Activities

Past Conference Presentations: 

• David Duindam: ‘Radio Kootwijk and Radio Malabar as colonial infrastructures: concrete and intangible heritage between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies,’ Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization. Future Directions in Memory Studies. Nottingham Trent University, 5-7 June, 2025. 

• David Duindam, Anita Halim Lim, Rixt Woudstra, ‘Concrete Affect. Concrete as a Building Material in Indonesia around Independence’ (organised panel). A Polyphony of Emotions. Thinking Affect in Heritage, Memory and Material Culture. University of Amsterdam, 2-4 July, 2025. 

• David Duindam & Carolyn Birdsall: ‘Radio Kootwijk as a Layered Heritage Site: Material Traces of War and Colonialism in a Nature Reserve,’ Genealogies of Memory 2025: What Remains from the Second World War? Remnants, Memories and Narratives Revised.  Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, 17-19 September, 2025.

• Anita Halim Lim: ‘From Jan to Yankee: Tracing Jengki Architectural Networks in Post-Independence Indonesia’ in the 12th annual Jaap Bakema Study Centre Conference: Networks of (Ex)Change, Global Disseminations of Architectural Knowledge. TU Delft & Nieuwe Instituut, 26 and 27 November, 2025.

Future Conference Presentations:

• Rixt Woudstra & Will Davis, ‘Plantation Worlds, Plantation Architectures’ (organised panel), European Architectural History Network Conference, University of Aarhus, 17-21 June, 2026.