About the part that art plays in a globalising society

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Arnoud Arps

Arnoud Arps is a media and culture scholar at the University of Amsterdam, specialising in contemporary representations of Indonesia’s colonial past in Indonesian and Dutch popular culture. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Popular Culture Review as well as an International Advisory Board member of Southeast Asian Media Studies Journal. Since 2019 he has been an editor of the scholarly journal Indische Letteren.

Agenda


Cover of Slavery in the Cultural Imagination: Debates, Silences, and Dissent in the Neerlandophone Space (2025). Artwork on cover: Dion Rosina - Is it a Dream? (2023)

Symposium: Cultural Imagination and the Legacy of Colonialism

This event features creative and scholarly work that engages with the legacies of colonialism and push for social and cultural change
Atelier KITLV: Declaring Distance
Ways of imagining and engaging with the colonial archive with Atelier KITLV