On the 13th of March, historian Cees Fasseur passed away in a Leiden hospital at the age of 77. We lost an important historian and a friend.As a colonial historian, Fasseur carried out ground-breaking research on the Cultivation System in nineteenth century...
KITLV searches for an ambitious, multilingual, multidisciplinary postdoctoral researcher in Caribbean Studies. Closing date: 1 May 2016. We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow who has conducted research ...
What’s not to love about a big Indonesian wedding? Food, socialization, and the chance to pull on your best kebaya. But, writes Jacqueline Hicks, for Indonesia’s political and economic elites, they are much more than that....
(Also in Dutch) We are looking for participants for a study on what motivates individuals to protect the cultural heritage, and / or the natural environment on the BES islands. This research is part of the 'Confronting...
Two new articles by KITLV researchers Jessica Vance Roitman and Wouter Veenendaal have come out in the past week. Wouter and Jessica are part of the ongoing...
(Also in Dutch) Leiden University Libraries has started the project Maps in the Crowd. Nearly 7,000 digitized maps of the Dutch East Indies will be unlocked with help from visitors, students and others who are interested...
The late Dr Silvia W. de Groot, historian and lifetime honorary member of the Members Association left a legacy to KITLV with the aim of financially supporting young Caribbean students or researchers, preferably ...
Bij het project Nederlands militair optreden in Indonesië 1945-1950 is een vacature voor een onderzoeksstage met als opdracht het onderzoeken van interviewcollecties van Indië veteranen. Wij zijn op zoek naar een ...
Het krijgt in Nederland nog weinig aandacht, maar wat in New Delhi begon als een studentenprotest is uitgelopen op een dagenlange grote demonstratie voor vrijheid van meningsuiting. Ward Berenschot (KITLV), politicoloog en India-kenner...
As from 1 February Adriaan Bedner is the new KITLV professor (by special appointment) of Law and Society in Indonesia at the Van Vollenhoven Institute (VVI), ...