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 ...
Spotlight on Southeast Asia
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....
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...
19 Apr Full open access: ‘Informality and citizenship: the everyday state in Indonesia’
Over the last four years KITLV and Universitas Gadjah Mada, together with Leiden University and the UvA, have been working on a research project on citizenship ...
09 Apr Column Fridus Steijlen: ‘Frank Westerman vergeet de Molukkers zelf’
Afgelopen 13 en 14 maart was het precies veertig jaar geleden dat de gijzelingsactie in het provinciehuis van Assen plaatsvond. Groot verschil tussen deze actie in 1978 en de acties daarvoor ...
29 Mar Open access: Emerging memory: Photographs of colonial atrocity in Dutch cultural remembrance
With the support of Knowledge Unlatched the publication Emerging memory: Photographs of colonial atrocity in Dutch cultural remembrance by Paul Bijl (KITLV) is now...
29 Mar Meeting PPI-Belanda, a report
On 24 February KITLV researchers Fridus Steijlen and Ireen Hoogenboom were invited by the Indonesian Students Association to introduce and discuss the research program 'Decolonisation, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950'. Discussions about this research...