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Reports9-11 juni 2005 De dertiende jaarbijeenkomst van de International Association of Chinese Linguistics, gehouden in Leiden, van 9-11 juni 2005, was een groot succes en heeft in alle opzichten aan de verwachtingen voldaan. 11-13 May 2004 Organized by The Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University (CML) and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Participants: 15 participants from 11 ASEM member states 27-30 June 2006 Written by Marloes Rozing (IIAS, Seminar Coordinator) and Prof. Lars Eklund (SASNET Sweden, Coordinator) Since 1968 the European Conferences on Modern South Asian Studies have been held every two years, each time organized by different universities all over Europe, but always acting on behalf of the European Association for South Asian Studies, EASAS. The key person behind the conferences over the decades has been Prof. Dietmar Rothermund, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Nowadays ECMSAS is one of the largest regular gatherings of South Asia oriented researchers in Europe, covering all fields from the humanities and social sciences to technology, natural sciences and medicine.
29-30 May 2006
Leiden, the Netherlands The seminar ‘Empires and Exact Sciences in Pre-modern Eurasia' was held in Leiden, 29-30 May 2006, in memory of one of the 20th century's leading scholars of the cross-cultural development of pre-modern science, David Pingree. It was sponsored by CNWS, Brill Academic Publishers and IIAS. The proceedings will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal East and West of the Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente in Rome. Kim Plofker 16-19 June 2004 Leiden, The Netherlands Seventh International Conference on Philippine Studies Final Report by Prof. O.D. van den Muijzenberg Workshop organized at Leiden University, May 29-31, 2006 by Alexander L. Mayer (University of Illinois), Axel Schneider (Leiden University) Funded by the Chung-Hwa Institute for Buddhist Studies (Taipeh), the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden), the NWO, the KNAW, and the CNWS The workshop on the question "Is There a Dharma of History" conducted at the University of Leiden was attended by scholars from Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Netherlands, and the United States. The workshop raised the question as to what extent and in what sense it is reasonable to argue that Buddhism was a major ingredient in the making of the historiographical and/or historiological thought of seminal early modern Chinese and Japanese thinkers.
9-11 February 2006
Amsterdam and Leiden By Dr Satya Shrestha-Schipper, Convenor and Marloes Rozing, Seminar coordinator Maoist Insurgency in Asia and Latin America: Comparative Studies was organised jointly by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden and International Institute for Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam. It was the first international workshop on Maoist movements with participation of both scholars and journalists who witnessed the rise and fall of the movement in their country. Read also www.peoplesreview.com.np/2006/230206/detail/b1.html 8 September 2004 Report by Dr Irina Morozova During the NATO ARW the participants critically assessed existing knowledge on soft security issues in the eight newly independent states of Central Asia, the Southern Caucasus, and Mongolia. The workshop focused on: (1) the risks faced, and in turn posed, by societies threatened by economic collapse, unemployment, disintegration and marginalisation; and (2) the ability of governments and elites to deal effectively with these threats. 16-17 February 2004 www.plantsinhealthandculture.nl On February 16-17, 2004, the symposium "plants in health and culture" took place at Leiden University. The lectures on the two days of the symposium enjoyed the warm interest of about 120 interested persons: students, PhD-students, reseachers, professors etc. with various disciplinary backgrounds. The number and diversity of the participants was a positive response to the organizers' endeavour to establish multi-disciplinary cooperation in an area where relevant expertise is often dispersed over a number of sciences. The initiative for the symposium was taken by scientists of the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Archaeology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. 16-18 June 2005 The Between Stress and Tone conference (BeST) took place in Leiden on 16, 17, and 18 of June 2005. The event focused on the typology - i.e., the range of variation - in word-prosodic systems among the languages of the world. 22-25 February 2005 Submitted by John N. Miksic Aims of the Masterclass Archaeological research on the early historic period in Southeast Asia has traditionally focused on temples, sculptures, and inscriptions. Early trade and settlement have been largely neglected. During the past twenty years, a few archaeologists have begun to fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge of this subject. This masterclass was designed to acquaint interested students with the current state of knowledge on the subject, to give them the opportunity to learn from several experts in the field, and to meet one another. One long-term outcome which it is hoped that the masterclass will achieve will be the formation of at least a semi-formal circle of scholars working on various aspects of this and related research. Amsterdam, 18-20 May 2006 Frits Staal The workshop on "The Generosity of Artificial Languages in an Asian Perspective," was organized by Frits Staal (Berkeley/Chiang Mai) with the assistance of Wim Stokhof (IIAS), Robert van Benthem, Robert Dijkgraaf and Martin Stokhof (Amsterdam). The workshop was held from 18-20 May 2006. The preparation, organization and logistics of the event were in the able hands of Marloes Rozing of the IIAS. The meeting took place in Amsterdam and was the second in the series Asian Contributions to the Formation of Modern Science. The Proceedings of its predecessor have been published in the Journal of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 34 (2006). Both meetings rejected the common but outdated picture that ‘science' is ‘Western,' having originated in ancient Greece with the Arabs acting as translators. Both discussed Pre-Modern, that is, Ancient and Medieval Science as expressed through the medium of classical languages such as Old-Babylonian, Chinese, Sanskrit, Greek, Arabic, and Latin. The second workshop included modern science which is largely expressed through formal or artificial languages. 8-10 December 2005 Second IIAS Masterclass on Modern Research Techniques in Asian Archaeology Rapportage Masterclass by Prof. Rethy Chhem » 14-15 October 2004 On October 14-15, 2004, a seminar focusing on the Dutch-Belgian artist Isidore van Kinsbergen (Brugeds1821-Batavia 1905) was organised at Leiden by the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden & huis Marseille, Foundation for Photography in Amsterdam. Van Kinsbergen was a unique artist who lived from 1851 onwards in Batavia (present Jakarta) where he was able to bring in his talents in the field of lithography, drawing and painting, stage decorating, singing and acting, drama directing and above all photography. 3-5 February 2005 ECKL Conference Report by Dr Sang-Jik Rhee and Ms Marloes Rozing (Organizing Committee ECKL) |
