On Monday 3 November, a group of 16 Indonesian banking archivsts and management staff, visited KITLV. The purpose of their stay in the Netherlands is to collect information on the subject of archives: documentation...
The latest edition of the New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Volume 88, Issue 3-4, is now online available (open access). Including the article: 'Black Pete, “Smug Ignorance,” and the Value of the Black Body in...
An article by Andy Fuller, associate fellow at KITLV, in Inside Indonesia, about the collection and reading room of KITLV. Fuller carried out research in the reading room during its last months and has fond memories of its ...
A new column by Fridus Steijlen on 'Balk and Ternate' appeared in the monthly newsletter of the Moluccan Historical Museum (MHM). Steijlen's latest column is about (Moluccan) identity, clothing and body ...
Get acquainted with Leiden research on Indonesia: the exhibition 'Investigating Indonesia', on view in the University Library as of 16 October, highlights seven eminent researchers from Leiden University and KITLV. ...
Leiden University is to have a unique expertise centre on Asia. This centre, the Asian Library, will hold extremely rare Asian collections and offer new opportunities for teaching and research. The Asian Library clearly...
On 10 October Bart Luttikhuis successfully defended his PhD thesis titled ‘Negotiating modernity. Europeannes in late colonial Indonesia, 1910-1942’, at the European University Institute (EUI), Department of History and ...
New article by Ward Berenschot in the Jakarta Post: 'Misdirecting elections'. Berenschot is researcher at KITLV and studying election campaigns and citizenship in Indonesia....
On 30 September KITLV, the Van Vollenhoven Institute (VVI) and Amnesty International (Netherlands) organized a seminar on the murdered Munir Said Thalib, one of the most prominent human rights activists in Indonesia. ...
On 30 September Marije Plomp successfully defended her PhD thesis on Malay adventure stories at the Academy Building of Leiden University. Marije’s thesis was titled ‘Never-Neverland revisited: Malay adventure stories. ...