🚨 Grant Alert! 🚨 The Berlin State Library Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is now accepting applications for the 2025 SPK Research Grant. Deadline: September 30th. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore our East Asian collections CrossAsia. Learn more and apply here: staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/en/extras/spez…

AAS joins the friends, family, and colleagues of James C. Scott in mourning his recent passing. Longtime professor Yale University and author of several landmark works in #AsianStudies, Scott served as AAS president in 1997. #RIP youtu.be/r-IgJJW5Fkc?si…

🔔Call for applications! Attention to all researchers studying #rarebooks: Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library & Museum Plantin-Moretus are pleased to offer a travel grant for research in our collections. Deadline: October 1st, 2024! Find all the information here: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/fellow… #bookhistory

Congrats to the creative editorial team; clearly this was a much needed initiative. (Also pleasantly surprised that Modelling Tang Emperor Taizong & Chinese Governance in the 18th C German-Speaking World features in the top 12 all-time most read articles) doi.org/10.1080/238018…

Come join us to improve accessibility to the Chinese collection at IISG #library

Getting ready for two more presentations at one of the oldest and most beautiful campuses, Sun Yat-Sen University by the Pearl River in Guangzhou. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/66ArUL1zDZkx…

New update from the British Library on restoring its services: looks as if the range of digitised mss offered from sept will be limited, and although legal deposit material available in partner libraries, not clear if it will be accessible at BL: blogs.bl.uk/living-knowled…

Bruce Lee?

Doing research with AI tools and methods in digital humanities? This cfp is for you! Send us your paper by January 15th. #DH2024 @javiercha Miguel Escobar Varela @[email protected] Maya Dodd Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social Ngue Um @jenguiliano lorna hughes Martin Grandjean Rahul K Gairola Dr Shawn Day Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni Edinburgh University Press

Graduate students—come intern with AAS! We are now accepting applications for our Fall 2024/Academic year 2024-25 internship program. Onsite work at our Ann Arbor office is preferred, but remote positions are available. asianstudies.org/jobs-professio…

Taï-Tsoung 太宗, the opera. Émile Guimet (1836-1918), besides founding an Asian Art museum, also composed an opera, Taï-Tsoung, in five acts, performed une seule et unique fois at the Grand-Théâtre de Marseille in 1894. Performance of the overture in the Musée Guimet, Paris.

I joined #Twitter 12 years ago at a conference to share notes publicly & discuss questions. It was a great way to zoom in on the essence & to be in touch with people far and close. Things have changed since then on this platform, and mostly for the worst Elon Musk #MyXAnniversary

Interested in book history or old prints? Check out Workshops oude drukken 2024 for master students and undergraduates at KU Leuven Bibliotheken this fall! 👉bib.kuleuven.be/bijzondere-col…

UK elitism cannot be fixed without reform of Oxbridge admissions A merit-based admissions lottery and strict caps on how many private school pupils go to Russell Group universities are necessary for a more egalitarian society, argue Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman

Kafkaësk. Ook ik zag Ottow in persoon een secretaresse in een vergadering uitkafferen en later ook nog eens een betaalde afgevaardigde sturen om stilzwijgen af te dwingen. Frustrerend om een mooie universiteit en plek zo bestuurd te zien.

"According to incomplete statistics, 43 AI schools and research institutes can be found across Chinese universities today, while the number of universities offering undergraduate majors in AI exceeds 500."

Enough is enough. Now alive and kicking elsewhere; RIP Twitter bsky.app/profile/hilded… mastodon.social/@hildedeweerdt linkedin.com/in/hilde-de-we…

1/6 For our next highlight we hear from Hilde De Weerdt (EarlyModern_KULeuven) who wrote "Modelling Tang Emperor Taizong and Chinese Governance in the Eighteenth-Century German Speaking World" with us in 2023 (online 2022). We asked her about this research & its future. Here is her response: