Indonesia Now 2017: Get up to date with the latest political and cultural developments in Indonesia. On 7 November, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and DutchCulture are organising a conference
Wayne Modest is appointed professor (by special appointment) at the Faculty of Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) as of the 21st of October 2016. Modest, director of the Research Center
De Dirk van Ecklezing, georganiseerd door de Historische Vereniging Oud Leiden, wordt dit jaar op zondag 12 november gehouden. Gert Oostindie spreekt dan in de Lokhorstkerk over 'Sporen van slavernij in Leiden'.
Utopia articulates dreams of a better life and anticipations of the future; as social dreaming, utopia combines communal and imaginative experimentation. Even if the word is invented in Europe in 1516 by More
The Syair Tabut, or ‘Poem of the tomb effigies’, is a recently rediscovered Malay-language, Jawi-script narrative poem on Muharram in 1864. In this talk, we explore the literary, linguistic, and performative
Lecture by Fadzilah Yahaya (National University of Singapore). During World War One and its immediate aftermath, members of the Arab diaspora were singled out from amongst Muslim colonial subjects by British
In Indonesia registration of Muslim marriages has been a controversial issue since the colonial era. Many Muslims consider state interference in marriage practices as an inadmissible intrusion upon religious life and