Past Events
  
     
 


I.    Conferences & Workshops
II.   Inauguration of the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre
III.  Book Launch: Nagapattinam to Suvarnadwipa
IV.  The Nalanda-Sriwijaya Lecture Series
V.   The ACM-NSC Lecture Series
VI.  The NSC-Buddhist Lodge Lecture Series

  
   
   
  I.  Conferences & Workshops

 
 
Date Title
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)
   
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.  The Nalanda-Sriwijaya Lecture Series

 
 
Date Speaker Lecture Title
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)
     
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)  
 
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)  
 
 
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)
 
     
   
     
  V.  The ACM-NSC Lecture Series

 
 
Date Speaker Lecture Title
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)  
     
04 June 2009 Tansen Sen Why Buddhism and Not Hinduism?: Reexamining the Successful Transmission of Buddhism to China
    Announcement (pdf)  
     
     
VI.  The NSC-Buddhist Lodge Lecture Series
Date Speaker Lecture Title  
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)		  
       
10 Oct 2009 Zhang Xing The Beliefs and Practices of Buddhism among the Chinese Community in Kolkata, India  
    Announcement (pdf)