{"id":1410,"date":"2026-01-19T17:09:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:16:42","slug":"january-19-2026-anton-de-kom-university-rewriting-surinamese-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/january-19-2026-anton-de-kom-university-rewriting-surinamese-history\/","title":{"rendered":"January 19, 2026: Suriname, Paramaribo &#8211; Anton de Kom University &#8211; Rewriting Surinamese History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The call for the rewriting of Surinamese history has grown stronger in recent years with the recognition of slavery and colonialism as a crime against humanity. In 1982, following in the footsteps of Anton de Kom, Sandew Hira made an attempt to rewrite the history of Suriname. At the time, Hira employed a Marxist framework. Four decades later, he has developed into a theorist of Decolonizing The Mind (DTM) and has rewritten the book.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lezing-Adek-20250119-173x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lezing-Adek-20250119-173x300.jpeg 173w, https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lezing-Adek-20250119-592x1024.jpeg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the video registration.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ghWDnKmWuE \" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The call for the rewriting of Surinamese history has grown stronger in recent years with the recognition of slavery and colonialism as a crime against humanity. In 1982, following in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/january-19-2026-anton-de-kom-university-rewriting-surinamese-history\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40","category-events","category-past_events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}