Author: KITLV

01 Dec Blog: Indonesia 1945-1949

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Are we talking ‘Revolution’ or ‘Decolonization’? Where can these perspectives meet? The Universitas Gadjah Mada’s Department of History in Yogyakarta hosted a two-day workshop to discuss these questions. Gert Oostindie notes his personal impressions....

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24 Nov Blog: Moving out of the vacuum: History under public scrutiny

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I was ill-prepared for what happened when I finally emerged from the famous ‘rolling hills’ of Tuscany as a freshly-minted PhD in History from the European University Institute in May. Simply put, ...

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24 Nov New publication: Straying from the Straight Path: How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion

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By Daan Beekers and David Kloos (KITLV). If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ...

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23 Nov Trouw: ‘Het slavernijverleden gaat ons allemaal aan’

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In de rubriek 'Ik heb een droom' vraagt Trouw mensen naar hun dromen, overdag en 's nachts. Deze keer werd Valika Smeulders, o.a. onderzoeker bij het KITLV, gespecialiseerd in cultureel erfgoed...

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17 Nov Latest issue NWIG available online

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Now available online: the latest New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, volume 91, issue 3-4. The NWIG is a scholarly fully open access journal on the Caribbean, featuring English-language articles in the fields of anthropology, art,...

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17 Nov Latest issue BKI available online

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Now available online: the latest Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, volume 173, issue 4, special issue: New Urban Middle Classes in Colonial Java. BKI is an interdisciplinary fully open...

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13 Nov In de Volkskrant: ‘Een blijvende morele verantwoordelijkheid stelt vragen over de koloniale tijd’

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'Een blijvende morele verantwoordelijkheid stelt vragen over de koloniale tijd: De historische werkelijkheid is ingewikkelder dan de tweedeling held of schurk, goed of ...

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06 Nov Nieuwe publicatie: Sporen van de slavernij in Leiden

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Door Gert Oostindie en Karwan Fatah-Black (red.). Eeuwenlang was Nederland betrokken bij slavenhandel en slavernij, een geschiedenis van uitbuiting en onverholen racisme. Dat verleden speelde zich niet alleen ver ...

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27 Oct VK: ‘Nederland chanteert Sint Maarten, in een bepaalde zin’

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In de Volkskrant van 26 oktober jl: Deskundigen Gert Oostindie en Suzanne Koelega over de oplopende spanning tussen Nederland en Sint Maarten. De spanning tussen Nederland en Sint Maarten over de voorwaarden ...

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26 Oct New publication: ‘Becoming Better Muslims: Religious Authority and Ethical Improvement in Aceh, Indonesia’

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By KITLV researcher David Kloos. How do ordinary Muslims deal with and influence the increasingly pervasive Islamic norms set by institutions of the ...

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