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Spices, Soldiers and New Horizons: Histories and Legacies of the Moluccas – In Conversation with Wim Manuhutu
Concert· Paris

Spices, Soldiers and New Horizons: Histories and Legacies of the Moluccas – In Conversation with Wim Manuhutu

  • 📅Fri 16 Oct 2026
  • 📍Salon de lecture Jacques Kerchache, musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac — All events
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A talk and conversation with historian Wim Manuhutu exploring the history of the Moluccas, an Indonesian archipelago at the heart of the global spice trade, from pre-colonial networks to Dutch colonial violence and the Banda genocide of 1621. He also traces the story of Moluccan soldiers in the Dutch colonial army and the community of more than 12,500 who settled in the Netherlands in 1951. The ev