Recently an Indonesian colleague asked me to write a reflection on my fieldwork experiences studying politics in India and Indonesia, for an Indonesian book on ethnographic fieldwork. Here is the English version. Doing research in the field can be tough....
On National Hero’s day (Hari Pahlawan Nasional) on 10 November 2018, Dr. Harry Poeze gave a lecture about the life of Tan Malaka at the opening of the exhibition 'Surat Pendiri Bangsa' (Letters from...
Big conferences are crucial when it comes to meeting the celebrities in your field, and perhaps even striking up short conversations with them. And yet the cultural dynamics of these sites of gathering ...
Op donderdagochtend 8 november sprak Radio 1 presentator Winfried Baijens met Gert Oostindie over de Cubaanse president Miguel Díaz-Canel die bezig is ...
By Kasia Mika. This article analyses Nick Lake’s In Darkness (2012), a young adult novel which joins ...
On 8 and 9 October 2018, the KITLV organized a workshop on the subject of Academic research in a decolonizing world: Towards new ways of thinking and...
Seven years after South Sudan’s attainment of independence, the world may this week once again witness the birth of a new sovereign state. Next Sunday (4 November), citizens of the South...
Door Charlotte Huisman. In Utrecht kun je een historische wandeling maken langs de Jan Pieterszoon Coenstraat...
'Suriname: Nation building and nation branding in a postcolonial state, 1945-2015', in Nation branding in modern history, a chapter by Rosemarijn Hoefte. This ...
Laments about “transactional politics” (politik transaktional) are a regular feature of discussions about Indonesian politics. Voters, as well as a few politicians, can be frequently heard complaining about how ...