KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

News Items

05 Dec Valika Smeulders bij NPO/Radio 1: “Musea hebben van oudsher hele witte verhalen verteld”

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Valika Smeulders, onderzoeker bij het KITLV en curator bij het Rijksmuseum, vertelde afgelopen woensdag in Radio Focus op NPO/Radio1 hoe zij daar verandering in wil ...

04 Dec Fridus Steijlen in Trouw over staatsbezoek aan Indonesië

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Interview met Fridus Steijlen, onderzoeker bij het KITLV en hoogleraar 'Molukse migratie en cultuur' aan de Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam, over het aankomend staatsbezoek door koning Willem...

03 Dec Blog: Malta and Suriname: Ousting big leaders in small states?

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Small states rarely make world headlines, but dramatic political developments in Malta and Suriname over the past few days promptly catapulted these countries into the international limelight...

02 Dec Rosemarijn Hoefte in Al Jazeera interview about Bouterse

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Rosemarijn Hoefte, researcher at KITLV and Professor in the history of Suriname at the University of Amsterdam, responds in an interview with Al Jazeera to the news that Suriname's President Desi Bouterse ...

01 Dec Rosemarijn Hoefte over Bouterse in interview met AD

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De Surinaamse president Desi Bouterse is vanwege zijn betrokkenheid bij 15 moorden in december 1982 door de Surinaamse Krijgsraad veroordeeld tot 20 jaar cel. Rosemarijn Hoefte, naast onderzoeker...

29 Nov New article on international child marriage discourse

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An article by Hoko Horii in The International Journal of Human Rights: 'A blind spot in international human rights framework: a space between tradition and modernity within the child marriage discourse'...

28 Nov Nieuwe column: ‘Observaties op Ambon’

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Nieuwe column van Fridus Steijlen in de november nieuwsbrief van Museum Maluku. "Op weg van het vliegveld naar het hotel vertelde de chauffeur dat het hotel de laatste tijd heel vol zit. Vooral met Molukkers uit Nederland, ‘Maluku-Belanda’....

26 Nov New publication: ‘How clientelism varies: Comparing patronage democracies’

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KITLV researcher Ward Berenschot and Edward Aspinall (Australian National University) have published a special issue in the journal Democratization comparing the ...

26 Nov Shared Caribbean heritage; Shared future

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On the 25th of November the Museon in The Hague hosted the symposium 'Shared Caribbean heritage; shared future?' (Gedeeld Caribisch erfgoed; gedeelde toekomst?). Corinne Hofman (KITLV), Tibisay Sankatsing Nava (KITLV)...

25 Nov Latest issue BKI online

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The Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia is an interdisciplinary fully open access journal on Southeast Asia, with a strong focus on Indonesia. The editors especially welcome articles ...