Farewell lecture and symposium Henk Schulte Nordholt | Decolonization in question: Revisiting citizenship, colonial imaginations, and violence

Dear friends and colleagues,

In September this year, Henk Schulte Nordholt will retire from academia after four decades of passionate teaching, research, and administration, a period in which he energized the study of Indonesia, in the Netherlands, in Indonesia, and well beyond. As Head of Research of the Koninklijk Instituut voor voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) in Leiden, and as a professor of Asian and Indonesian History first at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, next the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and presently Leiden University, he has inspired generations of students, PhD researchers and colleagues, encouraging the interdisciplinary study in and of Southeast Asia, past and present.

Farewell lecture (FULLY BOOKED)
We would hereby like to invite you for Henk’s farewell lecture, titled: ‘My hero, and a good friend’. The lecture will take place on Friday 6 September, 16.00 hrs sharp, at Museum Volkenkunde (the National Museum of of Ethnology), Grote Zaal, located at Steenstraat 1, Leiden. It will be followed by a reception. Please register if you wish to attend this lecture: [email protected]

Symposium (FULLY BOOKED)
Preceding the lecture, colleagues will reflect on Henk’s work in a symposium, titled ‘Decolonization in question: Revisiting violence, colonial imaginations, and citizenship’, on 5 September from 15.00-17.00 hrs and 6 September from 9.00-15.00 hrs. Unfortunately seats for the symposium were limited: the symposium is already fully booked!

We hope to meet you on 5 and/or 6 September!

On behalf of Henk, and all our colleagues at KITLV,

Marieke Bloembergen
David Kloos
Ellen Sitinjak
Yayah Siegers