28 May New publication: Südostasien (German Edition)
By Henk Schulte Nordholt on the history of Southeast Asia: Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte. Band 12: Südostasien (German Edition). Von Bali bis Singapur, von Myanmar bis Vietnam ...
News Items
17 May KITLV Jaarverslag 2017 nu online beschikbaar
Het jaar 2017 was voor het KITLV in vele opzichten een goed en dynamisch jaar. Aan de vooravond van de reorganisatie, medio 2014, leefden er binnen en buiten het instituut ernstige zorgen. Zou het ...
17 May Available online: latest edition New West Indian Guide
The NWIG is a scholarly fully open access journal on the Caribbean, featuring English-language articles in the fields of anthropology, art, archaeology, economics, geography, geology...
16 May In Podcast #DeDag: Waarom het zo slecht is gesteld met het vertrouwen in de overheid?
In Podcast #DeDag (NPO Radio 1) op 16 mei jl. werd de vraag gesteld waarom het zo slecht is gesteld met het vertrouwen in de overheid. KITLV onderzoeker Wouter...
14 May Cooperation with Indonesian researchers
Report of the second workshop at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, by Henk Schulte Nordholt. On 1 and 2 May 2018, researchers of the ‘Regional Studies’ and ‘Violence, Bersiap, Berdaulat’ subprojects held a workshop in Yogyakarta...
10 May Open acces: ‘Cultural citizenship and modernity in the Netherlands Indies’
By Henk Schulte Nordholt. By exclusively focusing on the agency of the Dutch, colonial historiography ignored the pivotal role of indigenous middle classes in sustaining the colonial regime. ...
07 May Blog: Dealing with prejudices in scholarship and the academic world
As a researcher focusing on people often labelled as ‘child brides’, Hoko Horii explores the crippling effects of prejudice, along with its intimate connection to power structures in ...
02 May Guest blog by Nico Kaptein: Jawi books in Cairo
Last March, I had the opportunity to spend two days in Cairo and, with the help of a local bookseller, I was able to buy some 25 Malay books in Arabic script that had been produced in Cairo....
01 May Open acces: ‘Words that work? Practices of constructive journalism in a local Caribbean context’
This article addresses practices of constructive journalism in the local, postcolonial context of St. Maarten, an autonomous Dutch Caribbean...
24 Apr New publication: Ramayana and Mahabharata in Malay and Javanese literature
Edited by Ding Choo Ming and Willem van der Molen. Local renderings of the two Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata in Malay and Javanese literature have...