Upon the attainment of a new status in 2010, the Dutch Caribbean islands kept the political institutions they inherited from their former colonial power. According to Wouter Veenendaal, these...
Fidel Castro has died. Over the final years of his long life he admonished his compatriots to complete the mission he started in the 1950s. Will they? Gert Oostindie does not think so: but neither does he expect a sudden regime change....
Fidel Castro is overleden. Afgelopen zondag 27 november werd in het radioprogramma OVT zijn leven en zijn dood besproken met o.a. Gert Oostindie, directeur KITLV. Klik hier om de uitzending te beluisteren...
Leiden University and KITLV are looking for two students who want to participate as research trainees in our project 'Diversifying the Collections: Inclusive Citizenship and Public Histories of Exclusion'. In this project...
KITLV searches for an ambitious and enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher, who will conduct a global analysis of non-sovereign territories and the relationship...
The latest edition of the New West Indian Guide is now online available (open access). This edition also includes the articles of KITLV researcher Wouter Veenendaal and former KITLV fellow Chelsea Schields...
The repercussions of rumor: An adultery case from Curaçao', in Michael Stedemund-Halevy (ed.), A Sephardic Pepper -Pot in the Caribbean, p.124-135. Barcelona:...
How do smallness and migration contribute to oligarchy? In a new co-authored publication, CCC-researchers...
Researcher Dr. Kasia Mika discusses Hurricane Matthew’s effect on Haiti, why natural disasters are anything but, and how helpful helping really is. The destruction caused by hurricane Matthew in Haiti is not...
'The price you pay: Choosing family, friends, and familiarity over freedom in the Leeward Islands, 1835-1863'. Planters and colonial officials throughout the Caribbean feared the consequences of ...