International Conference Programme

2-3 April, 1996
The Hague, the Netherlands
Institute Clingendael/IIAS/NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study) Workshop
International Relations and Security in Pacific Asia
Prof. Kurt W. Radtke, Email: K.Radtke@nias.knaw.nl

11-14 April, 1996
Honolulu, Hawaii
48th Annual Meeting of the AAS
Karen Fricke, tel: +1-313-6652490

14-16 April, 1996
Honolulu, Hawaii
Fifth International Philippine Studies Conference
Marissa C. Garcia, tel: +1-808-9566086, fax: +1-808-9562682, email: marissa@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu

17-19 April 1996
Leiden, The Netherlands
IIAS Conference
Hierarchization: Processes of Social Differentiation in the Austronesian World
Michael Vischer, IIAS, tel: +31-71-5272227, fax: +31-71-5274162

24-26 April, 1996
London, United Kingdom
Annual ASEASUK Conference
Power and Identity in Southeast Asia: local, national and regional dimensions
Anne Booth (email: AB10@SOAS.ac.uk) or Irene Cummings (email: IC2@SOAS.ac.uk), tel: +44-171- 3236190, fax: +44-171-3236277

26-28 April,1996
Trier, Germany
Frauen-Los!? Politische Partizipation in Ostasien
Ms Bernecker (Mondays) or Ms Kawamura (Wednesdays), tel: +49-651-2012138, email: bern2701@pcmail.uni-trier.de

Late April, 1996
Beijing, PR China
Chinese Business Networks in Global and Comparative Perspective
Dr Borge Bakken, NIAS, Leifsgade 33, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark

1-5 May, 1996
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Ninth JAWS Conference
Pilgrimage and the International Encounter
Prof. Maria R. del Alisal, Instituto de Japanologia, Madrid, Spain, tel: +34-1-5345322, fax: +34-1-5350197, Email: alisijp@ibm.net

4 May, 1996
Los Angeles. USA
Third Annual UCLA Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies
Challenging the Myth of Uniqueness: Japan in Comparative Perspective
Mariko Kitamura, UCLA Graduate School, Student Symposium, Center for Japanese Studies, 405 Hilgard Ave., 11250 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487, USA

7-10 May, 1996
West-Sussex, UK
Wilton Park Conference
India and her Neighbours
Wilton Park Conferences, tel: +44-1903-815020, fax: +44-1903-815931

9-11 May, 1996
Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands
The European Social Science History Conference
Secretariat ESSHC, tel: +31-20-6165151, fax: +31-20-6890981

10-12 May, 1996
Bonn, Germany
The Myth of Tibet
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Friedrich-Ebert Allee 4, D-53113 Bonn, Germany, tel: +49-228-9171201, fax: +49-228-9171211

10-12 May, 1996
KITLV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Library Group, SEALG
Margaret Nicholson, University of Hull, Brynmor Jones Library, Hull HU6 7RX, UK; tel: +44-1482-465269, fax: +44-1482-466205

12-18 May, 1996
Chiang Mai/Chiang Rai, Thailand
Second International Conference on Hani-Akha Culture
Deborah Tooker, IIAS, tel: +31-71-5272227, fax: +31-71-5274162

13-14 May, 1996
Wassenaar, the Netherlands
NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study)/IIAS Workshop
Asian Business Systems and Enterprise Strategies

14-17 May, 1996
Hanoi, Vietnam
Higher Education in the 21st Century, Mission and Challenge in Developing Countries
Ms Dora Panayotides, fax: +61-3-96603786, E-mail: tony@rmit.edu.au; Dr Nguyen Xuan Thu, fax: +84-4- 433224, E-mail: rmitvn@netnam.org.vn

20-24 May 1996
Chulalongkom University, Bangkok
14th IAHA Conference
Dhiravat na Pombejra, tel: +66-218-4672/4675, fax: +66-218-4673

28-24 May, 1996
Venice, Italy
The Third Venice Conference on Japanese Art
In Search of Elegance. Traditional Aesthetics in 20th Century Japanese Art.
Prof. Gian Carlo Calza, Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Venice, tel: +39-41-5204868, fax: +39-41- 720809.

14 May 1996
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Property Rights and Economic Development in Southeast Asia and Oceania
Dr Toon van Meijl, Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Nijmegen, tel: +31-24-361 5579/2361, fax: +31- 24-361 1945, E-mail: T.vanMeijl@maw.kun.nl

10-15 June, 1996
Brunei Darussalam
Fourth Biennial Meeting of the Borneo Research Council
Languages in Borneo: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives
Prof. James T. Collins, Selangor, Malaysia, fax: +60-3-825-4698

10-15 June, 1996
Brunei Darussalam
Fourth Biennial Meeting of the Borneo Research Council
Development and Diversity in Borneo: Planning and Policies for Cultural and Environmental Diversity
Prof. Peter Eaton, Brunei Darussalam, fax: 673-2-427003

16-21 June, 1996
Szeged, Hungary
The Permanent International Altaistic Conference
Historical and linguistic interaction between Inner Asia and Europe
Prof. Em. Denis Sinor, Indiana University USA, fax: +1-812-8557500

17-22 June, 1996
Berlin, Germany
Tenth European Colloquium on Indonesian and Malay Studies (ECIMS)
The Indonesian and Malay World at the End of the 20th Century: continuity, adaptation and change
Prof. Hans-Dieter Kubitscheck, ECIMS 1996, Süd-Ostasien Institut, Humboldt University Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin

30 June - 7 July
Lyon, France
Seafaring Communities in the Indian Ocean (4th Century BC - 15th Century AD)
Jean-Francois Salles, Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen, Fédération d'Unités, Université Lumière Lyon 2 or CNRS, 7 Rue Raulin, F-69007 Lyon, France.

July 1996
Oxford, UK
European Chinese and Chinese Domestic Migrants: common themes in international and internal migration
Frank Pieke, Institute for Chinese Studies, Oxford, tel: +44-1865-280386, fax: +44-1865-280431, Email: pieke@server.orient.ox.ac.uk

4-5 July, 1996
Leiden, The Netherlands
Tax Law in East and Southeast Asia towards the 21st Century
Dr Y. Zhang, IIAS, tel: +31-71-5272227, fax: +31-71-5274162, Email: IIAS@let.leidenuniv.nl

5-7 July, 1996
Melbourne, Australia
Second Conference on Pacific Rim History
Dr Lionel Frost, La Trobe University, Melbourne, fax: +61-3-4710592

8-11 July, 1996
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Twentieth Anniversary Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia
Communications with/in Asia
ASAA 1996, tel: +61-3-96906744, fax: +61-3-96907155, Email: asaa@latrobe.edu.au

8-12 July, 1996
West-Sussex, UK
Wilton Park Conference
Southeast Asian Security: coping with rising tensions
Wilton Park Conferences, tel: +44-1903-815020, fax: +44-1903-815931

29 July - 2 August 1996
West-Sussex, UK
Wilton Park Conference
US-Japanese Relations: Do they matter to Europe?
Wilton Park Conferences, tel: +44-1903-815020, fax: +44-1903-815931

17 August - 2 September, 1996
Indonesia
Nordic Symposium on Indonesian Religions
Antoon Geels, Telologiska Institutionen, Allhelgona Kyrkogata 8, S-22362 Lund, Sweden

20-24 August, 1996
Calcutta, India
Nationalism and Peasant Struggles in Asia
Dr K.N.N. Kurup (co-ordinator), Dept. of History, Calcutta University, Box 673635, Kerala, Malappuram, India

21-24 August, 1996
Copenhagen, Denmark
14th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies
Dr Helle Bundgaard, Institute of Anthropology, Copenhagen University, frederiksholm Kanal 4, 1220 Copenhagen K., Denmark.

26-31 August, 1996
Seoul, Korea
The 8th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia
Prof. Yung Sik Kim, Seoul National University, tel: +82-2-8806637, fax: +82-2-8730418

29-31 August, 1996
Copenhagen, Denmark
Oral Literature in Modern China
Vibeke Børdahl, tel/fax: +47-67123881 (Norway)

September, 1996
Leiden, The Netherlands
Pilgrimage in Tibet
Dr Alex McKay, IIAS, tel: +31-71-5272227, fax: +31-71-5274162, Email: IIAS@let.leidenuniv.nl

2-6 September, 1996
Leiden, The Netherlands
6th International Conference of EurASEAA
Dr Marijke Klokke, IIAS, tel: +31-71-5272227, fax: +31-71-5274162, Email: IIAS@let.leidenuniv.nl

24-28 September, 1996
Antananarivo, Madagascar
The Abolition of Slavery In Madagascar
M. Ignace Rakoto, B.P. 564, Musée d'Art et Archéologie, 17 rue Dr Vilette, Antananarivo, 101 Madagascar. fax: +261-2-28218

10-13 October 1996
Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
XXIX International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics
George van Driem, tel: +31-71-5272725, fax: +31-71-5272615 (att. Himalayan languages Project), E-mail: Himalaya@let.leidenuniv.nl

mid-October 1996
Chiang Mai, Thailand
The Sixth International Conference on Thai Studies
Dr Rujaya Abhakorn, tel: +66-53-221 154/699 ext. 4501, fax: 66-53-222766/21952, email: thaistudy@chiangmai.ac.th

9-13 December, 1996
West-Sussex, UK
Wilton Park Conference
China's International Role: friction or cooperation?
Wilton Park Conferences, tel: +44-1903-815020, fax: +44-1903-815931

13-15 December, 1996
Copenhagen, Denmark
ESO Conference
Pacific peoples in the Pacific Century: society, culture, nature
Bente Wolff, University of Copenhagen, tel: =45-33-473233, fax: +45-35-323465, Email: es- bw@palais.natmus.min.dk

end 1996
Münster, Germany
Asian Minority Cultures in Transition: diversity, identities and encounters
Prof Platenkamp, Seminar für Völkerkunde, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Studtstrasse 32, D-48149, Münster, Germany

1997

3-9 January, 1997
Bangalore, India
Tenth World Sanskrit Conference
Secretariat, tel: +91-80-3430017/3332759, fax: +91-80-3334541

January, 1997
Leiden, The Netherlands
Mysticism in South and Southeast Asia
Prof. Ben Arps, tel: +31-71-5272222

15-16 January, 1997
Pondichery, France
The Resources of History Traditions: transmission or invention?
Dr Jackie Assayag, French Institute of Pondichery, fax: +91-413-39534

early 1997
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Islam, Ethnicity and Secularism in Central Asia and the Caucasus (part II)
Dr D. Douwes, IIAS, tel: +31-71-5272227, fax: +31-71-5274162

Late February, 1997
Leiden, The Netherlands
Transformation of Houses and Settlements in Western Indonesia: changing values and meanings of built forms in history and in the process of modernization Prof Schefold, Fac. of Social and Behavioral Science, University of Leiden, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands

17-21 April, 1997
Stockholm, Sweden
The 1997 AKSE Conference
Staffan Rosén, Institute of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

19-21 June, 1997
Leiden, The Netherlands
Sixth International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, ICCL
Rint Sybesma and Jeroen Wiedenhof, tel: +31-71-5272525, fax: +31-71-5272615, Email:sybesma@let.leidenuniv.nl or jmwied@let.leidenuniv.nl

25-27 June, 1997
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Third Euroviet Conference
Vietnamese Society in Transition: continuity or change?
Dr John Kleinen, Anthropological Institute, University of Amsterdam, tel: +31-20-5252742

7-12 July 1997
Budapest, Hungary
The 35th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies
Oriental Studies in the 20th Century: State of the Art
Körösi Csoma Society, Museum krt. 4/b, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary

August, 1997
SOAS, London
Fifth Asian Urbanization Conference
Prof. G. Chapman, Dept. of Geography, U. of Lancaster, tel: +44-542-65201 ext. 3736, fax: +44-542-847099

18 December 1997 - 2 January 1998
Taipei, Taiwan
Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics
Prof Paul J.K. Li, Academia Sinica, Taipei, fax: +886-2-7868834, E-mail: hspaulli@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw