December 2018

18 Dec Koninkrijksrelaties.nu: Wetenschappers bepleiten Koninkrijkscultuurfonds

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Tien wetenschappers uit alle delen van het Koninkrijk vinden dat er een fonds moet komen om de samenwerking op de terreinen van cultuur, cultuureducatie en -wetenschap tussen Nederland...

18 Dec New publication: Democracy in small states: Persisting against all odds

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New publication by KITLV researcher Wouter Veenendaal, co-authored with Jack Corbett, and published with Oxford University Press. This is the first book-length study of democracy in the...

17 Dec New publication: latest issue New West Indian Guide

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Now available online: the latest New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, volume 92, issue 3-4. Published continuously since 1919, the NWIG is the oldest scholarly journal on the Caribbean, featuring...

14 Dec Harry Poeze tells about his research on Tan Malaka in Indonesian media

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In the short film 'Surat-surat Tan Malaka' (Tan Malaka's letters) KITLV researcher Harry Poeze tells about the life of Tan Malaka at the exhibition ‘Surat Pendiri Bangsa‘ (Letters from the Founding Fathers) at the ...

07 Dec New publication: Child marriage, not all alike

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Article in Inside Indonesia by Hoko Horii. Child marriage, defined by international organisations as the marriage of someone under the age of 18, has come under increasing scrutiny in Indonesia in recent years....