PAATI Update
* By WIM VAN ZANTEN
From 23 to 28 August 2000, PAATI ('Performing Arts of Asia: Tradition and Innovation: The expression of identity in a changing world') successfully held a major conference: 'Audiences, Patrons, and Performers' in co-operation with the CHIME foundation in Leiden. A report is to be found in the IIAS Newsletter 23, p. 45.
Dr Matthew Cohen, research fellow of the project until 31 December 2000, found a new job at the University of Glasgow as of 1 January 2001. Dr Hae Kyung Um, PAATI research fellow, will stay with the IIAS as affiliated fellow until 1 July 2001.Dr Hanne de Bruin, currently doing field work in India, will continue her research until July 2001, as well as Dr Wim van Zanten, programme director. It is expected that the programme be evaluated in the course of 2001 and that it will be concluded officially in June 2001. *
Expected publications:
Cohen, Matthew Isaac (ed.), Popular Theatre in South and Southeast Asia (resulting from the PAATI conference)
Um, Hae-kyung (ed.), Translating Asia's Traditions: Diasporas and interculturalism in Asian performing arts (resulting from the PAATI conference)
Hanne de Bruin and Wim van Zanten are both working on a special in academic journals.
For more information please check our web site at: Http://www.iias.nl/iias/research/iiasresearch.html
Dr Wim van Zanten is the programme director for PAATI.
E-mail: zanten@fsw.leidenuniv.nl