Newsletter 29

Newsletter 29
November 2002
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2IIAS Logo Explanation / Wim Stokhof
2Editorial / Maurice Sistermans
2Director’s Note on ASEM 4 / Wim Stokhof

1 Al-Qaeda in the Asia Pacific: Origin, Capability, and Threat / Rohan Gunaratna (p. 1, 4-5)
2In Memoriam: Hans de Casparis / Dirk Kolff
3 The Asia- Europe Meeting and the ASEM Research Platform / Paul van der Velde & Rima Sondaite-van Soest
4 Lectures on the Present, Lessons from the Past: al-Qa`ida as the New Pan-Islam / Michael Laffan (p. 4-5)

6Asians of the Same Intent / Giovanni Vitiello
6Restless Longing / Tze-lan D. Sang
7Kamingu Auto: Homosexuality and Popular Culture in Japan / Mark J. McLelland
7Gay vs. ‘Kathoey’: Homosexual Identities in Thailand / Megan Sinnott (p.7-8)
8The Legacy of the Crocodile: Critical Debates over Taiwanese Lesbian Fiction / Fran Martin
9Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Homosexual Culture in Indonesia / Dédé Oetomo
10Birthday in Beijing: Women Tongzhi Organizing in 1990s’ China / He Xiaopei
10 Homosexuality in India: Past and Present / Ruth Vanita (p.10-11)
11 The Remaking of a Cambodian-American Drag Queen / Karen Quintiliani
12 New Park: Gay Literature in Taiwan / Chi Ta-wei
12 Who’s That Girl? / Sharon Chalmers (p.12-13)
13 Filtered Voices / Cui Zi’en
14 Queer Mongolians: Is Isolation their Destiny? / Richard Smith
15A Non-Indian Resident - An Interview with the Poet Sujata Bhatt / Martin Mooij (p. 15-16)
17The Gate of Words / Antonetta L. Bruno
18

They are not Humans Anyway / Ward Berenschot (p. 18-19)

19

Between Music, Dance and Ritual / Clara Brakel & Patricia Matusky

20East is East? / Mona Abaza
21Troubled Links / Sanjoy Bhattacharya
22 Modern South Asia Conference in Heidelberg / Netty Bonouvrié
22 Tribal Transitions: Cultural Innovation in Arunachal Pradesh / Stuart Blackburn
23Visualized Space / Martin Gaenszle & Jörg Gengnagel
24 Rethinking Geopolitics in Post-Soviet Central Eurasia / Mehdi Amineh
25 Tibetological Collections & Archives Series / Henk Blezer
25 Preserving Tibetan Heritage / Dory Heilijgers
26 Media Work: Science and the Public / Judith Brandner & Brigitte Steger
26 The Vedas: Texts, Language, and Ritual / Jan Houben
26 ESCAS VIII / Touraj Atabaki
27Sex, Gender, and Priests / Sharyn Graham
28 Young Japanese Researchers on Southeast Asia - Series / Rogier Busser
28 Indigenizing Colonial Knowledge / Soda Naoki
29 Vietnamese Peasants / Markus Vorpahl
30 Eating GMOs with Chopsticks? / Heng Zhao
31

Intellectuals in Social Development in China / Nora Sausmikat

31 Chinese Communities in the Netherlands / Leo Douw
32Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development Policy in Macau / Frans-Paul van der Putten
33 Voices from Tundra and Taiga / Cecilia Odé

34From Austere Wabi to Golden Wabi / Anna Beerens
35Return to Japan from Pilgrimage to the West / Gérard Siary
35Gambling with Virtue / Sabine Frühstück
36The Miracle, a Crisis, and the Future / Benno Galjart
36Indian Revolutionaries in Central Asia / Touraj Atabaki
37Korean Multinationals in Europe / Anil Khosla
37A Free Web Journal / Mark Turin
38 Detective Report or Academic Book? / Noorhaidi Hasan
39A Cutting-Edge Manual for Spoken Tibetan / Antonio Terrone
39The Indigenization of Modernity / Toon van Meijl
40Books Received

41Family, Photography and Icon: Vivan Sundaram’s Re-take of ‘Amrita’ / Kristy Phillips
42Kenro Izu: Photography along the Silk Road / Debra Diamond
43Asia and the White Cube / Kristy Phillips
44When was Modernism? / Deepali Dewan
45 xs-XL, Expanding Art / John Gee
45It ‘May Be’ Fantastic Again / Thomas Berghuis
46 Imagined Workshop / Caroline Turner
47Art Agenda / Thomas Berghuis (p. 47-48)
49Stem Cell Research in China / Margaret Sleeboom
50IIAS Research Programmes
50IIAS Publications
51IIAS Fellows
52Spaces of Protest / Rachel Silvey
52South(east) Asian Art & Archaeology at Kediri / Ellen Raven
53 A Balancing Act / Els Bogaerts
53 The Dutch East Indies on Celluloid / Marije Plomp
53 Indonesia Across Orders / Els Bogaerts
54 Asia Alliance / Anne Sey
54Alliance Partners
55 China as Number One - in Mobiles / Jon Sigurdson
55Mobility and Mobiles in China / Anders Ravn Nielsen
56ICAS Secretariat
56ICAS 3 Singapore / Lynn Tan
56European Associations for Asian Studies
56TANAP Extends into Iran / Henk Niemeijer
56 TANAP Diary - Unequalled Success / Nirmal Dewasiri & Anjana Singh

57 Directors of Urban Change: Mega-Urbanization in Asia / Freek Colombijn & Peter Nas
57Local Land Use Strategies in a Globalizing World / Reed Wadley
58International Conference Agenda (p. 58-59)
24 Advertising Information
50 IIAS Information
54 Asia-Europe Workshop Series

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