Category Archives: Academia

Work-in Progress resuming sessions for Autumn, 2025

Dear all,

We are delighted to announce a new call of applications for the “Works in Progress” series, a part of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project. This series aims to provide an academic forum for graduate students and early career scholars engaged in Chinese or comparative philosophy to share and improve upon their projects with peers in conference-style panel presentations. Each session features a chairperson, 2-3 presenters, commentators, and an audience of participants who will provide constructive feedback on content, structure, or presentation style. It welcomes projects at any stage of development, including articles for publication, dissertation chapters, or conference presentations, and aims to accommodate the intellectual needs of each presenter. Events will be held once a month.

We welcome applications with a priority deadline of September 20th, and on a rolling basis after that. In addition, we invite requests to participate in the sessions as commentators, chairs, and general audience or to be included in the community mailing list.

Interested individuals can visit the website (General 2 — 四海为学 Collaborative Learning) or email WorksinProgressSHWX@hotmail.com for more information or an application form to present.

We look forward to receiving your applications!

Best,

Works-in-Progress team

Announcing the Greek Sinologists Council

A message from Dimitra Amarantidou 易冬蘭, Coordinator of the Greek Sinologists Council:

Dear Colleagues,

The Greek Sinologists Council (GSC) is a regional branch of the World Council of Sinology which was established by the Beijing Language and Culture University and has brought together 200 sinologists and translators from 61 countries. The GSC is now inviting scholars of Greek origin who conduct research in sinology and related fields to participate in our programs.

We seek to create a community of scholars dedicated to promoting the study of Chinese philosophy, language, history, and culture. We want to encourage dialogue among Greek sinologists, collaborate on research initiatives, and establish connections with sinologists across the globe.

All Greek scholars actively engaged in research related to any aspect of sinology, regardless of background or level of degree, are invited to contact us.

How to Join:

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Curtis’s Overview of 21-22 East Asian Studies jobs

Paula Curtis writes:

I am happy to announce the release of my data report and visualizations for the 2021-2022 academic job market cycle in East Asian Studies. Tracking categories such as desired discipline, desired region of specialization, track, location, and more, I provide a variety of information on the market in EAS for the most recent hiring season.

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NEWLAMP Initiative

The Northeast Workshop to Learn About Multicultural Philosophy (NEWLAMP) is holding a summer institute to equip philosophy teachers with competency to ingrate traditionally underrepresented areas of philosophy into their courses. This project works toward remedying the issue of solely discussing “Western”, Anglo-European philosophy and attempting to teach areas such as African or Islamic philosophy. In the past year NEWLAMP focused on African and Africana social and political philosophy. By doing this NEWLAMP thinks that it will raise interesest in the philosophy major and ultimately transform it. Click HERE to read more about this workshop and its ideas.

Chinese philosophy in the 2021-2022 Philosophical Gourmet Report

Once every few years, the Philosophical Gourmet Report publishes rankings of PhD programs in philosophy in the English-speaking world. It ranks programs “overall” and by areas of specialization. As one would hope for a report that aspires to be comprehensive and describe the current state of the field, one of those areas of specialization is Chinese philosophy.

You can find a general description of the methodology of the report here. As the member of the advisory board who took the lead in managing the Chinese philosophy area, and who wrote to the other assessors of Chinese philosophy to convene some joint deliberations about the process, I wanted to say a bit more about how we handled the Chinese philosophy section. Continue reading →