News and events

News and events

De Grote Geschiedenis Quiz, 17 mei, Nederland 2
Ook dit jaar organiseren de Volkskrant, Historisch Nieuwsblad en het televisieprogramma Andere Tijden 'de Grote Geschiedenis Quiz'. De quiz wordt uitgezonden op donderdag 17 mei a.s., 20.30 uur, Nederland 2. Gert Oostindie (directeur KITLV) zal optreden als jurylid.

 

KITLV jaarverslag / annual report 2011 online
The institute's annual report is now online (in Dutch). Read more ...>>

 

10 Years Scientific Programme Indonesia Netherlands. Looking ahead, looking back
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) organises together with its Indonesian and Dutch partners - the Ministry for Research and Technology (RISTEK), the Ministry of Education and Culture (DIKTI) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) - a symposium to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Scientific Programme Indonesia-Netherlands (SPIN). More information ...>>
The programme office is hosted by KITLV-Jakarta.

 

Postdoctoral opportunities: Elite Network Shifts
The research program Elite Network Shifts (ENS) is offering at least two postdoctoral research positions. ENS is an interdisciplinary research program in digital humanities. It brings together researchers in computational techniques (language technology, complex network analysis) and historical sociologists interested in Third World regime change, especially  in Indonesia. More information...>> 

 

Now open access by KITLV-Press
In praise of Prambanan; Dutch essays on the Loro Jonggrang temple complex, by Roy Jordaan. Published in 1996, but now Open Access in the OAPEN Library:
http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=417723

 

Het Koloniaal Weekblad online
All volumes of the Het Koloniaal Weekblad : orgaan der Vereeniging Oost en West (1901-1933) have been digitized with the help of the Dutch National Programme Metamorfoze. You can consult them online through this link to our library catalogue: http://opc-kitlv.oclc.org:1080/DB=1/PPNSET?PPN=33953253x

 

Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
New issue published: http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/btlv
   

La Galigo on the Memory on the World list
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has put South Sulawesi’s ancient literary epic 'La Galigo' on the Memory of the World (MOW) list, making it the second document from Indonesia after Negarakertagama in 2008 to earn the acknowledgement. According to the director of KITLV-Jakarta, Roger Tol, it took three years for the manuscript to secure the acknowledgment. Read more in the article 'UNESCO acknowledges S. Sulawesi’s La Galigo' in the Jakarta Post, 1 May 2012.

 

22 June: 4th Southeast Asia Update

This years’ Southeast Asia Update is being organized by the Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies (CPAS) of the Radboud University Nijmegen and co-organized by KITLV. Get a quick update on the ongoing and exiting research that is being carried out in the region. Invitation ...>>

 

24 May: Food security in Indonesia: Analysing the processes generating spaces of vulnerability

Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar by John McCarthy, Australian National University’s Crawford School and fellow at KITLV.
In Indonesia food security is a highly political issue. Policy makers consider food insecurity a threat to political stability, economic growth and social development. With food prices on the rise again, this issue is again causing worry. Recent discussions focus on the problems of national self-sufficiency in rice, the role of imports and the challenge of stabilizing rice prices. Yet, the literature on food insecurity suggests there is little direct correlation between national food availability and food security as experienced at thehousehold level. More information ...>>

 

30 May: Ideologies in Context: the transfer of ‘Kemalism’ from Turkey to Indonesia

Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar by Chiara Formichi, assistant professor at the Asian and International Studies Department of City University of Hong Kong. Whenever we think of the connections between Turkey and Indonesia the mind quickly goes to Acehnese requests for help to the Ottoman Caliph or the ‘wave’ of pan-Islamism which followed Mustafa Kemal’s abolition of Caliphate. However, digging in archives and libraries in Jakarta, Leiden, and The Hague, a much broader takes shape, as the threads connecting these two countries go beyond Islam.
More information...>>

 

31 May: Call for panels 7th EuroSEAS Conference

The 7th EuroSEAS Conference will be held in Lisboa, Portugal, from the 2nd to the 5th July, 2013. The host institution will be the School of Social and Political Sciences of the Technical University of Lisboa (ISCSP/UTL). More information ...>>

 

1 juni: Chinezen uit Indonesië en hun erfgoed in Nederland.
Gewijzigde locatie!

Tijdens deze publieksmiddag staat het erfgoed en de emigratiegechiedenis van Chinezen uit Indonesië centraal. Wat wordt met dat erfgoed bedoeld en hoeveel waarde wordt gehecht aan het behoud ervan? Daarnaast worden o.a. filmbeelden vertoond van een Chinees familieleven in de jaren vijftig in Indonesië en wordt een selectie foto's uit de fotoalbums van Dr. Sioe Yao Kan, kleinzoon van H.H. Kan (Kan Hok Hoei), vertoond. H.H. Kan was een bekende politicus in de koloniale periode en van 1918 tot 1942 lid van de Volksraad in het toenmalige Nederlands-Indië. Meer informatie ...>> 

 

8 juni: Lezingenmiddag en ALV
'Een nieuwe toekomst voor het (post)koloniale erfgoed'

Vrijdag 8 juni a.s., 13.00 - 17.00 uur.
Museum Volkenkunde, Evenementenzaal, Steenstraat 1, 2312 BS Leiden.
Meer informatie ...>> 

 

14 June: Performing Arts in Indonesia Colonial Modernity to Revolution

Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar by Matthew Cohen, professor of International Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London and a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
The binary oppositions of traditional versus innovative, local versus national, indigenous versus cosmopolitan have been analytical straightjackets for studying performing arts in Indonesia. This talk on the changing performance cultures of Indonesia in the period c. 1810 to 1949 attempts to challenge these binaries through a close look at tradition in modernity, formations of popular performance and flows of international culture. The diverse performance cultures of the Indonesian archipelago were linked to each other and the larger world via sea channels long before the arrival of the Dutch and other European colonizers.More information ...>>

 

18 juni: Verzamelaars en volksopvoeders

Boekpresentatie Verzamelaars en volksopvoeders. Musea in Suriname 1863-2012 door Pepijn Reeser.
Sinds 150 jaar wordt Surinaams erfgoed bewaard en getoond in musea. Die werden opgericht en geleid door mensen waarvan de achtergrond uiteenliep van planter tot onderwijzer en van wetenschapper tot politieagent. Pepijn Reeser beschrijft hoe en op basis van welke ideeën deze musea tot stand kwamen en hoe ze zich verhielden tot ontwikkelingen in Suriname en Nederland. Steeds weer bleek de behoefte aan eenheid in zowel het koloniale als onafhankelijke Suriname de motor achter vrijwel alle museale initiatieven.
Meer informatie over het boek ...>> en over de boekpresentatie op 18 juni a.s. ...>>.