September 2019
Seminar | ‘A Woman to Warm My Heart’: Low-Wage Mainland Chinese Migrant Men, Thrift and Desires for Intimacy | Sylvia Ang
While work on gender and migration has grown significantly, it has mostly addressed the experiences of female migrants; the experiences of male migrants are still understudied. Even less attention has been paid to male migrants and their heterosexuality. This paper is interested in Chinese masculinities, which in the migration literature have been discussed largely in relation to migration to the West.
Find out more »Seminar | A humanist studies a Thai policeman (1898-2006) | Craig Reynolds
Abstract Craig Reynolds has just completed a biographical study of an unusual southern policeman, which explores the relationship between religion and power in Thailand during the early twentieth century when parts of the country were remote and banditry was rife. Khun Phan (1898-2006), known as…
Find out more »Farewell lecture and symposium Henk Schulte Nordholt | Decolonization in question: Revisiting citizenship, colonial imaginations, and violence
Dear friends and colleagues, in September this year, Henk Schulte Nordholt will retire from academia after four decades of passionate teaching, research, and administration, a period in which he energized the study of Indonesia, in the Netherlands, in Indonesia, and well beyond.
Find out more »EuroSEAS Conference 2019 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will hold its 10th conference from 10 to 13 September 2019 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. As an international and multi-disciplinary organisation
Find out more »Seminar | Mediating historical continuity: Transgender feminine visibility in Indonesia, 1968 | Ben Hegarty
Indonesia’s waria (people who perform transgender femininity) claim that something remarkable happened in Jakarta in 1968: they moved from obscurity to hyper-visibility. Marshalling the tools of feminine expertise
Find out more »Oratie | Het Midden Oosten en religieus gezag in Indonesië | Nico Kaptein
Het College van Bestuur van de Universiteit Leiden heeft prof. dr. N.J.G. Kaptein benoemd tot hoogleraar met als leeropdracht 'Islam in Zuidoost Azië'. Nico Kaptein zal het hoogleraarsambt aanvaarden met het uitspreken van zijn oratie getiteld 'Het Midden Oosten en religieus gezag in Indonesië'
Find out more »November 2019
Bronbeek-symposium 2019 | de Indonesische stem
Op zondag 3 november 2019 vindt in Arnhem het Bronbeek-symposium plaats, het jaarlijkse evenement georganiseerd door Werkgroep Indisch-Nederlandse Letterkunde. Als thema is dit jaar gekozen voor De Indonesische stem.
Find out more »December 2019
Farewell symposium Willem van der Molen | Towards a history of Javanese literature
More information will follow soon.
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