KITLV Events

The 16th ‘Islands of the World’ conference of the International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA,) The changing future of islands will take place from 10 to 14 June 2018, in Leeuwarden and on the island of Terschelling

Het Silvia de Groot fonds is bedoeld om jonge Caraïbische onderzoekers, bij voorkeur van Marron-afkomst, financieel te ondersteunen bij de voorbereiding van een wetenschappelijke publicatie over de

The Leiden Broker Workshop is organized by Ward Berenschot and Sarthak Bagchi. Click here for the program.

In spite of the fact that the Darul Islam (DI) or the Islamic Sate of Indonesia (NII) movement had been annihilated by the Old Order, the ideology of DI/NII exists to date and the movement has been transformed

This paper is part of a wider research project “Industriousness in an Imperial Economy”, which studies the influences of colonial connections on household labour allocation in the Dutch Empire, not only in the

The PhD-project Indigenous girlhoods and education in the Netherlands Indies, c. 1880-1940 proposes a new approach to Indonesian girls’ education under Dutch colonialism. Rather than on official educational policy, the focus in this project is on day-to-day experiences  in the context of girls’ schools. A...

J.B. van Heutsz (1851-1924) gained national fame as the man who brought peace to Aceh. In 1904 he was widely celebrated as a hero and appointed as governor-general of the Netherlands-Indies.

Membership in a business-group may affect a firm’s performance. Using the data of Indonesian manufacturing industry in 1996 and 2006, I find that being a member of a business group positively affected firms’

Scandal, corruption, exploitation and abuse of power are related to the history of colonialism and empire-building of France, Great-Britain and the Netherlands. Lively debates on corruption in the colonies can be