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F o r e w o r d

Fo rewo rd The year 2000 has been an important year for

t h e i i a s. The board, academic committee, and

directorate had to decide on the institute’s policy

for the coming years. Two main developments

had to be taken into account: firstly the recom-

mendations made by the international review

committee under the chairmanship of Prof. James

Fox, and secondly the conclusion of the Budget

International Facilities, a government funded

programme, which sponsored the activities of the

institute quite substantially during the first years

of its existence.

A new strategic plan has been devised and the

main objectives of the institute will be maintained

– to encourage Asian Studies in the Netherlands

and to enhance national and international co-

operation. However, the initial focus of the insti-

tute will be expanded. During the short time that

the i i a s has existed, it became quite clear that

Asian Studies cannot possibly be restricted to the

humanities and the social sciences. Asia is a global

partner developing very dramatically in all respects

(strategically, economical, cultural and technologi-

cal). Apart from concentrating on the humanities

and social sciences, the i i a s will also direct itself,

more than before, to the interface between the

above-mentioned disciplines and health sciences,

economics, environmental studies, and law: multi-

disciplinarity will be stimulated.

The various instruments which the i i a s has cho-

sen to reach its objectives (e.g. sponsoring individ-

ual postdocs; financing research programmes;

organizing workshops and seminars; publishing

newsletters; and consulting for third parties) were

scrutinized for effectiveness and a re-allocation of

funds took place.

It was decided that, in the future, preference

will be given in particular to facilitation, network-

ing, co-operation with national and international

partners. Sponsoring of fellows and financing of

research programmes will be carried out on a joint

financial basis in close consultation with other

national and international sponsors.

We believe that the i i a s is ready for the following

millennium: leaner and meaner.

P r o f . W . A . L . S t o k h o f

Director IIAS

Leiden, June 2001

C o n t e n t s

S e c t i o n s

1 t h e i ia sa n d it s or g a n iz a t i o n / 9

About the IIAS / 9

IIAS Branch Office Amsterdam / 10

B o a r d / 10

– Board Members 2000 / 10

– Secretary to the Board / 10

Academic Committee / 11

– Members of the Academic

Committee 2000 / 11

Office Staff / 11

– Staff Members 2000 / 11

– Temporary Employees / 12

• Temporary Staff / 12

• T r a i n e e s / 12

Staff Assigned to Research Pr o g r a m m e s

and Pr o j e c t s / 12

Supervision Committees / 12

IIAS Extraordinary Chairs / 13

IIAS fellows and Guests in 2000 / 13

Newsletter Editorial Staff / 13

IIAS Representatives Abroad / 13

2 i i a s r e s e a r c h / 14

IIAS Research Programmes/Projects / 14

– Changing Labour Relations in Asia

(CLARA) / 14

– Performing Arts of Asia: Tradition and

Innovation; The expression of identity

i n a changing world’ (PAATI) / 14

– International Social Organization in East

a n d South east Asia: Qiaoxiang ties in

t h e twentieth century / 15

– Transnational Society, Media, and

C i t i z e n s h i p / 15

– Dissemination of Religious Authority in 20t h

Century Indonesia / 15

– ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and

Archaeology Index / 15

IIAS Extraordinary Chairs / 16

IIAS Fellows / 17

1 . Research fellows / 18

• Individual research fellows / 18

• Programme research fellows / 19

2 . Senior visiting fellows / 22

3 . Professorial fellows / 23

4 . Visiting exchange fellows / 24

5 . Affiliated fellows / 25

6 . Gonda fellows / 28

7 . ESF/Alliance fellows / 28

8 . Dutch senior fellows / 29

9 . Nordic-Netherlands research fellows / 30

G u e s t s / 30

IIAS Alumni / 31

3 s e m in a rs a n d i ns t i t ut io n a le v e n t s / 34

4 i i a s re s e a rc h f ac i l i t a t in ga c t i v i t i e s / 38

The ESF Asia Committee, PAC, PEARL

& t h e Strategic Alliance / 38

– European Science Foundation

A s i a C o m m i t t e e / 38

• Asia Committee 1999–2001 / 39

• E x t e n s i o n / 39

• ESF Asia Committee Workshops / 39

• ESF Asia Committee research travel grants / 40

• Programme Development / 40

• E U R O C O R E S / 40

• Direct Communication Channel / 40

• Asia Committee Fellowships / 40

• Asia Committee Publications / 41

– Platform Asia Collections (PAC) / 41

– Programme for Europe Asia Research

Linkages (PEARL) / 41

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– Strategic Alliance / 42

• Participating Institutes & New Members / 42

• NIAS (The Nordic Countries) / 42

• IFA (Germany) / 42

• New Alliance Member: EIAS (Belgium/EU) / 42

• Possible New Partners / 43

• Alliance Fellowships / 43

• Alliance Collaborative Research Projects,

Workshops, Lectures, and Conferences / 43

• 7t h Nordic-European Workshop

in Advanced Asian Studies (NEWAS) / 44

• Asia Updates / 44

• Other Alliance Activities, Projects,

P u b l i c a t i o n s / 44

• Network building / 45

• Strengthening the Tools of Communication / 45

Other Co-ordinating and Supporting

A c t i v i t i e s / 45

– A A S / 45

– ICAS 2 / 45

– IIAS Library for International

C o - o p e r a t i o n / 45

– Special Events / 46

– Co-operation with Dutch Research Schools

and the ISIM / 46

– Consulting and Advisory Activities / 46

– Memoranda of Understanding

with Partner Institutes / 47

– IIAS Visits / 47

– IIAS Subsidies / 48

• Director’s Fund / 48

• Other supported initiatives / 49

5 ne w s le t te r , pu b l i ca t io n s ,w o r l d w i d e w e b s it e , dat a ba se / 50

IIAS Newsletter / 50

P u b l i c a t i o n s / 51

IIAS Website / 52

– Asian Studies Virtual Library / 53

D a t a b a s e / 53

A n n e x e s

i ia s r e s e ar c h p r o g r a m m e s ,p r o je c ts a n di ia s b r a n c h o f f i c e a m s t e rd ama n d f in an c i a l re p o r t / 57

1 Changing Labour Relations in Asia / 58

2 Performing Arts of Asia: Tradition and

Innovation; The expression of identity

i n a changing world / 60

3 International Social Organization in East

a n d Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang ties during

the twentieth century / 62

4 Transnational Society, Media

a n d C i t i z e n s h i p / 64

5 The Dissemination of Religious Authority

i n 2 0t h Century Indonesia / 65

6 ABIA – South and Southeast Asian Art

a n d Archaeology Index / 66

7 IIAS Branch Office Amsterdam / 68

8 Financial report 2000 / 70

I n d e x / 74

List of Abbreviations / 78

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a b o u t t h e i i a s

The International Institute for Asian Studies is a

postdoctoral research centre based in Leiden and

Amsterdam. Its main objective is to encourage

Asian Studies in the Humanities and the Social

Sciences and to promote national and internation-

al co-operation in these fields. The Institute was

established in 1993 on the initiative of the Royal

Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Leiden

University, the Universiteit van Amsterdam, and

the Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam. It is mainly

financed by the Netherlands Ministry of Educa-

tion, Culture, and Sciences. The i i a s has played an

active role in co-ordinating and disseminating

information on Asian Studies throughout the

world. The Institute acts as an (inter)national

mediator, bringing together interested individu-

als and institutes for the enhancement of Asian

Studies both within and outside of the Nether-

lands.

The history of Dutch Asian Studies in the Human-

ities and Social Sciences has given rise to several

scholarly currents which are internationally

renowned. Traditionally having shown a prefer-

ence for the study of South Asia (India), Southeast

Asia (the Indonesian Archipelago), and East Asia

(China and Japan) and having a comprehensive

inclination towards history, linguistics, anthro-

pology, sociology, and more recently, develop-

ment studies, the Netherlands has acquired a

wealth of expertise in these domains. In the

process, it has built up a highly developed research

infrastructure to support these studies. This infra-

structure rests upon the rare and extensive collec-

tions of research materials accessible in the

archives, museums, and libraries in the Nether-

lands. While it is the firm policy of the i i a s t o

strengthen these regional and disciplinary special-

izations, it is also determined to stimulate new

research in those fields which were neglected by

the Dutch Asian Studies tradition.

In keeping with the ingrained Dutch tradition

of transferring goods and ideas, the i i a s is geared

to work as a clearinghouse for knowledge and

information in the field of Asian Studies. Through

this so-called ‘Gateway to Europe’, the Institute

can provide information, construct international

networks, and organize co-operative projects and

research programmes, thus contributing to the

cultural rapprochement between Asia and Europe.

Acting upon this same principle, the Institute

provides facilities and funding for both Western

and Asian scholars allowing them to carry out

postdoctoral research at the i i a s. Research fellow-

ships are financed by the Institute so that post-

doctoral research can be pursued either as part of

collaborative research programmes or on an indi-

vidual basis. The i i a s research is supported by

other i i a s activities, such as international semi-

nars and the i i a s N e w s l e t t e r .

Well aware of the importance of keeping abreast

of the innovations in information technology, the

Institute’s website has an increasing number of

links to institutes and research projects involved

in Asian Studies. The i i a s has compiled a database

containing up-to-date information on researchers

and institutes in the field of Asian Studies the

world over. Every four months the Institute also

publishes a unique newsletter covering a wide

regional and disciplinary scope, which is distrib-

uted all over the world free of charge.

In 1994 the i i a s was appointed to run the secre-

tariat for the European Science Foundation Asia

Committee. The Institute shares the e s f A s i a

Committee’s objective of improving international

co-operation in the field of Asian Studies. The

committee works to develop activities for the

enhancement of Asian Studies in Europe through

granting postdoctoral fellowships, giving support

for workshops, and by programme development.

The Strategic Alliance is another co-operative

framework of European institutes specializing in

Asian Studies, consisting of the i i a s, Leiden/Am-

sterdam; the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

(n i a s), Copenhagen; the Institute of Asian Affairs

(i f a), Hamburg; and the European Institute for

Asian Studies (e i a s), Brussels. The Alliance, estab-

lished in 1997, aims to bring together fragmented

forces in Asian Studies in Europe to facilitate

scholarly excellence to the benefit of national

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The IIAS and its Organization

research environments and the European Union

at large. The Strategic Alliance’s open structure

enables other European institutes to join in the

future.

Upon the initiative of the i i a s, and in close co-

operation with n i a s, the Programme for Europe-

Asia Research Linkages (p e a r l) was established in

Seoul in October 1998. It is a network of

researchers from Asia and Europe, i.e. from the

a s e m (Asia-Europe Meetings) member countries,

representing leading Asian and European Studies

institutes in the field of the Humanities and the

Social Sciences. P e a r l believes that promotion of

Asia-Europe research co-operation ought to be an

integral part of the a s e m dynamic. The i i a s p r o-

vides the secretariat for p e a r l.

i i a s b r a n c h o f f i c e a m s t e r d a m

In 1997 the i i a s Branch Office Amsterdam was

established. The Universiteit van Amsterdam

(UvA), one of the founders of the i i a s, underlined

the importance of an active and visible role of the

UvA in the activities of the i i a s. A branch office

would offer facilities to i i a s research fellows to do

research in Amsterdam and, simultaneously, it

would stimulate the involvement of Amsterdam

scholars in the activities of the i i a s. The UvA con-

tributes financially to the Branch Office by offer-

ing office facilities and compensation for housing

of research fellows, and the part-time secretary.

The Amsterdam co-ordinator is financed by the

i i a s. To ensure smooth co-operation, there is con-

stant contact between the Branch Office and the

i i a s Leiden (see Annex 7).

b o a r d

The i i a s Board and its Academic Committee are

composed of delegates from various Dutch uni-

versities and institutes, a choice to guarantee the

i i a s has a national coverage. The Board is responsi-

ble for the general management of the Institute

and ensures that its objectives are achieved. Ii a s

policy documents and its budgetary and adminis-

trative plans and reports are submitted to the

Board for its approval.

According to the co-operation agreement signed

in 1993 by the constituent institutions of the i i a s,

the i i a s is headed by a Board of seven members

who are nominated by the Universiteit van Ams-

terdam & the Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam

(two board members), the Royal Netherlands

Academy of Arts and Sciences (two members), and

Leiden University (three members). Members of

the Board are appointed for a period of four years

after which they can be re-appointed for another

period of four years.

As the evaluation of the i i a s by the k n a w, origi-

nally planned for autumn 1999, was cancelled, the

i i a s Board decided to nominate two interim board

members for the period of one year. In this period

decisions on a more permanent restructuring of

the Board could be prepared.

Board Members 2000

– Prof. F. Hüsken, Chairman

(University of Nijmegen: Cultural and Social

A n t h r o p o l o g y / I n d o n e s i a )

– Prof. J.L. Blussé van Oud Alblas

(Leiden University: History of the European

Expansion/Southeast and East Asia)

– Prof. H.W. Bodewitz

(Leiden University: Sanskrit/South and Central Asia)

– Prof. J.C. Breman

(Universiteit van Amsterdam: Social Sciences/South and

Southeast Asia)

– Prof. A. Hagendoorn

(Utrecht University: Social Sciences/East and South Asia)

– Prof. J. Oosten

(Research School CNWS, Leiden: Social Sciences/North

A m e r i c a )

– Prof. M. van der Linden

(International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam:

Labour History/Asia)

Secretary to the Board

– Prof. W.A.L. Stokhof, Director of the i i a s

(Leiden University: Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics)

In 2000, Board meetings took place on 11 Febru-

ary, 9 June, 6 October, and 7 December.

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a c a d e m i c c o m m i t t e e

The Board has appointed an Academic Committee

of nine members, all specialized in the field of Asian

Studies, who are to advise the Board on the research

policy of the Institute. The Academic Committee is

also concerned with the formulation of the research

programmes, the selection of research fellows and

the evaluation of scholarly results, and the academic

policy of the Institute. Members are appointed for

an initial period of three years and can be re-

appointed for another three-year period.

Members of the Academic Committee 2000

– Dr E.B. Vermeer, Chairman until November

(Leiden University: Economics and Modern History of

C h i n a )

– Prof. B. Arps

(Leiden University: Javanese Language and

Literature/Indonesia)

– Dr I.S.A. Baud

(Universiteit van Amsterdam: Development Studies,

Environmental Studies, Gender Studies/India, Philippines)

– Dr G.K. Lieten

(Universiteit van Amsterdam: Cultural Anthropology/

I n d i a )

– Dr P.J.M. Nas

(Leiden University: Cultural Anthropology/Indonesia)

– Prof. C.I. Risseeuw

(Leiden University: Anthropology, Development Studies,

Sociology/India, Sri Lanka)

– Dr R.A. Rutten

(Universiteit van Amsterdam: Cultural Anthropology,

Development Studies/Philippines)

– Dr C. Touwen-Bouwsma, Chairman as of

N o v e m b e r

(Netherlands Institute for War Documentation: Cultural

Anthropology, History/Indonesia)

– Prof. E.J. Zürcher

(Leiden University: Political History/Central Asia)

In 2000, meetings of the Academic Committee

took place on 28 January and 28 November.

o f f i c e s t a f f

The Director of the International Institute for

Asian Studies is nominated by the Board and

appointed by the Board of Directors of Leiden

University. The Director is in charge of the day-

to-day management and administration of the

Institute, and is assisted by the Deputy Director.

Staff Members 2000

– Prof. W.A.L. Stokhof

Director, 0.7 fte

– Drs S.A.M. Kuypers

Deputy Director, 1 fte

– J. Balassis

Database Assistant, 0.5 fte (until 25 April)

– M. Boer

Secretary, 1 fte (until 15 May)

– Drs M.T. te Booij

Executive Manager, 1 fte

– Drs M.E. Brand

Project Co-ordinator, 1 fte (1 February – 1 September)

– C.Y.A. Bruinsma

Secretary, 1 fte

– Drs T.D. Chute

Co-Editor Newsletter, 0.6 fte (per 1 June)

– Drs A.J.M. Doek

WWW Officer, 0.5 fte

– E.F.P. Haneveld

IT Manager, 0.5 fte

– Drs E.A.T. van der Hoek

Managing Editor Newsletter, 1 fte until 1 May,

0.6 fte per 1 May

– I. I Gusti Made Karang-Hoogenboom

Database Assistant, 0.6 fte (per 1 June)

– Dr J. Kleinen

Co-ordinator Branch Office Amsterdam, 0.2 fte

( u n t i l 1 M a r c h )

– M. Luxembourg

Secretary, 0.8 fte (1 June – 1 December)

– C. Maarse

Secretary, 0.9 fte (per 7 November)

– Drs H. van der Minne

Secretary Branch Office Amsterdam, 0.5 fte

– Dr M.A.F. Rutten

Co-ordinator Branch Office Amsterdam, 0.2 fte

( p e r 1 March)

– Drs J. Stremmelaar

Project Co-ordinator, 1 fte (per 1 September)

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– Drs C.B.W. Veenkamp

Executive Manager, 1 fte (until 1 March)

Temporary Employees

In 2000 several temporary staff member were

attached to the i i a s for different projects.

Temporary Staff

– Drs I. Boog

P A A T I / O i d e i o n

– Drs N. de Heer

P A A T I / O i d e i o n

T r a i n e e s

– M. Cheung

Keys to Leiden and Amsterdam-booklet

– L. Hemminga

A B I A

– M. Rozing

IATS conference

– K. Philips

A B I A

– L. Pronk

IATS conference

– J. Stremmelaar

IATS conference

s t a f f a s s i g n e d t o r e se a r c hp r o g r a m m e s a n d p r o j e c ts

‘International Social Organization in East and Southeast

A s i a : Qiaoxiang ties in the twentieth century’

Programme directors:

– Dr L.M. Douw (v u, UvA)

– Dr F.N. Pieke (Oxford University)

PAATI: ‘Performing Arts of Asia: Tradition and Innovation;

The expression of identity in a changing world’

Programme director:

– Dr W. van Zanten (u l), (0.2 fte)

CLARA: ‘Changing Labour Relations in Asia’

Programme co-ordinator:

– Dr R. Saptari (i i s h), (0.5 fte)

ABIA: ‘South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology

I n d e x ’

Project co-ordinator:

– Prof. K.R. van Kooij (u l)

Editors:

– Drs H.I. Lasschuijt (0.5 fte)

– Dr E.M. Raven, (0.5 fte)

IIAS Library for International Co-operation

– Drs W. Teller

s u p e r v i s i o n c o m m i tt e e s

In order to supply the research fellows working in

these programmes with structural support and

supervision, each research programme has its

supervision committee. The purpose of these

committees is to evaluate the research pro-

grammes, to see whether the set-up can be

improved, to consider whether collaborative

research needs to be viewed from a different angle

and the like. The Board and the Academic Com-

mittee require the presence of these committees

to keep a finger on the pulse of the Institute’s aca-

demic standard and achievements.

International Social Organization in East and Southeast

Asia: Qiaoxiang ties in the twentieth century

– Prof. H.A. Sutherland (v u)

– Prof. O.D. van den Muijzenberg (UvA)

– Prof. K.M. Schipper (u l)

PAATI: Performing Arts of Asia: Tradition and Innovation;


– Prof. B. Arps (v a / a v m i, u l)

– Dr J. Bor (Rotterdam Conservatory)

– Dr E.L. Heins (Ethnomusicological Centre Jaap

Kunst, UvA)

– Prof. W.L. Idema (Sinological Institute,

UL/Harvard University, u s a)

– Dr S. Kersenboom (p s c w - a s c, UvA)

Changing Labour Relations in Asia (CLARA)

Executive Committee:

– Prof. J. Breman (c a s a, UvA)

– Prof. M. van der Linden (i i s h)

– Prof. J. Lucassen (i i s h)

– Dr R. Saptari (i i a s / i i s h)

– Prof. W. van Schendel (ASiA, UvA)

– Prof. Th. Svensson (National Museum of World

Culture, Göteborg, Sweden)

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i i a s e x t r a o r d i n a r y c h a i r s

– Prof. H.G.C. Schulte Nordholt, i i a s

Extraordinary Chair at Erasmus University

Rotterdam: ‘Asian History’

– Prof. H. Steinhauer, i i a s Extraordinary Chair at

Nijmegen University:

‘Ethnolinguistics with a focus on Southeast

A s i a ’

– Prof. B.J. Terwiel, i i a s Extraordinary Chair at

Leiden University: ‘Cultures of Mainland

Southeast Asia’

i i a s f e l lo w s a n d g u e s t s i n 2 0 0 0

– Dr Mahmoud Alinejad (Iran)

– Prof Cynthia Bautista (the Philippines)

– Dr Henk Blezer (the Netherlands)

– Dr Vibeke Børdahl (Denmark)

– Dr Colin Brown (Australia)

– Dr Hanne de Bruin (the Netherlands)

– Dr Thomas de Bruijn (the Netherlands)

– Dr Han-pi Chang (Taiwan)

– Prof. Kuo-tung Chen (Taiwan)

– Dr Matthew Cohen (u s a)

– Dr Freek Colombijn (the Netherlands)

– Dr Robert Cribb (Australia)

– Drs Undang A. Darsa (Indonesia)

– Prof. Arvind Das (India)

– Drs Myrna Eindhoven (the Netherlands)

– Dr Michael Ewing (Australia)

– Dr Kamala Ganesh (India)

– Dr Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase (Australia)

– Dr Carole Faucher (Singapore)

– Dr Keith Foulcher (Australia)

– Dr Cen Huang ( C a n a d a )

– Dr David Ip (Australia)

– Dr Alessandra Lopez y Royo Iyer (u k)

– Dr Micheal Jacobsen (Denmark)

– Dr Doris Jedamski (Germany)

– Dr Ganganath Jha (India)

– Dr Man Mohini Kaul (India)

– Dr KarpChon Kim (Korea)

– Prof. Chen-kuo Lin (Taiwan)

– Dr Alex McKay (Australia)

– Dr Salina Metha (India)

– Dr Evelyne Micollier (France)

– Dr Prabhu Mohapatra (India)

– Dr Shoma Munshi (India)

– Dr Li Narangoa (China/Denmark)

– Prof. Peter Li (Canada)

– Drs Dimitri Olenev (Russia)

– Dr Rajni Palriwala (India)

– Dr Raj Puri (u s a)

– Mrs Gauri Raje (u k)

– Dr Albert Ralaikoa (Mauritius)

– Dr Martin Ramstedt (Germany)

– Dr Mario Rutten (the Netherlands)

– Dr Rosanne Rutten (the Netherlands)

– Dr Yuri Sadoi (Japan)

– Dr Edsel Sajor (the Philippines)

– Dr Shigeru Sato (Japan)

– Dr Adapa Satyanarayana (India)

– Dr Angela Schottenhammer (Germany)

– Dr Ralph Shlomowitz (Australia)

– Dr Sanjay Srivastava (Australia)

– Dr Martin Stuart-Fox (Australia)

– Dr Yaroslav Tarasyuk (Russia)

– Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat (India)

– Dr Benoît de Treglodé (France)

– Dr Hae-kyung Um (Korea)

– Dr Yaroslav Vassilkov (Russia)

– Prof. Gauri Viswanathan (u s a)

– Dr Reed Wadley (u s a)

– Dr Jeroen Wiedenhof (the Netherlands)

– Prof. Yang Enhong (P.R. China)

– Dr Yuan Bingling (P.R. China/the Netherlands)

For further details, see Section 2.

n e w s l e t te r e d i t o r i a l s t a f f

– Drs E.A.T. van der Hoek (Managing Editor)

– Drs N. Bonnovrié (South Asia)

– Drs M.T. te Booij (East Asia, China)

– Drs S. Evers (Insular Southwest Asia)

– Dr K. De Ceuster (East Asia, Korea)

– Drs Th. van der Meij (Southeast Asia)

– Drs I. Nooijens (Central Asia)

– Drs M. Winkel (East Asia, Japan)

– The GATE Foundation (Asian Culture)

– R.L. Robson, FRAS BA Hons (English Editor)

i i as r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s a b r o a d

– Prof. J.G. Vredenbregt,

Jakarta, Indonesia

– Dr W. Remmelink,

Tokyo, Japan

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The aim of the i i a s, a postdoctoral institute, is to

promote Asian Studies in the Humanities and

Social Sciences and to set up interdisciplinary pro-

grammes in these fields of study for both Dutch

and foreign researchers; to encourage interdisci-

plinary co-operation; to mediate on behalf of

Asian Studies in the Netherlands; and to promote

international co-operation in a global context.

Through its activities, the i i a s endeavours to

build upon what have been considered traditional

regional and disciplinary specializations of Dutch

Asian Studies and, at the same time, to stimulate

research which thus far has fallen outside the

scope of this tradition.

i i a s r e s e a r c hp r o g r a m m e s / p r o j e c t s

The collaborative – thematic – research pro-

grammes set up by the i i a s are to be executed and

developed by promising research fellows in co-

operation with a programme director and, if nec-

essary, with the support of senior visiting fellows

and/or coaching, i.e. by a supervision committee.

Whereas the final responsibility rests with the i i a s

Board, the Academic Committee is concerned

with the designing of the research programmes,

the selecting of research fellows, and the evalua-

tion of the scholarly results. The supervision com-

mittees offer the fellows an opportunity to discuss

their research in depth and evaluate their work

with experts who are directly involved in similar

r e s e a r c h .

In 2000 the i i a s ran 5 research programmes and

1 research project. Hereunder they are briefly

mentioned. More information may be found in

the respective annexes.


The research programme ‘Changing Labour Rela-

tions in Asia’ (c l a r a) aims to construct a compara-

tive and historical understanding of labour rela-

tions in different parts of Asia which, at present,

are being subjected to diverse historical processes

and experiences in terms of their national

economies, their links with international markets,

and the nature of state intervention. This under-

standing will be based on the promotion of inter-

Asian co-operation and the co-operation between

Asian and non-Asian institutions.

As in the past years, c l a r a activities revolved

around the preparation of seminars, workshops,

and maintaining and expanding its networks.

T h e annual c l a r a one-day seminar was held on

1 4 September and involved a broader network of

scholars than in the previous years.

In 2000 Dr Prabhu Mohapatra (V.V. Giri Insti-

tute), stationed in New Delhi, continued his post-

doctoral fellowship. Two senior visiting fellows,

Dr Shigeru Sato and Dr Adapa Satyanarayana visit-

ed the Netherlands to conduct research within the

framework of the programme.

The bulk of the financing of the programme is

provided by the i i a s and it is executed by the

International Institute of Social History in Ams-

terdam. It is supported by a worldwide network of

specialists on Labour in Asia (see Annex 1).

Performing Arts of Asia: Tradition and Innovation;


( P A A T I )

The p a a t i programme analyses and compares

processes of change in Asian performing arts, and,

in particular, traditional Asian theatre. The focus is

on the way in which the performing arts are insti-

tutionalized and standardized; how they balance

between flexibility and fixation, influenced by

globalization and localization; and how these

processes of change affect form, content, and orga-

nization of the teaching.

From 23 to 27 August, the three research fellows

and the programme director successfully organized

the conference ‘Audiences, Patrons, and Performers

in the Performing Arts of Asia’. The conference,

which was was co-organized by the European

Foundation for Chinese Music Research (c h i m e) ,

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and which took place in Leiden, addressed the roles

of context and environment: the audiences, the

patrons who enable the performing arts, the spon-

sors who organize and support them, and the

spaces and places where they work and play. The

findings of the conference will result in several

books and journal publications (see Annex 2).

International Social Organization in East and

Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang ties in the twentieth

c e n t u r y

The ‘Qiaoxiang Ties’ programme is concerned with

international social organization, or transnation-

alism, in East and Southeast Asia, with an empha-

sis on how Qiaoxiang ties (ethnic Chinese home-

town connections) work and have influenced the

formation of Chinese transnationalism in the

course of the 20t h c e n t u r y .

During 2000 the programme was brought to its

conclusion. Leo Douw, Cen Huang, and David Ip

finalized the editorial work on the book which

resulted from the international conference ‘Chi-

nese Transnational Enterprises and Entrepreneur-

ship in Prosperity and Adversity: South China and

Southeast Asia during the twentieth century’,

2 6-27 August 1999, Hong Kong. Within the frame-

work of the i i a s-Xiamen joint research project,

Cen Huang also co-edited the results from the

conference held in Jinjiang in October 1998.

Huang, whose research fellowship ended on

1 January, returned to the i i a s from 1 July –

1 5 August as a senior visiting fellow to be present

at the concluding seminar of the programme,

which was organized in Amsterdam on 18 July.

A t the seminar the results from the programme

were presented and discussed (see Annex 3).

Transnational Society, Media, and Citizenship

In 2000 the assr and the iias were awarded a wotro

subsidy for the programme ‘Transnational Society,

Media, and Citizenship’. The programme officially

started in July and has a dual focus: it proposes to

look at the complex nature of contemporary cultur-

al identities and the role which the globalization of

information and communication technologies

(ICTs) plays in the (re)construction of these identi-

ties. The programme consists of several parts which

are carried out by two postdoc researchers, Dr Mah-

moud Alinejad and Dr Shoma Munshi, and two

PhD students, Drs Myrna Eindhoven, and one can-

didate to be selected, (see Annex 4).

Dissemination of Religious Authority in

2 0t h Century Indonesia

The i i a s started a new, k n a w-funded, research

project, which aims to study and document

important changes which have occurred in reli-

gious – especially Muslim – authority in Indonesia

during the past century and which have con-

tributed significantly to the shaping of the pre-

sent nationhood. The project will focus on four

advanced research programmes, which will be car-

ried out by specialists in the field of religious

studies from Indonesia, the Netherlands, and else-

where. The advanced research programmes are

concerned with the most important areas of reli-

gious dissemination in Indonesia over the period

concerned. Four postdoc researchers and 6 PhD

students will work within the programme, which

will start officially in 2001 (see Annex 5).

ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archae-

ology Index

In January the fourth a b i a workshop was organized

in Dharwad, India, and hosted by Prof. S. Settar of

the a b i a/India Branch. Topics during the workshop

were the publication of a b i a Index 2 and the

progress of the on-line database. An advisory board

meeting, at which the future of the programme

was discussed, took place in October in Bangkok.

The electronic database of the project was made

accessible via the Internet during the course of

t h e year (http://www.abia.net). Via this database,

annotated information can be found on publica-

tions in the fields of archaeology (pre- and proto-

history), historical archaeology, ancient art history,

modern art history, material culture, epigraphy

and palaeography, numismatics, and sigillography.

During the year, the a b i a team worked on the

publication of a b i a Index 2, scheduled to appear

in 2001. To secure the financial future of the pro-

ject, an application with n w o was prepared

( s e e Annex 6).

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i i a s e x t r a o r d i n a r y c h a i r s

The i i a s Extraordinary Chairs have been set up to

stimulate Asian Studies either at a Dutch universi-

ty at which Asian Studies are not a major focus or,

alternatively, to stimulate specific fields of study

at universities with a well-established reputation

in Asian Studies. Qualified scholars are appointed

professor for one day a week at the university at

which the chair has been established. The i i a s

provides funding for the teaching replacement at

the home university of the candidate.

The first chair on ‘Ethnolinguistics, with a spe-

cial emphasis on Southeast Asia’, which was estab-

lished at Nijmegen University in 1998, took fur-

ther shape with the courses given by Prof. H.

Steinhauer: one on elementary Indonesian and

one on linguistic fieldwork. Besides teaching Prof.

Steinhauer worked on a project application of

Nijmegen University for an Indonesian-Nether-

lands project, titled ‘Language and Regional Iden-

tity in Indonesia’.

In 2000 Prof. B.J. Terwiel taught his first class as

the occupant of the i i a s extraordinary chair ‘Cul-

tures of Mainland Southeast Asia’ at Leiden Uni-

versity. The course, which took place in February,

was entitled: ‘The Economy of Thailand

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Prof. H.G.C. Schulte Nordholt (Universiteit van

Amsterdam), who occupies the chair ‘History of

Asia’ at the Faculty of History and History of Art

at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, started

teaching in Rotterdam in March of this year.

All three inaugurations took place in the first

half of 2000.

Hereunder please find an overview of the activities

and publications of the three chair holders in 2000.

Prof. Hein Steinhauer (Nijmegen University)

P e r i o d: 1 September 1998 – 1 September 2001

T o p i c: ‘Ethnolinguistics, with a special emphasis

on Southeast Asia’

A c t i v i t i e s :

– 14 January

• Inaugural lecture: ‘Indonesisch en Indonesische

Streektalen’, at Nijmegen University

– September 2000 – May 2001

• Course taught: ‘Elementary Indonesian’,

a t Nijmegen University

• Course taught: ‘Linguistic Fieldwork’,

a t Nijmegen University

P u b l i c a t i o n s :

• Inaugural lecture: Indonesisch en Indonesische

S t r e e k t a l e n, Nijmegen: k u n / i i a s, 2000

• Article: ‘Bahasa Indonesia dan Bahasa Daerah di

Indonesia’, in Bambang Kaswanti Purwo (ed.),

Kajian Serba Linguistik untuk Anton Moeliono Pereksa

B a h a s a, Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia

Atma Jaya & b p k Gunung Mulia, 2000,

p p 1 7 5-1 9 6

• Newsletter article: ‘Biak in Nijmegen’, in I I A S

Newsletter # 21, February 2000

Prof. Barend Jan Terwiel (Leiden University)


T o p i c: ‘Cultures of the Mainland Southeast Asia’


– 31 January – 11 February

• Course taught: ‘The Economy of Thailand

1 8 0 0-1850’, at the Department of Southeast

Asian Studies, Leiden University

– 15 February

• Inaugural lecture: ‘Van Denkmodellen en

Vooroordelen: Thaise geschiedschrijving over de

periode van de eerste helft van de negentiende

eeuw’, at Leiden University, Leiden

– 27-28 April

• Ii a s Conference co-organized: Fourth Euro-

Japanese International Symposium on Mainland

Southeast Asian History ‘Mainland Southeast

Asian Responses to the Stimuli of Foreign

Material Culture and Practical Knowledge

( 1 4t h– m i d - 1 9t h Century)’, in The Hague; and

paper presented: ‘Technical Inventions as a

Factor in Social Change: Siam in the first half

o f the nineteenth century’

– 19-23 May

• Paper presented: ‘Between Moulmein and

Bangkok: The mass migration of Mons in the

first half of the nineteenth century’, at n i a s

conference ‘Shifting Communities and Identity

Formation in Early Modern Asia’, Copenhagen,

D e n m a r k


• Inaugural lecture: Van Denkmodellen en Vooroordelen:

Thaise geschiedschrijving over de periode van de eerste helft

van de negentiende eeuw, Leiden: Leiden

U n i v e r s i t y /i i a s, 2000

• Newsletter article: ‘4t h E u r o - J a p a n s e

Symposium’, in IIAS Newsletter # 22, June 2000

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Prof. Henk Schulte Nordholt

(Erasmus University, Rotterdam)

P e r i o d: 1 October 1999 – 1 October 2002

T o p i c: ‘History of Asia’


– April – May

• Course taught: ‘Mass Violence in Southeast

Asia’, at Erasmus University Rotterdam

– 12-15 April

• Paper presented: ‘Letters and Memories’, at the

panel on ‘Everyday Colonialism’ of the Third

European Social Science History Conference,

Amsterdam

– 8 June

• Lecture: ‘De etnografie van de reformasi’, at the

occasion of the opening of the exhibition on the

Art of the Reformasi in Indonesia, at the

Nusantara museum, Delft

– 22 June

• Inaugural lecture: ‘Een staat van geweld’, at the

Erasmus University, Rotterdam

– 10-15 July

• Paper presented ‘A Genealogy of Violence’, at

the symposium on ‘East Timor, Indonesia and

the Region: Perceptions of History and

Prospects of the Future’, Lisbon

– S e p t e m b e r

• Lectures: ‘Representation of Violence in

Colonial and Indonesian Historiography’, at the

Universitas Indonesia, l i p i in Jakarta, and at

Universitas Andalas, Universitas Negeri Padang,

i i a n in Padang, Indonesia

– 5-7 October

• Paper presented: ‘A Genealogy of Violence’, at

the Conference ‘Las Sociedades de Filipinas y el

Sudeste de Asia’, Madrid

– 3 November

• Lecture: ‘Violence and Silence’, at the Centre for

Southeast Asian Studies (c e p e s a), Lisbon

– 7 December

• Lecture: ‘Politieke ontwikkelingen in Indonesië’

(Political Developments in Indonesia), at the

Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The

H a g u e

– 13-15 December

• Paper presented: ‘A Genealogy of Violence’, at

the conference on ‘Violence in Indonesia: Its

historical roots and contemporary

manifestations’, Leiden


• Inaugural lecture: Een staat van geweld, Rotterdam:

i i a s/Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2000

• Article: ‘Localising Modernity in Colonial Bali

during the 1930s’, in Journal of Southeast Asian

S t u d i e s 31, pp 101-114

• Article: ‘From Wangsa to Bangsa: Subaltern

voices and personal ambivalences in colonial Bali

(1930s)’, in A. Vickers (ed.), To change Bali. Essays in

honour of Professor I.G. Ng. Bagus, Denpasar: Bali

Post, 2000, pp 71-88

• Article: ‘De tweede dekolonisatie van

Indonesië?’, in Socialisme en Democratie 57, 2000,

p p 65-73

• Review article: ‘Indonesia in Transition’, in

Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 156, 2000,

pp 356-366

• ‘Book review of S. Pompe, De Indonesische

algemene verkiezingen’, in International Spectator

54, 2000, pp 102-3

• ‘Book review of J. de Jong, De waaier van het

fortuin. De Nederlanders in Azië en de

Indonesische archipel 1595–1950’, in T i j d s c h r i f t

voor Geschiedenis 113, 2000, pp 225–228

• ‘Book review of T. Harper, The end of empire

and the making of Malaya’, in Tijdschrift voor

G e s c h i e d e n i s, 113, 2000, pp 610-612

• Article: ‘Indonesië na Suharto: kansen voor

democratie?’ in Jaarboek Winkler Prins, Amsterdam:

Elsevier, 2000, pp 64-66, (with Nico Schulte

N o r d h o l t )

• Article: ‘Indonesië’, Winkler Prins Encyclopedisch

Jaarboek 2000, Amsterdam: Elzevier, 2000,

p p 146–148, (with Nico Schulte Nordholt)

• Article: ‘State of Violence (1)’, in Reflexie. Forum

Nederland-Indonesia 3,3, 2000, pp 18-24

i i a s f e l l o w s

The i i a s accommodates postdoctoral researchers

in Asian Studies in a variety of categories. Spon-

sorship of these fellowships contributes to the

Institute’s aim to augment existing expertise in

Asian Studies and of bolstering the exploration of

underdeveloped fields of Asian Studies in the

Netherlands. Dutch and foreign specialists alike

are eligible for both collaborative and individual

research positions. All i i a s fellows have a counter-

part in the Netherlands, who is familiar with their

field of research, to advise and help them to find

their way in the Dutch academic arena. The i i a s

distinguishes between: research fellows (individ-

ual and programme), senior visiting fellows, pro-

fessorial fellows, visiting exchange fellows, affili-

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ated fellows, Gonda fellows, e s f/Alliance fellows,

Dutch senior fellows, Nordic-Netherlands

research fellows, and guests.

1. Research fellows (individual and programme)

Research fellowships are awarded to promising

young scholars who have recently earned their

PhD degrees. They are chosen for a maximum of

three years on the basis of their research propos-

als, which correspond to collaborative research

programmes of the i i a s, or are individual research

projects. The research fellows are required to pre-

pare at least one international seminar during

their appointment. They are also expected to pre-

sent the final results of their research/fieldwork in

the form of a publication. Fellowships are award-

ed upon the announcement of vacancies which

can be found in the i i a s Newsletter as well as on

the i i a s Internet site.

The following research fellows were attached to the

i i a s in 2000 (order of data: name, country of origin,

fellowship period, research topic, academic activi-

ties in chronological order, and publications):

Individual research fellows

Dr Henk Blezer (the Netherlands)

P e r i o d: 1 August 1997 – 1 August 2000; and

1 August 2000 – 1 August 2001 (extension by i i a s

and Gonda Foundation)

T o p i c: ‘The Bon-origin of Tibetan Buddhist Specu-

lations Regarding a Post-Mortem State Called

“Reality as it is”’

A c t i v i t i e s:

– 24-30 June

• Ii a s seminar organized: ‘The Ninth Seminar of

the International Association for Tibetan

Studies’, Leiden

– 18 October – 12 November

• Fieldwork in India on Bon Cosmonogy

P u b l i c a t i o n s:

• Article: ‘The ‘B o n’ dBal mo Nyer bdun(/brgyad) a n d

the B u d d h i s t dBang phyug ma Nyer brgyad, a Brief

Comparison’, in New Horizons in Bon Studies, Osaka,

2000, pp 117-178

• Newsletter article: ‘Tibetological Collections &

Archives Series, introduction to series’, in I I A S

N e w s l e t t e r #21, February 2000, p. 14

• Newsletter article: ‘The Ninth Seminar of the

International Association for Tibetan Studies’,

in IIAS Newsletter #23, October 2000, p. 41

Dr Freek Colombijn (the Netherlands), (0.5 fte)

P e r i o d: 1 January 1998 – 1 January 2002

T o p i c: ‘The Road to Development. Access to natural

resources along the transport axes of Riau Daratan

(Indonesia), 1950-2000’


– 10-30 April

• Fieldwork in Indonesia on road construction

– 26 April

• Lecture: ‘Kekerasan dalam sejarah Indonesia dan

di Riau masa depan’, Universitas Islam Riau,

Pekanbaru, Indonesia

– 3-5 July

• Paper presented: ‘What is so Indonesian about

Violence?’, at Symposium ‘Konflikte und

Gewalt’, at the Von Humboldtuniversität, Berlin

– 10-15 July

• Paper presented: ‘The Integration of Indonesia;

The Japanese period as mirror for Dutch

colonialism’, at the Symposium on ‘East Timor,

Indonesia and the Region: Perceptions of

history and prospects for the future’, Lisbon

– 24-28 July

• Panel convened (together with Dr Aygen

Erdentug): ‘The Spatial Consequences of Urban

Ethnic Diversity’, at the i u a e s Inter-Congress

– 24-28 July

• Paper presented: ‘The Emergence of “Racial”

Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century Towns in

Sumatra (Indonesia)’, at the i u a e s I n t e r -

Congress ‘Metropolitan Ethnic Cultures:

Maintenance and interaction’, Beijing

– 24-28 July

• Paper presented: ‘Mega-Urbanization in

Singapore and Kuala Lumpur; Spatial planning

and social consequences’, at the i u a e s I n t e r -

Congress ‘Metropolitan Ethnic Cultures:

Maintenance and interaction’, Beijing

– 10-11 August

• Discussant at the International Seminar

‘Environmental Change in Native and Colonial

Histories of Borneo: Lessons from the past,

prospects for the future’, Leiden

– 6-8 December

• Paper presented: ‘The Ecology of Sumatran

Towns in the Nineteenth Century’, at the

seminar ‘The Indonesian City Revisted’, Leiden

– 13-15 December

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• Workshop organized: ‘Violence in Indonesia;

I t s historical roots and its contemporary

manifestations’, Leiden


• Edited: Newsletter of the IUAES Commission on Urban

A n t h r o p o l o g y 11, 2000

• Article: ‘The Politics of Indonesian Football’, in

A r c h i p e l 59, 2000, pp 171-200

• Article: ‘De Japanse tijd als spiegel van het

Nederlandse kolonialisme’, in Leidschrift; historisch

t i j d s c h r i f t 15(3), 2000, pp 23-49

• ‘Book review of Victor T. King, Anthropology

and Development in South-East Asia; Theory

and practice’, in Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en

v o l k e n k u n d e 156, 2000, pp 824-826

• ‘Book review of Arne Kalland & Gerard Persoon,

Environmental Movements in Asia’, in B i j d r a g e n

tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde 156, 2000, pp 116-118

• ‘Book review of Bozidar Jezernik (ed.), Urban

symbolism and Rituals’, in Newsletter of the IUAES

Commission on Urban Anthropology 11, 2000, pp 18-19

• ‘Book review of R. Gomez, Self-censorship,

Singapore’s Shame’, in Copenhagen journal of Asian

s t u d i e s 14, 2000, pp 157-159

• Newsletter article: ‘Riau in the Reformation

era’, in IIAS Newsletter 21, February 2000, p. 26

• Newsletter article: ‘Wegenaanleg in Riau (Suma-

tra, Indonesië)’, in Net Werk 66, 2000, pp 9-1 0

Dr Reed Wadley (USA)

P e r i o d: 1 August 1998 – 1 August 2001

T o p i c: ‘The Ethnohistory of a Borderland People:

the Iban in West Kalimantan, Indonesia’


– March – May

• Fieldwork in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

– 22 May

• Lecture: ‘Community Co-operatives, “Illegal”

Logging, and Regional Autonomy: A field report

from Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan’, within

the c i f o r Lecture Series, at the Center for

International Forestry Research, in Bogor,

I n d o n e s i a

– 10-11 August

• Ii a s seminar convened: ‘Environmental Change

in the Native and Colonial Histories of Borneo’,

Leiden; and paper presented: ‘Lines in the

Forest: Boundaries and resource access in the

history of the upper Kapuas, West Kalimantan’

– 30 November

• Lecture: ‘Remembering Punitive Expeditions

and Divine Revenge: Oral and colonial histories

of the Iban in West Kalimantan, Indonesia’,

a t the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies,

C o p e n h a g e n

– 1 December

• Lecture: ‘Hospitality and Suspicion in n t f p

Collection: Questions of cultural values, land

tenure, and sustainable forest management in

West Kalimantan, Indonesia’, at the Danish

University Consortium on Sustainable Land Use

and Natural Resource Management, University

of Copenhagen

– 9-12 December

• Paper presented: ‘Coping with Disaster –

Smoke, drought, flood, and krismon: Iban

women and their households in Kalimantan

Barat’, at the conference ‘Indonesian Women

and Crises: Opportunities and threats, past and

present’, Leiden


• Article: ‘Warfare, Pacification, and Environment:

Population dynamics in the West Borneo

borderlands (1823-1934)’, in Moussons: Social Science

Research on Southeast Asia, Vol. 1, 2000, pp 41-66

• Article: ‘Understanding Patterns of Resource

Use and Consumption: A prelude to co-

management’, in W. Giessen (ed.), D a n a u

Sentarum National Park, Borneo Research Bulletin, Vol.

31, 2000, pp 29-88, (with C. J. P. Colfer, A. Salim,

and R. Dudley)

• Article: ‘Reconsidering an Ethnic Label in

Borneo: The “Maloh” of West Kalimantan,

Indonesia’, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en

V o l k e n k u n d e, 156, 2000, pp 83-101

• Article: ‘Transnational Circular Labour

Migration in Northwestern Borneo’, in L.

Husson and Y. Charbit (eds), Migratory Dynamics

in Eastern Asia, Revue Européenne des Migrations

I n t e r n a t i o n a l e s, Vol. 16, 2000, pp 127-149

• Article: ‘Afer the Conservation Project: Danau

Sentarum National Park and its vicinity –

conditions and prospects’, in a special issue of

the Borneo Research Bulletin, 2000, (with Rona A.

Dennis, Erik Meijaard, Andi Erman, Heri

Valentinus, Wim Giessen, and Anne Casson)

Programme research fellows

Performing Arts of Asia: Tradition and Innovation;

T h e expression of identity in a changing world (PAATI)


Dr Hanne de Bruin (the Netherlands), part-time

stationed at the Amsterdam Branch Office, (0.75 fte)

P e r i o d: 15 October 1997 – 15 July 2001

T o p i c: ‘Kattaikkuttu and Natakam: South Indian

theatre traditions in regional perspective’


– November 1999 – March 2000

• Fieldwork conducted on the Devadasi tradition

i n rural Tamil Nadu in India

– 15 May

• Video presentation: ‘The Unheard History of

the Rural Tamil Stage as Told by Four of its

Professional Exponents’, at c n w s / i s l s, Leiden

– 23-27 August

• Conference co-organized: ‘Audiences, Patrons

and Performers in the Performing Arts of Asia’,

i i a s / p a a t i / c h i m e, Leiden

– 23-27 August

• Panel convened: ‘Hybrid-Popular Theatre and

Dance in Asia’, at the conference ‘Audiences,

Patrons and Performers in the Performing Arts

of Asia’, Leiden, (with Dr Mattew Cohen); and

paper presented: ‘The History of the ‘Natakam’

or ‘Drama’, a Hybrid-Popular Theatre in Rural

North Tamil Nadu (South India)’

– 27 August

• Workshop taught: ‘Kattaikkuttu’, in Leiden,

(with P. Rajagopal)

– 6-10 September

• Paper presented: ‘Village Goddesses and

Devadasis of North Tamil Nadu’, in the panel

‘Power of Performance’, at the 16t h C o n f e r e n c e

on Modern Asian Studies, in Edinburgh

– 27 September

• Class taught: ‘Karna Moksham or Karna’s Death’,

in the context of series of lectures on ‘Works

from the Non-Western World Literature’,

organized by Dr Daniella Merolla, Department

of Comparative Literature, Leiden University

– 4 October

• Class taught: ‘Perception and Praxis of a

Professional Kattaikkuttu Performer’, as part of

the course ‘Multimedia’ by Dr Saskia

Kersenboom, Department of Linguistic

Anthropology, Universiteit van Amsterdam,

(with P. Rajagopal)


• Article: ‘Naming a Theatre in Tamil Nadu:

Perspectives of performers, critics, and

researchers’, in Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 16,

N o . 2, Spring 2000

• Article: ‘The Hybrid-Popular Theatre

Movement and the Tamil Natakam Theatre’,

i n New Kolam, 5-6 section IV, 2000, http://

w w w . f a s . n u s . e d u . s g / j o u r n a l / k o l a m . i n d e x . h t m ,

Faculty of Arts and Sciences (South Asia Pro-

gramme) of the National University of Singapore

• Newsletter article: ‘Video Presentation: The

unheard history of the rural stage in Tamil

Nadu (South India) as told by four of its

professional exponents, 15 May 2000’, in C N W S

N e w s l e t t e r 20, July 2000, pp 42-43

• Video documentary: ‘In their Own Words: The

unheard history of the rural Tamil stage as told

by four of Its professional exponents’, Betacam

and VHS format, (with P. Rajagopal)

Dr Matthew Cohen (USA)


T o p i c: ‘The Shadow Puppet Theatre of Gegesik,

Northwest Java, Indonesia: Memory, tradition and

c o m m u n i t y ’


– 12 April

• Lecture: ‘Reading Suluk Wayang: Javanese

shadow puppets, Nala vision, private self, bodily

self’, at Tel Aviv University

– 18 April

• Lecture: ‘Rites of Interpretation’, at the Tel Aviv

Mental Health Center

– 28 April

• Discussant for Don Handelman, Leiden

University Honour’s Course on Religion

– 8 May

• Lecture: ‘Islam and the Performing Arts in

Cirebon’, at the Department of Anthropology,

Leiden University

– 23-27 August




– 23-27 August

• Panel convened: ‘Hybrid-Popular Theatre and

Dance in Asia’, at the conference ‘Audiences,

Patrons and Performers in the Performing Arts

of Asia’, Leiden (with Dr Hanne de Bruin); and

paper presented: ‘Historiography of the Parsi

Theater Movement in South and Southeast Asia’

– 1-2 December

• Paper presented: ‘Cultural Reproduction,

Colonial Society and the Komedie Stamboel’, at

the 3r d International Symposium on Theatre

Anthropology, Brno, Czech Republic

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– 6-8 December

• Paper presented: ‘Multiculturalism and

Performance in Colonial Cirebon’, at the

international workshop ‘The Indonesian City

Revisited’, Leiden


• Article: ‘The Barikan Banner of Gegesik:

R i t u a l and history in a village painting from

colonial Java’, in A r c h i p e l 59, 2000, pp 97-144,

(with T.E. Behrend and T.L. Cooper)

• Article: ‘The Big Man and the Puppeteer:

A transcultural morality tale from West Java,

Indonesia’, in Puppetry Yearbook 4, 2000,

p p 1 0 3-156

• Article: ‘State of the Arts, Arts of the State:

A review essay’, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-

e n Volkenkunde 156(3), 2000, pp 347-355

• Article: ‘Shiva vs. Jesus: Wayang Kulit in

Cirebon’, in Puppetry International 8, 2000,

p p 1 8-21

• Newsletter article: ‘A Mystic Journey to Mount

Ciremai’, in IIAS Newsletter #23, October 2000,

p . 27

• ‘Book review of Andrew Beatty, Varieties of

Javanese Religion: An anthropological account’,

in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 1 5 6 ( 4 ) ,

2000, pp 818-821

• ‘Book review of Sylvia Tiwon, Breaking the

Spell: Colonialism and literary renaissance

i n Indonesia’, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en

Volkenkunde 156(4), 2000, pp 821-824

Dr Hae-kyung Um (UK/Korea)


T o p i c: ‘Performing Arts in Korea and the Korean

Communities in China, the Former Soviet Union

and Japan’


– J a n u a r y - F e b r u a r y

• Fieldwork in Seoul, South Korea

– F e b r u a r y

• Seminar: ‘Listening Patterns and Identity of the

Korean Diaspora in the Former u s s r’, School of

Music, The Korean National University of Arts,

Seoul, Korea

– A p r i l

• Guest lecture: ‘Traditional and Contemporary

Music of Korea’, in Dr Roald Maliangkay’s

course on ‘Korean Culture’, Department of

Japanese and Korean Studies, Leiden University

– May

• Fieldwork in Brussels, Belgium

– J u n e

• Fieldwork in London, United Kingdom

– 23-27 August




– 23-27 August

• Panels organized: ‘Asian Diaspora’ and ‘

Interculturalism and Transnationalism’, at the

conference ‘Audiences, Patrons and Performers

in the Performing Arts of Asia’, Leiden; and

paper presented: ‘The Construction and

Representation of Performing Arts in the Asian

D i a s p o r a ’

– 1 September

• Paper presented: ‘The Dialectics of Politics and

Aesthetics in the Chinese Korean Dance Drama

“The Spirit of Changbai Mountain”’, at the 16t h

Annual Conference of the European Seminar in

Ethnomusicology: John Blacking’s Legacy,

Belfast, Northern Ireland, u k

Publications:

• Article: ‘Listening Patterns and of Identity of the

Korean Diaspora in the Former u s s r’, in B r i t i s h

Journal of Ethnomusicology 9(2), 2000, pp 121-142

• Article: ‘Korean Performing Arts Abroad:

T h e 1999 “Korean Drums” concert tour in the

Netherlands’, in Ch’um (Dance), 25(3), 2000,

p p 9 9-101, (in Korean)


Dr Prabhu Mohapatra (India)

Period: 1 February 1999 – 31 January 2002

Topic: ‘Industrialisation and Work Culture:

S t e e l workers in Jamshedpur: 1950 – 1990s’

Transnational Society, Media, and Citizenship

Dr Mahmoud Alinejad (Iran), part-time

stationed in Iran and at the a s s r, A’dam

P e r i o d : 1 July 2000 – 1 July 2002

T o p i c : ‘Mass Media, Social Movements, and Reli-

g i o n ’


– 30 September – 3 October

• Paper presented: ‘ Media and Civil Society’,

a t the u n e s c o National Workshop on Civil

Education for Iranian Journalists and Reporters,

Tehran, Iran

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Drs Myrna Eindhoven (the Netherlands), PhD

student, stationed at the a s s r, Amsterdam

P e r i o d : 1 November 2000 – 1 November 2004

Topic: ‘Rays of New Images. IC Ts, state ethnopoli-

cies, and identity formation among the Mentawa-

ians (West Sumatra, Indonesia)’

Dr Shoma Munshi (India), stationed at the a s s r,

A m s t e r d a m

P e r i o d: 1 July 2000 – 1 July 2002

T o p i c: ‘Transnational Alchemy: Producing the

global consumer and diasporic identities via con-

temporary visual media: India’

Activities:

– 13-15 October

• Panel convened and paper presented: ‘Media,

Consumers and Identity Politics in India’, at the

29th Annual Conference on South Asia, University

of Wisconsin, Madison, usa

– November

• Paper presented at the international conference

‘Beyond Imagined Communities?

Communications technologies and transnational

cultures’, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Publications:

• Edited: ‘Images of the “Modern Woman” in Asia:

Global media/local meanings’, Richmond, Surrey:

Curzon Press, 2000

• Article: ‘Marvellous Me: The beauty industry and

the construction of the “Modern” Indian

woman’, in Shoma Munshi (ed.), Images of the

‘Modern Woman’ in Asia: Global media/local meanings,

Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000

• Article: ‘Media, Consumers and Identity Politics

in South Asia: The new globalisation’, in Asian

Studies Journal 36(1), 2000

• Article: ‘Contextualising the Global Media

Monitoring Project’, in Asian Studies Journal 36(2),

(with David Birch)

• ‘Book review of Krishna Sen and Maila Stivens

(eds), Gender and Power’, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-,

Land- en Volkenkunde 156(1), 2000, pp 114-116 (with

Cynthia Chou)

• ‘Book review of Clifford Sather, The Bajau Laut:

Adaptation, history and fate in maritime fishing

society of South Eastern Saba’, in Bijdragen tot de

Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 156(1), 2000, pp 112-114,

(with Cynthia Chou)

• Article: ‘Diasporic kuch kuch…’, in Business

Standard Weekend, 22-28 January 2000

• Article: ‘Déjà vu cities’, in Business Standard Weekend,

18-25 March 2000

• Article: ‘Kroniek van een elite school’ (The Doon

School Chronicles), in Beeld voor Beeld, 23-38 May

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2. Senior visiting fellows

The i i a s offered (senior) scholars the possibility to

engage in research work in the Netherlands. The

period varied from one to three months. The fol-

lowing scholars visited the i i a s in 2000 (order of

data: name, country of origin, fellowship period,

research topic, academic activities in chronologi-

cal order, and publications):

Dr Cen Huang (Canada), part-time stationed at

the Amsterdam Branch Office

P e r i o d: 1 July – 15 August

T o p i c: ‘Structure and Social Organization of

Transnational Enterprises and Entrepreneurship

in East and Southeast Asia’, within the research

programme ‘International Social Organization in

East and Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang ties in the twen-

tieth century’


• E d i t e d : China, Qiaoxiang and Overseas Chinese ( i n

Chinese), Xiamen: Fujian People’s Press, 2000,

(with Zhuang Guotu, Zhao Wenliu, and Tanaka

Kyoko)

• Edited: New Perspectives on Chinese Diaspora and

C h i n a, Leiden/Xiamen: Ii a s/Xiamen University

Press, 2000, 252 pp, (with Zhuang Guotu, and

Tanaka Kyoko)

• ‘Article: ‘Diaspora’s Enterprises in Guangdong –

Problems and government responses’, in David

Ip, Constance Lever-Tracy and Noel Tracy (eds),

Chinese Business and the Asian Crisis, Ashgate, 2000,

pp 131-146

• Article: ‘The Dynamics of Overseas Chinese

Enterprises in South China’, in Cen Huang,

Zhuang Guotu, and Tanaka Kyoko (eds), N e w

Perspectives on Chinese Diaspora and China,

Leiden/Xiamen: Ii a s/Xiamen University Press,

2000, pp 191-221

• Newsletter article: ‘The Myth of Labour

Relations in Overseas Chinese Enterprises’, in

IIAS Newsletter #21, February 2000

• Newsletter article: ‘Chinese Transnational

Enterprises and Entrepreneurship’, in I I A S

N e w s l e t t e r #21, February 2000, (with Leo Douw,

and Elisabeth Sinn)

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Dr David Ip (Australia), stationed at the Amster-

dam Branch Office

Period: 1 January 2000 – 15 February 2000

Topic: ‘Diaspora Chinese Capitalism and the Asian

Economic Crisis’, within the research programme

‘International Social Organization in East and

Southeast Asia: Q i a o x i a n g ties in the twentieth cen-

t u r y ’


– 25 January

• Lecture: ‘Surviving the Crisis: Strategies of

diaspora Chinese capitalism’, at the i i a s,

A m s t e r d a m

Publications:

• Article: ‘Networks and Strategies in Taiwanese

Business’, in David Ip, Constance Lever-Tracy,

and Noel Tracy (eds), Chinese Business and the Asian

C r i s i s, Aldershot/Hampshire, 2000, pp 114-130

• Article: ‘Responses to the Crisis: Production

network, diversification and transnationalism’,

in David Ip, Constance Lever-Tracy, and Noel

Tracy (eds), Chinese Business and the Asian Crisis,

Aldershot/Hampshire, 2000, pp 147-162

• Newsletter article: ‘Chinese Transnational

Enterprises’, in IIAS Newsletter #22, June 2000

Dr Shigeru Sato ( J a p a n ), stationed at the i i s h,

A m s t e r d a m

P e r i o d: 19 October 1999 – 18 January 2000

T o p i c: ‘The Altered Labour Relations in the Outer

Islands of Indonesia: 1942-1945’, within the

framework of the c l a r a research programme


– 11 January

• Lecture: ‘Indonesian Romusha in Japan’s

“ C o-Prosperity Sphere”’, i i a s / i i s h / a s s r,

Amsterdam


• Article: ‘Emperor Worship and Language

Teaching in Java under the Japanese

Occupation’, in V. Mackie et al. (eds.), C o l o n i a l i t y ,

Postcoloniality and Modernity in Japan, Clayton, 2000,

pp 113-126

Dr Adapa Satyanarayana (India), stationed at the

i i s h, Amsterdam

P e r i o d: 1 December 1999 – 1 March 2000

T o p i c: ‘Emigration of South Indian Labour Com-

munities to South-East Asia: Burma (Myanmar)

and Malaysia, 1871-1982’, within the framework of

the c l a r a research programme


• Paper: “Birds of Passage”: Migration of South Indian

Labour Communities to Southeast Asia, 19-20t h C e n t u r i e s,

C l a r a Working Paper, 2000

3. Professorial fellows

Professorial fellowships, which result from media-

tion by the i i a s between Dutch universities and

Asian research institutes, allow Dutch and Asian

scholars to exchange expertise by sponsoring Asian

scholars to come to Dutch/European universities

for one or two years for teaching and research.

They are co-financed by the i i a s, their own coun-

try/institute, and/or Dutch multinationals.

In 2000 the i i a s hosted the following professorial

fellows (order of data: name, country of origin,

chair, co-sponsor, fellowship period, research

topic, academic activities in chronological order,

and publications):

Prof. Kuo-tung Chen (Taiwan), European Chair

for Chinese Studies

Co-sponsor: Ministry of Education, b i c e r, Taiwan

Period: 12 December 2000 – August 2001

T o p i c : ‘Chinese Economic History’

Prof. Chen-kuo Lin (Taiwan), European Chair for

Chinese Studies

Co-sponsor: Ministry of Education, b i c e r, Taiwan

Period: September 1999 – August 2000

T o p i c : ‘Chinese Buddhism’


– 5 May

• Lecture: ‘Buddhism and Chinese Culture’, at the

Chinese Culture Club, Wageningen

– 25 May

• Lecture: ‘Language and Consciousness in the

Saüdhinirmocana Såtra’, at the Institute for Tibet-

ology and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna

– 8-9 June

• Seminar organized: ‘Yogacara Buddhism in

China’, at the i i a s, Leiden; and paper presented:

‘Language and Consciousness in the

Saüdhinirmocana Såtra’

– 29 June – 1 July

• Paper presented: ‘Searching a Pure Land in the

Ashes of Modernity: Tanabe Hajime and

Philosophy as Metanoesis’, at the Third

International Conference of Sinology, Taipei

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Publications:

• Newsletter article: ‘Yogacara Buddhism in

China’, in IIAS Newsletter #23, October 2000

4. Visiting exchange fellows

The i i a s has signed several Memoranda of Under-

standing (MoU) with foreign research institutes,

thereby providing scholars with an opportunity to

participate in international exchanges for a maxi-

mum period of one year. Foreign scholars can

apply to visit institutes in the Netherlands. In

exchange, Dutch scholars can apply to be sent

abroad to the MoU partners of the i i a s.

In 2000 the i i a s was host to the following visiting

exchange fellows from abroad (order of data:

name, country of origin, co-sponsor, fellowship

period, topic, academic activities in chronological

order, and publications):

Dr Vibeke Børdahl (Denmark)

C o - s p o n s o r: n i a s

P e r i o d: 21 August 2000 – 1 September 2000

T o p i c: ‘Chinese Storytelling: The interplay of oral

and written traditions in popular culture’


– 25 August

• Paper presented: ‘The Storyteller’s Manner in

Live Performances of Yangzhou Storytelling’, at

the i i a s / p a a t i conference ‘Audiences, Patrons


L e i d e n

Dr KarpChon Kim (Korea)

C o - s p o n s o r: Korea Research Foundation


T o p i c: ‘An Authentic Record of the Yi Dynasty’


– 31 January – 12 May

• Course taught: ‘Korean Politics in

Contemporary Literature’, at the Department of

Korean Studies, Leiden University


• Newsletter article: ‘The Korean Model of Coup’,

in IIAS Newsletter #21, February 2000

• Newsletter article: ‘A Tug-of War between the

Public and the Private in Traditional Korea’, in

IIAS Newsletter #22, June 2000

Dr Li Narangoa (Denmark)

C o - s p o n s o r: n i a s

P e r i o d: 20 – 25 January 2000, and 21 June 2000 –

2 July 2000

T o p i c: ‘Japanese Education Policy in Manchukuo,

Inner Mongolia and China, 1932-1945’

Publications:

• Newsletter article: ‘Mongolians from Country

to City’, in IIAS Newsletter # 22, June 2000

Dr Sanjay Srivastava (Australia)

Co-sponsor: Australian National University

P e r i o d: 15 November 1999 – 15 February 2000

T o p i c: ‘Masculinity, Sexuality, and the Body in the

Time of a i d s: Culture, globalization, and the pan-

demic in India’


– 25 January

• Lecture: ‘Subterranean Civil-Society:

Masculinity, sexuality, and commodity cultures

in India’, at the Birmingham Centre for Cultural

Studies, University of Birmingham

5. Affiliated fellows

The i i a s can offer office facilities to outstanding

scholars who have found their own financial sup-

port and who would like to do research in the

Netherlands for a certain period. In 2000, the fol-

lowing scholars were attached to the i i a s as affili-

ated fellows (order of data: name, country of ori-

gin, co-sponsor (if applicable), fellowship period,


cal order, and publications):

Prof. Cynthia Bautista (the Philippines),

stationed at the Amsterdam Branch Office

C o - s p o n s o r : Shell Manila

P e r i o d : 1 September 2000 – 31 December 2000

Topic: ‘Changing International Discourses and

Development Research in the South’

Activities:

– 2 November

• Lecture: ‘The Asian Financial Crisis in the

Philippines: A critique of the introduction of

social safety nets’, i i a s, Leiden

Dr Colin Brown (Australia)

Period: 17 August 2000 – 30 September 2000

T o p i c: ‘A Short History of Indonesia’

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Dr Thomas de Bruijn (the Netherlands)

Co-sponsor: n w o

Period: 15 June 1998 – 15 June 2001

Topic: ‘Nayi Kahani: New stories and new positions

in the literary field of Hindi literature after 1947’

Activities:

– 9-11 March

• Seminar convened: ‘The Indian Character of

Indian Literature’, at Leiden University,

together with Dr Th. Damsteegt

– 10 March

• Paper presented: ‘Indianness as a Category in

Literary Criticism on Nayi Kahani’, at the

seminar ‘The Indian Character of Indian

Literature’, Leiden

– 14 April

• Poster presentation at the seminar ‘New

Directions In South Asian Studies’, at the 75t h

anniversary of the Kern Institute, Leiden

– 23–26 August

• Paper presented: ‘Positions in the Field of

Medieval Indian Culture’, at the Bhakti 2000

Conference, Leuven, Belgium

– 6–9 September

• Paper presented: ‘Impostors in the Literary

Field: Aspects of characterization in Nayi

Kahani’, in the panel ‘Modern South Asian

Literature and Cinema’ of the 16t h E u r o p e a n

Conference on Modern Asian Studies,

Edinburgh

– 17 October

• Paper presentation: ‘Encounters with

Indianness: The role of ideas of Indian cultural

identity on the reception and evaluation of

Hindi literature’, at the University of Oslo,

N o r w a y


• Article: ‘Visions of the Unseen, Rhetorical

Strategies in Sufi and Bhakti Poetry’, in Mariola

Offredi (ed.), The Banyan Tree, Essays on Early

Literature in New Indo-Aryan Languages, Volume 1,

New Delhi: Manohar, 2000, pp 69-82

• Article: ‘Some Aspects of the Intellectual

Background of Jay a sı ’s Padmavat’, in G.H.

Schokker and M.K. Gautam (eds), Bhakti in Current

Research 1982-’85, Ghaziabad, Indo-European

Publications [Kern Institute Miscellanea 10],

2000, pp 179-190

• Newsletter article: ‘Variations on Modernity,

the Many Faces of South Asian Literatures’, in

IIAS Newsletter #21, February 2000, p. 7

• Newsletter aricle: ‘Internet: A virtual public

sphere’, in IIAS Newsletter #21, February 2000,

p . 1 3

• Edited: ‘South Asian Literature’, theme issue of

IIAS Newsletter #21, February 2000, pp 7-13

Dr Han-pi Chang (Taiwan)

Co-sponsor: Academia Sinica, Taiwan

P e r i o d : 20 December 1999 – 1 March 2000

Topic: ‘Separatism and Reconstruction of the

Nation in Indonesia’

Dr Michael Ewing (Australia/USA)

Period: 1 February 2000 – 30 June 2000

Topic: ‘The Clause in Cirebon Javanese Conversa-

t i o n ’


– 8 June

• Lecture: ‘Grammatical Structure, Interaction,

and Meaning in Cirebon Javanese Conversation’,

at the i i a s, Leiden

Dr Keith Foulcher (Australia)

Period: 6 November 2000 – 18 December 2000

T o p i c : ‘Modern Indonesian Literature and the

Question of Postcoloniality’

Activities:

– 8 December

• Lecture: ‘Modernity and its Discontents:

Indonesian literature from the late colonial

period to early independence’, at the

i i a s /Department of Souteast Asian Studies,

Leiden University

Dr Kamala Ganesh (India)

Co-sponsor: i d p a d

Period: 1 April 1999 – 1 July 1999, and 1 September

1999 – 1 February 2000

Topic: ‘The Impact of a Changing Social Welfare

System on Relations within Marriage, Family and

Social Networks in the Netherlands and the Pub-

lic Debate on this Process’


• Article: ‘Whose Responsibility are the Elderly’,

in H u m a n s c a p e 7(7), Mumbai, August 2000,

p p 2 9-3 2

Dr Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase (Australia), stationed

at the Branch Office Amsterdam

T o p i c: ‘The Social and Cultural Impact of Global-

ization in India’

P e r i o d: 15 October 1999 – 15 January 2000

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• Article: ‘Diversity and the Status of Women:

T h e Indian experience’, in M. Roces and

L . Edwards (eds), Women in Asia: Tradition, modernity

and globalization, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2000,

pp 85-111

Dr Doris Jedamski (Germany)

C o - s p o n s o r : d f g, Germany

Period: 7 September 1999 – 15 January 2000, and

1 November 2000 – September 2001

Topic: ‘Madame Butterfly and the Scarlet Pimpernel

and their Metamorphosis in Colonial Indonesia’


• Newsletter article: ‘Popular Culture and

Decolonization. Mimicry or counter-discourse’,

in IIAS Newsletter #21, February 2000

Dr Ganganath Jha (India)

C o - s p o n s o r: i d p a d

Period: 26 September 2000 – 26 October 2000

Topic: ‘New Political and Cultural Issues in a s e a n’

Dr Man Mohini Kaul (India), stationed at the

Amsterdam Branch Office

Period: 14 May 2000 – 31 May 2000

Topic: ‘Management of Ethnic Problems: Irian Jaya

a case study’

Dr Alessandra Lopez y Royo Iyer (UK)

Period: 15 October 2000 – 15 January 2001

Topic: ‘Siwa Iconography in Ancient Indonesia’


– 7 December

• Lecture: ‘Interpreting Javanese Images of Siwa’,

at the i i a s, Leiden

Dr Alex McKay (Australia)

Period: 8 June 2000 – 12 September 2000, and

1 October 2000 – 1 October 2002

T o p i c : ‘The History of Tibet and the Indian

H i m a l a y a s ’


– M a y

• Lecture: ‘Tibet’s Mount Kailas: Sacred centre or

British imperial construct?’, at the Zurich

University Museum of Ethnology

– 29 June

• Paper presented: ‘The Drowning of Lama

Sengchen Kyabying: A preliminary enquiry from

European sources’, at the 9t h i a t s S e m i n a r ,

L e i d e n

Dr Shalina Mehta (India), stationed at the


C o - s p o n s o r: i d p a d

P e r i o d : 2 May 2000 – 2 June 2000

T o p i c: ‘Health, Sexuality and a i d s’

Dr Rajni Palriwala (India)


Period: 1 May 2000 – 1 December 2000

Topic: ‘The Impact of a Changing Social Welfare

System on Relations within Marriage, Family and

Social Networks in the Netherlands and the Pub-

lic Debate on this Process’


– 2 0 J u n e

• Lecture: ‘Reading Between the Lines: Doing an

ethnography of the Dutch welfare state’, at the

e u-Socrates Seminar ‘Lies, Secrets, and Silences:

The unsaid in culture and in anthropology’, at

the Department of Anthropology, University

College London, University of London

– 6 November

• Lecture: ‘Single Parents between an

Individualising Society and Welfare State’, a t

t h e European Research Centre on Migration

a n d Ethnic Relations (Ercomer), University

o f U t r e c h t


• Newsletter article: ‘An Indian Fieldworker in

the Netherlands: Reverse anthropology?’, in I I A S

Newsletter #21, February 2000

Dr Rajindra Puri (USA)

Period: 1 February 2000 – 1 June 2000, stationed

i n Leiden; and 25 June 2000 – 1 September 2000,

stationed at the Amsterdam Branch Office

T o p i c: ‘Deadly Dances in the Bornean Rain Forest:

Learning to hunt with the Penan’

A c t v i t i e s :

– 6 March

• Lecture: ‘The Historical Ecology of the Trade in

Forest Products in East Kalimantan’, at

e d e n / k i t l v, Leiden

– 30 April

• Lecture: ‘Fruit from the Ancestors:

T h e historical ecology of the trade in forest

products in East Kalimantan’, at i r s e a, c n r s,

Université de Provence, Marseille

– 4 May

• Lecture: ‘Deadly Dances in the Bornean Rain

Forest: Learning to hunt with the Penan’, at the

i i a s, Leiden

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• Book: The Bulungan Ethnobiology Handbook. S p e c i a l

Publication. Center for International Forestry

Research (c i f o r), Bogor: Indonesia and East-

West Center, 2000

Prof. Albert Ralaikoa (Madagascar)

C o - s p o n s o r s: Leiden University and African Studies

Centre (a s c)

Period: 13 March 2000 – 15 June 2000

Topic: ‘Le F a n e f a n a: Un lien entre les vivants et

l e lieu de memoire. L’exemple du Sud-Betsileo’


– 25 May

• Lecture: ‘Second rite funéraire à Madagascar:

l e fanefana’, at the a s c / i i a s, Leiden

Dr Yuri Sadoi (Japan)

C o - s p o n s o r : Mitsubishi Motors Corporation


T o p i c: ‘The Problems of the Japanese Automobile

Production System in the Different Cultural Set-

ting: The case of the Netherlands’


– 3 February

• Lecture: ‘Human Resource Development in the

Japanese Automobile Industry’, i i a s, Leiden

– 25 May

• Lecture: ‘The Cultural Differences between the

Netherlands and Japan’, at the Rotary Club,

Eindhoven

– 28 September

• Paper presented: ‘Technology Transfer of

Japanese Automobile Firm – The case of auto

parts localization in Malaysia and Korea’, at the

Asian Development Seminar Series (a d s s) ,

L e i d e n


• Newsletter article: ‘Malaysia: Skill formation in

the auto parts industry’, in IIAS Newsletter # 2 3 ,

October 2000

• Newsletter article: ‘The Cultural Differences

between the Netherlands and Japan’, in

Newsletter of International Women’s Club in Eindhoven,

June 2000, p. 2

Dr Edsel Sajor (the Philippines), stationed at the

a s s r, Amsterdam

C o - s p o n s o r: Brokers Programme (UvA)

Period: 1 June 2000 – 1 June 2002

Topic: ‘Brokers of Industrial Land: Real estate

enterprises and the channelling of economic

opportunities in industrial export zones in Metro

Cebu, Philippines, 1960-2000 ’


– February – April

• Field work in Metro Cebu, Philippines

– 8-10 May

• Paper presented: ‘Socio-Political Environment

and Trends as Business Risks: Property

developers, state actors and real estate boom in

Metro-Cebu, Philippines’, at the conference

‘Brokers of Capital and Knowledge: Producer

services and social mobility in provincial Asia

(Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, and India)’,

a t the Universiteit van Amsterdam

– November 2000 – July 2001

• Field work in Metro Cebu, Philippines

Dr Ralph Shlomowitz (Australia)

Period: 1 June 2000 – 1 July 2000

Topic: ‘The Anthropometric History of India under

British Rule’


• Newsletter article: ‘Height and Health in Indian

History’, in IIAS Newsletter #23, October 2000

Dr Martin Stuart-Fox (Australia)

Period: 14 August 2000 – 11 September 2000

Topic: ‘The History of Relations between China and

Southeast Asia’

Dr Benoît de Treglodé (France), stationed at the


P e r i o d : 1 – 28 February 2000

Topic: ‘New Hero and Emulation Fighter in the

Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1948-1964’


– 22 February

• Lecture: ‘New Hero and Emulation Fighter in

the Democratic Republic of Vietnam’, at the

i i a s, Amsterdam

Prof. Yang Enhong (People’s Republic of China)

Co-sponsors: k n a w, c a s s

Period: 8 April 2000 – 15 July 2000

Topic: ‘The Study of Tibetology and the King Gesar

E p i c ’


– 25-30 June

• Panel organized: ‘New Horizons in Gesar

Studies’, at the 9t h Seminar of the International

Association of Tibetan Studies (i a t s9), Leiden

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Dr Yuan Bingling (People’s Republic of

China/the Netherlands)

Co-sponsor: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (c c f)

P e r i o d: 6 January 2000 – 1 June 2000

T o p i c: ‘Chinese Society in Beijing and in Indonesia

during the 18t h and 19t h Centuries: A comparison’


– 4 May

• Lecture: ‘Chinese Women in Jakarta during the

Colonial Period’, at École des Hautes Études en

Science Sociales (e h e s s), Paris

6. Gonda fellows

Annually, the i i a s offers office space and living

accommodation to three fellows selected and co-

funded by the Stichting J. Gonda Fonds (k n a w) .

Gonda fellows (scholars with a focus on (ancient)

South Asia) can stay at the i i a s for a maximum

period of 5 months. In 2000 the i i a s welcomed the

following Gonda fellows (order of data: name,

country of origin, co-sponsor, fellowship period,


cal order, and publications).

Drs Dimitri Olenev ( R u s s i a )

C o - s p o n s o r: Gonda Foundation

P e r i o d : 4 November 2000 – 30 March 2001

T o p i c : ‘Ancient Indian Theoretical Texts’

Dr Yaroslav Tarasyuk (Russia)


P e r i o d : 28 August 2000 – 21 January 2001

Topic: ‘Ancient and Medieval History of India,

South Indian Epigraphy’

Dr Yaroslav Vassilkov (Russia)


Period: 1 September 2000 – 15 February 2001

Topic: ‘Images of Fate in the Mahabharata’


– 20 October

• Lecture: ‘Indian Practice of Pilgrimage and the

Growth of the Mahabharata’, at the i i a s/ F r i e n d s

of the Kern Institute, Leiden

7. ESF/Alliance fellows

Scholars selected by the Asia Committee of the

European Science Foundation (e s f - a c) seconded

to the i i a s in 2000 are listed hereunder. The i i a s -

n i a s - i f a - e i a s Strategic Alliance has made part of

the funding for these fellowships available (order

of data: name, country of origin, fellowship peri-

od, topic, academic activities in chronological

order, and publications).

Dr Evelyne Micollier (France), stationed at the


Period: 1 July 1998 – 1 July 2001

Topic: ‘Practices and Representations of Health and

Illness in the Context of Chinese Culture. Inter-

actions with social facts (illness prevention and

Human reality of a i d s)’ (until 1 July 2000); and

‘Health and Sexuality in the Context of Chinese

Culture. The Social Construction of Sexuality in

a Time of a i d s’ (per 1 July 2000)

Activities:

– 6-7 July 2000

• Seminar convened: ‘Health, Sexuality, and Civil

Society in East Asia’, i i a s, Amsterdam


• E d i t e d : Sociétés asiatiques face au sida ( A s i a n

Societies confronted with a i d s), Paris:

L’Harmattan, Asian Studies Series, 2000, 482 pp,

(with M.E.Blanc, and L.Husson)

• Article: ‘Analyse de la campagne de prévention à

Taiwan’ (The a i d s Campaign in Taiwan), in

M.E.Blanc, L.Husson, E. Micollier (eds), S o c i é t é s

asiatiques face au sida, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2000, pp

2 2 9 - 2 5 2

• Article: ‘Emergence de la société civile à Taiwan:

vers une gestion collective des problèmes de

santé’ (Public Health Issues and Civil Society in

Taiwan), in C. Baix, C. Chaîgne, C. Zheng (eds),

Taiwan. Enquête sur une identité, Paris: Karthala,

2000, pp 309-331

• Newsletter article: ‘Qigong Groups and Civil

Society in p r China”, in IIAS Newsletter #22, June

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• Newsletter article: ‘Report on the Conference

“Health, Sexuality, and Civil Society in East

Asia”’, in IIAS Newsletter #23, October 2000

Dr Martin Ramstedt (Germany)

Period: 1 December 1997 – 1 March 2001

Topic: ‘Hindu Dharma Indonesia – The Hindu-

movement in present-day Indonesia and its influ-

ence in relation to the development of the indige-

nous culture of the Toraja (Aluk Todolo) in South

S u l a w e s i ’

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– February – April

• Course taught: ‘The Globalization of Religious

Identity: Global religion and local tradition in

Southeast Asia’, at the Department of Cultural

Anthropology, University of Nijmegen

– 24 February

• Lecture: ‘Diversity in Peril: “Hinduism” in

modern Indonesia’, in the Brown Bag Seminar

Series, Sectie Culturele en Sociale Antropologie,

Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, University

of Nijmegen

– 8 March

• Lecture: ‘Hinduism in Indonesia: Diversity in

peril?’, at the Department of Religious Studies,

University of Colorado at Boulder, u s a

– 12 March

• Paper presented: ‘Transnational Religious

Identity and the Nation State: “Hinduism” in

Indonesia’, at the Annual Meeting of the

Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, u s a

– 15 March

• Lecture: ‘Diversity in Peril: “Hinduism” in

modern Indonesia’, at the Oosters Genootschap

in Nederland (Eastern Society in the

Netherlands), Snouck Hurgronjehuis, Leiden

– 21 March

• Lecture: ‘Die Religionen Indonesiens –

E i n Faktor für die Wirtschaft’ (‘The Religions

o f Indonesia – A parameter for business’), at

t h e Fachhochschule Konstanz (University of

Applied Sciences), Studiengang Angewandte

Sprachwissenschaften (Programme Applied

Linguistics), Germany

– J u l y

• Field research in Bali

– 6-7 July

• Paper presented: ‘From Local Orthopraxides to

Universal Orthodoxy? The Change of religiosity

in modern Bali’, at the meeting of the Inter-

national Society for Balinese Studies, theme of

the conference: ‘Bali in Reformation: Religious

change and socio-political transformation’, in

Denpasar, Indonesia

– 12 August

• Paper presented: ‘Globalized Religious Identity

& the Nation-State: “Hinduism” & identity

formation in modern Indonesia’, at the

Quinquennial Congress of the International

Association for the History of Religion (i a h r) ,

Durban, South Africa

– September – October

• Field research in Bali, Java, and Kalimantan

– 13-15 September

• Paper presented: ‘Asta Brata and Governance in

Pre-Colonial Bali’, at the Second International

Conference on ‘Ramayana & Mahabharata’,

Denpasar, Indonesia


• Article: ‘“Bali” – kulturelles Kapital im Spiel

divergierender Interessen’ (‘“Bali” – Cultural

Capital Negotiated in Divergent Interests’), in

Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, and Klaus Rieländer

(eds), Bali – Kultur, Tourismus, Umwelt (Bali – Culture,

Tourism, Environment), Hamburg: Abera, 2000,

p p 1 2 4 - 1 4 1

• Edited: ‘Modern Hinduism: Relations between

Hindus in Modern Indonesia and India’, theme

issue of IIAS Newsletter #23, October 2000

• Newsletter article: ‘“Hinduism” in Modern

Indonesia’, in IIAS Newsletter #21, February 2000

• Newsletter article: ‘Relations between Hindus

in Modern Indonesia and India’, in IIAS Newsletter

#23, October 2000

• Newsletter article: ‘Two Balinese Hindu

Intellectuals – Ibu Gedong Bagoes Oka and Prof.

I Gusti Ngurah Bagus’, in IIAS Newsletter # 2 3 ,

October 2000

• Newsletter article: ‘Report on the Symposium

“Religions and Tolerance” organized by the

Japanese-German Centre Berlin, the Centre for

the Modern Orient, the Moses Mendelssohn

Centre, the Urasenke Foundation, and the

College of Science Berlin in Berlin, Germany,

08/05 – 09/05/00’, in IIAS Newsletter #23, October

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8. Dutch senior fellows

Yearly, the i i a s offers twelve months of Dutch

senior fellowships. Dutch senior scholars can

apply for this position for a maximum period of

6 months. These fellows must have received their

PhD degrees at least five years prior to appoint-

ment and must be considered highly academically

productive. Time spent at the i i a s (and not

abroad) can be used for further research. The i i a s

provides funding for replacement staff at the

home universities of the Dutch seniors for the

duration of their secondment at the i i a s. In 2000

the following Dutch seniors conducted research at

the i i a s (order of data: name, home institution,

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fellowship period, topic, academic activities in

chronological order, and publications):

Dr Rosanne Rutten (Universiteit van Amster-

dam), stationed at the Amsterdam Branch Office

Period: 20 August 2000 – 20 February 2001

T o p i c : ‘Revolutionaries in the Community:

R i s e and decline of the c p p - n p a in a Philippine

province, 1977–1995’

Dr Jeroen Wiedenhof (Leiden University)

Co-sponsor: Spinoza-project, Leiden University

P e r i o d : 1 February 2000 – 1 September 2000

( D u t c h senior fellowship); and

1 September 2000 – 1 February 2001

(i i a s affiliated fellowship)

T o p i c : ‘A Grammar of Mandarin’

9. Nordic-Netherlands research fellows

Nordic-Netherlands research fellows are selected

by the Strategic Alliance (i i a s, Leiden/Amsterdam;

n i a s, Copenhagen; i f a, Hamburg; and the e i a s,

Brussels), and stationed at one of the partner insti-

tutes. In 2000 the following Nordic-Netherlands

research fellows were undertaking their research

(order of data: name, country of origin, institute

were stationed, fellowship period, research topic,

academic activities in chronological order, and

p u b l i c a t i o n s ) :

Dr Micheal Jacobsen (Denmark), stationed at the

i i a s, Leiden


T o p i c: ‘Ethnic Identity, Nation Building and

Human Rights in a Globalizing World’


– 9 February

• Paper presented: ‘On the Question of

Contemporary Identity in Minahasa, North

Sulawesi Province, Indonesia’, at a seminar at

the Kring der Leidse Urbanisten (k l u) in Leiden

– 15 April

• Lecture: ‘How Dutch Minahasans perceive

Minahasa in North Sulawesi and vice-versa’,

a t ‘Stichting Lumimu’ut’

– 18-20 May

• Paper presented: ‘Appropriating the Global

within the Local. On identity formation among

the Minahasa in North Sulawesi, Indonesia’, at

the international conference ‘Globalization and

Democratic Developments in Asia’, in Lund,

S w e d e n

– J u n e

• Fieldwork in Minahasa, Indonesia

– 14 June

• Lecture: “On the Development of Civil Society

in Contemporary Indonesia’, at the Mount

Lokon Resting Resort, Tomohon, Indonesia

– 17 June

• Presentation: ‘Globalization and Ethnicity:

O n the politicization of ethnic identities’, at

t h e Provincial Council for the Development

o f Empowerment, Manado, Indonesia

– 23 June

• Presentation: ‘On the Ethnification of Provincial

Politics’, at the p d i - p, in Manado, Indonesia

– 26 June

• Presentation: ‘Ethnic Conflicts in Contemporary

Indonesia’, organized by the n g os Minahasa

Wangko and Yayasan Suara Nurani, Indonesia


• Newsletter article: ‘Indonesia on the Threshold.

Towards an ethnification of the nation?’, in I I A S

N e w s l e t t e r #22, June 2000

Dr Mario Rutten (the Netherlands), stationed at

n i a s, Copenhagen

P e r i o d : 15 February 1999 – 15 February 2000

Topic: ‘Rural Capitalists in Asia; India, Indonesia,

and Malaysia compared’


– 14-15 January

• Paper presented: ‘Family Enterprises and

Business Partnerships; Collectivism and

Individualism among Rural Capitalists in India,

Malaysia, and Indonesia’, at the conference on

‘Entrepreneurship and Institutions in a Com-

parative Perspective; Europe and Asia, 16t h– 2 0t h

Centuries’, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Publications:

• Newsletter article: ‘Nordic European Workshop:

Social science research on contemporary South

and Southeast Asia’, in IIAS Newsletter # 22, June

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g u e s t s

The i i a s sometimes invites foreign research guests

to assist in a certain research project. These guests

can participate in research activities, help with

translations or perform shows and plays. The i i a s

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also regularly hosts scholars who are ‘passing-

through’ the Netherlands for a very short period

of time. In 2000 the i i a s received the following

guests (order of data: name, country of origin,

research purpose, period of stay, activities).

Prof. Robert Cribb (Australia)

Period: 12 – 25 January 2000, 14 June 2000 – 2 July

2000, and 7 September 2000


– 7 September

• Lecture: ‘Genocide in the Non-Western World’,

i i a s, Leiden

Drs Undang A. Darsa (Indonesia)

Period: 1 July 2000 – 30 November 2000


• Research assistant within the project

‘Soendanese Literature’under supervision of

Prof. A. Teeuw, hosted by the i i a s

Prof. Arvind Das ( I n d i a ), stationed at the Amster-

dam Branch Office

P e r i o d : 1-5 May 2000

Activities:

– 1 May

• Introduction at the film presentation ‘India

Invented’, Amsterdam

Dr Carole Faucher (Singapore), stationed at the


Period: December 2000

Activities:

- 1 December

• Lecture: ‘Territory, Boundaries, and Ethnic

Consciousness among the Malays of the Riau

Archipelago’, at the seminar ‘The Geopolitics of

Globalization and Southeast Asia/Europe

Relations in the 21s t C e n t u r y ’ , in co-operation

with the National University of Singapore and

ASiA Platform, UvA, Amsterdam

Prof. Peter S. Li (Canada), stationed at the Am-

sterdam Branch Office

Period: May 2000


– 2 May

• Lecture: ‘The Battle over ‘Monster Homes’ in

Vancouver, Racial Constructions of Chinese

Immigrants in the 1980s’, at the i i a s B r a n c h

Office, in co-operation with a s s r and i m e s,

A m s t e r d a m

Mrs Gauri Raje ( U K ), stationed at the Amsterdam

Branch Office

Period: December 2000

Topic: ‘Medicine, Motherhood and the State:

Narratives of child care in a displaced-migrant

community in Gujarat, India’

Dr Angela Schottenhammer (Germany)

Period: 24 July 2000 – 31 July 2000


• Book: The Emporium of the World. Maritime Quanzhou,

1 0 0 0 - 1 4 0 0; number 49 of the series ‘Sinica

Leidensia’, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000, pp 464

Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat ( I n d i a ), stationed at the



P e r i o d : 19-26 April 2000

T o p i c: Research as part of i d p a d p r o j e c t

Prof. Gauri Viswanathan ( U S A ), stationed at the


P e r i o d: 29 May – 3 June 2000

T o p i c: ‘Theosophy, Literary Criticism, and Cultural

C h a n g e ’

I I A S A l u m n i

Many fellows who were attached to the i i a s in pre-

vious years published their results in journals,

monographs, and newsletters in 2000. The follow-

ing i i a s alumni informed us about the articles or

books they published in 2000 and which followed

from their research undertaken at the i i a s ( o r d e r

of data: name, country of origin, kind of fellow-

ship, fellowship period, and publications):

Dr Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk (Norway)

Visiting exchange fellow, 1998

• Book: Tarikh Harakat al-Islah wa al-Irshad wa shaykh

al-Irshadiyyin Ahmad Muhammad al- Surkitti fi

I n d u n i s i a (A History of the Islah and Irsahd

Movement and the Shaykh of the Irsahdis

Ahmad Muhammad al-Surkitti in Indonesia),

Kuala Lumpur, 2000, pp 580

Prof. A. Wahab Bin Ali (Malaysia)

Professorial fellow, 1995-1996

• Book: Kritikan Estetik Sastera, Kuala Lumpur, 2000,

116 pp

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Dr Noosgoi Altantsetseg (Mongolia)


• Newsletter article: ‘Political Reforms in

Mongolia’, in IIAS Newsletter #21, February 2000

Dr Christoph Antons (Australia)

Visiting exchange fellow, 1997-1998

• Book: Intellectual Property Law in Indonesia,

T h e Hague-London-Boston, 2000, 448 pp

Dr Chris Ballard (Australia)


• Newsletter article: ‘Competing Interests at the

Freeport Mine in Irian Jaya’, in IIAS Newsletter

#22, June 2000

Dr Bert Edström ( S w e d e n )

Visiting exchange fellow, 1996-1997

• Article: ‘Inledning’ [Introduction], in Bert

Edström and Ingvar Svanberg (eds), F j ä r r a n n ä r a :

Sveriges kontakter med Japan genom tiderna [Near but

far away: Swedish—Japanese contact through the

ages], Stockholm, 2000, pp 1—21, (with Ingvar

S v a n b e r g )

Dr Cristina Eghenter (Italy/UK)

Affiliated fellow, 1998

• Article: ‘What is tana ulen good for?

Considerations on indigenous forest

management, conservation, and research in the

interior of Indonesian Borneo’, in Human Ecology:

An Interdisciplinary Journal 28(3), September 2000,

pp 331-357

Dr Lloyd Haft (the Netherlands)

Dutch senior fellow, 1996-1997

• Book: The Chinese Sonnet: Meanings of a form, Leiden:

c n w s, 2000

Dr Mason Hoadley (Sweden)


• Edited volume: The Archive of Yogyakarta, vol. II,

Documents relating to Economic and Agrarian Affairs,

Oxford, 2000, 566 pp, (with Peter Carey)

P r o f. Vinesh Hookoomsing ( M a u r i t i u s )

Senior visiting fellow, 1999

• Edited: Globalisation and the South-West Indian Ocean,

Réduit: University of Mauritius/i i a s, 2000,

2 3 5 pp, (with Sandra Evers)

Dr John Knight (UK)

Research fellow, 1996-1999

• Edited: Natural Enemies: People-wildlife conflicts in

anthropological perspective, London and New York:

Routledge, 2000

• Article: ‘From Timber to Tourism:

Recommoditizing the Japanese forest’, in

Development and Change 31(1), 2000, pp 341-359

• Article: ‘From Timber to Tourism:

Recommoditizing the Japanese forest’, in

Martin Doornbos, Ashwani Saith, and Ben

White (eds), Forests: Nature, people, power, Oxford,

2000, pp 333-350

• Article: ‘“Indigenous” Regionalism in Japan’, in

Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes, and Alan Bicker (eds),

Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its

Transformations: Critical anthropological approaches,

Harwood, 2000, pp 151-176

• Article: ‘New “Peasants” in Japan’, in Deborah

Bryceson, Cristóbal Kay, and Jos Mooij (eds),

Disappearing Peasantries? Rural labour in Latin America,

Asia and Africa, London, 2000, pp 279-298

• Article: ‘Introduction’, in John Knight (ed.),

Natural Enemies: People-wildlife conflicts in

anthropological perspective, London, 2000, pp 1-35

• Article: ‘Culling Demons: The problem of bears

in upland Japan’, in John Knight (ed.), N a t u r a l

E n e m i e s : People-wildlife conflicts in anthropological

p e r s p e c t i v e, London, 2000, pp 145-169

• Article: ‘Sharing Suzuki’s Rice: Commodity

narratives in the rural revitalization movement’,

in Michael Ashkenazi and John Clammer (eds),

Material Culture and Consumption in Japan, London,

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Dr Achim Mittag (Germany)

Es f Asia Committee research fellow, 1996-1998

• Article: ‘Der Andere aus chinesischer Sicht.

Anmerkungen zur Fremdheitswahrnehmung

im China des ‘langen’ 19. Jahrhunderts’, in

Birgit Aschmann/Michael Salewski (eds), Das Bild

“des Anderen”. Politische Wahrnehmung im 19. und 20.

J a h r h u n d e r t, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000,

pp 184-202

• Article: ‘Das Naevus-Siebengestirn auf der

Wange des Zhu Xi (12. Jh.). Beiläufiges zu

Pigmentmalen im alten China’, in Hannelore

Mittag (ed.), Die Haut im medizinischen und

kulturgeschichtlichen Kontext, Marburg:

Universitätsbibliothek Marburg, 2000,

(Schriften der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg;

103), pp 247-263

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P r o f D. Narasimha Reddy (India)

Affiliated fellow, 1998

• Article: ‘Agrarian Transition – Is there an Asian

way? An exploratory survey’, in R.V.

Chandrasekhara Rao, A. Prasannakumar, and

K.C. Reddy (eds), Perspectives on Indian Development:

Economy, polity and society, New Delhi, 2000

Dr Michael Roberts (Australia)


• Article: ‘Submerging the People? Post-

Orientalism and the Construction of

Communalism’, in Berkemar, et al. (eds),

Explorations in South Asian History. Festschrift for

Dietmar Rothermund on the occasion of his 65t h b i r t h d a y,

New Delhi: Manohar Press, 2000

Dr Sarah Soh (USA)


• Article: ‘Human Rights and the “Comfort

Women”’, in Peace Review, 2000

• Article: ‘From Imperial Gifts to Sex Slaves’,

i n Social Science Japan Journal, 2000

• Article: ‘Uncovering the Truth about the

“Comfort Women”’, in Women’s Studies

International Forum, 2000

Prof. Andrew Strathern and Dr Pamela J. Stewart

( U S A )

Senior visiting fellows, 1998

• Book: The Python’s Back: Pathways of comparison

between Indonesia and Melanesia, London, 2000

• Article: ‘Kinship and Commoditization:

Historical transformations’, in special issue of

the Journal on Kinship L ’ H o m m e #154/155, 2000,

p p 3 7 3 - 3 9 0

Dr Giovanni Vitiello (Italy)

ESF Asia Committee research fellow, 1997-1999

• Article: ‘Exemplary Sodomites: Chivalry and

love in late Ming culture’, in Nannü 2(2), Fall

2000, pp 207-258

• Article: ‘The Forgotten Tears of the Lord of

Longyang: Late Ming stories of male

prostitution and connoisseurship’, in Peter

Engelfriet and Jan de Meyer (eds), Linked Faiths:

Essays on Chinese religion and traditional culture in

honour of Kristopher Schipper, Leiden: Brill, 2000,

p p 2 2 7 - 2 4 7

Dr Alex de Voogt (the Netherlands)

Affiliated fellow, 1997-1999

• Article: ‘Awari Board from Ivory Coast’, in

Catalogue of African Art, London: British Museum

Press, 2000

• Article: ‘Human versus Machine Problem-

Solving: Winning openings in Dakon’, in

B o a r d Games Studies #3, 2000, pp 79-88, (with A.

Donkers, and J. Uiterwijk)

• Article: ‘Mancala Board (Olinda Keliya) in the

National Museums of Colombo’, in Board Games

Studies #3, 2000, pp 91-99

• Article: ‘Mancala Rules and Cultural Changes in

Maldivian History’, in Journal of Indian Ocean

S t u d i e s 7(2/3), March 2000, pp 174-182

Dr Bill Watson (USA)


• Book: Of Self and Nation. Autobiography and the

Representation of Modern I n d o n e s i a, Honolulu:

University of Hawaii Press, 2000, 257 pp

Dr John Wolff (USA)


• Book: Toratán (Ratahan), Lincom Europa,

Languages of the World/Materials 130, 2000,

(with Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)

Dr Frank de Zwart (the Netherlands)

Dutch senior fellow, 1997

• Article: ‘Practical Knowledge and Institutional

Design in India’s Affirmative Action Policy’, in

Anthropology Today 16(2), 2000, pp 4-7

• Article: ‘The Logic of Affirmative Action: Caste,

class and quotas in India’, in Acta Sociologica 4 3 ( 3 ) ,

2000, pp 235-249

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One of the aims of the i i a s is the organization of

international scientific gatherings. Therefore the

i i a s stimulates its fellows to organize internation-

al seminars in order to promote both the interna-

tionalization of learning and the co-operation

between specialists from various countries with

diverse backgrounds. Besides these seminars orga-

nized by research fellows, which are also men-

tioned in Section 2, the i i a s holds its own institu-

tional seminars, workshops, and lectures. More-

over, the i i a s has budgets available to facilitate

visits by international scholars who are invited by

Dutch Asia-orientated institutes. Finally, the i i a s

works in close co-operation with its MoU-part-

ners and related institutes or organisations (such

as the e s f Asia Committee) in the organization of

joint international seminars both in the Nether-

lands and abroad.

Below, in chronological order, the seminars, lec-

tures, and institutional events with their topics,

convenors/organizers and the locations are listed.

– 9-16 January

• Workshop: ‘Fourth a b i a W o r k s h o p ’ ,

i n Dharwad, India

• Organizers: a b i a research project

– 14 January

• Inaugural lecture: ‘Indonesisch en Indonesische

streektalen’, by i i a s extraordinary chairholder

Prof. H. Steinhauer, at Nijmegen University

• Organizer: i i a s/Nijmegen University

– 15 February

• Inaugural lecture: ‘Van Denkmodellen en

Vooroordelen: Thaise geschiedschrijving over de

periode van de eerste helft van de negentiende

eeuw’, by i i a s extraordinary chairholder Prof.

B.J. Terwiel, at Leiden University

• Organizer: i i a s/Leiden University

– 9-11 March

• Workshop: ‘The Indian Character of Indian

Literature’, at Leiden University, in Leiden

• Convenors: Dr Thomas de Bruijn, i i a s, and

D r Theo Damsteegt, Leiden University

• Co-sponsor: i i a s

– 9-12 March

• Aa s Annual Meeting, San Diego, u s a

• Ii a s/Alliance/Dutch publishers presentation

organized by the i i a s

– 3 April

• Workshop: ‘The Future of the a s e m Process’, at

the European Commission, in Brussels, Belgium

• Organizers: i i a s / e i a s /Strategic Alliance

– 7-9 April

• Workshop: ‘Seventh Nordic-European

Workshop in Advanced Asian Studies (n e w a s) ’ ,

in Copenhagen, Denmark

• Convenor: Prof. Per Ronnås, n i a s

• Organizer: i i a s / n i a s/Strategic Alliance

– 7-9 April

• Es f Workshop: ‘Indigenous People: The

trajectory of a contemporary concept in 2000’,

a t the Seminar for Development Studies,

Uppsala University, in Uppsala, Sweden

• Sponsor: Es f Asia Committee

– 27-28 April

• Workshop: ‘Fourth Euro-Japanese International

Symposium on Mainland Southeast Asian

History (Leiden/The Hague): Mainland Southeast

Asian Responses to the Stimuli of Foreign Material Culture

and Practical Knowledge (14t h – mid 19t h c e n t u r y )’

• Convenors: Prof. W.A.L. Stokhof, i i a s, and

P r o f . B. Terwiel, i i a s/ L e i d e n

University/Universität Hamburg

• Organizer: i i a s

– 27-29 April

• Es f Workshop: ‘Building the Social Safety Net

for Asian Societies in Transition’, i r e s,

Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-

l a-Neuve, Belgium

• Sponsor: e s f Asia Committee

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Seminars and Institutional Events

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S e m i n a r s a n d I n s t i t u t i o n a l E v e n t s

– 1 May

• Photo exposition: ‘Down and Out, Labouring

under Global Capitalism’

• Convenors: Dr Jan Breman, UvA, and Dr Arvind

N. Das, Asia-Pacific Communication Associates

• Organizer: i i a s Amsterdam Branch Office

– 2 May

• Film: ‘India Invented’, in the Asian Movie Series

• Organizers: i i a s Amsterdam Branch Office,

Asian Cinema Center, and student association

Farang, Amsterdam

– 8-10 May

• ESF Workshop: ‘Brokers of Capital and

Knowledge: Producer services and social

mobility in provincial Asia’, Centre for Asian

Studies Amsterdam (c a s a), Amsterdam


– 18-19 May

• Workshop: ‘Slave Systems in Asia and the Indian

Ocean: Their structure and change in the 19t h

and 20t h centuries’, in Avignon

• Convenor: Dr Gwyn Campbell, c e r i n s

• Sponsors: i i a s / c e r i n s / i n a l c o

– 19 May

• Philippines Studies Day in Amsterdam

• Convenor: Dr Rosanne Rutten, i i a s/UvA

• Organizer: i i a s Branch Office Amsterdam

– 23 May

• Lecture: ‘The Battle over “Monster Homes”

i n Vancouver: Racial constructions of Chinese

immigrants in the 1980s’, by Dr Peter Li,

University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in

A m s t e r d a m

• Convenors: Dr Leo Douw (v u, UvA), and

D r Mario Rutten (i i a s, UvA)

• Organizer: i i a s Branch Office

A m s t e r d a m /a s s r / i m e s

– 23-24 May

• Es f Workshop: ‘Gender and the Transmission of

Values Systems and Cultural Heritage(s) in

South and Southeast Asia’, Belle van Zuylen

Instituut, Amsterdam


– 2 5-26 May

• Esf Workshop: ‘The Last Decade of Migration

from the People’s Republic of China to Europe

and Asia’, in Budapest, Hungary


– 26 May

• Book presentation: ‘The Chittagong Hill Tracts:

Living in a borderland’, by Prof. Willem van

S c h e n d e l


– 31 May – 2 June

• Es f Workshop: ‘Good Government, Eastern and

Western Perspectives’, Nordic Institute of Asian

Studies, Seoul, Korea

• Sponsor: esf Asia Committee

– 2-4 June

• Es f W o r k s h o p : ‘Human and Regional Security

around the South China Sea’, Centre for

Development and the Environment, Oslo,

N o r w a y


– 8-9 June

• Seminar: ‘Yogacara Buddhism in China’,

i n L e i d e n

• Convenor: Prof. Chen-kuo Lin, i i a s


– 16 June

• Workshop: ‘Voices from Japan. Contemporary

art and discourse in global perspective’,

Department of Art History and Modern

Contemporary Art, Leiden University

• Convenor: Prof. Kitty Zijlmans, Leiden

U n i v e r s i t y

• Sponsor: i i a s

– 21-23 June

• Esf Workshop: ‘Medicine in China: Health

techniques and social history’, Centre d’Études

sur la Chine Moderne et Contemporaine, Paris,

F r a n c e


– 22 June

• Inaugural lecture: ‘Een staat van geweld’, by i i a s

extraordinary chair holder H.G.C. Schulte

Nordholt, at Erasmus University Rotterdam

• Organizer: i i a s/Erasmus University Rotterdam

– 24-30 June

• Conference: ‘9t h Seminar of the Intenational

Association of Tibetan Studies (i a t s9 ) ’

• Convenor: Dr Henk Blezer, i i a s


– 6-7 July

• Seminar: ‘Health, Sexuality and Civil Society

i n East Asia’, in Amsterdam

• Convenor: Dr Evelyne Micollier, i i a s


– 7-8 July

• Esf Workshop ‘Centre and Periphery in

Southeast Asia’, Department of Economics,

s o a s, University of London, in London


– 18 July

• Seminar: ‘Q i a o x i a n g Ties: Concluding seminar’,

in Amsterdam

• Convenor: Dr Leo Douw, i i a s/ U v A


– 10-11 August

• Seminar: ‘Environmental Change in Native and

Colonial Histories of Borneo: Lessons from the

past, prospects for the future’, in Leiden

• Convenor: Dr Reed L. Wadley, i i a s


– 23-27 August

• Conference: ‘Audiences, Patrons and Performers

in the Performing Arts of Asia’, in Leiden

• Convenors: Dr Wim van Zanten, i i a s/ L e i d e n

University, and Frank Kouwenhoven, c h i m e

• Organizers: i i a s / p a a t i / c h i m e

– 7 September

• Lecture: ‘Genocide in the Non-Western World’,

by Prof. Robert Cribb (Australia), in Leiden


– 14 September

• Seminar: ‘Labour in Asia: A comparative

perspective’, in Amsterdam

• Convenors: Dr Ratna Saptari, c l a r a, and

D r Kristoffel Lieten, UvA

• Organizers: i i s h / c l a r a / i i a s Branch Office

A m s t e r d a m

– 15 September

• Seminar: ‘Globalization in India: The impact on

agriculture and the rural poor’, in Amsterdam

• Convenor: Dr Mario Rutten, i i a s

• Organizers: i i a s Branch Office

Amsterdam/National University of

Singapore/Platform Asian Studies in Amsterdam

(ASiA), UvA

– 21 September

• Seminar: ‘Nation and History in Southeast Asia’,

speakers: Ruth McVey (ex-s o a s) and Takashi

Shiraishi (Kyoto University), in Amsterdam,

introductory session within the seminar series

‘Southeast Asia Across Borders’

• Convenors: Dr Remco Raben, n i o d, and

D r Peter Post, n i o d

• Organizers: i i a s / n i o d

– 28 September

• Seminar: ‘Regional Integration in the

Automobile Industry in Asia and Technology

Transfer by Japanese Firms: Auto parts

localization in Korea and Malysia’, speakers:

Prof. Rob van Tulder and Dr Yuri Sadoi,

i n A m s t e r d a m

• Organizers: Asian Development Seminar Series

• Sponsor: i i a s

– 11 October

• Lecture: ‘From the Exotic and Erotic to the

Patriotic and Nostalgic: Changing Japanese

images of the Pacific in popular song’, by Don

Niles, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies

• Organizers: i i a s/Leiden University

– 11 October

• Asia Update: ‘Tagung des Asien-Pazifik

Ausschusses der Deutschen Wirtschaft’,

i n B e r l i n

• Convenors: i f a / i i a s / n i a s / e i a s

( S t r a t e g i c A l l i a n c e )

– 12 October

• Seminar: ‘Sino-Southeast Asian Studies:

T o w a r d an alternative paradigm’, in

Amsterdam, speaker: Dr Hong Liu (n u s) ,

w i t h i n the seminar series ‘Southeast Asia Across

B o r d e r s ’




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3 7

a n n u a l r e p o r t 2 0 0 0

S e m i n a r s a n d I n s t i t u t i o n a l E v e n t s

3 7

– 18 October

• F i l m : ‘Mississipi Masala’, in the Asian Movie

S e r i e s

• Organizers: i i a s Branch Office Amsterdam,


Farang, Amsterdam

– 20 October

• Meeting: ‘Overseas Guests Meeting of

P h i l i p p i n i s t s ’

• Convenor: Prof. Otto van den Muijzenberg, UvA

• O r g a n i z e r s : i i a s/ U v A

– 20 October

• Lecture: ‘Indian Practice of Pilgrimage and the

Growth of the Mahabharata’, by Dr Yaroslav

Vassilkov, in Leiden

• O r g a n i z e r s : i i a s/Vrienden van Instituut Kern

– 26-28 October

• Workshop: ‘Domestic Service and Mobility:

Labour livelihoods and lifestyles’, Trivandrum,

India

• Convenors: Dr Ratna Saptari, c l a r a, and

D r Annelies Moors, UvA

• Organizers: i i a s / i i s h / c l a r a

– 27 October

• Ii a s Annual lecture: ‘Asia and Western

Dominance –Retrospect and prospect’, by Prof.

Deepak Kumar Lal, University of California,

i n L e i d e n


– 2 November

• Lecture: ‘The Asian Financial Crisis in the

Philippines: A critique of the introduction of

social safety nets’, by Prof. Cynthia Bautista,

i n L e i d e n


– 8 November

• Film: ‘Celso and Cora’, in the Asian Movie Series

• Organizers: i i a s Branch Office Amsterdam,


Farang, Amsterdam

– 23 November

• Seminar: ‘Cities, Hinterlands and Peripheries:

Changing economic geographies of island

Southeast Asia, 1850-2000’, by Prof. Howard

Dick, University of Melbourne, within the

seminar series ‘Southeast Asia Across Borders’




– 27-29 November

• Seminar: ‘From Fact to Fiction: A history of

Thai-Myanmar relations’, Bangkok, Thailand

• Organizers: Institute of Asian Studies,

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, and i i a s

– 30 November

• Film: ‘Twelve Stories’, in the Asian Movie Series

• Organized: by the i i a s in close collaboration

with the Asian Cinema Centre and student-

association Farang, in Amsterdam

– 14 December

• Seminar: ‘Separatism and the Legitimacy of the

Nation-State in Southeast Asia: Anti-colonial

and post-colonial perspectives’, speaker Clive J.

Christie, University of Hull, within the seminar

series ‘Southeast Asia Across Borders’




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[…] the Institute is a hybrid facility whose task is to foster

intellectual synergies among individuals and institutions in

ways that universities and research schools benefit from but

cannot themselves easily initiate’ (see Fox, ‘Krishna

Dancing, International Committee Evaluation on

the International Institute for Asian Studies’,

April 1999, p. 2).

The i i a s has dual academic and facilitating roles.

It actively promotes Asian Studies in the Humani-

ties and Social Sciences by creating scientific

alliances in these fields. The i i a s aspires to

improve communication between scholars and

institutes; it plays an active role in co-ordinating

and disseminating information on Asian Studies

throughout the world. The Institute acts as an

inter-mediator by bringing together various insti-

tutes and interested individuals for the enhance-

ment of Asian Studies. In keeping with the

ingrained Dutch tradition of transferring goods

and ideas, the i i a s works as a clearinghouse of

knowledge and information in the field of Asian

Studies. This entails activities such as providing

information services, constructing international

networks, and setting up co-operative projects

and research programmes. The i i a s makes a con-

scious contribution to the ‘cultural rapproche-

ment’ between Asia and Europe. It endeavours to

function as a window on Europe for the interna-

tional academic community and as an ambassador

for Asian Studies in general.

Simultaneously a national umbrella and an

international institute, the i i a s works to maintain

a balance in its duality, allowing for the reciprocal

reinforcement of its national and international

roles. Its international seminars and events, held

in the Netherlands and elsewhere, enable scholars

from the Netherlands and abroad to reap the ben-

efits of a stimulating international academic envi-

ronment. Ii a s scholars find themselves in a coun-

try that has earned world renown in Asian Studies:

over the centuries the Netherlands has acquired a

wealth of expertise and research collections in this

domain. Through the i i a s, links between scholars

as well as links between scholars and the non-aca-

demic community are made. The i i a s c o - o p e r a t e s

with institutions and individuals from all over the

world through its research programmes and pro-

jects, its functioning as secretariat for several

international organizations, its Strategic Alliance,

and its relations with numerous individuals and

(inter)national organizations.

t h e e s f a si a c o m m i t t e e , p a c ,p e a r l & t h e s t r a t e g i c a l l i a n c e

European Science Foundation Asia Committee

On the European stage, the i i a s contributes to co-

operation in Asian Studies by its active participa-

tion in the Asia Committee of the European Sci-

ence Foundation. The Asia Committee was estab-

lished in March 1994 by the e s f Executive Coun-

cil.

Membership of the Asia Committee consists of

leading scholars from European countries. They

have been appointed after consultation with the

National Research Organizations, which are

members of the European Science Foundation.

I n 1995, the post of Secretariat to the Committee

was assigned to the i i a s. The e s f Asia Commit-

tee’s first mandate period lasted from 1995-1997.

During these years the Committee developed

activities designed to boost Asian Studies in

Europe through fellowships, support for work-

shops, programme development, and other such

activities. After an evaluation in 1997, a new Com-

mittee was installed in 1999 for a second mandate

period (1999-2001). The Asia Committee works

closely together with the ‘Conference of the Presi-

dents of European Associations for Asian Studies’,

which consists of the following six associations:

the Association for Korean Studies in Europe

(a k s e); the European Association for Chinese

Studies (e a c s); the European Association for

Japanese Studies (e a j s); the European Association

for South Asian Studies (e a s a s); the European

Society for Central Asian Studies (e s c a s); and the

European Association for Southeast Asian Studies

(e u r o s e a s) .

S E C T I O N 4

IIAS Research Facilitating Activities

Asia Committee 1999-2001

This year, the full Asia Committee convened in

Madrid in July. During this meeting 10 work-

shops were selected for funding. All workshops

were to take place in 2001. During the discussion,

it became clear that the Meeting considered the

existence and activities of the Asia Committee of

such an importance, that it deserved prolonga-

tion, in no matter what form.

E x t e n s i o n

As the Asia Committee’s current mandate period

ends on 31 December 2001, the Committee decid-

ed to explore ways of extending the e s f A s i a n

Studies programme into a third three-year man-

date period, starting on 1 January 2002. It was

decided to:

1) draft a short policy paper (based on the existing

brochure, including (long-term) plans for the

future) [August-October];

2) approach the relevant national science councils,

to ask for their support (Would they be prepared

to go on supporting the Asia Committee?)

[October-December];

3) submit a proposal for prolongation of Asia

Committee activities (and not specifically for

becoming an expert committee) at the e s f

(Standing Committees), to be submitted before

1 April 2001.

ESF Asia Committee Workshops

During the July Madrid meeting, the full Com-

mittee selected 10 workshops for funding. Each

workshop fell within at least one of the categories

of the previously drawn up research prospectus

(www.iias.nl/esfac/esfresprosp.html). All work-

shops were to take place in 2001.

– 4-6 January 2001

• ‘The “Dark Side” of Life in Asia and the West –

Night-time and time to sleep’, Vienna, Austria

– 21-23 March 2001

• ‘Patronage in Indo-Persian Culture’, Paris,

F r a n c e

– 29 March – 1 April 2001

• ‘Political Parties in South Asia: Asianisation of a

Western Model?’, Nottingham, United

K i n g d o m

– 11-14 April 2001

• ‘ Immigration to Japan, e u and the u s a and the

Japanese Abroad’, Kobe, Japan

– 14-16 May 2001

• ‘Labour Migration and Socio-Economic Change

in Southeast and East Asia’, Amsterdam, the

N e t h e r l a n d s

– 23-27 May 2001

• ‘Modern Chinese Historiography and Historical

Thinking’, Heidelberg, Germany

– 6-7 June 2001

• ‘Participatory Technology Development and

Local Knowledge for Sustainable Land use in

Southeast Asia’, Chiang Mai, Thailand

– 15-16 June 2001

• ‘Imperialism, Medicine and South Asia: A socio-

political perspective, 1800 – 1950’, Cambridge,

United Kingdom

– 16-18 August 2001

• ‘Asian Welfare Policy Responses to the Crash of

1997’, Bergen, Norway

– 8-9 November 2001

• ‘Intellectual and Spiritual Authorities in 20t h-

Century Middle Eurasia. Status, networks,

discourse, strategies’, Paris, France

Of the workshops selected in 1999, the following

took place in 2000:

– 19-20 February

• ‘Migration, Urban Development, and

Demographic Change in Punjab 1890s-1990s’,

Coventry, United Kingdom

– 15-17 March

• ‘Interpreting Asian Cultures in Museums:

Displays, activities, strategies’, London, United

K i n g d o m

– 16-17 March

• ‘Demographic Developments and Value Change

in Contemporary Modern Societies – East Asian

and Western societies in comparative

perspective’, Bonn, Germany

– 7-9 April

• ‘Indigenous People: The trajectory of a

contemporary concept in India’, Uppsala,

S w e d e n

– 27-29 April

• ‘Building the Social Safety Net for Asian Societies

in Transition’, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

– 8-10 May

• ‘Brokers of Capital and Knowledge: Producer

services and social mobility in Provincial Asia’,

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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I I A S R e s e a r c h F a c i l i t a t i n g A c t i v i t i e s

– 23-24 May

• ‘Gender and the Transmission of Values Systems

and Cultural Heritage(s) in South and Southeast

Asia’, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

– 25-26 May

• ‘The Last Decade of Migration from the P.R.

China to Europe and Asia’, Budapest, Hungary

– 31 May – 2 June

• ‘Good Government, Eastern and Western

Perspectives’, Seoul, Korea

– 2-4 June

• ‘Human and Regional Security around the

South China Sea’, Oslo, Norway

– 21-23 June

• ‘Medicine in China. Health techniques and

social history’, Paris, France

– 7-8 July

• ‘Centre and Periphery in Southeast Asia’, s o a s,

London, United Kingdom

The Executive Group, responsible for the day-to-

day business of the Committee met in April and

September to discuss current business and to fol-

low up the mandates that were given to this group

by the full Committee in July.

ESF Asia Committee research travel grants

In October an announcement was published in

the i i a s Newsletter and on the Internet to invite

applications for e s f Asia Committee research trav-

el grants. The grants are intended for PhD stu-

dents in the Social Sciences and Humanities who

are about to finish their dissertations (no longer

than one year prior to the defence), and for hold-

ers of a PhD degree (obtained no longer than three

years ago) in the above-mentioned fields. The

grants are provided for scholars intending to visit

academic institutions in a country other than

their home country. They are established to

enable the applicants to acquaint themselves with

researchers and research environments of Asian

Studies institutes in e s f member countries.

A decision on all received applications will be

made by the full committee during their meeting

in February 2001.

Programme Development

In 2000, the Asia Committee continued to support

programme development by financially con-

tributing to the publications that followed from

the research programmes ‘Changing Labour Rela-

tions in Asia’ (c l a r a), and ‘East-West Environ-

mental Linkages Network’. For more information

about the c l a r a programme see Annex 1. The

East-West Environmental Linkages Network is an

interdisciplinary research network, which focuses

on the role that East-West relations play in the

relation to global environmental issues. The pro-

grammes executive body is the Centre for Envi-

ronmental Science (c m l), at Leiden University.

E U R O C O R E S

Eurocores (Esf Collaborative Research Pro-

grammes), launched in 1999 as a new e s f s c i e n t i f i c

instrument, was designed to mobilize national

funding to tackle issues that have European-wide

relevance and stimulate greater co-operation.

During the Madrid meeting of the e s f A s i a

Committee, the Committee approved of three

proposals to become ‘Asia Committee e u r o c o r e s

proposals’. The Committee agreed that these

three e u r o c o r e s initiatives (which, coincidental-

ly, all three concern the social sciences) be sup-

ported by (co-)financing a one-day preparatory

seminar. The proposals are:

1 )Changing Labour Relations in Asia (c l a r a)

2 ) East-West Environmental Linkages

3 )The Challenge from Globalization:

A Comparative Study of Small, Developed

Countries in Europe and Asia

The deadline for sending in the final proposals is

1 June 2001.

Direct Communication Channel

Based on experiences of individual members, it

was decided earlier that the e s f Asia Committee

should not only report to the e s f Standing Com-

mittees, but that it should also contact the rele-

vant National Research Councils directly. A direct

communication channel with representatives at

the various National Research Councils was there-

fore established in March. The representatives

were informed about the latest e s f Asia Commit-

tee activities and were sent a copy of the new

Committee brochure.

Asia Committee Fellowships

Two fellows, who were selected by the e s f - a c i n

1997, and were financed by the ‘Strategic Alliance’,

officially concluded their e s f-Alliance fellowships

in 2000 (see also Section 2):

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Dr Martin Ramstedt (Germany), stationed at the

iias ( L e i d e n )

‘Hindu Dharma Indonesia: The Hindu-movement

in present-day Indonesia and its influence in rela-

tion to the development of the indigenous culture

of the Toraja (Aluk Todolo) in South Sulawesi’,

1 December 1997 – 30 November 2000’. The i i a s

extended Dr Ramstedt’s fellowship until 1 March

2 0 0 1 .

Dr Evelyne Micollier (France), stationed at the i i a s

(Amsterdam Branch Office)

‘Practices and Representations of Health and

Illness in the Context of Chinese Culture: Inter-

actions with social facts (illness prevention and

human reality of a i d s)’, 1 July 1998 – 1 July 2000.

After the conclusion of her fellowship, Micollier

successfully applied for an i i a s affiliated fellow-

ship until 1 July 2001.

Asia Committee Publications

Publications, which were the fruits of workshops

funded by the Asia Committee (first mandate

period), received by the Secretariat, were:

– David Smyth (ed.), The Canon in Southeast Asian

Literatures: Literatures of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia,

Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam,

London: Curzon, 2000

– Chan Kwok Bun (ed.), Chinese Business Networks:

State, economy and culture, Copenhagen: n i a s

Publishing, 2000

– Peter Boomgaard and Ian Brown (eds), W e a t h e r i n g

The Storm. The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s

D e p r e s s i o n, Singapore: Institute of Southeast

Asian Studies, 2000

Platform Asia Collections (PAC)

The Platform Asia Collections (p a c) is a working

group of representatives from Dutch libraries

with Asian Collections, which was set up under

the aegis of the International Institute for Asian

Studies (i i a s) in 1996. The p a c provides the first

platform of its kind in the Netherlands. The aim

of the Platform is to improve service to the users

of the libraries involved, by 1) improving the over-

all co-ordination and co-operation among the var-

ious libraries concerned; 2) improving the co-

ordination of the participating libraries with

regard to their acquisition of Asian collections;

and by 3) improving accessibility to the collec-

tions by making optimal use of opportunities pre-

sented by Information and Communications

Technology (i c t) and the World Wide Web (w w w) .

Consultation on the co-ordination of collections

takes place on a regular basis in the p a c f r a m e-

work. In 2000 the Platform gathered three times

to discuss further co-operation and future activi-

t i e s .

The joint proposal National Internet Service for Asian

Studies (NISAS), which was submitted to the

Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research

(n w o) in 1999, was not granted a subsidy, despite

the very positive reactions by the various n w o

consulted referees. Ni s a s comprised a four-year

project for an Internet-based infrastructure into

which bibliographical and other data sources

could be integrated. Parts of the proposal have

thereupon been submitted separately with other

funding organizations by various individual p a c

m e m b e r s .

For its June meeting p a c invited Dr Günter

Schucher (German Association for Asian Studies)

for a short presentation on the ‘International Rela-

tions and Area Studies Facts and Literature Data-

base’. Schucher also informed the meeting about

the situation of Asian Studies libraries in Germany.

Programme for Europe Asia Research Linkages

( P E A R L )

Pe a r l is a network of scholars from Asia and

Europe who represent leading Asian and Euro-

pean Studies departments in the Humanities and

Social Sciences. Arising from an initiative taken by

the (at that time) i i a s - n i a s Strategic Alliance,

p e a r l was established in Seoul in October 1998

under the patronage of the European Science

Foundation Asia Committee, Strasbourg, and the

Asia-Europe Foundation (a s e f), Singapore. Pe a r l

members belong to the a s e m (Asia-Europe Meet-

ings) countries. The network was established to

meet a need felt on both the Asian and European

sides for closer research interaction between the

two continents, and to expand on the sense of

opportunity created by the a s e m process and the

establishment of a s e f. Pe a r l focuses on collabora-

tive research. It believes that long-term joint Asia-

Europe research projects, on a multilateral basis,

will be a highly effective tool for strengthening

links between Asia and Europe. The Director of

n i a s and the Dean of Social Sciences at the

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National University of Malaysia chair p e a r l j o i n t-

ly. Its secretariat is held by the i i a s.

The document ‘The Need for Research in ASEM: A Pro-

p o s a l ’, was sent to Euro Commissioner for

Research, Philippe Busquin. In an accompanying

letter the importance of the programme and long-

term relationships with Asia were stressed. Sug-

gestions were made about a possible insertion of

the programme into the e u 6t h framework pro-

gramme and in the a s e m process. Although vari-

ous measures were taken to ensure a greater dis-

semination of and knowledge about the p e a r l

ideals and plans, in a preparatory ‘Senior Officials

Meetings’ it was decided not to put the p e a r l p r o-

posal on the agenda at the third a s e m in Seoul in

October.

Strategic Alliance

The Strategic Alliance is a co-operative framework

of European institutes specializing in Asian Stud-

ies. The aim of the Alliance is to contribute to

bringing together the fragmented forces on Asian

Studies in Europe in order to prepare the ground

for building central areas of research and expertise

on Asia, to the benefit of the national research

environments of the institutes and of the Euro-

pean community at large. The Alliance was estab-

lished in 1997 through joint efforts of i i a s a n d

n i a s, both of which received a subsidy for five

years (1997–2002) from the Nordic Council of

Ministers of Education and the Netherlands Min-

istry for Education, Culture and Sciences. The

Strategic Alliance has an open structure, which

enables other European institutes to join. Its

activities focus on:

1) building up of high-quality, border-

transcending research with a stronger focus on

contemporary issues;

2 )creating sustainable networks with Asian and

other overseas research institutions and

scholars;

3 ) strengthening the links and communication

between academic research on Asia and non-

academic institutions and actors and;

4 ) the strengthening of the tools of

c o m m u n i c a t i o n .

Meetings took place on 28 January (Leiden), and

5 June (Copenhagen).

Participating Institutes & New Members

The Alliance is not intended to merge the respec-

tive institutes, but to step up the momentum and

interaction that has been growing between them

and to provide a framework within which greater

co-operation can occur. The Alliance implies the

establishment of a co-ordinated framework for

joint planning, for the pooling of resources in

conducting various jointly organized projects,

and for co-ordinated fund-raising on an interna-

tional basis. Besides the i i a s , partners in 2000

w e r e :

NIAS (The Nordic Countries)

The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (n i a s) is an

independent research institute funded by the gov-

ernments of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway

and Sweden through the Nordic Council of Min-

isters. The n i a s, founded in 1967, serves as a focal

point for research on contemporary Asia and for

promoting Asian Studies in the Nordic academic

community. Director: Prof. Per Ronnås.

IFA (Germany)

The Institute of Asian Affairs (Institut für Asien-

kunde, i f a) was founded in 1956 on the initiative

of the German Parliament and the German For-

eign Ministry. The Institute has been assigned

t h e task of studying the political, economic, and

social developments in Asian countries. Its field

o f activity concentrates on contemporary affairs,

while aiming to procure and broaden scientifically

based knowledge of the region and its countries.

Director: Dr Werner Draguhn.

New Alliance Member: EIAS (Belgium/EU)

A good working relation had been established ear-

lier with the European Institute for Asian Studies

(e i a s) in Brussels. This resulted in an Alliance

membership of the e i a s in the autumn of 2000.

The e i a s is a Brussels-based policy and research

think-tank supported by the European Union (e u )

institutions which aim to promote understanding

and co-operation between the e u and Asia. The

e i a s (1996) seeks to provide information and exper-

tise to the European institutions, the academic

world and business by disseminating concise,

thoroughly researched and up-to-date material on

e u-Asia relations and important developments in

Asia. Director: Dr Willem van der Geest.

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Possible New Partners

At the end of the year talks started with colleagues

of the Asia Europe Centre of the Foundation

Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris to find a

way to co-operate within the Alliance’s framework.

Alliance Fellowships

The Alliance supported both long-term and

short-term fellowships for research in Asian Stud-

ies, collaborative research projects and academic

workshops and conferences.

The first fellows under the Alliance fellowship

programme were fellows selected in 1997 by the

e s f Asia Committee, and they are stationed at the

i i a s:

– Dr M. Ramstedt (Germany), 1 December 1997 –

1 December 2000, ‘Hindu Dharma Indonesia:

The Hindu movement in present-day Indonesia

and its influence in relation to the development

of the indigenous culture of the Toraja (Aluk

Todolo) in South Sulawesi’

– Dr E. Micollier (France), 1 July 1998 – 1 July

2000, ‘Practices and Representations of Health

and Illness in the Context of Chinese Culture.

Interactions with social facts (illness prevention

and human reality of a i d s)’. She was stationed at

the i i a s Amsterdam Branch Office.

(For more information concerning these fellows

and their activities see Section 2).

The Alliance widened the research opportunities

available to Nordic and Dutch scholars by intro-

ducing a series of Nordic-Netherlands Research

Fellowships, which give established scholars in

each region the opportunity to undertake research

for six to twelve months in the other region.

Holders of these fellowships are selected both for

the excellence of their research proposals and for

their potential to contribute to long-term closer

relations in the Asian Studies field between the

Nordic countries and the Netherlands.

Within this framework Dr M. Jacobsen (Den-

mark) was stationed in Leiden, from 1 August 1999

– 1 August 2000, working on ‘Ethnic Identity,

Nation Building, and Human Rights in a Globaliz-

ing World’ (for further information see Section 2).

Dr Mario Rutten (the Netherlands), was sta-

tioned at n i a s, Copenhagen, from 15 February

1999 – 15 February 2000. He focused on: ‘Rural

Capitalists in Asia; India, Indonesia, and Malaysia

c o m p a r e d ’ .

In addition, short-term fellowships were awarded

to Nordic scholars to carry out library research in

the Netherlands (based at the i i a s) and a number

of other European research centers. Fellows sta-

tioned at the i i a s:

– Dr Lisbeth Littrup (Denmark), February,

‘ T h e National Story in Indonesian and

Malaysian Autobiographical Writings’

– Dr Li Narangoa (Denmark/P.R. China),

June/July, ‘Japanese Education Policy in

Manchukuo, Inner Mongolia and China,

1 9 3 2 – 1 9 4 5 ’

– Dr Vibeke Børdahl, (Norway), August, ‘Chinese

Storytelling: The interplay of oral and written

traditions in popular culture’

Alliance Collaborative Research Projects,

Workshops, Lectures, and Conferences

On the Dutch side (i i a s), a major financial contri-

bution was made to the international research

programme c l a r a (Changing Labour Relations in

Asia), in which Nordic and Dutch scholars play a

prominent role. In 2000, the c l a r a p r o g r a m m e

continued its activities (see Annex 1). A proposal

for a c l a r a /Alliance e s f workshop on Labour

Migration and Socio-Economic Change in South-

east and East Asia, to be held in Lund in 2001, was

successfully submitted to the e s f Asia Commit-

tee. Through the mediation of the Alliance, the

p e a r l programme (see above) had been set up ear-

lier.

An important part of the work of the Alliance is

to encourage closer scholarly contacts within

Europe and beyond by sponsoring conferences

and workshops on innovative topics which bring

together scholars who would otherwise be unlike-

ly to meet each other and which may be the basis

for major collaborative research programmes in

the future. The following activities were orga-

n i z e d :

– 21 February, Copenhagen

Workshop: ‘Women Organizing in China’

Convenor: Dr C. Milwertz

– 3 April, Charlemagne Building, European

Commission, Brussels

Research workshop: ‘The Future of the a s e m

P r o c e s s ’

Alliance workshop organized by e i a s and i i a s

– 7-9 April, Gilleleje, Denmark

Nordic-European Workshop in Advanced Asian

Studies (n e w a s)

Convenor: Per Ronnås (n i a s)

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– 6-7 July, Amsterdam

Seminar: ‘Health, Sexuality and Civil Society in

East Asia’

Convenor: Evelyne Micollier (e s f/ A l l i a n c e

research fellow)

– 11 October, Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft,

B e r l i n

Asia Update: ‘Economic Potentials and Political

Stability in Asia’

Organizers: i f a (and the ‘Asia Pacific Committee

of the German Economy’) in co-operation with

i i a s, n i a s, e i a s

7t h Nordic-European Workshop in Advanced Asian Studies

(NEWAS)

The purpose of the 7t h Nordic-European Workshop in

Advanced Asian Studies (n e w a s, 6-9 April, Gilleleje,

Denmark) was to provide PhD students with qual-

ified support from an international team of teach-

ers and to give them an opportunity to become

acquainted with colleagues from other countries

working on similar topics. Ne w a s-workshops pro-

vide inspirational lectures from leading scholars in

the field, but most of the time is devoted to dis-

cussing, in seminar form, the participating stu-

dent’s thesis work based on papers circulated in

advance. The Gilleleje workshop focused on the

study of contemporary South and Southeast Asia

from the perspective of the social sciences. In total,

fourteen PhD candidates (six Nordic and eight

Dutch) and six supervisors (three Nordic and three

Dutch) participated in this two-day workshop.

The Nordic participants included PhD candidates

from Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

The Dutch PhD candidates belonged to the three

Dutch Research Schools that focus in part on Asian

Studies: Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam/Ams-

terdam School for Social Sciences Research

(c a s a / a s s r), Centre for Resource Studies for Devel-

opment (c e r e s), and the Research School c n w s o f

Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies.

Asia Updates

Although the primary focus of the Alliance is on

research at the cutting edge of knowledge, it rec-

ognizes that disseminating the results of research

to a broader audience, including governments,

the media, and the general public is an integral

part of the responsibilities of scientific institu-

tions. In democratic societies it is of enormous

importance that decision makers, opinion leaders,

and the public have access to reliable and balanced

information about other parts of the world. As a

contribution to this role, the Alliance annually

organizes at least one one-day information pro-

gramme called Asia Update, in which several well-

informed scholars present analyses of recent and

current events in Asia to an interested audience.

This year’s Asia Update ‘Economic Potentials and

Political Stability in Asia’ was held in the ‘Haus

der Deutschen Wirtschaft’, Berlin, Germany. Main

organizer was the Institute of Asian Affairs (i f a) in

co-operation with the ‘Asia Pacific Committee of

the German Economy’ in co-operation with i i a s,

n i a s, and e i a s.

Other Alliance Activities, Projects, Publications

In 1999 the i f a successfully prepared an applica-

tion for a project on ‘The Modernization of East

Asian Studies’, which was submitted to the Min-

istry of Education and Sciences in Bonn. Four

international studies/conferences were set up to

i n v e s t i g a t e :

1 ) Settings for East Asian Studies in Europe and the USA

A study was conducted in the course of

1999/2000, which resulted in a report by A.

Osiander: ‘Settings for East Asian Studies in

Europe and the u s a’, Hamburg, May 2000.

2 ) The Feasibility of the Establishment of Alliance Outposts

for Scholars in Beijing

For this purpose, a workshop was held on

1 8 February in Berlin. Following the workshop,

a study was conducted into this subject, which

resulted in a report: Dr G. Schucher:

‘Verbesserung der Forschungsmöglichkeiten für

deutsche Wissenschaftler in China durch die

Errichtung eines geistes- und

Sozialwissenschaflichen Auslandinstituts’,

Hamburg, May 2 0 0 0 .

3 ) The Future Perspectives of Digitalization with regard to

Asian Studies (virtual libraries)

A study in this respect resulted in the report:

D r G. Schucher: ‘Vernetzung von Bibliotheks-

und Archivresourcen im Bereich der

Ostasienwissenschaften (‘Virtuelle zentrale

Ostasienbibliothek’)’, Hamburg, May 2000.

4 ) The State-of-the-Art of South Asian Studies in Europe (and

the US)

After a workshop held in December 1999,

a report was issued on ‘Die Bedeutung Süd-

asiens in der Forschungs- und Universitäts-

landschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland:

Eine Bestandsaufnahme’, by C. Wagner,

Hamburg, May 2000.

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Network building

Through almost all activities organized by the

Alliance, European scholars were engaged in pan-

European, Atlantic, or Asia-Europe networks.

Apart from the direct results of these activities

that stimulated the networking process, the

Alliance partners themselves represent a wide

range of scholarly institutions and constituencies.

This variety and breadth of experience enables the

respective partners to create new networks at vari-

ous levels. The Alliance has an impact in the field

of Asian Studies of a kind qualitatively different to

that which any member institution could have

obtained individually. Among the initiatives

undertaken by the Alliance in this is the p e a r l

Network (Programme for Europe-Asia Research

Linkages), which links European and Asian

research institutes in Asian and European Studies

and which aims to contribute to developing a

shared research culture in Asian and European

Studies. Through the Alliance connections were

made between the Association for Asian Studies,

u s a, and a university in Berlin, which will result

in the organization of the second i c a s ( I n t e r n a-

tional Convention of Asian Scholars) in 2001 (see

further on this page).

On 9-12 March 2000, the Alliance was represent-

ed at the Annual Meeting of the Association for

Asian Studies (a a s), which was held in San Diego,

u s a. At a specific ‘Alliance Booth’ information

about the Strategic Alliance, as well as about the

respective participating institutes and their publi-

cations, was available.

Strengthening the Tools of Communication

The co-operation on Internet between the

Alliance partners has enjoyed a steady expansion

since 1997. The n i a s and the i i a s have set up and

maintain a database of conferences, workshops,

and seminars in the field of Asian Studies, which

is presented on the i i a s website as ‘Agenda Asia’,

an international conference agenda. Visitors can

search the Agenda and subscribe to ‘Agenda Mail’

in order to receive excerpts from Agenda Asia reg-

ularly by e-mail.

The websites of the participating institutes are

linked. Alliance activities and general information

may be found at www.iias.nl/iias/alliance/. Regu-

lar information concerning the Alliance’s activi-

ties has been spread through the newsletters of

the respective institutes.

O t h e r C o - o r d i n a t i n g a n dS u p p o r t i n g A c t i v i t i e s

AAS

This year’s annual meeting of the Association for

Asian Studies (a a s) was held in San Diego, from 9

to 12 March. As in previous years, the i i a s in co-

operation with Dutch publishers m m f M i c r o f i l m

Publishers, i d c, k i t l v Press, and the Research

School c n w s), presented ‘Dutch Publishers on

Asia’, along with documentation on or publica-

tions from other Dutch academic institutes, such

as the Sinological Institute of Leiden University.

The Strategic Alliance presented itself with a joint

booth, where information on Alliance activities

and Alliance partners (then: i i a s, n i a s and i f a)

could be found.

ICAS 2

In 2000 the preparations for i c a s 2 (Berlin, 9-12

August 2001) were already well under way. During

the a a s meeting in San Diego in March, talks were

held with Prof. Eberhard Sandschneider of the

Freie Universität Berlin, the main organizer of

i c a s 2. In line with the goals the first International

Convention of Asia Scholars (i c a s), founded and

organized by the i i a s in 1998, i c a s 2 is aimed to

provide a broad and inclusive forum for all schol-

ars working on issues related to Asian Studies and

to seek a way of establishing or improving their

international networks. Across continents, disci-

plines, regional specializations, and conceptual

approaches, the main purpose of i c a s 2 will be to

present both a formal platform and an academic

stimulus towards improving the exchange of

scholarly contacts in Asian Studies. The i i a s w i l l

be represented at i c a s 2 by several i i a s panels and

by its presence, along with other Dutch publish-

ers, at the i c a s 2 book exhibition.

IIAS Library for International Co-operation

The i i a s Library for International Co-operation is

the continuation of the former library of the

Office for International Co-operation at Leiden

University. It contains approximately nine thou-

sand volumes. It is centred on the theme ‘Main

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Developments within Societies on the Asian,

African, and Latin American continents’. The col-

lection is fairly recent in its outlook, as nearly all

publications date from since 1980. While building

the collection, the policy line of not concentrating

on individual countries, but rather on regional,

comparative, and/or analytical topics has been fol-

lowed. The library is open to guests and staff of

the i i a s, i s i m, and c n w s. Students from Leiden

University are admitted on Mondays and Thurs-

days. The library, which is integrated into the p i c a

system, is run by Drs W. Teller.

Special Events

Every year the i i a s organizes events or lectures to

which representatives of the academic world and

people from outside the academic arena are invit-

ed. Through these events, the i i a s f r e q u e n t l y

reaches out to the civil, business, and political sec-

tors, as well as to journalists dealing with Asian

issues. In opening up channels into realms

beyond the universities, the ultimate aim of the

i i a s is to allow both the academic and non-acade-

mic communities to benefit from the knowledge

of Asia available.

On 27 October, Prof. Deepak Kumar Lal of the

University of California, delivered the i i a s A n n u a l

Lecture entitled: ‘Asia and Western Dominance –

Retrospect and prospect’. A shortened version of

his speech will be published in i i a s Newsletter 24.

Co-operation with Dutch Research Schools and

t h e ISIM

The ‘Research Schools’ in the Netherlands that are

most closely related to the iias are: the Research

School cnws, Leiden; the Research School for

Resource Studies for Human Development (ceres),

Utrecht; and the Amsterdam School for Social Sci-

ence Research (assr), Amsterdam. Although they

focus on PhD students (in contrast to the iias,

which concentrates on postdocs), the iias seeks co-

operation with these schools since many of their

students work in the field of Asian Studies.

The i i a s continued its efforts to stimulate multi-

lateral co-operation between the research schools

in the Netherlands. On the basis of the 1999 expe-

riences the i i a s considered ways to set up a new

programme for and together with the research

schools and the International Institute for the

Study of Islam in the Modern World (i s i m). After

consultation with the Netherlands Foundation for

the Advancement of Tropical Research (w o t r o)

and in close co-operation with the research schools

and i s i m, the i i a s initiated a preparatory proposal

for a joint national research programme to be co-

financed by the schools and w o t r o. In December

the draft proposal was discussed by the w o t r o

Board, which then decided that it wanted to set up

guidelines and procedures for this and similar ini-

tiatives first before deciding on its content. Final

decisions were to be announced in 2001.

The i i a s co-operated bilaterally with the c n w s,

the a s s r and the i s i m in 2000 (joint seminars,

lectures, guests, consultations, and the like). On

1 July w o t r o sponsored the joint a s s r / i i a s

research programme entitled ‘Transnational Soci-

ety, Media, and Citizenship’ commenced (see

Annex 4). In September a meeting took place at

the i i a s for the selection of research fellows for the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

(k n a w) sponsored joint i i a s / c n w s / i s i m r e s e a r c h

programme ‘Dissemination of Religious Authori-

ty in 20t h Century Indonesia’, which will start on

1 January 2001.

Together with specialists at various universities

and departments, the i i a s made an effort in co-

ordinating three regional courses with a focus on

Asian Studies for undergraduate students. The

already well established interuniversity course on

South Asia (organized by the Universiteit van

Amsterdam and Leiden University) set the exam-

ple. During the course of the year preparations

were made for an East Asia course and a Southeast

Asia course. These courses will start in 2001.

Consulting and Advisory Activities

The i i a s continued its co-operation with the

Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, d c o / c s

Department. Approximately once every three

months the i i a s attended meetings concerning

the Asia Europe Foundation (a s e f) organized at

the Ministry. The i i a s has an advisory role in these

meetings.

Also in this context, Dr Leo Schmit (Leiden Uni-

versity) attended the a s e f Summer School Alumni

Association Seminar in Brussels on behalf of the

i i a s. Dr Schmit presented a paper entitled: ‘Asian

Identity and Asian Regionalism’.

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The director of the i i a s was invited by several

institutes and project teams for consulting and

advisory activities, such as: the Japan Prize win-

ners Programme (j p p, Leiden University), selection

committees for new chairs in Asian Studies, at var-

ious European Universities, and board member-

ships of the k i t l v , and the Foundation for Ethnol-

ogy in Leiden (l e f) .

Memoranda of Understanding with Partner

I n s t i t u t e s

In 2000 the i i a s signed new Memoranda of Under-

standing with the following partner institutes:

– Chinese Centre for Tibetan Studies, Beijing

– Taipei Representative Office in Belgium, Science

Division for National Science Council (n s c) ,

B r u s s e l s

– State Minister of Research and Technology,

Jakarta, Indonesia

IIAS Visits

In order to act as a mediator, to set up networks,

to link parties, to represent Dutch Asian Studies,

or to give a follow-up to initiatives taken – in

short: to reach its objectives, the i i a s has paid vis-

its to various institutions in the Netherlands and

abroad. These visits could take the form of work-

ing meetings, the attending of conferences, or the

exploration of possibilities for further co-opera-

tion and/or the enhancement of Asian Studies in

general. Conversely, the i i a s receives guests from

institutes in the Netherlands or abroad.

Some of these visits paid by the i i a s in 2000, with

an emphasis on visits abroad, are mentioned below:

– 4 February

Fontainebleau, France:

1 5t h l v m h Conference ‘x x i Century: Scenario’s

for the next millennium’

– 10 February

London, United Kingdom:

School of Oriental and African Studies, meeting

with representatives from the e u- C h i n a

Academic Network (e c a n)

– 9-12 March

San Diego, u s a

Annual a a s meeting

– 3 April

Brussels, Belgium

Alliance workshop ‘The Future of the a s e m

Process’ at the Charlemagne

Building, European Commission

– 7-10 April

Gilleleje, Denmark

7t h Nordic European Workshop in Advanced

Asian Studies

– 11 April

Lisbon, Portugal

Esf Asia Committee Executive Group Meeting

– 15 May

Brussels, Belgium

Visit to the European Commission to discuss

p e a r l matters

– 16-24 May

Bangkok, Thailand and Jakarta, Indonesia

Visits to various institutes and ministries to

discuss running projects

– 25 May

The Hague

Meeting with the Dr M. Hikam, Minister for

Research and Technology,

Republic of Indonesia

– 5 June

Copenhagen, Denmark

Alliance meeting

– 15-16 June

Madrid, Spain

Es f Asia Committee Meeting

– 27-28 June

Paris, France

Worldbank Conference

– 30 June

Royal Palace (Noordeinde), The Hague

Lunch in the honour of the Malaysian

A m b a s s a d o r

– 7-8 July

Berlin, Germany

Meeting of a ‘Berufungskommission’

– 8-15 October

Bangkok, Thailand & Myanmar

Visits to various institutes to discuss running

projects (Thailand) and visits to institutes and

universities for the introduction of the i i a s a n d

the exploration of possibilities for co-operation

(Myanmar: Yangon, Bagan, Mandalay)

– 11 October

Berlin, Germany

Asia Update ‘Economic Potentials and Political

Stability in Asia’

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(Prof. W. Wolters, University of Nijmegen

attended i.a. on behalf of the i i a s)

– 25 October

Hamburg, Germany

Wissenschaftliches beirats des Deutschen

Uebersee Institut

– 23-24 November

Budapest, Hungary

– 4-7 December

B a n g k o k

Ab i a advisory board meeting

The i i a s received visits from a great many people

from the Netherlands, Europe, Asia, and other

regions. Individuals and/or delegations were reg-

ularly welcomed at the institute, either at their

own request, at the request of Dutch or foreign

colleagues or ministries, or at the invitation of the

i i a s itself. To mention only a few:

– 7 January

Ei a s, Brussels

– 28 January

Ni a s, Copenhagen

– 2 March

Seameo searca, Philippines

– 28 March

J. Dopari, Governor West Papua

– 4 April

Dr R. Silva, Sri Lanka (i c o m o s)

– 7 April

Dr Zahratul Kamar Mahmud from the Ministry

of Education, Malaysia

– 20 April

Ambassador of Egypt

– 19 June

Visit of a delegation from the Chinese Embassy

– 25 August

Netherlands Ambassador to be stationed in

B a n g k o k

– 15 September

The e s f Asia Committee Executive Group

– 18 October

Ambassador of Pakistan

– 20 October

Museum of World Cultures, Sweden

– 27 October

Prof. D. Kumar Lal

– 1 December

Visit of a delegation from the National

University of Singapore (n u s)

– 20 December

A s e f, Singapore

IIAS Subsidies

The i i a s supports many activities organized by

other institutes and universities at national and

international levels, both by offering infrastructur-

al facilities and by its financial contributions. In

order to stimulate, promote, and advance impor-

tant scholarly initiatives in the field of Asian Stud-

ies, a budget of 30,000 guilders in total was made

available for the year 2000 via the Director’s Fund.

This fund, out of which the Director can per-

sonally allocate amounts up to 2,500 guilders,

proved to be very supportive of small-scale activi-

ties that would otherwise have been likely to be

cancelled. Its success underlines the necessity to

make a joint effort to organize Asia support. The

Supporting Activities Fund and the i i a s T r a v e l

Grants were no longer available in 2000.

Director’s Fund

Director’s Fund grants were given to the follow-

ing institutes and individuals (order of data: indi-

vidual and/or institute involved, the title of the

project, and the amount of the subsidy):

– Drs H. ‘t Hart (Kern Institute, Leiden University)

• Devising a cataloging systems that would render

the Johan van Manen archives at the Kern

Institute library more accessible

• n l g 1 , 9 7 5

– Prof. H. Steinhauer (University of Nijmegen)

• Dutch Indonesian Dictionary – project (d i d i c)

• n l g 2 , 5 0 0

– Dr D. Heilijgers (Kern Institute, Leiden

U n i v e r s i t y )

• Attending the ‘14t h New Delhi World Book

Fair’, New Delhi, India, 5-13 February

• n l g 1 , 5 0 0

– Dr B. Bhattacharya

• Attending the ‘Forum for European Expansion

and Global Internaction’, St. Augustine, Florida,

u s a, 17-19 February

• n l g 1 , 0 0 0

– Dr H. de Jonge (Anthropology Department,

University of Nijmegen)

• Attending the ‘x x x v i International Congress of

Asian and North African Studies’, Montreal,

Canada, 27 August – 3 September

• n l g 2 , 0 0 0

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– Dr R. Jordaan

• Attending the ‘8t h International Conference of

the European Association of Southeast Asian

Archaeologists’, Sarteano, Italy, 2-6 October

• n l g 1 , 0 0 0

– Dr M. Wiesebron (Department of Latin America

Studies, Leiden University)

• Organizing the workshop ‘Towards a New

Millennium Round. The w t o and deepening

integration in Asia, the European Union and

Latin America’

• n l g 2 , 0 0 0

– Prof. K. Zijlmans (Department of Art History,

Leiden University)

• Organizing the symposium ‘Voices from Japan.

Contemporary Art and Discourse’

• n l g 2 , 5 0 0

– Prof. A. Lubotsky (Leiden University)

• Visit of Mr Ph. Krylov to the Netherlands to

complete the programming basis of the Indo-

European Etymological Dictionary, August –

September

• n l g 1 , 5 0 0

– Dr A. Khosla (Department of Languages and

Cultures of Japan and Korea, Leiden University)

• Organizing the ‘Asian Development Seminar

S e r i e s ’

• n l g 3 , 0 0 0

– Dr T. Atabaki (Utrecht University)

• Organizing the workshop ‘Central Asian

Philology: Prospects for co-operation’

• n l g 2 , 0 0 0

– Nederlands-Vlaamse Vereniging voor Azië en

Pacific Studies (n v a p s)

• Organizing ‘41s t meeting of Oceanists’, Leiden,

14 April

• organizational support

– Dr J. Wu (Sinological Institute, Leiden

U n i v e r s i t y )

• Organizing the ‘Conference of the European

Association of Sinological Librarians (e a s l) ’ ,

Leiden, 20 September

• n l g 1 , 0 0 0

Other supported initiatives

In co-operation with the Netherlands Institute for

War Documentation (n i o d), the i i a s o r g a n i z e d

the seminar series ‘Southeast Asia Across Borders’

in Amsterdam. The series started in September

and will continue until March 2001 and included

lectures by, amongst others, Howard Dick (Uni-

versity of Melbourne), Ruth McVey (former s o a s) ,

and Thomas Menkoff (National University of Sin-

gapore). See also Section 3.

Dr Li Minghuan (former c a s a and i i a s) was

awarded a subsidy to undertake a research project

‘In the Restructuring of Labour Market: A study of

the labour brokers in Xiamen’. The project is car-

ried out within the framework of the programme

‘Brokers of Capital and Knowledge’ at the Univer-

siteit van Amsterdam and is located in Xiamen,

p r C h i n a .

As in previous years, the i i a s supported two

courses on Thai language and literature, taught

a t the Department of Southeast Asian Studies,

Leiden University.

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The institutional communication activities of the

i i a s (the i i a s Newsletter, the database, the website,

and the publications) contribute to the overall

information strategy of the i i a s which is to publi-

cize the activities of the Institute itself and other

activities in the field of Asian Studies to as large an

audience as possible.

The i i a s Newsletter, which is published in Eng-

lish, clearly reflects the co-ordinating function of

the i i a s. It strives to be a newsletters’ newsletter,

containing information about Asian Studies

worldwide. The publications of the i i a s reflect its

dual function, having either an academic or an

informative character.

The i i a s website is a significant tool in provid-

ing the rapidly increasing volume of digital infor-

mation and electronic communication in the field

of Asian Studies. The i i a s database contains infor-

mation on research and researchers in the field of

Asian Studies worldwide. It is seen as a major

back-up to the facilitating objective of the i i a s. It

is also possible to organize a mailing label service

for institutions with an interest in Asian Studies.

i i a s n e w s l e t t e r

The i i a s Newsletter (i i a s n) presents news on Asian

Studies in the areas that the i i a s has designated as

its field of interest: Central Asia, South Asia, Insu-

lar Southwest Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.

Other recurrent sections are General News and

Asian Art & Culture, supplemented by articles and

the Asian Art Agenda produced by The g a t e

Foundation in Amsterdam. As in the preceding

year, the i i a s Newsletter was published three

times in 2000: i i a s n 21 (64 pp) in February, i i a s n

22 (56 pp) in June, and i i a s n 23 (56 pp) in October.

In 2000, the i i a s n continued along the lines of the

successful formula that has evolved in the course

of the previous years, including the recently intro-

duced special theme sections, co-ordinated by

Guest Editors approached by the i i a s N e w s l e t t e r

Editorial Board. Dr Thomas de Bruijn guest edited

issue 21, the special theme of which was ‘South

Asian Literature’ and which included seven pages

of articles pertaining to developments in modern

South Asian literature. The special theme section

for issue 22, namely ‘400 Years of Dutch-Japanese

Relations’, was guest edited by Ivo Smits and i i a s

East Asia Regional Editor for Japan, Margarita

Winkel. As the title suggests, this theme section

was planned to coincide with celebrations of this

400-year relationship between the two countries,

and six pages of articles offer insight into various,

among others, historical, linguistic, and artistic

aspects thereof, as researched by eleven authors.

Dr Martin Ramstedt guest edited the special

theme for issue 23. Entitled ‘Relations between

Hindus in Modern Indonesia and India’, Dr Ram-

stedt assembled three authors, conducted two

interviews himself, and supplied an extensive

introduction on a topic that receives relatively

little attention in the academic world. Aside from

the Guest Editors themselves, twenty-two scholars

contributed articles for the special theme issues in

the year 2000, of which more than half were non-

Dutch and/or based in institutions outside the

N e t h e r l a n d s .

Regional sections remained essentially the same

as in previous years, except for a few additional

features. The Tibetological Collections and

Archives Series, edited by Dr Henk Blezer,

appeared for the first time in 2000 and returns in

all three issues. Gerda Theuns-de Boer continued

with her series on the subject of the photographic

archives at the Kern Institute and, by issue 23, the

editorial page provided space for the ‘Director’s

Note’. Lead articles for each issue were the follow-

ing: (#21) ‘Some Reflections on the Formation of

the Buddha Image’, an abstract of the keynote

speech delivered by Maurizio Taddei at the South

Asian Archaeology Conference which took place in

Leiden on 5 July 1999; (#22) ‘Opportunities for

Europe in a s e m’ a forum article by Professor Wim

Stokhof, Director of the i i a s; and (#23) an inter-

view with the most recently inaugurated i i a s

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Extraordinary Chair in Asian History (at Erasmus

University, Rotterdam), Professor Henk Schulte-

Nordholt, written by Marieke Brand, accompa-

nied by excerpts from his inaugural lecture,

‘ A State of Violence’. Regional editors who were

highlighted with an interview in the year 2000

were Netty Bonouvrié (South Asia), and Dr Victor

van Bijlert (Bengal Studies Page).

The Pink Pages form a regular, 16-page supple-

ment and contain factual information on insti-

tutes and organizations, e.g. i i a s News, e s f A s i a

Committee News, Alliance News, c l a r a N e w s ,

Short News, the 2-page International Conference

Agenda (which includes i i a s and e s f - a c a g e n d a

items), and the Products & Services section. The

lead articles in the Pink Pages are selected for their

relevance in institutional matters relating to the

i i a s or affiliated institutes. Issue #21 published

‘Asia and the European Union’s Common Foreign

and Security Policy’, written by John Kleinen, on

the topic of the one-day conference at the Euro-

pean Parliament hosted by the Strategic Alliance

in close co-operation with the European Institute

for Asian Studies in Brussels; in issue #22, a work-

shop report appeared as the lead article of the

Pink Pages, by Dr Mario Rutten of the i i a s B r a n c h

Office in Amsterdam, about the 7t h N o r d i c - E u r o-

pean Workshop in Advanced Asian Studies

(n e w a s), which took place in Denmark two

months previously that year in April. The lead

article in the Pink Pages of issue #23 was a double

report – the convenor’s and a participant’s view –

of the Ninth Seminar of the International Associa-

tion for Tibetan Studies, held in Leiden from

24–30 June. Furthermore, three pages of issue #23

presented abstracts for Workshops selected for

funding by the ESF Asia Committee for the year

2001, with an announcement that reports of the

workshops would be included in forthcoming

issues of the Newsletter.

There were some changes in the editorial staff in

the course of 2000. Elzeline van der Hoek contin-

ued as Managing Editor, and was joined by Tanja

Chute, as Co-Editor. Marieke te Booij resigned as

China Editor, Dr Victor van Bijlert moved from

correspondent to Regional Editor status for his

work involving the Bengal Studies Page, and The

Gate Foundation was moved to Asian Art & Cul-

ture Correspondent for their feature contribu-

tions in the Asian Art section. The rest of the edi-

torial staff and the correspondents remained unal-

tered. Regional Editors were Ingrid Nooijens

(Central Asia), Sandra Evers (Insular Southwest

Asia), Netty Bonouvrié (South Asia), Dick van der

Meij (Southeast Asia), Koen De Ceuster (Korea),

Margarita Winkel (Japan), and Rosemary Robson-

McKillop (English Language Editor).

The Newsletter had a circulation of approxi-

mately 22,000 worldwide during the year 2000. In

addition to the approximately 19,000 copies that

are sent to subscribers – of which roughly 4,000

are posted to addresses in the Netherlands – the

i i a s distributes several thousand Newsletters at

international conferences, including the Annual

Meeting of the a a s in San Diego, California in

March.

27 Advertisements were placed in the i i a s N e w s-

letter in the course of the year 2000, which earned

more than twice the income generated by adver-

tisements in the previous year, 1999. For the most

part, the increase is accounted for by the creation

of a 9-page special publications supplement

(‘New Publications in Asian Studies’) in i i a s i s s u e

21, in which publication reviews were combined

with advertisements placed by various publishers.

During the year 2000, approximately 235 articles

on a wide variety of topics in the field of Asian

Studies were contributed by 197 authors, of

which 50% were Dutch and/or affiliated with

Institutes in the Netherlands, with the remaining

half being foreign and/or affiliated with institu-

tions outside of the Netherlands. A large number

of articles which were first published in the i i a s

Newsletter during the year 2000 have been re-

published by other magazines, journals, and web-

sites, including Amnesty International, E p i s t e m e

(translated to Portuguese), and at

h t t p : / / w w w . p u r a b u d a y a . c o m .

p u b l i c a t i o n s

In the co-operation agreement, on the basis of

which the i i a s was founded, it was stipulated

that the i i a s will not have a full-fludged publica-

tion programme of its own: the research fellows

will be encouraged to find publishers them-

selves. The i i a s does, however, issue several kinds

of publications. In these, a division can be made

between the (academic) publications in co-opera-

tion with other publishers, electronic publica-

tions on the Internet, and i i a s publications con-

taining institutional information and guides and

i n v e n t o r i e s .

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In the course of 2000, the i i a s published New Stud-

ies on Chinese Overseas and China, edited by Cen

Huang, Zhuang Guotu, and Tanaka Kyoko, which

was also published in Chinese by Xiamen Univer-

sity Press. Both volumes were produced in Xia-

men, China. The books form part of a series of

publications on Q i a o x i a n g ties which started in

1999 with Qiaoxiang Ties: Interdisciplinary approaches to

‘Cultural Capitalism’ in South China, edited by Leo

Douw, Cen Huang, and Michael Godley. In the

course of 2001 the i i a s Qiaoxiang ties research pro-

gramme will publish its second edited volume

Rethinking Chinese Transnational Enterprises: Cultural

affinity and business strategies, which is edited by Leo

Douw, Cen Huang, and David Ip.

Jointly with the University of Mauritius, the i i a s

published Globalisation and the South-West Indian

O c e a n, edited by Sandra J.T. Evers and Vinesh Y.

Hookoomsing. This volume presents the contri-

butions to the seminar organized to mark the

4 0 0t h anniversary of the Dutch landing in Mauri-

tius entitled ‘Globalisation and the South-West

Indian Ocean (s w i o)’, which was organized jointly

by the i i a s and the University of Mauritius from

21 to 23 September 1998.

The co-operation with Curzon resulted in many

books being prepared for publication, most titles

of which will see the light in the course of 2001.

The first to be published will be Shoma Munshi’s

Images of the ‘Modern’ Woman in Asia: Global media, local

m e a n i n g s, scheduled to appear in the spring of 2001.

This edited volume will be produced in paperback

as well as hard cover. The volume edited by Ana-

toly M. Khazanov and André Wink, Nomad in the

Sedentary World, will appear around the same time.

The electronic publications of the i i a s can be

accessed on the i i a s website. The website features

those publications which are now out of stock

such as annual reports and the latest IIAS Newsletter

issues.

In co-operation with various departments of

Leiden University, the i i a s has set up the electron-

ic multimedia magazine Oideion: Performing Arts

O n l i n e, which is the World Wide Web daughter of

Oideion: The Performing Arts Worldwide. The scope of

the electronic magazine is wide: it includes music,

dance, verbal art, and theatre and contributions

need not to be restricted to Asia. The magazine

publishes contributions which use the multime-

dia possibilities provided by the w w w, like audio

and video fragments in the form of articles, book

and c d reviews, and news on the performing arts.

Articles are peer-reviewed.

The i i a s institutional publications include the

IIAS Annual Report 1999 and the inaugural lectures of

the three i i a s extraordinary chairs, which have

been co-published with the three host universities

(see also Section 2):

– Prof. H. Steinhauer, Indonesisch en Indonesische

S t r e e k t a l e n, Nijmegen: k u n / i i a s, 2000, (Chair at

Nijmegen University)

– Prof. B. Terwiel, Van Denkmodellen en Vooroordelen:

Thaise geschiedschrijving over de periode van de eerste helft

van de negentiende eeuw, Leiden: Leiden University-

/i i a s, 2000, (Chair at Leiden University)

– Prof. H. Schulte Nordholt, Een staat van geweld,

Rotterdam: Erasmus Universiteit/i i a s, 2000,

(Chair at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)

An oblong agenda containing information on spe-

cial events, expected fellows, and publications,

was published six times. This agenda was distrib-

uted to institutes, universities, and museums in

the Netherlands, and serves as an eye-catcher.

i i a s w eb s i t e

The i i a s website can be found at:

http://www.iias.nl. The website had approximately

1,400 hits per day in the past year.

The i i a s site distinguishes between i i a s- r e l a t e d

information, and (other) national and interna-

tional information on Asian Studies through the

‘Gateway to Asian Studies’. The i i a s section con-

tains information about the i i a s: research activi-

ties, fellowships, publications, staff and board,

database, network activities, as well as the online

edition of the i i a s N e w s l e t t e r .

The ‘Gateway to Asian Studies’ is meant to pro-

vide a window with a dual purpose. The first is to

give Dutch information relevant to Asian Studies

in order to give Dutch Asian Studies more profile

on the Internet. The second is to supply net-

worked information on Asian Studies on the

Internet worldwide. The ‘Gateway to Asian Stud-

ies’ comprises the following entries: institutional

information (institutes, projects, vacancies, book-

sellers), research information (collections,

archives, documentation centres, libraries, muse-

ums) and research-related information, publica-

tions (also online publications), and news (art and

conference agenda, other news).

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In collaboration with n i a s, Copenhagen, the

i i a s is maintaining a database of conferences,

workshops, and seminars in the field of Asian

Studies, which is presented on the i i a s website as

‘Agenda Asia’, an international conference agenda.

Visitors can search the Agenda and subscribe to

‘Agenda Mail’ in order to receive excerpts from

Agenda Asia regularly by e-mail.

In the year 2000 the i i a s was able to reap the

benefits from the investments made in the second

half of 1999 in two new web servers.

The new capacity made it possible for the i i a s t o

host a copy of the web site (mirror site) of the

‘Tower of Babel, an Etymological Database Pro-

ject’ as a service to the Russian counterpart. This

project is a joint effort to build up a commonly

accessible database of linguistic families. Partici-

pants of the ‘Tower of Babel’ are – among others –

the Russian State University of the Humanities

(Department of Comparative Linguistics and

Ancient Languages), the City University of Hong

Kong, and Leiden University. The i i a s also offers

facilities to the Indo-European Etymological Dic-

tionary Project, a project of the Department of

Comparative Linguistics at Leiden University,

guided by Prof. A. Lubotsky.

The new technical possibilities enabled the

launching of the beta-version – only accessible for

members of the Platform Asia Collections (p a c) for

evaluation – of the searchable database on Asian

journals in Dutch libraries (i p a c). In 1996, leading

Dutch institutes and libraries in the field of Asian

Studies joined forces to form the working group

Platform Asia Collections (p a c) in order to

improve the quality and accessibility of library

(including digital) collections relevant to Asian

Studies. The final version of i p a c is expected to

come online in 2001.

Since its initiation in 1995, the i i a s w e b s i t e

offers web server space to those specific projects,

programmes, and organizations in the field of

Asian Studies that do not have their own means to

publish their information on the Internet. For

instance, the Royal Institute of Linguistics and

Anthropology (k i t l v); the International Research

Programme ‘Brokers of Capital and Knowledge’

(UvA); the Indonesian-Netherlands Co-operation

in Islamic Studies (i n i s); the Centre for Co-opera-

tive Research in Social Sciences, based in Pune,

India; Irian Jaya Studies – a Programme for Inter-

disciplinary Research (i s i r); the Himalayan Lan-

guages Project; International Journal for the Study

of Board Games; and the research programme

‘Verbal Art in the Audio-Visual Media of Indone-

sia’ (v a | a v m i) are being hosted by the i i a s.

Asian Studies Virtual Library

Since November 1996 the i i a s has been responsi-

ble for maintaining the Southeast Asia section of

the Asian Studies World Wide Web Virtual

Library, which is edited by the Australian Nation-

al University (a n u). In this multinational collabo-

rative project, fifty-one co-editors are in charge of

cataloguing and evaluating potential sources of

online information. The Asian Studies Virtual

Library provides an authoritative, continuously

updated hypertext guide and access tool to schol-

arly information resources on the Internet, such

as archives, libraries, electronic documents, data-

bases, as well as to newsgroups, universities, and

academic organizations. It deals with the Asian

continent as a whole, and with individual Asian

regions, countries, and territories. The informa-

tion in the Southeast Asia section of the Asian

Studies Virtual Library on the i i a s website has

increased considerably and is attracting a grow-

ing audience. It is one of the most frequently vis-

ited parts of the site and can be found through

the i i a s ‘Gateway to Asian Studies’

( w w w . i i a s . n l / w w w v l / ) .

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The i i a s Database contains approximately 23,000

addresses of scholars and other persons, institutes,

organizations, museums, scientific periodicals,

and newsletters with an interest in Asian Studies.

The information in the database adds to the

expansion of the i i a s Newsletter readership and

therefore helps in spreading the name of the i i a s

and in its building up of networks.

All i i a s staff members have access to the data. The

bulk of the important contact addresses have been

categorized and incorporated into mailing lists.

It is possible to organize a mailing label rental

service for institutions or organizations that are

interested in Asia. The i i a s receives numerous

requests from publishers worldwide and from

other Asian Studies institutes which wish to avail

themselves of this service.

In 2000 the i i a s met with Nuffic (the Nether-

lands Organization for International Cooperation

in Higher Education) to discuss the possibilities

to co-operate in Prisma (Netherlands’ Gateway to

Development related Research and Higher Educa-

tion: Professionals, Institutions and Partnerships).

Aim of the Prisma database (Asia-edition) is to

provide a guide to the expertise present among

academics in the Netherlands who are engaged in

research that pertains to Asia. Prisma will com-

bine data from the i i a s and Nuffic databases to

provide an on-line, free of charge, information

service on Asian Studies specialists.

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A n n e x e s :

IIAS Research

P r o g r a m m e s ,

Projects and

IIAS Branch Office

A m s t e r d a m

a n d

F i n a n c i a l

R e p o r t

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Programme co-ordinator:

– Dr Ratna Saptari

Executive body:

– International Institute of Social History,

A m s t e r d a m

Research fellow:

– Dr Prabhu Mohapatra (India)

Research topic: ‘Industrialization and

W o r k Culture: Steel workers in Jamshedpur:

1950–1990s’

1 February 1999 – 31 January 2002

The Changing Labour Relations in Asia programme

(c l a r a) aims to build a comparative understanding

of labour relations in different parts of Asia which

are undergoing diverse historical processes and

experiences in terms of their national economies,

their links with international markets and the

nature of state intervention. This understanding

will be based on the promotion of inter-Asian co-

operation and the co-operation between Asian and

non-Asian institutions. The programme is sup-

ported by the International Institute of Asian Stud-

ies (i i a s), and the International Institute of Social

History (i i s h), Amsterdam.

As in the past years, c l a r a activities revolved

around the preparation of seminars, workshops,

and in maintaining and expanding its networks.

The annual c l a r a one-day seminar was held on

1 4 September and involved a broader network of

scholars than in the previous years. If in the past

this occasion was a means through which Dutch

scholars were brought together to present their

research projects, this year the seminar was held

in collaboration with the i i a s Branch Office in

Amsterdam, which allowed the bringing together

of European scholars and Asian scholars. Five

scholars presented a paper: Prof. Utsa Patnaik

from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi: ‘Peasant

Movements and Labour in India’; Dr Kristofel

Lieten from the Universiteit van Amsterdam:

‘Bonded Labour in Pakistan’; Ms. Anja Rudnick

from the Universiteit van Amsterdam:

‘Bangladeshi Migrant Women in Malaysia’; Dr I s a-

belle Vagneron from the University of Auvergne

in Clermont – France: ‘Homeworkers in the Gar-

ment Industry in Thailand’; and Dr Nicola Piper

from the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies,

Copenhagen: ‘Japanese Policies on Southeast

Asian Female Migrants’.

After the c l a r a visiting fellowships of Dr S h i-

geru Sato (University of Newcastle, Australia), and

Dr Adapa Satyanarayana (University of Hyderabad,

India) had been concluded, the programme went

through a second round of selections for new vis-

iting fellows in 2001. Two scholars were selected:

Dr Erwiza Erman from the Indonesian Institute of

Sciences, and Ms. Rohini Hensman, who works for

the Union Research Group and Trade Union Soli-

darity based in Bombay. Dr Erman will work on

preparing a commercial version of her PhD thesis

(Universiteit van Amsterdam) on mineworkers in

Ombilin, West Sumatra, and prepare it for publi-

cation; and Ms Hensman will look at the impact

of globalization on workers in Bombay.

Two more working papers have come out this

year:

• Number 9

Edsel E. Sajor (Universiteit van Amsterdam/i i a s) ,

Are They Incompatible? Modern Farming and Non-

Market Labour in the Northern Philippine Uplands

• Number 10

Babette P. Resurreccion (a i t, Thailand), F r o m

Erosion Control to Food Crisis Management: Changing

Gender Divisions of Labor in a Philippine Upland Village.

These two papers bring the number of c l a r a

working papers to a total of ten.

Two workshops scheduled for this year were can-

celled for various reasons. These were: ‘Domestic

Service and Labour Mobility’, which was to be

held in Trivandrum, India and ‘Household Strate-

gies and Labour Movements’, which was to be

held in Taiwan. The first workshop has been

rescheduled for early February (5-7) and will be

held in Amsterdam, at the International Institute

of Social History; and the latter workshop will still

be held in Taiwan but postponed until the

autumn of 2001.

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Changing Labour Relations in Asia

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Apart from these usual round of scholarly activi-

ties, in the year 2000 the Changing Labour Rela-

tions in Asia Programme has entered a phase of

network consolidation and planning for future

collaborations with European and Asian-Pacific

counterparts. Cl a r a, in collaboration with n i a s,

Copenhagen, has received a grant from the Euro-

pean Science Foundation to organize a workshop

on labour migration in East and Southeast Asia.

This network has now been strengthened by the

participation of the Center for South and South-

east Asian Studies of the Lund University, Sweden.

This workshop will be the first in a series of activi-

ties which will be held in collaboration with other

institutions in Europe and the Asia-Pacific on

labour migration. Efforts are currently being

made to seek funding for an integrated research

programme which can support such an interna-

tional collaboration.

Additionally, c l a r a is working together with

the Pakistan Institute for Labour Education and

Research (p i l e r) in Karachi, Pakistan, to organize a

training workshop on Oral History (9-11 March

2001); also with the School of Environment, Uni-

versity of Brighton to organize a panel at the

e u r o s e a s Conference to be held in London,

( 6-8 September 2001); with the Indonesian Insti-

tute of Sciences and c a p s t r a n s, University of Wol-

longong, Australia, to organize a workshop on

Indonesian Labour History (early December 2001).

It is through these collaborations that the study of

labour in Asia and other parts of the world can

achieve its broadest and richest dimensions,

acknowledging the interconnectedness of labour

regimes and cultures and concomitantly, of schol-

arly endeavour.

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Programme director:

– Dr Wim van Zanten

Research fellows:

– Dr Hanne de Bruin (the Netherlands)

Research topic: ‘Kattaikkuttu and Natakam:

South Indian theatre traditions in regional

p e r s p e c t i v e ’

15 October 1997 – 15 July 2001

– Dr Matthew Cohen (u s a)

Research topic: ‘The Shadow Puppet Theater of

Gegesik, North West Java, Indonesia: Memory,

tradition, and community’

1 January 1998 – 1 January 2001

– Dr Hae-kyung Um (u k/ K o r e a )

Research topic: ‘Performing Arts in Korea and

the Korean Communities in China, the former

Soviet Union and Japan’

1 January 1998 – 1 January 2001

The highlight of the p a a t i year 2000 was the con-

ference ‘Audiences, Patrons and Performers in the

Performing Arts of Asia’. This conference, orga-

nized jointly with c h i m e, the European Founda-

tion for Chinese Music Research, and Leiden Uni-

versity, took place in Leiden, 23-27 August. In Jan-

uary-February a second circular was sent out to

scholars all over the world, and the conference,

the abstracts and the programme were announced

on the Internet: http://www.iias.nl/oideion/

g e n e r a l / a u d i e n c e s . h t m l .

The conference addressed the roles of context and

environment: the audiences, the patrons who

enable the performing arts, the sponsors who

organize and support them, and the spaces and

places where they work and play. How do these

participants influence performances and perform-

ers, and how are they influenced by them in turn?

The Asian ‘artists’ to be considered range from

singers to storytellers and dancers, from pup-

peteers to actors and musicians, from entertainers

to ritualists and shamans. These themes were

highlighted in several panels, including ones

focusing on: 1) Hybrid and Popular Theatres in

Asia (20 papers); 2) Asian Diasporas (12

papers)/Interculturalism and Transnationalism

( 6 papers); and 3) The Creative Process in Folk

Music and Musical Ritual in Asia (11 papers).

There were also several panels dealing with related

topics. Altogether there were 102 paper presenta-

tions at this conference.

The keynote address ‘The Performance Triangle:

Whole or unholy?’ was delivered by Professor

James Brandon. It was generally felt that the

papers and discussions were of a very good quali-

ty. The results will appear in a special issue of the

journal of The Seagull Foundation, edited by

D r Hanne de Bruin, and two books. The first book

with working title ‘Translating Asia’s Traditions:

Diasporas and interculturalism in Asian perform-

ing arts’ will be edited by Dr Hae-Kyung Um. The

second book with working title ‘Popular Theatres

of South and Southeast Asia’ will be edited by

D r Matthew Cohen. Other results will appear in

the c h i m e journal, and other journals.

The performers were also present at this schol-

arly meeting. On the first day, the participants’

registration took place to the accompaniment of

Chinese teahouse music performed by the ‘Yellow

River’ ensemble from Paris. After the dinner, the

Surinam-Javanese society Gotong-Rojong from

Delfzijl, the Netherlands, performed a hobby-

horse dance, Jaran Kepang, in which the dancers

went into trance. During the other conference

evenings there were performances as well. Quite a

few of the performers (for instance, Vayu Naidu,

John Emigh, Tran Quang Hai, Hugh Livingston,

Kalpana Raghuraman) also gave workshops and

presented excellent papers at the conference. This

was particularly gratifying, because the p a a t i

research project also tries to use participation or

‘learning by performing’ for scientific research.

A N N E X 2

Performing Arts of Asia: Tradition andInnovation; The expression of identityin a changing world

The possibilities of a follow-up conference were

discussed, and the next conference on the per-

forming arts of Asia may take place in Bangkok,

Thailand in December 2002. Some photographs

taken during the registration for the conference

may be found on the w w w: http://www.iias.nl/

o i d e i o n .

Dr Hae-Kyung Um did fieldwork on the recent

developments of new forms and styles in Korean

performing arts in January and February. In Feb-

ruary she presented a paper ‘Listening patterns

and the construction of identity in the Korean

diaspora in the former Soviet Union’ at the School

of Music of the Korean National University of Arts

in Seoul. In September she also presented a paper

at the conference of the European Seminar in Eth-

nomusicology in Belfast. She was convernor of the

‘Asian Diasporas’ panel of the p a a t i conference in

Leiden, August 2001, and introduced the topic at

the conference. In 2000 Dr Hae-Kyung Um fin-

ished several publications, which can be found

elsewhere (see Section 2). Dr Um’s research fellow-

ship officially ended in December, but she will

continue her work as an i i a s affiliated fellow for

the first half of 2001.

Early in the year Dr Matthew Cohen came back

from his fieldwork in Indonesia. He then spent

much time in several libraries to look at the his-

torical aspects of the performing arts in Indonesia.

Dr Cohen gave several lectures at Dutch universi-

ties, and a large part of his time was spent on

organizing the p a a t i conference in August. He

convened part of the panel on ‘Hybrid and Popu-

lar Theatres in Asia’, and also presented a paper at

this conference. Dr Matthew Cohen published

several articles and reviews of which the details

can be found elsewhere. Per 1 January 2001 Cohen

will start his new position of lecturer in non-

Western theatre at the Department of Theatre,

Film & Television Studies at the University of

Glasgow in Scotland.

Dr Hanne de Bruin organized the ‘South Indian

Theatre Festival 2000’ in Kanchipuran, 3-7 March,

which was a great success. She came back from

India in April and joined the other members of

the project in organizing the p a a t i conference in

August. She convened part of the panel on

‘Hybrid and Popular Theatres in Asia’, and pre-

sented a paper at this conference. In September

she also presented a paper ‘Village Goddesses and

Devadasis of North Tamil Nadu’, at the 16t h C o n-

ference on Modern Asian Studies in Edinburgh.

Dr De Bruin left for India from mid-November

2000 – April 2001. She published several articles

and produced a film on Indian performers.

Wim van Zanten was chair of the p a a t i / c h i m e

conference in August. He presented a paper with

Bart Barendregt on the Randai theatre of the

Minangkabau.

The site of Oideion; Performing Arts Online, a peer-

reviewed multimedia journal on the World Wide

Web: http://www.iias.nl/oideion, was thoroughly

revised by Igor Boog.

Igor Boog continued working part-time on

Oideion; Performing Arts Online. He finished the face-

lift of the O i d e i o n website in 2000 and installed the

hardware and software needed to make the pro-

duction of this multimedia journal self-support-

ing. The equipment is also used for making audio

c ds and (interactive) c d - r o ms. In 2000 one p a a t i

computer was used by Nick de Heer to edit and

finish the video film ‘Told in Heaven to Become

Stories on Earth; A study of change in Randai the-

atre of the Minangkabau in West Sumatra, using

visual documentation from the 1930s’ with Wim

van Zanten and Bart Barendregt. This video film

of 48 minutes is accompanied by a Documenta-

tion book of 54+ii pages.

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Programme directors:

– Dr Leo Douw (v u, UvA)

– Dr Frank Pieke (Oxford University)

Research fellow:

– Dr Cen Huang

Research topic: ‘Structure and Social

Organization of Transnational Enterprises and

Entrepreneurship in East and Southeast Asia’

1 November 1996 – 1 January 2000

The programme is concerned with international

social organization, or transnationalism, in East and

Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on how Qiaoxiang

ties (ethnic Chinese hometown connections) work

and have influenced the formation of Chinese

transnationalism in the course of the twentieth cen-

tury. Chinese transnationalism is based on the ties

of Chinese ethnic origin, language, and culture in

the global context. The renewed appeal to Qiaoxiang

ties, since the late 1970s, has played an important

role in the creation of transnationalized, Chinese-

based cultures and economies in both China and

Southeast Asia. The implementation of China’s

Open Door Policy and the increased globalization of

ethnic Chinese business in Southeast Asia have

given rise to the revival of all kinds of traditional

Chinese cultural and business practices. This

stretches from the restoration of family values,

ancestor worship, and lineage organizations to the

formation and the development of transnational

business networks in the region. The linkages

between the revival of traditional cultural practice

and the penetration into China of ethnic Chinese

business enterprises have thus enjoyed both popu-

lar interest and scholarly attention over the past few

decades, and are a central focus in the Qiaoxiang ties

programme as a whole.

During 2000, the programme was brought to its

conclusion. The major remaining activity was the

editorial work on the book to be produced from

the international conference, 26-27 August, in

Hong Kong, on ‘Chinese Transnational Enterpris-

es and Entrepreneurship in Prosperity and Adver-

sity: South China and Southeast Asia during the

twentieth century’ (see i i a s Annual Report 1999).

The editors, Leo Douw, Cen Huang, and David Ip,

have completed the manuscript as intended, on

1 5 August, after a favourable judgement by inde-

pendent referees. The book will be published by

Curzon Press, London in 2001.

The other remaining activity was the publica-

tion of the Jinjiang research data and the papers

from the conference held in Jinjiang, 27-31 Octo-

ber 1998, as a part of the i i a s/Xiamen Jinjiang Pro-

gramme, which is part of the Q i a o x i a n g Ties Pro-

gramme. The two resulting volumes, one English

language volume, one in Chinese, were published

in August. The English language volume, entitled

New Studies on Chinese Overseas and China, was edited

by Cen Huang, Zhuang Guotu, and Tanaka

Kyoko, and published by i i a s/Xiamen University

Press. The Chinese language volume, entitled

Zhongguo Qiaoxiang Yanjiu [Qiaoxiang Studies in China],

was edited by Zhuang Guotu, Zhao Wenliu, Tana-

ka Kyoko and Cen Huang, and published by Xia-

men University Press, Xiamen, China.

In order to wind up the programme, Cen

Huang’s position as a postdoctoral fellow was

extended until 1 March, but after her transfer to

the University of Calgary, in January, this exten-

sion was partly changed into a senior fellowship,

fulfilled during the summer. Illness prevented

Prof. David Ip, from travelling to the Netherlands

for his second fellowship, planned for the sum-

mer, but he did not allow this to prevent him

from contributing wholeheartedly to the work of

the programme.

On 18 July, a concluding seminar was held at

the Universiteit van Amsterdam, organized by the

i i a s Branch Office in Amsterdam, during which a

gathering of people who had worked in the pro-

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gramme, or had been connected with the work of

the programme, discussed and evaluated its

achievements and problems. Among them were

Leo Douw and Cen Huang as the main imple-

menters of the programme, a number of i i a s p e r-

manent staff members, members of the program-

me’s Supervisory Committee and the i i a s A c a d e m-

ic Committee, and PhD students of the Amster-

dam School of Social Scientific Research.

A report of the concluding seminar, and intro-

ductions to the programme’s central output and

research findings will be published in the i i a s

Newsletter. The programme’s Final Report pro-

vides all the relevant data on the programme’s

history, its main contributors and staff, its

achievements and research findings, including an

overall evaluation, and its future projections.

T h e Final Report is available via the programme’s

w e b s i t e .

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Project director:

– Prof. Peter van der Veer

Executive body:

– Amsterdam School for Social science Research

(a s s r)

Research fellows:

– Dr Mahmoud Alinejad (Iran)

Research topic: ‘Mass Media, Social Movements,

and Religion’

1 July 2000 – 1 July 2002

– Dr Shoma Munshi (India)

Research topic: ‘Transnational Alchemy:

Producing the global consumer and diasporic

identities via contemporary visual media: India’

1 July 2000 – 1 July 2002

PhD candidate:

– Myrna Eindhoven (the Netherlands)

Research topic: ‘Rays of New Images. IC Ts, state

ethnopolicies, and identity formation among

the Mentawaians (West Sumatra, Indonesia)’

1 November 2000 – 1 November 2004

Main financing organization:

– Wo t r o

C o - s p o n s o r s :

– Assr, iias

Launched in July, this programme has a dual

focus: it proposes to look at the complex nature of

contemporary cultural identities and the role

which the globalization of information and com-

munication technologies (IC Ts) plays in the

(re)construction of these identities. The globaliza-

tion of IC Ts, (including not just television, films,

advertising, radio and newspapers, but very

importantly today, the Internet) has led to a situa-

tion in which communication networks, rather

than physical, geographical limits, have become

the new, permeable boundaries of this Informa-

tion Age. Audiovisual geographies are thus

becoming disengaged from the symbolic spaces of

national culture, and reaffiliated on the basis of

the more ‘universal’ principles of an international

consumer culture. Information and entertain-

ment businesses are converging with the commu-

nications industry in attempting to create a global

media space and market.

The core question of the programme is how this

logic unfolds as it encounters and interacts with

particular local situations. The question therefore

is not one of global or local flows of information

and communication technologies, but of how the

global and the local find expression in specific

contexts. Substantively, these issues will be

addressed in the comparative contexts of Indone-

sia, India, Iran, and the Gulf states of the Middle

East.

This research is being carried out in a compara-

tive, multi-disciplinary method. While the pro-

gramme is based in the Netherlands, the projects

will be conducted with multiple sites of field-

work. Both individually and collectively, the

research will broaden our understanding of the

implications of new media and communications

technologies in transforming political and reli-

gious forms which transcend the nation-state and

the relationship between consumption behaviour

and identity formation. The effects of these tech-

nological changes are different in different soci-

eties, although no one can escape them. It is likely

that transnational communities will play an

increasingly important role in this Information

Age in shaping world-wide social, cultural, eco-

nomic, and political processes.

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Programme co-ordinators:

– Dr Nico J.G. Kaptein

– Drs Sabine A.M. Kuypers

Research fellows and PhD candidates:

– as of 2001

Main financing organization:

– Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (k n a w)

C o - s p o n s o r s :

– International Institute for the Study of Islam in

the Modern World (i s i m), Leiden

– Research School of Asian, African, and

Amerindian Studies (c n w s), Leiden

– Pusat Pengkajian Islam dan Masyarakat (p p i m,

Center for the Study of Islam and Society),

J a k a r t a

This 4-year co-operative research project starting

on 1 January 2001 aims to study and document

important changes which have occurred in reli-

gious – especially Muslim – authority in Indonesia

during the past century and which have con-

tributed significantly to the shaping of contempo-

rary nationhood. The project will focus on four

advanced research programmes, which will be car-

ried out by specialists in the field of religious stud-

ies from Indonesia, the Netherlands and elsewhere.

The advanced research programmes are concerned

with the most important areas of religious dissemi-

nation in Indonesia over the period concerned,

being: 1) The Traditional Religious Authority:

U l a m a and f a t w a; 2) Mystical Associations (T a r e k a t) in

Urban Communities; 3) Dakwah (Muslim Propaga-

tion) Activities in Urban Communities; and 4) Edu-

cation and the Dissemination of Religious Authori-

ty. Each of these programmes should result in

book-length studies on the topics concerned. In

addition, six PhD scholarships are scheduled. As a

spin-off activity of the joint research efforts in the

final year of the project, a preliminary hand list of

religious personalities of Indonesian Islam in the

2 0t h century will be produced.

The research programme receives financial sup-

port through the Royal Netherlands Academy of

Sciences (k n a w), being part of the Scientific Co-opera-

tion Netherlands – Indonesia, which in turn is financed

by the Netherlands Minister of Education, Cul-

ture and Sciences. The programme is co-financed

by the International Institute for Asian Studies

(i i a s), Leiden/Amsterdam; the International Insti-

tute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World

(i s i m), Leiden; and the Research School of Asian,

African and Amerindian Studies (Research School

c n w s), Leiden. In Indonesia the work is co-ordi-

nated at the Pusat Pengkajian Islam dan

Masyarakat (p p i m, Center for the Study of Islam

and Society): an autonomous body of the Institut

Agama Islam Negeri (i a i n, State Institute for

Islamic Studies) in Jakarta.

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Project leader:

– Prof. K.R. van Kooij

Co-ordinating editors:

– Drs H.I. Lasschuijt (Southeast Asia)

– Dr E.M. Raven (South Asia)

Offices and branches:

– International Institute for Asian Studies (i i a s) ,

L e i d e n / A m s t e r d a m

– Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology (p g i a r) ,

University of Kelaniya, Colombo

– Sp a f a Library and Documentation, s e a m e o

Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts,

B a n g k o k

– Prof. S. Settar, co-ordinating editor for India

– Mr Hasan Djafar, editor for Indonesia

Financial support:

– International Institute for Asian Studies (i i a s) ,

L e i d e n / A m s t e r d a m

– J. Gonda Foundation, Royal Netherlands

Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam

– Faculty of Arts, Leiden University

– Central Cultural Fund (c c f), Sri Lanka

The year 2000 started with the 4t h i n t e r n a t i o n a l

a b i a workshop, which was held at Dharwad, India,

10-12 January. It was splendidly hosted by Prof. S.

Settar, member of the advisory board and respon-

sible for the a b i a India Branch. The workshop was

attended by an unusually large number of twenty-

one participants, from Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri

Lanka, Bangladesh, India, and the Netherlands.

The Sri Lankan delegation was enriched by the

presence of a delegation of the Central Cultural

Fund, which is the main sponsor of the a b i a o f f i c e

in Colombo. Unfortunately, owing to circum-

stances beyond their control, the Thai delegation

was unable to make the journey to Dharwad. The

outcomes of the meeting, however, were discussed

at the Thai a b i a office in Bangkok only a few

weeks later. The grand hospitality offered by the

University of Dharwad, Karnataka, the receptions,

the impressive concerts of Indian classical music

at Professor Settar’s house, and the fascinating

excursions to Hampi-Vijayanagara, made the visit

to India of the a b i a an unforgettable experience.

The real success of this workshop was the result

of three days of hard work. After three years since

its new inception and with two years ahead before

the first phase of five years ends, the a b i a p r o j e c t

was reaching a turning point. Quite a few impor-

tant issues had to be raised and were talked about

in a friendly and open atmosphere. These issues

concerned the regional networking, the output in

terms of records for the database, and the time

schedule of a b i a Project for the years 2000-2002. In

two parallel sessions, the advisory board discussed

a proposal for a new structure of a b i a Project in

the next phase of five years including a decentral-

ization of funds, while the editors and annotators

were dealing with a new annotator’s manual, and

the criteria for selecting records and making

annotations.

Other urgent matters concerned the set-up of

regional databases and the publication of a b i a

Index Volume i i. The publication of a special, less

expensive, Asian edition was announced. Dr Ellen

Raven and Drs Helga Lasschuijt, co-ordinating

editors for South and Southeast Asia of a b i a L e i-

den, demonstrated the improved on-line database

and the website under construction. Another

major decision concerned the position of a b i a

India branch, which from this moment would

function as an independent a b i a o f f i c e .

After the workshop, the chairman of a b i a

Project, Prof. Karel van Kooij and Drs Helga

Lasschuijt paid a visit to the s p a f a h e a d q u a r t e r s

i n Bangkok in order to discuss the results of

t h e workshop with their a b i a colleagues.

M s L a s s c h u i j t returned to Bangkok in April to

install a new version of a b i a inputting software,

and attended an international conference in Sin-

gapore. In May Dr Ellen Raven visited Philadel-

phia to present a b i a at the annual a c s a a m e e t i n g

and to discuss co-operation with this organiza-

tion. In May and June she worked for two weeks at

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the a b i a office in Colombo to install new

inputting and web-server software and to instruct

the team. At the editorial staff in Colombo,

M s Doris Yapa unfortunately had to leave the pro-

ject after three years of enthusiastic and intensive

work for a b i a. Ms Kanchana Dehigama was

appointed editor in chief of the Colombo office, in

her place.

In the course of the next months, emphasis was

put on the input of records and the maintenance

of the network. Communication, data coverage

and a regular inflow of data and records are of the

utmost importance for the two products of a b i a

project: database and book, and needed careful

attention. Notwithstanding the practical necessity

of a printed version, and the urgency of bringing

out a b i a Index Volume i i, it was becoming

increasingly clear that the a b i a database, online

and accessible through a website, would become

by far the most important achievement of this

year’s work. In contrast to a printed book, it is an

almost limitless accumulation of records, which

can moreover be improved and corrected continu-

ously. Furthermore, the data are immediately

within reach of everyone provided with an Inter-

net connection, as soon as they have found their

way to the database.

Another urgent matter was fundraising for the

a b i a offices in Leiden, Colombo, and Bangkok, so

that the a b i a project could continue its work in

the future. Steps were taken to submit requests

for subsidies for the continuation of each a b i a

office. A major request for subsidy concerned extra

funds for digitalizing the data of the 23 volumes

of the ‘old’ Annual Bibliography of Indian Archae-

ology and integrating these data with the existing

a b i a Index database.

In order to assess progress of the various

fundraising activities, a small-scale meeting of the

advisory board and the directors of the Institu-

tions involved in a b i a was organized at the s p a f a

headquarters in Bangkok on 3 and 4 December.

Professor W.A.L. Stokhof chaired the meeting. It

was a great pleasure that Professor Edi Sedyawati

(Indonesia) was able to be present during this

gathering. She announced the readiness of

Indonesia to establish its own a b i a office, and to

enter into a full partnership. The meeting was sat-

isfactory in that the latest results of the work at

the a b i a offices could be talked over, frankly and

in a friendly fashion. Dr Ellen Raven, who attend-

ed the meeting as the representative of the editor-

ial committee, announced in her progress report,

that, in November, the database contained 9000

records. Furthermore, she presented all partici-

pants at the meeting with a complete print-run of

those records from the database, which have been

selected for a b i a Index Volume i i. The implemen-

tation of the new structure of a b i a for the next

period of five years, in particular the chairman-

ship of the project, was another important item

on the agenda. It was welcomed by every one that

Mr S. Lakdusinghe was willing to become the new

chairman of the a b i a project for the next phase.

The offer of Professor Edi Sedyawati to host the

fifth a b i a workshop, to be held in October 2001, in

Indonesia was gratefully accepted.

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C o - o r d i n a t o r s :

– Dr Mario Rutten

– Dr John Kleinen

The year 2000 saw a change in personnel and the

removal of the i i a s Branch Office to a new build-

ing within the Universiteit van Amsterdam. In

March 2000, Mario Rutten took up his position

again as part-time co-ordinator of the Branch

Office after his one-year stay as a Research Fellow

at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (n i a s) in

Copenhagen, Denmark. The interim co-ordinator,

John Kleinen, returned to his position in the

Department of Anthropology and Sociology of the

Universiteit van Amsterdam. In May 2000, the i i a s

Branch Office moved from the Spinhuis building

to the Oost-Indisch Huis building of the Univer-

siteit van Amsterdam. To ensure smooth co-oper-

ation and contacts with the i i a s Main Office in

Leiden, a staff member from the Leiden office vis-

ited the Branch Office monthly and joint execu-

tive meetings were regularly held to discuss the

work-in-progress.

Eighteen fellows from nine different countries

visited the i i a s Branch Office for longer or shorter

periods of time in 2000 (see Section 2 for more

information). The Branch Office supported a large

number of activities organized by these i i a s f e l-

lows and by staff members of the Universiteit van

Amsterdam and other academic institutions in

Amsterdam. It was jointly responsible for the lec-

tures and seminars presented by the i i a s f e l l o w s .

It prepared and organized the international semi-

nar on ‘Health, Sexuality and Civil Society in East

Asia’, which concluded the i i a s-based e s f f e l l o w-

ship of Dr Evelyne Micollier (1997-2000). It also

organized the evaluation seminar of the i i a s

research programme on ‘International Social

Organization in East and Southeast Asia: Q i a o x i a n g

ties during the twentieth century’.

Co-ordinator Mario Rutten was one of the orga-

nizers of the 7th Nordic-European Workshop in

Advanced Asian Studies (n e w a s), which took place

in Gilleleje (Denmark) in April, and was hosted by

the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (n i a s) in

Copenhagen. The purpose of this workshop was

to provide PhD-students in the social sciences on

contemporary South and Southeast Asia qualified

support from an international team of teachers

and to give them an opportunity to become

acquainted with colleagues from other countries

who are carrying out thesis work on similar top-

ics. In this activity, the i i a s worked closely togeth-

er with the Amsterdam School for Social Science

Research (a s s r) of the Universiteit van Amsterdam

and the research school c n w s of Leiden Universi-

t y .

The i i a s Branch Office, in co-operation with the

Beeld voor Beeld Festival in Amsterdam, orga-

nized a presentation of a book of photographs on

the Chittagong Hill Tracts in South Asia by a staff

member of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. It

also initiated and organized three international

seminars. One in conjunction with the Depart-

ment of Anthropology and Sociology of the UvA

on ‘Globalisation in India: The impact on agricul-

ture and the rural poor’. A second one on ‘Labour

in Asia; A comparative perspective’, in collabora-

tion with the International Institute for Social

History (i i a s - c l a r a research programme). And a

third seminar together with the National Univer-

sity of Singapore and the Platform Asian Studies

in Amsterdam (ASiA) on ‘The Geopolitics of Glob-

alization in Southeast Asia and Europe at the turn

of the 21s t Century: Boundaries, territories and

spatial issues’. Reports on these seminars and on

the n e w a s workshop, by the co-ordinator Mario

Rutten, were published in different issues of the

i i a s N e w s l e t t e r .

In close co-operation with the Netherlands

Institute for War Documentation (n i o d), the for-

mer co-ordinator, John Kleinen, organized a lec-

ture series on the topic ‘Southeast Asia Across Bor-

ders’. Between September and December, four lec-

tures were held, for which the i i a s Branch Office

provided administrative support. At the same

time, John Kleinen also finalized, working with

the Maison Descartes and the n i o d, the plan to

organize a Franco-Dutch workshop on similarities

and differences in decolonization experiences in

Indochina and Indonesia. This workshop will take

place in 2001.

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In line with the tasks and the duties of the

Branch Office, support was given to two ‘Philip-

pines Studies Updates’, in May and October. The

updates were held to inform the participants and

the general public about developments in the

Philippines, but also to create a platform for the

exchange of research findings. Preparations were

made for two similar forums: one that will bring

together researchers on the Chinese community

in the Netherlands and one that will focus on

researchers with an interest in the study of Viet-

nam. Both forums will have their first meeting in

the beginning of 2001.

Special attention was paid to enlarging the

video collection of the Asian Cinema Center. On sev-

eral occasions, a member of the Branch visited a

local film festival, while new acquisitions were

made directly from film directors. Besides the rou-

tine administration of the collection and acquisi-

tion activities, the i i a s Branch Office organized

four evenings of discussion and viewing of Asian

films, together with the student association

Farang of the Asia Department of the Faculty of

Social and Behavioural Sciences.

In line with the preceding years, the secretariat

took the responsibility for editing the guide and

the promotion of the annual Inter-University MA

Course on South Asia which took place between Sep-

tember en December at the Universiteit van Ams-

terdam. It gave editing support to an i i a s p u b l i c a-

tion that was the end product from the Third

European Vietnam (Euroviet) Conference. It also

continued to lend administrative and organiza-

tional support to the Asian Development Seminar

Series (a d d s) consisting of bi-monthly meetings

on contemporary development issues in Asia at

various universities in the Netherlands.

The co-ordinator of the i i a s Branch Office Ams-

terdam, Mario Rutten, was asked by the Dean of

the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

(f m g) of the Universiteit van Amsterdam to set-up

and become the part-time director of the Platform

Asian Studies in Amsterdam (ASiA), financed by

the f m g and the Governing Board (CvB) of the

Universiteit van Amsterdam. The aim of this Plat-

form is to initiate, organize and co-ordinate pub-

lic-oriented activities related to Asian Studies at

various levels within the Universiteit van Amster-

dam, in close collaboration with other academic

and non-academic institutions in the Nether-

lands. The i i a s Branch Office Amsterdam intends

to work closely together with the Platform ASiA in

various activities. The first collaborative effect has

already materialized in the joint organization of

the international seminar on the Geopolitics of

Globalization in Southeast Asia and Europe, as

referred to above.

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b u d g e t a n d r e a l i z a t i o ni n t e r n a t i o n a l i n s t i t u t e f o r a s i a n s t u d i e s 2 0 0 0

D e s c r i p t i o n B u d g e t R e a l i z a t i o n

E x p e n d i t u r e :

P e r s o n n e l :

– Bureau n l g 7 6 7 , 0 0 0 n l g 7 7 1 , 5 3 6

– Board 5 2 , 0 0 0 4 6 , 5 5 5

– Research fellows 6 0 1 , 0 0 0 5 7 8 , 9 1 7

O f f i c e 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 1 3 9 , 0 1 0

International travel costs 5 0 , 0 0 0 7 9 , 5 1 4

R e p r e s e n t a t i o n 3 0 , 0 0 0 3 5 , 0 6 9

Research programmes 5 0 , 5 0 0 3 9 , 7 5 1

P u b l i c a t i o n s 8 4 , 5 0 0 3 8 , 1 1 5

L e c t u r e s 2 2 , 0 0 0 1 0 , 1 3 4

N e w s l e t t e r 1 6 5 , 0 0 0 1 7 8 , 2 2 3

S e m i n a r s 2 3 2 , 2 0 0 1 0 5 , 8 7 1

D a t a b a s e 1 5 , 0 0 0 3 , 9 0 8

E q u i p m e n t 2 0 , 0 0 0 5 8 , 7 5 7

Director’s fund 3 0 , 0 0 0 2 8 , 6 3 5

Courses personnel 1 0 , 0 0 0 9 , 8 9 1

Visiting fellows 1 9 6 , 5 0 0 3 1 , 4 6 6

Dutch seniors 2 5 , 0 0 0 4 1 , 3 9 1

Professorial chairs 1 0 5 , 0 0 0 1 1 8 , 2 6 3

Ab i a p r o j e c t 1 7 5 , 0 0 0 1 7 5 , 0 0 0

Changing labour relations 1 7 5 , 0 0 0 2 6 , 1 7 3

World Wide Web 5 0 , 0 0 0 4 4 , 9 8 9

E a r n i n g s – 3 1 9 , 3 1 9 c r

Mediated fellowship p m p m

Joint Seminars p m p m

T o t a l n l g 2 , 9 5 5 , 7 0 0 n l g 2 , 2 4 1 , 8 4 7

Leiden, 2001

W. Arentshorst, Senior Finance Officer

F.E. Horsman, Account manager

Office for International Cooperation, Leiden University

A N N E X 8

Financial report 2000

7 1

a n n u a l r e p o r t 2 0 0 0

r e a l i z a t i o n s t r a t e g i c a l l i a n c ei n t er n a t i o n a l i n s t i t u t e f o r a s i a n s t u d i e s 2 0 0 0



P e r s o n n e l :

– Bureau n l g 7 0 , 0 0 0 n l g 8 3 , 9 1 5

O f f i c e 2 0 , 0 0 0 3 , 0 3 7

R e p r e s e n t a t i o n 7 , 0 0 0 1 , 5 4 1

F e l l o w s :

– Research Fellows 1 3 0 , 0 0 0 1 5 3 , 0 2 6

– Visiting Fellows 2 0 , 0 0 0 1 1 , 6 9 8

Programme Development* 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 -

Seminars and Asia updates 6 5 , 0 0 0 6 0 , 0 8 3

Total Expenditure n l g 4 1 2 , 0 0 0 n l g 3 1 3 , 3 0 0

*The budgeted funds for programme development have deliberately been reserved for new activities in 2001.

Leiden, 2001




F i n a n c i a l R e p o r t 2 0 0 0

7 2


A n n e x 8

r e a l i z a t i o n d e p e n d a n c e a m s t e r d a mi n t e r n a t i o n al i n s t i t u t e f o r a s i a n s t u d i e s 2 0 0 0



P e r s o n n e l :

– Bureau n l g 3 5 , 0 0 0 n l g 3 5 , 5 1 2

O f f i c e 2 0 , 0 0 0 1 5 , 9 5 9

H o u s i n g 2 5 , 0 0 0 1 9 , 9 9 0

Travel costs 1 , 0 0 0 1 , 3 6 4

R e p r e s e n t a t i o n 4 , 0 0 0 3 , 9 9 5

Total Expenditure 8 5 , 0 0 0 7 6 , 8 2 0

C o n t r i b u t i o n s :

University of Amsterdam 8 5 , 0 0 0 c r 8 5 , 0 0 0 c r

Total contributions 8 5 , 0 0 0 c r 8 5 , 0 0 0 c r

T o t a l n l g 0 n l g 8 , 1 8 0 c r

Leiden, 2001




7 3

a n n u a l r e p o r t 2 0 0 0

F i n a n c i a l R e p o r t 2 0 0 0

A b u s h o u k 3 1

A l i n e j a d 13, 15, 21, 64

A l t a n t s e t s e g 32, 74

A n t o n s 3 2

A r e n t s h o r s t 70-72, 74

A r p s 11-12, 74

A t a b a k i 4 9

B a l a s s i s 11, 74

B a l l a r d 32, 74

B a u d 11, 74

B a u t i s t a 13, 24, 37

B h a t t a c h a r y a 4 8

B l e z e r 13, 18, 36, 50, 74

Blussé van Oud Alblas 10, 74

B o d e w i t z 10, 74

B o e r 11, 50, 74

B o n n o v r i é 1 3

B o o g 12, 61, 74

B o o i j 11, 13, 51, 74, 80

B o o m g a a r d 4 1

B o r 12, 74

B ø r d a h l 13, 24, 43

B r a n d 11, 51

B r a n d o n 6 0

B r e m a n 10, 12, 35, 74

B r o w n 13, 24, 29, 41

B r o w n 13, 24, 29, 41

B r u i j n 13, 25, 34, 50, 74

B r u i n 13, 20, 60-61, 74

B r u i n s m a 11, 74

B u n 4 1

C a m p b e l l 35, 74

C e u s t e r 13, 51, 74

C h a n g 13, 25, 74

C h e n 13, 23

C h e u n g 1 2

C h r i s t i e 3 7

C h u t e 11, 51

C o h e n 13, 20, 60-61, 74

C o l o m b i j n 13, 18, 74

C r i b b 13, 31, 36, 74

D a m s t e e g t 25, 34

D a r s a 13, 31

D a s 13, 31-32, 35

D e h i g a m a 6 7

D i c k 37, 49, 51

D o e k 11, 74

D o u w

12, 15, 22, 35-36, 52, 62-63, 74

D r a g u h n 42, 74

E d s t r ö m 3 2

E g h e n t e r 32, 74

E i n d h o v e n 13, 15, 22, 27, 64

E r m a n 19, 58

E v e r s 13, 32, 51-52, 74

E w i n g 13, 25

F a u c h e r 13, 31

F o u l c h e r 13, 25

F o x 5, 38, 74

G a n e s h 13, 25, 74

G a n g u l y - S c r a s e 13, 25, 74

G e e s t 4 2

H a f t 3 2

H a g e n d o o r n 10, 74

H a n e v e l d 11, 74

H a r t 4 8

H e e r 12, 61, 74

H e i l i j g e r s 4 8

H e i n s 12, 74

H e m m i n g a 1 2

H e n s m a n 5 8

H o a d l e y 3 2

H o e k 11, 13, 51, 74

H o o k o o m s i n g 32, 52, 74

H o r s m a n 70-72, 74

H u a n g 13, 15, 22, 52, 62-63, 74

H ü s k e n 10, 74

I Gusti Made Karang-Hoogenboom

1 1

I d e m a 12, 74

I p 13, 15, 22-23, 52, 62, 74

J a c o b s e n 13, 30, 43, 74

J e d a m s k i 13, 26, 74

J h a 13, 26

J o n g e 4 8

J o r d a a n 4 9

K a u l 13, 26

K e r s e n b o o m 12, 20, 74

K h a z a n o v 52, 74

K h o s l a 4 9

K i m 13, 24, 74

K l e i n e n 11, 51, 68

K n i g h t 32, 74

K o o i j 12, 66, 74

K o u w e n h o v e n 3 6

K u y p e r s 11, 65, 74

K y o k o 22, 52, 62

L a k d u s i n g h e 6 7

L a l 37, 46, 48

L a s s c h u i j t 12, 66, 74

L i 13, 24, 31, 35, 43, 49, 74

L i 13, 24, 31, 35, 43, 49, 74

L i 13, 24, 31, 35, 43, 49, 74

L i e t e n 11, 36, 58, 74

L i n 13, 23, 35, 74

L i n d e n 10, 12, 74

L i t t r u p 4 3

L i u 3 6

Lopez y Royo Iyer 13, 26

L u b o t s k y 49, 53

L u c a s s e n 12, 74

L u x e m b o u r g 1 1

M a a r s e 1 1

M c K a y 13, 26

M c V e y 36, 49

M e i j 13, 51, 74

M e n k o f f 4 9

M e t h a 1 3

M i c o l l i e r

13, 28, 36, 41, 43-44, 68, 74

M i l w e r t z 43, 74

M i n n e 11, 74

M i t t a g 3 2

M o h a p a t r a 13-14, 21, 58, 74

M o o r s 3 7

M u i j z e n b e r g

12, 37, 74

M u n s h i 13, 15, 22, 52, 64, 74

N a s 1 1

N i l e s 3 6

N o o i j e n s 13, 51, 74

O l e n e v 13, 28

O o s t e n 1 0

O s i a n d e r 4 4

P a l r i w a l a 13, 26, 74

P a t n a i k 5 8

P h i l i p s 1 2

P i e k e 12, 62, 74

P i p e r 5 8

P o s t 17, 36-38

P r o n k 1 2

I n d ex

P e r s o n s

Abushouk, Dr A.I.

Alinejad, Dr M.

Altantsetseg, Dr N.

Antons, Dr C.

Arentshorst, W.

Arps, Prof. B.

Atabaki, T.

Balassis, J.

Ballard, Dr C.

Baud, Dr I.S.A.

Bautista, Prof C.

Bhattacharya, Dr B.

Blezer, Dr H.

Blussé van Oud Alblas, Prof. J.L.

Bodewitz, Prof. H.W.

Boer, M.

Bonnovrié, Drs N.

Boog, Drs I.

Booij, Drs M.T. te

Boomgaard, Prof. P.

Bor, Dr J.

Børdahl, Dr V.

Brand, Drs M.E.

Brandon, Prof. J.

Breman, Prof. J.C.

Brown, Dr C.

Brown, Dr I.

Bruijn, Dr T. de

Bruin, Dr H. de

Bruinsma, C.Y.A.

Bun, Dr C.K.

Campbell, Dr C.

Ceuster, Dr K. De

Chang, Dr H.

Chen, Prof. K.

Cheung, M.

Christie, Dr C.J.

Chute, Drs T.D.

Cohen, Dr M.I.

Colombijn, Dr F.

Cribb, Prof. R.

Damsteegt, Dr T.

Darsa,Drs U.A.

Das, Prof. A.N.

Dehigama, K.

Dick, Prof. H.

Doek, Drs A.J.M.

Douw, Dr L.M.

Draguhn, Dr W.

Edström, Dr B.

Eghenter, Dr C.

Eindhoven, Drs M.

Erman, Dr E.

Evers, Drs S.

Ewing, Dr M.M.

Faucher, Dr C.

Foulcher, Dr K.

Fox, Prof. J.

Ganesh, Dr K.

Ganguly-Scrase, Dr R.

Geest, Dr W. van der

Haft, Dr L.

Hagendoorn, Prof. A.

Haneveld, E.F.P.

Hart, Drs H. ‘t

Heer, Drs N. de

Heilijgers, Dr D.

Heins, Dr E.L.

Hemminga, L.

Hensman, Dr R.

Hoadley, Dr M.

Hoek, Drs E.A.T. van der

Hookoomsing, Prof. V.

Horsman, F.E.

Huang,Dr C.

Hüsken, Prof. F.

I Gusti Made Karang-Hoogenboom, I.

Idema, Prof. W.L.

Ip, Dr D.

Jacobsen, Dr M.

Jedamski, Dr D.

Jha, Dr G.

Jonge, Dr H. de

Jordaan, Dr R.

Kaul, Dr M.M.

Kersenboom, Dr S.

Khazanov, Dr A.

Khosla, Dr A.

Kim, Dr K.

Kleinen, Dr J.

Knight, Dr J.

Kooij, Prof. K.R. van

Kouwenhoven, F.

Kuypers, Drs S.A.M.

Kyoko, Dr T.

Lakdusinghe, S.

Lal, Prof. D.K.

Lasschuijt, Drs H.I.

Li, Dr M.

Li, Dr N.

Li, Prof. P.

Lieten, Dr G.K.

Lin, Prof. C.

Linden, Prof. M. van der

Littrup, Dr L.

Liu, Dr H.

Lopez y Royo Iyer, Dr A.

Lubotsky, Prof. A.

Lucassen, Prof. J.

Luxembourg, M.

Maarse, C.

McKay, Dr A.

McVey, Prof. R.

Meij, Drs Th. van der

Menkoff, Dr T.

Metha, Dr S.

Micollier, Dr E.

Milwertz, Dr C.

Minne, Drs H. van der

Mittag, Dr A.

Mohapatra, Dr P.

Moors, Prof. A.

Muijzenberg, Prof. O.D. van den

Munshi, Dr S.

Nas, Dr P.J.M.

Niles, Dr D.

Nooijens, Drs I.

Olenev, Drs D.

Oosten, Prof. J.

Osiander, A.

Palriwala, Dr R.

Patnaik, Prof. U.

Philips, K.

Pieke, Dr F.N.

Piper, Dr N.

Post, Dr P.

Pronk, L.

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P u r i 13, 26

R a b e n 3 6 - 3 7

R a j e 13, 31

R a l a i k o a 13, 27

R a m s t e d t 13, 28, 41, 43, 50, 75

R a v e n 12, 66-67, 75

R e d d y 3 3

R e m m e l i n k 13, 75

R e s u r r e c c i o n 5 8

R i s s e e u w 11, 75

R o b e r t s 3 3

R o b s o n 13, 75

R o n n å s 34, 42-43, 75

R o z i n g 12, 75

R u d n i c k 5 8

R u t t e n

11, 13, 30, 35-36, 43, 51, 68-69, 75

R u t t e n

11, 13, 30, 35-36, 43, 51, 68-69, 75

S a d o i 13, 27, 36, 75

S a j o r 13, 27, 58

S a n d s c h n e i d e r 45, 75

S a p t a r i 12, 36-37, 58, 75

S a t o 13-14, 23, 58, 75

S a t y a n a r a y a n a 13-14, 23, 58, 75

S c h e n d e l 12, 35, 75

S c h i p p e r 12, 33, 75

S c h m i t 46, 75

S c h o t t e n h a m m e r 13, 31

S c h u c h e r 41, 44, 75

Schulte Nordholt

13, 16-17, 35, 52, 75

S e d y a w a t i 6 7

S e t t a r 15, 66, 75

S h i r a i s h i 3 6

S h l o m o w i t z 13, 27

S i l v a 4 8

S m y t h 4 1

S o h 3 3

S r i v a s t a v a 13, 24, 75

S t e i n h a u e r

13, 16, 34, 48, 52, 75

S t e w a r t 3 3

S t o k h o f

5, 10-11, 34, 50, 67, 75

S t r a t h e r n 3 3

S t r e m m e l a a r 11-12, 75

S t u a r t - F o x 13, 27

S u t h e r l a n d 12, 75

S v e n s s o n 12, 75

T a d d e i 5 0

T a r a s y u k 13, 28

T e l l e r 12, 46, 75

T e r w i e l 13, 16, 34, 52, 75

Theuns-de Boer 5 0

T h o r a t 13, 31

T o u w e n - B o u w s m a 11, 75

T r e g l o d é 13, 27, 75

T u l d e r 3 6

U m 13, 21, 60-61, 75

V a g n e r o n 5 8

V a s s i l k o v 13, 28, 37

V e e n k a m p 12, 75

V e r m e e r 11, 75

V i s w a n a t h a n 13, 31

V i t i e l l o 33, 75

V o o g t 33, 75

V r e d e n b r e g t 13, 75

W a d l e y 13, 19, 36, 75

W a g n e r 44, 75

Wahab bin Ali 3 1

W a t s o n 3 3

W i e d e n h o f 13, 30

W i e s e b r o n 4 9

W i n k 52, 75

W i n k e l 13, 50-51, 75

W o l f f 3 3

W o l t e r s 48, 75

W u 4 9

Y a n g 13, 27, 75

Y a p a 6 7

Y u a n 13, 28

Z a n t e n 12, 36, 60-61, 75

Z h a o 22, 62

Z i j l m a n s 35, 49

Z ü r c h e r 11, 75

Z w a r t 3 3

Puri, Dr R.

Raben, Dr R.

Raje, Mrs G.

Ralaikoa, Dr A.

Ramstedt, Dr M.

Raven, Dr E.M.

Reddy, Dr D.N.

Remmelink, Dr W.

Resurreccion, Dr B.P.

Risseeuw, Prof. C.I.

Roberts, Dr M.

Robson, R.L. FRAS BA Hons

Ronnås, Prof. P.

Rozing, M.

Rudnick, A.

Rutten, Dr M.A.F.

Rutten, Dr R.A.

Sadoi, Dr Y.

Sajor, Dr E.E.

Sandschneider, Prof. E.

Saptari, Dr R.

Sato, Dr S.

Satyanarayana, Dr A.

Schendel, Prof. W. van

Schipper, Prof. K.M.

Schmit, Dr L.

Schottenhammer, Dr A.

Schucher, Dr G.

Schulte Nordholt, Prof. H.G.C.

Sedyawati, Prof. E.

Settar, Prof. S.

Shiraishi, Dr T.

Shlomowitz, Dr R.

Silva, Dr R.

Smyth, Dr D.

Soh, Dr S.

Srivastava, Dr S.

Steinhauer, Prof. H.

Stewart, Dr P.J.

Stokhof, Prof. W.A.L.

Strathern, Prof. A.

Stremmelaar, Drs J.

Stuart-Fox, Dr M.

Sutherland, Prof. H.A.

Svensson, Prof. Th.

Taddei, Dr M.

Tarasyuk, Dr Y.

Teller, Drs W.

Terwiel, Prof. B.J.

Theuns-de Boer, Drs G.

Thorat, Prof. S.

Touwen-Bouwsma, Dr E.

Treglodé, Dr B. de

Tulder, Prof. R. van

Um, Dr H.

Vagneron, Dr I.

Vassilkov, Dr Y.

Veenkamp, Drs C.B.W.

Vermeer, Dr E.B.

Viswanathan, Prof. G.

Vitiello, Dr G.

Voogt, Dr A. de

Vredenbregt, Prof. J.G.

Wadley, Dr R.L.

Wagner, C.

Wahab bin Ali, Prof. A.

Watson, Dr B.

Wiedenhof, Dr J.

Wiesebron, Dr M.

Wink, Dr A.

Winkel, Drs M.

Wolff, Dr J.

Wolters, Prof. W.

Wu, Dr J.

Yang, Prof. E.

Yapa, D.

Yuan, Dr B.

Zanten, Dr W. van

Zhao, W.

Zijlmans, Prof. K.

Zürcher, Prof. E.J.

Zwart, Dr F. de

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P e r s o n s

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I n d ex

S u b j e c t s

AAS 7, 34, 45, 47, 51, 76, 78

ABIA 6-7, 12, 15, 34, 48, 66-67, 70, 76, 78

Academic Committee 5-6, 10-12, 14, 63, 76

ADSS 27, 76, 78

Advertisements 51, 76

Affiliated fellows 6, 24, 76

Agenda Asia 45, 53, 76

AKSE 38, 76, 78

ANU 53, 76, 78

ASEF 41, 46, 48, 76, 78

ASEM 10, 34, 41-43, 47, 50, 76, 78

ASiA 5-7, 9-17, 19-24, 26-54, 58-63, 66, 68-69, 71, 76, 78-79

Asia Update 36, 44, 47, 76

Asian Studies Virtual Library 7, 53, 76

ASSR 15, 21-23, 27, 31, 35, 44, 46, 64, 68, 76, 78

Board 5-6, 10-12, 14-15, 33, 46-48, 50, 52-53, 66-67, 69-70, 76

Branch Office 6-7, 10-11, 20, 22-28, 30-31, 35-37, 41, 43, 51,

57-58, 62, 68-69, 76, 80

CASA 12, 35, 44, 49, 76, 78

CASS 27, 76, 78

CERES 44, 46, 76, 78

CHIME 14, 20-21, 36, 60-61, 76, 78

CLARA 6, 12, 14, 21, 23, 36-37, 40, 43, 51, 58-59, 76, 78

CNWS 10, 20, 32, 44-46, 65, 68, 76, 78-79

Conference of the Presidents 38, 76

Curzon Press 22, 62, 76

Database 7, 9, 11, 15, 41, 45, 50-54, 66-67, 70, 76

Director’s Fund 7, 48, 70, 76

Dissemination of Religious Authority 6-7, 15, 46, 65

Dutch senior fellows 6, 18, 29

EACS 38, 76, 78

EAJS 38, 76, 78

EASAS 38, 76, 78

EIAS 7, 9, 30, 34, 36, 42-44, 48, 76, 78

ESCAS 38, 76, 78

ESF 6, 9, 18, 28, 32-36, 38-40, 43-44, 47-48, 51, 68, 76, 78

ESF Asia Committee 6, 9, 32-36, 38-40, 43, 47-48, 51, 76

ESF/Alliance fellows 28

EUROCORES 6, 40, 78

European Commission 34, 43, 47, 76, 78

EUROSEAS 38, 59, 76, 78

Fellowships 6-7, 9, 17-18, 23, 28-29, 38, 40, 43, 52, 58, 76

Financial report 7, 57, 70-71, 73, 76

Gate Foundation 13, 50-51, 76

Gateway to Asian Studies 52-53, 76

Gonda fellows 6, 18, 28

IATS 12, 26, 76, 78

ICAS 2 7, 45

IIAS alumni 6, 31

IIAS Annual Lecture 37, 46, 76

IIAS Extraordinary Chairs 6, 13, 16, 52, 76

IISH 12, 23, 36-37, 58, 76, 79

Index 6-7, 12, 15, 20, 59, 61, 63, 66-67, 74, 76, 78

Institut für Asienkunde (IFA) 42

Internet 15, 18, 25, 40-41, 45, 51-53, 60, 64, 67, 76, 79

ISIM 7, 46, 65, 76, 79

KIT 76, 79

KITLV 26, 45, 47, 53, 76, 78-79

KNAW 10, 27-28, 46, 65, 76, 79

Library for International Co-operation 7, 12, 45, 76

Mailing Label Rental 53, 76

MoU 24, 76, 79

NEWAS 7, 34, 43-44, 51, 68, 76, 79

Newsletter

6-7, 9, 11, 13, 16, 18-30, 32, 40, 46, 50-53, 63, 68, 70, 76, 79

NIAS 7, 9-10, 16, 24, 30, 34, 36, 41-45, 48, 53, 59, 68, 76, 79

NISAS 41, 76, 79

Nordic-Netherlands research fellows 6, 18, 30, 76

NWO 15, 25, 41, 76, 79

Oideion 12, 52, 60-61, 76

PAATI 6, 12, 14, 19-21, 24, 36, 60-61, 76, 79

PEARL 6, 10, 38, 41-43, 45, 47, 76, 79

PGIAR 66, 76, 79

Platform Asia Collections (PAC) 41, 53

Professorial fellows 6, 23, 76

Programme directors 12, 62, 76

Publications 6-7, 15-31, 40-41, 44-46, 50-53, 61, 70, 76

Qiaoxiang Ties 6-7, 12, 15, 22-23, 36, 52, 62-63, 68, 76

Representatives abroad 6, 13, 76

Research fellows

6, 10-12, 14, 17-19, 30, 34, 46, 51, 60, 64-65, 70-71, 76

Research programme

12, 14, 22-23, 43, 46, 52-53, 59, 65, 68, 76

Research schools 7, 38, 44, 46, 76

Seminars 5-6, 9, 14, 34-35, 37-38, 45-46, 53, 58, 68, 70-71, 76

Senior visiting fellows 6, 14, 17, 22, 33, 76

SPAFA 66-67, 76, 79

Staff 6, 11-13, 29, 46, 51-53, 63, 67-68, 76

Strategic Alliance

6-7, 9-10, 28, 30, 34, 36, 38, 40-42, 45, 51, 71, 76

Subjects 76-77

Subsidies 7, 48, 67, 76

Supervision committees 6, 12, 14, 76

Supporting Activities Fund 48, 76

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a n n u a l r e p o r t 2 0 0 0

Trainees 6, 12, 77

Transnational Society 6-7, 15, 21, 46, 64

Travel grants 6, 40, 48, 77

UL 12, 76, 79

Visiting exchange fellows 6, 24, 77

Website 7, 9, 45, 50, 52-53, 61, 63, 66-67

WOTRO 15, 46, 64, 77, 79

S u b j e c t s

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List o f Abb rev i a t i o n s

A A S Association for Asian Studies, u s a

A B I A Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology

A C S A A American Council for Southern Asian Art

A D S S Asian Development Seminar Series

A K S E Association for Korean Studies in Europe

A N U Australian National University

A S C African Studies Centre, Leiden

A S E F Asia-Europe Foundation, Singapore

A S E M Asia-Europe Meeting

A S i A Asian Studies in Amsterdam

A S S R Amsterdam School for Social Science Research

B A G Basic Assessment Guide

B I C E R Bureau of International Cultural and Educational Relations, Taiwan

B K I Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde

C A / S N W S Cultural Anthropology and Sociology of Non-Western Societies

CAPSTRANS Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies

C A S A Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam

C A S S Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing

C C F Central Cultural Fund, Sri Lanka

C C F Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Taiwan

C E P E S A Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Lisbon

C E R E S Research School for Resource Studies for Development, Utrecht

C E R I N S Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur les Interactions Nord-Sud

C H I M E European Foundation for Chinese Music Research, Leiden

C L A R A Changing Labour Relations in Asia

C M L Centre for Environmental Studies, Leiden

C N R S Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

C N W S Centre of Non-Western Studies Research School (at present: Research School CNWS), Leiden

C P P - N P A Communist Party of the Philippines-National People’s Army

D F G Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft

D I D I C Dutch-Indonesian Dictionary

E A C S European Association for Chinese Studies

E A J S European Association of Japanese Studies

EASAS European Association for South Asian Studies

E A S L European Association of Sinological Librarians

E C European Commission

E C A N EU-China Academic Network

E D E N Ecology, Demography, and Economy in Nusantara, KITLV

E H E S S Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

E I A S European Institute for Asian Studies, Belgium

E S C A S European Society for Central Asian Studies

E S F European Science Foundation

E S F - A C European Science Foundation Asia Committee

E U European Union

E U R O C O R E S ESF Collaborative Research Programmes

E U R O S E A S European Association for Southeast Asian Studies

F M G Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, Amsterdam

I A T S International Association for Tibetan Studies

I C A S International Convention of Asia Scholars

I C O M O S International Council on Monuments and Sites

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I C T Information and Communications Technology

I D P A D Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development

I F A Institut für Asienkunde, Hamburg

I I A S International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden/Amsterdam

I I A S N IIAS Newsletter

I I S H International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

I M E S Institute for Migration and Etnic Studies

I N A L C O Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales

I N I S Indonesia-Netherlands Co-operation in Islamic Studies

I O R Indian Ocean Rim

I P A C Platform Asia Collections Journal Inventory

I S I M International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World

I S I R Irian Jaya Studies – a Programme for Interdisciplinary Research, Leiden

I S L S Research Cluster Intercultural Study of Literature and Society, CNWS

I U A E S International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

K I T Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam

K I T L V Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, Leiden

K L U Kring der Leidse Urbanisten

K N A W Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

K U N Nijmegen University

L I P I Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia

M o U Memorandum of Understanding

N E W A S Nordic-European Workshop in Advanced Asian Studies

N G O Non Governmental Organisation

N I A S Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar

N I A S Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen

N I O D Netherlands Institute for War Documentation

N I S A S National Internet Service for Asian Studies

N L G Netherlands Guilder

N S C National Science Council, Taiwan

N U S National University of Singapore

N W O Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, The Hague

P AAT I Performing Arts of Asia: Tradition and innovation

P A C Platform Asia Collections

P E A R L Programme for Europe-Asia Research Linkages

P G I A R Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology

P I L E R Pakistan Institute for Labour Education and Research

P S C W Socio-Political and Cultural Sciences

R S P A S Research School for Pacific and Asian Studies

S E A M E O Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization

S O A S School of Oriental and African Studies, London

S P A F A SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts

S W I O South West Indian Ocean

U K United Kingdom

U L Leiden University

U N E S C O United Nations Educational, Scienfic and Cultural Organization

U S A United States of America

U v A Universiteit van Amsterdam

V A|A V M I Verbal Art in the Audio-Visual Media of Indonesia

V U Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

W O T R O Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research

W W W World Wide Web

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