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07 Apr Interview with KITLV researchers about project on the Caribbean

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(In Dutch) Radio interview with Gert Oostindie, Wouter Veenendaal and Stacey Mac Donald about their research project 'Confronting Caribbean challenges: Hybrid identities and governance in small-scale...

30 Mar Memorandum of Understanding between UGM and KITLV

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Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the History Department of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta and KITLV. The MOU was signed by Henk Schulte Nordholt (Head Research KITLV)...

24 Mar Article by Wouter Veenendaal in Antilliaans Dagblad

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(Only in Dutch) A new article by Wouter Veenendaal in the Antilliaans Dagblad: ‘Groeiende onvrede met nieuwe status’. Veenendaal (1986) is a postdoctoral researcher at KITLV working as part of the...

15 Mar Column on Pattimura in newsletter Museum Maluku

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(Only in Dutch) 'Kwartetten met Pattimura', een column van Fridus Steijlen in de nieuwsbrief van maart van Museum Maluku (MUMA). Aanleiding voor de column was de première van het toneelstuk ‘KRUIT! ...

14 Mar Publication research project ‘Tracking Development’

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This book is the result of KITLV’s and Afrika Study Centers' research project 'Tracking Development' (2006-2011). The author David Henley, now Professor Contemporary Indonesian Studies at Leiden University, ...

10 Mar Article on Rouffaer in Mare, Leiden University’s weekly newspaper

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(Only in Dutch) Een artikel over Rouffaer in het Leids Universitair Weekblad Mare, n.a.v. de presentatie van Frank Okker's biografie 'Rouffaer; De laatste Indische ontdekkingsreiziger' op 27 februari jl. ...

05 Mar Female Islamic authority in comparative perspective

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In the latest IIAS Newsletter: 'Female Islamic authority in comparative perspective: exemplars, institutions, practices', by KITLV researcher David Kloos and Mirjam Künkler (research fellow at KITLV). A report on a ...

02 Mar Book launch ‘Rouffaer, de laatste Indische ontdekkingsreiziger’

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On Friday 27 February, KITLV fellow Frank Okker, presented 'Rouffaer, de laatste Indische ontdekkingsreiziger', a biography of Gerret Pieter Rouffaer (1860-1928), the last "Indische" explorer and...

27 Feb New publication by Kathryn Anderson Wellen

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KITLV is pleased to announce the new publication by one of its researchers, Kathryn Anderson Wellen: The Open Door; Early Modern Wajorese Statecraft and Diaspora. The Wajorese people were one of many people...

26 Feb Spanish-language edition of ‘Paradise overseas’

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The Cuban Editorial José Martí published a Spanish-language edition of Het paradijs overzee (Bert Bakker, 1997 and KITLV Press, 20115) by Gert Oostindie, based on the English edition Paradise overseas (Macmillan...