Vincent Houben

• born on 2. May 1957 in Amsterdam
• 1976 he attended the University of Leiden where he studied Modern History with a regional focus on Indonesia (Indonesian and Javanese languages as minor courses)
• 1982 scientific assistant
• 1987 the conferral of a doctorate was achieved with the writing of the book ‚Kraton en Kumpeni. Surakarta en Yogyakarta 1830-1870‘; (published in English in 1994)
• Since 1985 research associate at the department Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania
• 1993 guest lecturer at the University of Queensland, Australia
• From 1996 Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in Leiden
• From 1997 to 2001 he held the chair for Southeast Asian Studies at the University Passau
• since April 2001 Professor at the Humboldt-University, Berlin

Assorted Publications

Books and (co-)edited Books

• Together with Cynthia Chou (eds.), Southeast Asian Studies. Debates and New Directions. Singapore: ISEAS/ Leiden: IIAS 2006.
• Together with Howard Dick, J. Thomas Lindblad and Thee Kian Wie, The Emergence of a National Economy. An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800-2000. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin 2002.
• Together with Bernhard Dahm (eds.), Vietnamese Villages in Transition. Passau Contributions to Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 7, Passau University 1999.
• Together with Dr. J. Th. Lindblad, Coolie Labour in Colonial Indonesia. A Study of Labour Relations in the Outer Islands, c. 1900-1940, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1999.
• Kraton and Kumpeni. Surakarta and Yogyakarta 1830-1870. Leiden: KITLV Press 1994.

Articles

• ‘Southeast Asian History: The Search for New Perspectives’, in: Cynthia Chou and Vincent Houben (eds.), Southeast Asian Studies. Debates and New Directions. Singapore: ISEAS/ Leiden: IIAS 2006, 140-161.
• ‚Giao Tiep Lien Van Hoa – Nen Tang Quan He Duc – Viet Nam’ [Intercultural Communication – Some fundamental Concepts for German-Vietnamese Relations], in: Tap Chi Khoa Hoc [Journal of Science] T. XXI So1-2005, 16-24.
• ‘Das Verhältnis zwischen Holländern, Indo-Europeanen und Indonesiern. Europäisch-Südostasiatische Kontaktgeschichte vom 17. bis 20. Jahrhundert’ [The Relationship between Hollanders, Indo-Europeans and Indonesians. European-Southeast Asian Contact History], in: Rüdiger Hohls, Iris Schröder, and Hannes Siegrist (eds.), Europa und die Europäer. Quellen und Essays zur modernen europäischen Geschichte. Festschrift für Hartmut Kaelble zum 65. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Steiner 2005, 259-263.
• ‚Globalization in Southeast Asia – a Historical Analysis’, in: Heinrich Böll-Stiftung, Asian Modernity – Globalization Processes and Their Cultural and Political Localization. Berlin 2004, 27-33.
• ‘Leiden und Ost-Indien. Kolonialrepräsentationen einer niederländischen Universität’ [Leiden and East-India. Colonial Representations of a Dutch University], in: Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte 7 (2004) 53-72.
• ’Southeast Asia and Islam’ in: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 588 (July 2003) 149-170.
• ’The unmastered past: decolonization and Dutch collective memory’, in: European Review, Vol. 8, no. 1 (2000) 77-85.