Anne Cheng - External lectures

Statutory lectures in France and abroad

2025-2026

Sweden

Uppsala University

In April-May 2026, two lectures and seminars on: The cultural interface between China and India; The Chinese discourse on "civilisation".

*Under an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

Tunisia

Université de la Manouba,Tunis, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities

In April 2026, two lectures and seminars on: Humanism and universalism in the Chinese tradition.

2024-2025

Belgium

Royal Academy, Belgium College

On April 22 and 23, 2025, a series of lectures and seminars (4h) on: Despotism and monism in China yesterday and today.

*Under an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

Vietnam

Thai Binh Duong University, Nha Trang

On February 21 and 26, 2025, two lectures (2h) on: Confucianism in Translation.

2023-2024

Japan

University of Tokyo
Tokyo College

From April 5 to 19, 2024, a series of lectures and seminars (4h) on: China and Japan: Two Conceptions of Centrality.

*Under an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

United States

University of Chicago

From May 27 to 31, 2024, a series of lectures and seminars (4h) on: Narratives of the Past In and Outside China.

*Under an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

2022-2023

Canada

University of Montreal

On April 5 and 6, 2023, two lectures on: What is a public intellectual in today's China?

India

Cycle organized in several Indian institutions in partnership with the French Embassy*

On February 9, 10, 13 and 15, 2023, five lectures on: India and China: two conceptions of civilization.

*Under an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

2021-2022

India

In February 2022, a series of lectures on: India and China: two conceptions of civilization (as part of the Collège de France's traveling chair).

Japan

University of Tokyo

In April 2022, a series of lectures on: China and Japan: two conceptions of centrality.

*Under an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

2020-2021

India

In February 2021 (subject to postponement to the 2021-2022 academic year), a series of lectures on: India and China: two conceptions of civilization (as part of the travelling chair at the Collège de France).

Japan

University of Tokyo

In September 2020 (subject to probable postponement to 2021), a series of lectures on: China and Japan: two conceptions of centrality.

Singapore

National Research Foundation

In February-March 2021, a conference on: The concept of innovation in the Asian intercultural context.

*Under an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

2018-2019

Australia

University of Sydney

In September 2018, two lectures and two seminars on: Pan-Asianism (India, China, Japan).

Vietnam

University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH)

In October 2018, a lecture and seminar on: China's place in the world.

Vietnam National University (VNU)

In October 2018, a lecture and seminar on: Situation of Confucianism in Premodern and Contemporary China.

2017-2018

India

Delhi University

In February-March 2018, three lectures on:

  1. French Orientalism between Indology and Sinology;
  2. The Chinese Reception of the European Concept of Liberty;
  3. De-Centering China from India.

United States

University of Chicago

In April 2018, a lecture and seminar on: Chinese as a Translation Language and Culture.

Austria

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

In May 2018, a lecture and seminar on: Between India, China, and Japan: Intersecting Imagined Geographies.

2016-2017

China

Jianghan University, Wuhan

From September 12 to 16, 2016, three lectures on: Chinese classical texts: translation issues.

United States

University of Texas, Dallas

On October 19, 2016, a lecture on: Virtue and Politics in China, Past and Present.

Singapore

Nanyang Technological University

From March 1 to 10, 2017, two lectures on: China seen from Europe.