December 2019
Seminar | Pious moderns: Toward healthy progress | Chiara Formichi
In this talk, Chiara Formichi will illustrate how by asking the question of how (literate, engaged, middle/upper-class) Indonesians understood and deployed the concepts of modernity and progress, and how these intersected
Find out more »Farewell symposium Willem van der Molen | Towards a history of Javanese literature
The ongoing decline in Javanese literary studies during the past decades has prompted quite a few efforts among students of Javanese to stop the tide, both in and outside Indonesia. The principle underlying such efforts is that Javanese literature is worth to be known and studied. In December 2019 an international symposium on Javanese literary history will be organized for Willem van der Molen on the occasion of his retirement as a researcher at KITLV, Leiden
Find out more »Oproep voor aanvragen | 10de subsidieronde Dr. Silvia W. de Groot Fonds voor jonge Caraïbische onderzoekers
Het Silvia de Groot fonds is bedoeld om jonge Caraïbische onderzoekers, bij voorkeur van Marron-afkomst, financieel te ondersteunen bij de voorbereiding van een wetenschappelijke publicatie over de
Find out more »Workshop | Suppressed songs, suspicious sounds: Popular music, archiving & cultural amnesia in Southeast Asia
This is a workshop on Southeast Asian popular music, and how popular songs often have provided room for otherwise suppressed sentiments, colonial trauma, or have facilitated hopes for the better.
Find out more »January 2020
Conference | Relocating Governance in Asia: state and society in South- and Southeast Asia, c. 1800-2000
Over the last decades, the study of governance in Asia has increasingly expanded to include a focus upon non-state entities. Historians have realized that engagement with local intermediaries, civil society organizations, power brokers, and interest groups has been crucial to the day-to-day administration of European colonies and postcolonial states alike
Find out more »Registration open | Inward Outward Symposium | Critical Archival Engagements with Sounds and Films of Coloniality
The international symposium Inward Outward investigates the status of moving image and sound archives worldwide as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race.
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