3-7 June
International Conference on Islam and the 21st Century, Dr. Dick Douwes and Dr Nico
Kaptein (Projects Division of TCZOAO, Leiden University), tel: +31-71- 5272419, fax:
+31-71-5272632
27-29 June
Man and Environment in Indonesia, 1500-1950', Joint IIAS/KITLV-EDEN
Workshop, Freek Columbijn: +31-71-5272914
30 June - 6 July
Seafaring Communities in the Indian Ocean (4th Century B.C.-15 Century A.D.),
Lyon, France', ESF seminar, Dr Jean-François Salles, tel: +33-7271 5800 / 5822,
fax: +33-7858 11257
3-5 July
European Chinese and Chinese Domestic Migrants: Common Themes in International
and Internal Migration, Oxford, ESF seminar, Dr. Frank N. Pieke: +44-1865 280 368 / 387
4-5 July
International Symposium on Tax Law in East and Southeast Asia Towards the 21st Century,
Dr Y. Zhang, IIAS.
21-24 August
14th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Copenhagen, ESF seminar, Peter
Anderson: tel: +45-35 328957
26 August
IIAS organizes a day for Dutch Ambassadors to other (Asian) countries
Lectures by several famous speakers
29-30 August
Narrative Sculpture and Literary Traditions in Central, South and Southeast Asia,
Masterclass by Dr Jan Fontein
29 August - 1 September
(Tele)Communications Policies in Western Europe and Southeast Asia: Cultural and
Historical Perspectives, Brugge, ESF seminar, Prof Jan Servaes, tel: +32-2-412 42
78; Prof. Jean-Claude Burgelman, tel: +32-2-629 24 14; Dr Anura Goonasekera, tel:
+65-251 51 06
August / September
Crime and Punishment: Criminality in Southeast Asia, Amsterdam, Workshop
jointly organized by IIAS / Joint Committee for Southeast Asia / Social Science Research
Council (SSRC) / American Council of Learned Societies
2-6 September
6th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists
(EurASEAA), Dr M. Klokke (IIAS)
combined with:
Masterclass by Dr. Jan Fontein (29-30 August)
Parallel session on Champa Sculpture by Tran Ky Phuong, Vietnam
10-12 September
Chinese Business Connections in Global and Comparative Perspective, Beijing.
Joint NIAS(DK)/ESF seminar , Dr. Borge Bakken: fax: + 45-32 962530; Dr. Zhang Yuyan:
fax: + 86-10-512 6105
12-13 September
Pilgrimage in Tibet, Dr Alex McKay, affiliated fellow IIAS.
12-13 September
New Directions in the History of Chinese Women for the Period 1000 - 1800 A.D,
RUL/IIAS seminar, Dr H. Zurndorfer, +31-71-527 2522
26-27 September
Meeting of the Editors of European Associations on Asia, Paul van der Velde and Ilse
Lasschuijt (IIAS)
September
Workshop Library affairs (acquisition, coordination and virtual collections in
Asian Studies). IIAS Platform Asian Collections and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT),
Amsterdam
28-31 October
Les convergences et divergences évaluées par l'analyse de la conduite
des relations entre sociétés et entre Etats, Paris. Sponsored by URA 1075 "Péninsule
indochinoise" (CNRS/EPHE-IVe section); Institute of Asian Cultures (Sophia University,
Tokyo) and the IIAS. Prof. Nguyên Thê Anh (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes,
Paris), convenor
12-15 December
Asian Minority Cultures in Transition: diversity, identities and encounters.
Organized by Prof. J. Platenkamp in Munster, financed by the ESF
Early 1997
The Lhasa Valley. Conservation and Modernisation in Tibetan Architecture,
Meudon. ESF seminar, Dr. Heather Stoddard: +33-1-456 79 503
Early 1997
Les convergences et divergences évaluées par l'analyse des mouvements
de la navigation et du commerce, Paris. Prof. Nguyên Thê Anh (Ecole Pratique des Hautes
Etudes, Paris), convenor. Sponsored by URA 1075 "Péninsule indochinoise"
(CNRS/EPHE-IVe section); Institute of Asian Cultures (Sophia University, Tokyo) and the
IIAS
11-13 January
Sources and Time. The Destiny of Texts, Pondichéry, India. Co-organized
by the Centre of Indology of l'Ecole Française d'Extrême Orient; the Department of
Indology of l'Institut Français de Pondichéry, and supported by the Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde
[Dr F. Assayag] and the IIAS.
15-16 January
Resources of History. Traditions: Transmission or invention? Pondichéry,
India. Organized by the Department of Social Sciences of l'Ecole Française d'Extrême
Orient, and
supported by l'Institut Français de Pondichéry; the Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde
and the IIAS.
Late February
Transformation of Houses and Settlements in Western Indonesia: Changing Values and
Meanings of Built Forms in History and in the Process of Modernization, Leiden. ESF
seminar, Prof. R. Schefold: tel: +31-71-527 3463
3-5 March
Tentatively projected: a joint Beijing University - IIAS seminar on the historical East West
relations Modernization processes in Asia: Economic, Social and Cultural Perspectives
(1800-2000). To be held in China and organized by Prof. Luo Rongqu, Beijing
University and IIAS
17-19 March
Tribal Communities in the Malay World: Historical, cultural and social
perspectives, Singapore. IIAS/ISEAS/Institut für Etnologie/Centre for
Environment, Gender and Development. Cynthia Chou: +31-71-527 2227 en Geoffrey
Benjamin (National University of Singapore): +65-772-3823
Spring 1997
Strengthening East-West Scientific Relationships: The Southeast-Asian-Asian
Connection, Hanoi. Co-organized by IIAS, NIAS (DK), CASA and the Toyota
Foundation
Spring 1997
Labour relationships in Southeast Asia. IIAS conference in cooperation with the
IISG in Amsterdam
April 1997
Burma studies, London. IIAS [Van Schendel] and SOAS [Taylor], and NIAS (DK)
April
Incorporation, Transformation and Mobilization; impacts of colonial penetration,
national integration and globalization in Indonesia and India, New Delhi. IIAS/Dr
E.B. Locher-Scholten and Dr J. van Goor (University of Utrecht, tel: +31-30-253.6476
or
253.78.62, Dr R. Barman Chandra (ICSSR)
April
Workshop IIAS Platform Asia collections, Amsterdam. IIAS/KIT/e.a.
April
Encompassing Knowledge: Indigenous Encyclopedias in Indonesia in the 17th-20th
Centuries, Leiden. ESF seminar, Prof. Ben Arps: +31-71-527 22 22 , +31-71-527
24 18
mid April
Labour Migration in Asia, Beijing. Joint IIAS/CASS seminar, contact: Zhang
Yunling: tel: +86-10-406 39 22
19-21 June
6th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL-6), Leiden. Dr. Rint Sybesma en
Dr. Jeroen Wiedenhof: +31-71-527 2525
3-5 July
Third Euroviet Conference: Vietnamese Society in Transition, continuity or
change?, Amsterdam, Dr John Kleinen +31-20-676.6117, CASA, and IIAS.