As a researcher focusing on people often labelled as ‘child brides’, Hoko Horii explores the crippling effects of prejudice, along with its intimate connection to power structures in ...
Last March, I had the opportunity to spend two days in Cairo and, with the help of a local bookseller, I was able to buy some 25 Malay books in Arabic script that had been produced in Cairo....
This article addresses practices of constructive journalism in the local, postcolonial context of St. Maarten, an autonomous Dutch Caribbean...
Edited by Ding Choo Ming and Willem van der Molen. Local renderings of the two Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata in Malay and Javanese literature have...
Het einde van de dynastie van de gebroeders Castro’s is in zicht. Na bijna zes decennia onder de heerschappij van eerst Fidel en daarna Raúl krijgt Cuba komende donderdag een nieuw staatshoofd....
Over the last four years KITLV and Universitas Gadjah Mada, together with Leiden University and the UvA, have been working on a research project on citizenship ...
Afgelopen 13 en 14 maart was het precies veertig jaar geleden dat de gijzelingsactie in het provinciehuis van Assen plaatsvond. Groot verschil tussen deze actie in 1978 en de acties daarvoor ...
Het debat 'Van standbeeld naar schandpaal' op 5 april j.l. in De Balie is nu terug te zien via De Balie TV. Kunstinstituut Witte de With wil zijn naam veranderen, de naam van de Coentunnel ligt al...
With the support of Knowledge Unlatched the publication Emerging memory: Photographs of colonial atrocity in Dutch cultural remembrance by Paul Bijl (KITLV) is now...
On 24 February KITLV researchers Fridus Steijlen and Ireen Hoogenboom were invited by the Indonesian Students Association to introduce and discuss the research program 'Decolonisation, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950'. Discussions about this research...