WATCH MY TALKS

My inaugural lecture as Professor of Global Political History at the Vrije Universiteit , A Monument to Westerling (And Other Possible Futures) (YouTube, 6 October 2025)

Blink and you’ll miss me in Selling a Colonial War (Dir. In-Soo Radstake, Holland Harbour, 2023) (see the trailer here, IDFA premiére here)

Colonial Pasts and Image Wars, 20th Annual History Council of Victoria Lecture (YouTube, 25 October 2023).

On Photography and War: Decolonisation in Southeast Asia for the National Gallery of Singapore (YouTube, 13 April 2023)

On Child Labour in Colonial Indonesia for the History Council of Victoria (YouTube, 25 November 2022)

The Volatile Tropics: Albums and Commercial Photography from the Edwards Collection, Scaliger Institute Lecture, Leiden University Library (Mediasite, 31 October 2018).

On Soldiers as Humanitarians in Dutch Photographs from the Indonesian National Revolution (YouTube, 6 December 2016)