30 Mar Memorandum of Understanding between UGM and KITLV
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the History Department of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta and KITLV. The MOU was signed by Henk Schulte Nordholt (Head Research KITLV)...
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26 Mar Vacature onderzoeksstage (only in Dutch)
Bij het project Nederlands militair optreden in Indonesië 1945-1950 is in najaar 2015 een vacature voor een onderzoeksstage beschikbaar. Wij zijn op zoek naar een enthousiaste (research) master student ...
24 Mar Article by Wouter Veenendaal in Antilliaans Dagblad
(Only in Dutch) A new article by Wouter Veenendaal in the Antilliaans Dagblad: ‘Groeiende onvrede met nieuwe status’. Veenendaal (1986) is a postdoctoral researcher at KITLV working as part of the...
16 Mar What’s wrong with being right? (blog by Jessica Roitman)
Historians such as myself have cause to rejoice, if recent American political rhetoric is anything to go by. History, that heretofore scantily-funded discipline of the humanities known (along with English and ...
15 Mar Column on Pattimura in newsletter Museum Maluku
(Only in Dutch) 'Kwartetten met Pattimura', een column van Fridus Steijlen in de nieuwsbrief van maart van Museum Maluku (MUMA). Aanleiding voor de column was de première van het toneelstuk ‘KRUIT! ...
14 Mar Publication research project ‘Tracking Development’
This book is the result of KITLV’s and Afrika Study Centers' research project 'Tracking Development' (2006-2011). The author David Henley, now Professor Contemporary Indonesian Studies at Leiden University, ...
10 Mar Article on Rouffaer in Mare, Leiden University’s weekly newspaper
(Only in Dutch) Een artikel over Rouffaer in het Leids Universitair Weekblad Mare, n.a.v. de presentatie van Frank Okker's biografie 'Rouffaer; De laatste Indische ontdekkingsreiziger' op 27 februari jl. ...
05 Mar Female Islamic authority in comparative perspective
In the latest IIAS Newsletter: 'Female Islamic authority in comparative perspective: exemplars, institutions, practices', by KITLV researcher David Kloos and Mirjam Künkler (research fellow at KITLV). A report on a ...
02 Mar New article by Jessica Roitman in ‘Jewish Culture and History’
New article by Jessica Vance Roitman (KITLV) and Cátia Antunes, 'A war of words; Sephardi merchants, (inter)national incidents, and litigation in the Dutch Republic, 1580–1640', in the journal 'Jewish Culture and...
02 Mar Book launch ‘Rouffaer, de laatste Indische ontdekkingsreiziger’
On Friday 27 February, KITLV fellow Frank Okker, presented 'Rouffaer, de laatste Indische ontdekkingsreiziger', a biography of Gerret Pieter Rouffaer (1860-1928), the last "Indische" explorer and...