The IIAS distinguishes between seven categories of fellows:
1. research fellows
2. senior visiting fellows
3. professorial fellows
4. visiting exchange fellows
5. affiliated fellows
6. ESF fellows
7. Dutch seniors
More detailed information can be obtained via the IIAS secretariat: +31-71- 527.2227. As it is one of the policies of the IIAS to stimulate (inter)national exchange, we will gladly mediate in establishing contacts and availability in delivering lectures, organizing seminars, etc.
1. Research Fellows (post PhD, <40 years)
a. individual
b. attached to a programme, i.e. 'Changing Lifestyles in Asia'; 'Cultural Traditions in
Endangered Minorities of South and Southeast Asia'; 'International Social Organization in East and Southeast
Asia: Qiaoxiang Ties in the Twentieth Century'.
They are attached to the International Institute for Asian Studies for 1 to 3 years, carrying out independent research and fieldwork, and organizing an international seminar once per year. At present the IIAS is host to 12 research fellows. Below you will find an overview of their names and research topics:
Dr C. Chou (Singapore): Dr Chou is working within the programme Cultural Traditions in Endangered Minorities of South and Southeast Asia on 'Money, magic and fear: exchange and identity amongst the Orang Suku Laut (sea nomads) and other groups in Riau and Batam, Indonesia'. From 4 to 6 October she and Dr Will Derks hosted the seminar on 'Riau in Transition: The Globalization of a Peripheral Region in Indonesia' in Leiden. Dr. Chou has been away on fieldwork from December to 22 February 1996.
Dr W.A.G. Derks (the Netherlands): Dr Derks' topic is 'The Search for Malayness' within the collaborative framework of Changing Lifestyles. He and Dr C. Chou have co-organized the seminar 'Riau in Transition: the globalization of a peripheral region in Indonesia', held in Leiden from 4 to 6 October 1995. Dr Derks has been in America for two weeks, lecturing at Cornell University and Berkeley.
Dr M.L.L.G. Hockx (the Netherlands): Dr Hockx is carrying out research on 'Literary Societies and the Literary Field in Pre-war Republican China (1911-1937)'. He was host to the 'International Workshop on Modern Chinese Poetry', organized by Dr M. Hockx, IIAS fellow, and Prof. Michelle Yeh, University of California, in Leiden from 27 to 29 September, and hosted a second seminar from 24-26 January 1996: 'Modern China: The Literary Field'.
Dr J.E.M. Houben (the Netherlands): After having carried out research on 'Theoretical and Socio-Linguistic Attitudes of Bhartrhari and later Sanskrit Grammarians' in 1994, Dr Houben took up his second fellowship at the IIAS doing research on 'the early history of Paninian grammar and the origin of eternal Sanskrit' until July 1996. Currently he is editing the collection of papers in a Brill-publication.
Dr M.J. Klokke (the Netherlands): Dr Klokke is working within the programme Cultural Traditions in Endangered Minorities of South and Southeast Asia looking at 'Principles of Space Arrangement and Orientation in the Ancient Hindu and Buddhist Architecture of Indonesia: an example of the persistence of the Dong-Son heritage'. She will leave for fieldwork in Indonesia around March '96. From 2 to 6 September 1996 she will organize the '6th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists' in Leiden.
Dr P.P. Mohapatra (India): Dr Mohapatra is studying 'The Making of a Coolie: recovering the experience of indentured Indian migrants in the Caribbean sugar plantations, 1838-1918'. From 26 to 28 October he and Dr M. van der Linden, IISG Amsterdam, have organized the successful seminar 'South Asian Labour: Linkages - Global and Local' (in Amsterdam). A sequel is to be expected in 1997. Dr. Mohapatra has been doing archival and library research from December to February in the United Kingdom.
Dr S. Munshi (India): Dr Munshi is working on the topic 'Fashion and its relevance to community, class, and gender in India' within the framework of the programme Changing Lifestyles. She is engaged in research on how traditional concerns of women are being changed to global concerns in the urban scenario of India, and how new forms of identity are available to women. From 6 to 8 November Dr S. Munshi has organized an international seminar on 'Images of Women in Media', in Leiden.
Dr J.C.M. Peeters (the Netherlands): Dr Peeters cooperates with other fellows in the programme Changing Lifestyles, investigating 'Islamic Youth Groups in Indonesia: globalization and universalism in a local context'. He has just returned from Indonesia, where he did fieldwork.
Dr D. Tooker (USA): Dr Tooker is working both within the programme and as programme director of Cultural Traditions in Endangered Minorities of South and Southeast Asia on 'Contextual hierarchy: the pragmatics of spatial signs among the Akha'. She has organized the Second International Conference on Hani-Akha Culture (in Chiang Mai, Thailand), in cooperation with the Tribal Research Institute in Chiang Mai. Co-organizers are: The South-East Asian Mountain Peoples' Culture and Development Organization (SEAMP), a Thai NGO in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and the Institutionen för Ostasiatiska Spräk, Lund, Sweden. The conference was held from 12 to 18 May 1996.
Dr M.P. Vischer (Switzerland): Dr Vischer, working within the programme Cultural Traditions in Endangered Minorities of South and Southeast Asia, is undertaking research after 'Origin Structures: a comparative socio-cosmological study'. An international seminar about 'Hierarchization' was held on 17-19 April, followed by a masterclass offered by Professor James Fox on 'Parallelism'.
Dr Y. Zhang (People's Republic of China): Dr Zhang's research topic was 'Administrative Litigation in China and Japan'. After a successful seminar on this topic in August/September 1995, his contract was renewed with another year in order to offer the opportunity to do research on 'Taxation Law in East Asia'. A seminar on this topic will be organized on 4-5 July 1996.
Dr A. Schottenhammer (Germany): Dr Schottenhammer started mid April 1996 with 'History of the Overseas Trade of Quanzhou in the Chinese Province Fujian from the 10th to the early 14th centuries' as an individual fellow.
expected:
Two vacancies (one individual fellowship focusing on Japan, and a programme fellowship within the third
research programme 'International Social Organization in East and Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang Ties
in the Twentieth Century' are expected to be filled by the end of 1996.
2. senior visiting fellows (post PhD)
The IIAS offers senior scholars the possibility to engage in research work in the Netherlands. The period can
vary from 1 to 4 months.
IIAS offers senior scholars the possibility to engage in research work in the Netherlands. The period can vary
from 1 to 4 months. The IIAS will be welcoming several senior visiting fellows in 1996:
1 March - 1 April 1996: Dr Oddvar Hollup (Norway)
Field of research: Social Anthropology
Proposed research: 'The construction of Indian Ethnic Identity in a plural society Mauritius'
15 April - 15 August 1996: Dr Dilip Simeon (India)
Field of research: Social and Economic History, Economics, Anthropology
Proposed research: 'A Study of Coal and Colonialism'
1 April - 1 May 1996: Dr Clive Dewey (UK),
Field of research: Social and Economic History
Proposed research: 'Warriors and Mercenaries: Lifestyles and Traditions of the
Martial Castes of the Greater Punjab, 1600-1990'
16 April - 1 July 1996: Prof. J. Fox (Australia),
Field of research: Anthropology
Proposed research: 'Parallelism and Oral Traditions in Southeast Asia'
April - June 1996: Prof. O. Prakash (India)
Field of research: Economic, social and cultural history
Proposed research: 'Trade as a Variable in Determining Lifestyles: Indian merchants in the Indian
Ocean Trade'
1 May - 1 September 1996: Dr Deepak Kumar (India)
Field of research: Indian colonial history
Proposed research: 'Science and Colonization: a comparative study of the Dutch Indies and British
India, 1900-1945'
15 May - 15 August 1996: Prof. W.H. Frederick (USA)
Field of research: history
Proposed research: 'The Revolution in East Java, 1946-1949'
20 May - 20 July 1996: Gao Hongjun, Associate Professor (PR China)
Field of research: Sociology of law and comparative law
Proposed research: Social Security: Legal Aspects and Its Practice in the Netherlands
15 June - 31 August 1996: Dr Dharma Kumar (India)
Field of research: Economic, social and cultural history
Proposed research: 'Trade as a Variable in Determining Lifestyles: Indian merchants in the Indian
Ocean Trade'
1 July - 1 October 1996: Dr Gwyn R. Campbell (South-Africa)
Field of research: Malagasy / Indian Ocean history
Proposed research: 'The Origins of the Malagasy'
1 September 1996 - 1 January 1997: Dr Dilip Chandra (India)
Field of research: socio-politics
Proposed research: 'The Role of Islam in Contemporary Indonesia - an
alternative perspective'
3. professorial fellows
The IIAS assists in mediating between universities in the Netherlands and Research Institutes in Asia, inviting
established scholars (minimum requirement: assistant professor level) to share their expertise with Dutch
scholars, by being affiliated to Dutch universities for a period of one to two years.
The IIAS has assisted in mediating between the University of Ramkhamhaeng, Thailand, and the Leiden
University. Dr. Archara Pengpanich (an associate professor at the University of Ramkhamhaeng)
arrived in the Netherlands in January 1995. She is offering courses in Thai language and culture for two years
at the universities of both Amsterdam and Leiden.
Prof. Abdul Wahab bin Ali of the University of Malaya will be resident in the Netherlands from
1 May 1995 to 31 May 1997 as guest professor in Malayan Studies.
4. visiting exchange fellows (post PhD level)
The IIAS has signed several Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with foreign research institutes, thus
providing scholars with an opportunity to participate in international exchanges. The Nordic Institute for Asian
Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen and the Australian National University (ANU) regularly send scholars to the
Netherlands to do research for a period from 1 to 6 months. In exchange, Dutch scholars can apply to be sent
abroad to the MoU-institutes of the IIAS.
Close cooperation with the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) and the Australian National University
(ANU) has resulted in a regular exchange of scholars. Contacts with Vietnamese universities will become more
regular in the near future, as will others. The IIAS is expecting the following scholars:
ANU
Dr Judy Wakabayashi (University of Queensland), 'Evolution of Translation Theory; 16th to 19th
Century, Japan', from 20 Feb to 8 July 1996;
Dr Ngaire Douglas (Centre for Tourism, Southern
Cross University),'Development of tourism in Malaysia', 16 Mar - 30 Apr 1996;
Dr Baogang He
(University of Tasmania), 'Chinese transition from marketisation to democratisation', 3-4 months
between July '96 and Feb '97;
Dr Alison Murray (ANU, RSPAS) 'Cultural practice among the Kalinga
of Luzon and the Kenyah of Kalimantan, Indonesia' (6 months);
Dr Helen Creese (ANU, RSPAS) 'Balinese
chronicle traditions' (3 to 4 months at the end of '96)
NIAS
Dr. Yoichi Nagashima (Department of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen) 'Cultural
Relations between Denmark and Japan, 1600-1873', from 13 until 26 March 1996;
Dr Michael Jacobsen
(NIAS) 'Human Rights and Perceptions of the Individual and Society in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia'.
From 1 until 30 April 1996; Dr. Bent Nielsen (Dept. of Asian Studies, Copenhagen) 'The Encyclopedia of the
Book of Changes (Yi jing)'. From 15 to 31 May 1996;
Dr. Alexander Wanek (Social
Anthropology, University of Stockholm) 'The Taiwanization in Taiwan'. June 1996.
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Dr. Max Nihom, finishing his book with the preliminary title 'Studies in Indo-Indonesian Saivism'
from 1 Aug to 1 Dec 1996;
5. affiliated fellows (post PhD level)
The IIAS can offer office facilities to fellows who have found their own financial support and who would like
to do research in the Netherlands for a certain period. The Board of the IIAS decides who is eligible.
The IIAS is host to the following affiliates:
Dr Alex McKay, who will stay in Leiden from November 1995 to November 1996 on a research
award granted by the British Leverhulme Trust. His research is concerned with the history of the multi-faith
pilgrimage to Mount Kailas in Western Tibet;
Prof. Chen Xiaoming (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
Beijing), a leading authority in China on modern and contemporary Chinese literature, who will stay for one
year from December 1995, supported by the Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences. His research concerns
'Pluralistic Difficulties: contemporary Chinese culture in a transition period';
Dr. K.R. Sinha-Kerkhoff (Asian development Research Institute, India) is an affiliated fellow of the IIAS for the
duration of the WOTRO-sponsored project 'Globalization and the Construction of Communal Identities' until
October 1999;
Prof. P. Worsley (School of Asian Studies, Sydney University). Topic: Indonesian Literatures.
February - May 1996;
Prof. Fred C. Teiwes (University of Sydney) affiliated to the IIAS for period
of three months (as of 1 April 1996) to do research which focuses on both the economic policies of the mid and
late 1950s and the Hua Guofeng years following Mao's death;
Dr Hans Hägerdal
(University of Lund), staying for one year (1996/1997) to collect materials and ideas for a further study on
colonial discourses and ideologies in modern European History.
6. ESF fellows
Selected by the Asia Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF-AC) and attached to the
IIAS.
Dr F. Delvoye (France) does research about "The case of Nayak Bakhshu, court-musician of
Sultan Bahadur Shah Gujurati (r. 1526-1537)" within the framework of 'Social and Literary History of Court
Musicians in Western India, 14th-18th centuries'. She is employed by the ESF until 6 November 1996.
Dr Joachim Mittag (Germany) 'Sources of Chinese Historiography and Historical
Thinking from the beginnings to the present'. He will be employed via the ESF-AC and IIAS per 01-10-1996
until 01-10-1998, and will be stationed at the Sinological Institute in Leiden.
7. Dutch seniors
A maximum of two Dutch seniors per year can apply for this position of max. 6 months each at the IIAS. A
Dutch senior should have obtained a PhD degree
more than five years ago, and be academically very productive. The stay at IIAS (not abroad!) can be used for
further research. Funds are made available to finance the temporary replacement for teaching activities of a
senior at his/her home university.