On 24 February KITLV researchers Fridus Steijlen and Ireen Hoogenboom were invited by the Indonesian Students Association to introduce and discuss the research program 'Decolonisation, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950'. Discussions about this research...
On 16 March 2018, Rosemarijn Hoefte, who in 2017 and with the support of the KITLC-KNAW was appointed Professor of the History of Suriname since 1873 in a comparative perspective, held her inaugural lecture...
That may sound like a boring question, but it is an important one. Am I exaggerating if I say that the future of democracy depends on it? Informal politics is usually studied through in-depth fieldwork and interviews. ...
What kind of economic development curtails clientelistic politics? Most of the literature addressing this relationship focuses narrowly on ...
Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie (KITLV) present a fresh look at the Dutch Atlantic in the period following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century. This epoch (1680–1815), the authors...
Article by Hoko Horii (KITLV/Leiden University) and Mies Grijns (Leiden University): 'Child marriage in a village in West Java (Indonesia): Compromises between legal obligations and religious concerns'. This article...
Now available online: latest issue of the Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (BKI). BKI is an interdisciplinary journal on Southeast Asia, with a strong focus on Indonesia. The editors...
Erfgoeddeskundige Valika Smeulders, winti-priesteres Marian Markelo en onderzoeker Ellen-Rose Kambel pleiten voor een waardige erkenning van het Nederlands...
Begin jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw veroorzaakten economische misère en werkloosheid sociale onrust in Suriname. In ...
On 5 March 2017, the Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia, and the President of the Leiden branch of the Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia (PPI), Mikhael Dito Manurung, unveiled a plaque commemorating ...