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#callforapplications The Olympia Summer Academy invites applications to its 24th edition, featuring two intensive courses: Geopolitical Risk Analysis and Global China. Dates: 14–19 July 2026 European Cultural Center of Delphi, Greece More info: tinyurl.com/3tpcaku4 #china #summeracademy #China

Are you a #PostDoc or #Professor seeking time to focus on your research in a vibrant, international community? Apply now for the FRIAS Fellowship Programme 2026/27! Deadline: 13 Sept 2025, 13:00 #Fellowship #AcademicJobs #CfA 🔗https://uni-freiburg.de/frias/funding/frias-fellowship-programmes/

On June 26, IIAS Director Philippe Peycam and colleagues visited the European Parliament in Brussels for a special meeting with Vice-President @omarjee Younous Omarjee (African and Southern Relations) and his team. #AA3 #AfricaAsia3 #ConFest #southsouthnorth #EU @unileiden.bsky.social

📢Press Release ✨AFRICA-ASIA 3 CONFEST 🗓️11-14 June 2025 🇸🇳 Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar (Senegal) 📃 Panels, Round Tables, Workshops, Performances, Concerts, Film Sessions and more ⬇️ Press release (English & French) tinyurl.com/mr2atyud @en.afp.com @reuters.com @ipsnews.net @apnews.com @afp.com

✨ The 100th edition of The Newsletter has been published! 💫 Read Online: ➡️ www.iias.asia/the-newslett... You can order your free copy by subscribing to our mailing list. www.iias.asia/subscribe #IIAS_Newsletter #IIAS_Leiden #IIAS_AsianStudies #IIAS #asian_studies @unileiden.bsky.social

Join in-person or online this hybrid seminar “Missionaries, Traders, and Cultural brokers: Africans and the making of modern Mumbai (1750-onwards)” by IIAS fellow Meera Venkatachalam. 01.05 | 10:30 ~ 12:00 Info/registration: tinyurl.com/4y69n5y7 #indianocean #asianstudies @leidenglobal.bsky.social

Guest lecture by Maaike Matelski ( VU Amsterdam) about ‘The state of Myanmar youth activism since the 2021 military coup’ . 24.04 - 11:15 ~ 12:15 hrs. More info & registration: tinyurl.com/6n5pfznk #asianstudies @unileiden.bsky.social #myanmar

🔸 In-person lecture about “Japanese Colonial Finance and Early Chinese Stock Exchanges” by Dr Bryna Goodman, (History Dept. at University of Oregon) ⏰ April 10 | 11:15 ~ 12:15 📍 Witte Singel 27A, Room 0.28, Leiden, NL 🌐 tinyurl.com/98v7des2 @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenglobal.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce that the Henry Luce Foundation has awarded IIAS and its Southeast Asian and African partners a groundbreaking educational new grant of US$420,000 that will support the programme ‘Southeast Asia-Africa Platform’ (SEA-A). 🌐 tinyurl.com/3w9p8seb @unileiden.bsky.social

CFP: 8th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN). Themes: ‘Negotiating Asian Borders: Actors, Displacements, Multiplicities, Sovereignties.’ ➡️ www.iias.asia/events/negot... 📍 Conference dates 13-15 Jan. 2026 at National Taiwan University in Taipei. ⚠️Deadline: 20 May 2025 #CFP

Hybrid Fellow seminar by Dr. Ming Luo about ‘Shades of Visibility: Lesbian Activism in Beijing, 1990–2009’. 20/03 | 13:30-15:00. Online or in-person in Leiden. Free event, please register here tinyurl.com/y6kswjz4 as space is limited! #AsianStudies #IIAS #asian_studies #Leiden_university

📢 Call for applications: Regenerating the Ngong River. A Journey of Riparian Planning, Renewal and Transformation 💧 ISEP 2025: a seven-day intensive in-situ engagement project in the city of Nairobi, Kenya ⚠️ Deadline:7 Febr 2025. ⏰ The in-situ event: 7-14 Sept. 2025 🔗 www.iias.asia/events/regen...

In this online #booktalk about "The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala", Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil discusses the conditions for the invisibilisation of the real-life #migrant experience in #Kerala. 30.01.2025 | 11:15 ~ 12:15 CEST Registration: www.iias.asia/events/gulf-...

[IIAS Call for applications] Professorial Fellowship Chair of Taiwan Studies at Leiden University. DL: 15 Febr 2025 #taiwanstudies #taiwan @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenglobal.bsky.social www.iias.asia/professorial...

CFP: ESCAS 2025 Regional Conference – “Moving Central Eurasian Studies ever further: Orthodox vs Unorthodox approaches” (12-15 June 2025) Note the Extended Deadline: 5 January 2025 and new dates (12-15 June 2025) #CFP #eurasia #conference #ESCAS centraleurasia.org/escas-2025-r...

Relocating the Tamil Yoginis: The Shifting Status of a Temple Town. Hybrid (lunch) lecture by Dr Emma Stein, Ass. Curator of Southeast and South Asian Art at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. In-person & online. 14.01.2025 #art #museums #asia #cities www.iias.asia/events/reloc...

#booklaunch of "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization" by Kevin D. Pham @SPUI25 in Amsterdam on Monday 28 October 2024, 20:00 hrs. spui25.nl/programma/th...

[Call for Proposals] Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge. ConFest 3 tinyurl.com/2jdyzfbr For the upcoming Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge Conference-Festival 3 in Dakar (Senegal), we are inviting proposals in English, French and Portuguese. #callforproposals #confest

tinyurl.com/3m3n6yuh Humanities Across Borders in effect. You do not have to be in a building to be in University. Connecting students involved in Myanmar's Civil Disobedience Movement wit Leiden University College students #GlobalEducation #leidenuniversity #InnovativeEducation

Join us for our upcoming lecture on ‘Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam’ ⏰ April 10 | 11:00 ~ 12:00 📍Rapenburg 59 Leiden ➡️ Registration @ iias.asia/events/morph... #AsianStudies #IIAS_Leiden #IIAS #asian_studies #Leiden_university

Join us for the upcoming lunch lecture: 'Bodhisattva in the guise of piśāca ('goblin')' by Dr. Dmittri Komissarov 🗓️ March 21 | 11:00 ~ 12:00 🏢 Rapenburg 59, IIAS conference room ➡️ For info and registration, visit: www.iias.asia/events/bodhi...

Post-doctoral and Senior research fellowships opportunities at the OSUN Forum on Democracy and Development. 32 open positions for an 8-month residential fellowship program between October 1, 2024, and May 30, 2025. More information: cutt.ly/WwS0nm60 osunforum.ceu.edu