Call for Papers

Scholars of Chinese Studies from Europe and beyond are invited to submit proposals for individual lectures or for panels or to attend the conference as listeners. In the paper proposals the topic and the problem should be explained; also, the theoretical and methodological approach applied in the paper should be mentioned. Please notify that the text of your abstract, after acceptance, will be published on this webpage in no other version than the accepted one. The EACS board decided to subsume the thematic variety according to the following sections:

  1. Linguistics & Languages
  2. Religion & Philosophy
  3. Art & Archaeology
  4. Premodern Literature
  5. Modern Literature
  6. Premodern History
  7. Modern History
  8. Politics & International Relations
  9. Contemporary Economy & Society
  10. Law
  11. Anthropology & Sociology
  12. Gender
  13. Environment & Ecology
  14. Performing Arts & Media
  15. Teaching Chinese as a foreign language
  16. Translation & Interpretation
  17. Other

Please, identify your proposal when submitting it via the conference website as belonging to one of the above mentioned seventeen sections. Proposals not identified by their authors will be distributed to one section by the organizing committee and delegated to the referees in charge. In case the proposal will be accepted by the organizers, the author(s) will be informed and the decision concerning belonging to the section can not be revised.

For more practical advice concerning the preparation of a panel or an individual abstract please consult our guidelines.

To apply for the conference, please proceed to the Registration page.

List of referees

The following referees have been nominated by the EACS Board:

  • Wolfgang BEHR (Zürich)
  • Joel BELLASSEN (Paris)
  • Jerome BOURGON (Paris)
  • Hugo de BURGH (London)
  • Marco CERESA (Venice)
  • Maghiel van CREVEL (Leiden)
  • Delia DAVIN (Leeds)
  • Glen DUDBRIDGE (Oxford)
  • Kaspars EIHMANIS (Riga)
  • Hans van ESS (Munich)
  • Raoul FINDEISEN (Bochum/Bratislava)
  • Joachim GENTZ (Edinburgh)
  • Vincent GOOSSAERT (Paris)
  • Andreas GUDER (Berlin)
  • Sebastian HEILMANN (Trier)
  • Ann HEIRMAN (Ghent)
  • Andrea JANKU (London)
  • Yang JIANG (Copenhagen Business School)
  • Uta LAUER (Stockholm)
  • Gregory LEE (Lyon)
  • Mechthild LEUTNER (Berlin)
  • Song Hwee LIM (Exeter)
  • Astrid LIPINSKY (Vienna)
  • Olga LOMOVA (Prague)
  • Kevin MCLOUGHLIN (Edinburgh)
  • Cecilia MILWERTZ (Copenhagen)
  • Andrey OSTROVSKIY (Moscow)
  • Thierry PAIRAULT (Paris)
  • Yuri PINES (Jerusalem)
  • Knut B. PISSLER (Hamburg)
  • Vladimir PORTYAKOV (Moscow)
  • Harro von SENGER (Neuchatel)
  • Nicola SPAKOWSKI (Bremen)
  • James ST. ANDRE (Manchester)
  • Isabelle THIREAU (Paris)
  • Eduard B. VERMEER (Oegstgeest)
  • Kai VOGELSANG (Hamburg)
  • Anne WEDELL-WEDELLSBORG (Aarhus)
  • Boping YUAN (Cambridge)
  • Ekaterina ZAVIDOVSKAYA (Moscow)
  • And Others