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Across world orders: information, trust, control, and those in-between in the Qing-Tibetan relationship (1636-1727)
On Friday 16 May Juul Eijk successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Henk Schulte NordholtFaculty of Humanities
schultenordholt@kitlv.nl | 071 5272727
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Rethinking Javanese Islam: Towards New Descriptions of Javanese Traditions
Jochem van den Boogert defended his thesis on 18 November 2015
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Indonesian modern art historiography: national and transnational perspectives
On Wednesday 5 February 2025 Milan Ismangil successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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How a global carbon price would weaken Eastern European and Asian economies
Although seen as the fastest and cheapest way to global climate protection, a uniform global carbon price would have major consequences for the economic competitiveness of countries. Hauke Ward, who recently joined Leiden University, showed in the journal Energy Economics that modern western countries…
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Never-Neverland Revisited: Malay Adventure Stories
This study presents a re-evaluation of Malay adventure stories.
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Lindsay BlackFaculty of Humanities
l.black@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2218
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Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis seeks to explore the transnational and cultural dimensions of intra-Eurasian encounters through Dutch sources.
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Asia and the UN
Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.
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The construction of dynasties in Habsburg Spain and Safavid Iran
How did dynastic organization – that it, the employment of non-ruling family members and the development of dynastic traditions and concepts – influence state formation in both Catholic Europe and Muslim West-Asia?
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Dreaming the Path: Diagnosing Bodhisattva Progress in Early Mahāyāna
On Wednesday 23 October 2024 Yixiu Jiang successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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The Emergence of a New Ruling Elite in the Ottoman Empire. The Köprülü Household (1656-1687)
The emergence of the Köprülü household that imprinted its stamp on the latter half of the seventeenth century in the Ottoman Empire. What is the power struggle they carried out against Ottoman dynastic power?
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The cultural network: Javanese imaginings of Indonesia, 1918–1966
On Wednesday 21 May Adrian Perkasa successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Two new volumes 'Dutch Sources on South Asia'
Volume 4 and 5 of the Leiden series 'Dutch Sources on South Asia' are now available, written by Markus Vink (vol.4) and Carolien Stolte (vol.5).
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Pacific Alliance reaffirm cooperation between the two regional blocs
The ASEAN community formed by Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, and The Pacific Alliance formed by Chile, Colombia, México and Perú adopted the ASEAN-Pacific Alliance Work Plan (2021-2025) back in 2021.
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
n.k.wickramasinghe@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2982
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Round April 2018: Central Asia Fieldwork Grants for Leiden MA/MA Research Students
In 2018 the Central Asia Initiative at Leiden University offers several fieldwork grants to a max of 7,500 EUR. Only MA or MA Research students enrolled at Leiden University are eligible. The fieldwork should be carried out in one of the Central Asia countries by the end of 2018. The money can be used…
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Asia and Asians in the Netherlands
Brainstorm Session
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The agency of the Burgundian-Habsburg duchesses and the creation and continuation of court-city relations in the Low Countries (ca. 1430-1503)
In this project diverse aspects of the duchesses’ roles in the complex and dynamic relations between town and crown are studied on the basis of systematic research in the account books of four cities (Ghent, Bruges, Leuven and Mechelen) in the Burgundian Netherlands (ca. 1430-1503).
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Alumni event South and Southeast Asian Studies
Alumni event
- Study in Europe Malaysia and Asian Region
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Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact
This research project focuses on the extended documentation and investigation of these non-Austronesian (‘Papuan’) languages.
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Language archive of insular South East Asia and West New Guinea (Laiseang)
The Laiseang archiving project ensures the preservation of unique records of languages in the region which have been gathered by more than two dozen linguists at, and in collaboration with Dutch universities over the last 40 years.
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Alumnus Rennie Roos: ‘My work has more impact in Indonesia’
While studying Indonesian languages and cultures, Rennie Roos started a company. Today he has been working in Indonesia for more than eight years. Where does his love for this country come from? And how does he look back on his studies? ‘I actually wanted to become a pilot.’
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Reconstructing the past through languages of the present: The Lesser Sunda Islands
What can languages spoken in the Lesser Sunda Islands today tell us about the histories of its various population groups?
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Inspiring: Henriëtte studied at a Chinese university for five months
When Henriëtte Hoffman was ten years old she was enthralled by The Last Emperor, a 1987 film about the twelfth and last emperor of the Manchu dynasty. It was an interest that eventually led to a five-month stay in Chengde in China for her Asian Studies research master’s programme. During her time in…
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Extracurricular
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About the programme
The one-year master's programme Global Asian Studies, a specialisation of Leiden University’s MA in Asian Studies, allows you to create a tailor-made programme by choosing from a broad range of thematic, disciplinary or regional electives.
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People
LIAS is comprised of three research schools with expertise in different areas:
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Adam BubenFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
a.j.buben@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Scholar, Trader, Collector, Spy: Alternative Networks in the Himalayas (1850-1950)
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Network
Below you can find lists of Leiden-based and international organizations working on Central Asia, and an overview of useful resources on Central Asia.
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for South Asian Studies at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for East Asian Studies at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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AMT Network
Below you can find an overview of our network.
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Asia
Engagement between Asia and Europe is increasing. If these continents want to build a lasting relationship, they need to understand each other better in the economic, socio-cultural, historical and legal arena. Researchers from Leiden have already contributed to the body of knowledge on past and present…
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China’s long march to national rejuvenation: toward a Neo-Imperial order in East Asia?
In tracing the deeper historical roots of what Xi Jinping contemporarily frames as a “Chinese dream” of “wealth and power,” the article discerns key actors, events, and organizing principles in a long process toward restoring China’s deemed rightful place in the regional system.
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Networks and cooperations
Both on a personal and institutional level, the staff of Leiden CADS collaborates with:
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The Van Manen Collection: Locating Literature, Lived Religion, and Lives in the Himalayas
ERC Starting Grant: The Van Manen Project. This five year project (2023-2028) is made possible with an ERC Starting Grant. It aims to (digitally) reunite all parts of the Van Manen Collection. This enables us to study it as a whole, helping us to understand the process of collection formation. More…
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Partners
Links to related organisations, institutes, journals and archives.
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Southeast Asian Studies at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Forgotten Lineages. Afterlives of Dutch Slavery in the Indian Ocean World
Forgotten Lineages explores the paths through which generations of formally enslaved and their descendants gradually forgot their past of enslavement under Dutch and British imperial rule and became local subjects in Sri Lanka and South Africa. It explores why and how forgetting rather than memory became…
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Extracurricular
Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.