(Also in Dutch) We are looking for participants for a study on what motivates individuals to protect the cultural heritage, and / or the natural environment on the BES islands. This research is part of the 'Confronting...
Two new articles by KITLV researchers Jessica Vance Roitman and Wouter Veenendaal have come out in the past week. Wouter and Jessica are part of the ongoing...
The late Dr Silvia W. de Groot, historian and lifetime honorary member of the Members Association left a legacy to KITLV with the aim of financially supporting young Caribbean students or researchers, preferably ...
Bij het project Nederlands militair optreden in Indonesië 1945-1950 is een vacature voor een onderzoeksstage met als opdracht het onderzoeken van interviewcollecties van Indië veteranen. Wij zijn op zoek naar een ...
One-Tété Lohkay and Alida, the legend of the enslaved woman whose breast was cut off, have become folk heroines. What to do asks Jessica Roitman, an historian who wonders if these disfigurements occurred?...
'Hemispheric reconfigurations in Northern Amazonia; the ‘Three Guianas’ amid regional change and Brazilian hegemony' is the first of three publications by Matthew Bishop (University ...
In the second semester of the academic year 2015-2016 KITLV organizes, for the 30th time, the interuniversitary course Introduction to Caribbean Studies. Participation ...
On Thursday 21 January, between 8:00 and 9:30 pm, KITLV researchers Dr. Wouter Veenendaal and Prof. Gert Oostindie will present the results of their opinion survey on Saba. The presentation will take place at the ...
Between September and November 2015, the KITLV executed a large-scale opinion survey on all six Caribbean islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. On each island, a random sample of...
For the research project 'Shades of Clientelism: A comparative study of Indonesia’s patronage democracy' we are looking for a research-intern. We are looking for ...
Op 8 december 1982 vonden de Decembermoorden in Suriname plaats. In de Stopera herdenken nabestaanden en betrokkenen de 15 slachtoffers voor de 33e keer. Hoe kijkt de Surinaamse gemeenschap aan tegen ...
White Dutch people have recently entered the second stage of grief over losing their colonial innocence: anger, says Paul Bijl. For decades they thought that racist injustice, slavery, colonialism and mass killings were more characteristics of the Germans, Americans, British and ...
Ellen Klinkers sprak vorige week in het radioprogramma 'Met het oog op morgen' over haar nieuwste boek De troepenmacht in Suriname: De Nederlandse defensie in een veranderende koloniale wereld 1940-1975....
Het KITLV is, in samenwerking met het Instituut voor Geschiedenis, op zoek naar een enthousiaste master student geschiedenis voor deze stage, gericht op het onder deskundige begeleiding opsporen, onderzoeken ...
(Also in Dutch) The members association wishes to improve the way it works to attain its goals. You can help us, whether you are a member or not. Please share ideas by answering our questions in the survey below...
Published continuously since 1919, the New West Indian Guide (NWIG) is the oldest scholarly journal on the Caribbean, featuring English-language articles in the fields of anthropology, art, archaeology, ...
(Only in Dutch) Vandaag verscheen in de Volkskrant een opiniestuk van KITLV-onderzoekter Wouter Veenendaal over de drie Caribische 'gemeenten'. "Vijf jaar na dato zou Den Haag er goed aan doen om de illusie los ...
(Only in Dutch) Het KITLV is op zoek naar medewerkers die tussen 9 november 2015 en 27 november 2015 minimaal 20 uur beschikbaar zijn om als data-invoer medewerker van een onderzoek (dat recentelijk ...
(Only in Dutch) In het oktober nummer van het Historisch Nieuwsblad is Gert Oostindie aan het woord over de Zwarte Piet discussie . "De discussie over Zwarte Piet is fel. Maar ik zie het als een positief teken, als uitdrukking ...
(Only in Dutch) Rosemarijn Hoefte vertelt in het radioprogramma 'Get Up!' (Radio Brasa) over de tentoonstelling 'Suriname in beweging: Migratie en cultuur' in de Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden. Meer informatie ...
(Only in Dutch) Stephan Sanders van 'OBA Live' in gesprek met Gert Oostindie, Hassan Bahara, Anousha Nzume en Stine Jensen over het racismedebat. Het debat rond racisme in Nederland is verhevigd. Zwarte Piet,...
KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and Leiden Law School, Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development are looking for a PhD Candidate Law and ...
Article by Jessica Roitman (KITLV) and Karwan Fatah-Black (Leiden University) in Itinerario: 'Being speculative is better than to not do it at all: An interview with Natalie Zemon Davis'. Roitman and Fatah-Black meet ...
Article by Gert Oostindie in the September edition of Aruba Dushi Tera. Aruba Dushi Tera is a two-monthly publication for everyone who is interested in the country and people of Aruba. The magazine’s ...
A couple of weeks ago, as part of a holiday in the Balkans, my girlfriend and I visited the Dalmatian island of Hvar in the Adriatic Sea. According to our guidebook, Hvar is “a perfect getaway for people who want to enjoy...
To be or not be (called) Dutch: is that the question…? The media can’t have it both ways: we are Dutch, or we are not. It is a fact that in times of failure, the media writes about the ‘Curaçaoan’ that lost,...
(Only in Dutch) Op dinsdag 14 juli jl. verscheen in Amigoe een ingezonden stuk van KITLV-onderzoekster Stacey Mac Donald over het selectieve gebruik van 'Nederlander' en 'Curaçaoënaar' in de media. ...
A new article by KITLV researcher Jessica Roitman and former KITLV researcher Han Jordaan in the TSEG/the Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History. After the island of St. Eustatius was sacked by the ...
(Only in Dutch) Op dinsdag 7 juli jl. verscheen in Trouw een opiniestuk van KITLV-onderzoeker Wouter Veenendaal over Sint-Eustatius: 'Sint-Eustatius, zoek je toekomst in Cariben'. Veenendaal constateert ...
(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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
‘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.)...
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 ...