Fenneke Sysling

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Wil 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...)

The 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...

CFP: Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158042

Leiden, 22.01.2026-23.01.2026, Fenneke Sysling; Caroline Schep, Leiden University, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.11.2025

Kroniek van een aangekondigde archieframp Stadsarchief Amsterdam Er gebeurt helaas niets met de resultaten van onderstaand gebruikersonderzoek. Dat is merkwaardig, want vanaf het moment van lanceren… ... Kroniek van een aangekondigde archieframp Stadsarchief Amsterdam Er gebeurt helaas niets met de resultaten van onderstaand gebruikersonderzoek. Dat is merkwaardig, want vanaf het moment van lanceren v...

Kroniek van een aangekondigde archieframp
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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/...

The Netherlands will return Dubois collection to Indonesia The Netherlands plans to transfer more than 28,000 fossils from the Dubois collection to Indonesia, following a request by Indonesian authorities. Today, Gouke Moes, Minister of Education, Culture and...

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 Dubois collection to Indonesia The Netherlands plans to transfer more than 28,000 fossils from the Dubois collection to Indonesia, following a request by Indonesian authorities. Today, Gouke Moes, Minister of Education, Culture and...

The news in English: www.government.nl/latest/news/....

Indonesië krijgt beroemde Javamens terug (en duizenden andere fossielen) Na lang onderzoek besluit de Nederlandse overheid dat de resten van de homo erectus terug moeten naar Indonesië. Daarmee verliest het Leidse museum Naturalis een belangrijke trekpleister.

The Netherlands will return the famous Java man fossils to Indonesia: www.trouw.nl/binnenland/i...

Please do promote it once it's out because I'm getting curious too!

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/...

Boekentip: 'De oma van de oma van mijn oma' van Marc ter Horst was bij ons populair om voor te lezen!

Een concentratiekamp. Interessant concept.

De Rijksoverheid zoekt: Historisch onderzoeker vaccinatie- en hielprikprogramma’s Historisch onderzoeker vaccinatie- en hielprikprogramma’s in Bilthoven voor 32 uur bij RIVM

Voor net afgestudeerde historici: www.werkenvoornederland.nl/vacatures/hi...

Call for Papers: Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a conference focused on ethical practices in medical research and treatment in the colonial and postcolonial context.

📣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

Even without the mythmaking :). One day, I'm going to write about this in a feline themed edited book!

Flying animals! Reminds me of Operation Cat Drop: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

Médecins, patients et éthique dans la médecine coloniale et postcoloniale Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine Call for Papers Conference Venue: Boerhaave Museum, Le...

(Call for Papers) Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/06/mede... #histSTM #medhum

The 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

indonesiabusinesspost.com/4379/Politic...

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...

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.

Postdoc positions (one in Environmental Heritage and another in Identity and Popular Culture) at Tilburg

Conservator Anatomische en Pathologische Collecties | LUMC Het LUMC beheert een indrukwekkende collectie anatomische en pathologische preparaten, waarvan de oudste stukken teruggaan tot de 17de eeuw. Als conservator anatomisch museum zorg jij ervoor dat deze ...

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Verder heb je: graag enige bereidheid om met historici samen te werken en affiniteit met historische vraagstukken.

bejagen in gesloten jacht[t]ijd?

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Bone Trajectories: Collecting Human Remains in Colonial Indonesia This chapter examines the trajectories of human remains from colonial Indonesia into anatomical collections in the Netherlands. Only when we actively search the archives do we learn the stories of a m...

That makes my chapter on human remains from the Dutch East Indies relevant again: www.academia.edu/128612206/Bo...

With one chapter about racial science and the anatomical collection. The LUMC has given a reaction already: www.lumc.nl/actueel/2025...

Ligia Giay yesterday presented her report on the colonial and slavery history of Leiden University: www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/con...

Workshop 'Paper Knowledge in Digital Archives' - Huizinga Instituut What knowledge of paper archives do historians need to understand digitized or digital archives? This workshop’s central question gained much attention due to the recent opening (or better the not-ope...

🚨 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...

Activiteit details - KCGH The colonial history of the Netherlands continues to shape healthcare systems and the production of scientific knowledge today. But how do these legacies manifest in contemporary education and researc...

23 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...