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06JUL 2025
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Call for Applications: EACS Autumn School “字 and the Search for Universalism”
We invite applications from advanced Master students, early-stage PhD candidates as well as junior researchers working on the long history of the Chinese script and the “sinographic sphere” — without confining the sphere to a specific era. Drawing inspiration from a growing literature on the Sinograph’s relationship to languages other than Chinese and technologies, this […]
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06JUL 2025
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Call for Papers: Conceptual Engineering in the World History of Mathematics
Conceptual Engineering in the World History of Mathematics. New Approaches to Pre-Modern Science 2–3 December 2025 @FAU (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Germany Organizers: Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard, Ruqing Fei, Eva Henke, and Florian Keßler As KITCHER (1984, 168) has observed, “One of the principal obstacles to a satisfactory account of scientific knowledge has been the difficulty of […]Conceptual Engineering in the World History of Mathematics. New Approaches to Pre-Modern Science 2–3 December 2025 @FAU (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Germany Organizers: Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard, Ruqing Fei, Eva Henke, and Florian Keßler As KITCHER (1984, 168) has observed, “One of the principal obstacles to a satisfactory account of scientific knowledge has been the difficulty of […]
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23MAY 2025
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Master Class: Moving Mathematics through Languages
From June 10 to June 13, 2025, the sin-aps group The language of algorithmic mathematics is organising a four-day Master Class, which aims at analysing the migration of mathematical language from Greek to Chinese via Latin. The Master Class brings together scholars and young researchers who have combined philological with digital approaches to better understand […]
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29APR 2025
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Can ChatGPT solve ancient Chinese math problems? (May 4, 2025)
Since its inception, ChatGPT has been increasingly getting better at solving mathematical problems, with current iterations even surpassing the ability of most humans according to OpenAI. But does this ability also extend to pre-modern Chinese mathematics, which uses a language that differs significantly from what the model was trained on, and might rely on knowledge […]
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01APR 2025
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Ciphering and Ruling Modern China’s Population – JEACS Vol. 6 No. 1 (2025)
Andrea Bréard and Stefan Christ have recently edited a Special Issue of the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies. It focuses on the increasing efforts to quantify the Chinese population beginning in the twentieth century. The introduction explains how it does not understand numbers as neutral entities reflecting objective facts but as cyphers that encode […]
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08MAR 2025
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Lent Term 2025 @Cambridge University
On 21st March 2025, Andrea Bréard will give a text-reading seminar entitled “Decoding 實如法而一”. The seminar is held at 3.30 – 5 p.m. at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge. All welcome! The Needham Research Institute is situated at the corner of Sylvester and Herschel Roads, behind Robinson College. Any queries about the seminars should be […]
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