The talk deals with an important moment, in many ways one of the founding moments, of African Studies: the debate on the notion of Africanism, which occurred in Bahia in the years 1940-42 and its consequences for the making of African-American and Afro-Brazilian studies in the US and Brazil.
The experience of displacement has shaped the politics of many Muslim movements across Southeast Asia. This panel previews a special issue of Itinerario on coerced mobility, and the diverse responses of groups of Muslims in Siam’s incorporation of Patani, Dutch efforts to colonise Aceh, and anti-colonial movements like the Darul Islam in Java and the Communist Party's Tenth Regiment in Malaya.
In the past decades, the universalist conceit of North Atlantic social and cultural sciences has been increasingly “provincialized”, not least because we increasingly ask the question whether and how African diaspora thinking builds an alternative transatlantic universalism, grounded in black experiences in North, Caribbean, and Latin America, and in South-South exchanges with Africa.
De afgelopen jaren is er in de steden Rotterdam, Amsterdam en Utrecht onderzoek gedaan naar de betrokkenheid van de stad bij slavernij in West en Oost, en binnenkort volgt Den Haag.
Join us for a joyful evening of food, music, song, dance and conversation as we celebrate ways of collaborating, sharing, and living together! le thinnai kreyol presents an evening of creole commensality and conviviality.
Since the nineteenth century, today’s South and Southeast Asia have become part of scholarly and popular thinking that defines the region as a single, superior, Hindu-Buddhist civilisation with its source in India
The protests in response the devastating military coup in Myanmar in February of this year demonstrated an inspiring aspect of racial, ethnic and religious pluralism and solidarity.
Online book launch: Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic voices across the Southern seas, by Tom Hoogervorst and Caroline Chia (editors).
Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia. The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that
This book recounts the little-known history of Cornelis Chastelein, a high-ranking official of the Dutch East India Company and the 150-200 enslaved people he purchased from slave markets around South-East Asia to work his landed estates in the Batavian (Jakarta) hinterlands.
The push to anchor the study of Indonesian women in academia in Indonesia was triggered by the UN women’s conferences in the 1970s and 1980s, contacts between Indonesian and foreign researchers and academics, and the government of Indonesia’s need to integrate women in its development programs.
Coastal reclamation, the process of creating land by infilling coastal waters or wetlands, offers a possible bulwark against rising sea-levels associated with climate change
Op 3 december a.s. zal prof. dr. Alex van Stipriaan een openbaar college geven aan de Erasmus Universiteit, ter gelegenheid van zijn afscheid.