EACS Newsletter No. 43, November, 2009
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European Association for Chinese Studies Association européenne d’études chinoises EACS Newsletter No. 43, November, 2009 EACS Adresses and Newsletter ............................... 2 Announcement of the 2010 EACS Conference ... 3 Call for nominations for EACS President ................ 6 Call for nominations for Board Members ............... 6 Young Scholar Award – 2010 .................................. 7 EACS Summer School, Braga, Portugal ................. 8 Note from the Treasurer ........................................... 9 New publications ................................................... 10 EACS membership payment form ........................ 11 EACS Homepage: http://www.soas.ac.uk/eacs EACS ADDRESSES EACS NEWSLETTER Change of address information and all All contributions should be sent to the membership payments should be sent Editor by E-mail. Please remember to to the Treasurer. check your copy carefully before sending it. Workshop and conference President reports should not exceed 600 words. Brunhild Staiger, Institute of Asian Calls for papers should not exceed Studies, Rothenbaumchaussee 32, 100 words. Remember to include all 20148 Hamburg, Germany relevant information when contribut- Tel. +49 40 4288740 ing new book titles (author, title, Fax +49 40 410 7945 publication place, publisher, year, pp., E-mail: [email protected] price in EURO and ISBN). Names and titles in non-Latin script such as Cyrillic are welcome provided that Secretary the author’s name is in transcription Roel Sterckx, Department of East and a short content summary in Asian Studies, University of English is included. Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Every effort is made to include Cambridge CB3 9DA, United all relevant news, but the Editor Kingdom reserves the right to edit all Tel. +44 (0)1223 335137 contributions for publication. Fax +44 (0)1223 335110 E-mail: [email protected] Newsletter Editor Bart Dessein, Department of Chinese Language and Culture, Ghent Treasurer University, Blandijnberg 2, B-9000 Matthias Richter, University of Gent, Belgium. Tel. +32 9 264 41 56; Colorado at Boulder, Department of fax +32 9 264 41 94 East Asian Languages and E-mail: [email protected] Civilizations, 279 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA NEXT COPY DEADLINE: Tel. +1-303-735.0426 May 1, 2010 Fax +1—303-492.7272 Next issue: June, 2010 E-mail: [email protected] Webmaster Luca Pisano, Dipartimento di Orien- talistica – Sezione Sinologica, Via Giulia di Barolo 3/a, 10124 Torino, Italy Tel. + 39 011 6703852 Fax +39 011 6703858 E-mail: [email protected] ANNOUNCEMENT of the visiting the EACS in Riga you will 2010 EACS CONFERENCE have a chance to meet some of the Riga, July 14th – July 18th 2010 pioneers anchoring its first pillars. Organizing committee: Frank The venue Kraushaar (Riga/Tallinn), Agita Balt- The conference will be held in the galve (Riga), Ieva Haas (Riga/ main building of the University of Tallinn), Kaspars Eihmanis (Riga/ Latvia, Raina bulvaris 19, LV 1586. Taipei), Loreta Poskaite (Vilnius), Vytis Silius (Vilnius), Jekatarina Riga, the capital of Latvia, is the Koort (Tallinn) largest city in the Baltics. Academic institutions of Chinese Studies are new “Culture is a Crowded Bridge” in the whole area. During the past almost two decades, small depart- Anyone who enters the Baltics ments and research centres were through Riga has to cross several founded in Riga, Tallinn, Tartu (both bridges, real and methaphorical ones: Estonia), Vilnius and Kaunas (both traveling from the airport to the city Lithuania). In the meantime, many of centre, you can’t avoid one or two. the first pioneering generations of English will become your pontoon sinologists who graduated with a once you cross the whirling word- traditional M.A. in the 1990ies have waters of Riga’s multilingual life: returned as PhDs from universities in Latvian, Russian, Belorussian, Ukra- Europe, China, Taiwan or the US, and nian and – at least visible on historical during the past 4 years Chinese Stud- facades – German. The key for the ies underwent a progressive devel- 18th EACS conference was found in opment. the image of the bridge as a man-made intersection that attracts, bundles and Interdisciplinary problems, especially releases a diversity of destinations. the cooperation with Japanology and Approaching a bridge one often other East Asian Studies and the ap- becomes attracted by its uniqueness. plication of contemporary theory to No bridge can be doubled because link the traditional fields of cultural each is the only connection between studies with more recent methods of two spots on the shores of transient investigation play a key role. time. Each is constructed, some are destroyed by men, some are over- Thanks to a close cooperation with thrown by urgent floods, and others institutions in Taiwan, Mainland remain bizarre spots in wastelands China and Europe, the research in- once forgotten by most travelers. frastructure increases step by step and Chinese culture, in the most com- international conferences and work- prehensive sense of the word, holds a shops regularly take place each year manifold abundance of such often and are thematically coordinated by a quite unsimilar bridges. One of them network of all Baltic centres (“Baltic is currently built in the Baltics and Alliance of Asian Studies”). 3 The absence of any local academic I. Contemporary Economy & tradition in our field is compensated Society by an astonishing popularity of our J. Law B.A, M.A. and Ph.D programmes. In K. Anthropology & Sociology Riga alone an average of 70 students L. Gender enroll in the B.A. programme each M. Environment & Ecology year, the numbers in the larger centres N. Performing Arts & Media in Tallinn and Vilnius being only in- O. Teaching Chinese as a Foreign significantly lower. Language P. Translation & Interpretation The 18th EACS conference will be Q. Other hosted by a team of sinologists from Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn, supported Please, identify your proposal when by enthusiastic students from all the submitting it via the conference web- three Baltic countries. Interested par- site (www.eacs-riga2010.lv) as be- ticipants will not only enjoy the longing to one of the above mentioned charme of Europe’s north-eastern art seventeen sections. Proposals not nouveau metropole. They will also identified by their authors will be find many opportunities to meet with distributed to one section by the their colleagues from Latvia, Li- organizing committee and delegated to thuania and Estonia, to learn more the referees in charge. In case the about how sinology is established in a proposal will be accepted by the new environment and, at the best, to organizers the author(s) will be in- give their support in the future to one formed and the decision concerning or another activity within this process. the belonging to the section can not be revised. Call for papers Scholars of Chinese Studies from The following referees have been Europe and beyond are invited to sub- nominated by the EACS Board: mit proposals for individual lectures or for panels or to attend the conference Joel BELLASSEN (Paris) as listeners. The EACS board decided Wolfgang BEHR (Zürich) to subsume the thematic variety ac- Jerome BOURGON (Paris) cording to the following sections: Hugo de BURGH (London) Marco CERESA (Venice) A. Linguistics & Languages Maghiel van CREVEL (Leiden) B. Religion & Philosophy Delia DAVIN (Leeds) C. Art & Archaeology Glen DUDBRIDGE (Oxford) D. Premodern Literature Kaspars EIHMANIS (Riga) E. Modern Literature Hans van ESS (Munich) F. Premodern History Joachim GENTZ (Edinburgh) G. Modern History Vincent GOOSSAERT (Paris) H. Politics & International Andreas GUDER (Berlin) Relations Ann HEIRMAN (Ghent) 4 Andrea JANKU (London) d) June 1- July 1: registration for the Yang JIANG (Copenhagen) welcome reception and the banquet Uta LAUER (Stockholm) (July 17), Song Hwee LIM (Exeter) Astrid LIPINSKY (Vienna) e) July 14 – 18: conference in the Olga LOMOVA (Prague) main building of the University of Kevin MCLOUGHLIN (Edinburgh) Latvia, Raina bulvaris 19, Riga Cecilia MILWERTZ (Copenhagen) Andrey OSTROVSKIY (Moscow) Thierry PAIRAULT (Paris) Conference fees Yuri PINES (Jerusalem) Knut B. PISSLER (Hamburg) The organizers and the EACS Board Vladimir PORTYAKOV (Moscow) agreed on the following fees: Harro von SENGER (Neuchatel) Nicola SPAKOWSKI (Bremen) - EACS members: 60 € James ST. ANDRE (Manchester) - EACS student members: 30 € Isabelle THIREAU (Paris) - Non-members: 120 € Eduard B. VERMEER (Oegstgeest) Kai VOGELSANG (Hamburg) Fees must be transferred in EURO on Anne WEDELL-WEDELLSBORG the organizers bank-account. All (Aarhus) necessary information will be avail- Boping YUAN (Cambridge) able on the conference website Ekaterina ZAVIDOVSKAYA (www.eacs-riga2010.lv). (Moscow) And Others Our conference website will provide you with all basic informations to prepare your travelling to and accom- Deadlines modation in Riga. It will be regularly updated regarding prices of the recom- Please note the following deadlines mended hotels, special offers and and dates: planned events of cultural or touristic interest in the evenings and im- a) February 1: deadline for submission mediately after the official end of the of abstract and panel proposals, conference. b) March 15: notification about the acceptance of paper proposals and panels, c) June 1: deadline for registration for participants without presentations, as well as the last day you can cancel your registration with refunding of the registration fee (refund