Remco Raben is associate professor at the section History of International Relations (GIB) and professor  of colonial and postcolonial literary and cultural history at the University of Amsterdam.

For a full cv and list of publications, please see under 'CV' and on http://uu.academia.edu/RemcoRaben

My teaching concentrates on non-western history, in particular Asia. Teaching subjects are: international relations, world history, East-West relations, the rise of Asia, imperialism and decolonization, Indonesia, Third World.

My research interests are:
1) A survey of the 'long decolonization' of Indonesia between the 1920s and 1960s, focusing on the role and performance of the state administrative institutions.

2) The history of postcolonial Netherlands: a cultural history of Dutch world visions as influenced by colonial experiences and contacts.

3) A biography of Wim F. Wertheim.

4) History of cities, ethnicity and slavery in early-modern Southeast and South Asia.

5) Visual cultures in non-western history.