A special issue by Fridus Steijlen (KITLV) and Bart Barendregt (Leiden University) in the newest IIAS Newsletter is now online available. November 2013’s issue of the International Documentary Festival...
In 2012, KITLV in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute of Military History (NIMH) and the Institute of War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies (NIOD) began a wide-ranging research program on Dutch military...
The European Association for South East Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) is an international initiative to foster scholarly cooperation within Europe in the field of Southeast Asian studies. It was founded in 1992...
Does democracy change people? How enduring are the traces of dictatorship in the attitudes and beliefs of people? These questions kept popping up during the campaign for Indonesia’s presidential elections...
Today an article on the elections in Indonesia by KITLV researcher Ward Berenschot appeared on the New Mandala, a website providing anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia...
With effect from 1 July 2014, the KNAW is transferring management of the extensive collections on Indonesia and the Caribbean previously held by the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean...
At the 6th Southeast Asia Update that was held on June 20the in Amsterdam, Wietse Woensdregt, a young MA student from the University of Amsterdam, gave an interesting presentation about his recent fieldwork...
On June 30, 2014 the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), Leiden University, and the Learned Society signed a number of agreements with regards to the future of the KITLV. The Learned Society is...