Malcom Ferdinand, a post-doctoral researcher on the Confronting Caribbean Challenges project, has been awarded the prestigious 2016 PhD Prize for Interdisciplinary Research, which is given out by the...
Starting September 1, 2017, Fridus Steijlen has been appointed as Professor Extraordinary in the Moluccan Migration and Culture in a comparative perspective at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the VU University...
Now available online: latest issue of the Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (BKI). BKI is an interdisciplinary journal on Southeast Asia, with a strong focus on Indonesia. The editors...
KITLV is pleased to invite you to experience Indonesia while walking through Leiden’s city center with the new walking app Envisioning Indonesia. Within the framework of the Leiden Asia Year KITLV developed the walk app Envisioning Indonesia. ...
Door Wouter Veenendaal. Door niet samen te werken met buureilanden blijft Sint Eustatius gevangen in de relatie met Nederland. Vandaag vergadert de Tweede Kamer ...
Soldaat in Indonesië 1945-1950 (Prometheus, 2015), written by Gert Oostindie, in collaboration with Ireen Hoogenboom and Jonathan Verwey is now in its fifth edition. The publication is based on letters, diaries, albums and memoires of members of the Dutch ...
For many Dutch people, the Antillean alphabet stops after A, B and C. During the parliamentary elections, the evening news and the average history lesson, little attention is paid to the six islands in ...
‘Indenture in the Long Nineteenth Century’ in: Seymour Drescher, David Eltis, and Stanley L. Engerman (eds), Cambridge World History of Slavery Volume IV, AD 1804...
21 June 2017 marks the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere. Dutch children still have to wait a few more weeks before their summer vacation starts, but in astronomical terms, summer officially arrives Wednesday. The difference in between...
Artikel in het Leidsch Dagblad over de app 'Envisioning Indonesia', die de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek en het KITLV op 19 juni jl. presenteerden. "Om het Aziëjaar in Leiden extra feestelijk te maken...