IIAS SEMINAR

DUTCH COLONIAL LANGUAGE POLICY
Friday 18th March 1994
Venue: University of Leiden
(room to be announced later)


Up to now scant attention has been paid to the language policy implemented in
former Dutch colonies. This criticism is equally valid for the language policy
relating to Dutch itself and that relating to the indigenous languages, in
both the East and West Indies (Suriname and the Dutch Antilles). At the IIAS
Seminar De Nederlandse koloniale taalpolitiek (Dutch Colonial Language
Policy), eight different lectures will examine various aspects of that
language policy. After an initial lecture which deals with the problem of what
actually constitutes a "colonial language policy", there will be five lectures
which focus on the language policy in the Netherlands East Indies: the
language policy as it affected Malay, Dutch, Javanese, and Sundanese will be
successively scrutinized; after which the spotlight will shift to the language
competence of the civil servants in the Netherlands Indies. Then the colonial
language policy in Suriname will be looked at, followed by that implemented
in the Netherlands Antilles. Enclosed you will find a copy of the seminar
programme.

Should you wish to participate in the seminar, please register by Friday 11th
March with: IIAS Secretariat, Rapenburg 35, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA  Leiden
(071-27.22.27).
Participation is free of charge.

IIAS SEMINAR

DUTCH COLONIAL LANGUAGE POLICY

Friday 18th March 1994
location: Universiteitsraadszaal, Academic Building University of Leiden,
Rapenburg 73, Leiden


Programme

 9.30 a.m. Opening

 9.30 What is colonial language policy?                     
      Prof. J.W. de Vries (Dutch Department, University of Leiden)
          
 10.00 The Netherlands Indies and Malay 
      Prof. H.M.J. Maier (Department of the Languages and Cultures of  
Southeast Asia and Oceania, University of Leiden)
 10.45 Coffee
 11.00 The Netherlands Indies and Dutch 
      Groeneboer, Ph.D. (IIAS, Leiden)

 11.45 The Netherlands Indies and Javanese
      Prof. B. Arps (Department of the Languages and Cultures of Southeast
      Asia and Oceania, University of Leiden)          

 12.30 p.m. Lunch

 13.30 The Netherlands Indies and Sundanese              
      M. Moriyama M.A. and T. van den Berge, Ph.D. (Department of the
      Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania, University of
      Leiden)          

 14.15 The linguistic competence of the civil service in    the Netherlands
      East Indies Prof. C. Fasseur (Department of the Languages and Cultures
      of Southeast Asia and Oceania, University of Leiden)          
 
 15.00 Tea
 
 15.15 Language policy in Suriname                         
      Ch.H. Eersel, M.A. (Amsterdam)

 16.00 Language policy in the Antilles                   
      F.C.M. Putten, Ph.D. (Department of the Languages and Cultures of Latin
      America, Faculty of Arts, University of Leiden)           

 16.45 Close and drinks

Registration (before 11th March): IIAS, Secretariat, Rapenburg 35, Postbus
9515, 2300 RA    Leiden (071-272227)