KITLV Events

Exhibition 'Caribbean ties: Connected people, then and now'. The exhibition (free entry) is open on weekdays until 20 May and can be visited at Oude UB, Rapenburg 70, Leiden.

The Japanese are famous for their love of nature. So why are their coastlines and rivers full of concrete against typhoons? In a century of newspaper discussion about them that I have reconstructed, typhoons appear as a “spectral” presence of violent natural forces.

The third edition of Inward Outward will take place March 16 & 17, 2023 at Framer Framed (Amsterdam) as a series of presentations and conversations, and a workshop’s

The practice of female circumcision is widespread in Indonesia. A recent health survey (Riskesdas, 2013) found that 51.2%, or one out of two females in Indonesia aged zero to 11 years, had undergone some kind of intervention.

Symposium 'Towards a community-based heritage in the Caribbean'.

This paper introduces my new research project Histories of Health Messaging in Southeast Asia, 1895 – 1945. It offers a brief overview of health messaging as a new public health practice that developed around 1900 and seeks to illustrate it with a case study on yaws control in rural Java

Register now for this hybrid academic course 'Music, performance and climate' by Dr. Charissa Granger (University of the West Indies), organized by the KITLV project 'Island(er)s at the Helm', in collaboration with our partners in the Caribbean!

This paper takes a group of networked actors in Indonesia, who sell social media engagements such as Instagram followers, as an entry-point for describing and conceptualizing the organization of a transnational market.

Hugh Charles Clifford (1866-1941) was a colonial functionary who had served in various capacities in British Malaya, notably in the kingdom of Pahang (as colonial agent, 1887-1888; Superintendent (1889) and Resident (1896-1900, 1901-1903).

Fortune’s Bazaar – The Making of Hong Kong is a re-drawing of the history of Hong Kong which takes it far beyond being a British colony, or just another Chinese city. Instead, this history connects Hong Kong into a network of Asian port cities, directly through the people who first settled around the deep-sea harbour and made a cosmopolitan community.