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Fellows East Asia

Chan-Liang WU

Field: Chinese intellectual history
Country of origin: Taiwan
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2009 - 01/09/2010
Status: IIAS Professor, holder of the European Chair of Chinese Studies; Sponsored by IIAS, BICER and the Ministry of Education Taiwan
Home institute: National Taiwan University
Research topic: Zhu Xi and Sung Neo-Confucianism, Counter-Enlightenment in Modern China.

Dennis Chi-hsiung Cheng

Field: "Yijing", History of Chinese thought (focusing on late imperial China), hermeneutics in East Asian tradition
Country of origin: Taiwan
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2010
Status: IIAS Professor, holder of the European Chair of Chinese Studies; Sponsored by IIAS, BICER and the Ministry of Education Taiwan
Home institute: National Taiwan University
Research topic: Three Approaches in interpreting "Yijing": History, Philology and Philosophy

Dorota Szawarska

Field: Social Anthropology
Country of origin: Poland
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2010 - 30/11/2010
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: IIAS
Research topic: Kinship and intergenerational exchange of support in the context of limited repatriation. The case of Sakhalin Korean repatriates.

Francesca Dal Lago

Field: Modern art, visual culture
Country of origin: Italy
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2010 - 31/12/2010
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Leiden Institute for Area Studies
Research topic: The Drawing of Modernity: European Academic Education and the Making of Chinese Modern Art (1911-1937)

Gregory Bracken

Field: Urbanism
Country of origin: Ireland
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2009 - 01/09/2010
Status: Research fellow
Home institute: Formerly of the Architecture Theory Department, Technical University of Delft
Research topic: Colonial-era Shanghai as an urban model for the 21st century.

Jung-hoon LEE

Field: International Relations, Northeast Asian Studies
Country of origin: Republic of Korea
Period of stay at IIAS: 26/07/2010 - 25/08/2010
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Researcher/Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Oriental Cultures Gakushuin University
Research topic: The European Union (EU)’s Policy of Engagement and the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO)

Marinus van den Berg

Field: linguistics
Country of origin: the Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2009 - 31/08/2012
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: IIAS
Research topic: Industrialization, Language Contact, and Identity Formation in China and Europe

Masae Kato

Field: Political Science, Women's Studies
Country of origin: Japan
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/02/2005
Status: Research Fellow
Home institute: IIAS
Research topic: A comparative study on socio-genetic marginalization: Japan in "Asia" in relation to the "West" as a reference group

Mehdi Amineh

Field: Political sciences, International Political Economy
Country of origin: The Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2007 - 01/12/2010
Status: Senior Research fellow IIAS; Adjunct Prof. of International Relations Webster University, Leiden
Home institute: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Research topic: Domestic and Geopolitical Challenges to Energy Security for, China and the European Union

Takako Kondo

Field: Art History, Japan Studies
Country of origin: Japan
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2009 - 31/08/2013
Status: Doctoral Research Fellow, sponsored by Asiascape and IIAS
Home institute: Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University
Research topic: Translating (Japanese) Contemporary Art

W.J. Boot

Field: Literature and poetics
Country of origin: the Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS:
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies
Research topic: History and intellectual history of premodern Japan