Anne Cheng – External lectures

Statutory Education in France and Abroad

2026–2027

South Africa

University of Pretoria*
Department of Sociology, Center for African Studies in Asia

October 5–9, 2026: A series of lectures (4 hours) titled “ The Role of China and India in the Context of Historical Exchange and Geopolitical Change.”

*As part of an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

Italy

Pisa Teacher Training College*
Department of Literature and Philosophy

May 4–7, 2027: A series of courses (4 hours) titled “ Confucian Classics and the Canonical Corpus in China.”

*As part of an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

2025–2026

Sweden

Uppsala University*

In April–May 2026, two courses and seminars on: The cultural interface between China and India; The Chinese discourse on “civilization.”

*As part of an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

Tunisia

University of Manouba, Tunis, Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Humanities

In April 2026, two courses and seminars on: Humanism and Universalism in the Chinese Tradition.

2024–2025

Belgium

Royal Academy, Collège Belgique*

On April 22 and 23, 2025, a series of lectures and seminars (4 hours) on: Despotism and Monism in China, Past and Present.

*As part of an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

Vietnam

Thai Binh Duong University, Nha Trang

On February 21 and 26, 2025, two 2-hour courses on: C onfucianism in Translation.

2023–2024

Japan

University of Tokyo*
Tokyo College

April 5–19, 2024: A series of lectures and seminars (4 hours) on “ China and Japan: Two Conceptions of Centrality.”

*As part of an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

United States

University of Chicago*

May 27–31, 2024: A series of lectures and seminars (4 hours) on “ Narratives of the Past In and Outside China.”

*As part of an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

2022–2023

Canada

University of Montreal

On April 5 and 6, 2023, two courses on: What Is a Public Intellectual in Today’s China?

India

Series organized at 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.

*As part of 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 program).

Japan

University of Tokyo*

In April 2022, a series of lectures on: China and Japan: Two Concepts of Centrality.

*As part of 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 Collège de France’s traveling chair).

Japan

University of Tokyo*

In September 2020 (subject to a likely postponement to 2021), a series of lectures on: China and Japan: Two Concepts of Centrality.

Singapore*

National Research Foundation

In February–March 2021, a conference on: The Concept of Innovation in the Asian Intercultural Context.

*As part of an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

2018–2019

Australia

University of Sydney

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

Vietnam

University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH)

In October 2018, a course and a seminar on: China’s Place in the World.

Vietnam National University (VNU)

In October 2018, a course and a seminar on: The State of Confucianism in Premodern and Contemporary China.

2017–2018

India

University of Delhi

In February–March 2018, three courses 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 course and a seminar on: Chinese as a Translation Language and Culture.

Austria

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

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

2016–2017

China

Jianghan University, Wuhan

September 12–16, 2016: Three courses on “ Classical Chinese Texts: Translation Issues .”

United States

University of Texas at Dallas

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

Singapore

Nanyang Technological University

March 1st–10, 2017: Two courses on “ China as Seen from Europe.”