Speaking

2024

  • “Man lives for victory and then defeat or the other way around.” Multiple positionalities and complex implication in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Perburuan (1950)” Complicities in the Second World War: Literature of Occupation, Collaboration, and Impure Resistance (Ghent, 3-5 October 2024).

  • Invited panel speaker discussing the documentary Selling a Colonial War. Cultural programme Historian Days (Maastricht, 23 August 2024).

  • “‘Rijsttafel’ in postcolonial Indonesia. Gastronational memories of a shared culinary history in food media” MSA Conference 2024 (Lima, 18-20 July 2024)

  • “Decolonising Revolution: Mnemonic Multiperspectivity through the Pluri-Media Constellations of De Oost” AAS-in-Asia Conference 2024 (Yogyakarta, 9-11 July 2024).

  • “Afl 188: De Indonesische verbeelding van ons koloniaal verleden.” Onder Mediadoctoren podcast (Amsterdam, 28 May 2024). [Podcast episode]

2023

  • “Memori Melompat (‘Jumping Memory’): The mnemonic motion of Indonesian popular culture and the need for a local reframing” UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies (Los Angeles, 1 December 2023).

  • Invited lecture: “Resistance and Reconciliation: The Indonesian War of Independence in Dutch and Indonesian Popular Culture” University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, 28 November 2023).

  • Invited lecture: “Resistance and Reconciliation in Indonesian and Dutch Film and Literature on the Indonesian Revolution” University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, 26 October 2023).

  • “Memory Junctions: Resistance and Reconciliation in Indonesian and Dutch literature on the Indonesian Revolution” 7th Annual Memory Studies Association Conference (Newcastle, 3-7 July 2023).

  • Keynote lecture: “The past is not a fleeting moment: Border crossing memories of the Dutch East Indies in Dutch and Indonesian popular culture” 2023 Association for Low Countries Studies Postgraduate Colloquium (London, 15 June 2023).

  • “Beyond the Dutch-Indonesian Nexus” The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Visiting Fellows Seminar (Oxford, 2 May 2023).

  • “Beestachtige Barrières. Het dier als metafoor voor geweld in Nederlandse dekolonisatieliteratuur” Indische Letteren Lezingenmiddag 2023 (Leiden, 17 February 2023).

2022

  • “De postkoloniale podcast #3 – Arnoud Arps” on literary and cinematic memories of colonial violence. De Postkoloniale Podcast (Leiden, 19 December 2022). [Podcast episode]

  • “(Post)colonial stereotypes: Dutch colonialism in Indonesian war-themed cinema” Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2022 (Lisbon/Online, 17-19 November 2022).

  • “Afscheid met het hart in de kroon der palmbomen. Indië en Indonesië in de kookboeken van J.J.M. Catenius-van der Meijden en Beb Vuyk” Indische Letteren Symposium 2022: Afscheid (Arnhem, 6 November 2022).

  • “Eten en niet vergeten: Een nadere blik op het Groot Nieuw Volledig Oost-Indisch kookboek” 21st Colloquium Neerlandicum (Nijmegen, 22-26 August 2022).

  • “The shape of memory: how medium specificity shapes the remembrance of the Indonesian National Revolution” Media, Mediations and Mediators: (Re) Mediating History in the 21st Century, INTH Conference (Puebla/Online, 26-29 April 2022).

  • Moderator for the Declaring Distance: Bandung-Leiden organised by Framer Framed, KITLV, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, and Parahyangan Catholic University (Bandung/Online, 8-9 April 2022). [Recording on YouTube]

  • Invited programmer and speaker for the film programme REVOLUSI! The Indonesian revolution depicted at Eye Film Museum (Amsterdam, 11-29 March 2022) Opening lecture on 11 March, film introduction on 13 March.

2021

  • “‘De Turk’ als postkoloniale spreekbuis: Adaptatie en intertekstuele herinneringen in Maarten Hidskes’ De Oost (2021) Congres 50 jaar Studie Nederlands in Indonesië/Kongres 50 Tahun Studi Belanda di Indonesia  (Online, 2-4 November 2021).

  • Invited panelist for the panel ‘Letterkunde en de postkoloniale situatie’ Inspiratiemiddag Achter de Verhalen (Online, 23 June 2021). [Event cancelled].

  • “Sonic Cosmopatriot Memories: Popular Music and Cultural Memories of the Indonesian War of Independence” International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12) (Online, 24-28 August 2021).

  • “A cinematic pantheon of (national) heroes: Resistance and memory in Indonesian film perjuangan” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Conference 2021 (Online, 26-30 July 2021).

  • Podcast Leest on De Oost (Online, 8 July 2021). [Podcast episode]

  • “Cosmopatriot Memories and Struggle Songs: Cultural Memories of the Indonesian War of Independence in the Electronic Dance Music of Alffy Rev” Fifth Annual Memory Studies Association Conference (Online, 5-9 July 2019).

  • “Focalizing violence: Comparing Dutch and Indonesian literary memories of the Indonesian War of Independence” Interdisciplinary Conference of Netherlandic Studies (ICNS) (Online, 4-5 June 2021).

  • Invited speaker for Meet up: De Wereld van De Oost i.s.m. Indisch Herinneringscentrum & Beeld Geluid Den Haag (The Hague, 27 May 2021). [IGTV recording Part 1 and Part 2]

  • Host of Talk Show Indonesia: The Rough Guide to Indonesian Fantastic Pop Culture for Imagine Film Festival 2021 (Amsterdam, 11 April 2021). [Recording on Vimeo]

  • “Haunting struggles and hounding teeth: Colonial soldiers, colonial zombies and the Indonesian war of independence in Taring” presented at the 2021 International Southeast Asian Media Studies Conference (Online, 25-27 February 2021).

2020

  • “(Post)colonial stereotypes: Dutch colonialism in Indonesian war-themed cinema” Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2020 (Lisbon, 28-31 July 2020). [Postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic].

  • “The shape of memory: how medium specificity shapes the remembrance of the Indonesian National Revolution” was to be presented at the Media, Mediations and Mediatiors: (Re) Mediating History in the 21st Century. 4th International Network for Theory of History Conference (Puebla, 5-8 May 2020). [Postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic].

2019

  • Invited panel speaker to discuss the (post)colonial representations and the dynamics of memory in the work of Iksaka Banu during Indië Next, organised by the Indisch Herinneringscentrum (Den Haag, 7 December 2019). 

  • Invited to introduce and discuss the short film Gundah Gundala (Wimar Herdanto, 2013) as part of the IDleaks Thesis Prize 2019 (Amsterdam, 21 november 2019). 

  • “Trading New-Amsterdam for a Spice Island: Nutmegs, Dutch food history and the spirit of Indonesian Nationalism” presented at the Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food. (Post)colonial foodways: creating, negotiating, and resisting transnational food systems (Amsterdam, 15-16 November 2019).

  • “De koloniale geschiedenis van Indonesië door Indonesische ogen. Historische sleutelmomenten in Iksaka Banu’s korte verhalen” presented at the Indische Letteren Symposium 2019: De Indonesische stem in Bronbeek, organised by the Working Group Indo-Dutch Literature (Arnhem, 3 November 2019). 

  • “Patchwork memories and ambivalent positions: On the condition of being Chinese in Indonesia in Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly” presented at the Sixth Annual ACGS Conference Racial Orders, Racist Borders, organised by the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (Amsterdam, 17-18 October 2019). 

  • “An impossibility of existence. Remembering the Indo-Dutch repatriation in Contractpensions – Djangan Loepah!” presented at the Narratives of Forced Migration in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries conference (Stirling, 16-18 September 2019). 

  • “Selamat Tinggal Hindia? Remembering Indonesia’s struggle for independence in media and culture” presented as a keynote lecture during the Talk Show Cinema Indonesia at the tenth edition of World Cinema Amsterdam, organised by World Cinema Amsterdam in collaboration with the Indisch Herinneringscentrum (Amsterdam, 17th of August 2019). 

  • “An Animated Revolution: Remembering the Battle of Surabaya through Indonesian animated cinema” presented as part of the panel ‘Negotiating memory through contemporary Asian film and media’ (Panel convenor) at the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 11), organised by Leiden University, the International Institute for Asian Studies and GIS Asie (Leiden, 16-19 July 2019). 

  • “Leading a leisurely life in the tranquil land of plenty: Nature, natives and colonial discourse in Facts and Fancies about Java” presented at Borders & Crossings 2019 (Leicester, 4-6 July 2019). 

  • “Animating Heroes’ Day: The remembrance of the 1945 Battle of Surabaya in Indonesian animation” presented at the MSA Conference 2019, organised by the Memory Studies Association (Madrid, 25-28 June 2019).
     
  • “Remembering as shattered pieces of coloured glass: Indonesian Chineseness and narrative structure in Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly” presented at The NECS 2019 Gdańsk Conference ‘Structures and Voices: Storytelling in Post-Digital Times’, organised by the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (Gdańsk, 13-15 June 2019). 

  • “Remember, remember! The tenth of November: Remembering Indonesia’s Heroes Day in Animated Film” presented at the RMeS Winter School & Graduate Symposium 2018-2019, organised by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) (Leiden, 31st of January 2019).

2018

  • “‘100% Catholic, 100% Indonesian’: Negotiating religion, decolonisation and nationalism in Soegija“ was to be presented at The Politics of Faith, Spirituality, and Religion in Southeast Asian Cinemas. 10th Biennial Association of Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (Yogyakarta, 23-26 July 2018). [Accepted, but forced to cancel].

  • “Seeds of Memory: historical re-enactment, authenticity and local mnemonic practices” presented as an Asia Institute Seminar at the Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne (Melbourne, 7th of May 2018).

  • “Helden van de natie: De periode 1945-1949 in Indonesische populaire cultuur” presented during the theme day Onze vierde generatie, aan de slag in Kumpulan Bronbeek, organised by Stichting Indisch Erfgoed and Stichting Klein Bronbeek (Arnhem, 21st of January 2018).

  • “Remembering Violence: Cultural memory, popular culture and the Indonesian War of Independence” presented at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) as an Entre Nous meeting for researchers and guest researchers (Leiden, 16th of January 2018).

2017

  • “Carte Blanche: Het geweld en de faam van Raymond Westerling in dekolonisatieliteratuur” presented at the Indische Letteren Symposium 2017: Indische beroemdheden in Bronbeek, organised by the Working Group Indo-Dutch Literature (Arnhem, 5th of November 2017).

  • “Pop patriotism and violent memories: Remembering the Indonesian War of Independence through contemporary Indonesian popular culture” presented as a public lecture at the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, organised by the History department (Yogyakarta, 16th of August 2017).

  • “Prosthetic memories of a violent struggle: The Indonesian War of Independence in contemporary film perjuangan” presented at IACS Conference 2017 organised by the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (Seoul, 30th of July 2017).

  • “The laughing giant and the people: Prosthetic memory, cinema and the Indonesian War of Independence” presented at ICAS 10 Chiang Mai 2017 organised by the International Convention of Asian Scholars (Chiang Mai, 21st of July 2017).

  • “Weg naar Indië: De waarde van Indische home movies als familiale film en cultureel erfgoed” presented at the 59th Tong Tong Fair (The Hague, 26th of May 2017).

  • Invited speaker for the opening roundtable of the Trauma Studies in the Digital Age workshop, organised as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellowship carried out by dr. Anna Menyhért at the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 10th of May 2017).

  • “Geschoten in Indonesië: Geweld tijdens de dekolonisatie herinnerd in Indonesische oorlogsfilms” presented at the lecture session Indië herinnerd at Leiden University, organised by the Working Group Indo-Dutch Literature (Leiden, 3rd of February 2017).

  • “Remembering Violence: Cultural memory, popular culture and the Indonesian War of Independence” presented at the RMeS Winterschool & Graduate Symposium 2016-17, organised by the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture and the Research School for Media Studies (Rotterdam, 20-21 January 2017).

2016

  • “Mending the Present with the Blood of Eagles: Merdeka’s Neo-Historical Re-imagining of Indonesia’s Pluralism” presented at the symposium Reading the Present through the Past: Forms and Trajectories of Neo-Historical Fiction at the University of Amsterdam, organised by the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies and the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 4th of March 2016).

2015

  • “Clashing Food and the Aesthetics of Travel: Othering Southeast Asia in Travel Literature and Food Travel Shows” presented at the ‘Mobilities and Place’ Symposium at Liverpool John Moores University in collaboration with the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University (Liverpool, 9th of May 2015).

2014

  • “Impliciete feiten en expliciete fantasiën? Java en het ideale Indië van Augusta de Wit” presented at the Indische Letteren Symposium 2014: Reizen in Indië in Bronbeek, organised by the Working Group Indo-Dutch Literature (Arnhem, 9th of November 2014).