Java in JerusalemMirjam Lücking

ASIEN – Nr. 152/153 (2019) pp. 142–45

Israel Institute for Advanced Studies,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
June 17–19, 2019

The conference “Java in Jerusalem” was the climax of the activities of a one-year research group on “New Directions in the Study of Javanese Literature – Reassessing ideas, methods and theories in the study of the literature of Java, Indonesia”. The research group and the conference were initiated and led by Ronit Ricci and hosted by the Israel Institute for Ad- vanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During the conference from June 17– 19, world-leading scholars presented their findings on scripts, illustrations and performances of largely untouched sources from the seventeenth century to the present…