Blog by Wouter Veenendaal (KITLV) and Jack Corbett (Griffith Business School, Australia) on democraticaudit.com: 'Democracy can and does take root in poor countries, but only if we look at'...
Op de opiniepagina van de Volkskrant van 15 november 2014 pleiten Ellen Klinkers en Peter Meel (Universiteit Leiden/ Geschiedenis, voormalig KITLV) voor hernieuwd onderzoek naar de vermeende ...
On Monday 3 November, a group of 16 Indonesian banking archivsts and management staff, visited KITLV. The purpose of their stay in the Netherlands is to collect information on the subject of archives: documentation...
The latest edition of the New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Volume 88, Issue 3-4, is now online available (open access). Including the article: 'Black Pete, “Smug Ignorance,” and the Value of the Black Body in...
An article by Andy Fuller, associate fellow at KITLV, in Inside Indonesia, about the collection and reading room of KITLV. Fuller carried out research in the reading room during its last months and has fond memories of its ...
A new column by Fridus Steijlen on 'Balk and Ternate' appeared in the monthly newsletter of the Moluccan Historical Museum (MHM). Steijlen's latest column is about (Moluccan) identity, clothing and body ...
Brill, the international scholarly publisher, and KITLV, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, make the first 100 volumes of the renowned book series the ‘Verhandelingen’, or VKI, available in...
Get acquainted with Leiden research on Indonesia: the exhibition 'Investigating Indonesia', on view in the University Library as of 16 October, highlights seven eminent researchers from Leiden University and KITLV. ...
Leiden University is to have a unique expertise centre on Asia. This centre, the Asian Library, will hold extremely rare Asian collections and offer new opportunities for teaching and research. The Asian Library clearly...
On 10 October Bart Luttikhuis successfully defended his PhD thesis titled ‘Negotiating modernity. Europeannes in late colonial Indonesia, 1910-1942’, at the European University Institute (EUI), Department of History and ...