19 Jan NWO subsidie voor onderzoeksproject ‘Politiek vigilantisme in Indonesië in de jaren 1943-1955’
NWO Geesteswetenschappen heeft vanuit de Vrije competitie geesteswetenschappen een subsidie toegekend aan het onderzoeksproject 'Politiek...
News Items
19 Jan Call for submission films & documentaries
Framing Asia will be a monthly filmscreening during the Leiden Asia Year, organised by the KITLV, IIAS ( and the department Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University. Framing Asia is ...
12 Jan Blog: ‘A warm welcome’. The first Indonesian state visit to the Netherlands
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is expected to pay a state visit to the Netherlands this year. Visits by Indonesian presidents to the Netherlands have been accompanied by...
11 Jan Former KITLV director Peter Boomgaard passed away
With great sadness we inform you that Peter Boomgaard passed away yesterday evening. His situation had been critical since early November 2016. KITLV has lost an eminent scholar, a good colleague and a dear friend....
23 Dec The KITLV collection: Rediscoveries
The relocation of the KITLV colletion to Leiden University Library resulted in the (re)discovery of valuable source materials that had not yet been made available to the public. Among them are two hundred fifty issues of Sin Min (新民), ‘The New...
15 Dec New publication on female Islamic authority in contemporary Asia
Special Issue Asian Studies Review 40-4: 'Studying female islamic authority: From top-down to bottom-up modes of certification'. Guest edited by David Kloos (KITLV) and Mirjam Künkler. The special issue is a call ...
08 Dec Blog: Can you lose your virginity by dancing?
Indonesia made international headlines with its 2006 Anti-Pornography Bill and controversial virginity tests for female military recruits in 2015. The ensuing debate on decency, chastity and the perceived...
06 Dec New publication ‘Post-colonial trajectories in the Caribbean: The three Guianas’
Edited by Rosemarijn Hoefte, Matthew L. Bishop, Peter Clegg. This book compares and contrasts the contemporary development experience of neighbouring,...
05 Dec ‘Indonesiërs willen ook nuance in onderzoek dekolonisatieoorlog’
Een interview met Gert Oostindie op de website van de Universiteit Leiden. 'Na een jarenlange lobby gaat het kabinet een onafhankelijk onderzoek financieren naar de dekolonisatieoorlog (1945-1950) in...
05 Dec NWO financiert negen Caribische projecten, waaronder KITLV project
In de tweede ronde van het Caribenprogramma zijn de aanvragen gehonoreerd van negen nieuwe projecten die gelinkt zijn aan de zes Caribische eilanden binnen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. Het Nederlandse...