Edwin Paul Wieringa MA PhD (Leiden) FRAS

Professor of Indonesian Philology and Islamic Studies

Personal Data

Professional history

Present appointment

Department of Oriental Studies, University of Cologne

• Professor of Indonesian Philology and Islamic Studies, 2004-present; official designation: Professor für Indonesische Philologie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung islamischer Kulturen

Previous appointments

Department of Southeast Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Leiden

• Lecturer in Indonesian/Malay, 2003-4

• Postdoctoral Fellow, 1998

• Lecturer in Javanese, 1992-3

• Junior Researcher, 1988-92

Leiden University Library

• Compiler of a major catalogue of Malay and Minangkabau manuscripts, 1999-2000; 1993-5

Research School of African, Asian and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), University of Leiden

• Senior Researcher, 2000-3

Fellowship and honours

• Guest Professor in the History of Islam in Southeast Asia, University of Münster, Winter 2002

• Part-time lecturer Islamic Studies, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Münster, 2001

• Part-time lecturer Indonesian Studies, Department of Ethnology, University of Münster, 1999

• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Department of Ethnology, University of Münster, 1996-7 (two years)

Education

• PhD (with highest honours), University of Leiden, 1994

• MA in Indonesian Languages and Cultures, University of Leiden, 1988

• Secondary school: Gertrudis Lyceum, Roosendaal (Netherlands). Graduated 1982

Courses taught

A description of my teaching portfolio at the University of Cologne since 2004 is available online [http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/orient/htm/vorl.htm]. Regular courses are the upper-level Bahasa Indonesia III and IV grammar courses, an introductory course on Indonesian languages and literatures (Einführung in die Indonesische Philologie), and an advanced reading course focussing on Indonesian accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The language of instruction is German. See below for my most recent teaching activities:

Winter Semester 2007/08

• Bahasa Indonesia III

• Einführung in die Indonesische Philologie

• Klassisch Malaiisch: islamische Bekehrungsgeschichten

• Indonesische Lyrik: Amir Hamzah

Summer Semester 2008

• Vorlesung: Einführung in die islamischen Kulturen Südostasiens

• Altjavanische Literatur

• Hauptseminar: Prophetenbiographie

• Paläographie für Fortgeschrittene

Winter Semester 2008/2009

• Indonesisch III

• Seminar: Religion und politische Macht

• Arbeitskurs zum Seminar: Religion und politische Macht

• Paläographie: Klassisch Malaiisch

• Vorlesung: Islamwissenschaftliche Fachmethodik und Fachbibliographie (with S. Yacoub)

Summer Semester 2009

• Vorlesung: Einführung in die islamischen Kulturen Südostasiens

• Seminar: Kolonialismus und Globalisierung in der islamischen Welt

• Seminar: Akkulturation und Kulturkontakte in der islamischen Welt

• Indonesisch -  Lektüre und Textinterpretation nach Angebot (with Dr. Poppy Siahaan)

• Seminar: Epische Traditionen und Süd- und Südostasien (with Prof. Dr. Ulrike Niklas)

Recent conference papers and invited lectures

(excluding published papers)

• "Dimakan waktu: Peninggalan Hindu dalam penanggalan Jawa Islam".  Institut Hindu Dharma Negeri, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, September 27, 2011. [http://www.ihdn.ac.id/ihdndenpasarnews.php?page_detil=3ana19]

• "Bahasa Jawa: Siapa takut?".  Universitas Indonesia,  Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya, Jurusan Jawa, September 21, 2011.

• "Nur Irre bleiben unverschleiert: Manga und Moral für muslimische Mädchen in Indonesien". Konferenz "Körper und Moral: Ordnungsvorstellungen in mehrheitlich muslimischen Ländern, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg, July 22-23,  2011.

• "Where Atheism is no alternative: Islam in 21st-century Indonesia".  Keynote speech, 3rd Prague  Conference on Southeast Asian Studies, "Islam, Society and Politics in Southeast Asia", Metropolitan University Prague, March 11,  2011.

• "Dua naskah Yogyakarta dari koleksi Pigeaud yang dinyatakan hilang, ditemukan kembali ... di Yogyakarta". 13th Biannual International Symposium on Indonesian Manuscripts (Manassa), Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, July 27-29, 2010.

• "Heteronormativity in Eny Martini's 2007 novel Paper flowers: Allow me  to be lesbian".  Conference "Narrating morality and sexuality: Continuity and change in Southeast Asian literatures", Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg, June 17-18, 2010.

• "A Ta’ziyah from Malaysia: Faisal Tehrani’s Passion Play Karbala". Conference "Shi'ism and Beyond: 'Alid Piety' in Muslim Southeast Asia". Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, January 14-15, 2010.

• "Paradise is in the Shadow of the Swords: Paradisiacal Imagery in the 19th-century Acehnese War Propaganda". Symposium "Roads to Paradise. Eschatology and the Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam". Universität Göttingen, May 27-31, 2009.

• "Orthodoxie als Stolz der kleinen Leute: Einige Bemerkungen zu einer malaiischen theologischen Sammelhandschrift aus Batavia um 1861 (UB Leipzig V 1055)". Resarch Group "Manuskriptkulturen in Asien und Afrika". Asien-Afrika-Insitut (AAI), Universität Hamburg, April 23, 2009.

• "Herhalingsfiguren in Maleise pantoens". Research Group „Konventie en Originaliteit", Universität Leiden, April 21, 2009.

• "Hang Tuah - the paragon of Malayness?". Annual meeting, American Comparative Literature Association, panel: "Asian heroic narratives in the global context: transformations of the heroic image", Harvard University, March 26-29, 2009.

• "Negotiating Chineseness in Late 19th-century Surabaya: The social logic of a Javanese versification of the Chinese Confucian treatise "Maxims for the home" (Zhuzi Zhijia Geyan). International Workshop "Translation in Asia: Theories, practices, histories". National University of Singapore, March 5-6, 2009.

• "Describing Islamic Malay and Minangkabau manuscripts". Islamic Arts Musem Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, February 19, 2009.

• "The story of Majnun Layla on both sides of the Malacca Straits". 24th Congress of the Union Européenne des  Arabisants et Islamisants, Leipzig, September 24-28, 2008.
  

• "A contemporary re-reading of the popular 19th-century Acehnese Hikayat Perang Sabi ('Story of the Jihad'). XXX. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freiburg, September 24-28, 2007.

• "Ende gut, alles gut? Oder: das Happyend und die Entwicklungsgeschichte der sog. modernen indonesischen Literatur”. Antrittsvorlesung (Inaugural lecture), University of Cologne, November 22, 2006. 

• "De islam in Java”. Lecture at the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Gent, May 10, 2006. 

• "Die malaiischen Zeitungsromane um 1900 am Beispiel einer Kurzgeschichte des Journalisten Kommer”. Vortrag im Rahmen einer Ringvorlesung zum Thema Fin de Siècle, Zentrum für Moderneforschung, University of Cologne, April 18, 2006. 

• "Opium and racism in a 1946 Dutch crime novel: From sinophobia to an interracial war against opium in colonial Java”. Workshop on “Ritual-Gift-Geschäft: Perspektiven einer interkulturellen Drogengeschichte”, University of Cologne, January 27-28, 2006.

Research in Progress

Two book-length studies are planned:

• Abdulkadir al-Jailani: Eine javanische Fassung seiner Hagiographie.

• Hikayat Sultan Mahmud Aznawi.
  

Professional memberships

• American Comparative Literature Association

• Center for Inter- and Transcultural Studies (CITS), University of Cologne

• Dutch Association for the Study of Religion (Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschap)

• Dutch Oriental Society (Oosters Genootschap in Nederland)

• Royal Asiatic Society

• Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Carribbean Studies (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde)

• Union Européenne des Arabisants des Islamisants

• Zentrum für Moderneforschung, University of Cologne

Other professional activities

• Contributing editor to Horison online (since 2011)

• Editorial Board, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (since 2003)

• External Examiner of PhD theses (2009): University of Gent (B), University of Leiden