After 25 years, the Professor Teeuw Foundation now publishes its final open call for nominations for the Professor Teeuw Award. Linked to a KITLV-symposium on ‘Translation’, the Foundation intends to ...
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 ...
The research project ‘Transformation of religions as reflected in Javanese texts’, in which Willem van der Molen (KITLV) is involved, has started a new series, entitled Javanese Studies. Contributions to the Study of ...
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 ...
(Only in Dutch). The KITLV Annual Report 2014 is now online available. A hard copy is also available for members of the Learned Society / Vereniging KITLV. The full annual report is written in Dutch. The English translation, ...
De Grote Geschiedenis Quiz 2015 (The Big History Quiz 2015) was won by the team of one of KITLV's former interns. Miel Groten, MA student History at VU University Amsterdam and former intern for the ...
Leiden University Libraries would like to inform you that in week of the 18th of May 2015, the collections located in the Open Stacks on -1, one floor below the Information Centre Huygens, will be moved ...
(Only in Dutch) KITLV researcher David Kloos was interviewed about the implementation of Islamic law in Malaysia and Indonesia for the program “Bureau Buitenland” of the VPRO (Radio 1). Kloos discussed ...
Leiden University is proud to announce the new website of the Asian Library: asianlibraryleiden.nl. Here you can find the latest updates and information on The Asian Library project. Leiden University is about...
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...
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the History Department of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta and KITLV. The MOU was signed by Henk Schulte Nordholt (Head Research KITLV)...
(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...
(Only in Dutch) 'Kwartetten met Pattimura', een column van Fridus Steijlen in de nieuwsbrief van maart van Museum Maluku (MUMA). Aanleiding voor de column was de première van het toneelstuk ‘KRUIT! ...
This book is the result of KITLV’s and Afrika Study Centers' research project 'Tracking Development' (2006-2011). The author David Henley, now Professor Contemporary Indonesian Studies at Leiden University, ...
(Only in Dutch) Een artikel over Rouffaer in het Leids Universitair Weekblad Mare, n.a.v. de presentatie van Frank Okker's biografie 'Rouffaer; De laatste Indische ontdekkingsreiziger' op 27 februari jl. ...
In the latest IIAS Newsletter: 'Female Islamic authority in comparative perspective: exemplars, institutions, practices', by KITLV researcher David Kloos and Mirjam Künkler (research fellow at KITLV). A report on a ...
On Friday 27 February, KITLV fellow Frank Okker, presented 'Rouffaer, de laatste Indische ontdekkingsreiziger', a biography of Gerret Pieter Rouffaer (1860-1928), the last "Indische" explorer and...
KITLV is pleased to announce the new publication by one of its researchers, Kathryn Anderson Wellen: The Open Door; Early Modern Wajorese Statecraft and Diaspora. The Wajorese people were one of many people...
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...
Article by Jacqueline Hicks in New Mandala: 'KPK v Polri: a proxy conflict?' Despite not having the numbers in Indonesia’s house of representatives, President Joko Widodo has been able to score victories....
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.)...
Fridus Steijlen wrote a column, titled 'In Memoriam: Landelijke Molukse inspraak' in the latest newsletter of the Moluccan Historical Museum's. Click here to read Steijlen’s column ...
In de Java Post: "We kunnen er niet meer omheen. De discussie over het verleden van Nederlands-Indië is nog lang niet geluwd, in tegendeel. Bij de zoektocht naar een meer integrale en inzichtbiedende ...
In yesterday's 'Nieuwsuur': Henk Schulte Nordholt (extraordinary Professor of Indonesian History / Leiden University and Head of Research KITLV) commented on Indonesia's decision to execute 6 people ...
The international workshop Tracing Trajectories of Modernity in Southeast Asia, 1920s−1970s which was held on 12 and 13 January 2015 at the KITLV was productive and stimulating. Participants from Australia...
On 8 and 9 January 2015, KITLV hosted an international workshop on female Islamic authority in contemporary Asia. The workshop elaborated on preceding events – and a growing literature on the topic...
Asian Tigers, African Lions: Comparing the Development Performance of Southeast Asia and Africa, published by Brill in 2013 and coordinated by the African Studies Centre (ASC) and KITLV, both in...
On the afternoon of 10 December, the KITLV organized a symposium in Leiden on the Indonesian war of decolonization (1945-1949) and its afterlife in Indonesia and the Netherlands. The continuing presence of ...
This special edition of the Journal of Caribbean History is in honour of University of the West Indies (UWI) Emerita Professor of History, Bridget Brereton. Guest editor is Brian L. Moore. Authors of this special issue are Carl...
The Oxis Group: "Ian Caldwell and Kathryn Wellen of the KITLV are currently working on a study of the genealogies of the Bugis-speaking kingdoms between circa 1400-1600 CE. The project aims to establish the extent...
Volkskrant, 14 december: "Over martelingen of seksueel geweld tijdens de onafhankelijkheidsoorlog van Indonesië van 1945 tot 1949 is weinig bekend. Hetzelfde geldt voor verhoortechnieken ...
From September until December 2015, a group of 10 scholars from Indonesia visited Leiden. They were here within the framework of a Dutch-Indonesian Sandwich Programme as part of a longstanding ...
KITLV onderzoeker Bart Luttikhuis was afgelopen zondag 7 december te gast bij het radioprogramma OVT om te vertellen over het onderzoek naar het Nederlands militaire optreden in Indonesië, 1945-1950...
On 27 November the book 'Agriculture beyond food: Experiences from Indonesia' was launched in Jakarta as a result of the NWO-KNAW research programme 'Agriculture beyond food'. 'Agriculture beyond food'...
The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) is pleased to announce that with the sponsorship of KITLV / the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean ...
Short interview with KITLV researcher David Kloos on female islamic leadership in Indonesia in the 'Mare', the weekly Leiden University magazine (only in Dutch). Kloos is a postdoctoral researcher ...
Op de opiniepagina van de Volkskrant van 15 november 2014 pleiten Ellen Klinkers en Peter Meel (Universiteit Leiden/ Geschiedenis, voormalig KITLV) voor hernieuwd onderzoek naar de vermeende ...
On Monday 3 November, a group of 16 Indonesian banking archivsts and management staff, visited KITLV. The purpose of their stay in the Netherlands is to collect information on the subject of archives: documentation...
The latest edition of the New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Volume 88, Issue 3-4, is now online available (open access). Including the article: 'Black Pete, “Smug Ignorance,” and the Value of the Black Body in...
An article by Andy Fuller, associate fellow at KITLV, in Inside Indonesia, about the collection and reading room of KITLV. Fuller carried out research in the reading room during its last months and has fond memories of its ...
A new column by Fridus Steijlen on 'Balk and Ternate' appeared in the monthly newsletter of the Moluccan Historical Museum (MHM). Steijlen's latest column is about (Moluccan) identity, clothing and body ...
Brill, the international scholarly publisher, and KITLV, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, make the first 100 volumes of the renowned book series the ‘Verhandelingen’, or VKI, available in...
Get acquainted with Leiden research on Indonesia: the exhibition 'Investigating Indonesia', on view in the University Library as of 16 October, highlights seven eminent researchers from Leiden University and KITLV. ...
Leiden University is to have a unique expertise centre on Asia. This centre, the Asian Library, will hold extremely rare Asian collections and offer new opportunities for teaching and research. The Asian Library clearly...
On 10 October Bart Luttikhuis successfully defended his PhD thesis titled ‘Negotiating modernity. Europeannes in late colonial Indonesia, 1910-1942’, at the European University Institute (EUI), Department of History and ...