ranges from the Communist victory in China in 1949 to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989 – should enable us to identify policy shifts and patterns. Call for papers Lausanne https://calenda.org/347778 https://calenda.org/347778 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0100 In 2015-2016, the seminar "History of Science, History of Text" will keep exploring textual problems related to the ERC Project SAW (“Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World”) As in previous years, the seminar will address the following issues regarding scientific sources: how textual sources bear witness to the social groups that produced them; how textual sources testify to knowledge; history of compilations; how actors structure their texts and knowledge into parts; how textual sources reflect the material environment in which they were produced In line with the beginning of phase 3 of the project SAW, devoted to facets of the history of the historiography of ancient mathematics, the seminar will pay special attention to the sources attesting to work in the history of mathematics. Study days Paris (75013) https://calenda.org/344659 https://calenda.org/344659 Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0100 Created in 2008 to open up new venues for a dialogue between France and China on planning issues, the Sino-French Centre for Urban, Regional and Planning Studies has been actively involved in organizing exchange seminars in France and China. The Centre is supported by University Paris East-Créteil and Nanjing University. This year seminar will raise two issues: "rural transformation under the process of urbanization" and "mixing methodological approaches in the field of urban studies". Study days Champs-sur-Marne (77454) https://calenda.org/328545 https://calenda.org/328545 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0200 In the spirit of the Section’s proposal we can read: "The focus here is on misunderstanding and misinterpretation in the history of art. It intends to further study the problem of the reception of foreign, heterodox and non-traditional cultures." Everybody knows the 19th century misinterpretation of the cloud and fog representation in the Chinese landscape painting as early impressionistic sign of atmosphere. Another example of a (tragic) mistake from the 20th century is the destruction of the Montecassino abbey by an American bomber because of a misunderstood verbal instruction. (The American decoder thinks the German word "Abt" (abbey) for the abbreviation of German "Abteilung" (military department).) However, our understanding of the Section title is based on the confrontation of the two concept creativity and misunderstanding. Call for papers Beijing https://calenda.org/327727 https://calenda.org/327727 Mon, 11 May 2015 00:00:00 +0200 The social sciences and humanities have developed considerably in the last thirty years in different Asian countries where both theoretical approaches and methodologies have been constantly changing. As a result of the circulation and globalisation of knowledge, new centres and new peripheral areas have been formed and new hierarchies have quietly emerged, giving rise in turn to new competitive environments in which innovative knowledge is being produced. The centres in which knowledge in the social sciences and humanities is produced have moved towards Asia and in particular to China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and India. Conference, symposium Lyon (69007) https://calenda.org/323926 https://calenda.org/323926 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0200 A conference exploring new developments in Chinese garden history, created in honour of Dr Alison Hardie's retirement. Conference, symposium Sheffield (S10 2TN) https://calenda.org/283602 https://calenda.org/283602 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0200 In his 1954 presentation to dignitaries from across Asia and Africa, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai acknowledged the differences between the two cultural spheres; nevertheless, Zhou stressed, a more important factor in all future relations should be the “common experiences and desires” of people from across the two continents to create a new world from the ashes of war and colonialism. Building on Zhou’s insight into commonalities of experience, this presentation will trace the cultural intersections that have existed between China and African since the 1920s. Study days Paris (75) https://calenda.org/275199 https://calenda.org/275199 Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0100 The Taipei office of the HK-based French Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CEFC, http://www.cefc.com.hk/rubrique.php?id=73) is inviting you to join a limited number of researchers in freely exchanging ideas about Cross-Taiwan Strait cinema and entertainment industries in a geopolitical perspective. Study days Taipei (11529) https://calenda.org/248687 https://calenda.org/248687 Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200 Le 9e symposium international de CORPUS groupe international d'études culturelles sur le corps aura lieu à Taipei du 24 au 26 mai prochain. Organisé avec l'académie Sinica et l'université nationale des arts de Taiwan, il rassemblera des intervenants venus d'une dizaine de pays sur le thème « Éducation du corps et apprentissage culturel ». Conference, symposium Taipei (100)