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International Institute for Asian Studies

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International Institute for Asian Studies

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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.

16/10/2026

📢 New issue of The Newsletter out now! 📢

📚The 103rd edition (Fall 2026) of The Newsletter is here: Dive into fresh perspectives on Asian Studies, from research articles and reviews to art, culture, and global connections. This issue’s special Focus, “Pedagogy Under Threat in the United States (and Beyond!)” explores how academics and educators deal with the threat on free speech.

📚Discover the second issue of our updated format, featuring a special insert ‘The Magazine’, which encourages a wide variety of themes, voices, and creative formats. This cycle celebrates a decade of ‘Humanities Across Borders’ (an IIAS programme) and some of its initiatives and methods throughout the years.

➡️ Read it online: https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/newsletter-103-autumn-2026

➡️ Do you wish to contribute to a future issue? Visit https://www.iias.asia/contribute

14/10/2026

🔸 Welcoming our new Asia in the World cohort!
We are delighted to welcome the new cohort of Asia in the World fellows, who have just arrived at IIAS to begin their twelve-month fellowships.
This week, the fellows met the IIAS team to get to know the Institute better: our vision, our programmes and initiatives, and the many ways their research can connect with our ongoing projects. It was the start of what we hope will be a rich year of exchange and collaboration.

➡️ Meet the fellows, along with the partner institutions that will co-host them in the coming year:
• Edgar Eslit: Radiating from the Periphery: Context Sensitive Pedagogy and Indigenous Curricular Futures in Global Asia
Co-host: Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais (CEAO), Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
• Wendy Alejandra Medina de Loera: Navigating the workplace: Indonesian migrant workers in global fishing
Co-host: Airlangga Institute of Indian Ocean Crossroads (AIIOC), Surabaya, Indonesia
• Shahar Shoham: Translocal Epistemologies and Gravity of Sending Migration Communities
Co-host: Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
• Nanase Shirota: Transnational Night Work: Japanese Women’s Precarious Gendered Migration
Co-host: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

🔸 Their projects span pedagogy, labour, migration and gender, and together they show the many ways Asia is connected with the wider world. Welcome to IIAS, at Leiden University!

➡️ More about their research here: https://www.iias.asia/fellows

13/10/2026

[IIAS] The Update | October 2026 - https://mailchi.mp/iias/the-update-oct2026 We are delighted with the success of 10 years of 'Humanities Across Borders' as well as the first year of the 'Asia in the World Fellowship Programme'. We gladly share the reflections of our HAB partners on what it means to do Humanities Across Borders and the discussions between the inaugural 'Asia in the World' fellows, co-hosting institutions and guests about the challenges of Asia Studies today.

13/10/2026

🔸 Join us for our next online book talk: ‘The Colonial Screen: Early Cinema in Hong Kong’

🔸 In this online book talk, Prof. Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) presents an unknown history of early film in Hong Kong. Her book, 'The Colonial Screen: Early Cinema in Hong Kong' (Oxford University Press, 2025), explores the exhibition, regulation, circulation, reception, and social place of motion pictures, from the time the cinematograph, an early mechanism for motion pictures, first arrived in the territory in 1897 through to the late 1920s when Hong Kong emerged as a film entrepôt in South China.

🔸The Q&A after the lecture will be moderated by Ling Zhang (State University of New York Purchase College).

📍 Online via Teams, meeting link is available on the webpage

⚠️ Please register if you would like to attend this event

⏰ November 5, 14:00 ~ 15:00

➡️ To learn more about this event and to register, please visit:
https://www.iias.asia/events/colonial-screen-early-cinema-hong-kong

07/10/2026

🎙️ Discover The Channel’s newest conversation: ‘Coastal Entanglements in Northeast Japan with Andrew Littlejohn’

🔹 This episode features a conversation with Andrew Littlejohn, assistant professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University. He specializes in environmental anthropology and political ecology, with a particular focus on Japan.

🔹 Beginning with the massive earthquake and tsunami that occurred in East Japan in March 2011, Andrew Littlejohn’s newest book examines the contestations over recovery and the varied proposals designed to mitigate and prevent future disasters.

🔗 For more information about the episode and to listen click: https://www.iias.asia/the-channel/coastal-entanglements-northeast-japan

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

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06/10/2026

🔸 Join us for the Humanities Across Borders (HAB) Book Launch and Roudtable discussion: ‘Reading Den Haag: Mobility, Memory, Landscape, and Livelihood in the Everyday Urban’

🔸 To celebrate 10 years of the Humanities Across Borders programme, we invite you to a roundtable discussion jointly organised by IIAS and Leiden University College (LUC).
We will explore how Den Haag and its resident communities can become deeply legible for students, educators, the municipality, policymakers, and residents themselves. This event will also mark the release of the second edition of "Asian Diaspora in The Hague: A Multilingual Wordbook", published by IIAS in collaboration with the Gemeente Den Haag. A drinks reception will follow this event and requires registration to attend.

📍 in-person only, Leiden University College (LUC), LUC Auditorium, Anna van Buerenplein 301�2595 DH Den Haag, Netherlands.

🔸Contact info: and Enrico Joaquin Lapuz [email protected]

⚠️ Please register if you would like to attend this event, space is limited!

⏰ October 27, 17:15 ~ 20:00

➡️ To learn more about this event, speakers, and to register please visit: https://www.iias.asia/events/reading-den-haag-mobility-memory-landscape-and-livelihood-everyday-urban

06/10/2026

🔸 Join us for our next online book talk: ‘Casual Assemblies: Afterlives of Maoist Performance Culture in Beijing’s Public Parks’

🔸 Jingshan Park, Beijing, May 2012. A self-organized, amateur choir of retirees perform “The Soldiers Sing an Ode to Chairman Mao.” One elderly woman instructs the ethnographer standing nearby: “Even if people sing, it doesn't represent how they think… We don’t like Mao Zedong.” In this online talk, former IIAS fellow Lisa Richaud, now Assistant Professor at KU Leuven, will present her recent monograph, Casual Assemblies: Afterlives of Maoist Performance Culture in Beijing’s Public Parks.

📍 Online via zoom, meeting link is available on the webpage

⚠️ Please register if you would like to attend this event

⏰ October 20, 14:00 ~ 15:00

➡️ To learn more about this event and to register, please visit: https://www.iias.asia/events/casual-assemblies-afterlives-maoist-performance-culture-beijings-public-parks

30/09/2026

🔹 Discover the September IIAS Blog posts!

-1 September: Beyond the Reach of Care
-8 September: Beyond the Reach of Care.
-15 September: NOIR, Japan's hard-boiled bittersweet answer to OREOS.
-22 September: BTS's Arirang Doesn't Have a Song Called Arirang. A Japanese Boatman Taught Me Why That Makes Sense.
-29 September: Labubu Was Loved. Then It Wasn't. What Happened?�

�➡️Read them here: https://blog.iias.asia
➡️Do you wish to contribute? Visit https://blog.iias.asia/about and https://blog.iias.asia/pop-pacific

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29/09/2026

Introduction Wendy Alejandra Medina de Loera

🔸 Dr. Wendy Alejandra Medina de Loera has received a twelve-month IIAS Fellowship (1 Oct 2026 - 30 Sept 2027) to work on her research project, titled, ‘Navigating the workplace: Indonesian migrant workers in global fishing.’

🔸 Her project focuses on migrant Indonesians who work on foreign fishing ships and on the organizations that support them in Indonesia and overseas. Most workers in global fishing are recruited from Indonesia and the Philippines; Wendy focuses on Indonesian workers. These workers are often marginalised; they are paid poorly in relation to the value of the commodities they produce. They are vulnerable: spending long periods isolated at sea, they are adversely affected by fragmented ocean governance jurisdictions.

🔸 Read her full profile on the IIAS website: https://www.iias.asia/profile/wendy-alejandra-medina-de-loera

24/09/2026

🔹 Dr. Aireen Grace Andal, IIAS 2025-2026 Research Fellow, has just published a new open access article entitled “Speculative emotional practices: Exploring children's emotional connections to space and time in urban Indonesia”

🔹 “This reflective piece explores how speculative methods can illuminate children's emotional geographies in rapidly urbanising Southeast Asian cities. Drawing on fieldwork in Kampung Plampitan, Surabaya, Indonesia, [the research] combines the emerging method of futuring(s) whereby we invite children to imagine their neighbourhoods 50 years ahead, with more familiar focus group discussions to examine how young people emotionally inhabit and project urban spaces.”

➡️ Read it here : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458626000733?via%3Dihub

➡️ More about Dr. Aireen Grace Andal’s research at: https://www.iias.asia/profile/aireen-grace-andal

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