International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)

🔸The next event in the Buddhist Lecture Series is entitled ‘The Attainment of Immortality (Amṛtasiddhi) and the Origin of Physical Yoga in the Indo-Tibetan Traditions’ 🔸It will be given by Dr. Giacomella Orofino, a Professor at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” in the Department of Asian, African, and Mediterranean Studies. 🔸The presentation hypothesizes that the *Amṛtasaṁkaṭanibarhaṇa, which is clearly a Buddhist text, is one of the earliest manuals of physical yoga, where the practice of breath control is combined with a variety of bodily postures and dynamic physical movements ⏰ May 30 | 16:00 ~ 17:00 📍Rapenburg 59, Conference Room ⚠️ Please note that this event will not be streamed or recorded ➡️ For more information and registration, please visit: https://lnkd.in/eyxzVN6b #AsianStudies #IIAS_Leiden #IIAS #asian_studies #Leiden_university #Lecture

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 🔸 IIAS is pleased to announce the 8th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network ‘Negotiating Asian Borders: Actors, Displacements, Multiplicities, Sovereignties’. It will take place at Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan from 2-4 September 2025. 🔸 We invite conceptually innovative papers, based on fresh research, in order to develop new perspectives in the study of Asian borderlands and its broader geographical reach, especially connections to other world regions and continents. 🔸 One of the main goals of this conference is to spur collaboration and conversation across diverse fields in the hope of building up a more nuanced picture of the intersections and relationships across Asian borderlands. Submissions are therefore invited from scholars, writers, policy studies researchers, artists, filmmakers, activists, and journalists, among others. ⚠️ Please note that the submission deadline is November 1, 2024. ➡️ For more information, please contact Narutai Riangkruar at asianborderlands@iias.nl ➡️ For registration and more information, please visit: https://lnkd.in/ekwHm7vW #AsianStudies #IIAS_Leiden #IIAS #asian_studies #Leiden_university #Conference [Image taken by Ruba Al Akash, Director of Refugee Displaced Persons and Forced Migration Studies Centre Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan]

🔸 Dr. Karina Simonson is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies at Vilnius University, Lithuania. Dr. Simonson will be giving our next guest lecture. 🔸 The focus of this presentation is how China, its history, culture and people, are depicted in Soviet Lithuanian children's visual culture, while contextualizing them in the political context of Soviet-China relations. ⏰ 23 May 2024: 11.00 ~ 12.30 📍IIAS Conference Room, Rapenburg 59.   ⚠️ Please register for the event, as it will not be recorded.   ➡️For more information and registration, please visit https://lnkd.in/eE6eFjcH    #AsianStudies #IIAS_Leiden #IIAS #asian_studies #Leiden_university #event

🔸 The IIAS Conversation Sessions are back with another public event: ‘Nomadic Experiences: Scholars and Artists in Transient Communities’ 🔸 Join us for a thought-provoking public event as part of the IIAS Fellowship Programme activities. 🔸 This conversation explores the complex interplay within fellowship residency programs and their significant influence on knowledge production and artistic expression. ⏰ 22 May 2024: 16.00 ~ 17.30 📍IIAS Conference Room, Rapenburg 59. ⚠️ Please register for the event, as it will not be recorded. ➡️ For more information about the speakers, the topics, and registration, please visit https://lnkd.in/ebBVx7e8 #AsianStudies #IIAS_Leiden #IIAS #asian_studies #Leiden_university #event #ConversationSessions

🔸 One of IIAS’s next events is an open discussion about ‘Open Acces and Digital Libraries.’ 🔸 This event aims to discuss the reality of open access in academic research and the importance of digital libraries, including those that operate on the fringes of legality, challenging the notion of the right to knowledge. 🔸 We will be joined by Bodó Balázs (Institute for Information Law, UvA) and Dominik Haas (co-founder of The Initiative for Fair Open Access in South Asian Studies and IIAS/Gonda Research Fellow), who will both give a short presentation. The conversation will be moderated by Laura Erber (IIAS Fellowship Coordinator, Zazie Edições co-founder). ⏰ 21 May 2024: 15.00 ~ 16.30 📍IIAS Conference Room, Rapenburg 59. ⚠️ Please register for the event, as it will not be recorded. ➡️ For more information and registration, please visit https://lnkd.in/ezBCmUM9 #AsianStudies #IIAS_Leiden #IIAS #asian_studies #Leiden_university #event

🔸The next event in the Buddhist Lecture series is titled ‘A Buddhist “Heresy” in Myanmar: The Doctrine of the Sky-Blue One as the Original Teaching of the Buddha’ 🔸This is a talk given by Dr Niklas Foxeus, Associate Professor at the Department of History of Religions, ERG, Stockholm University, Sweden. 🔸This lecture is about conflicting views of Buddhist orthodoxy and heresy within the Sangha, the monastic community. The lecture will explore how Ashin Nyāna’s conflict with monastic authorities emerged in the early 1980s. ⏰ May 16 | 16.00 – 17.00 📍Conference room, Rapenburg 59 Leiden ⚠️ We will recording the lecture, but only the speaker and not the participants. If you cannot attend but would like to receive a link to the recording after the lecture, you may choose this option in the registration form. ➡️ For registration and more information, please visit https://lnkd.in/eTxCpbcD #AsianStudies #IIAS_Leiden #IIAS #asian_studies #Leiden_university

🔸 IIAS is hosting a roundtable event entitled ‘Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia’ 🔸 How and why do people tell stories? How do stories shape identities? Do narratives solely rely on words? What kinds of material and visual media are used to craft narratives? How have diasporic communities used storytelling as a means to create memory and preserve heritage? 🔸 The discussion will center around the notion that storytelling is a practice capable of shaping collective memory and envisioning future trajectories. 🔸 This roundtable is jointly organised by IIAS and the ERC-funded Purana project. ⏰ 14 May 2024: 11.00 ~ 13.00 📍IIAS Conference Room, Rapenburg 59.   ⚠️ Please register for the event, as it will not be recorded.   ➡️ For more information and registration, please visit https://lnkd.in/e7brbN3v   #AsianStudies #IIAS_Leiden #IIAS #asian_studies #Leiden_university #event

🔸 Last Friday, IIAS launched its 23rd interactive #Inspirational_Session hosted by IIAS’s new fellow, Yornel Martínez. 🖌️ The session started with Yornel sharing his experiences as an artist and his role in developing non-traditional networks for exchanging knowledge in Cuba. 🖌️After his talk the fellows and participants watched ‘Unfinished Spaces,’ a documentary film on the history of the National Art Schools in Cuba, now known as the Superior Institute of Art, or ISA, in which Yornel did his studies. Initiated by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in the 1960s, the project was later interrupted and the buildings remained unfinished. 🔸 These sessions are inclusive meetings in which fellows propose alternative ways to access their academic field and share their research interests with other fellows. #IIAS_Leiden #IIAS_AsianStudies #IIAS #Netherlands #asian_studies #Leiden_university #academia #Inspirational_Session

🔸 Leiden University's International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and Building Other Forms of Communicating the Academy (BOCA) project, invite submissions from university campuses around the world for Campus Speaks: a digital media arts competition. 🔸 Take a walk along your campus with a camera, a sketchbook, or search your university archives for photographs and audio-video clips of events, posters, murals and graffiti. 🔸 16 winning entries will receive a prize and an invitation to share their work in the digital storytelling repository of the Humanities Across Borders programme of the IIAS. ⚠️ To view the submission guidelines and submit an entry, scan the QR code or go to https://lnkd.in/eB-ZyxVs. ⏰ Deadline for submissions is August 10, 2024. #AsianStudies #IIAS_Leiden #IIAS #asian_studies #Leiden_university #HAB

🎙️New Podcast: Resource Extraction and State-Owned Enterprises🎙️ 🔹 This episode features Jewellord “Jojo” Nem Singh, Assistant Professor in International Development at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, and guest interviewer, Pietro Erber, who worked for Eletrobras and was a consultant for the World Bank and for the World Energy Council. 🔹 Their conversation touches on development, state-owned enterprises, and the political economy of resource extractivism, with a special focus on the case of Brazil. 🔹 Jojo and Pietro dive deep into the context of Brazil and its relationship to extraction, State-Owned Enterprises (SEOs), as well as corruption and the Lava Jato scandal in Brazil. 🔗 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/edbDkbmm ➡️ For more The Channel episodes, visit: https://lnkd.in/euFV-ACB #AsianStudies #IIAS_Leiden #IIAS #asian_studies #Leiden_university #Podcast #TheChannel [Photo courtesy of Agência Brazil, 2009]