Jobs: Early‑career researcher for the PNRR project LIVEDIE – "Living and Dying in the Tarim Basin". Experience with early Chinese documentary sources and solid competence in Classical Chinese are essential (apply by June 3): tinyurl.com/3bb8z7rd
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Procedura pubblica di selezione ai sensi dell’articolo 22 della legge 240 del 30.12.2010 per il conferimento di n. 1 contratto di ricerca, nell’ambito del progetto LIVEDIE - Living and Dying in the Ta...
CFP: Twelfth International Conference on Sino-Korean Linguistics (ICSKL), R.U. Bochum, 9-10th Oct 2026: chinesestudies.eu/2026/call-fo...
Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)
LLMs "declines sharply for modal particles and function words whose meanings depend heavily on discourse-level context or manuscript-specific philosophical styles", often down to 50%. Not sure, whether this is bad or good news for us non-artificial readers at this point... (2/2)
2026 Berggruen essay competition announced: This year's theme "A new axial age?" (submit by August 17th, 2026): tinyurl.com/wmw7uf27
9th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics of the Associazione die Linguistica Cinese (AILC) coming up next week (June 17-18) at La Sapienza in Rome. Check out the programme/abstratcs here linguisticacinese.wixsite.com/ailc/copy-of...
Ambitious article on "The warring states linguistic benchmark for hierarchical multimodal reasoning in digital heritage" by KKL Wong et al. in npj Herit. Sci. (2026), doi.org/10.1038/s404.... In the syntactic/semantic task, performance of all tested (1/2)
CFP: 1st International Conference on Kra-Dai Languages and Linguistics (ICKD-1 2026), November 21-23, 2026, to be held at
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, submit abstracts by Aug 31, 2026. sites.google.com/view/ickd202...
JANUS-Project Annual Conference "The Global Rhetoric of Antiquity", 18–19 June 2026, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (janus-project.org/events/confe...), online participation link: forms.gle/ByBnjbLMeof8...
Online Summer School: Negative Asian Thought (resisting "therapeutic and optimistic interpretations"), beginning June 11, with Brook Ziporyn, Adam Loughnane, Julie Reshe, Graham Parkes). Register here:
www.patreon.com/posts/summer...
Congratulations to Claus U. Rieth, who defended his monumental, erudite and entertaining Ph.D. thesis on the Chinese Tree Peony (mudan 牡丹) with flying colours at TU Dresden yesterday. (96§§8 pp.) Watch out for the book version forthcoming with Brill!
