De motie voor het onderzoek naar het koloniale en slavernijverleden van Rotterdam, ingediend door oud-PvdA-raadslid Peggy Wijntuin, werd in november 2017 door de gemeenteraad van Rotterdam aangenomen.
This workshop highlights a key feature of ‘Asian modernity’, by examining the implications of a very rapid move towards mass higher education in Indonesia (and other countries in Southeast Asia), where tertiary education systems are not only expanding, but also becoming more stratified, commercial and international.
Singapore’s high-density public housing estates, its relatively uniform urban morphology and infrastructural designs; as well as its tropical-equatorial location, all provide a unique stage for studying public perceptions about changing/changed city soundscapes.
What can colonial-era texts tell us about these phenomena? What analytical tools do we have to study them? In an attempt to address these questions, I call attention to a semi-digital corpus of vernacular Malay texts from the former Netherlands Indies.
On Friday, 6 December, 2019, the symposium Unhinging the National Framework: Perspectives on Transnational Life Writing will be held at VU Amsterdam. KITLV researcher Esther Captain will give a talk on Postcolonial Transnational (Family) Histories with Dr. Guno Jones (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
In this talk, Chiara Formichi will illustrate how by asking the question of how (literate, engaged, middle/upper-class) Indonesians understood and deployed the concepts of modernity and progress, and how these intersected
The ongoing decline in Javanese literary studies during the past decades has prompted quite a few efforts among students of Javanese to stop the tide, both in and outside Indonesia. The principle underlying such efforts is that Javanese literature is worth to be known and studied. In December 2019 an international symposium on Javanese literary history will be organized for Willem van der Molen on the occasion of his retirement as a researcher at KITLV, Leiden
Het Silvia de Groot fonds is bedoeld om jonge Caraïbische onderzoekers, bij voorkeur van Marron-afkomst, financieel te ondersteunen bij de voorbereiding van een wetenschappelijke publicatie over de
This is a workshop on Southeast Asian popular music, and how popular songs often have provided room for otherwise suppressed sentiments, colonial trauma, or have facilitated hopes for the better.
De LeidenGlobal Expert Talks is een nieuwe reeks lezingen die LeidenGlobal samen met de Eenheid Strategische Advisering en de Academie voor Internationale Betrekkingen organiseert. Verbreed en verdiep je kennis tijdens deze reeks inspirerende mini-colleges,gegeven door diverse experts. Deze tweede lezing uit de reeks zal gaan over de vraag hoe Nederland omgaat met haar koloniale verleden.
