Courses taught in English at the Department of Sinology in winter semester 2025/26 include: Nation-Building in Contemporary Taiwan and its Historic Roots: Colonization, Globalization, Localization (Jacob F. Tischer, Ph.D.; syllabus, schedule) PVP 1 Buddhism, Daoism and Popular Religion in Taiwan: From Local to Global and Back (Jacob F. Tischer, Ph.D.; syllabus, schedule) State and Society […]
You are welcome to attend the following event: September 30 at 2:30 p.m. (CEST / UTC+2) Prof. Shu-mei Shih’s (UCLA) lecture, “Empires of the Sinophone”, will introduce the new English-language reader in Sinophone studies entitled Sinophone Studies across Disciplines (Columbia UP, 2024). Framing the book talk in terms of comparative empire studies as a way […]
You are invited to the Taiwanese Literature Salon! Where: Vaclav Havel Library When: 12 September at 19:00. The speakers are: -Li Yuan 李遠 (Taiwanese writer and the Minister of Culture) -Kevin Chen 陳思宏 (Taiwanese writer based in Berlin) -Kateřina Tučková (Czech writer) -Táňa Dluhošová (Director of the Oriental Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences) The […]
CFP: The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature 2026 Biennial Conference June 25-26, 2026 Location: National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore, 119260 Co-organized by the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature and the Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. The conference is also cosponsored by the Department of Modern […]
Department of sinology and CCK-ISC are hosting the international symposium “Competing for the people’s eyes and ears from Mao to Xi: transformations of cultural life in the PRC” on June 27-28 (Celetná 20, room 244). Programme: https://ksi.ff.cuni.cz/en/research/transformations-of-cultural-life-in-the-prc/ Everyone is welcome to attend!
Of possible interest: Annual Symposium of the Digital Geography Research Group, RGS-IBG 19-20 June 2025, online Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial / Territorialising the Digital In 1998, Stephen Graham (1998) posed a provocative question—“The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place?”—to explore how flow-oriented information and communication technologies (ICTs) challenge our conventional understanding […]
The department of sinology is hosting the summer school “Cultural heritage in 20th century China” on June 10-13. Schedule, syllabus and readings are available in SIS. Poster
Webinar 404: Taiwan Not Found // Chinese Distortion of the UN Resolution 2758 The UN Resolution 2758 contains 155 words, and “Taiwan” is not among them. Passed in 1971, the document transferred China’s seat at the United Nations from the “representatives of Chiang Kai-shek” to the People’s Republic of China. Yet, it does not address the issue […]
Invitation to a roundtable The European Values Center for Security Policy Taiwan Office team invites you to upcoming roundtable: Emerging Issues in Taiwan-EU Cooperation: Combatting Identity-Based Disinformation and Promoting Just Energy Transition. The event will take place on Tuesday, May 27, 2025 09:30–11:00 (Prague) 03:30-05:00 (Washington DC) 16:30-18:00 (Tokyo) you can either join online and watch the […]
