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.
17 July 2025
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...
30 June 2025
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...
28 May 2025
8 May 2025
Ben je tijdens of na je studie op het Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut in Rome geweest en wil je andere studenten en onderzoekers enthousiast maken voor het KNIR? Word dan KNIR Ambassadeur! De KNIR Ambassadeurs zijn studenten en jonge onderzoekers –...
16 April 2025
13 October 2024 was a decisive moment in the history of astronautics. On that day, SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private space agency, launched a rocket into earth orbit and, for the first time ever, succeeded in redirecting the booster rocket back to the launching...
16 April 2025
From the very outset of settler colonialism, intermediaries played a crucial yet contested role, navigating between colonial powers, local societies, and transnational networks. In the early 20th century Levant, certain individuals (primarily men from...
