Spotlight on the Caribbean

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. ...

15 Jul New article by Jessica Roitman & Han Jordaan

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A new article by KITLV researcher Jessica Roitman and former KITLV researcher Han Jordaan in the TSEG/the Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History. After the island of St. Eustatius was sacked by the ...

09 Jul ‘Sint-Eustatius, zoek je toekomst in Cariben’

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(Only in Dutch) Op dinsdag 7 juli jl. verscheen in Trouw een opiniestuk van KITLV-onderzoeker Wouter Veenendaal over Sint-Eustatius: 'Sint-Eustatius, zoek je toekomst in Cariben'. Veenendaal constateert ...

02 Jul Rosemarijn Hoefte in ‘Met het oog op morgen’

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(Only in Dutch) Op 30 juni jl. was KITLV onderzoeker Rosemarijn Hoefte te horen in het NOS radioprogramma ‘Met het oog op morgen’, over de productie van bauxiet in Suriname. Klik hier om de uitzending te ...

29 Jun KITLV researcher Stacey Mac Donald on field work in Saba

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On Saba-News.com: "Dutch researcher visits Saba for psychological programme. On behalf of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) based in Leiden, the Netherlands ...