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Lecture Hilbourne A. Watson: Reparations and the Caribbean problematique in global neoliberal perspective

The demand for reparations is as old as emancipation itself; however, the states that trafficked in slavery are not eager to apologize for slavery, much less compensate descendants of enslaved people or governments, considering that Britain borrowed a large sum to compensate former slave owners for the loss of their “property.”

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Caribbean Cultural Heritage and the Nation

Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao in a Regional Context

Centuries of intense and involuntary migrations deeply impacted the development of the creolised cultures on the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. This volume describes various forms of cultural heritage produced on these islands over time and whether these heritages are part of their ‘national’ identifications. What forms of heritage express the idea of a shared “we” (nation-building), and what images are presented to the outside world (nation-branding)? What cultural heritage is shared between the islands, and what are some real or perceived differences?

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Reclaiming the Narrative; Doorwerkingen van het Nederlandse Trans-atlantische slavernijverleden

Dit jaar wordt van 1 juli 2023 tot 1 juli 2024 het Herdenkingsjaar Slavernijverleden uitgeroepen en ter gelegenheid daarvan organiseert het NiNsee op vrijdag 2 juni 2023 het symposium Reclaiming the Narrative om het jaar in te luiden.

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Viering van het 25-jarige jubileum Genootschap Nederland-Aruba

In deze uitnodiging staat vermeld hoe u zich kunt aanmelden voor de viering van het 25-jarige bestaan van het Genootschap Nederland-Aruba. Ook staat daarin aangegeven dat u bij binnenkomst ook uw legitimatiebewijs dient te tonen.

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The Complexities of Black Life in the Netherlands

On the occasion of the publication of Francio Guadeloupe’s new book Black Man in the Netherlands: an Afro-Antillean Anthropology, various scholars studying Dutch realities of racism, the afterlife of colonialism, conviviality and urban popular culture join the author in conversation.

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Slavery in the Cultural Imagination

Conference – Slavery in the Cultural Imagination; Voices of Dissent in the Neerlandophone Space, 17th-21st Century

The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH), and Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) are co-convening a two-day conference on the cultural imagination of slavery. The conference will be held on Thursday 28 and Friday 29 October 2021 at the universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht.

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Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean

Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean is a collection of essays that explores fundamental questions of equality and freedom on the non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean.

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De Gids: mode, meerstemmig

De gevolgen van koloniale systemen werken tot de dag van vandaag door in ons dagelijks leven. Dat geldt ook voor kleding: in hoe mode wordt geproduceerd, maar ook in hoe zij wordt gepresenteerd, gedragen en verzameld. Er is nog nauwelijks een begin gemaakt met het vertellen van het verhaal van zwarte ontwerpers en zwarte modellen.

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Caribbean Research Programme Chair Assigned to Francio Guadeloupe

Former University of St. Martin (USM) president Dr. Francio Guadeloupe has become one of the two recipients of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) grants assigned to the Caribbean part of the Dutch Kingdom and will serve as research programme chair, based at USM for the next five years. The announcement was made on Thursday, 7 January by Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ms. Ingrid van Engelshoven at the annual four-country consultation meetings for the Dutch Caribbean.

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My grandmother, corona, and my neighbour’s cat

by Francio Guadeloupe

A few days ago I saw a report on the BBC about cleaners having to go to work in the midst of the Corona pandemic. Cleanliness remains godliness, perhaps even more so these day, and once again it is those who earn the least that have to keep western civilization looking immaculate. Most of us see the spotless buildings and streets, but most of us do not really see them.

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Talking out loud

Symposium | Talking out loud: Towards an interdisciplinary approach on postcolonial and decolonial thoughts | 28 February 2020

As veritable tools against the colonial discourses and methodologies postcolonial and decolonial thoughts play an important role in academic debates. With the emergence of postcolonial and decolonial thoughts, researchers from various disciplines propose to look at the world differently through a critical perspective, by rejecting the dominant theories and methodologies.

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Conference: Collaboration, Creativity and Change in the Imaginations of our Kingdom

Both national and international funding agencies increasingly require research proposals to incorporate multilevel collaboration in order to impact the lives of the people we do research with. As a beneficiary of such funding, the IMANAT (Imagining the Nation in the Classroom) consortium included partners from various disciplines from across the Kingdom. These collaborations raised some important questions: How to integrate various needs, demands and imagination, or better: who decides what is valuable to who? How can collaborations change during and after research? Does academic knowledge or research experience allow us any sort of ‘expert’ position? Must we produce academic papers and policy briefs only, or can we coproduce films, sounds and art collections? How indeed do we employ our creativity? This one-day symposium brings together artists, activists, various academics, and policymakers to share previous experiences and imagine new possibilities in Dutch Caribbean research.​

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