Jochem van den Boogert is a lecturer at International Studies

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Research

My research focuses on the academic study and representation of culture, religion, and tradition - specifically in Southeast Asia. It draws upon religious studies, history, philosophy, and comparative science of cultures. Broadly speaking I am interested in how the cultures of Southeast Asia came to be understood and studied from a Western cultural perspective and in the effect of this on Southeast Asian self-reflection. Main topics: the process of conceptualisation of 'Javanese Islam' and 'Burmese Buddhism', alternative descriptions of Javanese traditions, Southeast Asian alternatives to tolerance.

Teaching

I do most of my teaching at the Programme BA International Studies.

Lectures

‘Culture: South and Southeast Asia' (BA)

'Migrations and Tolerance in a Globalised World'(BA)

'Lessons in (in)tolerance: a Comparison of Myanmar and Java' (BA)

'Nation, Community, Self' (BA)

'Theories and Issues in Area Studies' (ResMA)

'Politics of Culture in Southeast Asia' (MA)

Seminars

'Introduction to International Studies' (BA)

'Introduction to Area Studies' (BA)

‘Culture: South and Southeast Asia' (BA)

‘History: South and Southeast Asia' (BA)

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CV

2016 - now: Lecturer, Leiden University, BA International Studies

2015 - now: Lecturer, Leiden University, LIAS
2018: Research Fellow, Asia Culture Center (Gwangju, Korea). Research into religious tolerance and intolerance in Java and Myanmar

2014 - 2015: Teaching and Research Assistant (O.O.M.), Leiden University, LIAS
2011 - 2015: PhD student, Leiden University, LIAS
2001 - 2005: Affiliated Researcher, Ghent University, Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap
1998: Master after Master in Cultural Sciences (cum laude), Vrije Universiteit Brussel
1997: Master in Philosophy (cum laude), Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Publications