Departemen Sejarah, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), dengan bangga mengumumkan peluncuran situs web resmi program penelitian internasional bertajuk Exploring New Futures for Indonesian Objects: Dismantling Colonial Knowledge Production and Recovering Lost Histories and Memories, yang dapat diakses melalui laman https://pastfutureheritage.fib.ugm.ac.id/. Resmi diluncurkan pada 30 September 2025, website tersebut merupakan bagian dari riset kolaboratif antara Universitas Gadjah Mada dan University of Amsterdam (UvA), yang menjadi bagian dari program Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) bertema “Research into Collections with a Colonial Context”. read more

Pada Rabu, 1 Oktober 2025, Departemen Sejarah Universitas Gadjah Mada berkolaborasi dengan Program Studi Magister Hubungan Internasional Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Politik Universitas Gadjah Mada mengadakan suatu kegiatan launching buku “Rethinking Histories of Indonesia: Experiencing, Resisting, and Renegotiating Coloniality” yang coba dikolaborasikan serta dikaitkan dengan rangkaian kegiatan Go South (Annual Convention on The Global South) 2025 yang mengusung tema 70 Years Bandung Spirit (Re-Invigorating Decolonial Struggle Amidst Geopolitical Turbulence). Turut hadir dan berpartisipasi dalam kegiatan ini beberapa dosen dan tenaga pengajar dari Departemen Sejarah Universitas Gadjah Mada seperti Dr. Abdul Wahid M.Hum., M.Phil., Dr. Widya Fitria Ningsih S.S., M.A., dan Dr. Wildan Sena Utama S.S., M.A., yang berpartisipasi sebagai pembicara, penanggap, dan juga moderator dalam kegiatan ini. Disamping para ahli dan peneliti yang berasal dari Universitas Gadjah Mada, kegiatan peluncuran buku ini pula turut dihadiri oleh para peneliti dari luar Universitas Gadjah Mada utamanya yang turut terlibat dalam kajian dan penulisan buku ini seperti Prof. Katherine McGregor (University of Melbourne), Brigitta Isabella M.A. (Institut Seni Indonesia), dan Dr. I Ngurah Suryawan (Universitas Papua). read more

Hosted in Europe or Southeast Asian countries | 3 Fellowships | 2 months each
Application deadline: 31 December 2025
Fellowship period: Autumn 2026

The Restituting, Reconnecting, Reimagining Sound Heritage (Re:Sound) project invites applications for three short-term research fellowships aimed at scholars, curators, artists, and source community members from Southeast Asia. These fellowships seek to support original research and curatorial experimentation within two main sound collections in the Netherlands: The Jaap Kunst Collection at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) and The Philips Omroep-Hollandse Indies radio broadcasts at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV), or other repositories of source communities from Southeast Asia in Europe and repositories in Southeast Asia relevant to Re:Sound. read more

Pada Sabtu, 20 September 2025,Departemen Sejarah Universitas Gadjah Mada bekerjasama dengan Pengurus Angkatan S1 Sejarah tahun 2024 mengadakan kegiatan Family Gathering dan Kenal Lebih Dekat Keluarga Sejarah bagi Mahasiswa Baru S1 angkatan 2025. Turut hadir dalam kegiatan ini Kepala Program Studi S1 Departemen Sejarah, Dr Mutiah Amini S.S,.M. Hum. yang secara simbolis membuka rangkaian kegiatan ini. Pada moment sambutan ini, Dr Mutiah Amini menitipkan pesan tentang pentingnya menjaga kesehatan baik secara fisik maupun emosional dalam menjalankan kehidupan akademik bagi Mahasiswa Baru angkatan
2025. Rangkaian kegiatan Family Gathering tahun ini terdiri atas beberapa segmen kegiatan antara lain Kenal Kakak Tingkat, Kenal Alumni, dan Sharing Session terkait kehidupan akademik serta persiapan karir bersama Dosen Departemen Sejarah UGM Dr Widya Fitria Ningsih S.S.,M.A. dan Alumni Ayu Wulandari M.Hum. Kegiatan Family Gathering ini pula dimeriahkan dengan berbagai kegiatan yang meningkatkan interaksi, komunikasi dan solidaritas antar mahasiswa baru angkatan 2025. Dalam kegiatan ini, Anindya Nitya Safa Putri selaku Ketua Pelaksana Family Gathering Sejarah 2025 menyampaikan bahwa kegiatan Family Gathering ini sendiri terdiri atas kegiatan Sharing Session dan Outbound yang dibagi dalam dua hari kegiatan. Kegiatan Family Gathering
ini sendiri memiliki tujuan untuk menjalin hubungan dan relasi yang sehat juga asertif antara Pengurus Departemen, Kakak Tingkat dan Mahasiswa Baru Departemen Sejarah UGM. Disamping itu, dalam kegiatan ini Safa juga berharap bahwa setelah kegiatan ini dilaksanakan besar harapannya akan tercipta komunikasi dan kerjasama yang lebih harmonis antar Mahasiswa Program Studi S1 Sejarah UGM pada kegiatan mendatang. read more

Following the launching of the research project on Lombok Heritage, the Department of History, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) hosted a public lecture titled “Beyond the Point of No Return: The Re-Emergence of Indonesian Debates and Concepts on the Return of Cultural Objects”. The public lecture was delivered by Dr. Sadiah Boonstra, a historian and curator, as well as the founder of CultureLab Consultancy. She is also one of the postdoctoral researchers within the Indonesia-Netherlands research consortium focused on the Lombok Heritage. read more

Image: Jaap Kunst’s Collection, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Olivier Middendorp.

We are delighted to announce that our collaborative research team at the Department of History, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, and the Department of Musicology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has been awarded a significant grant from the Royal Dutch Research Council (NWO) under the Research into Collections with a Colonial Context program to support our research project, Restituting, Reconnecting, and Reimagining Sound Heritage (Re:Sound). read more

On Tuesday, February 4, 2025, a historical discussion was held in Room 709, 7th Floor, Soegondo Building, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University. The event took place from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM WIB and was attended by various academics and historical researchers, both from Indonesia and abroad, including research colleagues from the Netherlands who were on a journey retracing history following World War II in Indonesia.

The discussion was officially opened by Dr. Abdul Wahid, M.A., Head of the Department of History, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, UGM. In his opening remarks, he emphasized the importance of historical studies based on academic collaboration between Indonesia and the Netherlands to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the decolonization period and its impact on both nations. read more

On Wednesday, February 22, 2023, the History Department of Universitas Gadjah Mada held its first departmental discussion event. The speaker of the discussion was Dr. Ahmad Athoillah with a research entitled “The Role of Sayid Saqqaf Al-Jufri and Modern Islamic Education in Arab Society in Kedu in the Early 20th Century.”

This research focuses on the roles and interactions of Sayid Saqqaf Al-Jufri in developing the modernization of Islamic education in the Kedu region in the early 20th century through the Al-Iman school that was established in Magelang. The results of this study show that Sayid Saqqaf was one of the Hadrami Arab Islamic education reformers who built a trans-local network of Islamic education modernism which was supported by Hadrami Arab kinship, Muslim intellectuals, and trade activities. Some of the themes explored during the discussion were the Islamic education systems in the early 20th century and the development of Islamic modernism during the same period. read more

On January 25, 2023, a public lecture entitled Critically Reviewing the History of the Indonesian Women’s Movement was held. This public lecture was a collaborative event between the Department of History of Universitas Gadjah Mada and Ruang Arsip dan Sejarah Perempuan (RUAS). The event invited Prof. Dr. Saskia E. Wieringa, professor of history, gender studies and same sex cross culturally at Universiteit van Amsterdam, and Ita Fatia Nadia as the moderator.

This public lecture departed from her book entitled The Destruction of the Women’s Movement in Indonesia, published by Kalyanamitra, Garba Budaya, in 1999. In this public lecture, Prof. Wieringa discussed the history of gender in Indonesia, especially in the pre-Islamic period, how the New Order politicized gender for its interests, and several theories that underlie her book, namely: 1) passionate aesthetics, 2) symbolic subversion, and 3) postcolonial amnesia. read more

On Wednesday (23-11), the UGM Department of History organized an event entitled Environmental History Conference: Dialogue of Academics and Movements in Shared Environmental History. The event lasted for 2 days in the multimedia room of Margono Building, Faculty of Cultural Sciences UGM. The conference was organized to build an environmental history education base that is relevant to the needs of the environmental movement. This is done by creating a deep understanding of the forms of research and knowledge needed by the movement. read more