The two-day conference 'Indonesian-Australian-Dutch Conference on Law and Society in Indonesia, organised by KITLV, the Van Vollenhoven Institute (Leiden Law School), the Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta,

Indonesia has often been regarded as a region on the periphery of the Islamic world when compared to its ‘centre’ in the Middle East. In a similar fashion, Islam on the island of Madura is often viewed as peripheral

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'

Framing Asia screens five shorts film in a loop in the new cinema room of the Asian Library during its grand opening

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