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Fridus Steijlen

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Fridus Steijlen (1955) is researcher and staff member for special projects at the KITLV, an institute of the KNAW/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fridus Steijlen studied anthropology, with a specialization in Indonesia and ethnic minorities, especially Moluccans, in the Netherlands, at the University of Amsterdam (graduation 1984). After his graduation he worked at various institutions, particularly the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam. In 1996 he obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam with a doctoral thesis on the history of Moluccan nationalism in the Netherlands. After his completing his doctoral degree, he worked as a researcher at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, until he became the co-ordinator of the Oral History Project on Indonesia at the KITLV. In 2002 he became a researcher at the KITLV.

Steijlen’s areas of research have been broad, ranging from ethnic minorities, especially of Moluccan and Caribbean backgrounds in the Netherlands, to the contemporary history of Indonesia. In his research Steijlen has combined different disciplines: criminology in research on delinquent Caribbean youngsters, political sciences in research on nationalism, and oral history in a project on the end of Dutch colonialism. Steijlen was a senior researcher in a government-sponsored research project on the history of Moluccans in the Netherlands, co-ordinated by the Moluccan Museum in Utrecht. This research resulted in 2006 in a standard work on the history of Moluccans in the Netherlands. Between 2005 and 2008 Steijlen was responsible for the Indisch Knooppunt project, combining a digital research guide with oral history on Indisch organization. A book on Indisch Organizations will be published in 2012. At the KITLV he works on modern Indonesia and is responsible for the audiovisual project ‘Recording the future’. ‘Recording the Future’ is an ambitious long term data generating research project creating an audiovisual archive on everyday life in Indonesia, exhibitions and documentaries. Finally Steijlen is regularly involved in training programs on oral history in the Netherlands and Indonesia.

Project:
Recording the future

Enquête postkoloniale Nederlanders in Nederland



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A full list of KITLV publications and their authors can be obtained from our archive of annual reports.

Selected Publications

‘Over het IHCB en de motie-Van Heemskerck’, Moesson: 34-36, januari 2011.

‘Moluccans in the Netherlands: from exile to migrant’, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs  44-1: 143-162, 2010.

‘De Molukkers’, in: Keizer, M. de en M. Plomp (red.), Een open Zenuw. De herinnering aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog sedert 1989 in Nederland in veertig herinneringsplaatsen, pp. 361-370. Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2010.

‘Het Gebaar’, in: Keizer, M. de & M. Plomp (red.), Een open Zenuw. Hoe wij ons de Tweede Wereldoorlog herinneren, pp. 189-199. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2010.

‘De Birmaspoorweg’, in: Keizer, M. de en M. Plomp (red.), Een open Zenuw. De herinnering aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog sedert 1989 in Nederland in veertig herinneringsplaatsen, pp. 95-104. Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2010.

(With Gert Oostindie), ‘Zestig jaar na de eerste ‘kille’ ontvangst’, Contrast:24-29, oktober 2009.

‘To the memory of comrades; Personal remembrance of Dutch war dead in Southeast Asia, 1942-45’, Public History Review 16:64-77, 2009.

(With Erik Willems), Met ons alles goed. Brieven en fi lms uit Nederlands-Indië van de familie Kuyck. Zutphen:Walburg Pers; Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij, 2008.

‘Muziek en literatuur als scharnier voor integratie’, Indische Letteren 23-1:13-22, 2008.

(With Henk Schulte Nordholt, prod.), Don’t forget to remember me; A day in the life of Indonesia. Documentary film, 58 min. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2008.

(With Henk Schulte Nordholt), ‘Don’t forget to remember  me. An audiovisual archive of everyday life in Indonesia in the 21st century’, Indonesian Studies Working Paper Series 1. Sydney: University of Sydney, Department of Indonesian Studies, 2007.

(With Henk Smeets), In Nederland gebleven; De geschiedenis van Molukkers 1951-2006. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2006.

(With Esther Captain), ‘De Indische Zomer in Den Haag; Het cultureel erfgoed van de Indische hoofdstad’, in: Fridus Steijlen, Esther Captain, Maartje de Haan en Pim Westerkamp (eds), De Indische Zomer in Den Haag; Het cultureel erfgoed van de Indische hoofdstad, pp. 8-13. Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij, 2005.

(With Marieke Brand and Henk Schulte Nordhol), Indië verteld; Herinneringen 1930-1950. Zutphen: Walburg Pers; Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij, 2005.

‘Penanda lama untuk ideologi baru, RMS dan konflik Maluku’, in: Jamil Gunawan, Sutoro Eko Yunato, Anton Birowo en Bambang Purwanto (eds), Desentralisasi, globalisasi dan demokrasi lokal, pp. 97-116. Jakarta: LP3ES, 2005.

‘Molukkers in Nederland; Geschiedenis van een transnationale relatie’, Migrantenstudies 20-4:238-251, 2004.

Memories of ‘The East’; Abstracts of the Dutch interviews about the Netherlands East Indies, Indonesia and New Guinea (1930-1962) in the Oral History Project Collection. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2002.