It is with great pleasure that the selection committee of Atelier KITLV announces Theo Frids Marulitua Hutabarat from Bandung, Indonesia as the winner of our Artist Call. The KITLV has commissioned an original work of visual art for our space at Leiden...
BKI is an interdisciplinary fully open access journal on Southeast Asia, with a strong focus on Indonesia. The editors especially welcome articles from anthropology, history, political science, law, sociology, social geography, development studies, urban studies...
The new issue includes 3 articles: “Gender, family, race, and the colonial state in early nineteenth-century Jamaica” by Aaron Graham, “Rethinking the historical development of Caribbean ...
Land conflicts between rural Indonesians and palm oil companies: new report finds that that Indonesia’s government is ineffective in resolving conflicts. The report will be launched on 27 October 2021 ...
The KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies proudly presents a series of short video portraits of people working at the institute. Meet Sikko Visscher...
Dutch imperialism transformed Rotterdam, from a murky wetland into Europe’s largest seaport. Today, as the so-called “New Rotterdammers” flock to the urban center...
In de eerste aflevering van History Matters - Thuis in een postkoloniale stad, staan Rotterdam en Rotterdammers centraal. Hoe is onze demografie te herleiden naar onze geschiedenis? History Matters ...
KITLV is looking for one PhD and two postdoc candidates for the project 'Island(er)s at the Helm: Co-creating sustainable and inclusive solutions for social adaptation to climate ...
The KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies proudly presents a series of short video portraits of people working at the institute. In these short films our researchers...
On 14 September 2021, the Island(er)s at the Helm program hosted its first Kingdom-wide event with societal partners and other stakeholders. This meeting is ...
Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas, a new volume in the series Chinese Overseas, edited by Tom Hoogervorst (KITLV) and Caroline Chia. Open access....
Podcast about Tom Hoogervorst's latest book Language ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese print entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 which explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts, writings ...
New co-publication by our researchers Corinne Hofmann and Menno Hoogland in the journal Sustainability: 'Resilient Caribbean communities: A long-term...
A conversation with, among others, Indonesian novelist Ayu Utami and KITLV researcher Taufiq Hanafi about the writer Amir Hamza, a national hero in Indonesia, celebrated for both his poetry and his role in ...
Imagine what Indonesian historical research could look like if there were no language barriers, no travel costs and no visa issues, and instead just a strong Wi-Fi signal...
Het in juni verschenen tweedelige boek over Antiliaans erfgoed, Toen en nu & Nu en verder, is officieel overhandig aan de waarnemend Gezaghebber van Bonaire, Reynold Oleana, en voorzitter van de ...
Covid has brought misery and suffering, the lockdowns have caused anger and frustration. Once in a while, though, the pandemic and the restrictive measures have had advatageous effects. For example, Hawé Setiawan, a friend of KITLV researcher Tom van den Berge...
There is a long tradition of academic words being derived from Greek and Latin. In fact, some common words – such as neuroscience, metadata, and heteronormative – consist of one Greek and one Latin element...
Artikel door Esther Captain over het publieke debat over de film 'De Oost' in het tijdschrift Checkpoint. Het artikel verscheen eerder in Het Parool van 27 mei jl. Het publieke debat over de speelfilm ...
Three advanced articles in the New West Indian Guide (NWIG) on ‘White cannibalism in the illegal slave trade’, 'Gender, family, race, and the colonial state in early nineteenth-century Jamaica'...
If you visit the Banda islands in the Moluccas by boat, the first you see when walking from the harbor is the Hatta-Sjahrir college. Named after Mohammad Hatta and Sutan Sjahrir, two of the founding ...
Policy paper by the German Advisory Council on Global Change: 'Beyond climate neutrality'. One of the co-authors is KITLV researcher Yvonne Kunz who is involved in the project 'Climate change and governance in Indonesia ...
Manuscripts from Sulawesi recount the legendary family relations between Mamuju in West Sulawesi and Badung in South Bali. This relationship is said to have commenced with the marriage ...
Op verzoek van het Molukse Marinjo reflecteerde Fridus Steijlen op de documentaireserie ‘Molukkers in Nederland – zeventig jaar op weg naar huis’ en het gelijktijdig ...
Den Haag gaat doen wat Amsterdam, Rotterdam en Utrecht al eerder deden: de stad laat historici haar slavernijverleden onder de loep nemen. “Formeel is de opdracht nog niet binnen, maar ...
De Gouden Koets is momenteel in een tentoonstelling in het Amsterdam Museum te bekijken. Gert Oostindie verwacht echter dat de koets een museumstuk zal blijven en niet meer zal worden gebruikt door koning Willem-Alexander...
The KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies is pleased to announce that the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences/KNAW has appointed Dr Diana Suhardiman...
Het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) is verheugd u te kunnen meedelen dat dr. Diana Suhardiman door de Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen ...
Ook voor het KITLV zal het jaar 2020 de geschiedenis ingaan als het jaar van de Covid-19 crisis. De belemmeringen die deze crisis opwierp grepen diep in. Het uitvoeren van veldwerk was vanaf maart ...
Een nieuw twee-delig boek over het Antilliaanse culturele erfgoed, geschreven door een team van Antilliaanse en Nederlandse wetenschappers, biedt een staalkaart van reflecties op het culturele ...
Per 1 juni 2021 heeft The Corts Foundation haar vermogen overgemaakt aan de Vereniging KITLV om daarmee een nieuw fonds in het leven te roepen. ...
The notebook of a Yogyanese dance master might not seem an obvious source for deepening our historical perspectives. And yet the notation of a female bedhaya ...
Article by Yogi Permana on politics and Indonesia's flood management at NewMandala.org. Flooding is the most significant hydrometeorological hazard...
Presentatoren Mischa Blok en Toine van Peperstraten spraken op 19 mei jl. in het Radio 1 programma Blok& Toine, n.a.v. de tentoonstelling 'Slavernij' in het Rijksmuseum, met...
Anne van Mourik en Roel Frakking betogen in hun stuk dat de oplaaiende discussies rond De Oost, door het benadrukken van 'goede bedoelingen', Nederlandse politiek-militaire gedragingen ...
An advance article in the New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG) on race and color relations in Jamaican hotels, by Henrice Altink. NWIG is published by Brill Academic ...
Esther Captain is the author of the chapter ‘Sexual restraint, substitution, transgression and extreme sexual violence across the late-colonial and postcolonial...
My travel in 2014 led me to four seasons of archaeological field surveys in the area of Fort-Liberté (Figure 1), with the task of documenting traces of human activities and thereby of proposing...
In de allereerste call van het Cariben programma van de NWO ontvingen negen onderzoekers subsidie (in totaal 5 miljoen euro) voor de uitvoering van een wetenschappelijk project. ...
The KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies would like to commission an original work of visual art for our space at Leiden University. Atelier KITLV is a working group within the Institute....
I visited the archaeological sites at En Bas Saline and Puerto Real for the first time with some colleagues from Leiden University in summer 2014. Scholars have placed the location of La Navidad ...
In een debat n.a.v. haar lezing 'Een Reflectie op Witte Onschuld, vijf jaar later', reflecteerde emeritus hoogleraar Gloria Wekker, vijf jaar na het verschijnen van de ...
The results of the research programme Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950 will be presented on Thursday, February 17, 2022 ...
On April 22, 2021 KITLV is officially kicking-off the new project on climate change and governance in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Together with partners from Indonesia and the Caribbean...
Met het Caribisch Denkboek leren kinderen op Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius en Sint Maarten over de lokale geschiedenis van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Onze gastonderzoeker Rosa de Jong leverde een bijdrage aan het boekje...
The board of the KNAW has appointed Martijn Eickhoff as director of NIOD as of 1 September 2021, taking up the position of Frank van Vree who will be retiring. Eickhoff is the coordinator of the KITLV-based project group ‘Regional studies’...
Blog by David Kloos at leidenislamblog.nl about Citi Yousoff from Malaysia, one of the very few female calligraphers with an ijazah (a traditional licence) and...
Open acces review essay on three recent monographs which highlight the relevance of transnational refugee and resistance networks. These books shed new light ...
The New West Indian Guide (NWIG) is a scholarly fully open access journal on the Caribbean, featuring English-language articles in the fields of anthropology, art, archaeology, economics, geography, geology, history, international relations, linguistics...
Although I have been far from Indonesia for some time now, I still consider myself to have the right to regard the country that is 18,000 kilometres away as my source of information, entertainment...