The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is the most inclusive international gathering in the field of Asian Studies. ICAS attracts participants from over 75 countries to engage in global dialogues on Asia that transcend boundaries between academic disciplines and geographic areas. The meeting place for the eleventh edition of ICAS is Leiden, the Netherlands. The historic city of Leiden is home to one of the oldest universities, Leiden University, and several of the most renowned Asia research centers. Leiden University will be the main host of ICAS 11, partnering with the city, research institutions and museums, who share equally rich Asian and global connections. Below is an overview of all accepted proposal titles per theme per submission type. Participant names are not yet visible. These will be included early April, after the registration and participation confirmation deadline of 15 March. Simply click on the theme you wish to view and it will jump to that section. ARTS AND CULTURE DEVELOPMENT AND URBANIZATION ECONOMY EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT HERITAGE AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE HISTORY KNOWLEDGE AND PHILOSOPHY LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE MEDIA, COMMUNICATION, DIGITALIZATION MIGRATION AND DIASPORAS POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS RELIGION AND BELIEFS SOCIETY AND IDENTITY WELFARE AND HEALTH ARTS AND CULTURE BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ An Encounter Between Western Modernism and the Japanese House - Villas Designed by Antonin Raymond in 1920s and 1930s Japan ⋅ Engineering Design and Analysis in the art of Wayang Kulit ⋅ Evolving Traditions of the Buddhist Image House. Part II. The world of seduction and generosity between heavenly clouds and hell fires. ⋅ Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj ⋅ Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China. Urbanized Interface. DOCUMENTARY SCREENING ⋅ Rangsa ni Tonun, the film ⋅ Revisiting Home: auto-ethnographic artworks of Law Yuk Mui and Tang Kwok Hin in Hong Kong INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ “A cup of humanity”: the Japanese tea ceremony (the Way of Tea) as portrayed by Tenshin Okakura, and its reception and practice in contemporary Britain ⋅ “Bun-booth books” and urban ballads of commoner women’s sexuality in late Qing China. ⋅ “The Martyr's theater at the 1920 Yongsan seminary, South Korea” ⋅ A Fusion of East and West: The Experimental Performances of Taiwanese Traditional Hand Puppetry ⋅ A Memorial Feast? Preliminary Findings of the Analyzing Kyrgyz Narratives (AKYN) Research Group ⋅ A necessary condition for the socially-engaged: the socially-aspired art of Hong Kong contemporary artist Kwok-hin Tang ⋅ Afghan Legacy: Celebrating Joseph and Marie Hackin ⋅ An artistic approach to Knowing: Artistic research in India ⋅ Ancient sound, modern voices ⋅ Artists Working Reality: Towards the Capability Approach, a Means of Evaluating Art in Action. ⋅ Bakumatsu Yakusha-e: Negotiating the Production of Actor Prints in the late Edo Period ⋅ Between Trauma and Memories in Post-war Cinema: Resisting Womanhood in The Female Sleepwalker ⋅ Body as an imprint of identity: an indigenous cultural transformation of cinematic language ⋅ Bollywood Dance and its Transnational Avatars ⋅ Burka Avenger: The New Asian Feminism of Pakistan's Animated Series ⋅ Cao Fei, a new generation, a new approach to globalization ⋅ Chen Danqing (1953-), from painter to writer - key learnings from the phenomenon of Chen Danqing ⋅ China and Europe: Recuperating artistic practices in early nineteenth-century China ⋅ Circulating the Red Cliff Pattern in the Late Ming Chinese Material Culture and the Seventeenth Century Global Trade ⋅ Collecting China: The early collecting history of Chinese art in America using Field Museum Collection of Rubbings as an example ⋅ Connecting conflicts: Ireland and India ⋅ Crafting of Ceremonial Ornaments using Native Plants and its Conservation among the Nagas ⋅ Creating Spectacles in Zhang Yimou’s Extra-Cinematic Cultural Productions 2 ⋅ Cultural Diplomacy with Southeast Asia: the Roles of European Cultural Centres ⋅ Disaster Risk and the Crucial Need for Digital Cultural Heritage Preservation: The Role of SaliKultura, A Digital Humanities Project For The Province of Laguna, Philippines ⋅ Dress, Body, and Identity: Reexamining Yongzheng Emperor’s Paintings of Twelve Beauties ⋅ Environmental Aesthetics in Taiwan: Revival through Social Art Practices ⋅ Escaping the black legend - the Asian collection of Adolphe Thiers at the Louvre reassessed ⋅ European Art Cinema of/in 1960s' East Pakistan: De/Europeanizing the Bengal Delta? ⋅ European colonial Borders connecting Asia. The case of Diu, India. ⋅ Examining the Essences of Wayang Purwa in the works of Malaysian Visual Arts ⋅ Exploring the Panji/Inao culture in contemporary Thailand: How does cultural heritage survive in the modern Context? ⋅ Females in Thai Films: Nationalisation of the Body as a Form of Visual Pleasure ⋅ Finding Local in Global: Dangdut Hip-hop Practice in Middle Java ⋅ Fire in My Heart: Smoldering Pornographies on the Chinese Internet ⋅ Folk Theatres of India: A Study of Shadow Puppetry in Odisa ⋅ Forgotten minorities in Sri Lanka:The Malays ⋅ Fostering Civic Engagement through Community Arts in Hong Kong ⋅ Framing Indian Modern image: from Pre- to Post-Independent Art ⋅ From a Space of Repression to a Place of Subversion: Reclaiming Freedom Through Art of Political Detainees in the Philippines ⋅ Gold polyhedral beads: early contacts between East and West ⋅ Han Thuyen in the process of Vietnamese literature and culture from 1930 to 1945 ⋅ Hero No. 1: Performance and Embodiment of Feminine Identity in the Work of Contemporary South Asian Photographers ⋅ Hundred Birds Fly Westward: The Journey of Chinese Coromandel Kuancai Screens to Europe in the 17th Century ⋅ Imagery Reborn: The Visual Art and Theatrical Time-space of the 1/2 Q Theatre ⋅ Imagining a nascent market: a case of the contemporary art market in China ⋅ Imagining the long partitions: comparative perspectives from South Asia and South-East Asia ⋅ Imperial mindscapes; OR how Javanese craft journeyed to the Dutch huiskamer ⋅ Interactive art of Kalchuris of Dahalmandala ⋅ Interrogating 'Doremi-nization': Theoretical Reflection on Modernization of Indigenous Music Heritage in the Philippines ⋅ Introduction of Shantarakshita Library ⋅ Japanese Tea Culture in Transition: From Playful Gatherings to Ritualistic Art of the Nation ⋅ Jesuit Perception of Chinese Art since the 17th c., and The Single Masterpiece by Giuseppe Castiglione in Russian Museums as a Projection of Sino-European Style ⋅ Kabuki and Europe/Kabuki in Europe ⋅ Kalighat Pata Painting: Reflection of European Culture in Socio-Religious life of Bengal in 19th- 20th Century ⋅ Kerala Kalamandalam and the Institutionalization of Performing Arts Education in Early Twentieth Century Kerala, South India. ⋅ Kneading With The Tradition To The Creation—From Lacquer Art To The Experience Economy ⋅ Lacquered Tea Boxes in the Eurasian Trade in the 18th and 19th Centuries ⋅ Lahore Fort’s Picture Wall: Mughal History Recorded in Faience Mosaic ⋅ Landscape and Memory: Cultural Traumas in Films about Vietnam in Colonial Period (Through the Cases of Indochine and The lover) ⋅ Landscape of Ancient Balinese Rock-Cut Achitectures in Gianyar 3 ⋅ LGBT Cultural Flourishing in Vietnam: the Rising of a Queer Voice ⋅ Looting in the Netherlands Indies, 1942-1945. Art and jewellery ⋅ MADURESE IDENTITY AS REFLECTED IN THE GOLDEN LETTERS ⋅ Malay Dance as Co-Curricular Activity: Evolving Transmission Pedagogies of a 'Traditional' Dance Form in Singapore ⋅ Material Modification of Chinese Painting in Timurid, Turkmen, and Safavid Workshops ⋅ Mikado Bazaar in Sunderland and Japanese Shop in Darlington: presence of Japanese articles in North-East of England shops, 1862-1894 ⋅ Moving on… Japanese Movement Forms for ‘people yet to come’. ⋅ Mu Xin as Icarus: a case study of Chinese artist subject formation ⋅ Name or Aesthetic: The Problematic of Collecting East Asian Performative Work ⋅ Narrative and History of Culture in Rajasthani Folk Theater: The Khyal of Amar Singh Rathore ⋅ Negotiating National Identity and Cultural Hybridity: The Songs in Namewee’s Films. ⋅ Nepal, land of Sherpas and Gurkha-Warriors - René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz‘s role in representing the Nepalese culture to a European audience. ⋅ New Digital Media and Changing Gender Roles: The Rise of Women Cultural Entrepreneurs in a Globalising China ⋅ New Evolving Islamic Styles of Dressing in the Punjab, Pakistan ⋅ Of Shrine and Stage: A Study of Huizhou Temple Theatre in Late Imperial China ⋅ Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India ⋅ Perso-French Connectivity: Molière’s The Misanthrope in Iran ⋅ Porcelain Reconsidered: Contemporary Blue and White ⋅ Positioning Wayang Kulit 'Properly' – Uncovering Perfectly Concealed Ethnocentricity in Western Museum Conservation Practices – Interdisciplinary / Transcultural Solutions to Decolonise Our Methods ⋅ Post-Human Wilderness: Dystopian Landscapes in China from the Intellectual Crisis of the 1990s to Cao Fei ⋅ Redefining Political Theatre: The Case of Street Theatre in Delhi ⋅ RE-INTEGRATION OF PAINTINGS IN LIVING RELIGIOUS HERITAGE OF SRI LANKA; PRESERVATION OF AESTHETIC VALUES ⋅ Return Home: Photographic Report of a Journey ⋅ Revitalizing Chinese Tradition: Transformations of Chinese Glove Puppet Theatre (Wayang Potehi) in Contemporary Indonesia ⋅ Riddles in the archives: tools for body modification from Sabahan 'Dayaks' in St Petersburg Kunstkamera ⋅ Self, Female Body, and Others: Propaganda and