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Wednesday 16 May | Empires of the Steppe
Prof. dr. Jan Bemmann and dr. Ursula Brosseder from the University of Bonn will present their latest archeaological research on the Xiongnu and on the Orkhon Valley.
Wednesday 16 May | Van Vollenhoven Lecture 2012 by Andrew Harding
The Rise of Asia: Asian Legal Studies Reconsidered.
Wednesday 16 May | Studium Generale lecture by Ivo Smits
Schattigheidscultuur, het 'meisjes'-fenomeen en populaire cultuur in hedendaags Japan (this lecture will be in Dutch).
15 May | Seminar: Tahrir Square Art or issues of culture and politics related to the Egyptian revolution
The Arab revolutions are far from over. In Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, people are still fighting and dying everyday because they refuse to give up their right to “Bread, freedom and social justice” as one of the Egyptian slogans goes. This ongoing revolutionary process is accompanied by an inspiring cultural explosion.
Thursday 10 May | Friends of the Kern Institute lecture by Ronki Ram
Subaltern and Deepening of Democracy in India.
Wednesday 9 May | Studium Generale lecture by Anne Sytske Keijser
Popcultuur uit Hongkong: het gevoel van Wong Kar-wai (this lecture will be in Dutch).
Wednesday 9 May | Huis van Horus lecture by Koen Donker van Heel
Altijd weer die schoonfamilie! Harassment, slander and lies in an ancient Egyptian court case. (This lecture will be in Dutch).
Wednesday 2 May | IIAS/LUCIS lecture & book launch
Women from Traditional Islamic Educational Institutions in Indonesia: Negotiating Public Spaces by dr. Eka Srimulyani.
Wednesday 2 May | Lecture on Islam in Central Asia by Devin DeWeese
A Reality Without a Name: Some thoughts on the structures of Sufi history in modern Central Asia.
Friday 27 April | Lecture by Adam Cathcart on the relations between North Korea and China
Mutual Dependency and Double Collapse: Sino-North Korean Relations, 1945-50.
Wednesday 25 April | Studium Generale lecture by Roos Gerritsen
Films en fans: van Kollywood tot Beverwijk (this lecture will be in Dutch).
Wednesday 25 April | China Seminar by Anup Grewal
Revolutionary Embodiments: Gender and Genre in Xie Bingying’s War Diary and Autobiography of a Woman Soldier.
Wednesday 25 April | Modern South Asia Seminar by Corinne Lefèvre
In the Name of the Fathers: Mughal Genealogical Strategies from Bābur to Shāh Jahān.
Thursday 12 April | The news in Tanka poems
Lecture by Yukitsuna Sasaki on social trends and current events described in Tanka poems. This lecture will be in Japanese.
Wednesday 11 April | LIAS Double Vision: Crime and Adultery
Different societies, past and present, have different strategies to deal with crime. What is the role of cultural values in law making? Erik Herber will discuss programmes of crime prevention in contemporary Japan. Koen Donker van Heel will discuss women’s rights in Egypt in the time of Herodotus.
Thursday 29 March | Modern South Asia Seminar by Sraman Mukherjee
Secular Heritage, Sacred Reclamations: Making Sense of Buddhist Relics in Modern South Asia.
Saturday 24 March | 6th DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East
DUSANE aims to bring Dutch scholars together, to exchange information among project directors, students and all those who are interested in archaeological research in the Near East. Our speakers include directors of current archaeological research projects, Assyriologists, Egyptologists and material specialists.
Friday 23 March | LIAS PhD & Postdoc lunch
1 pm at the Huizinga common room. RSVP
