1 December 2014
The South and Southeast Asia Events Bulletin keeps you up to date with upcoming events of
interest (in the Netherlands) to South and Southeast Asianists. This overview is an initiative of
the South and Southeast Asian Studies Programme, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.
If you know of any new events to be added to this bulletin, please send details to:
s.r.siegers@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
Thank you in advance for your contributions!
Upcoming events
New additions in red
1 December
PhD defense by V. Gopikumar | Understanding the mental ill health –
poverty - homelessness nexus in India: Strategies that promote distress
alleviation and social inclusion | VU University Amsterdam
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1 December
Modern South Asian Seminar by J.P. Wouters| Vernacular democracy and
the idea and idiom of political representation in Nagaland, North-East
India | IIAS
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2 December
Asian Modernities and Traditions (AMT) Seminar | Glueing the pieces
together: writing global history from shards? (India) | Leiden University
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1 December –
23 January
2015
Exhibition in the Old University Library | Sayyid ʿUthman of Batavia: A
life in the service of Islam and colonial rule | Leiden Un iversity
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3 December
Conference | Sailing the waves of convergence: Cultural links and
continuities across the Bay of Bengal (South & Southeast Asia)| KITLV
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3 December
Meja Indonesia (this semester every Wednesday)| Leiden University
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4 December
Book launch by Rana Behal | One hundred years of servitude: Political
economy of tea plantations in colonial Assam (India) | International
Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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4 December
PhD defense by H.Nguyen | Farmers´ land tenure security in Vietnam and
China | Groningen University
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4 December
PhD defense by Y.R. Hestyanti | Resiliency of Acehnese children: a bioecological perspective on children's patterns of adaptation to adversities
caused by the 2004 tsunami (Indonesia) | Radboud University | Nijmegen
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5 December
IIAS and Buddhism & Social Justice lecture by Ann Heirman | From the
cleanliness to the purity: bodily care in Buddhist monasteries from India
to China | IIAS, Leiden
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8 December
PhD defense by B. Vermeulen | Rivers running deep. Complex flow and
morphology in the Mahakam River, Indonesia | Wageningen University
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8 December
Application deadline AMT Research Funding: Round December 2014
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8 December
Cosmopolis Seminar by Professor Robert Cribb | 1965 in Indonesia and
the laws of conspiracy | Leiden University
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9 December
GLASS Lecture | Remembering to forget in contemporary Tibet:
Presenting the Potala Palace as ‘heritage’ | Leiden University
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10 December
Photo exhibition | The widows of Rawagede (Indonesia) | National
Museum of Ethnology, Leiden
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10 December
PhD defense by J. Liebrand | Masculinities among irrigation engineers
and water professionals in Nepal | Wageningen University
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10 December
KITLV symposium | Conflict and conscience: the Indonesian
decolonization and the uncomfortable past of the Netherlands | National
Museum of Ethnology, Leiden
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Tot 10
December
Colleges | Niet-westerse en vergelijkende wijsbegeerte (o.a. India) |
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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10 December
GLASS Master class with professor Clare Harris (Tibet) | National
Museum of Ethnology
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11 December
GLASS Roundtable with a.o. professor Clare Harris (Asia)│ Art in exile |
Leiden University
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11 December
PhD defense by M. Kruithof | Shouting in a desert: Dutch missionary
encounters with Javanese Islam, 1850-1920 | Erasmus University
Rotterdam
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11 December
PhD defense by H.P. Wiratraman | Press freedom, law and politics in
Indonesia | Leiden University
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11 December
Shared Taste Lunch to share and exchange ideas on Asia foodways and
food culture | Kikkoman Chair of Asia-Europe Intercultural Dynamics |
Leiden
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12 December
Presentation by Matthias van Rossum at workshop ‘New agendas in
critical and radical history’| Unfree labour and Dutch colonialism in Asia
| International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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12 December
Friday Afternoon Lecture | The structure of metathesis in Amarasi (West
Timor) | Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
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12 December
Inaugural lecture of 'Kikkoman Chair' professor Anne Gerritsen| The
global life of a soya bottle | Leiden University
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12 December
Oration Prof.dr. A.T. Gerritsen | Asian-Europe intercultural dynamics,
with special attention to material culture, art and development | Leiden
University
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14 December
Diaspora conference on ‘Leveraging Indian diaspora’s knowledge, capital
& networking resources for accelerating India’s progress’| The Hague
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14 December
Screening film ‘Under the three / Di bawah pohon’ by Garin Nugroho |
Indofilmcafe Nijmegen
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14 December
Lezing door Hetty Berg | Selamat Sjabbat. Joden in Nederlands-Indië |
Museum Bronbeek | Arnhem
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15 December
Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar | No more musicians, no more writers:
Greater Asia and the modernization of the arts in Japanese-occupied
Indonesia | KITLV
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15 December
PhD defense by L. Nguyen | Climate proofing aquaculture: A case study on
pangasius farming in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam | Wageningen
University
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15 December
PhD defense by | Affecting child soldiering: The interaction between
international law and the domestic legal systems of Sierra Leone, the
Philippines and Sri Lanka | Tilburg University
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16 December
IIAS Lunch Lecture | The Muscles and Sinews of the Kingdom: Sama Bajo
Sea Peoples in Early Modern Eastern Indonesia | IIAS
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16 December
PhD defense by W.S. Wibowo | Jesus as Kurban: Christology in the context
of Islam in Indonesia | VU University Amsterdam
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16 December
Symposium | Islam and the Hadrami Diaspora in the Eastern and
Western Indian Ocean (Dutch East Indies & Indonesia) | Leiden
University
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16 December
PhD defense by Suryadi | The recording industry and “regional” culture
in Indonesia: The case of Minangkabau | Leiden University
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16 December
PhD defense by A. Sulastri | Predicting success of Indonesian graduates:
determinants of academic performance and getting a job | Radboud
University | Nijmegen
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16 – 17
December
International workshop | Foreign capital in colonial Southeast Asia:
Profits, economic growth and indigenous society' with adjoining Farewell
symposium for Thomas Lindblad | Leiden University
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17 December
Farewell symposium Thomas Lindblad (Southeast Asia, Indonesia) |
Leiden University
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17 December
PhD defense by D. Boom | Adult literacy education in a multilingual
context; Teaching, learning and using written language in Timor Leste |
Tilburg University
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17 December
Farewell symposium for Dr. Thomas Lindblad (Indonesia)| Leiden
University
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17 December
PhD defense by M.S. Abanes | Ethno-religious identification and
intergroup contact avoidance, an empirical study on Christian-Muslim
relations in the Philippines | Radboud University
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18 December
IIAS National Master’s Thesis Prize (in the field of Asian Studies) Award
Ceremony
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19 December
Traditional and contemporary gamelan from Sunda (Indonesia) by
gamelan group Kyai Fatahillah | Rasa Theater Utrecht
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31 December
Exhibition | The Truth about Bahay na Pula (Philippines) | NIOD |
Amsterdam
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5 – 27 January
Film screening | Siddharth (India) | Movies that Matter on Tour
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8 – 9 January
2015
Female islamic authority in comparative perspective: Exemplars,
institutions, practices (particular focus on modern Asia) | Organized by
KITLV, AMT, LUCIS and IIAS | Leiden
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13 January
2015
PhD defense by H.L. Khaw| Cooperative and uniform fish? Social
interactions and variability in live body weight in the GIFT strain (Nile
tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus) in Malaysia | Wageningen University
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14 January
2015
Lecture on Nias (Indonesia) by Petra van Loon | Verre Culturen Delft
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Until 15
January 2015
Expositie| Met stille trom. F. Springer en het einde van Nieuw Guinea |
Museum Bronbeek | Arnhem
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15 – 18
January
Writers Unlimited Winternachten festival (a.o. Indonesia) | The Hague
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18 January
2015
Themazondag ‘Semarang’ | Museum Bronbeek | Arnhem
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18 January
2015
Lezing door Rick van den Broeke | De VOC en de Banda-eilanden. Een
genocide om het handelsmonopolie op nootmuskaat | Museum Bronbeek
| Arnhem
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15 February
2015
Lezingen | Hedendaagse omgang met koloniaal erfgoed in Indonesië |
Museum Bronbeek | Arnhem
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16 February
2015
Lecture on Papua (Indonesia) by Arne Hemkes | Verre Culturen Delft
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19 February
Expositie | Oorlog! Van Indië tot Indonesië 1945-1950 | Museum
Bronbeek | Arnhem
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23 February
PhD defense by C. Effendy | The quality of palliative care for patients with
cancer in Indonesia | Radboud University Nijmegen
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28 February
Lecture by Dr. Pralay Kanungo ( ICCR Chair Leiden University) |
Relevance of Gandhi in contemporary world | Gandhi Centre, The Hague
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Until 8 March
2015
Exhibition | Selamat Sjabbat: Jews in the Dutch East Indies | Jewish
Historical Museum | Amsterdam
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Until – 22
March 2015
Exhibition by Jompet Kuswidananto (Indonesia)| Grand Parade |
Tropenmuseum | Amsterdam
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22 March
2015
Lezingen | De dekolonisatieperiode (Nederlands-Indië)| Museum
Bronbeek | Arnhem
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April 2015
CinemAsia Film Festival
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Until 6 April
2015
Exhibition | Gold of the gods from Java | World Art Museum Rotterdam
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19 April 2015
Lezing door Hans van den Akker | Oorlogsplekken Nederlands-Indië/
Indonesië 1942-1949 | Museum Bronbeek | Arnhem
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May & June
2015
Lectures on arts in Asia (India, Indonesia, Cambodia) | Rijksmuseum |
Amsterdam
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