New article by Ward Berenschot in the Jakarta Post: 'Misdirecting elections'. Berenschot is researcher at KITLV and studying election campaigns and citizenship in Indonesia....
On 30 September KITLV, the Van Vollenhoven Institute (VVI) and Amnesty International (Netherlands) organized a seminar on the murdered Munir Said Thalib, one of the most prominent human rights activists in Indonesia. ...
On 30 September Marije Plomp successfully defended her PhD thesis on Malay adventure stories at the Academy Building of Leiden University. Marije’s thesis was titled ‘Never-Neverland revisited: Malay adventure stories. ...
Momenteel is er een vacature voor een onderzoeksstage bij het project Nederlands militair optreden in Indonesië 1945-1950. De stage bestaat uit archiefonderzoek op het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag. Wij zijn op zoek naar...
On 22 September a delegation of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI) visited KITLV. Professor Henk Schulte Nordholt (head of KITLV research department) and a few members of the research staff welcomed...
De werkgroep Indische Letteren organiseerde op vrijdag 26 september j.l. een lezingenmiddag. Frank Okker, gastonderzoeker bij het KITLV gaf een lezing over Gerret Rouffaer, één van de oprichters van het KITLV...
Why are small states statistically more likely to have a democratic political system? By addressing this question from a qualitative and comparative methodological angle, in this book Wouter Veenendaal analyses the effects of...
On 15 September, a delegation of the Indonesian National Library - Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia (PNRI)) - led by Mr. Dedy Junaedi (prime secretary of the PNRI) visited KITLV. The delegation was welcomed by...
On 12 September 2014 H.E. the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Mr. Tjeerd de Zwaan (left) and the director of KITLV-Jakarta, Dr. Roger Tol (middle) signed the agreement confirming the relocation of...
On Saturday August 16, KITLV researcher Emiel Martens hosted another Caribbean film event at World Cinema Amsterdam with his non-profit organization Caribbean Creativity. After the successful edition of Yard Vibes...
A special issue by Fridus Steijlen (KITLV) and Bart Barendregt (Leiden University) in the newest IIAS Newsletter is now online available. November 2013’s issue of the International Documentary Festival...
In 2012, KITLV in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute of Military History (NIMH) and the Institute of War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies (NIOD) began a wide-ranging research program on Dutch military...
The NWO program Confronting Caribbean Challenges (CCC) will start in the Fall of 2014. The full description of the program is available at the link below. Incorporating two post-doctoral researchers and two PhDs...
Dr. Wouter Veenendaal, who will start working at KITLV from September 2014 onwards as a postdoctoral researcher in the project 'Confronting Caribbean Challenges', has won the Annual Political Science Prize...
The European Association for South East Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) is an international initiative to foster scholarly cooperation within Europe in the field of Southeast Asian studies. It was founded in 1992...
Gert Oostindie, director KITLV and professor of Caribbean History at Leiden University, will receive a € 750,000 grant for the research project Confronting Caribbean Challenges: Hybrid Identities and Governance...
Today an article on the elections in Indonesia by KITLV researcher Ward Berenschot appeared on the New Mandala, a website providing anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia...
With effect from 1 July 2014, the KNAW is transferring management of the extensive collections on Indonesia and the Caribbean previously held by the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean...
On June 30, 2014 the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), Leiden University, and the Learned Society signed a number of agreements with regards to the future of the KITLV. The Learned Society is...