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

Application deadline: 30 November 2025
Research period: 2026

About the program

This program is part of a larger research entitled “Tracing evolutionary pathways in grassroots climate governance: Connecting the past, present, and future inter-scalar adaptation strategies in Southeast Asia – TRACE” based at KITLV and Leiden University, the Netherlands. The Department of History UGM as a partner of this research program invites university students and alumnus who are eager to trace traditional knowledges associated with irrigated agriculture, particularly with wet rice cultivation in Java, Bali, Nusa Tenggara, Sulawesi, and islands of Eastern Indonesia. What kinds of knowledge consulted, how they are stored, and how they relate between different ontological forms are the primary task of the tracing. This program intends to look into layers of memories and reposited knowledges amongst farming communities of irrigated rice agriculture in the archipelago. These layers point to its emergence and entanglements with states, including the traditional kingdoms, sultanates, Dutch Indies colonial state, and the post independence Republic of Indonesia. Through ethnographic/oral history and archival research and by providing a space for farmer/community agency, we intend to work together with farming communities, environmental groups, and the government in order to trace the knowledges that must have been passed down from various generations on the ecological knowledge related to the creation and maintenance of irrigated agriculture. 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