September 2014

30 Sep PhD defense Marije Plomp on Malay adventure stories

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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. ...

29 Sep Vacature onderzoeksstage (only in Dutch)

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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...

26 Sep Seminar on risk and floods in a Jakarta slum

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Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar 25 September: guest speaker Roanne van Voorst (lecturer Anthropology and Asian Studies, University of Amsterdam) introduced her research on risk and floods in a Jakarta slum to a small but interested audience. She presented the conclusions of her PhD-dissertation 'Get ready...

22 Sep Visit delegation Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI)

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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...

20 Sep Lezing over Rouffaer, medeoprichter van het KITLV

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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...

19 Sep ‘Politics and democracy in microstates’, a new publication by Wouter Veenendaal

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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...

15 Sep Dutch troops and the Surinaamse Krijgsmacht (blog by Ellen Klinkers)

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Serious riots were not expected, but ethnic tensions between Creoles and Hindostanis were heating up a few months before Suriname’s independence in 1975. The last detachment of Dutch soldiers was prepared to...

15 Sep Visit delegation Indonesian National Library

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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...

12 Sep Opening new location KITLV-Jakarta by the Ambassador of the Netherlands

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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...

01 Sep The power of the Caribbean (blog by Rosemarijn Hoefte)

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The Caribbean: hundreds of islands in the heart of the Americas. Cuba is the largest (about 106,000 km2) and with 11 million inhabitants is also the most populous country. Tiny Saba (13 km2), a special municipality of...