The IIAS Guide to Asian Studies in the Netherlands '95 was published in August. It contains the names of nearly 900 Asianists working in the Netherlands. This number represents approximately 90% of all researchers involved in Asian Studies in the Netherlands. Furthermore, all university departments, institutes, museums, and newsletters in the field of Asian Studies are listed.

The IIAS Workingpaper series 2 and 3
The IIAS Working Papers Series is designed to provide the scholarly world and other interested parties with up-to-date articles in the field of Asian Studies. The IIAS is convinced that it is of vital importance to academic debate and dialogue that papers delivered at conferences should be published within a few months of the conference being held.

Cultures of Madagascar: Ebb and Flow of Influences, edited by S. Evers and M. Spindler contains the edited versions of the papers presented at the first congress on Madagascar held in the Netherlands in 1994. It was a joint initiative by the African Studies Centre (leiden), the Interuniversitary Institute for missiological and Ecumenical Research (Utrecht), and the II- AS.
The origin of the 12 million Malagasy is a fruitful source of discourse among Madagascar specialists. The Malagasy cultures seem to be the outcome of juxtapositions and syntheses of Asian and African elements. In the papers presented in this volume, the Malagasy cultures are described and analysed by scientists from four different fields of study: cultural anthropology; language and literature; church history; and general history.

New Approaches to Board Games Research: Asian Origins and Future Perspectives, contains the final versions of the papers presented at the international colloquium Board Games in Academia, held in Leiden 9-13 April, 1995. The colloquium was jointly sponsored by the Research School CNWS (Leiden) and the IIAS.
The papers were edited by Alexander J. de Voogt. The contributors are a mixture of board games researchers, collectors, and players from varied disciplinary backgrounds. During the meeting international grandmasters gave demonstrations of shogi, chess, and bao. The articles contained in this volume are grouped around five themes: Sanskrit studies and board games; computer science and board games; philosophy and board games; descriptive research and board games; and archaeology and board games.

These publications can be ordered at the IIAS