Agenda

Overview of all Asia events at Leiden University

May:
 

• 2nd May: Debate & Roundtable | India Votes 2019: National, Regional and Global Reverberations | 17-18:30 (followed by reception)
   
• 7th May: PhD Defence: Seeking Futures, Shaping Pasts: The fragmented nature of the political in Kashmir | Idrees Kanth
   
• 7th May: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Eastern Eurasia before 'China' | Naomi Standen
   
• 8th May: Special Guest Lecture | North Indian Overseas Labour Migration in the Colonial Era: Origins, Intermediaries, and the Role of Trust | Prof. Crispin Bates
   
• 9th May: UKNA (Urban Asia presentation series) | Book Launch: Book launch: Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West Care of the Self, Vol. I
   
• 9th May: Book launch and debate on Indonesia’s national elections | Democracy for sale: Elections, clientelism and the state in Indonesia | Ward Berenschot
   
• 23rd May: Book presentation | Race, islam and power: Ethnic and religious violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia | Andreas Harsono
   
• 24th May: Workshop: Energy Security, Environment, and Economy in the People's Republic of China and in the European Union
   
• 24th May: Book launch | Democracy for sale: Elections, clientelism, and the state in Indonesia | Ward Berenschot

April:

• 2nd April:Publiekspresentatie LeidenAsiaCentre | Arbeidsuitbuiting in het buitenland - en de link met Nederland
   
• 2nd April: IIAS Lunch Lecture Lasting beginnings of 'fake news‘: the televised 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat | Britta Ohm
   
• 4th April: Indian Ocean Lecture Series | From Decline to Colonialism, or An Era of Unscripted Possibilities? Sovereign Governance in the Middle East and South Asia, 1680-1840 | Gagan Sood
   
• 4th April: KITLV Seminar: A new Malaysia? Constitutional development after the 2018 elections | Farid Sufian Shuaib
   
• 4th April: Book launch & discussion | Orang-orang pinggiran | Lea Pamungkas & Tom Hoogervorst
   
• 5th April: Conference | Leiden Indian Philosophy Symposium 2019
   
• 9th April: PhD Defence | Nawabi Karnatak: Muhammad Ali Khan in the Making of a Mughal Successor State in Pre-colonial South India, 1749-1795 | Pimmanus Wibulsilp
   
• 9th April: PhD Defence | Living with the Large Carnivores: The interaction between humans, tigers and leopards in Chitwan National Park, Nepal | Babu Ram Lamichhane
   
• 10th April: Lecture | China Seminar | A Week of Chinese Art
   
• 10th April: Lecture | China Seminar | Replication Makes Authenticity: A Curious Paradox about the Buddhist Art in China
   
• 16th April: Open Day | China Studies
   
• 16th April: PhD Defence | Human-wildlife Interactions in Western Terai of Nepal | Subodh Upadhyaya
   
• 17th April: PhD Defence | China’s industrial carbon emissions: Historical drivers at the regional and sectoral levels and projections in light of policy | Juan Wang
   
• 23rd April: Seminar | Inhabiting difference: The affective lives of Indonesian muslim queers | Ferdiansyah Thajib
   
• 30th April: Open Day | China Studies
   
• 30th April: PhD Defence | Gintingan in Subang: An Indigenous Institution for Sustainable Community-Based Development in the Sunda Region of West Java, Indonesia | Kurniawan Saefullah

March:
 

• 29th March: Experience Day South and Southeast Asian Studies
   
• 28th March: KITLV Seminar | Transnational activism and the so-called "comfort women": Reflections across developing activism in Korea, Japan and Indonesia | Kate McGregor (University of Melbourne)
   
• 27th March: Lecture | China Lecture Series | Insects and other annoying or dangerous creatures in Buddhist monastries: Vinaya from India to China | Prof.dr. Ann Heirmann (Ghent University)
   
• 27th March: Lecture | Chinese Linguistics in Leiden (CHILL) Series | When settled, we need nothing more: Mandarin bare clauses as simple predicates | Hang Cheng
   
• 27th March: Lecture | Colonial and Global History Seminar (COGLOSS) Seminar Series | Drawings as a source for writing the history of the Spice Wars in the eastern Indonesian Archipelago in the 17th century | Tristan Mostert
   
• 27th March: Lecutre, Book Launch & Discussion | The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia | Soe Tjen Marching
   
• 26th March: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Opium's long shadow: from Asian revolt to global drug control | Steffen Rimner (Utrecht University)
   
• 25th March: Lecture | 'Give' constructions in Austronesian and Papuan Languages of eastern Indonesia a case of structural convergence | Francesca Moro & Hanna Fricke
   
• 19th March: IIAS Lunch Lecture | A Mantra for Elephants: Religion and Animal Modernity in Malaya | Dr. Faizah Binte Zakaria (IIAS)
   
• 21st-22nd March: Conference: Indo-European Research Colloquium @ Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
   
• 21st March: PhD Defence | The Waste of Society as Seen Through Women's Eyes: Waste, Gender, and National Belonging in Japan | Rebecca Tompkins
   
• 14th March: UKNA- Urban Asian Presentation Series | Local Heritage Making in Thailand: Circulation Adoption and Translation | Dr.Pijka Pumketkao-Lecourt (IPRAUS, Paris)
   
• 14th March: Book Presentation | Progressive Interpretation for Gender Justice in Islam | Faqihuddin Abdul Kodir
   
• 7th March: KITLV Seminar: Turning points in 20th century Asian typhoon politics | Gerry van Klinken

February

• 05 February: Embedding biography within larger issues of Chinese Diaspora studies: Nanyang Tycoon Lee Kong Chian, 1920s-1960s | Prof. Huang Jianli
   
• 05 February: Panel discussion | Indonesia: The road to the April 2019 elections
   
• 06 February: Modern Slavery in our backyard: Dutch shipbuilders, Polish shipyards and North Korean Slaves - Asser Institute
   
• 06 February: PhD Defence | Iber Kasehatan in Sukamiskin: Utilisation of the Plural Health Information and Communication System in the Sunda Region of West Java, Indonesia | Wina Erwina
   
• 13 February: Lecture | Taking China out of Premodern Global History (Part 2) | Naomi Standen
   
• 14 February: Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar | From long distance nationalism to development aid; Moluccans in the Netherlands connecting to their land of origin | Fridus Steijlen
   
• 15 February: Rudolf van Lier Lezing 2019 | Muzik di zumbi: Caribische stemmen in Nederlandse musea
   
• 19 February: Book Presentation | Opium’s long shadow: from Asian revolt to global drug control | Steffen Rimner
   
• 19 February: PhD Defence | The Acquisition of English Vowels by Javanese and Sundanese Native Speakers | Arum Perwitasari
   
• 21 February: Lecture | Female Islamic authority and cultures of professionalism in Southeast Asia | David Kloos
   
• 21 February: Conference | The Belt and Road Initiative Conference
   
• 21 February: Female Islamic Authority and Cultures of Professionalism in Southeast Asia | David Kloos
   
• 26 February: UKNA - Urban Asia presentation series Global Space and Local Spatiality in Premodern Kanchi, South India | Dr Emma Natalya Stein

January

• 17th January: PhD Defence | Between Fear and Power: Kompas, Indonesia's Most Influential Daily Newspaper | Wija Wijayanto
   
• 29 January: Indian Ocean Lecture Series | Law in Theory, Law in Practice. Legal Orientalism and French Jesuit Knowledge Production in India

December

• 04 December: Lecture | Sharia Embedded: the Bureaucratization of Islam in Brunei and Singapore | Dominik Müller
   
• 04 December: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Time of a Dangerous Interregnum in Thailand
   
• 04 December: Lecture & Book Presentation | China's Digital Nationalism | Florian Schneider
   
• 05 December: Comparative Philosophy Colloquium by Andrew Whitehead 'Philosophizing With Ikkyū Sōjun’s Wickedly Ridiculous Zen Poetry'
   
• 05 December: PhD Defence | Contributions to Chibchan Historical Linguistics Matthias Pache
   
• 06 December: CA-OS Digital Diverse Worlds Seminar: Communications and Media of Contemporary Social Movements
   
• 06 December: Lecture | The Structure and Development of an Indonesian Youth Language | Nurenzia Yannuar
   
• 07 December: Gravensteen Lecture | The Western as Method: Questions of Indigeneity, Race and Violence in the American and Japanese Frontiers | Prof. Takashi Fujitani
   
• 12 December: Lecture Visible Leisure, Invisible Demands: The Daily Life of Imperial Library Officials in 12th-13th century China | Huei-Lan Xiong
   
• 12 December: PhD Defence | Dark Horses of Business: Overseas Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Nordic Trade in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans| Kaarle Wirta
   
• 12 December: Visible Leisure, Invisible Demands: The Daily Life of Imperial Library Officials in 12th-13th century China | Huei-Lan Xiong
   
• 13 December: PhD Defence | Managing informal interaction. Stancetaking and alignment in Dutch and Indonesian | Maaike van Naerssen
   
• 18 December: : IIAS Lunch Lecture China’s First-Ever Military Base Abroad: Implications for Regional Peace and Security in the Turbulent Horn of Africa

November

• 1-2 November: Mapping and theorizing migration governance and diplomacy: Insights from the South-to-West Asian Migration Corridor
   
• 27 November:Lecute | Kanga: the ‘talking cloth of the Indian Ocean’
   
• 28 November: Lecture | The Urban Development of the City of Kaesong from the Koryŏ Period to 20th Century DPR Korea | Elisabeth Chabanol
   
• 28 November: Roundtable discussion: Doing Fieldwork in North Korea
   
• 29 November: IIAS Symposium | Symposium Water Heritage in Asian Cities
   
• 29 November: : VVIK lecture | A Passage to Dvīpāntara: An Imagined Naval Expedition from Ceylon to Laṅkā
   
• 29 November: VVIK Lecture; The How and Why of Sanskrit Poetry and My Sanskrit Poetic Contributions
   
• 30 November: Gravensteen Lecture | Gandhi in the Gallery: The Art of Disobedience | Prof. Sumathi Ramaswamy
   
• 30 November: 26TH GONDA LECTURE, BY MADHAV DESHPANDE FROM PĀṆINI TO PATAÑJALI AND BEYOND: TRANSFORMATIONS IN GRAMMATICAL PERSPECTIVES

September

• 27 September: PhD Defence | Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka
• 26 September: PhD Defence | The People in Between: Education, Desire, and South Koreans in Contemporary China
• 26 September: PhD Defence | A Transmission and Its Transformation: The Liqujing Shibahui Mantuluo in Daigoji
• 21 September: UBL/KITLV Symposium | Panji stories in manuscripts and performance
• 19 September: China Seminar | Reconfiguring Queer Chineseness: Hong Kong as Method
• 14 September: Asia Day – Indonesia
• 8 September: Conference - Performing Gender and Place in Early Modern and Modern Japan
• 4 September: KITLV Seminar | “Coarse”: Haunted female hybridity and clonophilia in visual culture | Lenore Bell

August

• 30 August: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Sacrifice, Love, and Rubber Sandals: Narrating War and Peace in Vietnam
• 16 August: KITLV Seminar | Reimagining Law and Empire: The International Red Cross in Indonesia and Indochina, 1945-1949 | Boyd van Dijk
• 2 August: KITLV Seminar | The Making of Military Modernization: Indonesian State Formation from 1950-1965 | Farabi Fakih

June 2018

• 28-30 June: Shared Taste Conference
• 28 June: Manchu Foundation | TSEAD, JO en de MANTSJOES
• 23 June: VVAK Lustrum Symposium ‘Collecting Asian Art in the Western World – Past, Present and Future’ 
• 21 June: KITLV Seminar | Piracy in Riau | Ursula Daxecker
• 21 June: VVIK lecture | A Passage to Dvīpāntara: An Imagined Naval Expedition from Ceylon to Laṅkā
• 14-15 June: Conference | Modalities of Displacement in South Asia
• 14 June: IIAS Workshop | New approaches for the study of residential segregation in India
• 12 June: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Local history, queer modernity: class and the subjective production of Hong Kong gay men
• 11-12 June: KITLV Farewell symposium for Gerry van Klinken | Citizenship in pre-colonial Asia

May 2018

• 29 May: DIAS Conference | Asiascape: Digital Asia Conference. Rethinking Communities in the Age of the Digital
• 25 May: LUCIR Lecture | Legacies of ‘Failed’ Projects - The Long-Term Influence of Japanese Aid to Southeast Asia
• 25 May: KITLV Seminar | Witnessing death: Photographing the Philippine drug war | Vicente Rafael
• 24 May: VVIK Lecture |  By Kunthea Chhom and Melinda Zulejka Fodor
• 23 May: Indian Ocean Lecture | The intersection of Migration, Mobility and Missionary Education over the 19th and 20th centuries: The Ceylonese Tamils of Malaya, 1790-1910
• 22-23 May: Chinese Internet Research Conference
• 17 May: VVI Lecture | Rights of the Relational Self: Law, Culture, and Injury in the Global North and South
• 17 May: Book presentation | Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty
• 16 May: Lecture | Conceptualising China's New Silk Road Initiative: What 'World'? What 'People'? What 'Dramas'?
• 16 May: China Seminar | Mining the Dragon Vein: Coal Extraction and Secular Power in Northeast China, 1895-1912
• 15 May: PhD Defence | Life on a Strip
• 14 May: Leiden Asia Centre | Partners under Pressure: The future of civil society in Dutch Human Rights Policy
• 8-9 May: Conference | Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-2000
• 7 May: Exhibition and Talk: Paradise Lost: Desire and Dissent in Contemporary Art from Kashmir
• 4 May: Debate | National Security and Human Rights: Japan’s Constitutional Revision Debate
• 4 May: GLASS Roundtable | Dislocation of the West
• 2 May: GLASS Public Lecture | Translation and Image – on the Schematism of Co-Figuration

April 2018

• 30 April: Deadline Call for Applications | Prague Summer Schools (PSS)
• 27 April: Call for Papers | Migrations and New Mobilities in Southeast Asia
• 26 April: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Governing mangroves: unique challenges for managing Tanzania's and Indonesia's coastal forests
• 25 April: PhD Defence | Political Legitimacy in Chinese History: The Case of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-535)
• 24 April: Leiden Asia Centre Conference | ‘Aging Japan’ Closing Conference
• 24 April: KITLV Seminar | A critical economic history of Indonesia: extraction, nationalism, and semiperipheral capitalism | Paul Gellert
• 19-20 April: IIAS Film Screening | Amitabh Bachchan: Re-imagining stardom in popular culture
• 19 April: Lecture | Contemporary Modernist Shi'i Reform in India: Notes from Mumbai and Kargil
• 18 April: MSAS Series | The Trusted Plate: Dilemmas, Contestations, Negotiations
• 18 April: Lecture | Manchu Roots: Imperial Politics, Image Discourse, and European Botanical Studies at the Qianlong Court
• 17 April: Masterclass | How can we study Islam in post-WWII Central Asia?
• 17 April: Lecture | Recent Developments in Nationalism Studies: Who is the New Benedict Anderson?
• 17 April: UKNA - Urban Asia presentation series | Turning derelict industrial sites into Cultural Creative Parks in Taipei, Taiwan
• 12 April: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Empty Home. Making a Home in Rapidly Urbanising China (film and lecture)
• 12 April: Lecture | Twilight of the Persianate: The Vernacularization of Central Asia (18th - early 20th Centuries)
• 10 April: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Company towns and marginality in eastern India
• 9 April: Deadline Call for Applications | EuroSEAS 2018 Workshop | ‘Listen to Your Eyes’: Multimedia Web-Based Storytelling for Researchers
• 6 April: Gravensteen Lecture | From Ship to Shore: Commercial Privilege and Material Culture in Eighteenth Century Yemen
• 5 April: KITLV Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar | The corrupt colony? Debates on colonial corruption and modern governance in France, Great Britain and the Netherlands around 1900 | Ronald Kroeze
• 1 April: Reminder | Round April 2018: Central Asia Fieldwork Grants for Leiden MA/MA Research Students

March 2018

• 28 March: Lecture | Why Remember? Memory and Practical Knowledge in Chinese Painting Texts
• 27 March: Lecture | The Maqomat: The Classic Music of Central Asia in times of political and cultural changes
• 21 March: Lecture | "Variability in State Policy towards ‘People Abroad’: An analysis of India’s approach to emigrants in the 21st century"
• 21 March: PhD Defence | Re-dating the Seven Early Chinese Christian Manuscripts
• 15 March: Deadline Call for Proposals | Africa-Asia, a New Axis of Knowledge - Second Edition
• 15 March: KITLV Lecture | Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar: How could this happen? | Gerry van Klinken
• 10 March: Manchu Foundation | DEBTELIN 2 event
• 8 March: KITLV Book launch & mini-symposium | Religion, ethics, failure | David Kloos & Daan Beekers
• 7 March: China Seminar | What's in a Name? Sub-elites of Western Han Chang'an
• 6 March: Lecture | Asia Current Affairs Forum (ACAF): China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Regional Responses and Implications
• 5-9 March: AMT | Asia on Screen: Human Rights & Environment
• 8 March: KITLV | Book launch & mini-symposium | Religion, ethics, failure | David Kloos & Daan Beekers
• 1 March: KITLV Seminar | Does business-group affiliation affect a firm’s performance? Evidence from Indonesia | Rizal Shidiq
• 1 March: Deadline Call for Applications | In situ graduate school. Delta cities: rethinking practices of the urban
• 1 March: Deadline AMT2 Research Funding (final round)
• 1 March: VVIK Lecture| Technical research on bronze images from Indonesia

February 2018

• 28 February: China Seminar | Misfit: The poetry of Xu Lizhi
• 27 February: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Ritualism and Sovereignty in Vedic India: the case of the mahavrāta rite
• 27 February: PhD Defence | Courtrooms of Conflict
• 23 February: IIAS Lunch Lecture | More than Just Nostalgia: Assembling the Living Archive in India's Silicon Valley
• 23 February: Masterclass | Governor-general Konstantin von Kaufmann
• 22 February: KITLV Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar | Van Heutsz hysteria then and now | Vilan van de Loo
• 22 February: Lecture | Paul’s Great Game: The Tsarist Plot to Invade British India
• 21 February: PhD Defence | Straightjacket: Same-Sex Orientation under Chinese Family Law — Marriage, Parenthood, Eldercare
• 21 February: Lecture | From oil interests to multilateral activism: China's role in Africa's security order
• 20 February: Deadline for proposals | Third conference of the Law and Development Research Network
• 20 February: Buddhist Studies Lectures | Imperial Preceptor Chos rgyal ’Phags pa Bla ma as a tantric adept in the Mongol Yuan dynasty
• 20 February: Lecture | Constructing Heritage in Early Soviet Central Asia
• 15 February: Modern South Asia Seminar | The Fabulous and The Bestial: Animal Imaginaries in Indian Cinema
• 14 February: KITLV Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar | “The older girls are very sweet to the little ones”: Affective relations in girls’ schools in the Netherlands Indies (c.1900-1940) | Kirsten Kamphuis
• 13 February: PhD Defence | "Entrapment by Consent": the Co-ethnic Brokerage System among Ethnic Yi Labor Migrants in China
• 6 February: UKNA Lunch Lecture | Restructuring urban space through urban mega-projects in transitional Chinese cities: The case of Pudong New Area, Shanghai
• 6 February: Leiden Asia Centre | Slaves to the System: North Korean Forced Labour on a Global Scale
• 2 February: Gravensteen Lecture | The Development of Security: Colonial Geneaologies
• 1 February: Deadline Conference Proposals | 'Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge' Second Edition
• 1 February: KITLV Seminar | Threads of imperialism: Colonial institutions and women’s work in the textile industry in the Dutch empire | Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
• 1 February: Deadline Call for Papers | Asiascape: Digital Asia Conference. Rethinking Communities in the Age of the Digital

January 2017

• 31 January: Deadline Call for Papers | THE RISE OF ASIA IN GLOBAL HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVE: What local and global changes in diversity of life?
• 31 January: Deadline Call for Abstracts | Continuity and Celebration of Living Heritage of China
• 31 January: First Deadline Application The Prague Summer Schools
• 25 January: VVIK Lecture | How to make a ‘Cōḻa bronze’? Theory and practice of bronze casting in South India and the Rijksmuseum research on Asian bronzes
• 18 January: Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar | The corrupt colony? Debates on colonial corruption and modern governance in France, Great Britain and the Netherlands around 1900
• 15 January: Deadline Call for Abstracts | Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-2000
   

December 2017

• 20 December: PhD Defence | Producing the local: Javanese performance on Indonesian television
• 13-15 December: 8th LUCIS Annual Conference | Islamic Visualities and In/Visibilities: Reimagining Public Citizenship?
• 14 December: Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar | President Duterte and his critics
• 14 December: LUCIS Annual Conference | Digital Duplicity: Piety, Scandal, and the (Un)making of Islamism in Indonesia
• 11 December: Leiden Indian Ocean Lecture | The Parsis of Gujarat in Indian Ocean trade in the 18th and 19th centuries | Ghulam A. Nadri
• 8 December: GLASS Public Lecture | Chin in the Popular Imagination: Images of China in North India at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• 7 December: Lecture | Buddhist Aspects of Health and Wellness in Premodern Chinese Tea Culture
• 7 December: Lecture | The Creation of a Tea Aesthetic in Tang Dynasty Verse
• 7 December: Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar | Constructing the Portrait of Southeast Asia: Pictorial and Thematic Commonplaces in 19th century Southeast Asia Photographs
• 6 December: Lecture | The relation between two truths in Nāgārjuna’s philosophy and in Mahāyāna sutras
• 6 December: GLASS Roundtable | Transregional Asia: Methods and Challenges
• 5 December: UKNA Lunch Lecture | Modelling queertopia: the miniature democratic city of King Vajiravudh
• 4 December: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Brand-name Capitalism and Professional Advertising in India
• 1 December: LIAS Symposium | Canonical Cultures Symposium

November 2017

• 30 November: Buddhist Studies Lectures | Accounts of the Buddha’s life in the Senior Kharoṣṭhī Manuscript collection and their counterparts in the art of Gandhāra and ancient India
• 30 November: Lecture | Principles, Practice & Pragmatism: Islamic Marriage Registration in Indonesia
• 28 November: Lecture | Textual and Material Evidence for Links between Vajrayāna and Nāth Yogis in Western India in the 11th to 15th centuries
• 28 November: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Ritual, Dance and the Magic of Heritage in Sri Lanka
• 24 November: 25th Gonda Lecture | Speaking (and Writing) of Secrets: The Esoteric in Classical Sanskrit Traditions
• 23 November: Lecture | Illustrating the history of Tamerlane
• 21 November: ACAF: Trump’s tour of Asia
• 20 November: Indian Ocean Lecture Series | Index of Arabs and Imperial Imaginaries
• 17 November: Lecture and Museum Visit | Looking For A Place To Bathe
• 16 November: Indian Ocean Lecture Series | Muharram practices and colonial histories at the cutting edge of a forgotten scroll
• 15 November: Deadline Call for Papers | Workshop Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights, and Speculation
• 15 November: Lecture | Philologists, forgers and disciples: The complexities of authorship in 18th-century China
• 15 November: Lecture | Politics after National Development: Explaining the Populist Rise under Late Capitalism
• 13 November: CHIRRS Lecture | UN Human Rights Politics at the Sunset of the French Empire
• 10 November: AMT Panel discussion | Looking back at the Leiden Asia Year, Studying in/at Leiden from an Asian Perspective
• 10 November: IIAS Masterclass | Between earth and water: Mainamati and Vikrampur in South and East Bengal
• 10 November: Call for Submissions | Framing Asia - a monthly screening of films and documentaries
• 9 November: Lecture | Social Codicology in Action: Observing an Indian Ismaili Library at work
• 9 November: IIAS Lunch Lecture The Development of the Museum in Indonesia and the New Order’s Legacy
• 3 November: Gravensteen Lecture | Spaces of Enslavement: Rethinking the Architecture of the Castle/Dungeon
• 1 November: Deadline Call for submissions IIAS National Master's Thesis Prize in Asian Studies 2017
• 1 November: China Seminar | On a Newly Discovered See Fish Album (Haiyu tu, 1736) and the Formation of Knowledge in the 18th Century China

October 2017

• 31 October: UKNA Lunch Lecture | State building, land tenure and urban development in Dili, Timor-Leste
• 19 October: KITLV Interdisciplinary symposium to commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of the Botanical Gardens in Bogor | ‘Plant Science at Bogor Botanical Gardens, 1817-2017’
• 18 October: China Seminar | Of Spongers, Sharpers, and Cannibal Eunuchs: The Swindle Story around the World
• 16 October: Lecture/Workshop | Workshop on the CPC’s 19th Party Congress
• 12 October: UKNA Lecture | Urban Development Dilemmas
• 12 October: Lecture | The Invisible Muslim: Dissent, Media and the Crisis of Secularism in India
• 10 October: PhD Defence | Visualizing the classics: Reading surimono and kyōka books as social and cultural history
• 10 October: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Art in Indonesia versus Indonesian Art: Problems in the Historiography of Indonesian Art
• 6 October: Gravensteen Lecture | Early Islamic art exhibits and sales in Paris (1865-1869)
• 5 October: Lecture | Bringing the Past to Life: Epic Narration in Central Asia
• 5 October: IIAS Lecture | In the dock: representations of the Khmer Rouge in trials (1979-present day) 
• 4 October: Lecture | Gandhinama: Mahatma Gandhi’s personal and public life
• 4 October: Lecture | Recasting Gendered Paradigms: An Indonesian Cleric and Muslim Women in the Malay World
• 4 October: China Seminar | You Must Create! Rethinking the Creativity Discourse in China

September 2017

• 28 September: PhD Defence The Morph-Syntax of Aspect in Xiāng Chinese
• 27 September: India in Leiden Lectures - The Indian Ocean World / Decolonization in South Asia
• 27 September: IIAS Asian Food Summer School public lecture and tasting | Soy Sauce: Taste and Beyond
• 25 September: IIAS Asian Food Summer School Monday Film | The Lunchbox
• 21 September: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Trafficking Asian children through international adoptions: a discussion on the making of "Shambala Junction"
• 20 September: Seminar "The Pamir languages: aspects of grammar"
• 20 September: India in Leiden Lecture - Mujarewali: Courtesans and their art of seduction
• 14 September: Lecture Dressing the Stans. Textiles and Dress from Central Asia by Dr. Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood
• 14 September: Leiden Asia Year - Grand opening Asian Library
• 13 September: Leiden Asia Year Graduate Conference: De-bordering Asia
• 13 September: China Seminar - Going South or going sour? Chinese pressure on Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy
• 13 September: India in Leiden Lecture - Buddhism in India
• 12 September: Peter Frankopan to open the new TRC exhibition Dressing the "Stans": Textiles, dress and jewellery from Central Asia
• 11 September: KITLV Lecture ‘Muslim Shrines in the Malay world: Scattered, Contentious, and Illuminating Inscriptions in the Landscape’ | Sumit Mandal
• 11 September: Presentation and exhibition "Hidden Gems in Indonesian Manuscripts from the KITLV and Leiden University Library Collections"
• 8 September: Gravensteen Lecture | Social Inequality in the World: Tombs and Burial Places
• 8 September: Lecture Towards a Transcultural History of Diplomacy by Matsukata Fuyuko (University of Tokyo)

June 2017

• 29 June: PhD Defence |Persatuan pemuda muslim se-eropa: identity,encouragement for giving, and network,1971-2009
• 27 June: KITLV Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar | Constitutionalism and Legal Change in Myanmar | Leiden Asia Year
• 22 June: VVIK Lecture | Kṛṣṇa, the butter-thief from North to South, Back and Forth
• 16 June: Conference | Tibetan Buddhists and the Law
• 15 June: Faculty Roundtable | Global Flows, local Agencies, significant Pasts: Perspectives in Museum History and contemporary Art
• 14 June: Masterclass | Alternative Archaeologies, multiple Agencies, hidden Narratives
• 9 June: Conference | The Launch of the new Language Learning Resource Centre
• 9 June: Gravensteen Lecture | Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings
• 8 June: IIAS Lunch Lecture | Alcohol on pre-Islamic Java (800-1500 CE). Cultural, social and ritual uses of an 'unholy' brew
• 7 June: IIAS Lecture | Channeling Ho Chi Minh: Portrait of two spirit mediums
• 7 June: KITLV | Framing Asia
• 6 June: Annual LeidenGlobal Lecture: Heritage on the Move
• 6 June: LeidenGlobal Graduate Workshop
• 6 June: IIAS Lecture | The Complexity and Structure of Modern & Contemporary Art History in Asia
• 2 June: Lecture Colloquim Reforming Democracy by Graham Parkes (Hawai'i)
• 1 June 2017-3 June 2017: Conference | Slavery and forced labour in Asia, c. 1250-c.1900: continuities and transformations in comparative perspective
• 1 June: PhD Defence | Reenchanting Buddhism via Modernizing Magic: Guru Wuguang of Taiwan’s Philosophy and Science of ‘Superstition’
• 1 June: VVI Lecture | Options for Preventing Land Conflict

May 2017

• 22-24 May: KITLV Adat law 100 years on: Towards a new interpretation? | Leiden Asia Year
• 23 May: UKNA Urban Asia presentation series Struggle for Urban Space: Politics of Slums in India’s top Smart City, Bhubaneswar
• 23 May: LIPS 2017 Conference Tradition and Innovation in Indian Philosophy
• 17-18 May: Conference Buddhist Studies in Leiden
• 13 May: KITLV Stories and Storytelling in the Indonesian Archipelago | Leiden Asia Year
• 10 May: IIAS Seminar City & Society: the care of the self
• 3 May: PhD Defence Andrea Giolai: Decentering Gagaku
• 2 May: IIAS Lunch Lecture Gods Imprisoned. Religious Economy and Heritage Making in Modern Rajasthan

April 2017

• 21 April: China’s Global Economy Power: Towards a New Era?
• 20 April: IIAS Lunch Lecture Tackling the growing flood risk in the Pearl River Delta: urban climate change adaptation with Chinese characteristics?
• 18 April: MSAS Lecture Methamorphoses of Media: Between the Law and the Street in Tamil Politics
• 12 April: Public lecture Buddhist Studies: In search of Buddhist Western Tibet
• 11 April: KITLV Framing Asia | Film screening on on popcultures and subcultures | Leiden Asia Year
• 11 April: KITLV The French memory of the Indochina War (1945—1954) | Leiden Asia Year
• 11 April: Frederik van Oudenhoven presents the documentary film Wisdom of the Mountains
• 11 April: IIAS Book presentation Held's History of Sumbawa. An Annotated Translation
• 11 April: KITLV Walking with Indonesia (until 1 October)| Leiden Asia Year
• 11 April: IIAS and Shared Taste workshop Global Jars: Asian Containers as (Trans)Cultural Enclosures
• 6 April: Seminar Reflections on India and China: From Civilisation to Climate Change
• 6 April: VVIK Lecture Flowers, daggers, and bitten lips: citrakāvya in Sanskrit literature
• 6 April: PhD Defence An Incomplete Inquiry: Reading the Filial Piety Stories through Lacan, or the Other Way Around…

March 2017

• 31 March: Gravensteen Lecture Escape from Rome: The Death of an Empire and the Birth of the Modern West
• 30 March: Deadline final Call For Applications Prague Summer School
• 30 March: Lecture Quranic Women's Schools in China’s Little Mecca
• 23 March: Lecture Becoming Global Hindus: Hindu Nationalist Training Camps and the Indian Diaspora
• 23 March: IIAS Lunch Lecture Tackling the growing flood risk in the Pearl River Delta: urban climate change adaptation with Chinese characteristics?
• 21 March: PhD Defence The "characterization" of Japan: From Merchandising to Identity
• 20-22 March: Two Lectures on Japanese and Cross-Cultural Philosophy 20 March: IIAS/LAC/Shared Tasted Project Deadline Call for Applications Summer School Asian Food: History, Anthropology, Sociology
• 17 March: LUCIS Annual Lecture | Sharia, Law, and China
• 17 March: IIAS Symposium Collecting Asia
• 15 March: Lecture Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam
• 14 March: PhD Defence Emancipation in Postmodernity: Political Thought in Japanese Science Fiction Animation
• 14 March: KITLV Framing Asia | Film screening on disaster and the failing state | Leiden Asia Year 
• 9 March IIAS Lunch Lecture Protectors of the Sea: Piracy and Economies of Capture in the Indian Ocean
• 9 March KITLV/Amnesty International Seminar The Politics of Islam in Indonesia: Jakarta elections and beyond | Leiden Asia Year
• 8 March: Lecture Shifting borders between the Indian Ocean and the Himalayan world
• 8 March: China Seminar 'Little India' in China: Indian Traders in a Chinese Fabric Market
• 6 March: Masterclass Reconstructing Urban Landscapes from Texts: Prospects and Problems
• 2 March: Lecture Sino-Arab Cultural Exchanges under Cultural Policies of the Arab League
• 2 March: Award Ceremony IIAS National Master’s Thesis Prize in Asian Studies 2016
• 2 March: KITLV Seminar Being harmed while doing good: Working in and against a moral atmosphere of ‘development as a share’ | Leiden Asia Year
• 1 March: Application Deadline Central Asia Fieldwork Grants

February 2017

• 28 February: Lecture An Afghan Prince at Queen Victoria’s Court
• 28 February: IIAS Lunch Lecture Opening up cartographic studies to insights from Global History: The case of Japan
• 28 February: Lecture Border Consolidation in Liaoning: From Chen Yun to Xi Jinping
• 23 February: KITLV Shaming the State: Piety, Pornography, and Celebrity Preachers in Indonesia | Leiden Asia Year
• 23 February: Lecture The Tear-Drenched Tumen: The Psychological Impact of Border Changes Depicted in Zhang Lu’s Tumen River (2011) 21-24 February: Reframing Cinema: A Festival of Neo-Realist Classics from India
• 17 February: VVIK Lecture Śobhākareśvara on Metaphor without Similarity
• 16 February: KITLV Film studies in Indonesia: An experiment of a new generation | Leiden Asia Year
• 9 February: Opening Conference of the Leiden Asia Year: The Netherlands, China and Europe
• 7 February: IIAS Lunch Lecture Soaking Ecologies: swamps, law and the East India Company in Bengal
• 7 February: Lecture The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976
• 7 February: KITLV Framing Asia | Filmscreening on transgender issues in Indonesia
• 3 February: Gravensteen Lecture | Rationality, Alienation, and the Political Enlightenment: Themes from Gandhi
• 2 February: PhD Defence Retrieving the Past Glory: Social Memory, Transnational Networks and Christianity in Contemporary China

January 2017

• 31 January: Deadline The Prague Summer Schools
• 31 January: Call for papers | Conference ‘Adat Law 100 years later: Towards a new interpretation?’
• 31 January: PhD Defence Cards of A Party Regime: Controlled Election and Mobilized Representation in Chinese Local Congresses
• 27-28 January: Conference Global Regionalism
• 11 January-14 January: Second Beijing-Leiden Conference in Philosophy  

December 2016

• 20 December: IIAS Lunch Lecture South-Atlantic fishing in Morocco in the framework created by Japanese cooperation
• 15 December: Deadline AMT2 Research Funding 
• 13 December: IIAS Lecture T2F-A Safe Haven for Karachites
• 12 December: IIAS Conference Ocean of Law II: Islamic Legal Crossings in the Indian Ocean World
• 9 December: Lecture Becoming a ‘Capable’ Man in China 
• 8-12 December: KITLV Conference 'From Clients to Citizens? Citizenship in Democratising Indonesia'
• 8 December: IIAS Annual Lecture After the Silk Roads: Asia, Europe, and the Discovery of the Americas
• 7 December: IIAS Lunch Lecture Rings of Desire - Beijing as an Ordinary City
• 6 December: KITLV Film screening ‘Pulau Buru Tanah Air Beta (Buru Island My Homeland)’ 
• 1 December: LUCIS-Gravensteen Lecture | Wen-chin Ouyang

November 2016

• 30 November: Deadline Applications Sarawak Museum Campus Fellowships 2017 | Malaysia
• 30 November: IIAS Call for papers- Globalized Thailand? Connectivity, Conflict and Conundrums of Thai Studies
• 30 November: PhD Defence Rosalien van der Poel-Made for Trade-Made in China
• 30 November: Lecture Political Risk Assessment with Chinese Characteristics: Venezuela and Beyond 
• 30 November: MSAS Lecture The ‘Muslim area’ as a regional centre: Finding a way out of the ‘ghetto’ in scholarship of Indian Muslims 
• 30 November: Lecture The architectural landscape of the city of Khiva (Khorezm). From medieval town to the theatrical scenery of "Eastern cities"
• 29 November: Symposium Chinese export paintings: studies and interpretations
• 28 November: Symposium Global Food History
• 28 November: ‘Nationalism’, ‘internationalism’ and ‘collective memory’ in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia
• 28 November: Masterclass Epigraphy of Khorezm. Arab, Turkish and Persian texts
• 25 November: IIAS Workshop China-Africa From Below: Intimacy, Desire and (Mis-)Communication 
• 25 November: Lecture Gender Inequality in China 
• 25 November: IIAS Gonda Lecture Monuments of Hope, Gloom, and Glory in the Age of the Hunnic Wars (484-534)
• 24 November: VVIK Lecture The Indian Temple -- Production, Place and Patronage 
• 23-25 November: LUCIS 7th Annual Conference: Memory and Commemoration in Islamic Central Asia
• 23 November: China Seminar How Did East Asians Become Yellow? 
• 23 November: IIAS Outreach PLACEBO - Film screening and conversation with director Abhay Kumar
• 22 November: IIAS Lecture Consonant doubling in Khmer words: Is it inspired by Pāṇini’s aphorisms?
• 21 November: Monumental epigraphy of Transoxiana in the Timurid period: poets, craftsmen and patrons 17 November: LUCIS Lecture Friendship among Women in Arabic and Chinese Literatures
• 11 November: Lecture Localism in Early 19th-century Japan: Literature, Book Illustrations and Prints
• 11 November: Lecture Dokdo/Takeshima Territorial Dispute and Social Activism in Japan and Korea
• 10 November: Ideologies vs. historiographies in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia
• 10 November: North Korean exiles speaking in public
• 9 November: China Seminar Fandom Publics: The Internet and New Social Formation in China
• 8 November: KITLV Seminar by Todd Wassel | ‘Political, iterative, culturally sensitive security and justice reform in Timor-Leste’
• 7 November: VVI Conference Seminar: Academic research and evidence-based policies in Timor-Leste and Indonesia
• 4 November: Film Screening The World of Us
• 3 November: KITLV Seminar by Grace Chin | ‘Female virtue in Peranakan Chinese writings in colonial Java’
• 1 November: IIAS Lunch Lecture Caterpillar fungus boom in pastoral Tibet. What remains?

October 2016

• 31 October: Deadline Call For Panels EuroSEAS Conference 2017 (University of Oxford)
• 27 October: PhD Defence Priya Swamy-'Let us Live as Hindus': Narrating Hindu Identity through Temple Building Processes in Amsterdam Zuidoost (1989-2015)
• 27 October: KITLV Seminar by Ariel Heryanto | Decolonializing Indonesia: The Left and Indonesia Calling 
• 26 October: PhD Defence Wenxing Wang-A Social History of Painting Inscriptions in the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644)
• 26 October: MSAS Lecture Pregnant Males, Barren Mothers and Religious Transvestism: Transcending Gender in Bengali Heterodox Lineages
• 21 October: Lecture Capturing papered life at the crossroad of socio-legal studies, ethnography and medical regulation
• 21 October: IIAS Book launch Gandhi's Outstanding Leadership
• 20 October: IIAS UKNA-Urban Asia presentation series-Kolkata in her maiden collection of shorts - GARIAHAT JUNCTION 18 October: IIAS Lunch Lecture Reimagining Beauty and the Beast: social stratification through human - animal metamorphosis at the Sino-Russian border
• 20 October: Lecture Tomoko Ako-Gongming shehui (Civil society) and the prospect of democratization in China
• 20 October: KITLV Seminar by Stéphanie Benzaquen | ‘Images of Khmer Rouge atrocities, 1975-2015’ 
• 20 October: Leiden Asia Centre Techtalk Cross-cultural business: Asia
• 19 October: China Seminar Evolution and Ethics and the Transformation of Knowledge in Modern China 
• 12 October: Gravensteen Lecture | Indigenous Knowledge: how far from Marcgraf are we now?
• 11 October: LIAS- An informal roundtable discussion with Prof. Li ZHANG (University of California, Davis)
• 11 October: IIAS Filmscreening Tempo Chalak
• 10 October: Lecture by Beatrice Penati- Bitter truths: Common-pool resources, industrialisation, and the global history of Central Asian wormwood
• 7 October: IIAS Masterclass Sanskrit culture on the Silk Road: Buddhist paintings at Kucha 
• 6 October: IIAS Lecture Buddhist Stories Carved in Stone: On the Techniques of Narrative Representation in Ancient India

September 2016

• 30 September: MSAS Modern South Asia Seminar-South Asia Social
• 29 September: KITLV Seminar by Anton Aliabbas | ‘Military Politics during Indonesia’s Dwikora Operation (Konfrontasi, 1963-67)’ 
• 22 September: KITLV Seminar by James Scambary | ‘The political economy of conflict: East Timor 2000-2016’
• Devin DeWeese is the Central Asia Visiting Professor in September 2016

June 2016

• 2 June: IIAS Workshop Changing Governance in Asia
• 2 June: Lecture Kāman, Kāmyaka & Kāmyakeśvara: Material Religion in Early Medieval Rajasthan (8th-10th century CE)
• 2 June: KITLV Seminar by Ana Dragojlovic | ‘Violent histories and embodied memories: Affectivity of ‘The Look of Silence’
• 3 June | Gravensteen Lecture | The Bandung Spirit in the Geopolitics of Translation
• 3 June: Poetry as Resistance: Islam and Ethnicity in Postcolonial Pakistan
• 3 June: Lecture The Śrīvaiṣṇava Commentarial and Sectarian Literatures in Tamil-Sanskrit Maṇipravāḷam
• 7 June: IIAS Lunch Lecture Pavilion desire. India at the Venice Biennale in contemporary times
• 9 June: IIAS Lunch Lecture Planetary Urbanization and Human Flourishing – Alternative Concepts of the Future of Cities in Asia
• 9-11 June: Conference Waste in Asia Conference
• 15 June: Deadline AMT2 Research Funding
• 15 June: KITLV Workshop ‘Violence, displacement and muslim movements in Southeast Asia’
• 16 June: Book Presentations "China's Long Quest for Democracy" & "Evolving Identity Politics and Cross-Strait Relations: Bridging Theories of International Relations and Nationalism"
• 16 June: 8th Southeast Asia Update with focus on Regionalism, Climate Change, and Religious Renewal
• 22-24 June: Conference Interfaith Love: Love, Sex and Marriage in the Islamicate World from the Middle Ages to the Present
• 23 June: IIAS Workshop Indian medicine: Between state and village
• 28 June: PhD Defence Kathryn Emerson Transforming Wayang For Contemporary Audiences: Dramatic Expression in Purbo Asmoro’s Style, 1989-2015
• 28 June: PhD Defence Audrey Heijns Translating China: Henri Borel (1869-1933)
• 29 June: PhD Defence Mei-Wen Chen Gendered Ritual and Performative Literacy: Yao Women, Goddesses of Fertility, and the Chinese Imperial State
• 30 June: IIAS Conference Lanes and Neighbourhoods in Cities in Asia

Archive

May 2016 
3 May: UKNA Seminar Citizen Initiatives for Urban Heritage Preservation: The Case of Kad Kong Ta Neighborhood, Lampang, Thailand
4 May: Hu Han (Leiden) A Sociolinguistic Study on Rhoticity in Beijing Mandarin
11 May: KITLV Seminar Citizenship before orientalism: Decolonising postcolonial societies
17 May: GLASS Lecture | Diffracted Histories and Colonial Recursions in these Times
17 May: IIAS Lunch Lecture Jaina epistemologists in the debating hall of classical India
18 May: Wang Man (Leiden) Experimental approach to language production of Mandarin Chinese
18 May: GLASS Masterclass | Affective States: The Politics and History of Sentiment
19 May: GLASS Roundtable | Blind Spots: Seeing Race in the 21st Century
19-20 May: New law, new villages: Changing rural Indonesia
23-25 May: Digital Disruption in Asia: Methods and Issues
25 May: Book presentation: Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran
26-27 May: The Timurid Period: Cultural Production, Exchange and Legacies
26-28 May: IIAS Conference Heritage as Aid and Diplomacy in Asia

April 2016 
1 April: Gravensteen Lecture | Cities of the Settler Revolution: Is Urban Conflict and Segregation in the USA, South Africa, Algeria, and Israel Connected?
6 April: Zou Ting (Leiden) Processing of lexical tones by Dutch learners of Mandarin
14 April: Demographic Transformation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: Causes, consequences and future prospects
15 April: The Emergence of the Himalayas as a Sacred Landscape
20 April: Wu Juan (Leiden) Contact-Induced Grammatical Creations: Through the Lens of Chinese Buddhist Translations
21 April: New Religious Nationalism in Chinese Societies
21 April: KITLV Seminar by Gerry van Klinken, Myanmar: The contentious politics of anti-Muslim scapegoating
22 April: The disputed issue of the origin of noodles
22 April: KITLV/VVI Lezingenmiddag ‘Democratie en ‘rule of law’ in Indonesië en de Nederlandse Cariben: Intenties en praktijk’
22 April: First Sino-Dutch Forum on Cultural Heritage LeidenAsiaCentre

March 2016
2 March: Yang Yang (Leiden) On the syntax – prosody interface of wh-indeterminates in Mandarin
5 March: A Thousand Years of Jars – The Collection of Stoneware Jars in the Princessehof Museum
10 March: Wei-tien Dylan Tsai (Tsing Hua University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan) Analyticity and Operator Binding in Chinese
11 March: Deadline for abstract submission New law, new villages: Changing rural Indonesia
11 March: Cyberbabe, Cybervamp, Consumption Celebrity: Anni Baobei and the Web-based Spectacle of Female Self-Fashioning in Twenty-first Century China
14-16 March: Language, Power and Identity in Asia: Creating and Crossing Language Boundaries
15 March: Film screening Flowers of Freedom
22 March: The Road from Hainan
23 March: Lin Jing (UvA) Non-referentiality in child Mandarin
23 March: Plus ca change, plus ca reste la meme chose? Evaluating change and continuity in Modi's policy towards Israel

February 2016 
5 February: Gravensteen Lecture by Robin Derby (UCLA)
11-12 February 2016: Reading Contemporary India Through the Cinematic Lens
18 February 2016: Encounters after the Soviet collapse: Chinese presence in the former Soviet Union border zone
26 February: AMT-CCK Series Lecture by Professor Dr. Paul Bailey

January 2016 
27 January: Launch LeidenAsiaCentre

December 2015
1 December: Deadline AMT2 Research Funding
1 December: IIAS Lunch Lecture Between Land and Sea: Secessionist Movements and an Indian Ocean Imaginary in Coastal Kenya
7 December: Book launch Rethinking the Triangle: Washington-Beijing-Taipei
8 December: Discussion on nationalism in East Asia with Ian Buruma
10 December 2015 | Special Lecture by Ven. Xuecheng
10 December: ‘Let us live as Hindus’: Temple building processes and the articulation of ‘Hindu hurt’ in Amsterdam Southeast
11 December: Bright colours of life in Kazakhstan
11 December |Gravensteen Lecture | The Story of What Didn't Happen: Global Literature among the Interdisciplines
14-15 December: Cross-border Exchanges and the Shadow Economy
15 December: IIAS Lunch Lecture The Forming of World Subjects: On Promoting Intersubjective Anthropologies Between China and Southeast Asia
16 December: Award Ceremony IIAS National Master's Thesis Prize
17 December 2015| VVIK Indology Lecture on Pāṭaliputra, by Dr. Daniela De Simone