Indonesia’s waria (people who perform transgender femininity) claim that something remarkable happened in Jakarta in 1968: they moved from obscurity to hyper-visibility. Marshalling the tools of feminine expertise

KITLV is closed on 3 and 4 October because of Leids Ontzet (Relief of Leiden).

The symposium Inward Outward investigates the status of moving image and sound archives as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race. Archives, assumed to be containers of memory, are vested with a particular power to constitute and define who is and who is not included in (his)stories.

Abstract In postcolonial studies, the focus has traditionally been on colonised subjects and on the wide-ranging impact that European imperialism has had on non-Western societies. However, in the face of the resurgence of nationalism, it is as pertinent as ever to also ask what colonisation...

This roundtable explores the complexity of the dynamic between linguists, the speakers they work with, and the languages they study in the context of language documentation and linguistic analysis.

This talk will focus on the racial ideas circulating during the occupation of Malaya and Sumatra during World War II. In attempts to forge a greater archipelagic community, local writers for Japanese-sponsored Malay newspapers and magazines made use of racial studies in order to inform readers of the other related races in the archipelago as well as to argue for closer connections between different peoples in what could be a future political entity

For the last three decades, Indonesia has been experiencing a rapid urban development. Private developers have built independent new towns with its own infrastructures for basic and public needs such as water and electricity, and often completed with its own schools, hospitals and security forces