Programme
                   of the official opening of the
              International Institute for Asian Studies

                           13 October 1993
               Stadsgehoorzaal, Breestraat 60, Leiden




10.00 a.m.      Arrival of the guests.

10.30 a.m.      Welcoming speech by Prof. F. Husken, Chairman of
                the Board of IIAS.

10.45 a.m.      Official opening by the State Secretary for
                Education and Science, Dr M.J. Cohen.

11.00 a.m.      Prof. J.F. Staal (Professor Emeritus of
                Philosophy and of South Asian Languages,
                University of California at Berkeley): 'Concepts
                of Science in Europe and Asia'.

11.45 a.m.      Lunch

13.00 p.m.      Dr Taufiq Abdullah (Senior Researcher, Indonesian
                Institute of Sciences, LIPI): 'Asian Studies:
                state-of-the-art in (Southeast) Asia'.

13.25 p.m.      Prof. M.C. Ricklefs (Director of The Research
                School of Pacific Studies, The Australian
                National University, Canberra): 'Asian Studies:
                state-of-the-art in Australia'.

13.50 p.m.      Prof. R.B. Rybakov (Deputy Director of the
                Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of
                Sciences, Moscow): 'Asian Studies:
                state-of-the-art in Russia'.

14.15 p.m.      Prof. D.K. Wyatt (President of the Association
                for Asian Studies): 'Asian Studies:
                state-of-the-art in the United States'.

14.40 p.m.      Prof. B. Dahm (Professor of Southeast Asian
                History, University of Passau): 'Asian Studies in
                Europe with special emphasis on the
                state-of-the-art in Germany'.

15.05 p.m.      Prof. W.A.L. Stokhof, Director IIAS.

           Reception