In the second semester of the academic year 2022-2023 the KITLV organizes, for the 37th time, the interuniversitary course Introduction to Caribbean Studies. Participation is open to all students ...
Last April, accompanied by Rosemarijn Hoefte, I visited the Dutch municipality of Ouder-Amstel. The city council at that time had requested research into its colonial...
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...
De koning laat onafhankelijk onderzoek doen naar de rol van het Huis Oranje-Nassau in de koloniale geschiedenis. Het onderzoek zal drie jaar in beslag nemen en omvat ...
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...
Several Dutch experts, including historian and KITLV researcher Rosemarijn Hoefte, gave their opinion in The Guardian about the Dutch wrestle with ...
KITLV proudly presents a new video portrait of the people working at the institute. Meet guest researcher Taufiq Hanafi who researched the role of literature in narrating Indonesia’s bleakest pages of history...