Thursday 9 July 2026

How can music serve as an archive? The Frequency of Freedom brings together South African cultural practitioners and Dutch-based youth to explore Cape slave memorial traditions through the Nederlandse liedjies repertoire and the Tweede Nuwe Jaar parade. 

Tuesday 14 July 2026

This talk examines the work of building contractors—referred to as aannemers/anémers—in Indonesia from the early to mid-twentieth century. It focuses on Bandung-based family entrepreneurs of ethnic Chinese Sundanese descent who worked with Dutch architects and plantation interests during the late Dutch colonial period, and later with Indonesian engineers in the early Indonesia's post-Independence era. 

16 July 2026

In Indonesian-controlled West Papua, the National Strategic Projects for food and energy estates—framed by the Indonesian state as strategies for climate mitigation and national food self-sufficiency—have instead reinforced colonial practices through land dispossession, ecological degradation, settler and military occupation, and direct and indirect rule over Indigenous peoples and their territories.