The Japanese are famous for their love of nature. So why are their coastlines and rivers full of concrete against typhoons? In a century of newspaper discussion about them that I have reconstructed, typhoons appear as a “spectral” presence of violent natural forces.
The third edition of Inward Outward will take place March 16 & 17, 2023 at Framer Framed (Amsterdam) as a series of presentations and conversations, and a workshop’s
The practice of female circumcision is widespread in Indonesia. A recent health survey (Riskesdas, 2013) found that 51.2%, or one out of two females in Indonesia aged zero to 11 years, had undergone some kind of intervention.
Symposium 'Towards a community-based heritage in the Caribbean'.
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.
