February 2021
Webinar | Building land tenure systems: The political, legal, and institutional struggles of Timor-Leste | Bernardo Almeida
Land tenure issues in Timor-Leste are complex and deeply shaped by the nation’s history. In this presentation Bernardo Almeida will summarize the main findings of his PhD thesis where he, taking an insider’s perspective, studies the development of the Timorese formal land tenure system from independence in 2002 to 2018.
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Webinar | Ecocide in West Papua | Fadjar Schouten-Korwa
West Papua, a former Dutch colony* , has the second largest rainforest after the Amazon, a great biodiversity and very rich natural resources. In fact the largest gold and third largest copper mine is located in West Papua
Find out more »Atelier KITLV Webinar | Kucini, kallu, kakkus: Creolising India Across the Oceans | Ari Gautier & Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Kucini (kitchen, from Portuguese ‘cozinha’); kallu (palm wine, Tamil); kakkus (toilet, from Dutch ‘kakhuis’): three words from Pondicherry Tamil that condense the impact of creolisation as transoceanic cultural process forged through encounter and collaboration, adaptation and resistance.
Find out more »Call for Papers | Colonial Asian history under fire. New perspectives of postcolonialism in the former empires due to BLM protests and discussions on slavery
For the upcoming Euroseas conference 2021, 7-10 September in Olomouc (Czech Republic) we, Esther Captain and Fridus Steijlen, organize a panel under the title ‘Colonial Asian history under fire’.
Find out more »September 2021
11th EuroSEAS Conference in Olomouc
The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will hold its 11th conference at the Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic from 7-10 September 2021.
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