Edited by Susan Legêne (Professor of Political History, VU University Amsterdam), Bambang Purwanto (Professor of History, Gadjah Mada University) and Henk Schulte Nordholt (Professor of Indonesian History, ...
(Only in Dutch) Op 30 juni jl. was KITLV onderzoeker Rosemarijn Hoefte te horen in het NOS radioprogramma ‘Met het oog op morgen’, over de productie van bauxiet in Suriname. Klik hier om de uitzending te ...
On Saba-News.com: "Dutch researcher visits Saba for psychological programme. On behalf of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) based in Leiden, the Netherlands ...
(Only in Dutch) Op vrijdag 26 juni jl. verscheen in het NRC een artikel van Gert Oostindie, directeur KITLV, over de Antillen: 'Antillen op eigen benen, dat is echt teveel gevraagd. Als kolonisator van weleer moeten...
Article by KITLV researcher Tom Hoogervorst in the latest IIAS Newsletter: 'Sailing the waves of convergence: cultural links and continuities across the Bay of Bengal'. Click here to read the article ...
(Only in Dutch). Gisteren verscheen in het NRC een reactie van Gert Oostindie, directeur KITLV, naar aanleiding van het opiniestuk van journaliste Anne-Lot Hoek over het belang van historisch onderzoek ...
Citizenship in Indonesia is developing in interaction with evolving religious attitudes. Fuelled by a growing popularity of religious discourse calling for a more literal interpretation of religious injunctions, Islamic ...
(Only in Dutch) Gert Oostindie in EenVandaag (NPO, 13 juni) over de lijst van namen van slachtoffers die geëxecuteerd zijn tijdens het Nederlands militair optreden in Indonesië, 1945-1950. Volgens de Correspondent ...
You can’t miss the official monuments in Indonesia. They are are everywhere. Statues of Diponegoro or General Sudirman gaze out over busy traffic, which takes little notice of them. The story of national ...
After 25 years, the Professor Teeuw Foundation now publishes its final open call for nominations for the Professor Teeuw Award. Linked to a KITLV-symposium on ‘Translation’, the Foundation intends to ...
Upon the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, the smallest islands in this federation – Bonaire, St. Eustatius, and Saba – became special municipalities of the Netherlands, and were hence politically ...
In The Daily Herald: "The history of St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba will get a much-needed revisit in a new project which focuses on the social and cultural history of these islands in the nineteenth and twentieth ...
KITLV director Gert Oostindie was interviewed about Desi Bouterse and Suriname for the television programma 'Brandpunt' (KRO-NCRV). The program was broadcasted on 12 May but can be listened to via the following ...
(Only in Dutch). The KITLV Annual Report 2014 is now online available. A hard copy is also available for members of the Learned Society / Vereniging KITLV. The full annual report is written in Dutch. The English translation, ...
De Grote Geschiedenis Quiz 2015 (The Big History Quiz 2015) was won by the team of one of KITLV's former interns. Miel Groten, MA student History at VU University Amsterdam and former intern for the ...
New publication by Rosemarijn Hoefte: 'Locating Mecca; Religious and political discord in the Javanese community in pre-independence Suriname'. In: Aisha Khan (ed.), Islam and the Americas. Gainesville...
(Only in Dutch) KITLV researcher David Kloos was interviewed about the implementation of Islamic law in Malaysia and Indonesia for the program “Bureau Buitenland” of the VPRO (Radio 1). Kloos discussed ...
Leiden University is proud to announce the new website of the Asian Library: asianlibraryleiden.nl. Here you can find the latest updates and information on The Asian Library project. Leiden University is about...
In March I had the privilege to visit one of our PhD students, Prio Sambodho, who is currently doing fieldwork in West Java. Prio’s research is part of a larger project on citizenship in Indonesia and investigates...
Free to download: new publication by Wouter Veenendaal in Publius; The journal of federalism: 'Origins and persistence of federalism and decentralization in microstates'. Like their larger counterparts, even the ...
(Only in Dutch) KITLV researcher Jessica Vance Roitman was interviewed about the history of Jewish colonization in the Dutch Caribbean in the 17th and 18th centuries for the program 'De Kunst van...
(Only in Dutch). Online article 'Groot onderzoek naar Caribische rijksdelen' about KITLV's research project 'Confronting Caribbean challenges: Hybrid identities and governance in small-scale island jurisdictions' ...
(In Dutch) Radio interview with Gert Oostindie, Wouter Veenendaal and Stacey Mac Donald about their research project 'Confronting Caribbean challenges: Hybrid identities and governance in small-scale...
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the History Department of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta and KITLV. The MOU was signed by Henk Schulte Nordholt (Head Research KITLV)...
Bij het project Nederlands militair optreden in Indonesië 1945-1950 is in najaar 2015 een vacature voor een onderzoeksstage beschikbaar. Wij zijn op zoek naar een enthousiaste (research) master student ...
(Only in Dutch) A new article by Wouter Veenendaal in the Antilliaans Dagblad: ‘Groeiende onvrede met nieuwe status’. Veenendaal (1986) is a postdoctoral researcher at KITLV working as part of the...
Historians such as myself have cause to rejoice, if recent American political rhetoric is anything to go by. History, that heretofore scantily-funded discipline of the humanities known (along with English and ...
(Only in Dutch) 'Kwartetten met Pattimura', een column van Fridus Steijlen in de nieuwsbrief van maart van Museum Maluku (MUMA). Aanleiding voor de column was de première van het toneelstuk ‘KRUIT! ...
This book is the result of KITLV’s and Afrika Study Centers' research project 'Tracking Development' (2006-2011). The author David Henley, now Professor Contemporary Indonesian Studies at Leiden University, ...
(Only in Dutch) Een artikel over Rouffaer in het Leids Universitair Weekblad Mare, n.a.v. de presentatie van Frank Okker's biografie 'Rouffaer; De laatste Indische ontdekkingsreiziger' op 27 februari jl. ...
In the latest IIAS Newsletter: 'Female Islamic authority in comparative perspective: exemplars, institutions, practices', by KITLV researcher David Kloos and Mirjam Künkler (research fellow at KITLV). A report on a ...
New article by Jessica Vance Roitman (KITLV) and Cátia Antunes, 'A war of words; Sephardi merchants, (inter)national incidents, and litigation in the Dutch Republic, 1580–1640', in the journal 'Jewish Culture and...
On Friday 27 February, KITLV fellow Frank Okker, presented 'Rouffaer, de laatste Indische ontdekkingsreiziger', a biography of Gerret Pieter Rouffaer (1860-1928), the last "Indische" explorer and...
KITLV is pleased to announce the new publication by one of its researchers, Kathryn Anderson Wellen: The Open Door; Early Modern Wajorese Statecraft and Diaspora. The Wajorese people were one of many people...
The Cuban Editorial José Martí published a Spanish-language edition of Het paradijs overzee (Bert Bakker, 1997 and KITLV Press, 20115) by Gert Oostindie, based on the English edition Paradise overseas (Macmillan...
Article by Jacqueline Hicks in New Mandala: 'KPK v Polri: a proxy conflict?' Despite not having the numbers in Indonesia’s house of representatives, President Joko Widodo has been able to score victories....
‘Mi no ta Charlie’ (I am not Charlie) in four different languages on the front page of Bon Siman, a weekly newspaper in Bonaire. A cover statement like this might be somewhat unexpected for a local paper?...
New publication by Jessica Roitman: 'Economie, imperium en eschatalogie; De mondiale context van de joodse immigratie in de Amerika’s tussen 1650 en 1670', in: Julie-Marthe Cohen (ed.), 'Joden in de Cariben; Vier ...
New publication by Jessica Roitman: 'Economie, imperium en eschatalogie; De mondiale context van de joodse immigratie in de Amerika’s tussen 1650 en 1670', in: Julie-Marthe Cohen (ed.)...
Fridus Steijlen wrote a column, titled 'In Memoriam: Landelijke Molukse inspraak' in the latest newsletter of the Moluccan Historical Museum's. Click here to read Steijlen’s column ...
Any historian and social scientist will have his or her collection of missed opportunities: an interview going into an unexpected direction, or a source with no direct value for your actual research, yet, highly...
In de Java Post: "We kunnen er niet meer omheen. De discussie over het verleden van Nederlands-Indië is nog lang niet geluwd, in tegendeel. Bij de zoektocht naar een meer integrale en inzichtbiedende ...
Can clients become citizens? Evaluating the new democracy in Indonesia?' Article by Prio Sambodho on www.opendemocracy.net. "Political transformation means more than a few new institutions. It’s a ...
In yesterday's 'Nieuwsuur': Henk Schulte Nordholt (extraordinary Professor of Indonesian History / Leiden University and Head of Research KITLV) commented on Indonesia's decision to execute 6 people ...
The international workshop Tracing Trajectories of Modernity in Southeast Asia, 1920s−1970s which was held on 12 and 13 January 2015 at the KITLV was productive and stimulating. Participants from Australia...
On 8 and 9 January 2015, KITLV hosted an international workshop on female Islamic authority in contemporary Asia. The workshop elaborated on preceding events – and a growing literature on the topic...
“I am so proud to be a Dutchman. Our country stands for developmental aid. Please, newly appointed government, keep this going. Our world will never be safe if we do not help to decrease the scandalous...
Asian Tigers, African Lions: Comparing the Development Performance of Southeast Asia and Africa, published by Brill in 2013 and coordinated by the African Studies Centre (ASC) and KITLV, both in...
An interview with Cuba expert and historian Gert Oostindie in the Dutch radio programme OVT about the relations between the USA and Cuba. Click here to listen to the interview (only in Dutch) ...
On the afternoon of 10 December, the KITLV organized a symposium in Leiden on the Indonesian war of decolonization (1945-1949) and its afterlife in Indonesia and the Netherlands. The continuing presence of ...