The fellowship is a project of the Colonial Collections Consortium, will be hosted by NIAS in Amsterdam with support from NIOD and KITLV. The fellowship enables researchers and heritage professionals from former colonized countries to conduct five months of research into ‘colonial collections’: objects and collections from those countries that arrived in the Netherlands in a context of colonialism.
- The call for applications is open from January 15, 2025 to March 17, 2025.
- We are looking for 2 fellows in total, for the period September 1, 2025 until January 31, 2026.
- The fellows are hosted by NIAS in Amsterdam, and supervised by NIOD, KITLV and the Colonial Collections Consortium: a collaboration of NIOD, KITLV, Rijkmuseum, Bronbeek, Wereldmuseum and the RCE.
More information can be found here: https://nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/nias-niod-kitlv-fellowship-moving-objects-mobilising-culture-in-the-context-of-decolonisation/.