Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, ISEAS

Past Events

I. Conferences & Workshops
II. Inauguration of the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre
III. Book Launch: Nagapattinam to Suvarnadwipa
IV. Special Events
V. The Nalanda-Sriwijaya Lecture Series
VI. The ACM-NSC Lecture Series
VII. The NSC-Buddhist Lodge Lecture Series
VIII. The NSC-ArtScience Museum Lecture Series
IX. NSC Archaeology Unit Lecture Series

I. Conferences & Workshops

Date	Title
25 March 2013	ECAI Atlas of Maritime Buddhist Project
	Programme/E-flyer (pdf)	Photos

7-8 December 2012	Asia-Europe Encounters: Intellectual and Cultural Exchanges, 1900-1950
	Programme (pdf)	E-flyer (pdf)	Photos

26 November 2012	Roundtable: Rethinking the Asian Century with the Arts
	Programme (pdf)	E-flyer (pdf)

11-13 October 2012	3rd Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network: Connections, Corridors, and Communities
	Programme (pdf)

23-24 July 2012	[INDIA-CHINA DIALOGUE] Visions, Individuals and Networks: India-China Connections, 1900 -1960
	Programme (pdf)	E-flyer (pdf)

4-5 July 2012	[INDIA-CHINA DIALOGUE] Image and Perceptions: The Role of Media in India–China Relations
	E-flyer/programme (pdf)	Concept note

28-29 June 2012	International Conference on Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours
	Programme (pdf)	E-flyer (pdf)	Invitation letter (Word)

18-19 June 2012	New Research in Cham Studies: An International Conference
	Conference description (MS Word)	Conference programme (pdf)

13-14 February 2012	Early Myanmar and Its Global Connections: An International Conference
	Conference programme (Word)	Banner (pdf)	E-flyer (pdf)
	Speech by Union Minister, Ministry of Information and Ministry of Culture (pdf)	Conference Photos	Photos of Bagan in 1976 (ppt)
	Feature article about the conference (pdf)

15-16 December 2011	Conference on Buddhist Revival in Asia
	Conference programme	E-flyer	Photos

7 December 2011	Workshop on Past and Present: Voices of South Asian Women in Malaysia and Singapore
	Conference programme	E-flyer	Photos

31 October - 4 November 2011	International Conference on “Asian Encounters: Networks of Cultural Interaction” and Book Launch of "Early Interactions between South and Southeast Asia"
	Inaugural programme (pdf)	Conference programme (pdf)	Schedule of panels 1-3 (pdf)

10-15 October 2011	Workshop on the Historical and Cultural Interactions between India and China
	Conference programme (pdf)	E-flyer (jpg)

11-12 June 2011	Angkor and Its Global Connections: An International Conference
	Conference description (pdf)	Conference programme (pdf)	E-flyer (jpg)
	Photos

10 - 11 March 2011	Buddhist Dynamics in Premodern Southeast Asia
	Call for papers (pdf)	Conference programme (pdf)	Photos

21 - 22 February 2011	Empires and Networks: Maritime Asian Experiences 9th to 19th Centuries
	Workshop description (pdf)	Photos	Conference programme

12 August 2010	The Re-emergence of Asia: The West and Asia in the Post-Vasco da Gama Era
	E-flyer (pdf)

28 - 29 July 2010	Global Crossroads: The Port Clusters of Southeast Asia and the Middle East
	Call for papers (pdf)	Invitation letter (pdf)	Conference programme (pdf)
	Photos

02 - 03 July 2010	[INDIA-CHINA DIALOGUE] Image and Perceptions: The Role of The Media in India-China Relations
	Flyer (pdf)

24 - 25 May 2010	Theravada Buddhism Under Colonialism: Adaptation And Response
	Call for papers (pdf)	Invitation form (pdf)	Registration form (doc)
	Conference programme (pdf)

11 - 13 May 2010	An Age in Motion: The Asian Voyages of Rabindranath Tagore
	Call for papers (pdf)	Invitation letter (pdf)	Registration form (doc)
	Conference programme (pdf)	Conference brochure (pdf)	Keynote address by Sugata Bose (pdf)
	Photos	Press

23 April 2010	60 Years of Diplomatic Relations between India and China: Perspectives from History, Culture, Economy, and Diplomacy
	Announcement (pdf)

27 - 29 January 2010	Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives
	Workshop announcement (pdf)	Workshop programme (pdf)	Photos

04 - 06 December 2009	India, China and Asia: Geo-Civilizational Perspectives
	Conference programme (pdf)

20 - 21 November 2009	Eurasian Influences on Yuan China: Cross-Cultural Transmissions in the 13th and 14th Centuries
	Workshop programme (pdf)

16 - 18 February 2009	Buddhism Across Asia: Networks of Material, Intellectual and Cultural Exchange
	Conference programme (pdf)	Conference report

II. Inauguration of the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre

11 August 2009	Official Inauguration of the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre
	Inauguration speeches (pdf)
	Press articles	Photos

III. Book Launch: Nagapattinam to Suvarnadwipa

27 January 2010	Nagapattinam to Suvarnadwipa : Reflections on the Chola Naval Expeditions to Southeast Asia
	Book Launch flyer (pdf)	Photos

IV. Special Events

30 April 2012	Nalanda University: A Motherplan for the Campus of the 21st Century
	E-flyer

25 April 2012	Book Launch of "Anthony Reid and the Study of the Southeast Asian Past"
	E-flyer	Photos

30 January 2012	An Afternoon with Zheng He (talks, video, discussion)
	E-flyer	Photos

13 December 2011	Road to Delhi: Gandhi in 1947
	Speakers: Anjana Sharma and Gopa Sabharwal
	E-flyer

11 October 2011	In-house Seminar: The Role of the Myanmar Ministry of Culture and its Ongoing Cultural Preservation Projects
	Speaker: Daw Nanda Hmun, Director-General, Department of Historical Research, Ministry of Culture, Myanmar
	Photos

5-8 May 2011	2nd Asian Buddhist Film Festival
	Press articles

5 May 2011	Presentation of a Bust of Tagore to Commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev
	Invitation (pdf)	Photos	Press articles

16-17 April 2011	Rabindranath Tagore's Daak Ghar—The Post Office
	Play description (pdf)

30 March 2011	Panel 130: Global Crossroads – Religious Expansion across Asian Borders: Networks and Mediations (2011 ICAS/AAS Meeting in Hawaii)
	Panel proposal and abstracts

11 March 2011	Anweshana III - The Search for Nalanda (NUS Indian Dance)
	E-flyer (jpg)

12 August 2010	Inaugural NSC Annual Lecture by Lord Meghnad Desai
	"The Re-emergence of Asia: The West and Asia in the Post-Vasco da Gama Era"
	E-flyer (pdf)	Photos

13 January 2011	Inaugural Lecture of the Singapore Consortium for India-China Dialogue by HE Nirupama Rao
	"Rabindranath Tagore's Vision of India and China: A 21st Century Perspective" (pdf)
	Flyer (pdf)	Programme (pdf)	Invitation letter (pdf)
	Photos	"India Perspectives" Commentary (pdf)

V. The Nalanda-Sriwijaya Lecture Series

Date	Speaker	Lecture Title
12 April 2013	Albert Tzeng	Framing Sociology in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore
		Announcement

27 March 2013	Ding Ming Choo	Historical Migration as Reflected in the Spread of Malay Pantun
		Announcement

29 November 2012	Risha Lee	Tamil Merchants in India and China
		Announcement

27 November 2012	Amitav Ghosh	China and the Making of Modern India: A Story of Fantasy, Abuse and Recovered Memory
		Announcement

2 July 2012	Dorothy Wong	The Transmission of Buddhist Art: Jianzhen's Travels to Japan
		Announcement

22 May 2012	Alexey Kirichenko	Political Expansion, Maritime Trade, and Religious Practitioners on the Move: Revival of Interactions between Burma and Lanka in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
		Announcement

2 May 2012	Nicolas Weber	Exploring Cam Narrative Sources for the History of the Cam Diaspora in Cambodia
		Announcement

23 April 2012	Ruurdje Laarhoven	The Decline of the VOC Trade in Indian Textiles to Southeast Asia in the 17th Century
		Announcement

18 April 2012	Bernard Arps	Bhīma Meets Vairocana: Java in Asia, Religious Doctrine, and the Quest
		Announcement

5 April 2012	Valerie Hansen	A New History of the Silk Road
		Announcement

20 March 2012	Christoph Marcinkowski	Persians in Thailand: From the Ayutthaya Period to the Present
		Announcement

14 March 2012	Wong Yee Tuan	Penang's Hokkien Traders and Their Networks in the Entrepot Age, 1820s-1890s
		Announcement

17 January 2012	Mohamed Effendy bin Abdul Hamid	Islamization and the Rise of New Power Groups in Cam History
		Announcement

28 October 2011	Kunal Basu	Fictional History: Realism and Fantasy in Historical Novels
		Announcement	Photos

21 October	Thaw Kaung	Recovering a Lost Myanmar Contemporary Account of the Fall of Ayutthaya in 1767
		Announcement	Photos

20 October	William Radice	Talk, Book Signing and Launch of Radice's Translation of Tagore's Gitanjali
		Announcement	Photos

1 October 2011	Kunal Basu	Fictional History: Realism and Fantasy in Historical Novels
		Announcement

30 September 2011	Om Prakash	Intra-Asian Trade in Indian Textiles in the 17th Century
		Announcement	Photos

6 September 2011	Daud Ali	The Death of a Friend: Affiliation and Loyalty in Early Chola Times
		Announcement	Photos

22 August	Chau Sun Kérya and Ly Vanna	Cambodia Forum: Lecture 1: What is the Cultural Meaning of Angkor for Khmer People today Lecture 2: Samrong Sen: The Earliest Flooded Settlement Site in Central Cambodia
		Announcement	Photos

18 August	Kerry Sieh and Anthony Reid	Seismology and History in Sumatra and Java
		Announcement	Photos

16 August 2011	Wang Yuanfei	Images and Narratives of Java in Late Ming China
		Announcement	Photos

21 July 2011	Yao Jue	A Study of the Dai Lue Buddhist Idea of “This World” presented in the Palm-leaf Scripture The Ten Blessings for Buddha’s Mother Pussadī in the light of the importance of the Vessantara Jataka among the Dai Lue in Sipsongbanna, Yunnan
		Announcement (pdf)	Photos

26 May 2011	Ravindra K Jain	Anthropology and Diaspora Studies: A New Frontier
		Announcement (pdf)	Photos

22 Mar 2011	Naoko Iioka	Making Merit, Pursuing Profit: The Case Of A Fujian Diasporic Community In Seventeenth-Century Nagasaki
		Announcement (pdf)

9 Mar 2011	Alexey Kirichenko	The Effects of Patronage and Buddhist Lay – Monastic Interactions in Upper Myanmar (Burma) from the 17th to 19th Centuries
		Announcement (pdf)

4 Mar 2011	Donald Stadtner	Mon and Burmese Foundation Myths and the Forging of a National Identity
		Announcement (pdf)

28 Feb 2011	Dominik Bonatz	Rethinking Early State Formation Processes in Asia: Two Case Studies From Ancient Syria and Indonesia
		Announcement (pdf)

17 Jan 2011	Gopa Sabharwal	The Nalanda University: Past, Present and Prospects
		Announcement (pdf)	Photos

10 Jan 2011	Adam McKeown	Chinese and Indian Migration in Global Context, 1840-1940
		Announcement (pdf)

02 Dec 2010	Noboru Karashima	The Importance of Indian Epigraphy: The Emergence of Medieval South Indian Society as Revealed by the Change in Imprecations in Tamil Inscriptions
		Announcement (pdf)	Interview (pdf)

06 Oct 2010	Frederick M. Asher	Replicating Bodhgaya: The origins of Mahabodhi temple replicas in Southeast Asia
		Announcement (pdf)

21 Sep 2010	Gitanjali Surendran	Anagarika Dharmapala, the Mahabodhi Society and the Buddhist World: The Making of Modern Buddhism in India and beyond, c. 1891-1956
		Announcement (pdf)

15 Sep 2010	Pierre-Yves Manguin	From Proto-History to Buddhism: The Batujaya Site Complex in West Java
		Announcement (pdf)

06 Sep 2010	Shantum Seth	“The Path of the Buddha” and Buddhism in India
		Announcement (pdf)

26 Aug 2010	Anne M. Blackburn	Buddhist Networks in Colonial Lanka and Southeast Asia: Ritual and Resistance
		Announcement (pdf)

04 Aug 2010	Daniel Perret	Interactions between Sumatra and South Asia (12th – mid-17th c.)
		Announcement (pdf)

22 July 2010	Jayani Bonnerjee	Different Cosmopolitianisms: Comparing Religous Spaces in Chinatowns of Kolkata and Singapore
		Announcement (pdf)

21 July 2010	Kenneth Dean	Networks of the Gods: Mapping the Chinese Temples of Singapore Using GIS Technology
		Announcement (pdf)

15 July 2010	Nick Burningham	EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY: Recreating an Ancient Treasure Ship
		Announcement (pdf)

14 July 2010	Yinghong Cheng	The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Decline of Singapore’s Barisan Sosialis
		Announcement (pdf)

22 June 2010	Anand Yang	'Near China Beyond the Seas Far Far Distant from Juggermath': The Mid-Nineteenth Century Exile of Guru Bhai Maharaj Singh in Singapore
		Announcement (pdf)

18 May 2010	Lipi Ghosh	Tai Cultural Heritage in Northeast India: The Tai Ahoms in Assam
		Announcement (pdf)

03 May 2010	Thomas Borchert	Relocating the Center of a Sangha?: Minority Buddhists, Local Politics and the Construction of a New Temple in Southwest China
		Announcement (pdf)

15 Apr 2010	Coonoor Kripalani	Filmic Representations of the Overseas Indian and Chinese Communities: Looking at Films of the 1990s and Onwards
		Announcement (pdf)

14 Apr 2010	Emiko Stock	Visualizing Cham Diversity in Cambodia: Oscillating between Photography and Ethnography
		Announcement (pdf)

4 Mar 2010	Kwa Chong Guan	The Buddhist Origins of “Singapura”: Re-reading Chapters 1-6 of the Sejarah Melayu on the Founding of “Singapura”
		Announcement (pdf)	Powerpoint slides (ppt, 1.23MB)

21 Dec 2009	Peter van der Veer	The Value of Comparison: Asian Religions in Comparative Perspective
		Announcement (pdf)	Audio recording, with introduction by Tansen Sen (mp3, 80MB)
		Photos

01 Dec 2009	Michael Flecker	Assorted Treasures: A Millennium of Shipwreck Artifacts and the Stories they Tell
		Announcement (pdf)

18 Nov 2009	Rachel Loizeau	Hindu Visual Narratives In Ancient Khmer Temples: The Baphuon Temple at Angkor Thom
		Announcement (pdf)	Photos

07 Oct 2009	Sukanta Chaudhuri	Tagore Looks East
		Announcement (pdf)

01 Oct 2009	Huang Jing	Securing Future Development: India and China at the Crossroads
		Announcement (pdf)	Speaker's notes (pdf)	Audio recording, with introduction by Geoff Wade (mp3, 91.6MB)

30 Sep 2009	Stephen Davies	Maritime Museums? Who Needs Them?
		Announcement (pdf)	Lecture paper (pdf)

10 Sep 2009	Horst Liebner	The Siren of Cirebon: A 10th Century Trading Vessel Lost in the Java Sea
		Announcement (pdf)	Powerpoint slides (ppt, 352MB)

09 Sep 2009	Prasenjit Duara	Asia Redux: Conceptualizing the Region for Our Times
		Announcement (pdf)	Photos

13 Aug 2009	Takeshi Hamashita	Divergences between Nanyang and Overseas Chinese Studies in the Era of Globalisation
		Announcement (pdf)

13 Jul 2009	Sugata Bose	Turbulent Passages from the Indian Ocean across the Pacific: Negotiating the Cross-Currents of Global and Inter-Regional Histories
		Announcement (pdf)

08 Jun 2009	Anthony Reid	Asian Nationalism, Asian Globalism: The Historian's Contemporary Responsibility
		Announcement (pdf)	Speaker's notes (doc)
		Lecture paper (doc)	Audio recording, with introduction by Geoff Wade (mp3, 95.4mb)

05 May 2009	John M. Hobson	Provincializing Globalization: Eastern Origins of Globalization and Western Modernity
		Announcement (pdf)	Audio recording, with introduction by Tansen Sen (mp3, 83.2MB)

23 Apr 2009	John Miksic	The Buddhist-Hindu Divide in Premodern Southeast Asia
		Announcement (pdf)	Audio recording, with introduction by Tansen Sen (mp3, 116MB)

VI. The ACM-NSC Lecture Series

Date	Speaker	Lecture Title
19 August	Romila Thapar	Historical Writing in Early India
		Announcement	Photos

17 August	Romila Thapar	Alternative Stories of Rama: Why Did They Emerge in the 1st Millennium BCE
		Announcement	Photos

21 June 2011	Thomas Hunter	Sanskrit in the Archipelago: Translation, Vernacularization and Translocal Identity
		Announcement (pdf)	Photos

19 Jan 2011	Vittorio Roveda	Buddhist Iconography in Southeast Asia
		Announcement (pdf)

04 May 2010	Carl Vadivella Belle	Murugan – A 'Dravidian' Deity – and the Tamil Diaspora
		Announcement (pdf)

07 Apr 2010	Thomas Borchert	The Dai of China: Theravada Buddhism in Yunnan
		Announcement (pdf)

26 Feb 2010	Arlo Griffiths	New Light on the Ancient Records of Campa (Vietnam)
		Announcement (pdf)

22 Oct 2009	E. Edwards McKinnon	The Archaeology of Buddhist Sumatra
		Announcement (pdf)

16 Sep 2009	Elizabeth Moore	New Archaeological Evidence from the Southern Silk Road: debating the origins of bronze production in Myanmar
		Announcement (pdf)

09 July 2009	Pierre-Yves Manguin	The expansion of Vaishnavism: religion, trade and state in early historic Southeast Asia
		Announcement (pdf)	Photos

04 June 2009	Tansen Sen	Why Buddhism and Not Hinduism?: Reexamining the Successful Transmission of Buddhism to China
		Announcement (pdf)


VII. The NSC-Buddhist Lodge Lecture Series
Date	Speaker	Lecture Title
20 July 2011	Yao Jue	雲南佛教的歷史與經典 (The History and Texts of Yunnan Buddhism)
		Announcement (pdf)	Photos

10 May 2010	Wang Bangwei	Nālandā and Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim Monks
		Announcement - English (pdf) Annoncement - Chinese (pdf)

27 Apr 2010	John Miksic	Buddhist Archaeology and the ISEAS Archaeology Unit
		Announcement - English (pdf) Announcement - Chinese (pdf)	Powerpoint (ppt, 7.1 MB)

02 Nov 2009	Yuan Quan	From Demon to Deity: The Diffusion and Transformation of Fertility Goddess Hāritī in East and Southeast Asia
		Announcement - English (pdf) Announcement - Chinese (pdf)	Photos

10 Oct 2009	Zhang Xing	The Beliefs and Practices of Buddhism among the Chinese Community in Kolkata, India
		Announcement (pdf)

VIII. The NSC-ArtScience Museum Lecture Series

Date Speaker Lecture Title

1 October 2011 Victor Mair
A 9th-Century Shipwreck and Its Implications for the History of Tea

Announcement

11 Sept 2011 Tansen Sen
China and the Indian Ocean: Maritime Interactions during the Tang Dynasty (618-907)

Announcement

10 Sept 2011 John Miksic
Sinbad's Cargo: Arabo-Persian Artifacts in Southeast Asia

Announcement

IX. The NSC Archaeology Unit Lecture Series

Date	Speaker/s	Lecture Title
3 May 2013	E. Edwards McKinnon	Ancient Fansur, Aceh's 'Atlantis': The Case for Lhok Pancu / Indrapurwa
		Announcement

21 March 2013	Patricia Bjaaland Welch Discussants: Lim Chen Sian and John Miksic	Chasing the Wild Goose
		Announcement

31 August 2012	Noel Hidalgo Tan	Same Same, But Different: The Rock Art of Southeast Asia
		Announcement
31 May 2012	Heng Kamsan / Andrea Natasha Kintanar / Agni Sesaria Mochtar	Symposium: Southeast Asian Underwater Archaeology
		Announcement/Programme

13 April 2012	Leedom Lefferts	Pots and How They are Made in Southeast Asia
		Announcement	Videos

International Conference on Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours