13 March 2025

In New Zealand, legal personality has been accorded to a rainforest (2014), a river (2017), and a mountain (2025). In all these acts, Maori ecological values and guardianship of nature have been included, sometimes even in Maori language. 

10 maart

Vanwege het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties is Dr. Wouter Pieter Veenendaal benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar met als leeropdracht Democratische Vertegenwoordiging in het Koninkrijk.

4 March 2025

In The politics of coercion, Neil Loughlin explains the persistence of Cambodia's authoritarian regime for more than four decades.  The book provides a historically grounded investigation of the country's ruling coalition: political elites, many drawn from within the state's coercive apparatus, who, in coordination with state-dependent tycoons, have come to control Cambodia's politics and its economy. Loughlin presents new empirical data foregrounding the coercive underpinnings of the modern Cambodian state and its party, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP).

28 February 2025

Confronting Climate Coloniality exposes how legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism co-produce and exacerbate the climate crisis, create disproportionate impacts on those who contributed the least to climate change, and influence global and local responses. Climate coloniality is perpetuated through processes of neoliberalism, racial capitalism, development interventions, economic growth models, media, and education.

26 February

This event will mark the launch of the English version of the documentary Colonial Debris. In this documentary Indonesian filmmakers explore why their country has so many land conflicts. As they film the protests of communities against palm oil companies and real estate developers taking their land, they find that the roots of these conflicts go back to Indonesia’s colonial past.

25 February

This event will mark the launch of the English version of the documentary Colonial Debris. In this documentary Indonesian filmmakers explore why their country has so many land conflicts. As they film the protests of communities against palm oil companies and real estate developers taking their land, they find that the roots of these conflicts go back to Indonesia’s colonial past.

24 February

This event will mark the launch of the English version of the documentary Colonial Debris. In this documentary Indonesian filmmakers explore why their country has so many land conflicts. As they film the protests of communities against palm oil companies and real estate developers taking their land, they find that the roots of these conflicts go back to Indonesia’s colonial past.

7 februari

Op vrijdagmiddag 7 februari vindt in Het Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam de presentatie plaats van het boek The Dutch Transatlantic slave trade: New methods, perspectives, and sources.

6 February 2025

Songs and prayers are the basis of oral and printed sacred literature in the African diaspora religion of Sèvis Ginen (African Service), one of Haiti’s best documented traditions of Vodou. The songs and prayers of Vodou are among the oldest known Kreyòl language documents given their multiple entry points into an encyclopedic and millennium-spanning record of Atlantic history and language.

5 February-21 May 2025

In the second semester of the academic year 2024-2025 the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies organizes, for the 38th time, the interuniversitary course Introduction to Caribbean Studies. Participation is open to all students studying at a Dutch university and anyone else interested in the Caribbean. The course will be held in Dutch and English.