Call for Applications:

Sponsorship of Panels at the 2027 Meeting of the AAS in Boston

The Early Medieval China Group is happy to announce that it will sponsor up to two panels that are to be proposed to the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Boston, MA on March 18–21, 2027.

Sponsorship is intended to support the acceptance of panels on early medieval China at the AAS and to defray some of the costs of attending the AAS conference, including travel and registration expenses. Funding of up to $500 per panel is contingent on the panel’s acceptance for presentation at the AAS.

We will prioritize sponsoring panels that focus on early medieval China (ca. 2nd–6th c. CE) but will also consider panels that include individual papers that fall outside or extend beyond that temporal and geographical scope.

All participants in the panel must be members of the Early Medieval China Group at the time of accepting sponsorship, if awarded. If you would like to become a member, you may do so on the Membership page. Membership also includes a subscription to our annual journal Early Medieval China.

Scholars and graduate students at any stage of their careers are eligible. Current board members of the Early Medieval China Group are eligible to participate in applications for panel sponsorship but are recused from the selection process and not eligible for subventions.

Your application should include the following information:

• title of your panel
• names of all panelists
• panel abstract and individual abstracts
• brief CVs (1–2 pp.) of each participant
• name and mailing address of one panelist who will receive and distribute the funds.

Please send your application as single PDF file to [email protected] by July 25, 2026. Submissions will be reviewed by the Group’s Board of Directors. We will notify successful applicants by Aug 3, 2026.

Antje Richter

University of Colorado, Boulder

President of the Early Medieval China Group