Who is Panji, and what exactly is a Panji tale? Recently, on 21 September 2018, a special symposium was organised by the Leiden University Library and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) ...
‘Het idee dat ik kolonialisme goedpraat is absurd’. Historicus Gert Oostindie krijgt kritiek als mede-initiator van een groot onderzoek naar het Nederlandse ...
Recently an Indonesian colleague asked me to write a reflection on my fieldwork experiences studying politics in India and Indonesia, for an Indonesian book on ethnographic fieldwork. Here is the English version. Doing research in the field can be tough....
On National Hero’s day (Hari Pahlawan Nasional) on 10 November 2018, Dr. Harry Poeze gave a lecture about the life of Tan Malaka at the opening of the exhibition 'Surat Pendiri Bangsa' (Letters from...
Big conferences are crucial when it comes to meeting the celebrities in your field, and perhaps even striking up short conversations with them. And yet the cultural dynamics of these sites of gathering ...
Op donderdagochtend 8 november sprak Radio 1 presentator Winfried Baijens met Gert Oostindie over de Cubaanse president Miguel Díaz-Canel die bezig is ...
By Kasia Mika. This article analyses Nick Lake’s In Darkness (2012), a young adult novel which joins ...
On 8 and 9 October 2018, the KITLV organized a workshop on the subject of Academic research in a decolonizing world: Towards new ways of thinking and...
Seven years after South Sudan’s attainment of independence, the world may this week once again witness the birth of a new sovereign state. Next Sunday (4 November), citizens of the South...
Door Charlotte Huisman. In Utrecht kun je een historische wandeling maken langs de Jan Pieterszoon Coenstraat...