Agenda

1996
17-19 January
Forum culturel Europe-Asie in Venice,
Co-organized by IIAS and the European Union preparing the EU Summon in May.

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

26-29 March
Forum Engelberg Europe-Asia: Science and Technology for their Future
Switzerland; Workshop Education and Culture chaired by Prof. Verena Maier (Switzerland); participants are: Prof. W. Stokhof, Prof. F. Staal (Berkeley), Nguyên Thê Anh (Paris), Prof. Yoshiharu Tsuboi (Japan), Prof. Zhang Yungling (P.R. China).

17-19 April
Hierarchization : processes of social differentiation in the Austronesian world
seminar organized by Dr M. Vischer, IIAS;
combined with:
Parallelism
Masterclass by Prof. J. Fox (ANU)

15 May
Third annual IIAS lecture
Prof. Wang Gungwu (Institute of East Asian Political Economy, Singapore)

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.

End of May
Japan in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Masterclass by Prof. J. Elisonas

4-5 July
Comparative Studies on Taxation Law in East and Southeast Asia
Dr Y. Zhang, IIAS

August-September
Crime and Punishment: criminality in Southeast Asia.
Workshop jointly organized by the Joint Commitee for Southeast Asia Research Council SSRC, The American Council of Learned Studies, and the IIAS

2-6 September
6th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archeaologists EurASEAA, organized by Dr M. Klokke (IIAS)
combined with:
Masterclass by Dr. Jan Fontein
Parallel session on Champa Sculpture by Tran Ky Phuong, Vietnam

Winter
Asian Minority Cultures in Transition: diversity, identities and encounters
Organized by Prof. J. Platenkamp in Munster, financed by the ESF