Covid has brought misery and suffering, the lockdowns have caused anger and frustration. Once in a while, though, the pandemic and the restrictive measures have had advatageous effects. For example, Hawé Setiawan, a friend of KITLV researcher Tom van den Berge...
There is a long tradition of academic words being derived from Greek and Latin. In fact, some common words – such as neuroscience, metadata, and heteronormative – consist of one Greek and one Latin element...
Artikel door Esther Captain over het publieke debat over de film 'De Oost' in het tijdschrift Checkpoint. Het artikel verscheen eerder in Het Parool van 27 mei jl. Het publieke debat over de speelfilm ...
Three advanced articles in the New West Indian Guide (NWIG) on ‘White cannibalism in the illegal slave trade’, 'Gender, family, race, and the colonial state in early nineteenth-century Jamaica'...
If you visit the Banda islands in the Moluccas by boat, the first you see when walking from the harbor is the Hatta-Sjahrir college. Named after Mohammad Hatta and Sutan Sjahrir, two of the founding ...
Policy paper by the German Advisory Council on Global Change: 'Beyond climate neutrality'. One of the co-authors is KITLV researcher Yvonne Kunz who is involved in the project 'Climate change and governance in Indonesia ...
True to the name and their promise, the Island(er)s at the Helm project, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) programme Caribbean Research: A Multidisciplinary Approach, is employing CAS and BES islands researchers. Harold Kelly (Aruba), Lysanne Charles (Saba/St. Maarten), and Sharelly Emanuelson (Curaçao/Aruba) will...
Manuscripts from Sulawesi recount the legendary family relations between Mamuju in West Sulawesi and Badung in South Bali. This relationship is said to have commenced with the marriage ...
Op verzoek van het Molukse Marinjo reflecteerde Fridus Steijlen op de documentaireserie ‘Molukkers in Nederland – zeventig jaar op weg naar huis’ en het gelijktijdig ...