5-9 September, 1994
Tokyo, Japan
13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIANS OF ASIA
                               
The 13th Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia
(IAHA) will be held at the Sophia University in Tokyo, September 5-9, 1994.
Established in 1960, the IAHA is a professional association dedicated to the
promotion of research on Asia. Its main objective is to provide an
international forum for scholars from different countries to present and
discuss new findings on Asian history, as well as other related aspects in
Asian studies.
The following are the ten themes proposed. Papers of which themes may not be
related to one of these will also be welcome, and the organizing committee
will make relevant panels for those papers to be read and discussed.

-    Settlement and Networks in Early Southeast Asia
-    Ceramic Trade in South Seas
-    Southeast Asia in the 18th Century
-    Southeast Asia and World War II
-    Socio-Cultural Changes in Southeast Asia under Colonial Rule
-    National and Regional Integration in Southeast Asia
-    Economic Development of Southeast Asia after World War II
-    Christianity in South and Southaeast Asia
-    Local Historiography in Asia
-    Japan in Asian Perspectives

For registration and other matters concerning the 13th IAHA, please contact
by fax or mail to the office of the Secretary-General whose address is
mentioned below. The organizing comittee requests that an abstract of the
paper be submitted by March 1, 1994, and the full paper be submitted by July
1, 1994.

OFFICE BEARERS:
President: Professor Ishi Yoheo
Vice-Presidents: Professor Wang Gungwu; Professor K.M. de Silva; 
Professor Ernest Chew.
Honorary Chairperson of the Organizing Comittee: Professor Yamamoto Tatsuro
Chairperson of the Organizing Comittee: Professor Ichikawa Kenjiro
Secretary-General: Professor Terada Takefumi
Deputy-Secretary: Professor Cyril Veliath

For further information please contact:
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL 13TH IAHA CONFERENCE
Institute of Asian Cultures
Sophia University
7-1 Kioi-cho Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 102 Japan
Tel: (81) 332383697
Fax: (81) 332383690