Spotlight on the Caribbean

10 Jul Three Dutch Caribbean PhD candidates in the NWO Island(er)s at the Helm project

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True to the name and their promise, the Island(er)s at the Helm project, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) programme Caribbean Research: A Multidisciplinary Approach, is employing CAS and BES islands researchers. Harold Kelly (Aruba), Lysanne Charles (Saba/St. Maarten), and Sharelly Emanuelson (Curaçao/Aruba) will...

29 Jun In Trouw en de Volkskrant: Den Haag wil onderzoek naar eigen slavernijverleden

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Den Haag gaat doen wat Amsterdam, Rotterdam en Utrecht al eerder deden: de stad laat historici haar slavernijverleden onder de loep nemen. “Formeel is de opdracht nog niet binnen, maar ...

14 Jun Nieuwe publicaties over Antilliaans erfgoed

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Een nieuw twee-delig boek over het Antilliaanse culturele erfgoed, geschreven door een team van Antilliaanse en Nederlandse wetenschappers, biedt een staalkaart van reflecties op het culturele ...

23 May Radio 1: Rosemarijn Hoefte over afschaffing slavernij en decennia erna

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Presentatoren Mischa Blok en Toine van Peperstraten spraken op 19 mei jl. in het Radio 1 programma Blok& Toine, n.a.v. de tentoonstelling 'Slavernij' in het Rijksmuseum, met...

20 May New NWIG article: ‘Race and color in Jamaican hotels, 1962–2020’

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An advance article in the New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG) on race and color relations in Jamaican hotels, by Henrice Altink. NWIG is published by Brill Academic ...

04 May Blog: Historical archaeology: An avenue for Haitian history (part 2)

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My travel in 2014 led me to four seasons of archaeological field surveys in the area of Fort-Liberté (Figure 1), with the task of documenting traces of human activities and thereby of proposing...

03 May Opbrengsten eerste call NWO Cariben programma 2014 gepubliceerd

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In de allereerste call van het Cariben programma van de NWO ontvingen negen onderzoekers subsidie (in totaal 5 miljoen euro) voor de uitvoering van een wetenschappelijk project. ...

30 Apr Atelier KITLV artist call

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The KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies would like to commission an original work of visual art for our space at Leiden University. Atelier KITLV is a working group within the Institute....

26 Apr Blog: Historical archaeology: An avenue for Haitian history (part 1)

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I visited the archaeological sites at En Bas Saline and Puerto Real for the first time with some colleagues from Leiden University in summer 2014. Scholars have placed the location of La Navidad ...

18 Apr Kick-off project ‘Climate change and governance in marine protected areas’

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On April 22, 2021 KITLV is officially kicking-off the new project on climate change and governance in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Together with partners from Indonesia and the Caribbean...