Research projects
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Black America and Europe
This project analyses the ways notions and images of ‘Black America’ play a role in which Europeans understand racism and Black European activism.
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Colonialism Inside Out
This interdisciplinary project focuses on how ordinary people in Sri Lanka experienced and navigated normative institutions of taxation, legal action and religion that were set up by the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
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Towards a Virtual Slave Island
Downtown Colombo has been one of the fastest-growing cities in South Asia. This project moves beyond the changes in the built environment, by foregrounding the untold life stories of past and present inhabitants of the suburb.
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Neel Doff’s translingual urban wanderings
This project researches the reception of Neel Doff's Keetje trilogy and her position as a transnational author.
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Child separation
This project examines the scope, spread and development of faith‐based child separation in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia (1808‐1984).
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Belonging, Representation, Creolization
Focussing on the social and cultural history of baseball in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, this research project analyzes how the sport has played a role in processes of belonging, discrimination and exclusion.
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The Paramaribo Ward Registers
In this project data from the Paramaribo Ward Registers (1828-1846) will be made available as a FAIR database that can be used for both scholarly research and by a wider public for family history.
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Imperial Pasts in Contemporary Comics
This PhD-project investigates how contemporary comics co-construct or challenge the dominant cultural archives of colonialism in the Netherlands and Germany.
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Recognizing Extracted Entities for the Historical Database Suriname Curacao
A team of the Historical Database Suriname and Curacao is developing a method to integrate automated handwritten text recognition (HTR) technology and entity recognition into the workflow.
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North American Indigenous Soldiers in the Netherlands during WWII
The research project aims to identify and describe the participation of North American indigenous soldiers in the Netherlands during World War II.
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Humor and Violence in Contemporary Latin American Literature
In this book project Brigitte Adriaensen analyses how contemporary Latin American literature uses different types of humour (black humour, parody, irony, cynicism) in the representation of violence.
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Poison, Medicine or Magic Potion?
The main aim of this project is to analyse the changing perceptions of 'drugs' in Latin America from the continent’s independence to our present day (1820-2020). The project focuses on the representation of ayahuasca, peyote and coca(ine).
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Legacies of Bondage
This project will involve the construction of a database of the Surinamese population that existed between 1830 and 1950. It will combine the individual records of both enslaved, bonded labourers from China, India and Indonesia and free citizens.