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 ...

KITLV is looking for new interns to support the research project ‘Palm Oil Conflicts: Access to Justice in Indonesia’. This project engages in a first-ever study of general patterns and outcomes of conflicts related ...

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 article by KITLV researcher Grace Leksana in online journal Inside Indonesia. As Indonesians are moving further from 1965, scholars and activists are starting to raise awareness about the risk of ‘collective ...

Nieuwe column van Fridus Steijlen in de november nieuwsbrief van Museum Maluku. "Op weg van het vliegveld naar het hotel vertelde de chauffeur dat het hotel de laatste tijd heel vol zit. Vooral met Molukkers uit Nederland, ‘Maluku-Belanda’....

On the 25th of November the Museon in The Hague hosted the symposium 'Shared Caribbean heritage; shared future?' (Gedeeld Caribisch erfgoed; gedeelde toekomst?). Corinne Hofman (KITLV), Tibisay Sankatsing Nava (KITLV)...

The Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia is an interdisciplinary fully open access journal on Southeast Asia, with a strong focus on Indonesia. The editors especially welcome articles ...

Ereleden van de Vereniging KITLV worden, door het bestuur, benoemd op basis van twee criteria: wetenschappelijke betekenis voor het werkterrein van de Zuidoost-Aziatische en Caribische studies. ...

Als afsluiting van de 'Black Achievement Month' werden afgelopen dinsdagavond de Black Achievement Awards in het DeLaMar Theater in Amsterdam uitgereikt. Deze awards worden uitgereikt aan personen ...

Earlier this year KITLV-researcher Ward Berenschot published Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism and the State in Indonesia (co-authored with Edward Aspinall). In the light of ongoing protests in Indonesia against the revised law on Indonesia's anti-corruption...