Lecture in Leiden next week by Laurence Monnais!

📣Join us for the 3rd History of Knowledge Conference, "Decentering the History of Knowledge"! The event will take place in Utrecht on 25-27 August 2027. 📝A call for papers will follow in Fall 2026. For more information: 1) Register with "[email protected]" 2) Visit: www.uu.nl/en/news/thir....

Nicoline van der Sijs met een zeer verontrustend bericht over het geruisloos verdwijnen van een databank waar alles bij elkaar tientallen jaren aan is gewerkt. neerlandistiek.nl/2026/03/een-...

Stel dat ik wél in Delft geëindigd was, was mijn naam dan ook aan de politie doorgegeven?

1/ Uit mijn herkomstonderzoek blijkt dat je aan de objecten uit Indonesië de kennisuitwisseling tussen de lokale veeartsen of behandelaars en de Nederlandse veeartsen kan zien. Kijk bijvoorbeeld eens naar deze castratieset die ik onderzoek, ontworpen door de Nederlandse veearts A. Vrijburg:

1/ Al vanaf 1830 werden veeartsen uitgezonden naar het toenmalige Nederlands-Indië. Eerst werkten ze als paardenarts in het leger. Later bestreden ze ook besmettelijke veeziektes en deden ze onderzoek. In 1907 bestond daarvoor het Veeartsenijkundig Instituut op Java.

Lecture in Leiden this Friday!

Important topic in Dutch academia picked up DJA - and while we're at it, could we also talk about the almost complete lack of PhD funding for students who have their own ideas? www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3224...

Tomorrow, the Flemish Young Academy are pleased to welcome the Young Academy of Sweden. Together, they will take a closer look at the freedom of science and art alongside broader tensions surrounding democracy, public institutions, and trust in expertise. More information here: bit.ly/4big1fx !

Lecture at Leiden tomorrow about the history of medical ethics:

Nieuw fonds voor early career eerstegeneratie-wetenschappers www.knaw.nl/fondsen-en-p...

I found this footage of the 1920s in Indonesia and can't stop watching it: www.gartenbergmedia.com/news/2020/10...

Seksistisch literatuurtribunaal nagespeeld, geweldig idee van de kb: www.kb.nl/agenda/de-za...

Call for applications | Visiting fellowships 2025-2026 | Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden 🇳🇱 Deadline: 21 March 2025 www.kitlv.nl/news/call-fo...

“For too long, a significant part of our past held beyond everyday reach of Indonesian society. Scholars discussed it, museums displayed it, global narrative was shaped around it, yet the Indonesian people could not see them at home. That era ends today.” -Fadli Zon 🏺

I'm looking forward to this conference we're organizing next week. In person only but everyone is welcome (if registered) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

This is quite a story. Trying to trademark the word ‘sabzi’ is the equivalent of trying to trademark the word ‘food’. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...

Coming up next in our Global Histories of Knowledge Series: Remco Ensel about the discipline of economics, Leiden University and colonialism, 11 December, 15:30-17:00

Next Thursday (13 Nov), I'll talk about early modern southern Africa's framing as the "Western Part of the East Indies" @leidenhumanities.bsky.social universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... I'll speak about future directions from this paper: doi.org/10.1093/past...

Wil je weten hoe verschillende politieke partijen in hun #verkiezingsprogramma's denken over deze (en meer!) aspecten van wetenschap en #wetenschapsbeleid? Check het The Young Academy Dashboard Verkiezingen 2025 (dejongeakademie.nl/nieuws/31328...)

The Humanities of Nature @mfnberlin.bsky.social continue their online lecture series on "Heritage & Justice: Unpacking legal Narratives in Natural History". Start is this Wednesday at 1pm, full program and zoom link www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/forschung...

CFP: Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158042 Leiden, 22.01.2026-23.01.2026, Fenneke Sysling; Caroline Schep, Leiden University, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.11.2025

Kroniek van een aangekondigde archieframp www.linkedin.com/posts/ab-fli...

Our upcoming seminar in the Global Histories of Knowledge series. The link to the meeting will be on the website: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...

This is a first: The Netherlands will return the Java Man fossils, the type specimen for Homo erectus, to Indonesia www.government.nl/latest/news/....

The Netherlands will return the famous Java man fossils to Indonesia: www.trouw.nl/binnenland/i...

Turns out Sara Baartman's skull dimensions are still used by bio-anthropologists! Fascinating article about how race and colonial violence continue to be present in today's databases: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Een concentratiekamp. Interessant concept.

Voor net afgestudeerde historici: www.werkenvoornederland.nl/vacatures/hi...

📣CFPs - for a conference focused on ethical practices in medical research and treatment in the colonial and postcolonial context. Conference dates: 22 and 23 January 2026 Venue: Boerhaave Museum, Leiden Abstract submission deadline: 1 November 2025 #histmed

(Call for Papers) Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/06/mede... #histSTM #medhum

The great historian of Southeast Asia, Anthony (Tony) Reid, died yesterday in Canberra, aged 85. His studies transformed our understanding of Indonesia and the region. A professor at the ANU for many years, he also founded institutes at UCLA & NUS. And he was a lovely person

The Indonesian government plans to release new history books. The big question is how Suharto's human rights abuses will be portrayed but the committee has also pushed back the start of history. What used to be 'prehistory' will now be 'early history', starting with homo erectus 1.8 million yrs ago.

Postdoc positions (one in Environmental Heritage and another in Identity and Popular Culture) at Tilburg

www.lumc.nl/over-het-lum... Verder heb je: graag enige bereidheid om met historici samen te werken en affiniteit met historische vraagstukken.

Ligia Giay yesterday presented her report on the colonial and slavery history of Leiden University: www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/con...

🚨 Three days left!🚨 Paper Knowledge in Digital Archives You can still apply for the workshop I am co-organizing with Lieke Speerstra. A highly relevant and timely workshop (think CABR gate) on questions of politics in archives and digitization. www.huizingainstituut.nl/course/works...

23 April: Symposium Colonial History & Global Health among Dutch knowledge institutions - with very knowledgeable people like Esther Captain, Leen Dorsman, Henk van Rinsum, Fenneke Sysling, Gani Jaelani and myself. www.kcgh.nl/activiteiten...

Dr. Rachel Los deed onlangs iets ongekends: naast de verplichte bedankjes voegde ze aan haar TU Delft-proefschrift ‘nee-bedankt-betuigingen’ toe. “We moeten deze ondermijning tegengaan”, schrijft ze in deze brief.

2 UD positions with a salary starting in scale 10? Is that regular or lower than it used to be? www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies... www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Op zoek naar goede kandidaten voor deze vacature op het gebied van kennis en kolonialisme: www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Coming up 3 December: Fenneke Sysling will deliver the Stevin Seminar on COLONIAL PATIENTS AND MEDICAL RESEARCH at the VU Amsterdam, with a short response from me, followed by Q&A +🍷 #indonesia #history @fsysling.bsky.social @vuhistoricus.bsky.social www.stevincentre.com/event/stevin...

Upcoming workshop!

Our project "Who did all the Work? The hidden labour of colonial science" published two blogs! One is an introduction to the project medium.com/@whodidallth... the other is a story about two bird-of-paradise hunters from Ternate in the early 20th century medium.com/@whodidallth...

I'm looking for a postdoc in my project! Postdoc "The Afterlife of Colonial Medicine" - Leiden University (universiteitleiden.nl)