Author: KITLV

O.a. Gert Oostindie reageert op NU.nl op de discussie over standbeelden van omstreden historische figuren uit het koloniale verleden zoals Jan Pieterszoon Coen. Op vrijdagavond 19 juni staat een protest gepland in de gemeente Hoorn...

Last fall, I saw a job announcement for a PhD position at the KITLV. It identified KITLV as ‘a formerly colonial institution reflecting on its own past’ and suggested ‘a fresh research agenda that aims to understand the nature and impact...

Where is my golden pen? An academic cannot be an anti-racist activist today without a smartphone. I know, I can also join a protest march and carry a placard stating that Black Lives Matter. I can, yes, but then I will...

Twelve years ago, I was in the KITLV special collections room, studying archival materials about the colonial subjugation of Aceh, the region on the northern tip of Sumatra. It took four decades, from the 1870s...

For the longest time, this little girl wanted to be white. She did not like her hair; she did not like her dark eyes; she did not like anything about the way she looked. She had very dry skin, and when she...

As outrage about police violence in the U.S. has resulted in protests all over the world, we have seen a great number of academic institutions making statements condemning racism. At KITLV we also feel compelled to speak out, particularly in view of...

The 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, literature, music, political...

An Inside Indonesia edition (April-June 2020) on Atheism in Indonesia, co-edited by Gerry van Klinken. In Europe, 20 percent of the population identify as atheist or irreligious. In France it is 40 percent. Yet in Indonesia we can hardly find...

In de ochtendpodcast 'Dit wordt het nieuws' van Nu.nl op 16 april jl. praat Ward Berenschot, onderzoeker bij het KITLV en sinds kort ook bijzonder hoogleraar politieke antropologie aan de Universiteit ...

Yesterday, 5 april Edisius Riyadi Terre died in a hospital in Jakarta. Edi was an English translator, a lawyer and lecturer in law at Universitas Multimedia Nusantara. He collaborated with several KITLV researchers. Adriaan Bedner and Jacqueline Vel...

Medio 2019 was het vijf jaar geleden dat het KITLV, na een ingrijpende reorganisatie, een nieuwe start maakte als uitsluitend op onderzoek gericht KNAW-instituut, ingebed in de Leidse universitaire omgeving. ...

In preparation of a proposal for the Dutch Research Council’s (NWO) call for Caribbean multi-disciplinary research, Corinne Hofman (LU/KITLV) and Francio Guadeloupe (UvA/KITLV) visited the six Dutch Caribbean islands together with a team...

PhD defense by KITLV/VVI researcher Hoko Horii, 18 March 2020: 'Child marriage as a choice: Rethinking agency in international human rights (Bali, Indonesia)'. Child marriage has become an increasingly ...

My search for Sultan Hamid II of Pontianak - about which I wrote in my previous blog - took me to Yogyakarta before visiting Pontianak itself. I was in Yogyakarta to improve my knowledge of the Indonesian language, culture and history. ...

On Thursday 10 January the annual Meijers Prizes were awarded for the best published article, per faculty research program, by researchers in the pre-promotion phase. The winners received a certificate ...