Fenneke Sysling
- Reposted by Fenneke SyslingCall for applications | Visiting fellowships 2025-2026 | Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden 🇳🇱 Deadline: 21 March 2025 www.kitlv.nl/news/call-fo...
- Reposted by Fenneke Sysling“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 🏺
- 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...
- Reposted by Fenneke SyslingThis 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...
- 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
- Reposted by Fenneke SyslingNext 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...
- Reposted by Fenneke SyslingWil 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...)
- Reposted by Fenneke SyslingThe 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...
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CFP: Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158042 Leiden, 22.01.2026-23.01.2026, Fenneke Sysling; Caroline Schep, Leiden University, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.11.2025 - Reposted by Fenneke SyslingKroniek van een aangekondigde archieframp www.linkedin.com/posts/ab-fli...
- 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/...
- 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 the famous Java man fossils to Indonesia: www.trouw.nl/binnenland/i...
- 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/...
- Reposted by Fenneke SyslingEen concentratiekamp. Interessant concept.
- Voor net afgestudeerde historici: www.werkenvoornederland.nl/vacatures/hi...
- Reposted by Fenneke Sysling📣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
- Reposted by Fenneke Sysling(Call for Papers) Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/06/mede... #histSTM #medhum
- Reposted by Fenneke SyslingThe 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
- 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.
- The committee says: "For too long the dominant global narrative has relied on the "out of Africa" theory (...) But we can also propose a different narrative - one in which life began here [in Indonesia] and moved outward." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju13...
- Postdoc positions (one in Environmental Heritage and another in Identity and Popular Culture) at Tilburg
- www.lumc.nl/over-het-lum... Verder heb je: graag enige bereidheid om met historici samen te werken en affiniteit met historische vraagstukken.
- Ligia Giay yesterday presented her report on the colonial and slavery history of Leiden University: www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/con...
- With one chapter about racial science and the anatomical collection. The LUMC has given a reaction already: www.lumc.nl/actueel/2025...
- That makes my chapter on human remains from the Dutch East Indies relevant again: www.academia.edu/128612206/Bo...
- Reposted by Fenneke Sysling🚨 Three days left!🚨 Paper Knowledge in Digital Archives You can still apply for the workshop I am co-organizing with Lieke Speerstra. A highly relevant and timely workshop (think CABR gate) on questions of politics in archives and digitization. www.huizingainstituut.nl/course/works...
- Reposted by Fenneke Sysling23 April: Symposium Colonial History & Global Health among Dutch knowledge institutions - with very knowledgeable people like Esther Captain, Leen Dorsman, Henk van Rinsum, Fenneke Sysling, Gani Jaelani and myself. www.kcgh.nl/activiteiten...
- Reposted by Fenneke SyslingDr. Rachel Los deed onlangs iets ongekends: naast de verplichte bedankjes voegde ze aan haar TU Delft-proefschrift ‘nee-bedankt-betuigingen’ toe. “We moeten deze ondermijning tegengaan”, schrijft ze in deze brief.
- 2 UD positions with a salary starting in scale 10? Is that regular or lower than it used to be? www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies... www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
- Op zoek naar goede kandidaten voor deze vacature op het gebied van kennis en kolonialisme: www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
- Reposted by Fenneke SyslingComing up 3 December: Fenneke Sysling will deliver the Stevin Seminar on COLONIAL PATIENTS AND MEDICAL RESEARCH at the VU Amsterdam, with a short response from me, followed by Q&A +🍷 #indonesia #history @fsysling.bsky.social @vuhistoricus.bsky.social www.stevincentre.com/event/stevin...
