News and events

News and events

Letter from Brill Publishers to KITLV Members.
Unfortunately, it appeared that invoices for membership 2013 did not reach our members. Therefore, a copy of the invoice will be enclosed with the first 2013 issue of Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, that will be sent out shortly. Please click here to read the accompanying letter..>>

 

Gert Oostindie bij Nieuwsuur
Gert Oostindie geeft in Nieuwsuur een reactie n.a.v. de moord op de Curaçaose politicus Helmin Wiels. Klik hier voor de uitzending (start 21 min. 16) ...>>

 

KITLV's Annual Report 2012 online.
Our latest Annual Report is now online in Dutch.

 

Cum Laude
On 1 May research fellow David Kloos obtained his Phd degree at the VU University and was awarded the judicium cum laude! His PhD dissertation Becoming better Muslims: religious authority and ethical improvement in Aceh, Indonesia, is based on a combination of historical and ethnographic research. At the moment David is a fellow in the KITLV research program ‘Recording the Future'.

 

Popular Indonesian music online
KITLV is very pleased to present a substantial collection of popular music from Indonesia. Thousands of songs from the 20th century, traditional, popular and locally inspired, can be streamed through our renewed Media Library. The added contextual data and images of the original records make a collection that was previously hard to find, into a unique source for contemporary and cultural history of Indonesia. Try out our music collection..>>

 

Exhibition 'Mapping History' on Flickr
This exhibition was held  in the gallery of Erasmus Huis (Jakarta) and presented highlights of the collections and activities of the KITLV/ Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.

 

23 May: seminar 'Communal violence, political reform and rule-of-law in Myanmar'

By Wolfram Schaffar, Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna and at the moment research fellow in the KITLV research project ‘From Clients to Citizens? Emerging Citizenship in Democratising Indonesia’.
Since 2010 the extent of Myanmar's opening has surprised and pleased most analysts. However, it has also been accompanied by communal violence between Muslim and Buddhist communities, ethnic tensions in Kachin state, and by sometimes violent demonstrations and strikes.Some attribute these problems to underlying social tensions which surface once the new government loosened its authoritarian grip. In this presentation, however, Schaffar will argue that they should be seen as political violence already oriented towards the 2015 elections. A fuzzy discourse of the rule of law among politicians and activists alike, meanwhile, obscures underlying conflicts of interests and prevents systematic and sustainable solutions. More information ...>>

 

30 May: seminar 'The world@Makassar. Vernacular cosmopolitanism in peripheral Indonesia?'

By Christoph Antweiler, Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Bonn University, Germany and Director of the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies (IOA).
Cosmopolitan orientations seek to connect local cultural settings and politics with interests of the wider world. Any realistic cosmopolitanism must proceed from an understanding of humankind as one interconnected entity on a limited planet without requiring us to re-design cultures to fit some sort of global template. How can we conceive of globality as a new entity without playing unity and diversity off one another? In this talk Christoph Antweiler will discuss the question how
cosmopolitan orientations can be studied empirically in Indonesia. How do everyday people conceive their own locale and their way of life in connection to larger social and cultural entities? How do people see their urban quarter and their city in the wider world?

 

12 June Annual Meeting and Seminar:
'Ticket to Leiden; New Indonesian histories and postcolonial collections in the Netherlands’ 

Young Indonesian historians are coming to the Netherlands to learn about their recent history. Not just about colonial times, but about what happened after independence in 1945. In Dutch libraries such as KITLV they find books, films, photographs and sound recordings about many recent topics, from everyday religion to the mass violence of 1965. They know what not many Dutch people know: 80% of the KITLV's collection is newer than 1945. This afternoon we meet some of those young Indonesian historians; we see some of the things they come here to find; and we hear why these new connections between our two countries are so important.

 

21 June: 5th Southeast Asia Update. Call for presentations

The Southeast Asia Update 2013 will be organized by the Rural Development Sociology Group of Wageningen University and co-organized by KITLV. This day provides researchers, scholars, students and others interested in the region with a unique opportunity to:
· get a quick update on ongoing research in the region and new research initiatives;
· get an overview of ongoing debates and recent research on Southeast Asia;
· listen to (and get in touch with) researchers who present research ideas, ongoing projects, new findings and hot debates;
· meet colleagues and old friends;
· extend your network of Southeast Asia scholars in The Netherlands and abroad.
More information ...>>