KITLV’s ever expanding “audiovisual archive of everyday life in Indonesia”, has among others produced documentaries. What it hasn’t done is engage with visual art. David Kloos sees opportunities for the future....
(Only in Dutch) Stephan Sanders van 'OBA Live' in gesprek met Gert Oostindie, Hassan Bahara, Anousha Nzume en Stine Jensen over het racismedebat. Het debat rond racisme in Nederland is verhevigd. Zwarte Piet,...
On 27 August this year, the Professor Teeuw Awards were awarded for the last time. In Jakarta, anthropologist and archeologist Hedi Hinzler and translator, editor and publisher John McGlynn received the prestigious ...
An article in the Jakarta Post on KITLV's research project 'From Clients to Citizens? Emerging Citizenship in Democratising Indonesia', coordinated by Gerry van Klinken and Ward Berenschot: 'Observations on ...
This year, the board published its final open call for nominations for the Professor Teeuw Award, as the Foundation’s fund is nearing depletion. It was done with the confident belief that Indonesian-Dutch cultural ...
Article by Jessica Roitman (KITLV) and Karwan Fatah-Black (Leiden University) in Itinerario: 'Being speculative is better than to not do it at all: An interview with Natalie Zemon Davis'. Roitman and Fatah-Black meet ...
Article by Gert Oostindie in the September edition of Aruba Dushi Tera. Aruba Dushi Tera is a two-monthly publication for everyone who is interested in the country and people of Aruba. The magazine’s ...
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ wrote L. P. Hartley. Hidden in a park on the outskirts of Arnhem lies such a country, Bronbeek. Being both monument, veterans’ retirement home and ...
Article by Jacqueline Vel in online journal Inside Indonesia: 'Cash for the cashless'. Jacqueline Vel is a researcher at KITLV and the Van Vollenhoven Institute / Leiden University in Leiden. She is coordinator of the ...
Leiden based research has confirmed that the Dutch military used systematic, extreme violence against Indonesians. In his book Soldaat in Indonesië (Soldier in Indonesia), to be released at the end of October...