02 May Guest blog by Nico Kaptein: Jawi books in Cairo
Last March, I had the opportunity to spend two days in Cairo and, with the help of a local bookseller, I was able to buy some 25 Malay books in Arabic script that had been produced in Cairo....
News Items
01 May Open acces: ‘Words that work? Practices of constructive journalism in a local Caribbean context’
This article addresses practices of constructive journalism in the local, postcolonial context of St. Maarten, an autonomous Dutch Caribbean...
24 Apr New publication: Ramayana and Mahabharata in Malay and Javanese literature
Edited by Ding Choo Ming and Willem van der Molen. Local renderings of the two Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata in Malay and Javanese literature have...
20 Apr NPO Radio 1/Bureau Buitenland: ‘Cuba na de Castro’s’
Het einde van de dynastie van de gebroeders Castro’s is in zicht. Na bijna zes decennia onder de heerschappij van eerst Fidel en daarna Raúl krijgt Cuba komende donderdag een nieuw staatshoofd....
19 Apr Full open access: ‘Informality and citizenship: the everyday state in Indonesia’
Over the last four years KITLV and Universitas Gadjah Mada, together with Leiden University and the UvA, have been working on a research project on citizenship ...
09 Apr Column Fridus Steijlen: ‘Frank Westerman vergeet de Molukkers zelf’
Afgelopen 13 en 14 maart was het precies veertig jaar geleden dat de gijzelingsactie in het provinciehuis van Assen plaatsvond. Groot verschil tussen deze actie in 1978 en de acties daarvoor ...
09 Apr Debat ‘Van standbeeld naar schandpaal’ nu terug te zien via De Balie TV
Het debat 'Van standbeeld naar schandpaal' op 5 april j.l. in De Balie is nu terug te zien via De Balie TV. Kunstinstituut Witte de With wil zijn naam veranderen, de naam van de Coentunnel ligt al...
29 Mar Open access: Emerging memory: Photographs of colonial atrocity in Dutch cultural remembrance
With the support of Knowledge Unlatched the publication Emerging memory: Photographs of colonial atrocity in Dutch cultural remembrance by Paul Bijl (KITLV) is now...
29 Mar Meeting PPI-Belanda, a report
On 24 February KITLV researchers Fridus Steijlen and Ireen Hoogenboom were invited by the Indonesian Students Association to introduce and discuss the research program 'Decolonisation, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950'. Discussions about this research...
27 Mar Online: inaugural lecture / oratie Rosemarijn Hoefte
On 16 March 2018, Rosemarijn Hoefte, who in 2017 and with the support of the KITLC-KNAW was appointed Professor of the History of Suriname since 1873 in a comparative perspective, held her inaugural lecture...