IIAS Special Chair for Terwiel
Professor Terwiel
On 15 Feb 2000, at 16.15 h Professor Barend-Jan Terwiel read his inaugural lecture for the IIAS Special Chair at Leiden University. The title of his address was 'Van denkmodellen en vooroordelen: Thaise geschiedschrijving over de periode van de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw (Of Thinking Models and Prejudice: Thai historiography of the first half of the nineteenth century)'. Baas Terwiel will hold the chair until 1 September 2002 and will occupy himself with the History and Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia. *