KITLV and Framer Framed are pleased to announce Mirelle van Tulder as the new Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist in Residence. Mirelle van Tulder will start her residency in 2024 followed by a public presentation ...

Op 16 november werd het boek Koloniaal Haarlem, geschreven door Rosemarijn Hoefte, Henk Schulte Nordholt, Dineke Stam en Mariette van Wenum) gepresenteerd in de Doelenzaal van bibliotheek Haarlem. Het boek, uitgegeven door Uitgeverij Loutje...

Saya terenyuh ketika mendengar kabar Jaap telah berpulang. Sepanjang masa tugasnya sebagai perwakilan KITLV di Jakarta sejak 1974 hingga 2003, juga setelah masa tugasnya berakhir, Jaap tak pernah terpisahkan dari janggut dan juga cangklongnya....

I was deeply touched to learn of Jaap’s passing. During and after his long service as representative of KITLV in Jakarta, from 1974 until 2003, Jaap was always there with his beard and inseparable pipe, which gave him an appearance and an...

The journal New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids has published a new advance article: ‘The apprenticeship system in the Caribbean: The world of the apprentices', by Gad Heuman...

KITLV and Framer Framed are pleased to announce the international open call for the 2024 Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist Residency. Applications are currently being accepted online with a submission deadline ...

The journal New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids has published new advance articles: ‘The negative consequences of the Westminster System and Partisan Media in small Caribbean States...

2022 was het eerste jaar van Diana Suhardiman als nieuwe directeur van het KITLV. Met haar expertise in het veld van natuurlijke hulpbronnen, duurzaamheid en klimaat heeft zij het instituut een belangrijke nieuwe impuls ...

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher Indian Politics for the innovative and challenging project 'Costs of democracy: The political economy of campaign finance'. Deadline submissions: 25 June 2023...

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher Indonesian Politics for the innovative and challenging project 'Costs of democracy: The political economy of campaign finance'. Deadline submissions: 25 June 2023...

De afdeling Bedrijfsvoering binnen het KITLV is verantwoordelijk voor uiteenlopende taken zoals HR, Communicatie, Financiële Administratie en Office Management. Momenteel is de afdeling op zoek naar ...

There are things in daily life that seem to always continue without notice. For me, one of them is going to the hairdresser, more or less every six weeks. I only changed a hairdresser when he retired or when I moved. Visits...

The New West Indian Guide (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...

KITLV-KNAW is looking for an enthusiastic, talented and passionate candidate who wants to provide an added value to the institutes’ current research projects. KITLV has room for one junior postdoc...

On March 2, Professor William Frederick passed away. We lost a great scholar and a generous and inspiring senior colleague. Bill focussed much of his research on the Japanese occupation of Indonesia and the Indonesian Revolution. ...

In de 13de subsidieronde van het Dr. Silvia de Groot Fonds werden de subsidieaanvragen van drie Caribische onderzoekers gehonoreerd. Het Silvia de Groot fonds is bedoeld om studenten...

Het Philippus Corts Fonds (PCF), opgericht door Cornelis Willem Corts (1920 – 2005) was aanvankelijk een stichting met de naam The Corts Foundation. Met zijn legaat en gerichte doelstellingen ...

KITLV and Framer Framed are pleased to announce Clara Jo as the new Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist in Residence. In the coming months, we will work closely with the artist in developing her project ...

As part of the Island(er)s at the Helm research program, the Transatlantic Academic Platform encourages regional collaboration and international discussion by raising awareness of the role of ...

My most memorable Lunar New Year was a quarter of a century ago in Pontianak, the provincial capital of West Kalimantan. One month prior to this, news had started coming in about deadly clashes between the indigenous Dayak people ...

Op 6 december dit jaar ontviel ons plotseling onze zeer gewaardeerde oud-collega Meindert van der Kaaij. Meindert was van 2017 tot 2021 werkzaam op het KITLV als onderzoeker in het KITLV-NIMH-NIOD...

As Selangor prepares to celebrate its Bugis Malay ruler’s birthday, it is interesting to look at how the sultanate itself was born from a mixture of Bugis and Malay elements. Sunday December 11th is the 78th birthday of the Sultan of Selangor...