During this hybrid seminar Tania Li and Pujo Semedi will present some of the key ideas from their new book with a particular focus on the implications of their findings for the palm oil industry promise that “bad oil” can be made good.
Discussie met Gert Oostindie, David Van Reybrouck, Lara Nuberg en Herman Keppy naar aanleiding van het verschijnen van het eindrapport van het grote onderzoek 'Onafhankelijkheid, dekolonisatie, geweld en oorlog in Indonesië, 1945-1950'
Join Professor Jacques Bertrand and Dr Veronika Kusumaryati to understand how democratization can offer pathways away from the violence of nationalist conflict, as long as one manages to avoid the many pitfalls along the way.
This (online) symposium explores the common ground between epigraphy and Indian Ocean studies, focusing on South and Southeast Asia.
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.
