October 2019
Seminar | Racial narrations in the Malay Archipelago during the Greater East Asia war | Sandra Manickam
This talk will focus on the racial ideas circulating during the occupation of Malaya and Sumatra during World War II. In attempts to forge a greater archipelagic community, local writers for Japanese-sponsored Malay newspapers and magazines made use of racial studies in order to inform readers of the other related races in the archipelago as well as to argue for closer connections between different peoples in what could be a future political entity
Find out more »November 2019
Publieksbijeenkomst | Onderzoek in uitvoering: Achter de schermen van het onderzoeksprogramma ‘Onafhankelijkheid, dekolonisatie, geweld en oorlog in Indonesië, 1945-1950’
Op zaterdag 2 november 2019 organiseert het onderzoeksprogramma 'Onafhankelijkheid, dekolonisatie, geweld en oorlog in Indonesië, 1945-1950' een publieksbijeenkomst in samenwerking met het Nationaal Archief.
Find out more »Bronbeek-symposium 2019 | de Indonesische stem
Op zondag 3 november 2019 vindt in Arnhem het Bronbeek-symposium plaats, het jaarlijkse evenement georganiseerd door Werkgroep Indisch-Nederlandse Letterkunde. Als thema is dit jaar gekozen voor De Indonesische stem.
Find out more »Seminar | The co-evolution of rural livelihoods with institutional environments: A historical analysis of coffee in Indonesia | Jeff Neilson
Coffee was introduced to the island of Java through Dutch colonial networks at the close of the 17th century, where it thrived, allowing the VOC to quickly dominate global supply. The Indonesian islands have produced globally significant volumes of coffee ever since.
Find out more »December 2019
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 »January 2020
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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