16 Aug RTL Nieuws: Geen Amerikaanse toestanden in Nederland, wel omstreden standbeelden
In de Verenigde Staten is een kleine beeldenstorm aan de gang: standbeelden van militaire leiders die voor de zuidelijke staten vochten in de Amerikaanse ...
News Items
15 Aug KITLV-researcher Bart Luttikhuis in NOS report on National Commemoration 15 August 1945
On Tuesday, KITLV-researcher Bart Luttikhuis was a guest during the NOS live broadcast of the commemoration ceremony for the National Commemoration 15 August ...
07 Aug New article by Jessica Roitman: “A mass of mestiezen, castiezen, and mulatten”
The article “A mass of mestiezen, castiezen, and mulatten: Contending with color in the Netherlands Antilles, 1750–1850" in the journal Atlantic Studies shows that the boundaries between free people of color and...
04 Aug Nederland doodde op Sulawesi veel meer Indonesische mannen en kinderen dan bekend
Artikel op de website van De Correspondent: 'Nederland doodde op Sulawesi veel meer Indonesische mannen en kinderen dan bekend', door Manon van den Brekel. ...
03 Aug Interview Gert Oostindie over de koninkrijksrelaties in het Antilliaans Dagblad
Na het weekeinde worden in Nederland de onderhandelingen over een nieuwe regeringscoalitie voortgezet. De uitkomst is van belang voor de ...
26 Jul Article on the number of Indonesian casualties of war, 1945-1949
During the Decolonization War in Indonesia (1945-1949), the Netherlands initiated two large scale military operations and was also engaged in smaller actions on a daily basis. The number of Dutch military ...
20 Jul Blog: Book-hunting in the City of Heroes
Situated in an inconspicuous residential area in the south of Surabaya, one could easily overlook one of Indonesia’s most intriguing libraries and its equally fascinating owner. Tom Hoogervorst looks back on a fruitful week of research spent at Medayu Agung...
20 Jul PhD Prize Interdisciplinary Research for Malcom Ferdinand
Malcom Ferdinand, a post-doctoral researcher on the Confronting Caribbean Challenges project, has been awarded the prestigious 2016 PhD Prize for Interdisciplinary Research, which is given out by the...
18 Jul Fridus Steijlen appointed as Professor Moluccan Migration and Culture
Starting September 1, 2017, Fridus Steijlen has been appointed as Professor Extraordinary in the Moluccan Migration and Culture in a comparative perspective at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the VU University...
15 Jul Latest issue BKI available online
Now available online: latest issue of the Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (BKI). BKI is an interdisciplinary journal on Southeast Asia, with a strong focus on Indonesia. The editors...