Tom Hoogervorst has been appointed adjunct professor at the Department of Indonesian, Faculty of Letters, at the State University of Malang, from September 2022 ...
The journal NWIG has published a new issue. It includes 2 articles: 'She has not been seen or heard of since: Gender, incarceration, and punishment in The Bahamas, 1860s–1920s', by Anne Ulentin and 'Sustenance and survival: Women, food and sovereignty...
We are looking for a postdoctoral candidate for this very innovative project. You will be based at KITLV and take care of the implementation of this project. You will do so together with project coordinators ...
“What’s the point?” you inquire, adjusting your pince-nez sceptically. And to that, we reply: loanwords are monuments of cultural contact. Once detected as such, they reveal human agency and encounters previously concealed by the misty shrouds of time...
This new research project studies comparatively how social media-based public opinion manipulation is organised in Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Computational ...
New advanced article in the New West Indian Guide: 'Practices of (micro)marronage; Manbos, solidarity, détours, and heritage in Fabienne Kanor’s Humus', by Aaron Thomas Witcher....
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Burgemeester en wethouders van Tilburg hebben, in vervolg op een motie van de gemeenteraad, het KITLV opdracht gegeven een onderzoek uit te voeren naar de koloniale en postkoloniale ...
Leiden University and KITLV-KNAW are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of the anthropology of climate change and environmental justice....
In June, Rose-Mary Allen of the University of Curacao, Urwin Vyent of NiNsee, Matthias van Rossum of IISG and Esther Captain of KITLV received a large subsidy from...