Afgelopen 13 en 14 maart was het precies veertig jaar geleden dat de gijzelingsactie in het provinciehuis van Assen plaatsvond. Groot verschil tussen deze actie in 1978 en de acties daarvoor ...
Het debat 'Van standbeeld naar schandpaal' op 5 april j.l. in De Balie is nu terug te zien via De Balie TV. Kunstinstituut Witte de With wil zijn naam veranderen, de naam van de Coentunnel ligt al...
With the support of Knowledge Unlatched the publication Emerging memory: Photographs of colonial atrocity in Dutch cultural remembrance by Paul Bijl (KITLV) is now...
On 24 February KITLV researchers Fridus Steijlen and Ireen Hoogenboom were invited by the Indonesian Students Association to introduce and discuss the research program 'Decolonisation, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950'. Discussions about this research...
On 16 March 2018, Rosemarijn Hoefte, who in 2017 and with the support of the KITLC-KNAW was appointed Professor of the History of Suriname since 1873 in a comparative perspective, held her inaugural lecture...
That may sound like a boring question, but it is an important one. Am I exaggerating if I say that the future of democracy depends on it? Informal politics is usually studied through in-depth fieldwork and interviews. ...
What kind of economic development curtails clientelistic politics? Most of the literature addressing this relationship focuses narrowly on ...
Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie (KITLV) present a fresh look at the Dutch Atlantic in the period following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century. This epoch (1680–1815), the authors...
Article by Hoko Horii (KITLV/Leiden University) and Mies Grijns (Leiden University): 'Child marriage in a village in West Java (Indonesia): Compromises between legal obligations and religious concerns'. This article...
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...