We will ensure readers are kept knowledgeable about these thrilling new developments. The coaching initiative will likely be developed in collaboration with Leiden University’s Asian Modernity and Tradition Profi le. As the host of ICAS’s secretariat, IIAS is proud to be involved in such a significant enterprise in collaboration with our partners from the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) in the United States. An extra fellowship place, the results of an unique collaboration between IIAS and the Nalanda-Srivijaya Centre at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, focuses on intra-Asian connectivities within the age of the European colonial presence. Finally, with our European Alliance colleagues on the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris, we are presently making ready a sequence of focused dialogues on post-colonial legacies. In all these activities, IIAS’s imaginative and prescient remains clear and echoes the points outlined in my fi rst word: IIAS needs to play a task not solely as a clearing house between Europe and Asia, but in addition between the established fi elds of humanities and social sciences and the fast remodeling societies of Asia. Thinking forward, IIAS is determined to pursue this eff ort, by additional anchoring the ICAS community in Asia in a method that it refl ects the fast transformations which can be going down there – with a new era of students and specialists emerging from the foremost powerhouses which are China, Japan and India, and the less properly-known eff orts achieved in smaller and sometimes poorer countries of the vast continental ensemble.
This latter initiative refl ects IIAS’s new interest in the structure of strategic partnerships with our Asian pals. In the meantime, we urge you to keep promoting the associated fee-free IIAS Newsletter among circles of mates and colleagues each in its electronic and its printed format. In October, IIAS and the Nanyang Technology University in Singapore will co-manage a roundtable addressing the longstanding interactions existing between the different scientific traditions of the Eurasian continent, from Europe to East Asia, together with traditions from South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean world. In July, we’ll work with the Indonesian federal and local authorities and the Pacifi c Rim Council on Urban Development to deal with the crucial situation of rising sea water ranges and the impact on the social fabric of Indonesia’s coastal cities. We look forward to persevering with that will help you in your work on/in Asia. We count on to conduct comparable high-profi le training classes for promising younger students annually on a serious topic related to Asia and Europe. This distinctive occasion brought members of academic communities together with cultural practitioners from Asia and Europe to overtly discuss the philosophy and politics of cultural heritage with a view to proposing new approaches and policies.
Among the concepts discussed by the individuals from 17 nationalities ranging from Pakistan to Denmark, was that of setting up a excessive degree coaching platform that would enable scholars and practitioners to develop “situational” methodologies in cultural heritage. Other new concepts embrace the development of special rubrics, sometimes worked out in collaboration with our Asian companions and aimed at rendering a various expression of what’s being finished in the fi eld by native researchers and cultural leaders. These will touch on numerous nonetheless-sensitive points such as the writing of a typical historical past, the development of put up-colonial identities in each Europe and its former colonies, and the advanced social confi gurations born out of colonization and decolonization processes. 2011 may also see IIAS arrange a collection of thrilling conferences following the identical interactive format as that of the Amsterdam roundtable. As in the past, the Newsletter will proceed to give attention to specifi c topics and highlights. With an agenda espousing a few of the principle contemporary points aff ecting Asia, IIAS hopes to strike a stability between matters and pursuits of fast social relevance and people calling for refl ections and actions anchored within the lengthy intellectual tradition of trade between Europe and Asia.