The Newsletter 91 Spring 2022

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From the editor

Connecting worlds

The Focus

The Focus

Asian migrations

Asian Migrations

Recentering Climate Migration in the Bengal Delta

Establishing a Regional Framework for Migrants in Semarang

Planning for African Migrants in Guangzhou

The Impact of Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal on Chinese Migrants

The Death and Life of Amsterdam’s Chinatown

The Study

Doing No Harm: Mindfulness, (Western) Buddhism, Appropriation, Systemic Racism

How Global War Memory in the Indo-Myanmar Border-Zones is Refashioning “Remote” Places

Copping Out of Climate Change

Marginal yet Free: The Macanese in British Hong Kong

A Question of Entanglement: The Transplanting of Colonial Languages

Asia’s Contribution to Post-Paris Climate Action: Putting Equity, Transparency, and the “Phasedown” of Coal Use into Perspective

Exotic and Modern: Representing Meiji Japan in Photography

The Region

The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Tallinn University

China Connections

News from Australia and the Pacific

News from Southeast Asia

The Channel

The Channel

The new podcast from IIAS

Casablanca-Hanoi: Caroline Grillot and Nelcya Delanoë on intertwined histories and the coincidences that shape research

Subversive Archaism from Greece to Thailand: A Conversation with Michael Herzfeld

The Network

Laos: The Long View

Latest Publication

Cultural Precarities: Reading Independent Art Collectives and Cultural Networks in Asia

Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals (GRIP-ARM)

Paul van der Velde and IIAS

IIAS Fellow in the spotlight: Hannah Klepeis

IIAS Fellow in the spotlight: Trude Renwick

Join the new Leiden Anthropology of Asia Network!

The Portrait

Reflecting on Religion in a Plural Society: Artistic Perspectives from Indonesia

The Review

The Buddha's Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia

Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia

Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China