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Annual Report 2010

International Institute for Asian Studies

Foreword 5

Research, fellows, agreements 7

Fellows 7

Memorandums of Understanding 7

Professors 8

ICAS 11

ICAS Secretariat 11

ICAS Book Prize 11

AAS-ICAS Joint Meeting in Honolulu 2011 11

IIAS Newsletter and Website 13

Website 13

Social Media 14

Publications 17

IIAS Publications Series 17

ICAS Publications Series 17

IIAS – ISEAS Publications Series 19

IIAS – Brill Series 19

Networks European Alliance for Asian Studies 21

European Alliance for Asian Studies 21

Asia-Europe Workshop Series (organised by ASEF

and the European Alliance for Asian Studies) 22

Asia-Europe Workshop Series 2010 22

Networks Europe-Asia Policy Forum 25

Appendix 1 Board, Academic Committee and Staff 27

IIAS Board 27

IIAS Academic Committee 27

IIAS Staff 27

Appendix 2 Research Programmes and Networks 31

ABIA South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology index 31

Ageing in Asia and Europe 31

Asia Design 31

Asian Borderlands Research Network 33

Centre for Regulation and Governance 33

Energy Programme Asia 33

Gender, migration and family in East and Southeast Asia 34

Plants, people and work 34

Science and history in Asia 34

Senshi Sosho 34

Zhang zhung 35

Appendix 3 Fellows 37

Fellows sponsored by the J. Gonda Foundation 37

Fellows sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 37

Fellows sponsored by IIAS 38

Fellows sponsored by other organisations 39

Affiliated fellows 41

IIAS Professors (European Chairs) 43

IIAS Professors (IIAS Extraordinary Chairs) 43

Appendix 4 Seminars 45

Appendix 5 Financial Report 2010 51

Financial accounting 51

Management accounting 51

Key ratio 51

Financial Report IIAS 53

Colophon 54

Contents

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A year of evaluation and renewed focus

In response to a rapidly changing global environment at home and abroad, characterised by a diversification of stakeholders, a more prominent position of Asia and Asian studies, and dwindling support for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Academia, IIAS, under its new director, Dr. Philippe Peycam, formulated new strategic directions. The new IIAS position, mission, and ambitions for the coming years were laid down in a policy document “Strategic Directions for IIAS, 2010-2015”, written by the Director and sanctioned by the IIAS Board in June of the same year.

While the Institute’s original mission remains as relevant as before, IIAS’s answer to its new environment is to increase its focus while furthering its institutional identity and visibility through the originality of its programmes and initiatives. The objective is to strengthen IIAS’s position as an independent and flexible small institution built on global networks, mutually-beneficial collaborative partnerships and well-targeted quality services.

An important concrete step was taken with the definition of three programmatic and thematic clusters in phase with contemporary Asian currents: Asian cities, the global projection of Asia and dynamics of Asian cultural heritages. These clusters will serve as focal points for future activities. The aim is to use these thematic umbrellas in order to cultivate synergy and coherence between people and projects while generating more interaction with Asian societies.

To stress the new directions taken by IIAS, plans were immediately drawn up to redesign the IIAS website and the IIAS Newsletter. The pull-out focus section of The Newsletter’s summer edition was entirely devoted to urbanisation in East Asia. Activities were also planned in line with the new thematic approach: one of the first was a Round Table on the practices and approaches toward cultural heritages in Asia and Europe, held on 2 September 2010 in cooperation with the Asia-Europe Foundation (Singapore). One of the outcomes of the meeting was the organisation of an international Summer School followed by a conference on the same topic, to be held in Leiden in June 2011.

Throughout the year, IIAS has continued to hold (and plan) workshops and other academic events, to receive fellows and other guests, and to publish monographs and edited volumes in the field of Asian Studies. 2010 was a year of changes and reorientations, preparing IIAS to hold a more pronounced and focused role in a rapidly changing environment.

Philippe PeycamDirector

Foreword

Research, fellows,agreements


The International Institute for Asian Studies

organises its research along programmes and

various types of individual research projects.

IIAS research is characterised by the facilitation

for researchers and the thematic flexibility

regarding long-term programmes, welcoming

different academic disciplines and regional

specialisations.

In addition, the institute’s network provides researchers and their projects an opportunity to ‘embed’ in an international, academic and non-academic, environment. IIAS maintains a balance between humanities and socialsciences, and between ‘full-blooded’ science and ‘science for society’. On the one hand, IIAS supports programmes that unravel complex processes and provide points of impact for renewal and improvement, such as research in linguistics, literature, music and arts, media, history, and so on. On the other hand, IIAS is involved in research programmes that address and seek to solve societal questions, such as in research on regulation and governance, civil society, sustainable development, etc. All research programmes are jointly funded by IIAS and partner organisations within the Netherlands and abroad.

FellowsIn addition to those scholars visiting IIAS as part of agreements, a large number of researchers come to Leiden orAmsterdam to work on their individual projects as a visiting fellow. This provides an opportunity to make use of theextensive collections in Leiden (KITLV, Kern Library, and other specialized libraries), The Hague (National Archive) and Amsterdam (International Institute of Social History, for example). Others use their time to write up research findings or finish a manuscript. Many of these fellows are supported financially by national and international funding agencies. In 2010, IIAS hosted fellows with grants from:

Asian Research Institute of National University of Singapore; Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung; Asiascape; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS); Fritz Thyssen Stiftung; J. Gonda Foundation; National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU); Numata Foundation; Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO); and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

AgreementsIIAS has many different kinds of international cooperation agreements in the field of academic research and seminars. With three partners, IIAS has agreed an annual fellow exchange programme and/or joint conferences:

• Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, China• National Science Council (NSC), Taipei, Taiwan• CAPAS, Center for Asia Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS),

Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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ProfessorsIIAS also appoints professors as part of an agreement with Dutch universities, foreign ministries and fundingorganisations. These IIAS affiliated professors teach at Dutch universities to strengthen existing BA and MA teaching programmes in Asian studies. Annually, IIAS hosts the following professors:

• European Chair of Chinese Studies, co-sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan

• European Chair of Malay Studies, co-sponsored by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia

• Visting scholar in Korean Studies, co-sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS), Seoul, South Korea

IIAS extraordinary chairs were established to stimulate Asian Studies at Dutch universities where Asian Studies is not a major focus or to stimulate specific fields of study at universities with a well-established reputation in Asian Studies. Qualified scholars are appointed for one day a week at the host university. IIAS provides the funding for the teaching replacement of the scholar at his or her home university.

• Prof. Tak-Wing Ngo is appointed at the Erasmus University Rotterdam to teach on the history of Asia (1 May 2008 – 1 May 2012).

• As of 1 July 2009, Prof. Gerard Persoon is appointed at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Developmental Sociology of Leiden University to teach on environment and development, with special attention to indigenous peoples in Asia (1 July 2009 – 1 July 2014).


The International Convention of Asia Scholars

(ICAS), founded in 1997, is a platform for

representatives of academia and civil society to

focus on issues critical to Asia and by implication

to the rest of the world. ICAS is the premier

international gathering in the field of Asian

studies.

ICAS SecretariatThe ICAS Secretariat (hosted by the IIAS) guarantees the continuity of the ICAS process, which is characterised by a comparative cross-border / cross-discipline approach. ICAS specifically encourages the participation of young academics. The ICAS Secretariat is an active accelerator of research and has produced initiatives such as the Convention, the ICAS Publications Series and the ICAS Book Prize.

Chief Executive Officer: Paul van der Velde, PhD Executive Officer: Martina van der Haak, MA

ICAS Book Prize The ICAS Book Prize (IBP) seeks to honour the best of Asian Studies and is awarded for outstanding Asian Studies English-language works in the fields of the Social Sciences and Humanities. The winner of each category is awarded 2.500 euro in prize money. The IBP Reading Committee consists of Asia scholars from Asia, North America and Europe.

2010 saw the establishment of a separate Best PhD Reading Committee, with last year’s winners of the best PhDs Iza Hussin (Social Sciences) and Birgit Abels (Humanities) becoming its first members. The Committee was asked to increase the number of PhDs submissions for the Book Prize.

The number of submitted books rose to 200 involving more than 40 Asian Studies publishers, whereas the number of PhDs tripled to nearly 40. The 2010 winners will be announced during the 2011 ICAS convention in Hawai’i.

Secretary to the IBP Reading Committees:Paul van der Velde, PhD

AAS-ICAS Joint Meeting in Honolulu 2011In 2010 preparations were well underway for the joint meeting of the (American) Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), to be held in Honolulu in April 2011. The selection of submitted abstracts and panels was made by the Academic Committees of both ICAS and AAS. During a preparatory joint meeting of the Academic Committees in Detroit in September 2010, 770 panels were selected for the 2011 AAS-ICAS Joint Meeting.

ICAS

Daejeon

Seoul

Korea

ICAS 6 will be hosted by the Chungnam National University (CNU), the Center for Asian Regional Studies (CARS) and Daejeon Metropolitan City and will be held in the Daejeon Convention Centre. The overarching theme is: Think Asia! More than 1,500 Asia Studies specialists are expected in Daejeon. This city is located in the heart of the Korean peninsula and successfully merges its long history of culture and tradition with leading research in science and technology.

For practical information on ICAS 6:http://www.icas6.org/

The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is one of the largest biennial gatherings for Asia scholars to meet and discuss new developments in the fields of the Human and Natural Sciences. Since 1998, ICAS has brought more than 5,000 academics from 60 countries together at five conventions.

For more information on ICAS, the ICAS Book Prize and the ICAS Publications Series: http://www.icassecretariat.org

Daejeon, Korea 6-9 August 2009Think Asia!


With the launch of a full digital version

The Newsletter became also available as a web

publication, offering subscribers the choice

between receiving a print or an email version.

Downloadable from the website and with a print circulation averaging 7,500 per issue, in 2010 The Newsletter enjoyed a readership of nearly 20,000 individuals and institutes in 78 countries, making it the largest-circulated publication in its field.

As well as being a window of the institute, The Newsletter links IIAS with the community of Asia scholars and the interested public worldwide. As the gulf between specialist knowledge and public discourse grows wider, The Newsletter bridges the gap and continues to prove itself as a thought-provoking instance of science journalism for Asian studies. Each issue contains commentary and opinion, short research essays, photography essays and book/film reviews, as well as coverage of IIAS-organised events, research programmes, publications and new initiatives. The majority of contributors were associated with IIAS as fellows, through research networks, or via IIAS-sponsored workshops and conferences.

Each issue featured the Focus, a collection of articles with a common theme, coordinated by a guest editor:

‘Indigenous' India (Markus Schleiter and Erik de Maaker, #53)Religion and Global Empire (Kiri Paramore, #54)Urbanisation in East Asia (Gregory Bracken, #55)

WebsiteIn 2010 the IIAS website www.iias.nl had an average of 4,000 page views and 2,000 visitors per day, and contained information about the institute, its research activities, fellowships, publications, and network activities, as well as an online version of the IIAS Newsletter.

In the fall of 2010 much preparatory work went into a complete new design and new information structure of the IIAS website, which had become necessary due to the

IIAS Newsletter and Website


formulation of the new strategic directions for IIAS earlier in the year. In order to meet the new communication strategy - from information to more interaction- it was decided that the website was to be re-designed and re-built from scratch. By the end of 2010 the new website was not yet available, but well on its way for its launch in 2011.

IIAS also hosts and maintains the websites of:• the International Convention of Asia Scholars

(www.icassecretariat.org)• the European Alliance for Asian Studies

(www.asia-alliance.org)• New Asia Books (www.newasiabooks.org)• Europe-Asia Policy Forum, EUforAsia (www.euforasia.eu)• the IIAS Centre for Regulation and Governance (crg.iias.asia)• the European Conference on Agriculture and Rural

Development in China (www.ecardc.org)• Science History in Asia (www.sciencehistory.asia)• ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology

(www.abia.net)• Asian Borderlands Research Network

(www.asianborderlands.net)

Social MediaIn 2010 IIAS fully embraced social media and uses it to engage with fellows, alumni, partners, institutes, organisations, and other interested parties. You can find, follow and talk to IIAS on Facebook - www.facebook.com , Twitter – www.twitter.com/asianstudies and LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/company/1267478


The IIAS and ICAS Publications Series both consist

of monographs and edited volumes.

IIAS publications result from research projects conducted at IIAS but also from research conducted elsewhere. The series promotes interdisciplinary studies on Asia and comparative research on Asia and Europe. Two monographs and two edited volumes were published in 2010.

Most ICAS publications are the outcome of contributions at the ICAS conventions. The series takes a multidisciplinary approach to issues of interregional and multilateral importance for Asia in a global context, and stimulates dialogue amongst scholars and civil society groups at the local, regional and international levels. One monograph and three edited volumes were published in 2010.

Both series are published and distributed by Amsterdam University Press (AUP). The distributor in the United States is Chicago University Press and the distribution in Asia is done by several academic publishers. Distinguishing features of the series are: Expedient production of books (in less than a year); relatively low prices (between 30-50 euro); considerable PR because of the globally distributed IIAS Newsletter, the well-visited websites and social networks; exposure at the two-yearly International Convention of Asia Scholars where the books of the series are launched; excellent distribution in Europe, the United States and Asia; and last but not least all the books in the series are available online through Open Access at AUP.

Both series have editorial boards consisting of eminent scholars in their respective fields and the manuscripts of both series are peer-reviewed before being accepted. The General Editor of the IIAS and ICAS series is Dr Paul van der Velde. Martina van den Haak (MA) is Publications Officer.

IIAS Publications Series

MonographsChina with a Cut. Globalization, Urban Youth and Popular Music Jeroen de Kloet

The Theme of Partition in Selected English Novels of the Sub-continent Rituparna Roy

Edited VolumesFrameworks of Choice: Predictive & Genetic Testing in Asia Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner

Asian cross-border marriage migration: demographic patterns and social issues Melody Lu and Wen-Shan Yang

ICAS Publications Series

MonographsModernization Tradition and Identity. The Kompilasi Hukum Islam and Legal Practice in the Indonesian Religious Courts Euis Nurlaelawati

Publications


Edited VolumesState, Society and International Relations in Asia M. Parvizi Amineh

Tracks and Traces – Thailand and the Work of Andrew Turton Philip Hirsch and Nicholas Tapp

From Marginal to Mainstream. Asian Literary Voices Philip F. Williams

IIAS – ISEAS Publications Series Edited VolumesPirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia: Historical and Contemporary PerspectivesJohn Kleinen, Manon Osseweijer (eds) Varieties of Religious Authority: Changes and Challenges in 20th Century Indonesian Islam Azyumardi Azra, Kees van Dijk, Nico J G Kaptein (eds)

IIAS – Brill Series* A Grammar and Dictionary of Zaiwa (2 vols.) Anton Lustig * published with financial support from IIAS


NetworksEuropean Alliance for

Asian StudiesIIAS holds the secretariat of European Alliance

for Asian Studies (‘the Alliance’) and the Asia-

Europe Workshop Series.

European Alliance for Asian StudiesThe European Alliance for Asian Studies is a cooperative framework of European institutes specialising in Asian Studies. This alliance was established in 1997 to establish scholarly excellence and mutual understanding in innovative areas of research and expertise on Asia.

European Alliancefor Asian Studies

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen, Denmarkwww.nias.edu.dk

Swedish School of Advanced AsiaPacific Studies (SSAAPS) inStockholm, Swedenwww.stint.se

Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) of theGerman Institute of Global and AreaStudies (GIGA) in Hamburg, Germanywww.giga-hamburg.de/ias

Centre for International Studies andResearch (CERI) in Paris, Francewww.ceri-sciencespo.com

Center for East Asian Studies (CEAO)www.uam.es/otrocentros/asiaoriental

School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS)www.soas.ac.uk

Romanian Institute for European – Asian Studies (IRSEA) in Bucharest, Romaniawww.irsea.ro/


Asia-Europe Workshop Series (organised by ASEF and the European Alliance for Asian Studies) Since 2002, IIAS has a successful cooperation with the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) in Singapore. ASEF promotes greater understanding between Asia and Europe through intellectual, cultural and people-to-people exchange, and contributes to policy debates in the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) framework by providing a common platform for stakeholders from civil society, government and multilateral institutions.

The annual Asia-Europe Workshop Series, which are jointly organised with the European Alliance for Asian Studies supports academic institutions to organise workshops on themes of common interest to Asia and Europe. The workshop series reinforces and creates specialised academic networks throughout Asia and Europe. In addition to the academic participants and attendants of the workshop, participation by representatives of NGOs, policy makers, and other interested parties is encouraged.

Asia-Europe Workshop Series 2010

The Baltic Sea and South China Sea Regions: Incomparable Models of Regional Integration?Conveners:• Prof. Dr. Michael North, University of Greifswald,

Department of History• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Barnard Turner, The European Union Centre

in Singapore, (National University of Singapore European Union Centre ( National University of Singapore, February 15, 2010

Europeanisation and Aseanisation in a comparative perspectiveConveners • Dr. François Bafoil, Sciences Po CERI, Paris, France • Dr. Suthiphand Chirathivat, Dean of the Faculty of

Economics, Economic research center Center for International economics Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

• CERI Sciences Po, 15 June 2010 Changing Intergenerational Relationships as Europe and Asia AgeConveners: • Professor Sarah Harper, Oxford Institute of Ageing,

University of Oxford • Professor Alfred Chan, Department of Politics and Sociology, Director, Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies (APIAS) New Territories Lingnan University, Hong Kong Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford, December 2010

Young People and New Media in Asia and Europe – Continents Apart, Concerns ConvergedConveners:• Sun Sun LIM, Communications and New Media Programme

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences National University of Singapore

• Jochen Peter, The Amsterdam School of Communications Research ASCoR University of Amsterdam National University of Singapore, 20 – 21 June, 2010

Urban management for an urban futureConveners:• Miro Hacek, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of social

sciences, Kardeljeva ploscad 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia• Kenneth Chan Ka Lok, Department of Government and

International

• Studies Hong Kong Baptist University Renfrew Road Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, University of Ljubljana, 15 - 16 of October 2010

Economic/Social Exclusion and Collective Action – Asia and Europe ComparedConveners • Prof. Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan and Dr. Frédéric

Royall, Department of Economics, Euro-Asia Centre/ Department of Languages and Cultural Studies University of Limerick, Ireland

• Prof. Fan Hong, Irish Institute of Chinese Studies, University College Cork, Ireland University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, May 27, 2010

www.asia-alliance.org


The ‘Europe-Asia Policy Forum’ is a three-year

programme with financial support from the

European Commission, run by IIAS and its

partners the Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF)

in Singapore, the Singapore Institute for

International Affairs (SIIA) and the European

Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels. The programme

was set up in 2009 and will run until the end of

2011.

This programme, also referred to as the EUforAsia programme after its website address, aims at contributing to an improved European understanding of the Asian region and to an ever more comprehensive engagement between Europe and Asia for effective bi-regional co-operation in addressing policy issues of European or common concern. The overall objective is to promote mutual understanding between the EU and Asia, in the fields of development, health, education, governance, regional cooperation and integration, multilateralism, environment and sustainable development thus contributing to an ever more comprehensive engagement between the two regions for effective inter-regional co-operation and to impact European policies towards Asia: The Europe-Asia Policy Forum encompasses a series of activities pertaining to policy research and think-tank

dialogues, networking and modern communication programmes, namely:

• An Internet Forum, including a regular on-line electronic Newsletter;

• The Brussels Asia Briefings on contemporary issues (8 Briefings a year) for officials, researchers, NGOs and others working on Asian affairs;

• A Europe-Asia sustainable development Panel Series: one panel per year on Clean Development mechanisms, Poverty, Water and Health as well as Pollution and Health (respectively)

• A Regional Integration Series: three Roundtables; one on monetary integration and two on ASEM Civil society consultations. The themes will include economic governance and the MDGs, social issues (e.g. education, labour, gender issues), and EU’s lack of visibility in Asia;

• An Asia Europe Roundtable on Governance and Conflict Management: two Roundtables on development assistance to fragile states and the management of refugees in post-conflict situations (respectively).

www.euforasia.eu

NetworksEurope-Asia Policy Forum


IIAS Board

Prof. Henk Schulte Nordholt, ChairmanRoyal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

(KITLV)

Prof. Isa Baud University of Amsterdam

Maghiel van Crevel (Leiden University)Leiden University

Prof. Peter Ho Groningen University

Prof. Mario RuttenUniversity of Amsterdam

Prof. Oscar SaleminkFree University Amsterdam

Prof. Ivo SmitsLeiden University

Prof. Patricia SpyerLeiden University

IIAS Academic Committee Dr Manon Osseweijer, SecretaryIIAS

Dr Ellen BalFree University Amsterdam

Dr Adriaan Bedner, ChairmanLeiden University

Dr Marieke BloembergenRoyal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

(KITLV)

Dr Koen de CeusterLeiden University

Dr Aya EzewaLeiden University

Dr Jeroen de KloetUniversity of Amsterdam

Dr J.E. MooiInstitute of Social Studies

IIAS Staff Dr Phillipe PeycamDirector

Dr Michiel BaasBranch office coordinator

Martina van den Haak, MAProject coordinator seminars and publications

Manuel HaneveldIT officer

Ria van der HolstController

Appendix 1Board, Academic Committee

and Staff


Sandra van der Horst, MAProject coordinator fellowships

Heleen van der Minne, MASecretary Branch Office

Dr Manon OsseweijerDeputy Director

Dr Paul van der VeldeICAS Secretary and Publications manager

Amparo de Vogel-NieuwveenSecretary

Thomas Voorter, MAWWW officer

Anna Yeadell, BSc(Hons)Newsletter editor

Marie Lenstrup Acting Newsletter editor


ABIA South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology indexThe Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology is an annotated bibliographic database for South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology. The project is coordinated by the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. The database is freely accessible at www.abia.net. Extracts are available as a series of bibliographies, published by Brill. The project receives scientific support from UNESCO. Sponsered by J. Gonda Foundation. Dr Ellen Raven (coordinator)Leiden University/IIAS

Dr Gerda Theuns-de BoerLeiden University/IIAS

Ageing in Asia and EuropeIt is projected that by 2050 nearly two billion people will be aged 60 and over. The bulk of the ageing population will reside in Asia. Ageing in Asia is responsible for the marked decline in fertility shown over the last 40 years and the steady increase in life expectancy. Governments are seeking ways to trim and reduce social welfare, health-care, including pensions systems, unleashing sbustantial public debate and insecurity. Many Asian governments are facing comparable dilemmas, involving both state and family. The researchers in this network shed light on how both Asian and European nationas are reviewing the social contract with their citizens. Affiliated network: Réseau de Recherche Internationale sur l’Age, la Citoyenneté et l’Intégration Socio-économique(REIACTIS).

Prof. Carla Risseeuw (coordinator)IIAS

Asia DesignThis programme consists of a number of individual projects related to graphic design and architectural design in Asian megacities. The projects address both the physical and social aspects of design.

1. Translating (Japanese) contemporary artThis project focuses on (re)presentaion of ‘Japanese contemporary art’ in art critical and theoretical discourse fromthe late 1980s in the realms of English and Japanese languages, including artists’ own critical writings. The project is a subject of (cultural) translation rather than an art historical study, with which the researcher intends to explore the possibility of multiple and subversve reading of ‘Japanese contemporary art’ in order to establish various models for transculturality in contemporary art.

Sponsored by IIAS and Asiascape.

Takako Kondo (PhD researcher)

Prof. Chris Goto-JonesMEARC, Leiden University

2. The postcolonial global cityThis research examines the postcolonial cities of South, East and Southeast Asia m and how some of them have made the succesful segue from nodes in formerly colonial networks to global cities in their own right. It is intended to be an interdisciplinary approach bringing together artchitects and urbanists, geographers, sociologists and political scientists as well as historians, linguists and everyone else involved in the

Appendix 2Research Programmes

and Networks


field of Asian studies. The research concentrates on cities that have successfully made the transition from colonial to postcolonial nodes in the global network (e.g. Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai). A key factor in the research is architectural typology, whereby architecture is examined to see how it can create identity and ethos and how in the postcolonial era these building typologies have been superseded by the office building, the skyskraper and the shopping centre, all of which are rapdily altering the older urban fabric of the city.

Sponsored by IIAS and the Delft School of Design (DSD).

Ir. Greg Bracken (coordinator and main researcher)Delft School of Design

Asian Borderlands Research NetworkThe concerns of this network range from migratory movements, transformations in cultural, linguistic and religious practices, to ethnic mobilisation and conflict, marginalisation and environmental issues. The projectgenerates new knowledge and methodologies for the better understanding of transitional zones and borderlands ingeneral. www.asianborderlands.net

Dr Erik de Maaker (coordinator)Leiden University

Prof. Willem van Schendel University of Amsterdam

Centre for Regulation and GovernanceThe IIAS Centre for Regulation and Governance is the first European research centre devoted to the study of regulation and governance in Asia. The Centre engages in innovative and comparative research on the theories and practices of regulation and governance. Focusing on emerging markets of

Asia such as China, India, South Korea, and Indonesia, the Centre serves as a focal point of collaborative research between European and Asian scholars. It emphasizes multidisciplinarity in its research undertakings which combine approaches from political economy, law, public administration, criminology, and sociology in the comparative analysis of regulatory issues in Asia and in developing theories of governance pertinent to Asian realities. Prof. Tak-Wing Ngo (coördinator)IIAS professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam

Energy Programme AsiaThis programme adresses the domestic and geopolitical aspects of energy security for China and the EU. This includes analysing the effects of competition for oil and gas resources, the security of energy supply, demand and supply, energy efficiency policies and the deployment of renewable energy resources. Scholars from the Netherlands and China will jointly publish their research findings. Institutes involved: Institute of West Asian and African Studies (IWAAS) and Institute of Industrial Economy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

Co-sponsored by KNAW-CASS.

Dr Mehdi P. Amineh (coordinator)IIAS

Dr Mo ChenInstitute of West-Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of

SocialSciences, Beijing, China

Prof. Yang GuangDirector of the Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Beijing, China


Jan Bongenaar (coordinator and main researcher)

Zhang zhungThis sub-project of Dr Henk Blezer’s Vidi project ‘Three Pillars of Bön’ focuses on Zhang zhung scripts (end of the first millennium A.D., in West Tibet), which later became closely related to the identity of the Bön religious minority group. The researchers in this project study the diachrony of these allegedly old scripts from the perspective of the development of scripts in the wider region and from the perspective of Bön textual sources.

Dr Henk BlezerFaculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SAS

India en Tibet

Prof. Shi DanEnergy Economic Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,

Beijing, China

Prof. Kurt RadtkeIndependent researcher

Gender, migration and family in East and Southeast AsiaThis is a comparative project on intra-regional flows of migration in East and Southeast Asia with a focus on gender and family. It examines the development of the immigration regimes of newly industrialised countries in the region and also looks at experiences of female migrants within this context. This three-year research project focuses on Taiwan and South Korea as the receiving countries and Vietnam and PRC as the sending countries.

Dr Melody Chia-Wen LU (coordinator)IIAS

Plants, people and workThis research programme consists of various projects that study the social history of cash crops in Asia (18th to 20th centuries). Over the past 500 years Europeans have turned into avid consumers of colonial products. Production systems in the Americas, Africa and Asia adapted to serve the new markets that opened up in the wake of the ‘European encounter’. The effects of these transformations for the long-term development of these societies are fiercely contested. This research programme contributes to the discussion on the histories of globalisation by comparing three important systems of agrarian production over the last 200 years: tobacco, sugar and indigo in India and Indonesia.

Sponsored by NWO and IISG.

Prof. Marcel van der LindenIISG

Science and history in AsiaThis project will examine the complex links between science and history in Asian civilisations. Five international workshops will be organised in Leiden, Cambridge and Paris to address issues including, how have Asians used disciplines such as astronomy, now categorised as sciences, for a better understanding of their own past? How did these disciplines gain cultural legitimacy? And how can the sciences be incorporated into the historical narratives of Asian civilisations?

Sponsored by NWO Humanities, Needham Research Institute, Recherches Epistémologiques et Historiques sur les Sciences Exactes et les Insitutions Scientifiques (REHSEIS) and IIAS

Prof. Christopher Cullen (coordinator)Needham Research Institute

Prof. Harm Beukers (coordinator)Scaliger Institute, Leiden University

Senshi SoshoThis project aims to translate a maximum of 6 official Japanese publications of the series known as ‘Senshi Sosho’ into the English language. From 1966 until 1980, the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo published a series of 102 numbered volumes on the war in Asia and the Pacific. Around 1985 a few additional unnumbered volumes were published. This project focuses specfically on the 6 volumes of these two series which are relevant to the study of the Japanese attack on and the subsequent occupation of the former Dutch East-Indies in the period of 1941 until 1945.

Funded by the Philippus Corts Foundation.


Fellows sponsored by the J. Gonda Foundation

Dr Andrea AcriSponsored by the J. Gonda Foundation1 September 2010 – 28 February 2011

Ms Gerda Theuns-de BoerLeiden University, the Netherlands Researcher within the South and Southeast Asia Art and Archaelogy Index (ABIA)Sponsored by the J. Gonda FoundationSouth and Southeast Asian Art and Archaelogy Index

1 November 2002 - 1 June 2011

Ms Elisa GanserSapienza University of Rome, ItalySponsored by the J. Gonda FoundationAn Annotated Translation and Study of the Chapter on Dance in the

Nat.yasatra and its commentary Abhinavabharatı.

3 May 2010 – 1 August 2010

Dr Ellen RavenKern University of Indology, Leiden University, the Netherlands Researcher within the South and Southeast Asia Art and Archaelogy Index (ABIA)Sponsored by the J. Gonda FoundationArt, Material Culture and Archaeology of South and Southeast Asia

1 October 1996 - 31 December 2011

Fellows sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Dr Mehdi P. AminehStationed at the Branch Office Amsterdam & LeidenProgramme Coordinator of Energy Programme Asia (EPA)Sponsored by KNAW/CASSDomestic and Geopolitical Energy Security for China and the EU

1 September 2007 - 1 September 2010

Prof. Yang GuangStationed at the Branch OfficeInstitute of West-Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science Research fellow within Energy Programme Asia (EPA)Sponsored by CASS/KNAW25 October 2010 – 15 November 2010

Dr Yu GuoqingInstitute of West-Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science Research fellow within Energy Programme Asia (EPA)Sponsored by CASS/KNAWChina's Energy Policy towards Iran

18 October 2010 – 18 November 2010

Dr Sun HongboInstitute of West-Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science Research fellow within Energy Programme Asia (EPA)Sponsored by CASS/KNAW11 October 2010 – 11 November 2010

Appendix 3Fellows


Dr Chen MoInstitute of West-Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science Research fellow within Energy Programme Asia (EPA)Sponsored by CASS/KNAW25 October 2010 – 25 November 2010 Fellows sponsored by IIAS

Dr Amanda AchmadiFaculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. The University of Melbourne, AustraliaExploring Bali's Hidden Urban Middle Class Culture and Cities

1 February 2010 – 15 July 2010

Dr Hossein AzadiEnvironmental Science Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran - Centre for Development Studies, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, the NetherlandsGlobal Land Grabbing for Food and Biofuels: Consequences of China Rise

on Developing Countries

1 November 2009 – 1 February 2010

Dr Richard BoydIIAS Centre for Regulation and GovernanceRent Seeking and Development in East Asia

16 November 2009 – 16 May 2010

Dr Gregory BrackenDelft School of Design, TU Delft, the Netherlands Urban Complexity in Asia


Dr Manuela CiottiUniversity of EdinburghPolitical agency and gender in India. Writing women, Dalits and subalterns

into political modernity

1 May 2010 – 30 June 2010

Dr Francesca Dal Lago Leiden Institute for Area Studies The Drawing of Modernity: European Academic Education and the Making

of Chinese Modern Art (1911-1937)

1 September – 31 December 2010

Ms Takako KondoDepartment of Japan Studies, Leiden University, the NetherlandsSponsored by Asiascape and IIAS Translating (Japanese) Contemporary Art

1 September 2009 - 31 augustus 2012

Dr Li-Fang LiangConstructing Migrant Care Labor: A Study of Institutional Process and the

Discourse of Migration and Work

7 October 2010 – 3 January 2011

Dr Wendy SmithMonash University, Melbourne, AustraliaSponsored by IIAS and NIHUNew Religious Movements

8 February 2010 – 22 February 2010

Dr Dorota SzawarskaKinship and intergenerational exchange of support in the context of

limited repatriation. The case of Sakhalin Korean repatriates

1 September – 30 November 2010

Fellows sponsored by other organisations

Dr Birgit AbelsRuhr University Bochum, Germany Stationed at the Branch Office AmsterdamSponsored by Fritz Thyssen StiftungOf Islam, Ancestors, and Translocality in Borderlands: Identity Negotiation

and the Performing Arts among the Bajau Laut of Southeast Asia

1 October 2008 - 1 February 2010

Dr Tom van den BergeKITLV, The NetherlandsH.J. van Mook, 1849-1965: Een vrij en gelukkig Indonesie

1 June 2009 – 31 May 2010

Prof. Roma ChatterjiUniversity of Delhi, IndiaThe Verpleghuis in Anthropological Perspective

7 June 2010 – 1 July 2010

Ms Ma’soomeh ForouzaniDepartment of Agricultural Extension and Education, Shiraz University, IranAgricultural Water Poverty: The Impact of Knowledge and Technology

1 July 2010 – 30 September 2010 Professor FunayamaNumata visiting professor in Buddhist studies

15 September – 15 December 2010

Mr Kalsang GurungLeiden University, the Netherlands Sponsored by NWOThe Founder of Bon: The Birth of a Myth

1 January 2009 - 1 July 2009Affiliated from 1 July 2009 – 30 June 2010

Prof. Richard HayesDepartment of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USANumata visiting professor in Buddhist studiesThe evolution of Indian Buddhist philosophy and its relation to practice

1 September 2009 – 1 December 2009

Ms Yetty HaningCentre for Studies & Advocation of Human Rights of Nusa Cendana University, Indonesia Timor Sea Border Issues


Dr Satoshi HigashitaniKonan University (Kobe)Japanese documents and materials, including prints, drawings, and

pictures, that contain information about Japanese folklore and about the

way of the life in the Edo Period (1600-1868)

15 April 2010 – 30 September 2010

Prof. Jan HoubenEcole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France Vedic Ritual in Asian-European Context

1 July 2008 - 31 December 2010

Dr Masae KatoLeiden University, the Netherlands A comparative Study on Socio-genetic Marginalisation: Japan in “Asia” in

relation to the “West” as a Reference Group

1 May 2008 - 1 April 2010

Dr Karel R. van KooijSouth Asian Studies, Kern Institute Leiden UniversityTantric Rituals as described in the Kalikapurana

18 May 2010 - 30 June 2010


Dr Jung-Hoon LeeResearch Institute for Oriental Cultures Gakushuin University, JapanThe European Union (EU)'s Policy of Engagement and the Korean Peninsula

Energy Development Organization (KEDO)

26 July 2010 – 25 August 2010

Dr Irina MorozovaMoscow State University, Russian Federation Stationed at the Branch Office Amsterdam & LeidenSponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt StiftungConflict, Security and Development in the post-Soviet Era: Towards

regional economic Cooperation in the Central Asian Region

24 April 2003 - 31 December 2009

Dr Dipika MukherjeeNegotiating Languages and Forging Identities: Surinamese-Indian Women

in the Netherlands

25 January 2010 - 5 March 2010

Prof. Hirochika NakamakiNational Museum of Ethnicity, Osaka, JapanSponsored by NIHU and IIASNew Religious Movements

8 February 2010 – 15 February 2010

Prof. Hadijah Bt RahmatAsian Languages and Cultures, NIE/NTUEuropean Relations to Abdullah Bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi and its Influence

on Malay- Indonesian Literary Development

1 September 2010 – 1 December 2010

Dr Saraju RathSponsored by NWOScanning, Preservation, and Translitteration of Selected Manuscripts of the

Taittirya Tradition

5 January 2004 - 1 January 2010Affiliated from 1 January 2010 - 1 April 2010

Prof. Carla RisseeuwLeiden University, the Netherlands Ageing in Asia and Europe

1 January 2008 - 1 April 2010

Assoc. Professor Mina RocesSchool of History and PhilosophyThe University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaA History of Filipino Migration and Identity, 1908-2008

20 August-15 September 2010

Dr Margaret Sleeboom-FaulknerUniversity of Sussex, Brighton, UKHuman Genetics and its political, social, cultural and ethical Implications


Dr Eka SrimulyaniThe State Institute for Islamic Studies, IAIN Ar-Raniry Darussalam Banda Aceh IndonesiaSponsored by KNAW‘Public' religious roles of Muslim women; Teungku Inong (women ulama)

and Majelis Taklim (religious learning circle) in Acehnese Communities

16 September – 15 November 2010

Dr Alexander StolyarovInstitute of Oriental Studies of the RAS, RussiaEarly Medieval North Indian Copper-plate Land Grants

7 June 2010 – 15 July 2010

Dr Imran bin TajudeenNational University of Singapore (NUS), SingaporeMosques as colonial heritage in the former Netherlands East Indies

1 July 2010 - 1 July 2011

Prof. Sujatha VekateshCentre for the Study of Social Systems, Scholl for Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, IndiaStationed at the Branch Office Globalisation and Ayurveda

26 June 2010 – 10 July 2010

Dr Juliana Abdul WahabSchool of Communication, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, MalaysiaReality TV and Quest of Globalization

16 January 2010 – 25 July 2010

Prof. Shuxian YeChinese Academy of Social Sciences Sponsored by KNAWCreation mythology and oral traditional epic studies in China

1 April 2010 – 30 April 2010

Dr Hubin YinChinese Academy of Social Sciences Sponsored by KNAWCreation mythology and oral traditional epic studies in China

1 April 2010 – 30 April 2010

Affiliated fellows

Prof. Chistopher CullenNeedham Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom Sponsored by NWO/NRI/REHSEISHistory of Chinese Science and Medicine

1 September 2008 - 31 December 2010

Dr Catherine JamiREHSEIS, Paris, France Science and History in AsiaSponsored by NWO/NRI/REHSEISCirculation of scientific Knowledge between Europe and China, 17th and

18th Centuries

1 September 2008 - 31 December 2010

Dr Melody LUSponsored by the Asia Research Institute SingaporeGender, Migration and Family in East and Southeast Asia

1 February 2006 – 31 December 2010

Mr Zhilin TangSchool of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, ChinaResearch fellow within the IIAS Centre for Regulation and Governance China's central-local government relations and technological innovation:

the case of Chinese Science and Technology Industrial Parks (STIPs)

1 February 2010 – 30 April 2010


IIAS Professors (European Chairs)

Prof. Youngsoo YOOKChung-Ang University, KoreaIIAS Professor, holder of the European Chair of Korean StudiesSponsored by the Academy for Korean StudiesFrom a Hermit Kingdom to an Enlightened Nation? Fin-de-Siècle Korea As

Exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900: Revisited

20 August 2009 - 20 August 2010

Prof. Chan-Liang WUNational Taiwan UniversityIIAS Professor, holder of the European Chair of Chinese Studies; Sponsored by IIAS, BICER and the Ministry of Education TaiwanZhu Xi and Sung Neo-Confucianism, Counter-Enlightenment in Modern

China

16 September 2009 – 19 August 2010

Prof. Dennis ChengDepartment of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan UniversityIIAS Professor, holder of the European Chair of Chinese Studies; Sponsored by IIAS, BICER and the Ministry of Education Taiwan27 August 2010 – 1 September 2011

IIAS Professors (IIAS Extraordinary Chairs)

Prof. Tak-Wing NGOIIAS Extraordinary Chair at the Faculty of History and Arts, Erasmus University, RotterdamHistory of Asia

1 May 2008 - 1 May 2012

Prof. Gerard PersoonIIAS Extraordinary Chair, Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Leiden UniversityEnvironment and Development: indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia

1 July 2009 - 1 July 2014


Appendix 4Seminars

8 – 10 January 2009Kaohsiung, TaiwanMulticulturalism in TaiwanConvenors: Prof. Tak-wing Ngo (International Institute for Asian Studies,

Extraordinary Chair in the History of Asia, the Netherlands), Prof. Hong-zen

Wang (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)

25 February 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsThe Shanghai ModelLecture by Dr Gregory B. Bracken (DSD / IIAS)

2 March 2010LUCIS / IIAS / KITLVLeiden, the NetherlandsContemporary Indonesian Islam: Socio-Cultural and Political DynamicsLecture by Prof. Azyumardi Azra (director of the Faculty of Post-Graduate

Studies , Islamic State University Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, Indonesia)

2 March 2010Amsterdam, the NetherlandsEnergy Transition Governance Perspectives and Their Impact on Green Innovation ProcessesEnergy Programme Asia Lecture by Daniel Scholten, MA, PhD candidate,

Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management - Economics of

Infrastructures Program, TU Delft, The Netherlands

11 March 2010European Alliance for Asian StudiesMadrid, SpainClimate Change: An Asian Perspective

12 March 2010Amsterdam, the NetherlandsRise of the Non-Triad Energy Majors - National Oil Companies and National Oil Elites Energy Programme Asia Lecture by Nana de Graaff, PhD candidate,

Department of Political Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Free University,

Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

25 March 2010Amsterdam, the NetherlandsLecture by Human Rights Activist, Somaly MamIn Time Magazine's Top 100 of Most Influential Women on Earth

26 March 2010Amsterdam, the NetherlandsHydropower as a Renewable Energy Source in China: producers, state policy and market forcesEnergy Programme Asia Lecture by Prof. Eduard B. Vermeer, Department

of Contemporary Chinese History, Turku University, Finland and director of

the Centre for East Asian Studies, Turku University, Finland

26 March 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsThe earliest stages in the development of Chinese Buddhist exegesis: A report on a work in progressBuddhist Studies Lecture by Stefano Zacchetti (Dipartimento di Studi

sull'Asia Orientale, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy)

27 March 2010Amsterdam, the NetherlandsIIAS & ASiA @ Movies That Matter Festival


9 June 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsIIAS Fellow Symposium

10 June 2010ASiA / Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research / IIASAmsterdam, the NetherlandsSurveillance State: U.S. Colonial Conquest of the Philippines & The Rise of America’s Internal Security ApparatusAnnual Wertheim Lecture by Prof. Alfred McCoy (J.R.W. Smail Professor of

History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)

18 – 19 June 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsCounter-Enlightenment and Modernity in Modern ChinaConvenor: Prof. Chan-liang Wu, IIAS Professor, holder of the European

Chair of Chinese Studies / National Taiwan University

28 June 2010Amsterdam, the NetherlandsIIAS Annual Lecture 2010Nine Lives. In Search of the Sacred in Modern India. A theater experience

with Readings, Music and Traditional Dance.

Presenting: William Dalrymple (Author), Paban Das Baul & the Bauls of Bengal and Susheela Raman

1 July 2010ASiA / Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research / IIASAmsterdam, the NetherlandsWhat is local and universal in medical knowledge? Indian medicine at home and abroadLecture by Assoc. Prof. Sujatha Venkatesh, Centre for the Study of Social

Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

2 – 3 July 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsAsian Countries as Exhibited at World Expositions: Revisited in a Global Historical PerspectiveConvenor: Prof. Youngsoo Yook, IIAS Professor, holder of the European

Chair of Korean Studies / Chung-Ang University, Korea

26 – 28 August 2010National Science Council (NSC), Taipei, Taiwan / IIASTaipei, TaiwanMigration and mobility in a global historical perspective Convenors: Prof. Nora Chiang, National Taiwan University and Prof. Leo

Lucassen, Leiden University

28 August 2010Prince Claus Fund / Amsterdam Fund for the Arts / IIASAmsterdam, the NetherlandsKhmeropédies I & IICambodian dancers combined contemporary dance with classical Khmer

dance in Khmeropédies I&II in Podium Moziek in Amsterdam.

2 – 3 September 2010Asia-Europe Foundation / IIASAmsterdam, the NetherlandsThe Cultural Heritages of Asia and Europe: Global Challenges and Local InitiativesRoundtable discussion in preparation for the 4th ASEM Culture Ministers’

Meeting (8-11 September 2010, Poznan, Poland).

9 September 2010Amsterdam, the NetherlandsOceans of Sound: Sama Dilaut Performing Arts Convenor: Dr Birgit Abels, IIAS / University of Amsterdam

9 April 2010Amsterdam, the NetherlandsEnergy for Sustainable Development: the case of Brazil and biofuels productionEnergy Programme Asia Lecture by Marion B. Lima, MA, PHD Candidate,

Institute for Environmental Studies - Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Free

University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

23 April 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsOn the Problem of the Relation of Philosophical Theories and Spiritual Praxis in BuddhismBuddhist Studies Lecture by Prof. Em. Lambert Schmithausen (University of

Hamburg, Germany)

6 May 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsAngkor: Sketches of an Ancient CityA lecture by Dr Olivier Cunin (Research Center in Architecture and

Engineering of the National Architecture School of Nancy, France) followed

by the launch of Gregory B. Bracken’s (DSD/IIAS) book Angkor: Sketches of

an Ancient City.

7 May 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsThe Sinfulness of Subjugating Vampires in Mustang, Nepal Buddhist Studies Lecture by Prof. Charles Ramble (Oxford University,

United Kingdom / Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes,

Paris, France)

18 – 19 May 2010Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), Academica Sinica, Taipei / IIASLeiden, the NetherlandsIndigenous Peoples in Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands. New laws and discourses. New realities? Convenors: Dr Cheng-Yi Lin, CAPAS and Prof. Gerard Persoon, IIAS

Extraordinary Chair, Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Leiden University

19 May 2010Moving Matters/ASiA/IIASAmsterdam, the NetherlandsPolitics of Walls and Corridors: Comparing Spatialities in Asia and Europe

27 – 28 May 2010Delft School of Design (DSD) / IIASDelft, the NetherlandsThe Postcolonial Global City in AsiaConvenor: Dr Gregory B. Bracken, IIAS / DSD

28 May 2010CinemAsia Film Festival / ASIA / IIASAmsterdam, the NetherlandsQueer China, ‘Comrade’ China – a panel discussion

4 – 5 June 2010Amsterdam, the NetherlandsSpectacle and the city – urbanity in popular culture and art in East Asia Convenors: Dr Jeroen de Kloet, University of Amsterdam and Lena Scheen,

Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS)

7 June 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsRecent issues in Austroasiatic historical linguisticsLecture by Prof. Gerard Diffloth (Ecole Francaise d’extreme-Orient, France)


30 September – 2 October 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsConceptualising ‘Friendship’, its meaning and practice in time and place Convenors: Prof. Carla Risseeuw, IIAS / Leiden University, Dr Silvia d’Intino,

Indologist, Senior Researcher CNRS, Paris, France and Tazuko A. van Berkel,

Researcher Ancient Greek and Latin Studies, Leiden University

30 September 2010Eutopia / IIASAmsterdam, the NetherlandsWhat Islam Can Teach The Modern WorldLecture by Dr Reza Aslan (Iranian-American writer / University of

California)

7 October 2010Amsterdam, the NetherlandsChinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain’s Hidden Army of Labour A lecture & documentary by Hsiao-Hung Pai

21 October 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsCalling Oneself a Saint: Self-designation and the Idea of the Holy in Medieval Chinese BuddhismLecture by Prof. Toru Funayama, Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist

Studies

28 October 2010Amsterdam, the NetherlandsChina-Angola Energy Relations - Cooperation Models between China and Latin America in Energy DevelopmentEnergy Programme Asia Lecture Series 2010 by Zhao Huirong (Chinese

Academy of Social Sciences- Institute of Russian Eastern European and

Central Asian Studies, Beijing, China) and Yu Guoqing (Chinese Academy of

Social Sciences, Beijing)

5 – 7 November 2010Chiang Mai, ThailandAsian Borderlands: Enclosure, Interaction and Transformation Convenors: Dr Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Chiang Mai University, Prof. Willem

van Schendel, University of Amsterdam and Dr Erik de Maaker, Leiden

University

6 November 2010Dutch Ayurvedic Practitioners and Physicians Association (ANVAG) / IIASLeiden, the NetherlandsClinical therapeutic approaches and treatment modalities within Ayurveda

11 November 2010Amsterdam, the NetherlandsChina’s Energy Policy towards the Caspian Region: The case of Kazakhstan and China’s Energy Diplomacy towards IranEnergy Programme Asia Lecture Series 2010 by Dr Chen Mo (Chinese

Academy of Social Sciences- Institute of West Asian and African Studies,

Beijing, China) and Dr Sun Hongbo (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences-

Institute of Latin American Studies, Beijing, China)

16 November 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsDurable Words: Inscriptions in South and Southeast AsiaConvenor: Prof. Jonathan Silk, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies

24 November 2010ASIA / IIASAmsterdam, the NetherlandsSouth Asia UpdateConvenors: Prof. Mario Rutten (University of Amsterdam) and Prof. Willem

van Schendel (University of Amsterdam)

24 – 26 November 2010Science and History in Asia project co-funded by NWOLeiden, the NetherlandsThe history of Logic in China Convenors: Prof. Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam, the

Netherlands & Stanford University, USA), Dr Jeremy Seligman (University of

Auckland, New Zealand), Dr Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University, China)

2 – 3 December 2010Science and History in Asia project co-funded by NOWNeedham Research Institute, Cambridge in cooperation with IIASCambridge, United Kingdom Science and State in Modern AsiaConvenor: Prof. Christopher Cullen (Needham Research Institute,

Cambridge, UK)

6 December 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsEuropean Relations to Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi and Its Influence on Malay-Indonesian Literary Development. Some Preliminary FindingsLecture by Dr Hadijah bte Rahmat (Deputy Head, Asian languages and

Cultures, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological

University, Singapore)

16 December 2010Leiden, the NetherlandsIIAS Fellow Symposium


Financial accountingIn 2010 a few factors were important for the financial accounting: • In April 2010 our new director Philippe Peycam made his

entrance into the IIAS. In June 2010 he presented his Strategic Plan 2010-2015, containing his plans for the future for the IIAS, and the plans were discussed with the Board of the IIAS, the Academic Committee of the IIAS and the staff of the IIAS.

• In March 2010 the first digital Newsletter with a new design was launched. The database of Newsletter subscribers was updated and IIAS made an inventory of subscribers receiving the Newsletter in hard copy and in electronic version. Currently, IIAS has 7,500 subscribers (receiving either a hard copy or the digital version).

• In December 2009 it was decided to transfer the ICT of IIAS to the new ICT Shared Service Centre of Leiden University. This transfer took place in the autumn of 2010.

• Funds have been earmarked for: courses for IIAS staff, seminars, shared projects (matching), initiating more activities at the Branch Office in Amsterdam, and international travel costs.

• In the autumn of 2010 a start was made with the development of a new IIAS website, to be completed in 2011.

Management accountingFrom a management accounting perspective the institute’s financial position is transparent and solid. Activity-based costing and project management have been instrumental in planning, controlling and decision making. Financial obligations are duly matched and IIAS is able to benefit from a proper financial planning. On 1 January 2010 the reserve of IIAS amounted to € 345.033. The operating results of 2010 were € 239.096. On

31 December 2010 the reserve of the IIAS rose to € 584.129. The reserve position of IIAS thus reached a level higher than the required 5% norm. In 2011 we expect that the number of activities will increase and the operating result will be more in line with the proposed budget.

Key ratio

IncomesThe funding provided by the Ministry of Education (€ 1.374.000) is still the most important source of income. Furthermore in the 1st cash-flow the income for the seminars was € 58.823. The income for the 2nd cash-flow from KNAW/NWO was € 92.328 and from the 3rd cash-flow projects € 767.045. The total revenues were € 2.459.430.

ExpensesNon-research staff expenditure amounted to € 748.558, or 56% of 1st cash-flow expenses. Total staff expenditure amounted to € 612.373, or 44% of 1st cash flow expenses. Expenses for seminars, fellowships and research programmes (incl. matching 2nd and 3rd cash-flow= € 155.825) were € 343.366 or 25% of 1st cash flow expenses. For publications, The Newsletter and network the expenditures were € 143.907, or 11% of the total expenses. Expenditures for the 2nd and 3rd cash-flow projects were € 538346, or 28% of 1st cash flow expenses.

Appendix 5Financial Report 2010

FINANCIAL REPORT - IIASPeriod: January - December 2010


In total, 59% of all expenses was directly dedicated to academic and research activities, 32% for regular staff-costs necessary to realise the activities and an additional 9% was spent on sundry material costs (office, international travel, representation).The total expenditures amounted to € 1.899.308. Operating incomeThe activities of the Leiden main office and the Amsterdam Branch office produce a positive result of € 239.096.

Projectnumbers Income Expenses BalanceIIAS Leiden 1.1.2010-31.12.2010 1.1.2010-31.12.2010

*** Income Ministry of Education 1.374.000 IIAS LEIDEN** Staff 20.328 571.096** Contribution Infrastructure UL 72.500** Office and Bureau costs 1.167 139.450** Public Relations and publications 90 133.124** Research Coordination and Facilities 16.300 102.873** Seminars 58.823 104.967** Network 829 10.783** Research programmes incl. matching 210.642** Interest 6.204*** IIAS Leiden 176.242 1.272.936 IIAS AMSTERDAM** Amsterdam IIAS Branch 40.025 18.667** Staff costs Amsterdam 41.277** ASiA Amsterdam 9.791 28.082*** IIAS Amsterdam 49.816 88.026 Net profit 1st cash flow 1.600.057 1.360.961 239.096 RESEARCH PROJECTS** projects 2e cash flow 92.328 138.628** projects 3e cash flow 217.923 163.363** EU-projects 549.122 236.355*** Research projects 859.373 538.346 321.027

(to balance) TOTAL 2.459.430 1.899.308

Operating income including reserves 239.096


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The IIAS logo is a chandrasa, or bronze axe-head,

found in East Java. It was probably produced during

the Early Bronze Age (c.500 BC) in North Vietnam

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chandrasa in its claws. The function of this object is

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