Program
Wednesday 11 September (Location: Janskerkhof 15A, room 004)
15.45-16.00 Registration
16.00-16.15 Introduction (Grace Leksana and Arthur Weststeijn)
16.15-17.30 Keynote 1 Marjoleine Kars (MIT) – Rebellion and politics in the early modern Black Atlantic
17.30-18.30 Discussion and short film screening on The Surinamese Student Union with Christina Harrevelt and Emma Lesuis (moderated by Anne-Isabelle Richard)
Thursday 12 September (Location: Academiegebouw, Domplein 29, Belle van Zuylenzaal)
9.00-11.00 Panel 1: Rebellions, revolts and their legacies
Chair: Esther Captain (KITLV)
Lisa Kattenberg (Amsterdam) – The empire that never was: Resisting the Dutch in early modern Chile
Tzu-Yi Hsu (VU Amsterdam) – “We have no freedom and we must pay for everything we do”: The Chinese and the Natives united against Dutch rule in Taiwan, 1640s
Mark Meuwese (Winnipeg) – Indigenous resistance and survival in colonial and post-colonial Suriname, 1667-1976
Thomas van Gaalen (Nijmegen) – Shaping the surplus rebellion: Race, class and solidarity in the 1922 Curaçaoan dockers’ rebellion
11.15 -13.15 Panel 2: Slavery, revolution and abolitionism
Chair: Pepijn Brandon (VU Amsterdam)
Alyssa Renfurm (VU Amsterdam) – Forging belonging amid bondage: Exploring enslaved voices and community under Dutch colonial rule
Mart Rutjes (Amsterdam) – Resistance, revolution and war in West-Africa: The case of Elmina during the Age of Revolutions (1770s-1820s)
Bart Verheijen (Leiden) – The Java Benevolent Society and the abolition of slavery (1816-1830)
Eva Seuntjens (IISG/VU Amsterdam) – Paradoxical representations of the Haitian Revolution and their influence on the Dutch slavery debate, 1791-1833
13.15-14.15 Lunch break
14.15-16.15 Panel 3: Everyday resistance
Chair: Remco Raben (Utrecht)
Zawdie Sandvliet (VU Amsterdam) – “The plot is the soul of the plantation”: Racial capitalism, the plantation and the plot in 18th-century Suriname
Philip Post (Utrecht) – Colonial citizenship and resistance in Ambon and Batavia, 1817-1848
Arnout van der Meer (Colby College) – Sartorial revolutions: Clothes and everyday resistance in colonial Indonesia
Abdul Wahid (Gadjah Mada) – Varieties of anti-tax resistances in late colonial Indonesia
16.30-17.45 Keynote 2 Lin Hongxuan (NUS) – Imperial malcontents: Exceptional and everyday resistance
Friday 13 September (Location: Academiegebouw, Domplein 29, Belle van Zuylenzaal)
9.30-10.30 Panel 4: Transimperial networks and entanglements I
Chair: Rachel Gillet (Utrecht)
Sander van der Horst (Leiden) – Global anticolonial reporting from the Netherlands: The Dutch League against Imperialism and its journal Recht en Vrijheid, 1927-1935
Dominique Ankoné (VU Amsterdam) – Resisting the Dutch empire abroad: Transimperial networks and the People’s League against Imperialism, 1945-1950
10.45-12.15 Panel 5: Transimperial networks and entanglements II
Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Utrecht)
Debby Esmée de Vlugt (Utrecht) – Black internationalism in the twentieth-century Dutch Caribbean
Kirsten Kamphuis (Münster) – Leftist women and (post)colonial solidarities between the Netherlands and Indonesia, ca. 1930-1960
Roel Frakking (Utrecht) – Greater Malaysia, Greater Indonesia? Trans-imperial networks and combined Indonesian-Malaysian futures, ca. 1900-1966
12.15-13.15 Lunch break
13.15-15.30 Panel 6: Sounds and images of resistance
Chair: Susie Protschky (VU Amsterdam)
Renée Vulto (Utrecht) – Audible Empire? Colonial sound politics in 19th-century Suriname
Jennifer Foray (Indiana University) – Displaying Decolonization in Real Time: Cas Oorthuys’ Een staat in wording and the Djaya brothers at the Stedelijk Museum
Jelena Beočanin (Rotterdam) – Emotional practices of performing resistance and activism among Rotterdam’s hip-hop artists
Rachel Gillet (Utrecht) and Francio Guadeloupe (Amsterdam), with an artistic contribution by Quinsy Gario (VU Amsterdam) – Caribbean aesthetic-politics in the neerlandophone world
15.45-17.15 Panel 7: Uncovering voices of resistance
Chair: Rosemarijn Höfte (Amsterdam)
Sam Miske (VU Amsterdam) – Repression, resistance, and resilience along gendered lines in the Banda Islands, Indonesia, 1599-1630
Hilde Neus (AdeKUS Paramaribo) – Seventy women of color against the civil guards, Suriname 1778
Hans Hägerdal and Maarten Manse (Linnaeus University) – Resistance by treaty: Agency of indigenous elites in colonial Indonesia through practices of treaty-making
17.15-17.30 Concluding remarks (René Koekkoek and Anne-Isabelle Richard)