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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More than 100 years of studying South Asia: ‘The view of the area is changing’ -
Henk Schulte Nordholt on BBC News Indonesia: 'Nyepi is about giving nature a moment to rest' -
Healthcare and the Dutch East India Company: Two centuries of arrogance and challenges -
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?'