[IIAS] The Update | Sept 2022 - New events (online and in-person), podcasts & guest-blogs, meet Laura Erber, and more.

News, events, podcasts, guest-blogs. Read about the Chair of Taiwan Studies and Meet Laura Erber!

View this email in your browser Dear Mr Updtes, please join our events, in person or online. You can find new guest blogs on 'The blog' and new podcasts on 'The Channel'. The Chair of Taiwan Studies has been continued, and we are pleased to introduce Laura Erber as our new coordinator of the IIAS Fellowship Programme. You still apply for a fellowship this year: the next application deadline is 1 October. Asian Heritages IIAS/Rijksmuseum Annual Lecture Piety and devotion. 16th-century murals in the Virabhadra Temple in Lepakshi, India Speaker: Prof. Anna L. Dallapiccola 7 Oct 2022, 15:30 - 17:00 p.m. Amsterdam Time (CEST) Venue: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam   IIAS/Leiden University Masterclass Seventeenth-century depictions of sacred sites in the Kailasanathar Temple at Nattam, Tamil Nadu Teacher: Prof. Anna L. Dallapiccola 6 Oct 2022, 15:15 - 17:00 p.m. Amsterdam Time (CEST) Venue: IIAS, Leiden, The Netherlands Global Asia Webinar - IIAS Book Talks Series Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness Speaker: Birgit Abels (author) 26 Oct 2022, 12:00 - 13:30 p.m. Amsterdam Time (CEST) Asian Cities (Hybrid) Book Launch River Cities in Asia. Waterways in Urban Development and History Speakers (editors):  Rita Padawangi, Paul Rabé, Adrian Perkasa 27 Oct 2022, 12:00 - 13:30 p.m. Amsterdam Time (CEST) Venue: IIAS, Leiden, The Netherlands & Online IIAS Fellowship Programme IIAS invites outstanding scholars to apply for a Fellowship for an individual research project in the Humanities or Social Sciences. Next application deadline: 1 Oct 2022. Meet Laura Erber, the New Coordinator of the IIAS Fellowship Programme "Coordinating a fellowship programme that fully assumes its critical responsibility in a world in need of multidimensional knowledge is an inspiring challenge." Chair of Taiwan Studies at Leiden University and IIAS continued The Chair of Taiwan Studies (one or two semesters at a time) is continued for the next three years under a new agreement signed by IIAS, Leiden University and the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China (Taiwan). New fellows Aditi Mukherjee Displaceability and citizenship: temporary people at the urban margins of West Bengal Cluster: Asian Cities, Global Asia Mariko Murata Decolonisation and the deconstruction of Orientalism in museums in the Netherlands: An analysis through collections and representations of Japan and Asia Cluster: Global Asia Martina Palladino The Śākadvīpīya Brāhmanas in India: texts, rituals, sociocultural history Cluster: Asian Heritages Gleb Sharygin Unique features of the Māyājāla-sūtra and its meaning in the light of its quotations and citations Cluster: Asian Heritages Joshua Stenberg Chinese performance in late colonial Dutch East Indies Cluster: Asian Heritages, Global Asia Lisa Richaud Casual assemblies: afterlives of socialist performance culture in Beijing public parks The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a global research organisation and knowledge exchange platform based in Leiden, The Netherlands. IIAS initiates and supports interdisciplinary and trans-sectoral programmes that engage and connect partners in Asia and the rest of the world. The Institute seeks to promote a more contextualised understanding of Asian realities today and pioneers new approaches to the study of Asia in a changing global environment. It does so through an array of activities in the realms of research, education, publications, dissemination, network development, institutional support, and services to the community inside and outside academia. IIAS | P.O. Box 9500 | 2300 RA | Leiden | www.iias.asia | Contact Copyright © 2022 International Institute for Asian Studies, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to our mailing list at https://iias.asia Update preferences | Unsubscribe from this list | Forward this message Our mailing address is: International Institute for Asian Studies Rapenburg 59 Leiden, 2311 GJ Netherlands Add us to your address book