Agenda

1995

24 October
Himself and Project. A Serial Autobiography. Our Journey with a Sinhala Zealot, Anagarika Dharmapala.
one day seminar in Leiden organized by Dr M. Roberts, senior visiting IIAS fellow

25 October
Prof. G. Samuel delivers the lecture 'Space, Politics and the Exemplary Centre in Tibetan Societies' as the third lecture in the series supported by the collaborative research programme 'Cultural Traditions'. Please contact Dr D. Tooker at the IIAS for more information.

26-28 October
South Asian Labour: Linkages - Global and Local (in Amsterdam)
Dr P. Mohapatra, IIAS and Dr M. van der Linden, IISG

27-30 October
'Democracy in Asia?' (in Copenhagen) organized by NIAS and IIAS

November
Asian Ambassador's lunch
with a lecture by Mr H.A.F.M.O. Van Mierlo, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Organized by the IIAS.

November
Lecture by the Malaysian Ambassador

6-8 November
Dr S. Munshi organizes an international seminar on 'Images of Women in Media', in Leiden.

1996

24-26 January
'Modern China: The Literary Field' by Dr M. Hockx, IIAS fellow

February
Hierarchialization
Dr M. Vischer, IIAS

March
Meeting of all directors and editors of Eropean Asian Associations
Organized by the IIAS

Spring
India - Indonesia IIAS in coopeartion with Barman Chandra, Van Goor, Locher Scholten, Breman, Blussé

12 - 18 May 1996
The second International Conference on Hani-Akha Culture (Chiang Mai, Thailand)
Organized by Dr Deborah Tooker, IIAS fellow, in cooperation with the Tribal Research Institute in Chiang Mai. Co-organizer is: The South-east Asian Mountain Peoples' Culture and Development Organization (SEAMP), a Thai NGO in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

May
Tentatively projected: a joint Beijing University - IIAS seminar on the historical East West relations. To be held in Beijing, P.R. China

15 May
Annual IIAS lecture by Prof. Wang Gungwu

End of May
Masterclass 'Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries' by Prof. J. Elisonas

Early Summer
EFEO Pondichéry-IIAS seminar (in India)
Organized by Dr F. Assayag (EFEO) and IIAS

Summer
Dr Rint Sybesma and Dr Jeroen Wiedenhof organize the '7th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL 7)'

2-6 September
6th International Conference of the European Association of Sotheast Asian Archeaologists organized by Dr M. Klokke, IIAS fellow. Parallel session on Champa Sculpture.

Mid October
Dr Y. Zhang, IIAS fellow, will organize a seminar on tax laws in international perspective.

December
Birma studies (in London)
Joint seminar by IIAS [Van Schendel], SOAS [Taylor, Kratz], and NIAS

1997

Projected activities:

January
Mysticism in South and Southeast Asia
IIAS, Prof. Ben Arps (TCZOAO) and SOAS

Early 1997
'Islam, Ethnicity and Secularism in Central Asia and the Caucasus', part II (in Amsterdam)
Dr D. Douwes and the Institute for Oriental Studies, Moskou Spring 1997
labour relationships in Southeast Asia.
IIAS conference in cooperation with the IISG in Amsterdam

Mid 1997
Atlantic Conference on Asian Studies (in Amsterdam)
Joint organization by AAS (Campbell) and IIAS (Van der Velde)

Projected
Euroviet. Conference about Vietnam in cooperation Hanoi National University and other
part I in Vietnam, with parallel session 'Changing Lifestyles'

Exhibition on the Chandara Culture
To be held together with a seminar at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden