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The Traditional China Chair at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies of the University of Zurich is looking for a doctoral candidate in Middle Iranian linguistics. Work towards the Ph.D. will be carried out under the auspices of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) project “Sino-Indo-Iranica rediviva – Early Eurasian migratory terms in Chinese and their cultural implications” (PI: Prof. Wolf­gang Behr). The project will investigate Central Asian loan words of Iranian, Indian, Tochar­ian and other linguistic origins in Chinese epi­graphi­cal and transmitted texts from early antiq­uity to the beginning of the Sui dynasty (581 CE). Linguistic results will be compared to evi­dence from material culture and the natural en­viron­ments, as reflected by archaeological, paleob­otanical, -zoological or art historical data, with the aim of gaining deeper insights into the de­velopment of the flourishing trade routes lin­king China and Central Asia since the on­set of writing in China. 

The European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant project: The Wall: People and Ecology in Medieval Mongolia and China, is offering Doctoral scholarships beginning in October 2021. The program is located at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is under the direction of Prof. Gideon Shelach-Lavi.

The Department of Archaeology at Durham University seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Assistant Professor. We welcome applications from those with research and teaching interests in the broad field of zooarchaeology from any part of the world and we are particularly eager to hear from applicants capable of directing research on the zooarchaeology of East and South East Asia and Africa.

Organized by European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology and University of Ljubljana

The EAAA looks forward to welcoming you to the online panels. The talks will begin on Tuesday, 5 October 2021 at 13:00 (CEST) and will take place at the same time each week until the last panel on 30 November 2021.

The SEAA Community might be interested in the following. Since 2019, Dr. Paula R. Curtis has been compiling information on academic-oriented job postings related to East Asia. They are accessible from her webpage via the following link: http://prcurtis.com/projects/jobs2022/?fbclid=IwAR03b6DSYaFBYUmhyO98w0J…

The Esherick-Ye Foundation's mission is to support the next generation of China Scholars. Applications for the 2025 Fellowship will soon be available on their website, https://www.esherick-yefoundation.org/

The Oxford Centre for Asian Archaeology, Art, and Culture presents the following speakers as part of its Euarsian Archaeology Seminar Series from January 18 to March 8, 2021. Talks are open to everyone via MS Teams. The links to the talks is available via the following: https://seaa-web.org/sites/default/files/eurasian_archaeology_seminar_series_ht2021.pdf

Four-year PhD fellowship sponsored by the Hulsewé-Wazniewski Foundation

Vacancy number 22-099

The Hulsewé-Wazniewski Foundation (HWS, https://www.hulsewe-wazniewski.nl)/ for the advancement of teaching and research in the archaeology, art, and material culture of China at Leiden University seeks applications for a funded four-year PhD fellowship, starting September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.

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[Free E-book] Dear friends of SEAA, the Cambridge University Press will be launching a new series titled "Cambridge Elements: Ancient East Asia.” The inaugural piece, "Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia.", by Mark Edward Lewis, will be FREE to download from March 10-24, 2022. See link for more information: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/violence-and-the-rise-of-centra…

Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA) and Digital Hammurabi will be hosting a free public virtual conference on August 15 and 16, 2021. The conference is titled “Opening the Ancient World: Religion, History, and Culture” and focuses on the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East.