Podcast about Tom Hoogervorst's latest book Language ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese print entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 which explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts, writings ...
New co-publication by our researchers Corinne Hofmann and Menno Hoogland in the journal Sustainability: 'Resilient Caribbean communities: A long-term...
A conversation with, among others, Indonesian novelist Ayu Utami and KITLV researcher Taufiq Hanafi about the writer Amir Hamza, a national hero in Indonesia, celebrated for both his poetry and his role in ...
Imagine what Indonesian historical research could look like if there were no language barriers, no travel costs and no visa issues, and instead just a strong Wi-Fi signal...
Het in juni verschenen tweedelige boek over Antiliaans erfgoed, Toen en nu & Nu en verder, is officieel overhandig aan de waarnemend Gezaghebber van Bonaire, Reynold Oleana, en voorzitter van de ...
Covid has brought misery and suffering, the lockdowns have caused anger and frustration. Once in a while, though, the pandemic and the restrictive measures have had advatageous effects. For example, Hawé Setiawan, a friend of KITLV researcher Tom van den Berge...
There is a long tradition of academic words being derived from Greek and Latin. In fact, some common words – such as neuroscience, metadata, and heteronormative – consist of one Greek and one Latin element...
Artikel door Esther Captain over het publieke debat over de film 'De Oost' in het tijdschrift Checkpoint. Het artikel verscheen eerder in Het Parool van 27 mei jl. Het publieke debat over de speelfilm ...
Three advanced articles in the New West Indian Guide (NWIG) on ‘White cannibalism in the illegal slave trade’, 'Gender, family, race, and the colonial state in early nineteenth-century Jamaica'...
If you visit the Banda islands in the Moluccas by boat, the first you see when walking from the harbor is the Hatta-Sjahrir college. Named after Mohammad Hatta and Sutan Sjahrir, two of the founding ...