This Keti Koti 2023, with the commemoration and celebration of the abolition of slavery in the Netherlands, KITLV fellow & artistic director of Reframing HERstory Art Foundation, Farida Nabibaks, and KITLV senior researcher Esther Captain would like to invite you to the lecture demonstration ‘Yesterday must reach today to bring tomorrow’ by Thomas Talawa Prestø.

This concluding part of the Radiant Shadow triptych takes us to the colonial past of Gelderland of 18th Century and the marginalized lives of women in those days. In this year’s 150th Commemoration of emancipation from slavery in the Kingdom of the Netherlands it is time to acknowledge and bring to light all the past, the hidden shadows

In this seminar I will introduce my dissertation project, The Craft of Care: Home Life, Ordinary Feelings, and the Intimate Public in Twentieth Century Indonesia. It offers a brief overview of my research

This paper traces the making of Bamiyan Buddhas beyond the Bamiyan valley in Afghanistan since 2002. The study focuses on one of these new Buddhas, the Bamiyan Buddha at Wat Saket in Bangkok

In honour of the UN International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024, the Anton de Kom University of Suriname is hosting a virtual conference to connect inter-disciplinary experts as they explore how archaelogical heritage, broadly defined, contributes to the UN International Decade themes of recognition, justice and development.

In honour of the UN International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024, the Anton de Kom University of Suriname is hosting a virtual conference to connect inter-disciplinary experts as they explore how archaelogical heritage, broadly defined, contributes to the UN International Decade themes of recognition, justice and development.

The demand for reparations is as old as emancipation itself; however, the states that trafficked in slavery are not eager to apologize for slavery, much less compensate descendants of enslaved people or governments, considering that Britain borrowed a large sum to compensate former slave owners for the loss of their “property”.

Islamic architectural history mostly focuses on mosques with grand architecture built by princely patrons or designed by well-known, typically male architects. The exceptional history of women’s mosques in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, provides an important yet missing narrative of Muslim women’s participation in Islamic public space.

Social media has acquired an exceptional role in Indonesia’s social, economic, religious, and political life. The country has one of the world’s highest number of Facebook subscribers, while Jakarta has previously been dubbed the ‘Twitter capital’ and is arguably the current Instagram capital of the world.