Early Carrer Researchers Scholarships (ECR) – Nanjing Normal University Semiotics Symposium 2026

The call for papers of the Nanjing Normal University Semiotics Symposium 2026 is open, Dimensions of Trust: Signs, Interpretation, and Reconstruction (23-25 October 2026). It is an event under the auspices of the IASS-AIS. Abstract submission Deadline: 23:59 PM, Sunday, August 16, 2026, Beijing Time (15:59 PM, Sunday, August 16, 2026, UTC). The symposium is the culmination of the “NNU International Semiotics Exchange Week” (Oct 19–23 2026). We have now decided that eight scholarships for Early Career Researchers outside China will be awarded to support their international trips. The details of requirements are as follows:

1. These eight scholarships, 500 euros each, are intended to support international travels related to the symposium. The applicants must hold non-Chinese passports. To apply for the scholarship, one must also:

2, be an early career researcher, i.e., investigators under 40 years old who are either doctoral candidates or postdoctoral researchers who defended their dissertations no more than six years ago (Not be a tenured faculty member or full professor.), 

3, have a demonstrable financial need,

4, submit an abstract for the symposium, and

5, include two letters of support from tenured faculty members or full professors with their signatures.

Adjudication of the applications will be carried out accordingly and on a merit basis. The deadline for submitting the application is the same as the deadline for abstract submission. 

We strongly suggest that interested ECRs submit their applications alongside abstracts to njnusemiotics@163.com by July 19, 2026, as there should be sufficient time for the organizing committee to review the abstracts and subsequently for the selected ERCs to apply for visas, if need be.