PARTICIPANTS
Nancy Jouwe is a cultural historian and has worked 20+ years in the NGO sector as a managing director and curator on the crossroads of women’s rights, transnational movements, and art, culture and heritage. As a researcher, curator & projectmanager she focuses on cultural & social movements in postcolonial Netherlands and lectures at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Amsterdam University College and CIEE.
Wim Manuhutu (born Vught, the Netherlands, 1959) is a historian, specialized in the modern history of Indonesia. Between 1987 and 2008 he was a member of the board of directors of the Moluccan Historical Museum in Utrecht, focusing on exhibitions, events, and research. He published a number of articles on Moluccan history in both magazines and books.
Since 2009 Wim Manuhutu is the owner/director of Manu2u, a company that organizes cultural projects and events in with various different partners. He is active as a consultant, guest speaker and moderator. He is a guest lecturer at the Amsterdam University College and is working on a PhD thesis on the cultural links between the Netherlands and two of its former colonies, Suriname and Indonesia.
Pepijn Brandon is a Dutch historian whose work focuses on the interconnected themes of war, capitalist development and slavery. After defending his dissertation at the University of Amsterdam in 2013, Brandon worked as a postdoctoral scholar in the Netherlands (VU Amsterdam and IISH) and the United States (University of Pittsburgh). He currently works as Assistant Professor in social and economic history at the VU Amsterdam and as senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History. He is the author of the prize-winning monograph War, Capital, and the Dutch State, 1588-1795(Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2015; paperback: Haymarket Books, 2017). He is a member of the editorial board of the International Review of Social History, and acted as guest editor for special issues of several journals, including the The Financial History Review and Business History. During the spring semester of 2020, Brandon will be the Erasmus Lecturer on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders at Harvard.
Merve Tosun (1993) is a historian specialized in colonial history with a focus on ‘Dutch Asia’. She wrote her thesis at Leiden University on the practice of legal pluralism in Batavia (Jakarta) and has contributed to projects at the intersection of enslavement, slave trade, diversity and colonial (legal) administration in South- and Southeast Asia.
As Junior Researcher at the International Institute for Social History, she currently maps (the interrelation of) social strategies employed by subaltern groups connected to labour obligations in Dutch Ceylon (Sri Lanka) as part of the project Between local debts and global markets: Explaining slavery in South- and Southeast Asia.
Matthias van Rossum (1984) is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. He specializes in global labour historyand has published on the history of maritime labour, convicts, slavery, and slave trade, as well as labour conflicts and resistance. He currently studies the history of slavery and slave trade in early modern (Dutch) Asia.
Joëlla van Donkersgoed is a post-doctoral researcher for Public History as the New Citizen Science of the Past (PHACS). Within this project, she will coordinate and lead the various public engagement projects in partnership with Nuits de la Culture for the city Esch-sur-Alzette.
She holds a PhD. degree in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies from the department of Art History at Rutgers, the State University in New Jersey, USA (2020), as well as a Bachelors and Master’s degree with a specialization in public archaeology and archaeological heritage management from Leiden University, the Netherlands (2012/2014). Her PhD. research focused on local community empowerment on the Banda Islands in Indonesia through an inclusive cultural-landscape approach of the cultural and natural heritage environment.
In her research- and work activities, it is her aim to centralize the perspective of the local community and provide local (diverse) voices a platform to speak, participate, and be empowered.
Beatrice Glow is an interdisciplinary artist and multisensory storyteller. She has been named a 2018-19 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, 2018-19 Smack Mellon Studio Program Artist, 2017 American Arts Incubator Artist, 2016-17 Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU Artist-in-Residence, 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Finalist, 2015 Wave Hill Van Lier Fellow, 2013 Franklin Furnace Fund recipient and 2008 Fulbright Scholar. Notable activities include solo exhibitions at NYU Institute of Fine Arts and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile; group shows at Honolulu Biennial 2017, Park Avenue Armory and Galeri Nasional Indonesia; and a Duke University Press' Cultural Politics Journal feature.