The Caribbean: hundreds of islands in the heart of the Americas. Cuba is the largest (about 106,000 km2) and with 11 million inhabitants is also the most populous country. Tiny Saba (13 km2), a special municipality of...
On Saturday August 16, KITLV researcher Emiel Martens hosted another Caribbean film event at World Cinema Amsterdam with his non-profit organization Caribbean Creativity. After the successful edition of Yard Vibes...
Whenever I see another piece of research using social media data, I must admit I roll my eyes. Social media will only ever capture the voices of the urban young - the type of people who have less difficulty in getting their voices...
A special issue by Fridus Steijlen (KITLV) and Bart Barendregt (Leiden University) in the newest IIAS Newsletter is now online available. November 2013’s issue of the International Documentary Festival...
‘Small scale’ is an adjective hardly ever used about Indonesia. Ranking only behind China, India, and the USA in terms of population size and comprising over 17,000 islands (1.9 millionsq. km, putting it in the top 20 in...
In 2012, KITLV in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute of Military History (NIMH) and the Institute of War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies (NIOD) began a wide-ranging research program on Dutch military...
The NWO program Confronting Caribbean Challenges (CCC) will start in the Fall of 2014. The full description of the program is available at the link below. Incorporating two post-doctoral researchers and two PhDs...
Dr. Wouter Veenendaal, who will start working at KITLV from September 2014 onwards as a postdoctoral researcher in the project 'Confronting Caribbean Challenges', has won the Annual Political Science Prize...
The European Association for South East Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) is an international initiative to foster scholarly cooperation within Europe in the field of Southeast Asian studies. It was founded in 1992...
Does democracy change people? How enduring are the traces of dictatorship in the attitudes and beliefs of people? These questions kept popping up during the campaign for Indonesia’s presidential elections...
Gert Oostindie, director KITLV and professor of Caribbean History at Leiden University, will receive a € 750,000 grant for the research project Confronting Caribbean Challenges: Hybrid Identities and Governance...
Today an article on the elections in Indonesia by KITLV researcher Ward Berenschot appeared on the New Mandala, a website providing anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia...
On June 30, 2014 the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), Leiden University, and the Learned Society signed a number of agreements with regards to the future of the KITLV. The Learned Society is...