KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

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Events

17 April

UUKS seminar | Cosmo-ecological thinking of forest community in East Java, Indonesia | Wigke Sukmana Putri

24 April

Caribbean seminar |  Maroon anti-necropolitics | Stuart Strange

21-23 October

Island(er)s at the Helm end conference 

Latest calls

PhD position religion & slavery

KITLV is looking for a PhD in the study of religion and slavery in the context of Dutch colonialism and its afterlives. 

Climate challenges Caribbean

Call for Papers: Island(er)s at the Helm closing conference Climate Challenges in the (Dutch) Caribbean in October 2025.

Online influence Southeast Asia

Call for Papers: Online Influence Operations and Democracy in Southeast Asia for a closing workshop in August 2025.

Activities fund 

The Members Association / Vereniging KITLV invites its members to actively contribute to realizing the goals of the Association.

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Who we are & what we do

The KITLV is a research institute dedicated to the study of societal challenges, focusing on the histories and afterlives of colonialism in the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and the Netherlands. Our aim is to produce quality research that furthers justice and envisions alternative futures beyond dominant perspectives.

Our research is informed by intimate familiarity with the cultures, histories, and languages of the places we study. Combining history, anthropology, archaeology, political science, linguistics, and the arts, our interdisciplinary perspective is critical and sensitive to marginalised voices. 

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