Marieke Bloembergen
Pofessor Heritage and Postcolonial Studies in Indonesian History
- Name
- Prof.dr. M. Bloembergen
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2459
- m.bloembergen@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Marieke Bloembergen is Professor of Heritage and Postcolonial Studies in Indonesian History at the Institute for History and the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.
Marieke Bloembergen is Professor of Heritage and Postcolonial Studies in Indonesian History at the Institute for History and the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.
Marieke has a workplace at the KITLV.
Pofessor Heritage and Postcolonial Studies in Indonesian History
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Algemene Geschiedenis
- Thompson A., Murphy S., Efkeman E., Praepipatmongkol C.K., Cheong C., Tan E., Reichle N., Soumya J., Nguyen D., Tan H., Ardiyansyah P., Hoontrakul U., Seng S.: Tahir Z. & Bloembergen M. 1 September 2023 - 31 December 2025. Circumambulating objects. On paradigms of restitution of Southeast Asian Art (CO-OP) (Research member). SOAS. London. [other research activity].
- Schrikker A.F., Shatanawi M., Stuparitz O. & Bloembergen M. 15 April 2024 - 15 April 2026. Unpacking KITLV Special Collections. Object Biographies, knowledge and collecting practices, and local agency in colonial and postcolonial situations. KITLV. Leiden. [other research activity].
- Hutabarat T.F., Respati Y.A., Soetisna K.R. & Bloembergen M.. InstitutTeknologi and Universitas Parayana Bandung. Bandung. Convenor. [contribution to an event].
- Songsataya S., Ardiyansyah P., Bloembergen M., Hutabarat T.F., Jo C. & Thompson A.. KITLV and ICAS. Surabaya. Convenor. [contribution to an event].
- Bloembergen M. (7 March 2024), Where is Asia? : Unsettling redeeming objects, and the problem of civilizational thinking. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam. [lecture].
- Bloembergen M. (14 March 2024), In search of local knowledge (and environmental thinking): Indological research networks and ‘Indonesian culture’ across decolonization. Wageningen University, Wageningen. [lecture].
- Bloembergen M. (17 April 2024), What’s love – women and things – got to do with it?: Damais’ ‘concerned’ scholarly knowledge networks, anti-colonial sentiments, and ‘local knowledge’ in the study of Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Talk at seminar around ‘Surat-menyurat Louis-Charles Damais-Claire Holt 1945–1947/Correspondence C.L. Damais-Claire Holt 1945–1947’. Rumah Damais, Jakarta. [lecture].
- Bloembergen M. (15 May 2024), Unsettling Theosophical Encounters in Solo: knowledge networks, spiritual reform, and the politics of Greater India across borders and decolonization. Kembang Gula, Solo, Indonesia. [lecture].
- Bloembergen M. (30 July 2024), Unsettling environmental empathy in East Java: Perspectives from a Mountain called Suffering. IIAS, Surabaya. [lecture].
- Bloembergen M. (5 August 2024), Unsettling environmental empathy in East Java: Perspectives from a Mountain called Suffering. Universitas Gajah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta. [lecture].
- Bloembergen M. (26 October 2024), Lush Lives, what does the object want?: Borobudur, moving Buddhaheads, and the politics of Greater India. Princeton University, Princeton. [lecture].
- Bloembergen M., Stutje K., Olnon M. & Mulink A. September 2024 - 2026. NIAS-NIOD-KITLV -Fellowship Program Moving Objects, Mobilising Culture in the Context of (De)colonization. NIAS, NIOD and KITLV. Amsterdam. [partnership].
- Gommans J.J.L.: Stolte C.M. & Bloembergen M. 15 June 2023 - 16 June 2023. India in the Making of the Global Esoteric: 1200-2000. Leiden University. Leiden. Convenor. [contribution to an event].
- Bloembergen M., Zakaria F., Dewi S., Fakih F. & Wahyu Pratiwi Y.. Universitas Gajah Mada. Yogyakarta. Organiser. [contribution to an event].
- Bloembergen M. (31 March 2023), Appropriation for the sake of (inner) Peace. Epistemic violence, moveable objects from Indonesia, and the Friends of Asian Art movement. NIOD, Amsterdam. [lecture].
- Bloembergen M. 19 April 2023 - 21 April 2023. Conference “Colonial Knowledge in a Decolonial Age. Hagen University, campus Berlin and CMB Berlin/Sciences Po Paris. Berlin. [conference attendance].
- Bloembergen M. 31 July 2023 - 7 August 2023. Summer School on Environmental History in Indonesia. Yogyakarta. [conference attendance].
- Bloembergen M. 27 July 2023 - 27 July 2023. Conference 'Borobudur: New directions for Research and Collaboration'/ Princeton University Humanities Council Magic Project. Princeton University Humanities Council. Borobudur, Indonesia. [conference attendance].
- Bloembergen M. 14 August 2023 - 14 August 2023. Interdisciplinary Critical heritage Studies for Indonesia Conference . [conference attendance].
- Bloembergen M.. Borobudur Writers and Cultural Festival. Malang. [conference attendance].
- Bloembergen M. (15 May 2023), Unsettling colonial knowledge: 'Greater India', transnational scholarly networks, and 'Indology' in/on Indonesia (1930s-1960s). Universitas Padjajaran, Bandung, Indonesia. [lecture].
- Bloembergen M. (24 November 2023), Indonesia and the Greater India mindset: a transnational approach to the problem of heritage. Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia. [lecture].
- Bloembergen M. (25 May 2022). Last van koloniale dingen: kennisvorming, Indonesische perspectieven, en de zoektocht naar verlichting. Leiden University Institute for History, Faculty of Humanities , Leiden University. Leiden. [inaugural address].
- Bloembergen M. (2022), The burden of colonial things: knowledge production, Indonesian perspectives, and the search for enlightenment. Leiden. [lecture].
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