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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)
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Traditional China Chair, U. Zurich, Switzerland
https://aoi.uzh.ch/en/sinologie/persons/professoren/behr.html
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 2d
Summer school: Models of Dialectical Thought in Chinese and Asian Philosophy (Ljubljana), apply by 30 May 2026: as.ff.uni-lj.si/en/summer-sc...
Summer school: Models of Dialectical Thought in Chinese and Asian Philosophy | Oddelek za azijske študije | Filozofska fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani
as.ff.uni-lj.si

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 4d
Then off to the fantastic Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vitton today. (Mao, Davos, Graubünden, Vierwaldstättersee).

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 4d
Wonderful event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the European Association of/for Chinese Studies at the Collège de France yesterday. tinyurl.com/yp8nt3ws
European Association for Chinese Studies 50th Anniversary Event: The European Association for Chinese Studies and the Past, Present and Future of Chinese Studies in Europe – European Association for C...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 7d
where he entertained us with fantastic stories and fine Belgian beer hidden "from the other missionaries" under his bed. May he continue to r.i.p.!

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 7d
For a nice obituary see W.S. Coblin in Monumenta Serica 47 (1999):505–514, summarized in the Wikipedia article on Serruys. I had the good fortune of visiting him in the retirement home of his congregation near Leuven shortly before his death with Bill Baxter (UMich.) 3/4

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 7d
His work on the Fangyan 方言 and Old Chinese dialectology, on the syntax of oracle bone&bronze inscriptions and the Shangshu 尚書, or on children's riddles and ditties from Shanxi were pathbreaking achievements in their time and deserve to be read even today. 2/4

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 7d
OTD in 1917, Paul Leo-Mary Serruys (d. 16.VIII.1999) was born in Flanders, who spent the first time of his life as a missionary of the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae in China, the second as one of the leading scholars of Old Chinese philology in the US and Taiwan. 1/4

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 7d
Meanwhile, here is Feng Shi 馮時's imaginative attempt to make sense of the markings on the ceramic supports: www.bilibili.com/opus/7985362...
馮時：華夏文明考源——柳林溪先民的宇宙觀 - 哔哩哔哩
www.bilibili.com

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 7d
News about the 7000 year old "earliest Chinese script" from the Liulinxi 柳林溪 site which circulated on the Chinese internet in October are starting to reach English language media: tinyurl.com/dnwvsbyd.

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 14d
Jobs: Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin, requiring the ability to teach able to teach e.g. Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Khmer. (apply by 12-Jan-2026), www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK381/a...
Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
An academic position as a Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk

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Valentina Boretti @vboretti.bsky.social · 14d
Out now, #openaccess
Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook,
edited by Katherine Ngo and Kelly Ngo
Lever Press
#histchild #histed

doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook
Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/reeditions/">Re-Editions: Literary and Cultural Texts Recovered for the Classroom</a> series. First anthology of traditional Chinese children’s primers ...
doi.org

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 16d
Hong Kong Baptist University Fellowship Scheme for Ph.D. Students (apply by Dec 1): www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/fund...

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 16d
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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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 16d
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
tinyurl.com

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 16d
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
www.uu.se

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Joe Salmons @joesalmons.bsky.social · 18d
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...
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
www.change.org

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SBFI SEFRI SERI @sbfi.admin.ch · 21d
🎓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

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 23d
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

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 20
"AI has become exceptionally proficient at mastering the grammatical and logical “craft” of language, the “art” of imbuing text with deep emotional resonance and novel imagery remains a significant challenge and a key differentiator for human creativity." Phew, close call!

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 20
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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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · Oct 19
Malcolm Keating shared some excellent advice for #students who want to work on Sanskrit philosophy:
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…
malcolmkeatingsite.wordpress.com

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James McElvenny @jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social · Oct 14
Hans Conon v d G features in a recent paper on which I was co-author

doi.org/10.1075/hl.0...

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 11
Könntest Du mir den bitte schicken? Komm da grad nicht drank, wo ich sitzen. Danke, W

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 11
Oh danke, da hab ich wohl zu schnell gegoogelt.

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 11
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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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 7
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 ...
books.openedition.org

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 7
True to his first name, these contributions were highly creative, often even playful, but never loosing sight of the serious research questions at their core. ཞི་བདེ་ལ་གཤེགས། & R.i.p.! (3/3)

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 7
community will probably remember him best for his "Zhouyi Interpretation from Accounts in the Zuozhuan" (HJAS 49.2, 1989), "Sima Tan and the Invention of Daoism, ‘Legalism,’ et cetera" (JAS 62.1, 2003) and his “Interdependence of Words, Texts from Early China" (CLEAR 44, 2022). (2/3)

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 7
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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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Oct 7
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!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/737863?journalCode=ca
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