Teaching and research projects directed by
Bernard Arps
Ben Arps has directed several collaborative teaching and research projects
at Leiden University:
- Core curriculum Area Studies. Development of an online interactive multimedia ‘textbook’ for the Faculty
of Humanities undergraduate
core course Area Studies. Designed by Ben Arps with contributions
from several colleagues in Leiden and across the world, implemented with
the assistance of Mattie Kieviet. Funded by Expertise Centre for
Online Learning (ECOLe), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, September 2020–January 2021. For background considerations see the
interview here.
- Cultural and social change in Southeast
Asia.
MA-level Intensive Programme in Southeast Asian Studies, funded by the
Socrates Programme, European Union. Held in Leiden, 21 May–3 June 2006.
Convened and coordinated by Ben Arps, Thomas Lindblad, and Peter Nas,
Leiden University. Collaborating institutions: Southeast Asian Studies
programmes and departments of Institut National des Langues et
Civilisations Orientales (INALCO, Paris), Université de La Rochelle
(France), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Universität Hamburg
(Germany), and Università degli Studi di Napoli “l’Orientale” (Italy).
- Vernacular mobility: discursive
dimensions of travel and migration in, from, and to Java in three eras. A joint project with
Prof. J. Joseph Errington of the Council on Southeast Asia Studies, Yale
Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University. Vernacular
mobility (2005–2008) was a transdisciplinary, international research
project set up to explore the movement of people and representations to
Java, in Java, and from Java. It focused on the discursive features –
language and text included – of this travel, migration, and circulation.
On the Dutch side the project was funded by the Netherlands Organization
for Scientific Research (NWO).
- (with Patricia Spyer) Indonesian
Mediations: The Re-Imaging and Re-Imagining of Community in Transition.
This research project, which began in 2001 and was concluded in 2005,
investigated the role of the media and new information technologies in the
events preceding and following Suharto’s fall in May 1998. The Indonesian
Mediations Project moreover attempted to map the media landscape of the
late New Order and its more recent transformations. IMP was part of the
Indonesia in Transition, which was funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy
of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
- A Handbook of Javanese Literature. An international
collaborative research project that is to result in a comprehensive
introduction to writing in the Javanese language. The project was funded
by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1997 to 2002.
In this period the members of the Leiden team (B. Arps, E.M. Bogaerts, J.
Bosnak, W. van der Molen, J.A.L.B. van den Veerdonk, E.P. Wieringa)
produced publications on previously unexplored aspects of Javanese
literature.
- Verbal Art in the Audio-Visual Media of
Indonesia.
A research programme concerned with the mediation of written and oral
literature and drama in Indonesia, primarily on audio cassettes, radio,
and television, but also on video, film, and internet. VA|AVMI ran from
1996 to 2001. The programme was funded by the Netherlands Organization for
Scientific Research (NWO).
- Hedendaags Javaans [Contemporary
Javanese]. An introductory course in the spoken language, produced by the
teachers of Javanese at Leiden University. This project commenced in 1993
and was concluded in 2001. The course consists of a textbook (Arps et
al. 2000; see Ben Arps’s publications webpage) and an interactive multi-media
component. The making of the latter component was funded by the Faculty of
Arts of Leiden University.
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