3 June 2025 

The talk explores the discourse of gender empowerment in hypermediated Indonesia, foregrounding the significance of digital citizenship for girls and young women in the face of an increasingly constrained civic space. 

27 May 2025 

The Grondkaart is a map indicating land ownership and control boundaries, created by the Dutch East Indies government. It is currently used in Indonesia to demonstrate land control by the state-owned railway company (PT KAI). The Grondkaart is a piece of paper that should serve only as an archive and artefact of the past, having no legal power in post-colonial Indonesia. 

22 May 2025 

Pranata mangsa has been recognized as a Javanese agricultural calendar that dates to ancient times. While recent studies have presented pranata mangsa as one of the key elements of Javanese traditional ecological knowledge in agriculture; historical documents show Dutch influence of the calendar’s evolution back to the nineteenth century.

21 May

We are pleased to announce that Adrian Perkasa will defend his PhD thesis The cultural network: Javanese imaginings of Indonesia, 1918-1966 on Wednesday, 21 May 2025, at 16:00 CET.

15 May 2025

In Legacies of colonialism in museum collections: The (un)making of Indonesian Islam in the Netherlands Mirjam Shatanawi tells the untold story of Indonesian Islam in museums. Often overshadowed by Hindu-Buddhist art, Indonesian Islamic heritage rarely receives the attention it deserves in museum collections and exhibitions. 

8 May 2025

Prabowo Subianto took office on 20 October 2024. The first six months of his presidency have offered more than just a glimpse into how he plans to use his power to pursue his vision, officially known as Asta Cita, and how that might shape the everyday lives of Indonesians. 

1 May 2025

In recent decades, the declining authority of the Church in Europe has significantly weakened the vitality of Catholic orders in the Netherlands, raising questions about their sustainability amid shifting cultural and religious landscapes. To counteract this trend, many orders have invited foreign missionaries from Asia and Africa to rejuvenate their missions.

24 April 2025

This talk describes Maroon anti-necropolitics and its implications for multispecies justice to aid in creating a genuinely decolonial Caribbean ecological theory. 

17 April 2025

In academia, challenging human superiority in epistemology and ontology is a radical move, but this perspective may not be as radical for Indigenous peoples and forest communities. They view humans as microcosmos within a larger cosmological framework, where humans are not superior to other beings. 

10-11 April

The University of St. Martin will host a two-day workshop and seminar on climate, sustainability and the regional vulnerability with thought leaders from other institutions in the Caribbean. 

27 March 2025

Most every country has an iconic national brand, from Heineken in Holland to Tsingtao in China. But with the exception of Ireland’s Guinness, every label represents the same style: light, crisp, clear, Pilsner lager. 

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.