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.
8 mei 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...
16 april 2025
A series of settlements in the Northeast of the Netherlands carry the epithet “colonial,” for example the colonies founded by the Society of Benevolence in the provinces of Drenthe and Overijssel and the Peat Colonies (Veenkoloniën) along the provincial border...
15 april 2025
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the historical category of settler in relation to the field of settler colonial studies (SCS). Such reflection also requires considering the category of native as its counterpart and nominal antagonist, of course. As...
