After 25 years, the Professor Teeuw Foundation now publishes its final open call for nominations for the Professor Teeuw Award. Linked to a KITLV-symposium on ‘Translation’, the Foundation intends to ...
Upon the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, the smallest islands in this federation – Bonaire, St. Eustatius, and Saba – became special municipalities of the Netherlands, and were hence politically ...
In The Daily Herald: "The history of St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba will get a much-needed revisit in a new project which focuses on the social and cultural history of these islands in the nineteenth and twentieth ...
KITLV director Gert Oostindie was interviewed about Desi Bouterse and Suriname for the television programma 'Brandpunt' (KRO-NCRV). The program was broadcasted on 12 May but can be listened to via the following ...
(Only in Dutch). The KITLV Annual Report 2014 is now online available. A hard copy is also available for members of the Learned Society / Vereniging KITLV. The full annual report is written in Dutch. The English translation, ...
De Grote Geschiedenis Quiz 2015 (The Big History Quiz 2015) was won by the team of one of KITLV's former interns. Miel Groten, MA student History at VU University Amsterdam and former intern for the ...
New publication by Rosemarijn Hoefte: 'Locating Mecca; Religious and political discord in the Javanese community in pre-independence Suriname'. In: Aisha Khan (ed.), Islam and the Americas. Gainesville...
(Only in Dutch) KITLV researcher David Kloos was interviewed about the implementation of Islamic law in Malaysia and Indonesia for the program “Bureau Buitenland” of the VPRO (Radio 1). Kloos discussed ...
Leiden University is proud to announce the new website of the Asian Library: asianlibraryleiden.nl. Here you can find the latest updates and information on The Asian Library project. Leiden University is about...
In March I had the privilege to visit one of our PhD students, Prio Sambodho, who is currently doing fieldwork in West Java. Prio’s research is part of a larger project on citizenship in Indonesia and investigates...