Last week more than 500 scholars convened in Vienna for the 8th conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies. Previously held every three years and from now on biannually,...
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...
President Jokowi is a source of inspiration for future new leaders in the districts of Indonesia. A friend of mine on the island of Sumba in Eastern Indonesia tried to register as an independent candidate for the December ...
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,...
(Only in Dutch) Dit jaar wordt voor de laatste keer de Professor Teeuw prijs uitgereikt. De Professor Teeuw Prijs werd in 1991 ingesteld door de Stichting Professor Teeuw Fonds, als een eerbetoon aan, de in 2012 ...
KITLV congratulates Tom Hoogervorst and David Kloos who received a Veni grant (max. 250.000 Euro) from the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research (NWO). Veni is part of the NWO’s so-called ‘Incentives Scheme’....
‘Oh my land Papua’: Izäak Samuel Kijne, 1899-1970: Missionary teacher in New Guinea. In the autumn of 2013 a Papua fanatic visited the KITLV. The Papua fanatic is an elder Dutch male social anthropologist and ...
(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 ...
Indonesia is of great importance to Leiden University for research and education. Therefore the new KITLV director in Jakarta is also the permanent representative of Leiden University in Indonesia.The responsibilities ...
Edited by Susan Legêne (Professor of Political History, VU University Amsterdam), Bambang Purwanto (Professor of History, Gadjah Mada University) and Henk Schulte Nordholt (Professor of Indonesian History, ...