The library will be closed for external visitors the whole month of August. The academic staff will be back at the KNIR from 1 September.

Processes and Relationships

  I have been working in the field of Indigenous American history for a long time but have engaged with the concept of settler colonialism less readily than many of my peers. Initially I shared James H. Merrell’s critique that confining settlers to colonists...

Roman Colonialism as Settler Colonialism? Potentialities and Problems

  Settler colonialism, which this volume ambitiously, yet critically and rigorously interrogates as a framework for understanding different colonial phenomena across multiple temporalities, scales, and spatialities, represents a promising lens for understanding...
Vacature: Hoofd Oudheid/Archeologie KNIR

Vacature: Hoofd Oudheid/Archeologie KNIR

Wij zoeken per 1 september 2026 een gedreven en inspirerende collega als Hoofd Oudheid/Archeologie. Samen met het Hoofd Geschiedenis, het Hoofd Kunstgeschiedenis en de wetenschappelijk directeur stelt de kandidaat het wetenschappelijke en opleidingsprogramma van het...
Slow travel manifesto

Slow travel manifesto

At KNIR, we actively promote environmentally conscious travel. One of our recent scholarship holders, Puck de Boer, has been travelling by train to Italy for the past seven years. She wrote a blog reflecting on her experience, demonstrating the many benefits of train...