Abstract Craig Reynolds has just completed a biographical study of an unusual southern policeman, which explores the relationship between religion and power in Thailand during the early twentieth century when parts of the country were remote and banditry was rife. Khun Phan (1898-2006), known as...
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.
The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will hold its 10th conference from 10 to 13 September 2019 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. As an international and multi-disciplinary organisation
Photographic subjects examines photography at royal celebrations during the reign of Queens Wilhelmina (1898-1948) and Juliana (1948-80), a period spanning the zenith and fall of Dutch rule in Indonesia.
Indonesia’s waria (people who perform transgender femininity) claim that something remarkable happened in Jakarta in 1968: they moved from obscurity to hyper-visibility. Marshalling the tools of feminine expertise
KITLV is closed on 3 and 4 October because of Leids Ontzet (Relief of Leiden).
The symposium Inward Outward investigates the status of moving image and sound archives as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race. Archives, assumed to be containers of memory, are vested with a particular power to constitute and define who is and who is not included in (his)stories.
Abstract In postcolonial studies, the focus has traditionally been on colonised subjects and on the wide-ranging impact that European imperialism has had on non-Western societies. However, in the face of the resurgence of nationalism, it is as pertinent as ever to also ask what colonisation...
This roundtable explores the complexity of the dynamic between linguists, the speakers they work with, and the languages they study in the context of language documentation and linguistic analysis.
This talk will focus on the racial ideas circulating during the occupation of Malaya and Sumatra during World War II. In attempts to forge a greater archipelagic community, local writers for Japanese-sponsored Malay newspapers and magazines made use of racial studies in order to inform readers of the other related races in the archipelago as well as to argue for closer connections between different peoples in what could be a future political entity
