This two-day interdisciplinary workshop focuses on exchange in the scholarly study of religion in Asia and the Caribbean in the long twentieth century. We aim, first, to gain insight in how academic ideas about,
More information will follow. This keynote is part of the workshop 'Unsettling encounters: Scholarly study, religious knowledge, and difficult histories in Asia and the Caribbean'
Presentation and exhibition by dr. Dick van der Meij (independent scholar), with dr. Peter Worsley (emeritus professor Indonesian and Malayan Studies, University of Sydney)
Framing Asia screens five shorts film in a loop in the new cinema room of the Asian Library during its grand opening
Kick-off onderzoek dekolonisatieoorlog: Overbodig of hard nodig? Over het waarom van het onderzoeksprogramma Dekolonisatie, geweld en oorlog in Indonesië 1945-1950. In december 2016 besloot het kabinet steun
From its inception in 1816 to around 1900 the Dutch Colonial Army (from 1830 onwards known as KNIL) recruited up to 50% of its European soldiers from outside the Netherlands. Non-Dutch troops came mostly
In de vijfde aflevering van het KRO-NCRV programma ‘Achter de dijken - Handelaren met een geweten’ op NPO 2 staan we uitgebreid stil bij het slavernijverleden. In de bibliotheek van de universiteit van Leiden spreekt Leo Blokhuis
Oratie Adriaan Bedner op 13 oktober 2017, 16.00 uur, in het Academiegebouw, Universiteit Leiden: 'Sempre rubato ma non a piacere: de voortdurende noodzaak van rechtsdifferentiatie in Indonesië'
In 2017, the Botanical Gardens in Bogor, Indonesia, celebrate their 200th anniversary. This interdisciplinary symposium examines plant science at the garden in Bogor by asking how changing local and global alliances
Despite the introduction of far-reaching decentralization, Indonesia has yet to realize the promise of more accountable and responsive modes of government. Problems of public corruption, elite capture, and
