The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ wrote L. P. Hartley. Hidden in a park on the outskirts of Arnhem lies such a country, Bronbeek. Being both monument, veterans’ retirement home and ...
Article by Jacqueline Vel in online journal Inside Indonesia: 'Cash for the cashless'. Jacqueline Vel is a researcher at KITLV and the Van Vollenhoven Institute / Leiden University in Leiden. She is coordinator of the ...
Leiden based research has confirmed that the Dutch military used systematic, extreme violence against Indonesians. In his book Soldaat in Indonesië (Soldier in Indonesia), to be released at the end of October...
Article by KITLV researchers Jacqueline Hicks, Vincent Traag and Ridho Reinanda in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology: 'Old questions, new techniques: Research note on the computational...
Last week more than 500 scholars convened in Vienna for the 8th conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies. Previously held every three years and from now on biannually,...
A couple of weeks ago, as part of a holiday in the Balkans, my girlfriend and I visited the Dalmatian island of Hvar in the Adriatic Sea. According to our guidebook, Hvar is “a perfect getaway for people who want to enjoy...
President Jokowi is a source of inspiration for future new leaders in the districts of Indonesia. A friend of mine on the island of Sumba in Eastern Indonesia tried to register as an independent candidate for the December ...
To be or not be (called) Dutch: is that the question…? The media can’t have it both ways: we are Dutch, or we are not. It is a fact that in times of failure, the media writes about the ‘Curaçaoan’ that lost,...
(Only in Dutch) Dit jaar wordt voor de laatste keer de Professor Teeuw prijs uitgereikt. De Professor Teeuw Prijs werd in 1991 ingesteld door de Stichting Professor Teeuw Fonds, als een eerbetoon aan, de in 2012 ...
KITLV congratulates Tom Hoogervorst and David Kloos who received a Veni grant (max. 250.000 Euro) from the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research (NWO). Veni is part of the NWO’s so-called ‘Incentives Scheme’....