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.
On Thursday 17 March, the results of the Pilotproject Provenance Research on Objects of the Colonial Era (PPROCE) will be presented. The project was led by the NIOD Expert Centre Restitution, and carried out in cooperation with the Rijksmuseum and the National Museum of World Cultures.
Themazondag Bronbeek: 'Surinaamse Javanen’. Met Michiel van Kempen, Rosemarijn Hoefte, Yvette Kopijn, Marius Atmoredjo en dagvoorzitter Adrienne Zuiderweg.
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.
Atelier KITLV and Framer Framed invite you for the hybrid presentation Declaring Distance: Bandung-Leiden, a trans-local exchange on ways of imagining and engaging with the colonial archive.
This hybrid event examines the history of alcohol in Java and is organized around the recent publication of Jiří Jákl’s Alcohol in Early Java (2021, Brill). Cecilia Leong-Salobir will discuss the book from the perspective of culinary history and Arlo Griffiths from Javanese philology, after which the floor is open for questions from the live audience as well as Zoom participants
The University of St. Martin (USM) invites the general public to attend an information session on research currently being carried out in both the Dutch and French territories of the island by Dr. Kees Nooren (Netherlands) and Dr. Jaime Pagán Jimenez (Puerto Rico).
Join Laksono Trisnantoro (Universitas Gadjah Mada) and Retna Hanani (University of Amsterdam) for a discussion of Indonesia's healthcare system and what lessons can be drawn from public management of the Covid-19 pandemic.
