07 May 2009

Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS)
Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Self-description:
"The Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) is responsible for researchers who are active in the fields of relations with East, South and Central and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The Institute is divided into a School for Asian Studies and a School for Middle Eastern Studies. A multidisciplinary approach which comprises both the modern and the traditional periods is typical for the teaching and research within this Institute, whereby the knowledge of the source language is essential. The research of the approximately 75 staff members (including 20 professors) brings together the study of such subjects as history, law, economy, literature, religion and philology of the areas mentioned, both in the present day and in ancient times."
Site contents:
* About the Institute; * Organisation; * People; * News and events; * Contact; * Search.
[A web site of an institution established as a replacement for the world-famous Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS) at Leiden, which was closed down on 1 Sep 2008. Contents of the CNWS' former web site are archived at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.leidenuniv.nl/interfac/cnws - ed.]
URL http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lias/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30