[IIAS] The Update | Oct 2024

Join our events at our new address or the online Academic Ontologies conversation on film as research strategy, check our (extended) deadlines.

View this email in your browser Dear Mr Updtes, on October 8th, IIAS relocated to a new address. We invite you to attend our first lecture in our new building on October 24th and other upcoming events. You can participate online in the 4th Academic Ontologies session on November 19th, which is dedicated to film as a research strategy. We still welcome proposals for the Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge Conference Festival (Dakar, Senegal, from June 11th to 14th, 2025) until October 25th. IIAS moves to a new building New visiting address IIAS has relocated to the newly opened Herta Mohr building of Leiden University. Our new offices are on Witte Singel 27A, Leiden. Events Guest Lecture Hong Kong Jockey Club: sports, gambling, charity & elite network Speaker: Pui Chi Lai (Leiden University) Date & time: 24 Oct 2024, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CEST Venue: IIAS Conference Room, Leiden, The Netherlands IIAS-UKNA - Urban Asia Panel Discussion Urbanisation beyond Dichotomies? Making Sense of Complexity in Contemporary Urban Practices Speakers: Hoai Anh Tran (Malmö University);  Stephen Marr (Malmö University); Anitra Baliga (Erasmus University) Date & Time: 12 Nov. 2024, 15:00- 17:00 CET Drinks afterwards Venue: IIAS Conference Room, Leiden, The Netherlands Guest Lecture The Dravidian-Tamil Counter Public Sphere: Reading Rooms and the Politics of Mobilisation in Tamil Nadu Speaker: Vignesh Rajahmani (KITLV, Leiden, The Netherlands) Date & Time: 14 Nov. 2024, 11:00 a.m.- 12:00 noon CET Venue: IIAS Conference Room, Leiden, The Netherlands IIAS-HAB Conversation Series (online) Academic Ontologies: Film/making as Research Strategy Speakers: Rachel Thompson (IIAS Fellow); Sarah Niazi (IIAS Fellow); Ling Zhang (State University of New York, Purchase College, IIAS Fellow) Date & Time: 19 Nov. 2024, 15:30 - 17:00 p.m. CET Venue: Online via Zoom Call for Proposals (extended deadline) Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge Conference-Festival 3 Conference Venue, Date: Dakar, Senegal, 11-14 June 2025 Organisation: Cheikh Anta Diop University; Collective Africa-Southeast Asia Platform (CASAP); IIAS Proposals may be in English, French or Portuguese CfP Extended Deadline: 25 October 2024 Call for Papers LDE PhD Symposium 'Water & Cities: An Interrogation of Methods' Conference Venue and Date: TU Delft, The Netherlands, 21 November 2024 CfP Deadline: 31 October 2024 New Fellows Adrian Perkasa The Cultural Network: Intellectuals, Java, and Burma from late colonial to the early decolonization decades Cluster: Asian Cities, Asian Heritages Laura Bui Knowledge making on crime and justice Cluster: Asian Cities, Asian Heritages The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a global research organisation and knowledge exchange platform based in Leiden, The Netherlands. Across multiple international platforms and programmes, IIAS promotes critical, humanistic, and collaborative work on, with, in, and beyond Asia. The Institute's academic strategy coalesces around five interrelated core priorities: Research, Education & Pedagogy, Civic Engagement, Network Building, and Communication & Dissemination. IIAS | P.O. Box 9500 | 2300 RA | Leiden | www.iias.asia | Contact Copyright © 2024 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