The board of the KNAW has appointed Martijn Eickhoff as director of NIOD as of 1 September 2021, taking up the position of Frank van Vree who will be retiring. Eickhoff is the coordinator of the KITLV-based project group ‘Regional studies’...
Blog by David Kloos at leidenislamblog.nl about Citi Yousoff from Malaysia, one of the very few female calligraphers with an ijazah (a traditional licence) and...
Open acces review essay on three recent monographs which highlight the relevance of transnational refugee and resistance networks. These books shed new light ...
The New West Indian Guide (NWIG) is a scholarly fully open access journal on the Caribbean, featuring English-language articles in the fields of anthropology, art, archaeology, economics, geography, geology, history, international relations, linguistics...
Although I have been far from Indonesia for some time now, I still consider myself to have the right to regard the country that is 18,000 kilometres away as my source of information, entertainment...
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has dominated the country’s politics for nearly 40 years. He recently announced he would like to rule for another decade. Often described as a “strongman” leader, his longevity has led some to describe Cambodia’s regime ...
Op 21 maart jl. was het precies 70 jaar geleden dat de eerste Molukkers naar Nederland kwamen. Naar aanleiding daarvan riep een groep burgemeesters de ...
Interview met o.a. KITLV medewerker Yayah Siegers-Samaniri in het kader van 70 jaar Molukkers in Nederland in dagblad Trouw. Op zondag 21 maart jl. was het 70 jaar geleden dat de eerste Molukkers ...
Ward Berenschot had the honour to give a 'Parliament's lecture' at the Indonesian parliament together with intellectual powerhouse Robertus Robet. The lecture was organised by the Nasdem fraction. Beforehand Ward was a bit nervous ...
An advance article in the New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG) on spiritual blackness in Puerto Rico, by Omar Ramadan-Santiago. NWIG is ...