‘There Is a Lot of Joint Work to Do Before We Can Really Reach Some Sort of Closure’
Gert Oostindie spoke of the contemporary significance of the colonial past at the seminar 'Indonesia and the Netherlands: a joint future'.
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5 Results‘The Fundaments of Our Shared Future Might Be Built on Differences, Not on Commonalities’
PhD Researcher Grace Leksana reflects on the speech by Gert Oostindie at the seminar 'Indonesia and the Netherlands: a joint future'.
Belgium Denounces Its Colonial Past, and the Netherlands Lags Behind
With the Congo Commission, Belgium took a different path from the Netherlands, which had its colonial past in Indonesia investigated by three institutes. What does this mean for dealing with a fraught history?
Harvest of the University Press (autumn 2021)
Our selection of recent university press publications from all over the world that deal with the Low Countries.
Countering the Forgetting: Dutch Indies Literature in the Twenty-First Century
A lifetime after the end of the colonial era, Dutch Indies literature still plays off colonial myths and realities against each other, and finds words for painful, half-forgotten things.
