SSCR New Voices Session at the Venice EACS, July 2026

SSCR at EACS

New Voices in the Study of Chinese Religions

If you are planning to be in Venice this July for the European Association for Chinese Studies biannual conference, please join our session "New Voices in Chinese Religions."

Venue: Room 9A, San Giobbe Campus

Time: Wednesday, 22 July 2026, 19:00–20:45

We will have three short presentations, followed by a reception in the terrace with drinks and nibbles:

  • LI Na (Independent Scholar, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers): “The Eternal Venerable Mother in Transition: Salvation and Confucian Practice in Modern Chinese Salvationist Religions”

  • LIU Yisu (EPHE–PSL, Paris / School of Archaeology and Museology, Sichuan University, PhD candidate): “Enthroning the God of the Yangtze: The Chengdu Jiangdu Bronze Statues and the Daoist Reshaping of China's Sacred-Waters Cult”

  • ZHANG Xinli (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, PhD candidate): “Quanzhen Daoism’s Attempt: A Multiethnic Great Unified State under Chinese-Non-Chinese Narrative in Jin-Yuan Transitional China”

For inquiries, please contact: newvoices2026@gmail.com