Spotlight on the Caribbean

02 Oct Vacature: data-invoer medewerkers t.b.v. onderzoek (m/v)

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(Only in Dutch) Het KITLV is op zoek naar medewerkers die tussen 9 november 2015 en 27 november 2015 minimaal 20 uur beschikbaar zijn om als data-invoer medewerker van een onderzoek (dat recentelijk ...

02 Oct ‘Verzet tegen Zwarte Piet is teken van integratie’

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(Only in Dutch) In het oktober nummer van het Historisch Nieuwsblad is Gert Oostindie aan het woord over de Zwarte Piet discussie . "De discussie over Zwarte Piet is fel. Maar ik zie het als een positief teken, als uitdrukking ...

01 Oct Rosemarijn Hoefte in ‘Get Up!’ (Radio Brasa)

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(Only in Dutch) Rosemarijn Hoefte vertelt in het radioprogramma 'Get Up!' (Radio Brasa) over de tentoonstelling 'Suriname in beweging: Migratie en cultuur' in de Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden. Meer informatie ...

21 Sep Gert Oostindie e.a. in ‘OBA Live’ over het racismedebat

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(Only in Dutch) Stephan Sanders van 'OBA Live' in gesprek met Gert Oostindie, Hassan Bahara, Anousha Nzume en Stine Jensen over het racismedebat. Het debat rond racisme in Nederland is verhevigd. Zwarte Piet,...

14 Sep PhD Candidate Law and Governance in Indonesia

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KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and Leiden Law School, Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development are looking for a PhD Candidate Law and ...

09 Sep An interview with Natalie Zemon Davis in Itinerario

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Article by Jessica Roitman (KITLV) and Karwan Fatah-Black (Leiden University) in Itinerario: 'Being speculative is better than to not do it at all: An interview with Natalie Zemon Davis'. Roitman and Fatah-Black meet ...

07 Sep Why the Dutch flag waves in the Caribbean

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Article by Gert Oostindie in the September edition of Aruba Dushi Tera. Aruba Dushi Tera is a two-monthly publication for everyone who is interested in the country and people of Aruba. The magazine’s ...

06 Aug The Island Experience (blog by Wouter Veenendaal)

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A couple of weeks ago, as part of a holiday in the Balkans, my girlfriend and I visited the Dalmatian island of Hvar in the Adriatic Sea. According to our guidebook, Hvar is “a perfect getaway for people who want to enjoy...

24 Jul To be or not be (called) Dutch… (blog by Stacey Mac Donald)

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To be or not be (called) Dutch: is that the question…? The media can’t have it both ways: we are Dutch, or we are not. It is a fact that in times of failure, the media writes about the ‘Curaçaoan’ that lost,...

15 Jul Ingezonden stuk Stacey Mac Donald in ‘Amigoe’

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(Only in Dutch) Op dinsdag 14 juli jl. verscheen in Amigoe een ingezonden stuk van KITLV-onderzoekster Stacey Mac Donald over het selectieve gebruik van 'Nederlander' en 'Curaçaoënaar' in de media. ...