‘Framing Asia’ is a monthly film screening and discussion on Asia during the Leiden Asia Year. We are very pleased to invite you to the fifth edition of ‘Framing Asia’. You are welcome to join us on Wednesday 7
In deze jaarlijkse publieksmiddag van de Vereniging KITLV staat de maatschappelijke rol van het archief en de actuele betekenis van archiveren centraal. Kenners van het koloniale verleden, onderzoekers
Long considered a pre-modern artifact destined to be swept away by modernization, political clientelism has proven amenable to economic development and democratization. Political clientelism – the
By Andrew Harding. Myanmar's Constitution of 2008 was the 'road map' for the reform process that began in 2011. Despite extensive criticism of this Constitution for its emphasis on the role of the military, much
This paper is part of a larger project that seeks to map the diverse routes and desires of a number of India-born political-religious reformers/ thinkers in the processes of their self-fashioning as Buddhists
By Kankan Xie. In spite of the early efforts of the native Indonesian communists (PKI) in expanding their organization in British Malaya, it was their Chinese counterparts (CCP) who eventually established the South
The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will hold its 9th conference from 16 to 18 August 2017 at the Examination Schools, University of Oxford. As an international and multi-disciplinary
The two-day conference 'Indonesian-Australian-Dutch Conference on Law and Society in Indonesia, organised by KITLV, the Van Vollenhoven Institute (Leiden Law School), the Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta,
Indonesia has often been regarded as a region on the periphery of the Islamic world when compared to its ‘centre’ in the Middle East. In a similar fashion, Islam on the island of Madura is often viewed as peripheral
This two-day interdisciplinary workshop focuses on exchange in the scholarly study of religion in Asia and the Caribbean in the long twentieth century. We aim, first, to gain insight in how academic ideas about,
