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23 Oct Brill and KITLV publish 100 volumes in Open Access on Southeast Asia

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Brill, the international scholarly publisher, and KITLV, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, make the first 100 volumes of the renowned book series the ‘Verhandelingen’, or VKI, available in...

16 Oct Exhibition ‘Investigating Indonesia’ at Leiden University Library

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Get acquainted with Leiden research on Indonesia: the exhibition 'Investigating Indonesia', on view in the University Library as of 16 October, highlights seven eminent researchers from Leiden University and KITLV. ...

16 Oct New unique expertise centre on Asia for Leiden University

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Leiden University is to have a unique expertise centre on Asia. This centre, the Asian Library, will hold extremely rare Asian collections and offer new opportunities for teaching and research. The Asian Library clearly...

14 Oct PhD defense Bart Luttikhuis on ‘Europeannes’ in late colonial Indonesia

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On 10 October Bart Luttikhuis successfully defended his PhD thesis titled ‘Negotiating modernity. Europeannes in late colonial Indonesia, 1910-1942’, at the European University Institute (EUI), Department of History and ...

06 Oct New article by Ward Berenschot in The Jakarta Post

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New article by Ward Berenschot in the Jakarta Post: 'Misdirecting elections'. Berenschot is researcher at KITLV and studying election campaigns and citizenship in Indonesia....

02 Oct Seminar on human rights activist Munir Said Thalib

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On 30 September KITLV, the Van Vollenhoven Institute (VVI) and Amnesty International (Netherlands) organized a seminar on the murdered Munir Said Thalib, one of the most prominent human rights activists in Indonesia. ...

30 Sep PhD defense Marije Plomp on Malay adventure stories

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On 30 September Marije Plomp successfully defended her PhD thesis on Malay adventure stories at the Academy Building of Leiden University. Marije’s thesis was titled ‘Never-Neverland revisited: Malay adventure stories. ...

29 Sep Vacature onderzoeksstage (only in Dutch)

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Momenteel is er een vacature voor een onderzoeksstage bij het project Nederlands militair optreden in Indonesië 1945-1950. De stage bestaat uit archiefonderzoek op het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag. Wij zijn op zoek naar...

22 Sep Visit delegation Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI)

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On 22 September a delegation of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI) visited KITLV. Professor Henk Schulte Nordholt (head of KITLV research department) and a few members of the research staff welcomed...

20 Sep Lezing over Rouffaer, medeoprichter van het KITLV

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De werkgroep Indische Letteren organiseerde op vrijdag 26 september j.l. een lezingenmiddag. Frank Okker, gastonderzoeker bij het KITLV gaf een lezing over Gerret Rouffaer, één van de oprichters van het KITLV...