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ABOUT ME

Lecturer at AMSIB since 2007 on Geography, History and Politics of China, Southeast Asia and Korea (from 2021) and part of the team running the Building Partnerships in Asia Minors. We travel with students to China, Thailand and South Korea (from 2021). 

 

At various times over at least 5 years or more have also taught Asia Culture and History, European Culture and History, The Netherlands History and Economy, Cross Cultural Analysis, and Cross Cultural Negotiation. 

 

In 2013, developed and lectured two courses for one semester, Cross Cultural Communications and Doing Business in Europe, at Donghua University, Shanghai.

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Guest speaker for KIT Intercultural Professionals since 2006 on courses given for Dutch executives transferring to live and work in Ireland, England, Taiwan, Malaysia or Singapore. Subjects given on living and working, business culture, history and politics.

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Qualifications:

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PhD Candidate at the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, Amsterdam 2021

Masters in Contemporary Asian Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2005

Diploma International Relations, Birkbeck College, London UK, 1997

The Chartered Governance Institute, London University UK, (Masters Equivalent), 1997

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PROMOTORS (SUPERVISORS)

My research is part of a PhD at the Amsterdam School of  Historical Studies since May 2021

My promotors (supervisors) are:

 

Remieg Arts 

Professor of Political History 

Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies 

University of Amsterdam

https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/a/e/r.a.m.aerts/r.a.m.aerts.html

 

Petra Brouwer

Assistant Professor of Architectural History

Department of Art History

University of Amsterdam

https://www.uva.nl/profiel/b/r/p.a.brouwer/p.a.brouwer.html

RESEARCH GROUP

My project will be embedded within the University of Amsterdam and Radboud University Project.


This Project, termed The Architecture of Political Representation, aims to collate the knowledge on European parliament buildings and the transfers throughout Europe of architectural styles and political models and practices. My research expands this beyond Europe to Asia.


The research group will work together with experts in the field of architecture, art and urban studies.


The Research Group is lead by: 


Remieg Arts

Professor of Political History

Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies

University of Amsterdam

https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/a/e/r.a.m.aerts/r.a.m.aerts.html


Carla Houtink

Assistant Professor of Political History

Department of History, Art History and Classics

Radboud University

https://www.ru.nl/english/people/hoetink-a/

RELATED PUBLISHED WORK

2019

A TALE OF TWO COURTS: THE INTERACTIONS OF THE DUTCH AND CHINESE POLITICAL ELITES WITH THEIR CITIES (DEC 2018), IN ANCIENT AND MODERN PRACTICES OF CITIZENSHIP IN ASIA AND THE WEST, CARE OF SELF, VOLUME 1, ED. GREGORY BRACKEN, INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ASIAN STUDIES, LEIDEN

Political centres are the manifestation of a nation. The political elites express the values of a culture, through the architecture of the cities political zones. But are these constructed zones transparent or opaque, planned or haphazard, conforming or transforming, protective or exposed?
Providing a comparative approach focussing on the governmental centres of one western and one eastern city, I attempt here to augment our knowledge of cities by observing city dwellers in their own habitat, focussing on the political elite.
Bringing together geographical, historical, cultural, architectural, and political material, this comparative approach deepens our awareness of the complexities of the city construct and illuminates the collective emotional roots of societies through a specific, dominant, group and how they exploit their habitat spaces within their respective cities.
I will attempt to explain how the political elite of two countries, the Netherlands and China, construct and use their city space. These are strikingly different but yet somehow opposite sides of the same coin in the Care of the Self emerge

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

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  • Lewis, Ian R., May 2022, "From Palace to Parliament: How Japan and China moved from Imperial Rule to Representation Rule through the lens of their Parliament Buildings", Amsterdam University Press,The Twelfth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12), Jun 2022, Volume 1, p.366 - 380

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  • Bracken, Gergory, ed. 2019.  ‘Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West’. Amsterdam University Press (Asian Cities: Care of Self Series). A Tale of Two Courts: The interactions of the Dutch and Chinese Political Elites with their cities, 7: 141-168

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  • Schroevers, Sander M. and Lewis, Ian R. et al., 2018. 'Business English'. Freiburg, Haufe. Negotiations in English 5: 303-380  

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  • Schroevers, Sander M. and Lewis, Ian R., 2010. Negotiations in English. Freiburg, Haufe

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