School of Arts PhD candidate at the School of Arts, has been awarded an NIAS-NIOD-KITLV Fellowship

Panggah Ardiyansyah, PhD candidate at the School of Arts, has been awarded an NIAS-NIOD-KITLV Fellowship: Moving objects, Mobilising Culture in the Context of (De)colonisation.

This fellowship, which Panggah will take up in February 2025, gathers researchers from formerly colonised countries with an interest in (lost) collections or objects from those countries or regions that are kept in the Netherlands.

Panggah’s project will attempt to understand why Islamic sites have been marginalised (or not) in the archaeology of Indonesia by examining (post)colonial circulations of manuscripts and artefacts originating from 16th-c. Sendang Duwur. This study will contribute to developing scholarship on the politics of heritage as related to identity-making, inclusion/exclusion, and restitution.

Image: Sendang Duwur in north coast of East Java, Indonesia.