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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)
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Traditional China Chair, U. Zurich, Switzerland
https://aoi.uzh.ch/en/sinologie/persons/professoren/behr.html
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 22h
Hong Kong Baptist University Fellowship Scheme for Ph.D. Students (apply by Dec 1): www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/fund...

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 23h
Nice blogpost on (Chinese) Missionary Linguistcs by Otto Zwartjes (Paris), "[Q]uand les langues du monde s’ouvrent aux regards européens", tinyurl.com/yx9sttae.
La linguistique missionnaire : quand les langues du monde s’ouvrent aux regards européens
#LANGAGE EN COMMUN
tinyurl.com

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 23h
Postdoctoral position in global philology at U. Uppsala (apply by Nov. 26). Specialisations include: Comp./General Lx., Greek and Byzantine Studies, Indology, Iranian Languages, Latin, Semitic Languages, Sinology, and Turkic Languages. tinyurl.com/nhbk8fhh
Postdoctoral position in global philology - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in global philology, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
tinyurl.com

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 1d
Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics at the Center for the Human Past, "historical linguistics pertaining to one or more language families of Africa, Oceania, and Eurasia" desired: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
www.uu.se

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Joe Salmons @joesalmons.bsky.social · 2d
Another disaster in the UK: The Dept of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham is being closed. Here's a petition:

www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
www.change.org

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SBFI SEFRI SERI @sbfi.admin.ch · 6d
🎓The SERI awards up to 3 scholarships for PhDs at the European University Institute in Florence from 2026–2027
➡️ eui.eu/phd (apply by 15/01/2026)
To the webinar on 21.11.2025, 14:30 (CET) www.eui.eu/events

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 8d
Super useful tool -- "Chronology of Early China: A Radiocarbon Databank for Chinese Archaeology” out here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Chronology of early China: A radiocarbon databank for Chinese archaeology - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Chronology of early China: A radiocarbon databank for Chinese archaeology
doi.org

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 21d
"AI has become exceptionally proficient at mastering the grammatical and logical “craft” of language, the “art” of imbuing text with deep emotional resonance and novel imagery remains a significant challenge and a key differentiator for human creativity." Phew, close call!

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 21d
Interesting new paper on training an LLM to write Tang poetry (doi:10.1038/s40494-025-02087-x), including a Turing test to evaluate results, which concludes:

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 22d
Malcolm Keating shared some excellent advice for #students who want to work on Sanskrit philosophy:
malcolmkeatingsite.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/a...
Advice for students
Graduate and advanced undergraduate students The number of philosophy programs, graduate or undergraduate, where students can seriously study Indian philosophy is small, compared to even ancient Gr…
malcolmkeatingsite.wordpress.com

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James McElvenny @jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social · 27d
Hans Conon v d G features in a recent paper on which I was co-author

doi.org/10.1075/hl.0...

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 11
Könntest Du mir den bitte schicken? Komm da grad nicht drank, wo ich sitzen. Danke, W

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 11
Oh danke, da hab ich wohl zu schnell gegoogelt.

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 11
OTD in 1894 Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie (1845–1894) passed away impoverished in London. To commemorate the extremely productive and pleasantly eccentric "Sino-Babylonian" scholar, I uploaded a little CV (to appear in shortened form in the ODNB) here: tinyurl.com/4nbf96bm.

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 7
Félicitations à @lxslcs.bsky.social on the occasion of his new OA volume "Documents géographiques de Dunhuang Guides et traités illustrés, topographies et recueils du Moyen Âge chinois". Go to books.openedition.org/cdf/20307 for a table of contents and download links in different formats.
Documents géographiques de Dunhuang
La découverte au tournant du xxe siècle de milliers de documents dans l’oasis centrasiatique de Dunhuang fut comparable, par son retentissement scientifique, à celle des manuscrits de la mer Morte ou ...
books.openedition.org

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 7
True to his first name, these contributions were highly creative, often even playful, but never loosing sight of the serious research questions at their core. ཞི་བདེ་ལ་གཤེགས། & R.i.p.! (3/3)

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 7
community will probably remember him best for his "Zhouyi Interpretation from Accounts in the Zuozhuan" (HJAS 49.2, 1989), "Sima Tan and the Invention of Daoism, ‘Legalism,’ et cetera" (JAS 62.1, 2003) and his “Interdependence of Words, Texts from Early China" (CLEAR 44, 2022). (2/3)

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 7
Mourning the passing of Kidder Smith Jr (images.bowdoin.edu/omeka/items/..., www.chronicleproject.com/the-passing-...), formerly of Bowdoin College, who passed away on Sep. 30, 2025. Apart from his Sunzi translations and edited volume on the Zhuangzi and Rationality (1991), the Early China (1/3)
Kidder Smith and John Holt, faculty · Bowdoin College Library Special Collections & Archives
images.bowdoin.edu

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 7
Fascinating new article on "The Language of Teotihuacan Writing" as an Uto-Aztecan language immediately ancestral to Nahuatl, Cora, and Huichol using a logographic/rebus driven writing system: t.co/DLeIKK1VXJ.
Also very cool of the Danish authors to include an abstract in Nahuatl!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/737863?journalCode=ca
t.co

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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · Oct 6
This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Genre borrowing in Chinese digital culture: Narrative imagination and grassroots storytelling on social media - Guobin Yang, 2025
A notable feature in Chinese digital culture is its playful style. Memes, jokes, parodies, and coded language of all sorts abound on social media. While researc...
journals.sagepub.com

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · Oct 6
Did Chinese kiss?
Did Chinese Kiss?
It may seem like a silly question, but a new book by scholar Hu Wenhui tries to resolve the debate over whether kissing has always been a part of Chinese courtship.
www.sixthtone.com

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Afec @etudeschinoises.bsky.social · Oct 5
Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon) afec.hypotheses.org/11317
Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon)
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :Laurent Chircop-Reyes (5 octobre 2025). Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS ...
afec.hypotheses.org

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Sep 29
Tangut Winter School taught by Nikita Kuzmin at the Elling Eide Center (Jan 5-9, 2026), apply by Nov 1: ellingoeide.org/tangut-winte...
Tangut Winter School 2026 | Elling Eide Center
Tangut Winter School 2026 Join the Tangut Winter School 2026 for five days of lectures and guided readings on Buddhist texts, history, law codes, and more.T ...
ellingoeide.org

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Sep 29
Happy to celebrate the Ph.D. of Milad Abedi, formerly at our "Sino-Indo-Iranica rediviva" project (data.snf.ch/grants/grant...), now at U. Innsbruck (tinyurl.com/2eaympve) & doing exciting work on the Pahlavi Papyri of the Austrian National Library. Congratulations again!

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Sep 29
Congratulations to the Munich colleagues for massively bringing back Philology with a capital P, the "deadliest enemy of eternal verities" (Stephen Owen), in times when it is under threat almost everywhere in Europe and North America.

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Sep 29
12 Phd/ 17 Postdoc positions (fully funded) in the new Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster at LMU Munich: www.lmu.de/crosscultura... (apply by Oct 21).
Planned Research Projects
Here you can find an overview of all research projects and the corresponding job vacancies in the Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster of Excellence.
www.lmu.de

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Sep 24
Join our workshop on "Literary Forms and Epistemic Goals in Early Chinese Philosophical Texts" here at UZH next week (off- or online) and read about Rafael Suter's project behind it here: data.snf.ch/grants/grant...!

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Sep 24
Ghent Doctoral school “Current Developments in Research on Middle Chinese and ‘Buddhist Hybrid Chinese’”, October 24–29, 2025:
www.cbs.ugent.be/uncategorize...
Doctoral school “Current Developments in Research on Middle Chinese and ‘Buddhist Hybrid Chinese’””, October 24–29, 2025 – Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies
www.cbs.ugent.be

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Sep 24
Nice chart for your university administrators: "European Universities Good at Arts and Humanities". Let's keep that!
europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/good-at...
Good at something | The European Correspondent
europeancorrespondent.com

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Sep 24
Interesting paper on the research directions of our Japanese colleagues.
jww.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/publishments...,
cf. also x.com/ZhenbenBook/...