Event — Symposium

IIAS Fellow Symposium

29 November 2007

29/11/2007 - 09:00

29 November 2007
9.00 - 17.00 hrs

Leiden, the Netherlands

Chair: Dr Gerard Persoon

9.00 - 9.10Introduction by Dr Manon Osseweijer, IIAS
Coordinator of Academic Affairs

9.10 - 10.00 Melody Lu, MA (Taiwan)
Social Exclusion and Negotiation Strategies of Marriage Migrants in Taiwan
Discussant: Prof. Dr Carla Risseeuw

10.00 - 10.50 Dr Masae Kato (Japan)
A comparative study on socio-genetic marginalisation: Japan in ‘Asia' in relation to
the ‘West' as a reference group
Discussant: Dr Prasanna Kumar Patra

11.00 - 11.10 Coffee Break

Chair: Dr Manon Osseweijer

11.10 – 12.00

Dr Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (India)
Decolonisation and its anxieties: Politics of transition in West Bengal (India), 1947-52
Discussant: Dr Wouter Hugenholtz

12.00 – 12.50 Dr Allessandro Graheli (Italy)
Theology and Aesthetics in GauDIya VaiSNavism
Discussant: Dr Saraju Rath

12.50 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 14.50 Dr Irina Morozova (Russia)
The Transformation of Political Elites in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia, 1924-2007: A Comparative Historical Analysis
Discussant: Prof. Dr Touraj Atabaki

14.50 – 15.40 Dr Sakamoto Hiroko (Japan)
The Shanghai Modern Girls Represented in the Cartoon Magazines of the Period of Republic China
Discussant: Prof. Dr Chris Goto-Jones

15.40 – 15.50 Coffee Break

15.50 – 16.40 Dr Alex McKay (New Zealand)
Lecture & Book launch: Their Footprints Remain: Biomedical Beginnings across the Indo-Tibetan Frontier
Discussant: Prof. Dr Harm Beukers

16.40 – 17.00 Book launch ‘Global Indian Diasporas: Exploring Trajectories of Migration and Theory’ by Dr Gijsbert Oonk (editor)

17.00 Drinks – Babbels (Boisotkade 1, Leiden)
Einde

Venue
Plexus Student Centre
Kaiserstraat 25
2311 GN Leiden

For further information
Ms Saskia Jans
Fellowship Coordinator
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
T + 31-71 527 54 90
iiasfellowships@let.leidenuniv.nl