Spotlight on Southeast Asia

13 Jul ‘Oh my land Papua’ (blog by Tom van den Berge)

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‘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 ...

08 Jul Marrik Bellen new director of KITLV-Jakarta

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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 ...

02 Jul Sites, bodies and stories: Imagining Indonesian history

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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, ...

25 Jun Article Tom Hoogervorst in the IIAS Newsletter

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Article by KITLV researcher Tom Hoogervorst in the latest IIAS Newsletter: 'Sailing the waves of convergence: cultural links and continuities across the Bay of Bengal'. Click here to read the article ...

24 Jun ‘Excuses voor Indië, waarom dan geen onderzoek?’

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(Only in Dutch). Gisteren verscheen in het NRC een reactie van Gert Oostindie, directeur KITLV, naar aanleiding van het opiniestuk van journaliste Anne-Lot Hoek over het belang van historisch onderzoek ...

15 Jun Gert Oostindie in ‘EenVandaag’ (NPO, 13 juni)

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(Only in Dutch) Gert Oostindie in EenVandaag (NPO, 13 juni) over de lijst van namen van slachtoffers die geëxecuteerd zijn tijdens het Nederlands militair optreden in Indonesië, 1945-1950. Volgens de Correspondent ...

29 May Homemade monuments (blog by Gerry van Klinken)

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You can’t miss the official monuments in Indonesia. They are are everywhere. Statues of Diponegoro or General Sudirman gaze out over busy traffic, which takes little notice of them. The story of national ...

28 May ‘In translation…’: Call for nominations Professor Teeuw Award

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After 25 years, the Professor Teeuw Foundation now publishes its final open call for nominations for the Professor Teeuw Award. Linked to a KITLV-symposium on ‘Translation’, the Foundation intends to ...

20 May Transformation of religions as reflected in Javanese texts

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The research project ‘Transformation of religions as reflected in Javanese texts’, in which Willem van der Molen (KITLV) is involved, has started a new series, entitled Javanese Studies. Contributions to the Study of ...

07 May Accessibility of KITLV collections during renovation in May

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Leiden University Libraries would like to inform you that in week of the 18th of May 2015, the collections located in the Open Stacks on -1, one floor below the Information Centre Huygens, will be moved ...