CfP: Chinese Animal Studies Network Workshop 2025

We are delighted to announce the inaugural Chinese Animal Studies Network workshop to be held in conjunction with the Institute of Sinology and East Asian Studies, University of Münster on 8–10 May 2025!

‚Same and/or Other? Animals in East Asian History‘ poses the overarching question of how humans and animals have been understood as Same and/or Other in a variety of contexts. Were these two binary categories, or were these boundaries more porous than we imagine? This workshop is decidedly interdisciplinary in its approach; we invite contributions which approach this topic conceptually or with concrete case studies drawn from literary, philosophical, archaeological, or other sources. This workshop covers the geographic span of East Asia (Japan, China, Korea) with any time period welcome.

If you want to know more, please check out our detailed Call for Papers here: https://chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/casn-workshop-2025-in-munster/
We look forward to receiving your abstracts at casn2025[at]uni-muenster.de by 15 December 2024.
This is intended to be an in-person workshop, though Zoom participation will be considered in select cases.