As part of the Decolonial Futures Seed Grant, the UvA team partners with the Timor-based Institute of Research Governance and Social Change (IRGSC) to increase awareness of this online collection in Timor. To support this effort, the IRGSC will curate an exhibition at the Provincial Library of Kupang, where visitors can access the collection directly. Additionally, the IRGSC will hold an essay competition to encourage reflection on the contemporary relevance of this heritage.  

At the end of the project, Dr. Dominggus Elcid Li, director of IRGSC, will visit the University of Amsterdam to study parts of the collection that have not yet been digitized. He will also share his insights from working with the Jaap Kunst collection in Timor and offer his perspective on the digital restitution of sonic colonial heritage. 

Barbara Titus is Associate Professor of Cultural Musicology at the University of Amsterdam. She is the curator of the Jaap Kunst Sound Collection and participates in the NWO-funded project Restituting, Reconnecting, Reimagining Sound Heritage (Re:Sound). 

Emily Clark is Assistant Professor of Contested Archives, Media and Memory at the University of Amsterdam. She currently leads the project “Audibilities of the Colonial Past: Dutch Sound Archives as History, Heritage and Data” with funding from the Dutch Research Council. 

Vincent Kuitenbrouwer is Senior Lecturer History of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. His current research focusses on international radio broadcasting in the late colonial period and the era of decolonization (1930-1975).