July 2015 - KITLV

29 Jul The devil in the detail (blog by Jacqueline Vel)

Posted at 15:45h in Blog Posts, News Items, Spotlight on Southeast Asia 0 Comments

President Jokowi is a source of inspiration for future new leaders in the districts of Indonesia. A friend of mine on the island of Sumba in Eastern Indonesia tried to register as an independent candidate for the December ...

24 Jul To be or not be (called) Dutch… (blog by Stacey Mac Donald)

Posted at 13:11h in Blog Posts, News Items, Spotlight on the Caribbean 0 Comments

To be or not be (called) Dutch: is that the question…? The media can’t have it both ways: we are Dutch, or we are not. It is a fact that in times of failure, the media writes about the ‘Curaçaoan’ that lost,...

21 Jul Professor Teeuw Prijzen 2015 voor Hedi Hinzler en John McGlynn

Posted at 11:15h in News Items, Spotlight on Southeast Asia 2 Comments

(Only in Dutch) Dit jaar wordt voor de laatste keer de Professor Teeuw prijs uitgereikt. De Professor Teeuw Prijs werd in 1991 ingesteld door de Stichting Professor Teeuw Fonds, als een eerbetoon aan, de in 2012 ...

20 Jul Veni grant for Tom Hoogervorst and David Kloos

Posted at 15:41h in News Items, Spotlight on Southeast Asia 1 Comment

KITLV congratulates Tom Hoogervorst and David Kloos who received a Veni grant (max. 250.000 Euro) from the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research (NWO). Veni is part of the NWO’s so-called ‘Incentives Scheme’....

15 Jul Ingezonden stuk Stacey Mac Donald in ‘Amigoe’

Posted at 11:26h in Spotlight on the Caribbean 0 Comments

(Only in Dutch) Op dinsdag 14 juli jl. verscheen in Amigoe een ingezonden stuk van KITLV-onderzoekster Stacey Mac Donald over het selectieve gebruik van 'Nederlander' en 'Curaçaoënaar' in de media. ...

15 Jul New article by Jessica Roitman & Han Jordaan

Posted at 10:55h in Spotlight on the Caribbean 0 Comments

A new article by KITLV researcher Jessica Roitman and former KITLV researcher Han Jordaan in the TSEG/the Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History. After the island of St. Eustatius was sacked by the ...

13 Jul ‘Oh my land Papua’ (blog by Tom van den Berge)

Posted at 11:17h in Blog Posts, News Items, Spotlight on Southeast Asia 2 Comments

‘Oh my land Papua’: Izäak Samuel Kijne, 1899-1970: Missionary teacher in New Guinea. In the autumn of 2013 a Papua fanatic visited the KITLV. The Papua fanatic is an elder Dutch male social anthropologist and ...

09 Jul ‘Sint-Eustatius, zoek je toekomst in Cariben’

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(Only in Dutch) Op dinsdag 7 juli jl. verscheen in Trouw een opiniestuk van KITLV-onderzoeker Wouter Veenendaal over Sint-Eustatius: 'Sint-Eustatius, zoek je toekomst in Cariben'. Veenendaal constateert ...

08 Jul Marrik Bellen new director of KITLV-Jakarta

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Indonesia is of great importance to Leiden University for research and education. Therefore the new KITLV director in Jakarta is also the permanent representative of Leiden University in Indonesia.The responsibilities ...

02 Jul Sites, bodies and stories: Imagining Indonesian history

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Edited by Susan Legêne (Professor of Political History, VU University Amsterdam), Bambang Purwanto (Professor of History, Gadjah Mada University) and Henk Schulte Nordholt (Professor of Indonesian History, ...