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We explore the movement of, and interactions between, humans and non-humans, across time and space. Where and how to belong is a multi-layered existential question, which requires scrutinizing why, how, and where people, other species, and objects move or stay.
Mobility impacts cultures and religions, states, governments and institutions, but also climates and the collective health of societies. And it may create spaces that are neither bound by borders nor by subjugation. We examine what aspirations drive mobility and immobility, and how both phenomena contribute to processes of identification and exclusion, within and beyond the nation-state, throughout colonial and postcolonial periods.
In opdracht van de burgemeester en wethouders van Tilburg heeft het KITLV in 2022 een onderzoek uit gevoerd naar de koloniale en postkoloniale geschiedenis van de stad in samenwerking met Stadsmuseum Tilburg, Regionaal Archief Tilburg, het Textiel Museum, Tilburg University en vele Tilburgse inwoners.
In opdracht de gemeente Haarlem heeft het KITLV in 2022 een onderzoek uit gevoerd naar het koloniale en slavernijverleden van de stad in samenwerking met o.a. deskundigen van Intercultural Museum & Heritage Projects (IMHP) en Cultuursporen.
The aim is to establish an audiovisual archive of everyday life in Indonesia during the 21st century, and to conduct research on daily life through this archive. To this end recordings are made in Jakarta, Delanggu (Central Java), Payakumbuh (West Sumatra), Kawal (on the island of Bintan), Sintang (West Kalimantan), Bittuang (Tana Toraja on Sulawesi), Ternate, and Surabaya.
This project is a collaboration between several universities and societal and grassroot organizations in the Netherlands, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. The goal of the project is to come to a more inclusive understanding of Europe.
Female Islamic leaders are gaining in prominence. So far, research has been restricted to the role of women in Islamic textual traditions. This project investigates how female Islamic authorities in Malaysia and Indonesia make use of visual images to communicate with their audience and in doing so challenge dominant gender relationships within Islam.
Dit project (2022-2024) is uitgevoerd naar aanleiding van de motie Ceder door het Koninklijk Instituut Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde (KITLV) in Leiden (tevens penvoerder van het project), het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis in Amsterdam, de Universiteit van Curaçao en het Nationaal instituut Nederlands slavernijverleden en erfenis (NiNsee) in Amsterdam.
The KITLV houses a unique collection of Sino-Malay literature, consisting of around 1500 books published from 1880 to the mid-1960s. Most of the collection has been digitized as part of the Metamorfoze Project, which has thus far resulted in a corpus of 4080 high-quality OCR’ed pdfs. This valuable collection of primary sources on late-modern Southeast Asia focuses on the region’s substantial population of peranakan or localized Chinese.
The TASTE Project, funded by the European Research Council and running from June 2024 to the summer of 2029, examines shifting food preferences and culinary change. Centered on three Indonesian diasporas, the project explores how people have adapted their culinary traditions to new environments in the past and continue to reshape them today. In doing so, we scrutinize how cultural, historical, social, economic, and environmental factors operate, intersect, and occasionally conflict in these transformations.