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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interessanter Beitrag über den "chinesischen Oskar Schindler" und "Gerechtem unter den Völkern" (חסיד אומות העולם), Ho Feng Shan (何鳳山) im gestrigen Standard: www.derstandard.at/story/300000....
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Der vergessene Judenretter aus China
Der chinesische Generalkonsul Feng Shan Ho rettet während der NS-Zeit tausende Jüdinnen und Juden aus Wien vor dem Holocaust
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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We are hiring www.phil.uzh.ch/de/fakultaet... Wir suchen eine:n neue Kollegin! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/professur-fuer-geschichte-des-frueheren-mittelalters-mit-dem-schwerpunkt-materielle-kulturen/3cc74484-cc11-4da3-9b3c-076558ad09a5
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Berufungsverfahren
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Job announcement: Assistant professorship in contemporary China studies at the University of Geneva, apply by Oct 31: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
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Professeur-e assistant-e avec prétitularisation conditionnelle (7055)
en sinologie (Chine moderne et contemporaine)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just out in our "Worlds of East Asia" series, Lionel Fothergill's wonderful book (OA) on contemporay uses of the 四大奇書 in other media, available for download here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Apparently, Germaine Tillion wrote a note in Chaoui describing the person who had betrayed her Resistance cell to the Nazis and disguised it as part of her field notes. www.inumiden.com/germaine-til...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Zeus's law" as 仁 and 義? A Sino-Hellenic reading of Nolan's Odyssey by Stelios Virvidakis: www.globaltimes.cn/page/202608/....
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Job announcement: Roger E. Covey Professorship in Silk Road Studies (Open Rank, Tenure Track), Indiana University, Bloomington, Dep't. of Central Eurasian Studies (apply by Sep 30): tinyurl.com/4vyc836e
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Roger E. Covey Professorship in Silk Road Studies (Open Rank, Tenure Track)
The Department of Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington seeks to make a tenure-track or tenured hire (open rank) t...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Probably a lot of back-projections about the anyway ill-defined notion of "雒越 Luoye/Lạc Việt peoples" involved, but looking forward to learning more about the Zuojiang Huashan 左江花山 petroglyphs, whether painted with menstrual or other blood: tinyurl.com/2n5d2hp8.
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Were these ancient rock images painted with human blood?
Macabre ingredient may have helped murals on Chinese cliffs survive nearly 2000 years of weathering
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Job announcement: Roger E. Covey Professorship in Silk Road Studies (Open Rank, Tenure Track), Indiana University, Bloomington, Dep't. of Central Eurasian Studies (apply by Sep 30): tinyurl.com/4vyc836e
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Roger E. Covey Professorship in Silk Road Studies (Open Rank, Tenure Track)
The Department of Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington seeks to make a tenure-track or tenured hire (open rank) t...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Celebrating the birthday of the doyen of 20th c. Chinese linguistics Wang Li 王力 (10.8.1900-3.5.1986) with a picture of the "artist as a young man" in Paris and a poem lamenting his mentor Luo Changpei 羅常培, born a day before him (9.8.1899-13.12.1958).
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Happy birthday Zheng-Zhang Shangfang 郑张尚芳 (9.8.1933-19.5.2018), “urbling” 癡情 linguist and most passionate and kind scholar of OC ever. m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_f..., view.inews.qq.com/k/20231116A0...
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
To mark Hermann Paul's birthday, we recommend Episode 9, on the Neogrammarians, and Episode 45, on the Neogrammarian networks 🎉 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2020/10/01/p... 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/04/01/p... #Histlx
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Podcast episode 9: The Neogrammarians
In this episode, we introduce the Neogrammarians, the dominant school of linguistics in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Lighting a candle for Ted Pulleyblank, who was born OTDT in 1922. asia.ubc.ca/profile/edwi..., www.jstor.org/stable/23753.... Although we only met a few times, we corresponded extensively in the 80ies and 90ies and he helped me develop research interests (1/2)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
FRIAS fellowship call (within 8 ys after Ph.D.) opened (apply by 18 September 2026): uni-freiburg.de/frias/fundin...
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FRIAS Fellowship Programmes – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The call for Ambizione grants of the SNSF has opened (appl. deadline 3 Nov 26): www.snf.ch/en/N18L3oGWo.... Interested PostDocs within 4 ys after PhD working on Early & Medieval China, early silk road or premodern Ch. linguistics, feel free to contact me.
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Ambizione
Your first step towards scientific independence!
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Returning from the Bernhard Führer Festspiele through the gardens at Clare College, Cambridge, finally a Confucius Statue I like by Wu Weishan 吴为山 (zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%...).
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
R.i.p., David Mungello (20.XI.1945-4.VII.26): sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
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D.E. Mungello Obituary
Personal Obituary Dr. David Emil Mungello died on July 4, 2026, after a prolonged battle with kidney disease. He was born on November 20, 1943, in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania to Lois Louise Dittmar Mun...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
2026 Berggreun Prize Essay Competition Open (Theme: "A new Axial Age"?): berggruen.org/essay-compet.... Submit your essay (10k words in English or 15k chars. in Chinese) by August 17th
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Compete in the Berggruen Prize Essay Competition | $50,000 Prize
Submit your essay for a chance to win $50,000 and be published by Berggruen Press. Explore fundamental questions and bridge cultural perspectives. Make your mark on the future of philosophy and cultur...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Just ordered a new item for the Terrien de Lacouperie redivivus drawer: The "Master of Longlu Hall" (龍路堂主人, @Kidai_000) unfolds his theory of a "Sumer-Shang Continuum" in Chinese and English here: tinyurl.com/mtky7bz3. Turns out that Yu 禹 the Great was actually Gilgamesh after all ;-)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Interesting forthcoming quantitative analysis of Hou Hanshu 後漢書 toponymy, stressing fixed naming practices, some local autonomy and exceptions in in western frontier geography, despite "a spatial epistemology oriented toward administrative legibility" tinyurl.com/28aw5eje.
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Spatial distribution, naming patterns, and formation mechanisms of Eastern Han toponymic heritage - npj Heritage Science
npj Heritage Science - Spatial distribution, naming patterns, and formation mechanisms of Eastern Han toponymic heritage
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
2027 scholarship program of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Berlin hosting Germany's largest Asian Tectual Collections announced (Annual Theme "Material Textuality", apply by Sep 30): staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/en/extras/sp...
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Scholarship Program | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Homepage der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Programmatic Guangming ribao article by Yang Bo 楊博 on the rewriting of Early Chinese knowledge circulation and the Zhonghua 中華 construct, prompted by recent archaeological finds, including the Qinghai Qin inscription find: tinyurl.com/5ekmtsxz
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秦刻石学术钩探|新见秦刻石与上古知识流动
这场争鸣,恰恰为我们反思上古时期知识生成、传播与共享的机制提供了契机。它使我们反思:我们究竟在多大程度上了解古人的知识世界?当考古实物“溢出”过去文献构筑的认知边界时,我们应如何调整自身的认知框架?
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
And another victim of the shortsighted trend to discontinue "small" subjects at universities in the German speaking world: www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio.... Condolences to my colleague and friend Mark Kirchner who always tried to cover the 200+ mio Turkic speaking people in teaching and research.
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Hessen: Uni Gießen streicht Turkologie: Fach in Hessen vor dem Aus?
Mark Kirchner ist der einzige Professor für Turkologie am einzigen Studien-Standort für dieses Fach in Hessen. Bald geht er in den Ruhestand, die Stelle soll nicht nachbesetzt werden. Studierende fürc...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Follow in the footsteps of Dietrich Seckel and Lothar Ledderose: Professorship in “East Asian Art History (W1-W3) at Heidelberg University (apply by Aug. 15), www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...,
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Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As many of you will have learned with sadness these last days, Victor H. Mair passed away last Sunday at the age of 83. Here are some websites with reminiscences and tributes by colleagues, friends and family members.: shorturl.at/KmuFm, shorturl.at/dVAyV, shorturl.at/soSQK, shorturl.at/LyuZp. (1/2)
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Language Log » Victor Mair RIP
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Michael Höckelmann @medievalchina.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Middle Ages or Late Antiquity?: On a Conceptual Aporia in Chinese Historiography: Essays in Long Late Antiquity: Vol 1, No 1 liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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Middle Ages or Late Antiquity?: On a Conceptual Aporia in Chinese Historiography: Essays in Long Late Antiquity: Vol 1, No 1
The periodization of Chinese history has been a thorny issue since the late nineteenth century, when European period labels or chronotypes such as ancient, medieval, and modern entered East Asian historiographic discourses together with notions of ...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Out tomorrow: Very much looking forward to reading this.
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is to announce the passing of E. Bruce Brooks (*1936) a few days before reaching his 90th birthday on May 26. EBB was an extraordinary sinologist, co-author, with his wife Taeko, of the fascinating, often provocative "The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors" (1/10)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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...
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AILC 2026 - ROME | ailc
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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)
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The warring states linguistic benchmark for hierarchical multimodal reasoning in digital heritage - npj Heritage Science
npj Heritage Science - The warring states linguistic benchmark for hierarchical multimodal reasoning in digital heritage
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
CFP: Twelfth International Conference on Sino-Korean Linguistics (ICSKL), R.U. Bochum, 9-10th Oct 2026: chinesestudies.eu/2026/call-fo...
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Call for Papers: The Twelfth International Conference on Sino-Korean Linguistics (ICSKL) – European Association for Chinese Studies
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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...
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Conference
2026 “The Global Rhetoric of Antiquity” 18–19 June 2026, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford This year, the Janus Project conference welcomes papers exploring the roles, imagin…
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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...
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Summer School: NEGATIVE EAST ASIAN THOUGHT | Julie Reshe, PhD
Summer School: NEGATIVE EAST ASIAN THOUGHT by Julie Reshe, PhD on Patreon. Join Julie Reshe, PhD's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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...
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International Conference on Kra-Dai Languages and Linguistics 2026
This conference is an international forum dedicated to the discussion of descriptive and analytical research on the Kra-Dai languages. We welcome presentations addressing the phonetics and phonology, ...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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!
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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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CODICE PICA 26CR003 - Procedura pubblica di selezione per il conferimento di n. 1 contratto di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Lingue, letterature e culture straniere | Università degli studi di Ber...
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...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
2026 Berggruen essay competition announced: This year's theme "A new axial age?" (submit by August 17th, 2026): tinyurl.com/wmw7uf27
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Just out: ONE big ONCE in a blue moon feast on virtually every aspect of "ONEness" in East Asia: "Conceptualizing ‘One’ (一): Working Towards Unity?" (343 pp.). Congratulations to Andrea Bréard, Thomas Crone and Valerie Kiel for making this possible: www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/....
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Special Issue: Conceptualizing ‘One’ (一): Working Towards Unity?; Edited by Andrea Bréard, Thomas Crone and Valerie Kiel
Volume 80, issue 1 of the journal Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques was published in 2026.
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is to break the sad news of the passing of Fritz-Heiner Mutschler (4.I.1946-13.IV.2026), classicist and comparative historian of Ancient Rome, Greece and Early China. For some time in the late 80ies, he was the only other German citizen apart from me in Jilin province. (1/9)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Congratulations to @mzorki.bsky.social who defended her fascinating thesis @AOI/UZH on Tuesday. Everything you always wanted to know about 物 and much more ...
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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Remembering Professor Harriet Zurndorfer (1946-2026) of Leiden University. ://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/GBGiQmAkKupx7yPbKYlHrA @yingaa.bsky.social
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缅怀荷兰莱顿大学汉学家宋汉理教授(Harriet Zurndorfer, 1946–2026)
缅怀荷兰莱顿大学汉学家宋汉理教授(Harriet Zurndorfer, 1946–2026)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I just heard via a colleague who lives in the same street, that Rodo Pfister (*14.10.1962 in Langenthal) passed away a few days ago. He was a prolific Early China scholar, with encyclopedic interests in the history of medicine, sexology, materia medica, drugs and spices, (1/14)
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Marianne Hundt @hundtmariann.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Umfrage zur Wahrnehmung von Bedingungen am Arbeitsplatz 10-15 Minuten. Sie ist Teil der Qualifikationsarbeit eines jungen Menschen, der mir am Herzen liegt. Bitte teilnehmen und/oder Posten. survey.uni-hannover.de/index.php/84...
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Befragung: Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitserleben und Persönlichkeit
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 09/03/2026
Are you an early-career philosopher hoping to reach beyond academia with your writing? We’re thrilled to be introducing the Aeon Philosophy Prize – a unique opportunity to receive editorial mentorship and see your ideas reach global audiences. Open for applications today buff.ly/p47BrKe
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
各位同仁, please consider signing the following petition to protest against plans to close down the Stockholm Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities and the Museum of the Middle Ages: tinyurl.com/5n7j8j54.
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Rädda Medelhavsmuseet
Medelhavsmuseet och Östasiatiska riskerar att stängas för gott. En hyreshöjning på 57% tar knäcken på kulturen.
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
邁入嶄新時代? ctext.org announced today that AI translations of "all texts in the pre-Qin and Han corpus that previously lacked translations, the 25 dynastic histories, as well as hundreds of other historical, literary, philosophical and poetic works" have been added today: (1/2)
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Chinese Text Project
The world's largest digital library of pre-modern Chinese: an open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attemp...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Every spring festival we get a flurry of doggerel poems, slick to kitschy videoclips and more or less learned ramblings about the zodiac animal of the new year. Here are my two favorites on the horse year, just begun, from the latter category: Liu Zhao's 劉釗 erudite spiel on horse names in the (1/2)
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新知丨刘钊:漫谈汉简中的马名
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
13th Summer School of Chinese Lx, July 27-31 2026 @ U. Stuttgart, offering courses on "The Syntax-Semantics Interface of Modern Mandarin", "The diachronic development of the TAM system of Chinese", "The Syntax of Cantonese" and "Sinitic Languages of the Pearl River Region".
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Very interesting attempt to trace back the early evolution of a “system of conventional signs” (proto-writing system) 🧪✍️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs | PNAS
As humans, we store and share information. This allows us to distribute knowledge necessary for survival and to coordinate large groups. Our homini...
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Michael Höckelmann @medievalchina.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
#DOTD: Denis Crispin Twitchett 杜希德 (1925–2006), British sinologist and historian of #MedievalChina, co-editor of The Cambridge History of China. Professor at the University of Cambridge & Princeton University, he is best known for his work on the Tang 唐 (618–907).
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