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November 2002
19–22 November 2002
Shanghai, China
‘Re-negotiating the Politics of the Public
and the Private – Gender and Politics
in China and the Nordic Countries’
Contact: Dr Cecilia Milwertz, (NIAS)
Milwertz@nias.ku.dk
Dr Pauline Stoltz, (Malmö University)
Pauline.Stoltz@ts.mah.se
Dr Qi Wang, (Aarhus University)
QW@ps.au.dk
22 November 2002
Leiden, the Netherlands
‘SoY (South of Yangtze) Linguistics
Colloquium’
Convenor: Dr Rint Sybesma
r.p.e.sybesma@let.leidenuniv.nl
22–24 November 2002
New Delhi, India
‘Globalization, Development and
Human Rights’, IPSA/Human Rights
Research Committee Conference
Organizer: Institute for World Congress
on Human Rights (IWCOHR)
Contact: Prof. K.P. Saksena
iwcohr@ndf.vsnl.net.in or
iwcohr@vsnl.com
25 November 2002
London, United Kingdom
‘Impulsive Shakespeare: Prosody in
Japanese Translations of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream’, seminar
Information: AHRB Centre for Asian and
African Literatures at UCL and SOAS
ahrblit@soas.ac.uk
www.soas.ac.uk/literatures
26 November 2002
Canberra, ACT, Australia
‘National Integration and Regionalism
in Indonesia and Malaysia (NIRIM):
Past and Present’
Convenors: Minako Sakai, John Walker
and Glenn Banks (University of New
South Wales at ADFA)
Contact: Susan Cowan
s.cowan@adfa.edu.au
http://idun.itsc.adfa.edu.au/SOE/
nirim.html
27 November 2002
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
‘Contemporary Identity: Indian Writers
and their View on the Challenges of
Contemporary Identity’
Invited writers: Shauna Singh Baldwin,
5–8 December 2002
Namche Bazar, Khumbu, Nepal
‘People, Park, and Mountain Ecotourism
at Namche Bazaar (Khumbu,
Nepal)’, the Namche Conference
Organizers: Bridges-PRTD and the
Laboratory of Geo-ecology, Hokkaido
University (Prof. Teiji Watanabe)
Contact: Seth Sicroff, Director
Bridges
namche@bridges-prtd.com or
nc@bridges-prtd.com.
www.bridges-prtd.com
5–8 December 2002
Leiden, the Netherlands
‘Chewing the West: Occidental Narratives
as Nation-Building Nutrition
Selected and Digested by Asian and
African Literatures in Indigenous
Languages’
IIAS Workshop
Convenor: Dr Doris Jedamski
Information: iias@let.leidenuniv.nl
8 December 2002
Melbourne, Australia
‘The Uses of Queer Asia: Research,
Methods and Diasporic Intellectuals’
University of Melbourne
Contact: Fran Martin
F.A.Martin@latrobe.edu.au
10–12 December 2002
Xiamen, China
‘Labour Migration in an Earlier Phase
of Global Restructuring’, Sephis
Workshop
Organizer: Sephis Programme (International
Institute for Social History)
For further information:
www.sephis.org
12–13 December 2002
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
ASSR Conference on Corruption
Contact: Mathijs Pelkmans
pelkmans@pscw.uva.nl
12–14 December 2002
Leiden, the Netherlands
‘Mega-Urbanization in Asia: Directors
of Urban Change in a Comparative
Perspective’, ASEF-Asia Alliance workshop
Convenors: Dr Freek Colombijn (Leiden
University), Dr Peter Nas (Leiden
University) and Prof. J. Silas
(Institur Teknologi, Indonesia)
Information: iias@let.leidenuniv.nl
9 January 2003
Delhi, India
‘City One’, South Asia’s First conference
on the Urban Experience
Sarai Programme, Centre for the
Study of Developing Societies
Contact: Ravi Sundaram
ravis@sarai.net
17–19 January 2003
Leiden, the Netherlands
‘Historical Consciousness and the
Future of Modern China and Japan:
Conservatism, Revisionism, and
National Identity’
IIAS sponsored workshop
Convenors: Prof. Rikki Kersten and
Prof. Axel Schneider
r.kersten@let.leidenuniv.nl
a.schneider@let.leidenuniv.nl or
February 2003
8 February 2003
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
‘Solidarity: Addressing Socio-Economic
Disparities in South Asian America’
Contact: Ruchika Budhraja (Yale
University)
www.yale.edu
10 February 2003
Jerusalem, Israel
‘The Russo-Japanese War & the 20th
Century: An Assessment from a Centennial
Perspective’
Contact: Dr Rotem Kowner (University
of Haifa)
kowner@research.haifa.ac.il
14–15 February 2003
Berkeley, CA, USA
18th Annual South Asia Conference
Information: University of California,
Berkeley
csasasst@uclink.berkeley.edu
http://ias.berkeley.edu/southasia
17–21 February 2003
Calcutta, India
‘Contemporary perspectives on identity
and territory in India’, 6th AJEI Workshop
Contact: Remy Delage and Zoé E.
Headley
ateliers@ajei.org
Information and online registration:
www.ajei.org
20–22 February 2003
London, United Kingdom
‘Culture, Colonisation, and Decolonisa-
Annual Meeting 2003
Contact: Karen Fricke, Conference
manager, Association of Asian Studies
kfricke@aasianst.org
www.aasianst.org/annmtg.htm
31 March 2003
Tübingen, Germany
‘3rd International Symposium on
Ancient Chinese Books and Records on
Science and Technology: Historical
Foundations and New Ideas’
Seminar für Sinologie und Koreanistik,
Universität Tübingen
Contact: Prof. Hans Ulrich Vogel
sinologie@uni-tuebingen.de
April 2003
3–5 April 2003
New York, NY, USA
‘History, National Identity, and Political
Order in the New Eastern Europe and
Eurasia’, 8th Annual World Convention of
the Association for the Study of Nationalities
(ASN), Columbia University
Contact: Troy McGrath, ASN Convention
Program Chair
asn@hartwick.edu
4 April 2003
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
‘Music of Japan Today 2003’
Organizers: Dr Kazuko Tanosaki and
Prof. E. Michael Richards
kazukotanosaki@netscape.net
emrichards@umbc.edu
9–13 April 2003
Rome, Italy
2003 Biennial AKSE Conference
Contact: Prof. Antonetta Bruno,
Secretary of AKSE
Antonetta.Bruno@uniroma1.it
www.akse.uni-kiel.de
10–13 April 2003
London, United Kingdom
‘ARTiculations’, 29th Association of Art
Historians (AAH) Annual Conference
University of London and Birkbeck
college
Information: admin@aah.org.uk
www.aah.org.uk
11–13 April 2003
Boston, MA
‘Blacks and Asians in the Making of the
Modern World: A Conversation across
Fields’
Convenor: Ronald K. Richardson,
13–17 May 2003
Leiden, the Netherlands
‘Empirical Universals in Semantics:
Lexicon and Grammar’
IIAS semantics master class
Convenors: Dr Cliff Goddard and
Prof. Anna Wierzbicka
Information: iias@let.leidenuniv.nl
23–25 May 2003
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
‘20th Annual Sanskrit Tradition in the
Modern World (STIMW) Seminar’
Contact: Dr Will Sweetman (University
of Newcastle)
will.sweetman@ncl.ac.uk
28 May – 1 June 2003
Singapore
‘Asia in the New Millenium: Development,
Democracy and Security’, the
Asian Political & International Studies
Association (APISA) congress
Co-Chairs: Prof. Lee Lai To (National
University of Singapore) and Prof.
Amitav Acharya (IDSS, Nanyang
Technological University)
Contact for proposals: Prof. Lee Lai To
Information: apisa@nus.edu.sg
www.apisa.org
Deadline for Proposals: 15 October
2002
June 2003
June 2003
Stockholm, Sweden
‘New Perspectives in Eurasian Archaeology’,
ASEF-Asia Alliance workshop
Convenors: Dr Magnus Fiskesjö
(Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities,
Sweden) and Chen Xingcan (Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, China).
Information:
magnus.fiskesjö@ostasiatiska.se
www.asia-alliance.org/workshopseries
June 2003
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
‘International Security and the Asian
Heartland’
An international symposium
organized by the School of Foreign
Service of the National University of
Mongolia, in cooperation with the
IIAS and The Netherlands Institute
of International Relations
‘Clingendael’
Convenors: Prof. Kh. Bayasakh (the
School of Foreign Service of the
July 2003
2 July 2003
Brisbane, Australia
‘Japanese Studies Association of Australia
2003 Biennial Conference: Innovation
and Resistance in Japan’
Queensland University of Technology
Panel proposals: Dr Christopher Pokarie
c.pokarier@qut.edu.au
Conference organization: Mr Jason
Thomas
jw.thomas@qut.edu.au
5–9 July 2003
Moscow, Russian Federation
International Conference on South Asia
Literatures and Languages (ICOSAL)
Organizer: Institute of Asian and
African Studies, Moscow State University
Contact: Dr Ludmila V. Khokhlova
(languages)
khokhl@iaas.msu.ru
Dr Alexander M. Dubyanskiy (literatures)
dubian@iaas.msu.ru
7–10 July 2003
Singapore
‘The Australasian Society for Asian and
Comparative Philosophys 2003 Annual
Conference: Self and Others (Theme)’
The National University of Singapore
Information: phianhtn@nus.edu.sg
http://ap3.fas.nus.edu.sg:8000/appl
/web9/ASACP/announcement.htm
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 April 2003
11–12 July 2003
Bonn, Germany
‘The Restructuring of Old Industrial
Areas in Europe and Asia’, ASEF-Asia
Alliance workshop
Convenors: Dr R. Hassink (University
of Bonn, Germany) and Dr Shin Dong-
Ho (National University of Singapore)
Information: hassink@giub.unibonn.de
14–18 July 2003
Helsinki, Finland
12th World Sanskrit Conference
Contact: University of Helsinki, Institute
for Asian and African Studies
Contact: petteri.koskikallio@helsinki.fi
asko.parpola@helsinki.fi
klaus.karttunen@helsinki.fi
www.helsinki.fi/hum/aakkl/12wsc
Deadline for Abstracts: 31 December
2003
birgit@staemmler.de
www.eajs.org/whatsnew/warsaw.html
Deadline for Abstracts: 27 June 2003
September 2003
6–12 September 2003
Oxford, United Kingdom
International Association for Tibetan
Studies, Tenth Seminar
Contact: Charles Ramble, convenor
of the Tenth IATS
iats@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/iats/
Deadline for Abstracts: 1 January 2003
11–13 September 2003
Cambridge, United Kingdom
‘Interweaving Medical Traditions:
Europe and Asia, 1600–2000’, ASEF-
Asia Alliance workshop
Convenors: Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya
(Welcome Trust Centre for the History
of Medicine, UK) and Dr R.K. Chem
(National University of Singapore).
Information:
sanjoy.bhattacharya@ucl.ac.uk
October 2003
October 2003
Leiden, the Netherlands
‘Country Trade and European Empire in
the Arabian Seas: 17th and 18th Century’
IIAS workshop
Convenor: Dr R.J. Barendse
r.barendse@worldonline.nl
Information: iias@let.leidenuniv.nl
November 2003
22–25 November 2003
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
‘AAR - Annual American Academy of
Religion Conference’
Information:
www.aarweb.org/annualmeet
March 2004
5–7 March 2004
San Diego, CA, USA
‘Town & Country Resort’, AAS (Association
for Asian Studies) Annual Meeting 2004
Information:
www.aasianst.org/annmtg.htm
May 2004
May 2004
Copenhagen, Denmark
‘New Chinese Migrants: Globalisation
of Chinese Overseas Migration’, The
5th Conference of the International
Society for the Study of Chinese Over-
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seas (ISCCO)
IIAS sponsored conference
Organized by: University of
Copenhagen/ NIAS
Contact: Mette Thunoe (University of
Copenhagen)
w_thunoe@worldonline.dk
23–26 July 2003
Heidelberg, Germany
‘Bhakti in Current Research
2001–2003’, Ninth International Conference
on Early Devotional Literatures
in New Indo-Aryan Languages
Contact: Prof. Monika Boehm-Tettelbach
(University Of Heidelberg)
an9@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
June 2004
16–19 June 2004
Leiden, the Netherlands
‘The Philippines: Changing Landscapes,
Manscapes and Mindscapes in
a Globalizing World’, 7th International
Philippine Studies Conference
(ICOPHIL)
Convenor: Prof. Otto van den
Muijzenberg
ovandenmuijzenberg@fmg.uva.nl
24–27 July 2003
Penang, Malaysia
‘Southeast Asia since 1945: Reflections
and Visions’
Organizer: Asia Pacific Research Unit
(APRU), School of Humanities, Universiti
Sains Malaysia
Contact: Dr Ooi Keat Gin
kgooi@hotmail.com
General Enquiries: Mrs Thilagavathi
Vasudevan, Secretary, Organizing
Committee
vthila@usm.my
July 2004
6–9 July 2004
Lund, Sweden
‘18th European Conference on Modern
South Asian Studies’
Organizers: SASNET and Lund University
Information:
www.sasnet.lu.se/researchf.html
November 2004
20–23 November 2004
San Antonio, Texas, USA
‘AAR - Annual American Academy of
Religion Conference’
Information:
www.aarweb.org/annualmeet
August 2003
19–22 August 2003
Singapore
‘Third International Convention of Asia
Scholars (ICAS3)’
Organizer: National University of
Singapore
Information: icas3sec@nus.edu.sg
www.fas.nus.edu.sg/icas3 and
www.icassecretariat.org
January 2005
6–8 January 2005
Leiden, the Netherlands
‘Between Stress and Tone’
IIAS sponsored conference
Convenor: Dr Bert Remijsen
a.c.l.remijsen@let.leidenuniv.nl
25–29 August 2003
Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China
‘Conservation of Ancient Sites on the
Silk Road’, 2nd International Conference
on the Conservation of Grotto
Sites
Contact (outside China):
Kathleen Louw (The Getty Conservation
Institute)
klouw@getty.edu
Contact (within China):
Su Boming (The Dunhuang Academy)
cidha@public.iz.gs.cn
www.getty.edu/conservation
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Shashi Tharoor, and Nirmal Verma
Convenor: Dr Thomas de Bruijn and
Anil Ramdas
Information: iias@let.leidenuniv.nl
28–29 November 2002
Canberra, Australia
‘Vietnam Update 2002: Local Government
and Authority in Vietnam’
Jointly organized by the Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in
Singapore and the Australian National
University in Canberra, Australia
For further information:
Bev Fraser
bevley@coombs.anu.edu.au.
Further details are also posted at:
The ANU’s Research School of Pacific
and Asian Studies website
http://rspas.anu.edu.au
29 November 2002
Tokyo, Japan
‘Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History:
Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders’,
German Institute for Japanese
Studies (DIJ) International Conference
Contact: Sven Saaler
saaler@dijtokyo.org
www.dijtokyo.org
December 2002
2 December 2002
London, United Kingdom
‘Tokyo As a Metaphor for Modernity’,
seminar
AHRB Centre for Asian and African
Literatures, SOAS
Information: ahrblit@soas.ac.uk
www.soas.ac.uk/literatures/
3–9 December 2002
Yunan Province, China
‘Hani/Akha Culture’, Fourth International
Conference
Contact: Li Qibo (The Honghe
Research Institute of Nationalities)
hhhnxh@yahoo.com.cn
www.nomabei.yeah.net
4–6 December 2002
London, United Kingdom
‘1453 to 1699: Cultural Encounters
between East and West’
University of London, Institute of
English Studies
www.sas.ac.uk/ies/Conferences/East
.West.Programme.htm
4–7 December 2002
New Delhi, India
‘The Environmental History of Asia’
Contact: Professor Deepak Kumar
(JNU) and Dr Richard Grove (ANU)
envhistasia@hotmail.com
13–15 December 2002
Oxford, United Kingdom
‘Space, Psyche and Psychiatry: Mental
Health/Illness and the Construction and
Experience of Space, ca. 1600–2000’
Organizer: Research Centre, Oxford
Brookes University
Information:
www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/
artsandhumanities/conferences
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tion in South East and South Asia:
French, Portuguese, Spanish and
Dutch Perspectives’
Institute of Romance Studies
Information:
www.sas.ac.uk/irs/frames/leftframe.html
20–22 February 2003
Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA
‘A Sense of Place in the Pacific and
Asia: Socioeconomic, Cultural, Political
and Environmental Identities’
Information:
studentconference@EastWestCenter.org
www.eastwestcenter.org/edu-sp.asp
March -2003
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6–8 March 2003
Victoria, BC, Canada
‘Domestic Strategies and Global Implications’,
West China Development conference
Organizer: Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives,
University of Victoria
For details on the conference, registration
or paper submissions:
capi@uvic.ca
www.capi.uvic.ca
13 March 2003
Hong Kong, China
‘Transnational Networks: Challenges in
Research & Documentation of the Chinese
Overseas’, 2nd International Conference
of Institutes & Libraries for Chinese
Overseas Studies
Organizer: Chinese University of
Hong Kong
Contact: Michelle Chiu
michelle@lib.cuhk.edu.hk
Information: cco2003@cuhk.edu.hk
www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/conference/occ
/index.htm
16–23 March 2003
Kyoto, Japan
‘3rd World Water Forum’
Information: office@waterforum3.com
www.worldwaterforum.org
19–21 March 2003
Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom
‘International Conference on the Forest
and Environmental History of the
British Empire and Commonwealth’
Contact: Rosa Weeks, Conference
Secretary
r.l.weeks@sussex.ac.uk
27–30 March 2003
New York, NY, USA
AAS (Association for Asian Studies)
Director, African American Studies,
Boston University
Contact: Dr Christine Loken-Kim
lokenkim@bu.edu
May 2003
May 2003
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
‘Transborder Exchanges: Business, Networks
and Identity Formation in Asia’s
and Europe’s New Economy’, ASEF-
Asia Alliance workshop
Convenors: Dr Heidi Dahles (Free
University of Amsterdam) and Dr
Loh Wei Leng (University of Malaya,
Malaysia)
Information: H.Dahles@scw.vu.nl
2–4 May 2003
Los Angeles, CA, USA
‘Focus on the Learner in the LCTLs:
Profiles and Prospects’, Sixth National
Conference
Organizer: National Council of Organizations
of Less Commonly Taught
Languages
Contact: Scott McGinnis
smcginnis@nflc.org
8–10 May 2003
Murcia, Spain
‘The IV International Conference on
Islamic Legal Studies’
Organizers: the University of Murcia
and the Consejería de Educación y
Cultura de la Comunidad de Murcia
Contact: Prof. Alfonso Carmona
acarmona@um.es
8–11 May 2003
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
The 38th International Congress on
Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University
Information:
www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/
9 May 2003
Chicago, IL, USA
18th Annual Middle East History and
Theory Conference
Contact: Patrick Wing, MEHTC Coordinator
(University of Chicago)
pgwing@midway.uchicago.edu
12 May 2003
Baku, Azerbaijan
‘Caucasus and Central Asia in the
Globalization’
Contact: Osman Nuri Aras (Qafqaz
University)
aras@qafqaz.edu.az or
on_aras@yahoo.com
Vefa Abbasova,
vefanur@hotmail.com
National University of Mongolia) and
Dr Paul Meerts (the Netherlands
Institute of International Relations
‘Clingendael’)
Information:
bayasakh@hotmail.com or
pmeerts@clingendael.nl
6–7 June 2003
Halmstad, Sweden
‘International Conference on Women
and Politics in Asia’
Contact: Dr Kazuki Iwanaga
(Halmstad University)
kazuki.iwanaga@hos.hh.se
http://eurasia.nias.ku.dk/
Halmstad02
Deadline for Abstracts: 31 January
2003
14 December 2002
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
‘Focus on South Asia: Youth Initiative
for Peace’
Contact: Ragni Kidvai
ragni.kidvai@initiativeforpeace.org
Information:
peacecamp@initiativeforpeace.org
www.youth.initiativeforpeace.org
18–22 December 2002
Dhaka, Bangladesh
17th International Association of Historians
of Asia (IAHA) Conference
Contact: K.M. Mohsin, Secretary-General
University of Dhaka
duregstr@bangla.net or
history@du.bangla.net
9 June 2003
Almaty, Republic of Kazachstan
‘Advances in Statistical Inferential
Methods: Theory and Applications’
Contact: professor Vassilly Voinov
voinov@kimep.kz
www.kimep.kz/research
13–14 June 2003
Leiden, the Netherlands
‘The World of Wang Shizhen: Cultural
Politics and Political Culture in 16th
Century China’
IIAS workshop
Convenor: Prof. Kenneth J.
Hammond
Information: iias@let.leidenuniv.nl
19–21 December 2002
Paris, France
Fifth Biannual Conference of SFEJ
Contact: SFEJ secretariat
secretariat@sfej.asso.fr
http://sfej.asso.fr
19–22 June 2003
Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA
‘Asian Studies in an Internet Connected
World’
University of Hawai’i
Contact: William Vanderbok
Vanderbok@aspac.org
www.aspac.org.
26–29 June 2003
Singapore
‘The Second Asia Pacific Conference on
Anti-Aging Medicine’
Raffles City Convention Centre
Information: prithpal@pacific.net.sg
www.antiageing2003.com
29 June – 2 July 2003
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
‘International Symposium on Malay
and Indonesian Linguistics’
IIAS workshop
Convenor: Prof. Hein Steinhauer
Information: iias@let.leidenuniv.nl
27–30 August 2003
Warsaw, Poland
‘The 10th International Conference of
European Association for Japanese
Studies (EAJS)’
Contact: Bernhard Scheid
bernhard.scheid@oeaw.ac.at
Birgit Staemmler
20 December 2002
Delhi, India
‘Cultures of Masculinity in South Asia:
Exploring the Contexts’
Contact: Dr Radhika Chopra (Delhi
School of Economics, Delhi University)
chosen@bol.net.in
Dr Sanjay Srivastava (Deakin University)
sanjays@deakin.edu.au
28–30 December 2002
Visakhapatnam, India
‘Changing Role of Political Institutions
in Contemporary Society’
Contact: Prof. P. Krishna Prasad, Organizing
Secretary (Andhra University)
pothinipkp19@rediffmail.com
www.ausde.com/pol_pad.asp
January 2003
2–5 January 2003
Chicago, Illinois, USA
‘Frontiers’, 117th Annual Meeting of the
American Historical Association
Information:
Anand.Yang@m.cc.utah.edu
www.theaha.org/annual/2003/
cfp2003.htm
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