This paper introduces my new research project Histories of Health Messaging in Southeast Asia, 1895 – 1945. It offers a brief overview of health messaging as a new public health practice that developed around 1900 and seeks to illustrate it with a case study on yaws control in rural Java
Lecture by Francio Guadeloupe: ‘Human-ing out loud: Ontologies of disorder in a musically exemplified Trans-Caribbean-Thought’.
Een programma over de betekenis van het Britse koningshuis in zowel de wereldpolitiek als de mondiale roddelpers. Met de volgende sprekers: Lia van Bekhoven (correspondent in het Verenigd Koninkrijk), Linda Duits (mediawetenschapper), Rosemarijn Hoefte (historicus gespecialiseerd in het Caraïbisch gebied), Rokhaya Seck (journalist en programmamaker)...
The event features two talks, by artists Sabine Groenewegen and Riar Rizaldi in which they will discuss their current research on questions of gender, colonialism and econology
Register now for this hybrid academic course 'Music, performance and climate' by Dr. Charissa Granger (University of the West Indies), organized by the KITLV project 'Island(er)s at the Helm', in collaboration with our partners in the Caribbean!
This paper takes a group of networked actors in Indonesia, who sell social media engagements such as Instagram followers, as an entry-point for describing and conceptualizing the organization of a transnational market.
PhD defence by Sanne Rotmeijer, 'News in a glasshouse: Media, publics, and senses of belonging in the Dutch Caribbean', at Leiden University, Tuesday 23 May, 15.00 h-15.45 h.
Hugh Charles Clifford (1866-1941) was a colonial functionary who had served in various capacities in British Malaya, notably in the kingdom of Pahang (as colonial agent, 1887-1888; Superintendent (1889) and Resident (1896-1900, 1901-1903).
Fortune’s Bazaar – The Making of Hong Kong is a re-drawing of the history of Hong Kong which takes it far beyond being a British colony, or just another Chinese city. Instead, this history connects Hong Kong into a network of Asian port cities, directly through the people who first settled around the deep-sea harbour and made a cosmopolitan community.
De vele kaarten van Suriname, het Caraïbisch gebied en Zuid-Oost Azië in de collectie van het Allard Pierson en in het bijzonder in de huidige tentoonstelling Open Kaart zijn stille getuigen van slavernij, kolonialisme, uitbuiting en andere vormen van geweld. Waar zijn deze kaarten gemaakt, voor wie, door wie en met welk doel? Experts laten hier hun licht op schijnen tijdens de Stille Getuigen lezingenmiddag georganiseerd door het Allard Pierson.
