When considering current academic research and education agendas the terms data science and artificial intelligence are omnipresent. Yet the integration of such methods into the regular curriculum of humanities students is cumbersome.

The discussion about objects, human remains and archives from former colonial territories is becoming increasingly heated. Over the centuries, a multitude of items – including a cannon of the King of Kandy, power-objects from DR Congo, Benin bronzes, Javanese temple statues, Maori heads and strategic documents – has ended up in museums and private collections in Belgium and the Netherlands by improper means.

Join Associate Professor Rachel Rinaldo to reflect on the progressive influence of Islamic courts on longer term shifts in gender practices and relations in Indonesia.