Vereniging KITLV
16-07-2025
KITLV invites scholars working in the fields of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies to apply for a Visiting Fellowship. Candidates are invited to send in a proposal of the work they wish to carry out while at KITLV. Fellows may work on a publication or research project of their own choice.
08-07-2025
KITLV director Diana Suhardiman underlined in an interview on beritajatim.com the relevance of ecological history, focusing on its role as key methodological approach to understand how human, non-human, environment relations evolve over time.
01-07-2025
Opinie: 'Nederland moet mooie woorden over gedeelde toekomst met Suriname waarmaken'. KITLV onderzoeker Karwan Fatah-Black schreef met Feline Lucas (ASKV) een opiniestuk in de Volkskrant van 1 juli jl. over de speciale verblijfsregeling voor ongedocumenteerde Surinaamse oud-Nederlanders.
17-06-2025
Diana Suhardiman, KITLV director and special professor of Natural Resource Governance, Climate and Equity at Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies, Leiden University, received an ERC Advanced Grant of € 2.5 million.
15-06-2025
Interview with Wengki Ariando about the impact of industrial development on the Suku Laut (sea nomads) community in Indonesia. In Batam City, Riau Islands province, Indonesia's National Strategic Projects (PSN) are profoundly impacting the Suku Laut community in the Air Mas, Tanjung Sauh area, pushing them further into marginalization.
11-06-2025
In een interview met het Antilliaans Dagblad, vertelt KITLV gastonderzoeker Rosa de Jong over haar onderzoek naar Joodse vluchtelingen die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog vanuit Nederland en België, via verschillende Europese havens, terecht kwamen in de Caraïben, met name in Jamaica, Cuba, Suriname en Curaçao.
01-06-2026
Congratulations to our Island(er)s at the Helm researcher Anna Younes who was recently awarded the Emma Goldman Award for her contributions to research on feminism and inequality.
31-05-2025
On 27 May 2025 KITLV welcomed a delegation from the Silpakorn University, Thailand. The visit marked a significant step towards exploring KITLV's research engagement in Southeast Asia. Discussions during the meeting centered on potential collaborations concerning critical issues in the region.
15-05-2025
On 12 May the kick-off of the collaboration between the KITLV and the Kadaster of St. Maarten took place. In January 2025 KITLV director Diana Suhardiman and senior researcher Francio Guadeloupe met with Kadaster director Benjamin Ortega, which led to establishing a partnership to enhance the conservation and management of the island’s historical documents.
22-05-2025
KITLV guest researcher Rosa de Jong tells in this article about her project to digitize birth records, land sales and correspondence of Jewish refugees who fled the horrors of World War II to the Caribbean, including Suriname. A team in Suriname digitized 100,000 documents to preserve Jewish history in the Caribbean.
15-04-2025
UNESCO has recognized a large collection of handwritten letters and the archive of Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879-1904) as documentary world heritage. Kartini, an Indonesian women's rights advocate, opposed gender inequality in feudal Javanese society, including forced marriages, polygamy and lack of education for women.
01-05-2025
Interview with PhD researcher Sander van der Horst on Indonesian students in Leiden who joined the resistance against the Dutch and German occupiers. According to Sander, some students were already building an underground network before the war, prompted by years of Dutch censorship and espionage.