Reflections on the KVVAK Young Scholars’ Symposium Rethinking Robert van Gulik: New Perspectives and Approaches

Anne Gerritsen holds the Chair of Asian Art at Leiden University. This position is generously sponsored by the Royal Asian Art Society in the Netherlands, Hulsewé Wazniewski Foundation, Isaac Alfred Ailion Foundation, Foundation for the Study of China at Leiden University, and the Jan Menze van Diepen Stichting. She has her institutional home base in the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS but contributes regularly to LIAS-Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) collaboration. She is also Professor in the History Department at Warwick University. Her research interests include material culture in history, food and food cultures in Asia and Europe, theory and methods of history, and gender.