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International Institute for Asian Studies

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International Institute for Asian Studies

The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a research and exchange platform based in the university city of Leiden, the Netherlands

IIAS hosts a range of visiting fellows who benefit from one of the world’s largest
concentration of scholars and collections on Asia. IIAS addresses current and long term historical trends through its three research clusters: Global Asia, Asian Cities and Asian Heritages. IIAS encourages the multi-disciplinary and comparative study of Asia and promotes national and international cooperation, thus

linking the expertise of scholars and practitioners. It acts as an interface between academic and non-academic partners including cultural, social and policy organisations. IIAS offers a unique range of communication instruments enabling it to reach out to thousands of academics and professionals worldwide. The Newsletter enjoys a global audience of 13,000 subscribers. It features research, thematic articles, reviews, photo essays, announcements and institutional news.

04/09/2026

🔸 How would a hawker stall become a library? What happens when books and people move around? What stories, surprises, and sensations might come up in the opening hours of a stall?

🔸 Organised by IIAS fellow Vivien Chan and inspired by the hawker and the street stall, this pop-up library will occupy spaces within the Herta Mohr building at Leiden University. Vivien invites you to read, tell stories, listen closely, write lists, recommend, gossip, eavesdrop, and exchange during the library's open sessions.

Feel free to drop by the pop-up library during opening hours! While registration is not required, we would greatly appreciate it if you could indicate your interest by completing the web form on this page.

📍 Herta Mohr building 0.28, Witte Singel 27A 2311 BG Leiden Netherlands

-For queries, email: [email protected]

04/09/2026

[IIAS] The Update | Sep 2026 - https://mailchi.mp/iias/the-update-sep2026 IIAS will inaugurate the first year of the Asia in the World Fellowship Programme with a full-day event on 22/9. You are most welcome! IIAS fellow Vivien Chen will host a pop-up 'Hawker Library' (15-17 Sep). There are still spots for the hands-on xiqu workshop on 10/9. Check out all events below, along with our new podcasts and blog post.

You can apply for the Asia in the World Fellowship Programme until 10/9. We also welcome visiting researchers!

04/09/2026

Join us for this one-of-a-kind workshop!

🔹 On 10 September, IIAS Fellow Dr Ming Yang from Beijing Foreign Studies University will give a hands-on (in-person) workshop introducing how body, voice, gesture, and rhythm work together in xiqu performance.

⚠️Participation is free, but registration is mandatory using the web form on this page.

🔹 Participants will work through accessible exercises in standing, breathing, directing the gaze, shifting weight, walking, shaping hand and arm gestures, and coordinating movement with rhythm. The workshop will also introduce simple spoken and lightly vocalized exercises to show that xiqu voice is not detached from the body: breath, posture, articulation, resonance, rhythm, and intention work together.

⏰September 10th : 15:00 ~ 16:30

📍 IIAS Conference Room, Herta Mohr building room 0.28, 2311 BG Leiden

-Sign up at: https://www.iias.asia/events/body-voice-and-gesture-introductory-xiqu-performance-workshop

03/09/2026

🔸The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) cordially invites you to the inauguration of the Asia in the World Fellowship Programme.

🔸This event celebrates the first cohort of this unique international fellowship and brings together partner institutions and fellows for a day of thematic, open discussions

➡️ Find out more about the programme and speakers at https://www.iias.asia/events/asia-world-knowledge-move

⏰ September 22nd | 09:15 ~ 17:30

📍 Leiden University Libraries, Kartini Auditorium, Witte Singel 27 2311 BG Leiden Netherlands

⚠️ Please note that this is an in-person event. You are welcome to join free of charge. To register, please fill in the web form on this page (required).

02/09/2026

📢Write for the Pop Pacific Blog!📢

Do you have a pop culture story that crosses borders? We want to hear it!
The Pop Pacific is looking for writers to explore how music, food, fashion, fandom, film, games, and more travel across cultures:
-> 1,500–2,000 words�
-> One specific, fascinating transnational connection�
-> Personal, accessible, and jargon-free�
-> Voices from underrepresented regions and communities especially welcome

➡️For more information, please visit: https://blog.iias.asia/pop-pacific/come-write-us-pop-pacific-blog-guidelines-v-20

[image credits: Parody of Murasaki Shikibu at Her Desk, Okumura Masanobu. ca. 1710. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Used for educational purposes]

01/09/2026

Introduction Simon Winant

🔸 Dr. Simon Winant is an IIAS Research Fellow with a fellowship from the J. Gonda Foundation of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

🔸He recently obtained his PhD in Indian Languages and Culture from Ghent University, Belgium. He works on the intersection of Mahābhārata Studies, Jain Studies, and Kāvya. The aim of his current project is to explore scribal allusions and references to later works of Sanskrit kāvya found in Mahābhārata manuscripts used in the Critical Edition of the Mahābhārata by the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune.

🔸Read more about Simon Winant at https://www.iias.asia/profile/simon-winant

27/08/2026

🎙️ Discover The Channel’s newest guest episode: ‘Memories of Timor with Rita Padawangi’🎙️

🔹 This episode features a conversation about the recent documentary Ingatan dari Timor or Memories of Timor. The film was produced by Rita and directed by Ari Trismana, and it was released by the documentary production house WatchDoc. Memories of Timor explores the violent history of Timor Leste, which is often omitted from Indonesian textbooks and concealed from Indonesian students.

🔗 For more information about the episode and to listen click: https://www.iias.asia/the-channel/memories-timor

➡️ For more The Channel episodes, visit: https://www.iias.asia/the-channel

27/08/2026

🔸Dawa Lokyitsang, IIAS Research Fellow 2025-2026, will be giving a presentation as part of Cultural Anthropology and Devolopmental Sociology (CADS) research seminar.

🔸“Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among former students of these schools, Dawa Lokyitsang traces how this rupture became the ground for something unexpected: creative peer-based kinship networks, bound by shared national and personal loss, and by shared aspirations for an anticolonial future. Her broader work follows Tibetans' decolonizing practices at the intersection of developing Asian settler colonialisms, reactive anticolonial nationalisms, and creative Indigenous sovereign futurisms. This talk asks how mutuality and chosen kinship become tools for mending what empire tears apart."

🗓️ September 10th | 15:30-17:00

📍Agora, Wassenaarseweg 52 2333 AK Leiden | Room 0B.23

🔗Learn more about this event at: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2026/09/cads-research-seminar

🔗More about Dr. Lokyitsang’s research at: https://www.iias.asia/profile/dawa-lokyitsang

26/08/2026

🔹Join our roundtable event, Filipino Scholars in the Netherlands and Global Research Futures, in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Philippine-Dutch diplomatic relations!

🔹The Filipino Scholars in the Netherlands (FiSch NL) network, in collaboration with the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University, and the Philippine Embassy in The Netherlands, warmly invites you to Filipino Scholars in the Netherlands and Global Research Futures, a roundtable event celebrating 75 years of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and the Netherlands. This event is co-supported by LeidenGlobal and the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.

🔹The roundtable brings together Filipino scholars, researchers, institutional actors, and other knowledge partners to highlight the global reach and relevance of Philippine Studies, and to explore possibilities for transregional and transdisciplinary research, collaboration, and knowledge exchange.

🔹Across two roundtable sessions, speakers will share their research, experiences, and perspectives on Philippine-related scholarship, international knowledge production, and collaborations between the Philippines, the Netherlands, and beyond.

🔗Discover more here: iias.asia/events/filipino-scholars-netherlands-and-global-research-futures-roundtable

📍 Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO), Rapenburg 28, 2311 EW, Leiden, Netherlands

⚠️ This is an in-person event. Everyone is welcome, but please register in advance, as seating at the venue is limited.

⏰ 18 September 2026 (Friday), 12:00 ~ 16:00

🔗 For any questions or concerns, kindly reach us via email: [email protected]

25/08/2026

🔸The IIAS would like to highlight that the Royal Society for Asian Affairs has released the latest issue of its publication, focusing on the 35th anniversary of the Independence of Central Asia.

🔸This special tenth issue brings together leading scholars, writers and photographers to explore the remarkable political, economic and social transformations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan since 1991.

To mark the anniversary, the RSAA has made this entire issue accessible online
➡️ Read the issue here - https://buff.ly/9XH7cbi

➡️Learn more about the RSAA at https://rsaa.org.uk

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Witte Singel 27A
Leiden
2311BG

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