Printed Islamic booklets disclose important sources for Africa Indian Ocean intellectual history, ones that scholarship has neglected but are still known by local people.
The end of authoritarian rule in 1998 ushered in an exhilarating but unsettled period of democratization in Indonesia. A more open political climate converged with a rapidly changing media landscape
In this webinar, Chelsea Schields will discuss her current book project, Offshore Attachments: Oil, Intimacy and the End of Empire, which tells the unlikely story of how the rise of oil and the end
The international symposium Inward Outward brings together archival practitioners, artists, academics, and researchers to explore the status of moving image and sound archives as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race.
Land tenure issues in Timor-Leste are complex and deeply shaped by the nation’s history. In this presentation Bernardo Almeida will summarize the main findings of his PhD thesis where he, taking an insider’s perspective, studies the development of the Timorese formal land tenure system from independence in 2002 to 2018.
An online book talk by Professor Nira Wickramasinghe (Leiden University), author of Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka, organised by the Leiden Centre for Indian Ocean Studies
Across much of Asia economic growth is spurring conflicts over land. Much of that economic growth is highly land-intensive, as the expansion of corporate activities in the sectors such as mining, hydropower, big agro-business (like palm oil or sugar cane), infrastructure or real estate development generate complex processes of land-use change.
You are warmly invited to participate in the upcoming Decolonising Knowledge symposium. This event will bring together scholars and students interested in decolonising knowledge production at Leiden University to plan for collective action for the future and co-develop a Decolonising Collective Leiden.
Climate change affects many aspects of the natural and social environment, and can lead to knock-on impacts between different sectors and groups. We have to simultaneously design and implement policies to prevent further climate change as well as adapt to the impact of changes already happening.
West Papua, a former Dutch colony* , has the second largest rainforest after the Amazon, a great biodiversity and very rich natural resources. In fact the largest gold and third largest copper mine is located in West Papua
