[IIAS] The Update | Oct 2025

Discover our 13 upcoming events and new pod cast and blog content. Become a guest blogger yourself!

View this email in your browser Dear Mr Updtes, discover our latest online and in-person events, Humanities Across Borders updates, and new podcast and blog content. Want to contribute? Share your research and ideas with our global audience and networks as a guest blogger – we'd love to hear from you! Events 8th ABRN Conference - Registration  Negotiating Asian Borders: Actors, Displacements, Multiplicities, Sovereignties Conference Venue and Date: National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 13-15 Jan 2026 You can benefit from the early-bird registration fees until 1 November 2025 Hybrid Lecture Youths in Frame: Indigenous Filipino Children and Transnational Display at the 1904 World's Fair Speaker: Enrico Joaquin Lapuz (IIAS-HAB) Date & Time: 28 Oct 2025, 11:00 - 12:30 CEST Venue: Online and IIAS Conference Room Internal Networking Event Joint Post-Doctoral Fellows Gathering IIAS and KITLV invite all fellows from IIAS, ASCL, KITLV, NINO and the Scaliger Institute/Asian Library to this informal networking meeting Date & Time: 29 October 2025, 15:30 - 17:30 CET Venue: Herta Mohr Building, Witte Singel 27A, Leiden, The Netherlands  Hybrid Book Launch Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West - Care of the Self (Volume III) Speaker(s): to be announced Date & Time: 30 Oct 2025, 12:30-15:00 CET Venue: Online and ASCL Seminar Room, Leiden University A lunch will be served to in-person attendees who register by 26 October.  Humanities Across Borders Conversation Session (hybrid) Decentring Wax Print Discussions: Production, Marketing, and Consumption in West Africa Speakers: Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie (Centre for Cultural and African Studies, KNUST, Ghana); Malika Kraamer (University of Leicester, UK), Priya Swamy (curator, Wereldmuseum Leiden, NL) Date & Time: 5 Nov 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 CET Venue: Online via Zoom and IIAS Conference Room Online Conference Trump 2.0: US Policy Towards Asia Hosted by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs (RSAA) in partnership with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Association (FCDOA) and IIAS Date & Time: 6 -7 Nov 2025, 13:00 - 17:00 GMT Venue: Online Hybrid Guest Lecture  Case Closed?: Physician-Patient Encounters in American Colonial Philippines Speaker: Bianca Angelien Aban Claveria (Institute for History, Leiden University, NL) Date & Time: 6 Nov 2025, 11:00 - 12:30 CET Venue: Online and IIAS Conference Room Hybrid Guest Lecture Retheorising Creativity and Authenticity of Fashion in Kenya Speaker: Tommy Tse, University of Amsterdam (UvA), NL Date & Time: 13 Nov 2025, 14:00 - 15:30 CET Venue: Online via Zoom and IIAS Conference Room Online River Cities Network Presentation Rcrisp: a tool for automated morphological delineation of urban river spaces Speakers: Claudiu Forgaci (Delft University of Technology, NL); Francesco Nattino (Netherlands eScience Center); and Yehan Wu (Delft University of Technology, NL) Date & Time: 18 Nov 2025, 15:00 - 16:00 CET Venue: Online via Teams Online Book Launch The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War Speakers: Tze-ki Hon and Ying-kit Chan (editors) Date & Time: 25 Nov 2025, 11:00 - 12:30 CET Venue: Online via Zoom Hybrid Book Talk An Encroaching Sea: Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India 1860-1950 Speaker: Devika Shankar  Date & Time: 27 Nov 2025, 15:00 - 17:00 CET Venue: Online and Lipsius Building, Leiden University (NL) Discussion - 1st RCN Online Book Club event Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane's (2025) Discussant: Tatiana Thieme (Geography, UCL) Date & Time: 9 Dec 2025, 15:00 CET Venue: Online via Teams  Seminar New Perspectives on the Presentation of Japanese Art II Organised by The Heinz Kaempfer Fund (HKF) and IIAS. Date & Time: 11 Dec 2025,  10:00 - 16:45 CET Venue: Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands Registration Deadline: 1 Dec 2025   Humanities Across Borders (HAB) HAB in Classroom A Shared Classroom: Exploring The Social Determinants of Health In The Netherlands, Myanmar, and Gaza The Social Determinants of Health (SDH) are non-medical conditions that shape health and well-being, determined by where people are born, live, work, and age, and influenced by economic and political systems. SDH is taught at Leiden University College (LUC) as a shared classroom, allowing students to collaborate with students from Virtual Federal University in Myanmar and Gaza.   HAB Workshop Exploring Nuances of Spoken Language with Word-Stories  On 26 September, IIAS organised a multilingual workshop as part of Leiden University's "Evening of Languages" event, focusing on the use of words in translation.  Reflection Ritus Liyan (Mundane Rites) 2: Mentorship as Curation  From April 28 to May 2, the Airlangga Institute for Indian Ocean Crossroads (AIIOC) held its second Ritus Liyan workshop and exhibition in Kampung Lumpur, Gresik, Indonesia. Titled "Coastal Superposition," the five-day event brought together eight artists, researchers, and cultural activists to collaborate with locals, creating artistic representations and reflecting on everyday coastal rituals and practices. Photo Essay Africans in contemporary Mumbai: Rethinking ideas of migration and diaspora from the Global South Over the last seven decades, a multiethnic, multi-country African presence has developed in the western Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). This community consists primarily of people from anglophone countries – Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania – the legacy of a shared colonial past with India.   The Blog The Blog is an initiative of the International Institute for Asian Studies, offering an online platform where people like you can freely discuss topics in your field.  Become a Guest Blogger Maybe you have insights on current events, fieldwork stories, or want to explore themes with colleagues? The Blog offers a space for swift yet rigorous, informal but critical exchange. 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