In de Verenigde Staten is een kleine beeldenstorm aan de gang: standbeelden van militaire leiders die voor de zuidelijke staten vochten in de Amerikaanse ...
The article “A mass of mestiezen, castiezen, and mulatten: Contending with color in the Netherlands Antilles, 1750–1850" in the journal Atlantic Studies shows that the boundaries between free people of color and...
Artikel op de website van De Correspondent: 'Nederland doodde op Sulawesi veel meer Indonesische mannen en kinderen dan bekend', door Manon van den Brekel. ...
Na het weekeinde worden in Nederland de onderhandelingen over een nieuwe regeringscoalitie voortgezet. De uitkomst is van belang voor de ...
During the Decolonization War in Indonesia (1945-1949), the Netherlands initiated two large scale military operations and was also engaged in smaller actions on a daily basis. The number of Dutch military ...
Situated in an inconspicuous residential area in the south of Surabaya, one could easily overlook one of Indonesia’s most intriguing libraries and its equally fascinating owner. Tom Hoogervorst looks back on a fruitful week of research spent at Medayu Agung...
Malcom Ferdinand, a post-doctoral researcher on the Confronting Caribbean Challenges project, has been awarded the prestigious 2016 PhD Prize for Interdisciplinary Research, which is given out by the...
Starting September 1, 2017, Fridus Steijlen has been appointed as Professor Extraordinary in the Moluccan Migration and Culture in a comparative perspective at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the VU University...
Now available online: latest issue of the Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (BKI). BKI is an interdisciplinary journal on Southeast Asia, with a strong focus on Indonesia. The editors...
KITLV is pleased to invite you to experience Indonesia while walking through Leiden’s city center with the new walking app Envisioning Indonesia. Within the framework of the Leiden Asia Year KITLV developed the walk app Envisioning Indonesia. ...
Door Wouter Veenendaal. Door niet samen te werken met buureilanden blijft Sint Eustatius gevangen in de relatie met Nederland. Vandaag vergadert de Tweede Kamer ...
Soldaat in Indonesië 1945-1950 (Prometheus, 2015), written by Gert Oostindie, in collaboration with Ireen Hoogenboom and Jonathan Verwey is now in its fifth edition. The publication is based on letters, diaries, albums and memoires of members of the Dutch ...
For many Dutch people, the Antillean alphabet stops after A, B and C. During the parliamentary elections, the evening news and the average history lesson, little attention is paid to the six islands in ...
‘Indenture in the Long Nineteenth Century’ in: Seymour Drescher, David Eltis, and Stanley L. Engerman (eds), Cambridge World History of Slavery Volume IV, AD 1804...
21 June 2017 marks the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere. Dutch children still have to wait a few more weeks before their summer vacation starts, but in astronomical terms, summer officially arrives Wednesday. The difference in between...
Artikel in het Leidsch Dagblad over de app 'Envisioning Indonesia', die de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek en het KITLV op 19 juni jl. presenteerden. "Om het Aziëjaar in Leiden extra feestelijk te maken...
A unique app that connects the city of Leiden with similar spots on the other side of the world, in Indonesia. This is what the Leiden tour app 'Envisioning Indonesia' offers. Leiden alderman Paul Dirkse will launch the app on 19 June...
KITLV researcher Bart Luttikhuis has been shortlisted for the 2017 ICAS Book Prize (category: dissertations in the humanities). The winner will be announced on 20 July 2017 at the Chiang Mai International Convention ...
Afgelopen zondag ging de bevolking van Puerto Rico voor de vijfde keer in vijftig jaar naar de stembus voor een referendum over telkens weer dezelfde vraag: wat moet de status worden van het eiland? Moet de ...
It’s grant writing season again. This is a stressful time for all struggling academics. But one of the biggest stresses is that every grant application now demands some sort of obeisance to the Gods of Utility. We must exhaustively document how our...
'In Suriname, an endless refrain: boom, bust, and Bouterse', an article by Rosemarijn Hoefte on news site The Conversation: "Recent street protests in Suriname haven’t made many international headlines. Only ...
The rich KITLV collection was formed between 1851 and 2014. As of 2014, its management was transferred to the Leiden University Library, while its ownership remained with the Vereniging of KITLV. Material ...
By KITLV researcher Paul Bijl. Focusing on her writings, this article shows how the Javanese woman Kartini (1879–1904) engaged with conceptions of “human...
In this 9th CCC Newsletter, you will find updates on the research, publications, exchanges and what have you of the various team members, including our new colleague Malcom Ferdinand. His observation...
Thank you for taking the time to read our very first Traveling Caribbean Heritage (TCH) Newsletter, of which many more will follow in the years to come. We will strive to publish an issue every three months or so...
Last year KITLV organised a CLARIAH workshop on Digital Humanities, led by Stef Scagliola (for more information see Stef’s blog), with the goal of bringing scholars ...
Tom Hoogervorst has won the 2017 Young Scholars Prize, a biennial competition for original articles awarded by the international journal Indonesia and the Malay World. His submission, 'What kind of language was...
Interview met Fridus Steijlen op Nemokennislink.nl: 'Molukse treinkapingen waren product van radicale tijdsgeest'. "Net zoals bij de recente aanslag in Manchester waren veertig jaar geleden schoolkinderen...
Rosemarijn Hoefte has been elected president of the ACH, the Association of Caribbean Historians during their annual conference in Tobago. The ACH is an independent, non-profit, professional organization ...
"What does it mean to be Aruban, Bonairian or Curaçaoan? In the Traveling Caribbean Heritage project historian Gert Oostindie studies this question together with PhD candidate Joeri Arion and heritage specialist ...
Now that ex-Jakarta Governor Ahok has been ousted from power and faces prison, the unifying mission that brought Indonesia’s hard-line...
Article in New Mandala on Ahok’s defeats and public debate in Indonesia, by Ward Berenschot. Basuki Thahaja Purnama’s (‘Ahok’) electoral defeat in Jakarta’s gubernatorial election on...
De Vereniging KITLV verbindt kenners van het koloniale verleden, ondersteunt hun verzamelingen/archieven en onderkent dat verzamelen/archiveren ook een vorm is van...
Het instituut heeft een goed jaar achter de rug. Onze onderzoekers publiceerden, zoals uit het onderstaande blijkt, bijna honderd titels: boeken, bundels en artikelen, zowel peer-reviewed voor de internationale...
On Thursday 11 May KITLV-researcher Ridho Reinanda defended his PhD thesis ‘Entity Associations for Search’ successfully, at the University of Amsterdam. Reinanda’s research was part of the Digital Humanities...
The Literary Encyclopedia has just published a new entry on Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, authored by Kasia Mika, postdoc researcher at KITLV. Edwidge Danticat (1969) is an award-winning Haitian...
In Indonesië is de christelijke gouverneur van Jakarta veroordeeld voor het beledigen van de Islam. Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama moet nu 2 jaar de gevangenis in. Een onverwacht zware straf...
Morgen gaat Curaçao naar de stembus voor de Staten van Curaçao. De vorige regering viel al na zeven weken. Sindsdien voert de tijdelijke regering het bewind op het eiland. De grootste partij op het eiland...
“What should we do with academic institutions inherited from a cruel past? Are such institutions reformable, or should they simply be decommissioned? Or, for that matter, literally be burned down in the hope ...
The South China Sea dispute is often portrayed as an archetypal case of an overbearing great power bullying its weaker neighbours. A common kneejerk reaction to this...
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has started the project Maps in the Crowd. Nearly 1,100 digitized maps of the Caribbean will be unlocked with help from visitors, students and others who are interested....
Sometimes fiction tells the truth and history perpetuates a fiction. This blog tells us about how history has been used to serve the creation of a national mythology, while fiction has allowed a ...
Article by one of our researchers, Sarthak Bagchi, on a small comparative study of Indian and Dutch election campaign: 'From social media use to anti-islamic rhetoric, similarities in Indian and Dutch ...
Rosemarijn Hoefte has been appointed at the University of Amsterdam as Professor in the History of Suriname since 1873 in comparative perspective. This appointment will be for 0,2 fte. ...
'Politik ekstrem kanan: Brexit, Trump, Wilders, dan Pilkada Jakarta?', by Liston Siregard. An article on the website of BBC Indonesia on Brexit, Trump, Wilders and the Jakarta elections with an interview with Ward...
Why do criminals enter politics in the world’s largest democracy? Why do parties nominate candidates with criminal backgrounds? And why do voters support these candidates? Sarthak Bagchi delves into some...
In het Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland is een hoofdstuk door Rosemarijn Hoefte gewijd aan Grace Howard: 'Howard, Grace Ruth (1869-1968)'. Grace Ruth Howard, vooral bekend als Grace Schneiders-...
Edited by Emmanuel Blanchard, Marieke Bloembergen (KITLV) and Amandine Lauro. Colonial security strategies and the postcolonial vestiges they left both in the global ...
By KITLV researcher Chris Chaplin. As Jakarta heads to the polls, Chaplin argues that evoking Islamic identity and the opportunistic use of religious symbols in this election has set a dangerous precedent for ...
New full open access publication on citizenship and democratization in Southeast Asia, edited by Ward Berenschot (KITLV), Henk Schulte Nordholt (KITLV) and Laurens Bakker (UvA). By providing ...