Op zaterdag 2 november 2019 organiseert het onderzoeksprogramma 'Onafhankelijkheid, dekolonisatie, geweld en oorlog in Indonesië, 1945-1950' een publieksbijeenkomst in samenwerking met het Nationaal Archief.
Op zondag 3 november 2019 vindt in Arnhem het Bronbeek-symposium plaats, het jaarlijkse evenement georganiseerd door Werkgroep Indisch-Nederlandse Letterkunde. Als thema is dit jaar gekozen voor De Indonesische stem.
Coffee was introduced to the island of Java through Dutch colonial networks at the close of the 17th century, where it thrived, allowing the VOC to quickly dominate global supply. The Indonesian islands have produced globally significant volumes of coffee ever since.
In this seminar, we will discuss the latest development of Indonesia’s political economy – including, but not limited to, the 2019 election outcome and Joko Widodo’s second cabinet formation.
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
