APPLY Graduate Workshop 'Research Training in Chinese Art and Archaeology', SOAS, 21-24 September 2010
The workshop aims at providing students insight into current research questions and professional issues of working in the field of Chinese Art and Archaeology. Graduate students of any level are invited to participate in a workshop.The workshop is part of the workshop series Research Training in Old Chinese funded by the AHRC and BICC. For UK-based graduate students, travel expenses, accommodation, and board will be covered. The deadline for applications is 26 July 2010. For further details please click here.

APPLY JOB Doctoral research fellowship in Buddhist studies at University of Oslo
This fellowship is open to projects from a wide range of disciplinary and methodological approaches. Comparative and/or multidisciplinary projects will be considered positively. Candidates must demonstrate advanced active skills in at least one relevant Asian language. The position is available for a period of three years. Application deadline: 1 October 2010. For further particulars please click here.

APPLY JOB University Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Oslo, Norway
This is a full-time teaching position without research duties. The holder of this position will teach Chinese language courses at the BA level. Teaching includes practical language (grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary etc.), as well as exercises and testing. Application deadline 1 October 2010. Expected start date 1 January 2011. For further information please click here.

CFP AAS/ICAS 2011Panel "Imagining World Orders from Asia"
We are looking for papers and discussants/chair to join a panel comparing different Asian ideas of world order, world system and world view. Examples may be religious ideas of world division (such as Dar al-Islam/Dar al-Harb), modernist state-based concepts (such as world systems theory), historically based concepts (such as the Chinese All-under-heaven, Tianxia), etc. How do these various world views order the world in terms of time, space, self/other, ethics, etc.? How do they relate to each other, and to the nation-state system? Can and ought specific Asian imaginations of world order work to subvert other (dominant?) imaginings? Do these approaches have points in common in terms of being “Asian”? What are the practical implications of such imaginings? In discussing these questions, the panel aims to bring together scholars from inside and outside Asia, as well as from different theoretical and epistemological backgrounds. For more information or ideas on the specific panel, please contact astrid.nordin[at]postgrad.manchester.ac.uk, or Linsay.Cunningham[at]postgrad.manchester.ac.uk.

TALK Roderick MacFarquhar (Harvard) 'China’s Challenges', Friday 9 July 2010 18:45
Location: Asia House, London
For information on booking and tickets please click here.

CFP AAS/ICAS 2011: "NGOs and Local State Interaction in China"
CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS:  Joint Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), 31 March - 3 April 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii. Proposed Panel Title and Description:“NGOs and Local State Interactions in China”. The proposed panel seeks to examine the potential role of the local Chinese state in the development and activities of non-governmental organizations.  Paper proposals are invited, but not limited, to explore the interactions and relationship between local state entities with domestic and international NGOs operating in various areas, e.g. education, health, migrants, environment, etc.Papers with a theoretical focus and/or addressing specific case studies are welcomed. Please send a 250 word abstract and a brief professional biography to Dr. Jennifer Hsu (University of Sydney) at jenniferhsu [at]cantab.net by 19 July 2010.

APPLY PhD Fellowship with Virtual Shanghai
A PhD scholarship is available as part of the research project Virtual Shanghai with the Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies (Institut d'Asie Orientale). Deadline for submission of the application and supporting documents is 21 July 2010. For more information please click here. 

APPLY Women and gender in Chinese studies Network 5th Graduate Workshop, 28-30 Jan 2011, London
The WAGNet graduate workshop is for PhD candidates who are at an advanced stage of their research and working on any aspect of ‘women and gender in Chinese studies’. Participants will be expected to present a paper that treats issues of 'women' and 'gender' as central and significant categories of analyses. The workshop, accommodation and meals during the workshop are free of charge. Some travel bursaries are also available. Students wanting to participate should submit an outline of their project (750 words) including information on the state of their research and a curriculum vitae by e-mail to Dr. Alessandra Aresu, [wagnet_workshop[at]hotmail.com]. One letter of reference from the candidate’s supervisor or someone who is familiar with their PhD is also required and should be sent from the referee directly to Dr. Aresu in pdf or word format. Deadline for submission: 10th of September 2010.

CFP 6th International Sinology Forum, 24-26 Feb 2011, Lisbon
The Portuguese Institute of Sinology is currently organizing its 6th International Sinology Forum, to be held in 2011, from 24 to 26 February in Lisbon on the topic “A century of change and continuity in china: 1911-2011". For this purpose it is welcoming papers from specialists on China, in particular researchers, scholars and postgraduate students. For more information please click here.

APPLY East Asian jobs in the School of Historical Studies at Newcastle
(1) A two-year (22 month) 0.8 FTE replacement teaching position in modern East Asian history (where "modern" may be interpreted by applicants in a number of different and creative ways). The postholder will be paid over the intervening summer. (2) A 9-month 0.5 FTE research associateship to help with an externally-funded (AHRC) Research Leave project, which includes a requirement for the postholder to write a single-authored article of their own as part of their work for the project, and money for them to go to an international conference. The funder requires that RAs under this scheme have postdoctoral status. Closing date 16 July, interviews probably in the 5 working days commencing 18 August.

APPLY Departmental Lecturership in Classical Chinese
Applications are invited for a teaching position in Classical Chinese. This fixed-term post is to commence on 1 September 2010 for two years. The principal duties of the post are to give lectures and classes in Classical Chinese during the absence of the current postholder, and to examine.Further particulars, including details of how to apply, should be obtained from www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/ or from the office of The Faculty Board Secretary, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE, tel. +44 1865 288202. Applications and references should reach the Faculty Board Secretary at the address given above, to arrive not later than Friday 9 July 2010.

APPLY Workshop: The Roots of China's Environmental Crisis, 10 Sep 2010, Bristol
The British Inter-University China Centre and the White Rose East Asia Centre are convening a workshop on 'The Roots of China's Environmental Crisis'. It will take place at the University of Bristol on 10 September 2010. Attendance is by invitation, but we welcome expressions of interest. Expressions of interest can be sent to Professor Robert Bickers at the University of Bristol (Robert Bickers robert.bickers[at]bristol.ac.uk) or to Emeritus Professor Tim Wright at the University of Sheffield (T.Wright[at]Sheffield.ac.uk). If you would be interested in presenting a paper, please contact us, including a title and an abstract, by 30 June 2010 at the latest. The organisers have funding to support (with UK travel and accommodation) those whose papers are accepted for presentation. If you are solely interested in attending, please contact us as soon as possible and by 31 July 2010 at the latest. We welcome contributions both on the contemporary environment and on China's environmental history.

UK Association for Buddhist Studies Conference, Leeds, 6-7 July 2010
For further information, including the conference programme and booking form, please visit the UKABS website.

CFP Workshop: New Perspectives on the Early PRC Columbia University, New York
The Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University will host a workshop  in late Spring of 2011 on the early People's Republic of China, particularly focusing on the years before the Great Leap Forward (1949-1958) In preparation for the workshop we would like to hear from students whose  work might contribute to the project and faculty whose students are engaged in work of the kind described below.  If your research (regardless of discipline) engages with the history of the early PRC please write to us and join our preliminary dialogue on the workshop and 1950s-related research: Anatoly Detwyler (ad2515@columbia.edu), PhD candidate-Modern Chinese Literature; Arunabh Ghosh (ag2451@columbia.edu), PhD candidate-Modern Chinese History.

APPLY University of Oxford, graduate scholarship opportunities
In addition to the general graduate scholarships awarded by the Faculty of Oriental Studies and individual Colleges, there are a handful of full and partial scholarships dedicated to Chinese Studies at selected colleges. For more information about programmes and admissions go to <http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/ea/chinese/chinese_graduate.html> and <http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/general/graduate_admissions.html>

APPLY Newcastle University International Postgraduate Scholarship (NUIPS) awards (open to all international PG students)
Over 100 Newcastle University International Postgraduate Scholarship (NUIPS) awards are available for international students in the 2010-11academic year. Each scholarship will have a value of £1,500 per year, payable towards tuition fees in the first instance. Deadline for applications for NUIPS: early May 2010 (tbc)