The Literary Encyclopedia has just published a new entry on Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, authored by Kasia Mika, postdoc researcher at KITLV. Edwidge Danticat (1969) is an award-winning Haitian...
In Indonesië is de christelijke gouverneur van Jakarta veroordeeld voor het beledigen van de Islam. Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama moet nu 2 jaar de gevangenis in. Een onverwacht zware straf...
The recent turmoil about the role of radical Islam in elections for a new Governor of Jakarta conceals another dimension of Indonesian politics: the decades long effort of an old elite family to grab the presidency in Indonesia....
Morgen gaat Curaçao naar de stembus voor de Staten van Curaçao. De vorige regering viel al na zeven weken. Sindsdien voert de tijdelijke regering het bewind op het eiland. De grootste partij op het eiland...
“What should we do with academic institutions inherited from a cruel past? Are such institutions reformable, or should they simply be decommissioned? Or, for that matter, literally be burned down in the hope ...
The South China Sea dispute is often portrayed as an archetypal case of an overbearing great power bullying its weaker neighbours. A common kneejerk reaction to this...
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has started the project Maps in the Crowd. Nearly 1,100 digitized maps of the Caribbean will be unlocked with help from visitors, students and others who are interested....
Sometimes fiction tells the truth and history perpetuates a fiction. This blog tells us about how history has been used to serve the creation of a national mythology, while fiction has allowed a ...
Article by one of our researchers, Sarthak Bagchi, on a small comparative study of Indian and Dutch election campaign: 'From social media use to anti-islamic rhetoric, similarities in Indian and Dutch ...
Rosemarijn Hoefte has been appointed at the University of Amsterdam as Professor in the History of Suriname since 1873 in comparative perspective. This appointment will be for 0,2 fte. ...