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IIAS Newsletter 29

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Index:

2 IIAS Logo Explanation / Wim Stokhof
2 Editorial / Maurice Sistermans
2 Director's Note on Asem4 / Wim Stokhof
  Short Biographies of the IIAS Newsletter Regional Editors
General
1 Al-Qaeda in the Asia Pacific: Origin, Capability and Threat / Rohan Gunaratna(p.1, 4-5)
2 In memoriam: Hans de Casparis / Dirk Kolff
3 The Asia-Europe Meeting and the ASEM Research Platform / Paul van der Velde & Rima Sondaite-van Soest
4 Lectures on the Present, Lessons from the Past: al-Qa`ida as the New Pan-Islam / Michael Laffan (p. 4-5)
Asian Homosexualities
6 Asians of the Same Intent / Giovanni Vitiello
6 Restless Longing / Tze-lan D. Sang
7 Kamingu Auto: Homosexuality and Popular Culture in Japan / Mark J. McLelland
7 Gay vs. ‘Kathoey’: Homosexual Identities in Thailand / Megan Sinnott (p.7-8)
8 The Legacy of the Crocodile: Critical Debates over Taiwanese Lesbian Fiction / Fran Martin
9 Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Homosexual Culture in Indonesia / Dédé Oetomo
10 Birthday in Beijing: Women Tongzhi Organizing in 1990s’ China / He Xiaopei
10 Homosexuality in India: Past and Present / Ruth Vanita (p.10-11)
11 The Remaking of a Cambodian-American Drag Queen / Karen Quintiliani
12 New Park: Gay Literature in Taiwan / Chi Ta-wei
12 Who’s That Girl? / Sharon Chalmers (p.12-13)
13 Filtered Voices / Cui Zi’en
14 Queer Mongolians: Is Isolation their Destiny? / Richard Smith
15 A Non-Indian Resident - An Interview with the Poet Sujata Bhatt / Martin Mooij (p. 15-16)
17 The Gate of Words / Antonetta L. Bruno
18 They are not Humans Anyway / Ward Berenschot (p. 18-19)
19 Between Music, Dance and Ritual / Clara Brakel & Patricia Matusky
20 East is East? / Mona Abaza
21 Troubled Links / Sanjoy Bhattacharya
22 Modern South Asia Conference in Heidelberg / Netty Bonouvrié
22 Tribal Transitions: Cultural Innovation in Arunachal Pradesh / Stuart Blackburn
23 Visualized Space / Martin Gaenszle & Jörg Gengnagel
24 Rethinking Geopolitics in Post-Soviet Central Eurasia / Mehdi Amineh
25 Tibetological Collections & Archives Series / Henk Blezer
25 Preserving Tibetan Heritage / Dory Heilijgers
26 Media Work: Science and the Public / Judith Brandner & Brigitte Steger
26 The Vedas: Texts, Language, and Ritual / Jan Houben
26 ESCAS VIII / Touraj Atabaki
27 Sex, Gender, and Priests / Sharyn Graham
28 Young Japanese Researchers on Southeast Asia - Series / Rogier Busser
28 Indigenizing Colonial Knowledge / Soda Naoki
29 Vietnamese Peasants / Markus Vorpahl
30 Eating GMOs with Chopsticks? / Heng Zhao
31 Intellectuals in Social Development in China / Nora Sausmikat
31 Chinese Communities in the Netherlands / Leo Douw
32 Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development Policy in Macau/ Frans-Paul van der Putten
33 Voices from Tundra and Taiga / Cecilia Odé
34 From Austere Wabi to Golden Wabi / Anna Beerens
35 Return to Japan from Pilgrimage to the West / Gérard Siary
35 Gambling with Virtue / Sabine Frühstück
36
The Miracle, a Crisis, and the Future / Benno Galjart
36 Indian Revolutionaries in Central Asia / Touraj Atabaki
37 Korean Multinationals in Europe / Anil Khosla
37 A Free Web Journal / Mark Turin
38 Detective Report or Academic Book? / Noorhaidi Hasan
39 A Cutting-Edge Manual for Spoken Tibetan / Antonio Terrone
39 The Indigenization of Modernity / Toon van Meijl
40 Books Received
41 Family, Photography and Icon: Vivan Sundaram’s Re-take of ‘Amrita’ / Kristy Phillips
42 Kenro Izu: Photography along the Silk Road / Debra Diamond
43 Asia and the White Cube / Kristy Phillips
44 When was Modernism? / Deepali Dewan
45 xs-XL, Expanding Art / John Gee
45 It ‘May Be’ Fantastic Again / Thomas Berghuis
46 Imagined Workshop / Caroline Turner
47 Art Agenda / Thomas Berghuis (p. 47-48)
49 Stem Cell Research in China / Margaret Sleeboom
50 IIAS Research Programmes
50 IIAS Publications
51 IIAS Research Fellows
52 Spaces of Protest / Rachel Silvey
52 South(east) Asian Art & Archaeology at Kediri / Ellen Raven
56 IIAS Staff
  IIAS Agenda
NIOD
53 A Balancing Act / Els Bogaerts
53 The Dutch East Indies on Celluloid / Marije Plomp
53 Indonesia Across Orders / Els Bogaerts
Alliance News
54 Asia Alliance / Anne Sey
54 Alliance Partners
54 Asia Europe Workshops Series
55 China as Number One - in Mobiles / Jon Sigurdson
55 Mobility and Mobiles in China / Anders Ravn Nielsen
ICAS News
56 ICAS Secretariat
56 ICAS 3 Singapore / Lynn Tan
56 European Associations for Asian Studies
TANAP News
56 TANAP Extends into Iran / Henk Niemeijer
56 TANAP Diary - Unequalled Success / Nirmal Dewasiri & Anjana Singh
57 Directors of Urban Change: Mega-Urbanization in Asia / Freek Colombijn & Peter Nas
57 Local Land Use Strategies in a Globalizing World / Reed Wadley
58 International Conference Agenda (p. 58-59)
 
60 Colophon