Hare Koninklijke Hoogheid Prinses Beatrix der Nederlanden is maandagmiddag 16 december 2019 aanwezig bij een symposium ter gelegenheid van Koninkrijksdag bij de Raad van State in Den Haag. Het symposium staat in het teken van 65 jaar Statuut voor het Koninkrijk.
In the study of post-conflict transitions, a leading question has been how former soldiers and non-state combatants, previously engaged in violent conflict, can return to society, contribute to their respective communities, and reclaim their citizenship in times of peace.
Over the last decades, the study of governance in Asia has increasingly expanded to include a focus upon non-state entities. Historians have realized that engagement with local intermediaries, civil society organizations, power brokers, and interest groups has been crucial to the day-to-day administration of European colonies and postcolonial states alike
The phenomenon of cross-gender acting is not novel in Southeast Asian cultural history. Since the early 1900s, local mixed-race men have taken on female roles in both Chinese opera and Malay bangsawan theatre.
The international symposium Inward Outward investigates the status of moving image and sound archives worldwide as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race.
In this talk, I will interrogate the afterlives of imperialism in the language of epochal shift, and I will position the endpoint of this shift as the death of the West, its models of sovereignty, and its conventions of knowledge production.
The social and cultural impact of internal migration in Indonesia remains a poorly researched topic. Influx of people from other islands violates ethnic and religious balance, forcing both immigrant and host communities to renegotiate their positions and identities.
The symposium 'Historical Archaeology of the Lesser Antilles' is organized on occasion of the defense of Cameron Gill, NEXUS1492 affiliated PhD researcher. Cameron’s research, titled Brimstone Sea
Ivan Kats is a little-known figure in international history, yet his skills as editor, networker, fundraiser, and cultural troubadour have left their mark on modern Indonesian culture.
As veritable tools against the colonial discourses and methodologies postcolonial and decolonial thoughts play an important role in academic debates. With the emergence of postcolonial and decolonial thoughts, researchers from various disciplines propose to look at the world differently through a critical perspective, by rejecting the dominant theories and methodologies.
