South and Southeast Asia
Through language and culture, history, anthropology, and sociology, we delve into the countries, populations, and societies of South and Southeast Asia. From this perspective, we address global issues such as migration, heritage, and colonialism.
News
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Household Slavery: 'An Overlooked Method of Enslaving People' -
Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’ -
Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where' -
Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past' -
Alumnus Rennie Roos: ‘I want to work with Indonesia in the present day’ -
What did resistance look like in Indonesia during the Second World War? -
European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?' -
Censorship in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature -
How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards -
Students Sander, Linde and Melle create an online exhibition for the University Library