IIAS Newsletter 43 Spring 2007

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The Master Class on “Comparative Intellectual Histories of the Early Modern World” was held at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden in May-June, 2006. The idea of a master class – assembling a team of scholars to discuss recent advances in a field with doctoral and postdoctoral students – is the brain child of IIAS’s former director, Wim Stokhof, and I express my thanks to him for his vision and energy in making this intellectual experiment possible.

Contents #43
2 Director's note
Max Sparreboom (Director, IIAS)
3 Announcements

 

Comparative Intellectual Histories of Early Modern Asia
1 & 4 We need to find what we are not looking for / Sheldon Pollock
5-6 Early modern classicism and late imperial China / Benjamin A. Elman
7 On Islam and comparative intellectual history / Michael Cook
8 The problem of early modernity in the Sanskrit intellectual tradition / Sheldon Pollock
9 The historiography of protest in late Mamluk and early Ottoman Egypt and Syria / Amina Elbendary
10 Can we speak of an 'early modern' world? / Peter Burke
11 Opening the gate of verification: intellectual trends in the 17th century Arab-Islamic world / Khaled El-Rouayheb
12 Early modern Sanskrit thought and the quest for a perfect understanding of property / Ethan Kroll
13 Saying one thing, doing another? / Gijs Kruijtzer

 

Research
14 Empires and exact sciences in pre-modern Eurasia / Kim Plofker
15 Fiction is philosophy: interview with Lulu Wang / Tao Yue
16 A new research culture for the marginalised in Bangladesh / Jos van Beurden
17 Beyond economics: transnational labour migration in Asia and the Pacific / Toon van Meijl

 

Photo Essay
18-19 Punjabis in East Africa

 

Book Reviews
20 Books received
21 Britain, Southeast Asia and the Korean War / Thomas Crump
21 China's Tibet: marginalisation through development? / Alpo Ratia
22 A slow road to regionalism / Mark Beeson
23 Chinese experience of the Korean War / Adam Cathcart
24 On archives / Mark Turin
25 Living heritage: vernacular architecture in China / Marcel Vellinga
26 Female and single: negotiating personal and social boundaries in Indonesian society / Muhammed Hassanali
27 State and society in the Philippines / Niels Mulder
28 Kerala's cashew workers / Manja Bomhoff
29 Habermas in India / Hans Schenk

 

Institutional News
30-31 ICAS 5 Update and ICAS book prize
32 IIAS fellows
33 IIAS research
34-35 Asia Alliance and Announcements
36-37 Arts agenda
38-39 International conference agenda
40 Colophon
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