This lecture cultivates decoloniality in the field of Indonesian art history and archaeology by deconstructing the colonial and then nationalist categorisation opposing ‘classical’ Hindu-Buddhist and Islamic antiquities, and by reconstructing in turn the long history of the ancient Hindu-Buddhist materials across times and cultures in probing appropriations, transactions and reconfigurations.

Na de publicatie van Staat en slavernij: Het Nederlandse koloniale slavernijverleden en zijn doorwerkingen bij Uitgeverij Athenaeum afgelopen juni zijn Rose Mary Allen, Esther Captain, Matthias van Rossum en Urwin Vyent verder gegaan met het formuleren van een kennisagenda die richting geeft aan toekomstig slavernijonderzoek.

In July 2022 Diana Suhardiman was appointed professor by special appointment of Natural Resource Governance, Climate and Equity at Leiden University, at Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

The fictional documentary Nests of Basalt, Nests of Wood by artist Clara Jo is part of the exhibition Breaking Waves, which will be presented from 29 May until 14 July at Framer Framed.

Taking the Salween Peace Park as a case study, the talk unpacks key foundations of Karen indigenous approach to environmental governance and climate crisis. Focusing on Karen communities’ kaw governance system, it illustrates and analyzes how the system serves as one of the key foundations...

There were high hopes that democracy, as well as press freedom, would be stronger and protected in the early days of Jokowi's administration 10 years ago, when Herlambang defended his thesis in Leiden on this topic.

During the so-called Cultuurstelsel (1830-1870), the state apparatus of the former Dutch Indies used banishment and exile to discipline its subjects. Not only persons who criticised the system of forced labour but also individuals who showed deviant, extravagant behaviour were removed from Java.

In the spirit of our ongoing research into the afterlives of slavery and colonialism, KITLV will welcome Ali Meghji to present a lecture celebrating the end of the academic year. Professor Ali Meghji will discuss how colonial practices shaped European policy in the inter- and post-war eras.

Het bestuur van de Vereniging KITLV nodigt u graag uit voor de Algemene Ledenvergadering 2024 op vrijdag 28 juni a.s. We verwelkomen u graag in de nieuwe behuizing van het instituut KITLV, zaal 1.30, op de eerste verdieping van het Herta Mohr-gebouw, Witte Singel 27a, Leiden.