Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)
@behrwolf.bsky.social
Traditional China Chair, U. Zurich, Switzerland
https://aoi.uzh.ch/en/sinologie/persons/professoren/behr.html
Messages represent my personal opinion and are not necessarily endorsements
https://aoi.uzh.ch/en/sinologie/persons/professoren/behr.html
Messages represent my personal opinion and are not necessarily endorsements
Hong Kong Baptist University Fellowship Scheme for Ph.D. Students (apply by Dec 1): www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/fund...
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Hong Kong Baptist University Fellowship Scheme for Ph.D. Students (apply by Dec 1): www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/fund...
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
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November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Nice blogpost on (Chinese) Missionary Linguistcs by Otto Zwartjes (Paris), "[Q]uand les langues du monde s’ouvrent aux regards européens", tinyurl.com/yx9sttae.
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
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November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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 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
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November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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/...
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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...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
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🎓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
➡️ eui.eu/phd (apply by 15/01/2026)
To the webinar on 21.11.2025, 14:30 (CET) www.eui.eu/events
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🎓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
➡️ eui.eu/phd (apply by 15/01/2026)
To the webinar on 21.11.2025, 14:30 (CET) www.eui.eu/events
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
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Super useful tool -- "Chronology of Early China: A Radiocarbon Databank for Chinese Archaeology” out here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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:
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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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Malcolm Keating shared some excellent advice for #students who want to work on Sanskrit philosophy:
malcolmkeatingsite.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/a...
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…
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October 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Malcolm Keating shared some excellent advice for #students who want to work on Sanskrit philosophy:
malcolmkeatingsite.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/a...
malcolmkeatingsite.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/a...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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.
October 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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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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 ...
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October 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon) afec.hypotheses.org/11317
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 ...
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October 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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.
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
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October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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)
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!
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
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October 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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!
Also very cool of the Danish authors to include an abstract in Nahuatl!
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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
October 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Did Chinese kiss?
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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
October 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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/...
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Newly digitized @gallicabnf.bsky.social: 🙏
[trilingual ms. dictionary French-Manchu-Chinese, ca. mid-18th c.] @ gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... (BnF, Mandchou 280)
[trilingual ms. dictionary French-Manchu-Chinese, ca. mid-18th c.] @ gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... (BnF, Mandchou 280)
September 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Newly digitized @gallicabnf.bsky.social: 🙏
[trilingual ms. dictionary French-Manchu-Chinese, ca. mid-18th c.] @ gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... (BnF, Mandchou 280)
[trilingual ms. dictionary French-Manchu-Chinese, ca. mid-18th c.] @ gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... (BnF, Mandchou 280)
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 ...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Tangut Winter School taught by Nikita Kuzmin at the Elling Eide Center (Jan 5-9, 2026), apply by Nov 1: ellingoeide.org/tangut-winte...
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!
September 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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!
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.
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September 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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).
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...!
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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...!
Ghent Doctoral school “Current Developments in Research on Middle Chinese and ‘Buddhist Hybrid Chinese’”, October 24–29, 2025:
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Doctoral school “Current Developments in Research on Middle Chinese and ‘Buddhist Hybrid Chinese’””, October 24–29, 2025 – Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies
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September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Ghent Doctoral school “Current Developments in Research on Middle Chinese and ‘Buddhist Hybrid Chinese’”, October 24–29, 2025:
www.cbs.ugent.be/uncategorize...
www.cbs.ugent.be/uncategorize...
Nice chart for your university administrators: "European Universities Good at Arts and Humanities". Let's keep that!
europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/good-at...
europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/good-at...
Good at something | The European Correspondent
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September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Nice chart for your university administrators: "European Universities Good at Arts and Humanities". Let's keep that!
europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/good-at...
europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/good-at...
Interesting paper on the research directions of our Japanese colleagues.
jww.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/publishments...,
cf. also x.com/ZhenbenBook/...
jww.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/publishments...,
cf. also x.com/ZhenbenBook/...
September 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Interesting paper on the research directions of our Japanese colleagues.
jww.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/publishments...,
cf. also x.com/ZhenbenBook/...
jww.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/publishments...,
cf. also x.com/ZhenbenBook/...