{"id":1420,"date":"2026-02-22T17:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:22:43","slug":"february-22-the-netherlands-almere-lecture-on-anton-de-kom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/february-22-the-netherlands-almere-lecture-on-anton-de-kom\/","title":{"rendered":"February 22, The Netherlands &#8211; Almere: Lecture on Anton de Kom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 22, Anton de Kom&#8217;s birthday, Sandew Hira will give a lecture on the life and work of Anton de Kom. Hira is the author of the book &#8220;Van Priary tot en met De Kom &#8211; een dekoloniale geschiedenis van het verzet tegen het kolonialisme in Suriname 1630-1940&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will cover the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>De Kom&#8217;s biography.<\/li>\n<li>His vision on decolonization<\/li>\n<li>His political and organizational work in Suriname<\/li>\n<li>His political and organizational work in the Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>His place in and significance for the historiography and history of Suriname.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Location: Centrum De Schakel, Flevostraat 10, 1315 CC Almere<\/p>\n<p>Date: February 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Time: 15:00-18:00<\/p>\n<p>Admission: Free.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is in Dutch<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AntondeKomlezing-Almere-2-211x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AntondeKomlezing-Almere-2-211x300.jpeg 211w, https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AntondeKomlezing-Almere-2.jpeg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 22, Anton de Kom&#8217;s birthday, Sandew Hira will give a lecture on the life and work of Anton de Kom. Hira is the author of the book &#8220;Van&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/february-22-the-netherlands-almere-lecture-on-anton-de-kom\/\">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":[40,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40","category-past_events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","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=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandewhira.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}