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Remco Raben is a professor at Utrecht University specializing in colonial and postcolonial literary and cultural history. His teaching focuses on non-western history, particularly Asia, covering subjects such as international relations, world history, East-West relations, the rise of Asia, imperialism, decolonization, and Indonesia. His research interests include a survey of the 'long decolonization' of Indonesia from the 1920s to the 1960s with a focus on the performance of state administrative institutions, the cultural history of the postcolonial Netherlands influenced by colonial experiences, and the biography of Wim F. Wertheim. He also engages in the history of cities, ethnicity, and slavery in early-modern Southeast and South Asia, alongside exploring visual cultures in non-western history.
Department of Psychology