As Selangor prepares to celebrate its Bugis Malay ruler’s birthday, it is interesting to look at how the sultanate itself was born from a mixture of Bugis and Malay elements. Sunday December 11th is the 78th birthday of the Sultan of Selangor...
KITLV proudly presents a new video portrait of the people working at the institute. Meet guest researcher Taufiq Hanafi who researched the role of literature in narrating Indonesia’s bleakest pages of history...
De Universiteit Leiden heeft dit jaar prof.dr. Gert Oostindie, emeritus hoogleraar Koloniale en postkoloniale geschiedenis, op de Cleveringaleerstoel benoemd. Hij zal deze leeropdracht vandaag ...
KITLV currently has a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher to help with the proof-reading of a book manuscript, scheduled for publication in the summer of ...
Tom Hoogervorst has been appointed adjunct professor at the Department of Indonesian, Faculty of Letters, at the State University of Malang, from September 2022 ...
“What’s the point?” you inquire, adjusting your pince-nez sceptically. And to that, we reply: loanwords are monuments of cultural contact. Once detected as such, they reveal human agency and encounters previously concealed by the misty shrouds of time...
This new research project studies comparatively how social media-based public opinion manipulation is organised in Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Computational ...
Leiden University and KITLV-KNAW are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of the anthropology of climate change and environmental justice....
In June, Rose-Mary Allen of the University of Curacao, Urwin Vyent of NiNsee, Matthias van Rossum of IISG and Esther Captain of KITLV received a large subsidy from...
Een podcast door podcast- en documentairemaker Joost Wilgenhof over de uitzonderlijke geschiedenis van de op zee geboren Ranchi baby's is vanaf 5 oktober 2022 beschikbaar...