In een debat n.a.v. haar lezing 'Een Reflectie op Witte Onschuld, vijf jaar later', reflecteerde emeritus hoogleraar Gloria Wekker, vijf jaar na het verschijnen van de ...
The results of the research programme Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950 will be presented on Thursday, February 17, 2022 ...
On April 22, 2021 KITLV is officially kicking-off the new project on climate change and governance in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Together with partners from Indonesia and the Caribbean...
Met het Caribisch Denkboek leren kinderen op Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius en Sint Maarten over de lokale geschiedenis van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Onze gastonderzoeker Rosa de Jong leverde een bijdrage aan het boekje...
The board of the KNAW has appointed Martijn Eickhoff as director of NIOD as of 1 September 2021, taking up the position of Frank van Vree who will be retiring. Eickhoff is the coordinator of the KITLV-based project group ‘Regional studies’...
Blog by David Kloos at leidenislamblog.nl about Citi Yousoff from Malaysia, one of the very few female calligraphers with an ijazah (a traditional licence) and...
Open acces review essay on three recent monographs which highlight the relevance of transnational refugee and resistance networks. These books shed new light ...
The New West Indian Guide (NWIG) is a scholarly fully open access journal on the Caribbean, featuring English-language articles in the fields of anthropology, art, archaeology, economics, geography, geology, history, international relations, linguistics...
Although I have been far from Indonesia for some time now, I still consider myself to have the right to regard the country that is 18,000 kilometres away as my source of information, entertainment...
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has dominated the country’s politics for nearly 40 years. He recently announced he would like to rule for another decade. Often described as a “strongman” leader, his longevity has led some to describe Cambodia’s regime ...