24 Sep Three positions project ‘Island(er)s at the Helm’
KITLV is looking for one PhD and two postdoc candidates for the project 'Island(er)s at the Helm: Co-creating sustainable and inclusive solutions for social adaptation to climate ...
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21 Sep Meet the people working at KITLV: Rosa de Jong
The KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies proudly presents a series of short video portraits of people working at the institute. In these short films our researchers...
20 Sep Twenty organizations participate in Island(er)s at the Helm’s first stakeholder meeting
On 14 September 2021, the Island(er)s at the Helm program hosted its first Kingdom-wide event with societal partners and other stakeholders. This meeting is ...
18 Sep New publication on linguistic landscape of Southeast Asia’s Chinese communities
Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas, a new volume in the series Chinese Overseas, edited by Tom Hoogervorst (KITLV) and Caroline Chia. Open access....
17 Sep Podcast about Tom Hoogervorst’s latest book on Sino-Malay texts
Podcast about Tom Hoogervorst's latest book Language ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese print entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 which explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts, writings ...
10 Sep New publication on sustainability and social adaptability to natural hazards in the Lesser Antilles
New co-publication by our researchers Corinne Hofmann and Menno Hoogland in the journal Sustainability: 'Resilient Caribbean communities: A long-term...
28 Aug BBC podcast on the Indonesian poet Amir Hamzah
A conversation with, among others, Indonesian novelist Ayu Utami and KITLV researcher Taufiq Hanafi about the writer Amir Hamza, a national hero in Indonesia, celebrated for both his poetry and his role in ...
23 Aug Blog: How Google Translate can give a new generation of Indonesian historians access to stories from ‘the other side’
Imagine what Indonesian historical research could look like if there were no language barriers, no travel costs and no visa issues, and instead just a strong Wi-Fi signal...
12 Aug Overhandiging boek over Antilliaans erfgoed
Het in juni verschenen tweedelige boek over Antiliaans erfgoed, Toen en nu & Nu en verder, is officieel overhandig aan de waarnemend Gezaghebber van Bonaire, Reynold Oleana, en voorzitter van de ...
30 Jul Sundanese poetry in colonial times
Covid has brought misery and suffering, the lockdowns have caused anger and frustration. Once in a while, though, the pandemic and the restrictive measures have had advatageous effects. For example, Hawé Setiawan, a friend of KITLV researcher Tom van den Berge...