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Call for applications | Visiting fellowships 2025-2026 | Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden 🇳🇱

Deadline: 21 March 2025

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Call for applications | Visiting fellowships 2025-2026

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January 28, 2026 at 8:47 AM

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Paige Madison

@fossilhistory.bsky.social

“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 🏺

The ‘Java Man’, the first fossil evidence of Homo erectus, is now home

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

www.nationalgeographic.com

January 14, 2026 at 3:36 PM

Fenneke Sysling

@fsysling.bsky.social

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...

Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine

This conference is open to the public, but registration is mandatory. Please send an email to [email protected] if you would like to attend. Read the full conference programme [PDF]. See the...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

January 14, 2026 at 1:33 PM

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈

@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social

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...

I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began

The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it

www.theguardian.com

December 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM

Fenneke Sysling

@fsysling.bsky.social

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

December 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥

@gianamar97.bsky.social

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...

The Western Part of the East Indies: Colonial Worldmaking and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape Colony

Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar

universiteitleiden.nl

November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM

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Tazuko van Berkel

@doctaz.bsky.social

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...)

De Jonge Akademie Dashboard wat zeggen de partijen over wetenschap - De Jonge Akademie

Actueel

dejongeakademie.nl

October 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM

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Bernhard Gissibl

@bgissibl.bsky.social

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...

October 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM

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H-Soz-Kult

@hsozkult.bsky.social

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

www.hsozkult.de

October 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM

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Universiteitshistoricus VU

@vuhistoricus.bsky.social

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

Kroniek van een aangekondigde archieframp Stadsarchief Amsterdam Er gebeurt helaas niets met de resultaten van onderstaand gebruikersonderzoek. Dat is merkwaardig, want vanaf het moment van lanceren… ...

Kroniek van een aangekondigde archieframp Stadsarchief Amsterdam Er gebeurt helaas niets met de resultaten van onderstaand gebruikersonderzoek. Dat is merkwaardig, want vanaf het moment van lanceren v...

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October 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM

Fenneke Sysling

@fsysling.bsky.social

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/...

October 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM

Fenneke Sysling

@fsysling.bsky.social

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 Dubois collection to Indonesia

The Netherlands plans to transfer more than 28,000 fossils from the Dubois collection to Indonesia, following a request by Indonesian authorities. Today, Gouke Moes, Minister of Education, Culture and...

www.government.nl

September 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM

Fenneke Sysling

@fsysling.bsky.social

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

Indonesië krijgt beroemde Javamens terug (en duizenden andere fossielen)

Na lang onderzoek besluit de Nederlandse overheid dat de resten van de homo erectus terug moeten naar Indonesië. Daarmee verliest het Leidse museum Naturalis een belangrijke trekpleister.

www.trouw.nl

September 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM

Fenneke Sysling

@fsysling.bsky.social

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/...

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

September 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM

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Nadia Bouras

@nadiabouras.bsky.social

Een concentratiekamp. Interessant concept.

July 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM

Fenneke Sysling

@fsysling.bsky.social

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

De Rijksoverheid zoekt: Historisch onderzoeker vaccinatie- en hielprikprogramma’s

Historisch onderzoeker vaccinatie- en hielprikprogramma’s in Bilthoven voor 32 uur bij RIVM

www.werkenvoornederland.nl

July 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)

@sshmedicine.bsky.social

📣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

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a conference focused on ethical practices in medical research and treatment in the colonial and postcolonial context.

www.universiteitleiden.nl

June 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM

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Alexandre Klein

@alexandreklein.bsky.social

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

Médecins, patients et éthique dans la médecine coloniale et postcoloniale

Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine Call for Papers Conference Venue: Boerhaave Museum, Le...

histoiresante.blogspot.com

June 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM

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Warwick Anderson

@wombatscholar.bsky.social

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

June 9, 2025 at 5:16 AM

Fenneke Sysling

@fsysling.bsky.social

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.

May 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM