Het bestuur van de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen heeft, mede namens het bestuur van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, het genoegen u uit te nodigen tot het bijwonen van het college waarmee prof. dr. G.J. Oostindie afscheid neemt als hoogleraar Koloniale en Postkoloniale Geschiedenis en als directeur van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV-KNAW).
In the second semester of the academic year 2021-2022 the KITLV organizes, for the 36th time, the interuniversitary course Introduction to Caribbean Studies. Participation is open to all
On 17 February 2022, the results of the research programme Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950 will be presented. Because of the current COVID-measures in the Netherlands, the presentation will be an online-only event
During this hybrid seminar Tania Li and Pujo Semedi will present some of the key ideas from their new book with a particular focus on the implications of their findings for the palm oil industry promise that “bad oil” can be made good.
Join Professor Jacques Bertrand and Dr Veronika Kusumaryati to understand how democratization can offer pathways away from the violence of nationalist conflict, as long as one manages to avoid the many pitfalls along the way.
This (online) symposium explores the common ground between epigraphy and Indian Ocean studies, focusing on South and Southeast Asia.
On the occasion of the publication of Francio Guadeloupe’s new book Black Man in the Netherlands: an Afro-Antillean Anthropology, various scholars studying Dutch realities of racism, the afterlife of colonialism, conviviality and urban popular culture join the author in conversation.
This webinar foregrounds and promotes the study of little-known archival collections of languages, cultures and histories of Indonesia and Southeast Asia more broadly. The presentations complement each other in raising the profile of these collections and disseminating scholarship inspired by them. They also aim to...
On 31 March Taufiq Hanafi will defend his thesis Writing novels under the new order; State censorship, complicity, and literary production in Indonesia, 1977-1986, in the Academiebuilding, Leiden University
Join Assistant Professor Naila Shofia and Assistant Professor Vasiliki Fouka for a thought-provoking talk unveiling the socio-economic factors that compel some Indonesian women to wear religious headscarves.
