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2012 IIAS-LGI Summer Programme in Asian Studies
27 August - 1 September 2012 World Wide Asia: Asian Flows, Global Impacts. A four-day masterclass followed by a two-day international conference. The second IIAS Summer Programme in Asian Studies will partner with the Leiden Global Interactions Profile Area (LGI) to critically explore Asian migrations as a globalizing force.
10 May: The politics of authenticity in the Indonesian wayang puppet theatre
IIAS Lunch Lecture by Ki [The Honourable] Enthus Susomo (1966), one of Indonesia’s most famous dalangs or wayang puppeteers.
8 May: IIAS Seminar Urban Asia
Asia’s increasing importance is transforming the way we see the world. The afternoon will consist of four individual presentations followed by a panel discussion.
8 May: Immorality and Its Moral Implications in Contemporary China
China Seminar by Professor Yunxiang Yan, Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
3 May: Post-national histories in Asia
Workshop by Dr. Sunil Amrith, senior lecturer at the Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London.
2 May: Mass Culture and the Construction of Political Discourse
China Seminar by Dr. Florian Schneider, lecturer in Politics of Modern China at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).
Call for papers: Participatory Pop: Audiences, Life Styles and Fan Culture in 20th Century Southeast Asia
This KITLV workshop focuses on Southeast Asian popular music and its connection to the emergence of new audiences recognized by distinct modern and fashionable lifestyles. Submission deadline: 30 April 2012.
27 April: Texts in Context: A Reflection About the Hermeneutics of Buddhist Texts
Buddhist Studies Lecture by Prof. Francesco Sferra, University of Naples, L'Orientale, Italy.
26 April: Making them Indonesians: Child transfers out of East Timor
KITLV Book launch and seminar by Dr. Helene van Klinken.
25 April: Revolutionary Embodiments: Gender and Genre in Xie Bingying’s War Diary
China Seminar by Dr. Anup Grewal, post-doctoral fellow of the research profile area Asian Modernities and Traditions (AMT).
25 April: Mughal Genealogical Strategies from Babur to Shah Jahan
Modern South Asia Seminar by Dr. Corinne Lefèvre, Research Associate at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at Paris.
20 April: CASS Lecture on China after the Global Financial Crisis
After the global financial crisis has entered a new stage with respect to its internal economic development as well as its international relations, Asian Modernities and Traditions (AMT) would like to invite you to a combined lecture of two distinguished scholars of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) on these recent developments.
18 April: We the (Chinese) People: Revisiting the 1945 Constitutional Debate on Citizenship in Indonesia
IIAS Lunch Lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Chandra, postdoctoral fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden.
13-14 April: Japanese Media Spaces and Japan in Crisis
The tragic events of March 11, 2011 have urged contemporary societies around the world to reflect on their future directions. Against the backdrop of a perceived lack of such alternatives to the present and to global capitalism, this workshop aims to discuss the potentials Japanese media may have for radical imagination.
10 April: The Chinese Closet - Being Gay in China
China Seminar by Fan Popo, independent filmmaker and writer.
3 April: PhD Defence En-Yu Huang
PhD Defence by En-Yu Huang: Comparing the Do's & Tabos in Chinese Feng-Shui and Indian Vāstu-Shāstra Architectural Traditions, Supervisor: Prof. dr. Aart J.J. Mekking
30-31 March: Orientalism revisited Cultural knowledge production on Asia across orders and borders
This roundtable is hosted by KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) and IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies), Leiden. The meeting aims to re-investigate processes of cultural knowledge production on ‘Asia’ and on ‘the West’, as they have interactively developed over the past two centuries.
30-31 March: OSIPP/MEARC Conference on International Order in East Asia
In cooperation with the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) of Osaka University, the Modern East Asia Research Centre (MEARC) announces its International Order in East Asia conference: critical reflections from European/Asian Perspectives, to be held at Leiden University and Leiden University College, the Hague.
29 March: Secular Heritage, Sacred Reclamations: Making Sense of Buddhist Relics in Modern South Asia
Modern South Asia Seminar by Dr. Sraman Mukherjee, affiliated postdoctoral fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS).
