Welcome Panggah Ardiyansyah, Ganggah Dissanayaka and Leandro Matthews Cascon
This fellowship is intended for researchers from formerly colonised countries – including heritage practitioners, historians, archaeologists, social scientists, artists, journalists, and cultural activists – with an interest in (lost) collections or objects from those regions that are currently held in the Netherlands.
The fellowship is designed to support fellows in developing and pursuing their own independent research agendas during their time in the Netherlands. These may or may not lead to restitution claims and are aimed at fostering innovative, socially relevant research into the social lives of moving objects within broader debates on the history, nature, and future of heritage.
NIAS serves as the host institution, while NIOD and KITLVprovide structural support and supervision. Fellows are encouraged to conduct research in depots, archives and collections of museums affiliated with the Colonial Collections Consortium – including the Wereldmuseum, the Rijksmuseum, Museum Bronbeek, and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands – as well as in other institutions.
