Dear Members and Friends of EATS,

Please see the latest news in Taiwan Studies below:

1) Call for Papers: “Taiwan’s Economic Diplomacy in Africa” (see attachment)

2) We are delighted to inform you that the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc has just issued a Call for Chapters for our collective monograph provisionally titled “Asian Temporalities: Chronologies, Seasons, Tenses“. It is to appear as an Open Access and Print of Demand publication in summer 2026 as Volume 5 in our Olomouc Asian Studies series.

We invite contributions exploring the concept of time from diverse perspectives in the humanities and social sciences, including interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary investigations. Topics of interest include periodization, generational shifts, the politics of temporality, narrative time, the interplay between linear and cyclical understandings of time and more.

Abstract submission deadline: May 31, 2025

Decisions on the abstracts: July 15, 2025

Deadline for full papers: September 20, 2025

Please see the attached file for details or scroll down in case the file is not attached properly.

Best wishes,

EATS Board