20-21 August 2009, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Inside/Outside: 60 Years of Chinese Politics
The Hong Kong Political Science Association (HKPSA) is co-hosting this international conference on the subject of Chinese domestic and foreign politics with the Centre on China’s Transnational Relations.

7-9 September 2009, University of Nottingham

The 2^nd Conference of the International Forum for Contemporary Chinese Studies: Beyond the Revolution and Reforms: the People’s Republic of China at 60
www.nottingham.ac.uk/chinese. For enquiries and further details contact Dr Bin Wu, bin.wu@nottingham.ac.uk
Deadline of 5 May 2009 for abstract/paper submission: sustainable-conference@nottingham.ac.uk

8-10 September 2009, University of Sheffield

4th JOINT EAST ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE. The JEASC is a triennial meeting held by the three academic associations representing East Asian Studies in the UK (The British Associations for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Studies – BACS, BAJS, and BAKS). We encourage applications for individual papers, panels of up to four papers, or posters on any aspect of China, Japan or Korea, as well as on cross-regional topics.  Scholars and graduate students from any country are welcome to apply.

21-23 September 2009, University of Hamburg

Confucianism for the 21st Century? A conference in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of sinology in Hamburg. Details on the entire festwoche and the conference, including abstracts, on  http://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/china/100jahre/index_e.html . 10 travel grants are available for young European scholars who wish to attend the conference.

21-23 October 2009, Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Moscow

The 18^th International Conference on China, Chinese Civilization and the World: History, Modernity and Future Prospects
The main theme of the Conference is “60 Years of the People’s Republic of China”.
For more details, please, visit: www.ifes-ras.ru  Russian and foreign scholars are invited to take part in the conference. Contact Tamara Karganova, Head of Foreign Ties Dpt., (foreign participation) – tel.: 7-499-124-02-13, e-mail: karganova@ifes-ras.ru  

4-6 December 2009, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou

Zhejiang Today, China Tomorrow? Reflections on experiences in local governance, economic development, and social and cultural transformations in Zhejiang province. A conference jointly organized by the Centre for Local Governance, Zhejiang University, PRC, and the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Contact Roger Greatrex at ace.lu.se for details

3-6 February, 2010,  Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia

 

The sixth annual international scientific conference named in honor of Evgeny Torchinov (1956 – 2003) will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy and Political Studies of the Saint-Petersburg State University, focusing on investigations of ideals, norms and values of Eastern cultures. For details see http://torchinov.ru/

CALL FOR PAPERS: deadline for non-Russia based individuals: September 13, 2009

March 2010  Asien-Afrika-Institut, University of Hamburg

The Humanities Reborn: Chinese Humanities in the 1950s and their Foundations

The workshop results from the project funded by the German Research Foundation on “Institutionalizing the Humanities in the P.R. China: the 1950s” (http://yschulzzinda.googlepages.com/instutionalizingthehumanitiesinthep.r.ch)  at the University of Hamburg. This project examines the content and rules of academic work in China during the 1950s, specifically the then newly established fields of history, literary criticism, and philosophy.Papers can be submitted in either English or Chinese (150 words)Deadline for abstracts (English or Chinese): 1st March 2009
Contact: Yvonne Schulz Zinda, Marie-Theres Strauss, Wang Weijiang humanitiesreborn@gmail.com