Events 2008

January 2008

Present Kyrgyzstan in Search of Reform and Identity

21 January 2008
Leiden, the Netherlands

Lecture by Dr Elmira Nogoibaeva
(International Strategic Research Institute, Kyrgyzstan)

» read more




February 2008

A Revisionist History of the Mainland Southeast Asia Massif: Why Civilizations Can't Climb Hills

12 February 2008
Leiden, the Netherlands


Lecture by James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology and Director Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, USA

» read more




Issues in Malay Postcolonial Literature: Before and After Independence

19 Februari 2008
20.00 uur

Lezing door Dr Ellen Bal. Universitair Docent Culturele Antropologie, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

» read more




Indonesian Television: Politics, Parody and The Quest For Quality

28 February 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

Seminar by Dr Edwin Jurriëns, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.

Organised in cooperation with KITLV

» read more




Bhattoji and Nagoji

29 February 2008
14.00 - 18.00 hrs

Participants will include Madhav Deshpande, James Benson, Jan Houben, MariaPiera Candotti, Pascale Haag, and Christopher Minkowski.

» read more




March 2008

Cosmopatriots

7 March 2008
16.00 - 18.00 hrs

Book launch of Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters, edited by Jeroen de Kloet and Edwin Jurriëns

» read more




Party Financing and Political Corruption in Contemporary Indonesia

12 March 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

The Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar by Dr Marcus Mietzner, The Indonesian Institute, Jakarta.

» read more




Issues in Malay Postcolonial Literature: Before and After Independence

... transnational pathologies of our times 

12 March 2008
20.00 hrs

Lecture by Itty Abraham. Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Government, and Director, South Asia Institute, at University of Texas, Austin.

» read more




European Islam. Lessons from China: Why the Muslim History of China matters to Europe

13 March 2008
15.00 - 17.00 hrs
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Lecture by Dr. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (New York University)

» read more




 The Emperor’s Cherry Blossoms, Hitler’s Roses

18 March 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

Lecture by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney on her work on Japanese Kamikaze Pilots.

» read more




National Human Rights Commissions in Indonesia and Malaysia

27 March 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

The Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar by drs. Ken Setiawan, Van Vollenhoven Institute, Faculty of Law, Leiden University.

» read more




April 2008

Hendrik Kern and the body of the Buddha

1 April 2008
13.30 - 15.30 hrs

Lecture by Prof. Johannes Bronkhorst, Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

» read more




Cultural Edges in Japan. Culture and Identity of Border Area Japanese

16 April 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

IIAS Lecture by Dr Takayo Takahashi, Waseda University, Japan.

» read more




Issues in Malay Postcolonial Literature: Before and After Independence

22 April 2008
20.00 hrs

Lecture by Malini Sur, MA. PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research

» read more




24 April 2008
14.00 - 17.15 hrs

The European Alliance for Asian Studies in collaboration with  Clingendael Asia Studies.

» read more




24 April 2008
20.00 - 22.00 hrs

A collaboration between IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies) Amsterdam, the Asia PhD Club, Het Onafhankelijk Toneel, en Het Muziektheater.


» read more




China’s Policy and Measures to secure the Supply of Oil and Gas: The Case of Saudi Arabia and Russia

25 April 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

Energy Programme Asia Lecture by dr Mo Chen, Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Beijing, China

» read more




May 2008

Early Adopters: Buddhist Attitudes to Technology

14 May 2008
16.00 hrs

Lecture by Dr Andrew Glass (Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Washington, Seattle, USA). Numata Chairholder, Leiden University

» read more




22 - 23 May 2008
10.00 - 22.00 hrs

Conference organized by KITLV, ASiA and Inside Indonesia.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands



» read more




China Energy Security towards the Middle East and Africa

23 May 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

Energy Programme Asia Lecture by Prof. Yang Guang, Director of the Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Beijing, China

» read more




IIAS Fellow Symposium

28 May 2008
09.00 - 17.00 hrs

ALL THINGS ASIA


» read more




Reading Chinese? An Assessment of the European Capacities to govern China-Collaborations

29 May 2008
16.00 - 18.00 hrs

By Dr Ole Döring, Senior research fellow at the GIGA-Institute of Asian Studies (Hamburg, Germany)

» read more




The weakness of local strongmen in post-New Order Indonesian politics

29 May 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

Seminar by Michael Buehler, MA (Department of Government The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) London, UK)

» read more




Chinese Vision on Energy Security

30 May 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

Energy Programme Asia Lecture by Prof. Eduard Vermeer, Department of Contemporary Chinese History, Turku University, Finland and director of the Centre for East Asian Studies, Turku University, Finland

» read more




June 2008

Asia from Down Under: Regionalism and Global Cultural Change

5 June 2008
15.00 - 18.00 hrs
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Wertheim Lecture 2008 by prof. dr. Ien Ang (University of Western Sydney)

» read more




Secularization in the Netherlands and Taiwan

16-17 June 2008
Leiden, The Netherlands

Convenors:
Prof. Hei-yuan Chiu, European Chair for Chinese Studies, IIAS / Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Prof. Barend J. ter Haar, Department of Chinese Studies, Leiden University

» read more




Public Aesthetics and Political Transformation in Asia

19 June 2008
14.00 - 17.00 hrs
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Seminar chaired by Birgit Meyer (University of Amsterdam)

 

» read more




Bunda Maria, Queen of Larantuka: Some Historical Considerations

25 June 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs, with drinks afterwards!

The Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar by Prof. Barbara Watson Andaya, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i.

» read more




July 2008

Shifting Patterns of Alignment in the Asia Pacific: Developing a Conceptual Taxonomy

2 July 2008
Leiden, the Netherlands

Lecture by By dr Thomas Wilkins, Centre of the Pacific Rim, University of San Francisco and Affiliated Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, branch office Amsterdam.

 

» read more




Julidans

6 July 2008
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

This year a.o. Akram Khan/National Ballet of China, Zuhe Niao, Dinner stories with Zhang Xian, Li Ning, meetings and Cinedans

» read more




Tribes, Tradition and the State

22 July 2008
Leiden, The Netherlands

14.00 - 17.00 hrs.

Lectures and debate

» read more




August 2008

Law, Land Tenure, and Reform in Indonesia

26 - 28 August 2008

A week of activities to highlight and discuss the study of legal systems in changing political contexts, and issues of law and governance in 21st century Indonesia in particular.

 

» read more




Comparative Study of the Legal and Social Status of Foreigners in East & Southeast Asian Countries during the 17-20th Centuries

28 August 2008

The Netherlands and Japan Workshop on Academic Exchange about Asian Identities.

 

» read more




September 2008

Transcending the Border: Transnational Imperatives in Singapore’s Migrant Worker Rights Movement

3 September 2008

Lecture by Prof. Lenore Lyons (IIAS affiliated fellow). Director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong, Australia.

» read more




The tragedy of the Hmong in Laos and Thailand, an indigenous people forgotten by the world

21 September 2008
15.00 hrs

Filmscreening in Kriterion, Amsterdam

» read more




The China’s Alternative Energy Policy and its Challenges

22 September 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

Energy Programme Asia Lecture by Prof. Shi Dan, Director of the Institute of Industrial Economy, Beijing, China

» read more




Aksi, the fall of Suharto and Indonesian history

24 September 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

Seminar by Max Lane (Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore)

» read more




October 2008

Local Knowledge Seminar

1 October 2008
15.00 - 17.00 hrs

Seminar on the importance of local practices, theories and materials for their current or future research.

» read more




The Energy Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards the European Union and China

6 October 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

Energy Programme Asia Lecture by Dr Eva Rakel, Department of Political Sciencees, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

» read more




The Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks

23 - 24 October 2008
Leiden, the Netherlands

A conference held in preparation of the publication of a volume of essays in Intersections, Yearbook of Early Modern Studies.

» read more




Towards a Hydrogen Economy; Co-evolution between Institutions and Technologies

27 October 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

Energy Programme Asia Lecture by Daniel Scholten MA, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Economics of Infrastructures Program, TU Delft, The Netherlands

» read more




Timescapes of Islands in the Asia-Pacific Region

27 - 28 October 2008
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Perspectives from environmental history and the time horizons of management

CAPAS/IIAS Workshop

» read more




New Malaysian Cinema

29 October 2008
13 - 17 hrs

New Malaysian Cinema: Rialto/ASiA Masterclass

» read more




Ong Keng Sen

30 October 2008
15.30 - 18.00 hrs

IIAS Annual Lecture by Ong Keng Sen

» read more




November 2008

The Impact of

10 November 2008
15.30 - 17.00 hrs

Energy Programme Asia Lecture by Prof. Kurt Radtke, Professor Emeritus, Waseda University, Japan and affiliated fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands

» read more




Sex and the temple: Interlocking categorizations of sexuality, gender and the sacred in post-secular Vietnam

12 november 2008
15:30 - 17:30 hrs

The Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar by Professor Oscar Salemink, VU University Amsterdam

» read more




East Asian Popular Music: Small Sounds from Big Places?

12 November 2008
16.00 - 17.30 hrs

Lecture by Leslie Page Moch, Professor of History, Michigan State University, U.S.

» read more




India Inside - Outside

14 - 21 november 2008
Amsterdam India Festival, the Netherlands

Fotografie van Anita Khemka en Huib Rutten

» read more




Sanjay Subrahmanyam

25 November 2008
16.00 hrs

Sixteenth Gonda Lecture by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

» read more




East Asian Popular Music: Small Sounds from Big Places?

26 november 2008
14:00 - 17:30 hrs

Convenor: Prof. Hyunjoon Shin, (European Chair of Korean Studies, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden)

» read more




December 2008

moving-beyond-elite-local-understandings-communal-violence-and-its-aftermath-eastern-indonesia

3 December 2008
15:30 - 17:00 hrs

The Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar by Chris Duncan (Arizona State University)

» read more




Ethnic-chinese-family-asia-times-turmoil-and-regime-change-during-twentieth-century

17 December 2008
9:00 - 18:00 hrs

NICAM Workshop organized by Asia Studies in Amsterdam (ASiA) and Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD)

» read more




November 2009

Will the marriage between Pragmatism and Buddhism last?

5 November 2009
16:00 – 17:30 hrs
Leiden, the Netherlands

Buddhist Studies Lecture by Prof. Richard Hayes, (visiting Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies, Leiden University/IIAS)

» read more




The Urban Divine in Flux: How Religion Matters in Mumbai and Amsterdam

19 November 2009
15:00 – 17:00 hrs
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Lecture by Dr Markha Valenta. Discussant Dr O.G.A Verkaaik

» read more




Striving for Perfection: The challenge of translating Sanskrit into Tibetan

19 November 2009
16:00 – 17:30 hrs
Leiden, the Netherlands

Buddhist Studies Lecture by Prof. Michael Hahn, (Professor of Indology and Tibetology at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany)

» read more




A New Urban Sociology

26 - 27 November 2009
Leiden, the Netherlands

IIAS Centre for Regulation and Governance

» read more




November 2009

Will the marriage between Pragmatism and Buddhism last?

5 November 2009
16:00 – 17:30 hrs
Leiden, the Netherlands

Buddhist Studies Lecture by Prof. Richard Hayes, (visiting Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies, Leiden University/IIAS)

» read more




The Urban Divine in Flux: How Religion Matters in Mumbai and Amsterdam

19 November 2009
15:00 – 17:00 hrs
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Lecture by Dr Markha Valenta. Discussant Dr O.G.A Verkaaik

» read more




Striving for Perfection: The challenge of translating Sanskrit into Tibetan

19 November 2009
16:00 – 17:30 hrs
Leiden, the Netherlands

Buddhist Studies Lecture by Prof. Michael Hahn, (Professor of Indology and Tibetology at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany)

» read more




A New Urban Sociology

26 - 27 November 2009
Leiden, the Netherlands

IIAS Centre for Regulation and Governance

» read more




Share this