research interests
Film Studies, Cultural Memory Studies, Media and Culture, Indonesian Popular Culture, Dutch East Indies Literature
Events
Who owns Intangible Cultural Heritage from a Shared Colonial Past? The Rijsttafel, Food Media, and the Dutch East Indies
Organised by the Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley and Dutch Studies Department, I will talk about my ongoing NWO (Dutch Research Council) research project. This lecture will take the tradition of ‘the rijsttafel’ (rice table) as starting point to discuss how eating practices that emerged in the Dutch East Indies are now experienced -with an emphasis on food media- in the Netherlands, Indonesia, and the Indies-Dutch diaspora.
AIFIS–MSU Annual Conference on Indonesian Studies
Annual conference convened by The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) and Michigan State University (MSU) Asian Studies Center. I will present my paper titled "'Every Bite of Food is a Doorway to a Nostalgic Moment’: Culinary Legacies, Reimbuing Nostalgia, and Indonesian Heritage Restaurants".