Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas, a new volume in the series Chinese Overseas, edited by Tom Hoogervorst (KITLV) and Caroline Chia. Open access....
Podcast about Tom Hoogervorst's latest book Language ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese print entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 which explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts, writings ...
A conversation with, among others, Indonesian novelist Ayu Utami and KITLV researcher Taufiq Hanafi about the writer Amir Hamza, a national hero in Indonesia, celebrated for both his poetry and his role in ...
Covid has brought misery and suffering, the lockdowns have caused anger and frustration. Once in a while, though, the pandemic and the restrictive measures have had advatageous effects. For example, Hawé Setiawan, a friend of KITLV researcher Tom van den Berge...
There is a long tradition of academic words being derived from Greek and Latin. In fact, some common words – such as neuroscience, metadata, and heteronormative – consist of one Greek and one Latin element...
Artikel door Esther Captain over het publieke debat over de film 'De Oost' in het tijdschrift Checkpoint. Het artikel verscheen eerder in Het Parool van 27 mei jl. Het publieke debat over de speelfilm ...
If you visit the Banda islands in the Moluccas by boat, the first you see when walking from the harbor is the Hatta-Sjahrir college. Named after Mohammad Hatta and Sutan Sjahrir, two of the founding ...
Manuscripts from Sulawesi recount the legendary family relations between Mamuju in West Sulawesi and Badung in South Bali. This relationship is said to have commenced with the marriage ...
Op verzoek van het Molukse Marinjo reflecteerde Fridus Steijlen op de documentaireserie ‘Molukkers in Nederland – zeventig jaar op weg naar huis’ en het gelijktijdig ...
The notebook of a Yogyanese dance master might not seem an obvious source for deepening our historical perspectives. And yet the notation of a female bedhaya ...