From September until December 2015, a group of 10 scholars from Indonesia visited Leiden. They were here within the framework of a Dutch-Indonesian Sandwich Programme as part of a longstanding ...
KITLV onderzoeker Bart Luttikhuis was afgelopen zondag 7 december te gast bij het radioprogramma OVT om te vertellen over het onderzoek naar het Nederlands militaire optreden in Indonesië, 1945-1950...
On 27 November the book 'Agriculture beyond food: Experiences from Indonesia' was launched in Jakarta as a result of the NWO-KNAW research programme 'Agriculture beyond food'. 'Agriculture beyond food'...
The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) is pleased to announce that with the sponsorship of KITLV / the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean ...
Short interview with KITLV researcher David Kloos on female islamic leadership in Indonesia in the 'Mare', the weekly Leiden University magazine (only in Dutch). Kloos is a postdoctoral researcher ...
Op de opiniepagina van de Volkskrant van 15 november 2014 pleiten Ellen Klinkers en Peter Meel (Universiteit Leiden/ Geschiedenis, voormalig KITLV) voor hernieuwd onderzoek naar de vermeende ...
On Monday 3 November, a group of 16 Indonesian banking archivsts and management staff, visited KITLV. The purpose of their stay in the Netherlands is to collect information on the subject of archives: documentation...
The latest edition of the New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Volume 88, Issue 3-4, is now online available (open access). Including the article: 'Black Pete, “Smug Ignorance,” and the Value of the Black Body in...
An article by Andy Fuller, associate fellow at KITLV, in Inside Indonesia, about the collection and reading room of KITLV. Fuller carried out research in the reading room during its last months and has fond memories of its ...
A new column by Fridus Steijlen on 'Balk and Ternate' appeared in the monthly newsletter of the Moluccan Historical Museum (MHM). Steijlen's latest column is about (Moluccan) identity, clothing and body ...