Annual Indonesia Lecture Series 2002
Centre of Southeast Asian Studies in association with The Australian Indonesian Association of Victoria
Horizons of Home in Southeast Asia: Indonesian and East Timorese 'Homelands' Near and Far
Saturday, 8 June 2002 from 1.00pm-5.00pm
Rotunda lecture theatre R3 (Rotunda at back of Alexander Theatre)
Monash University Clayton Campus
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: ALL WELCOME
Mobility and migration, hardly new phenomena in Southeast Asia, raise intriguing questions about experiences of place, home and belonging. In the social sciences, despite Ben Anderson's analysis of nations as 'imagined communities' that articulate a shared sense of belonging, very little attention has been paid to the social imagining of 'homelands'. These may equate to the modern nation of citizenship, but often do not.
A 'homeland' may be a place of origin socially
memorialised in people's lives in now-distant locations, or it
may refer to a sense of belonging painfully re-worked with respect
to these new locations. Not always far away in spatial terms, a 'homeland'
may be distant in temporal terms: an
imagined 'home'
that is removed in time from the present. This can occur when the
'homeland' represents an unfulfilled aspiration, as was long
the case in the struggle for an independent East Timor, or if it
calls forth a potent social memory of times past in pre-national
or pre-colonial eras.
The 2002 Annual Indonesia Lectures will consider various forms of 'home' and 'homeland' that are meaningful for certain peoples of archipelagic Southeast Asia, with particular reference to Indonesia and East Timor.
Speakers and Topics
Recent Developments
in Indonesian Population Mobility
Professor
Graeme Hugo, Department of Geographical & Environmental Studies,
Adelaide University.
Indonesians
as Australians?
Dr Janet Penny, Research
Associate, Monash University.
Roots,
Routes & Religiosity: Florenese Labour Migrants at Home &
Abroad
Dr Penny Graham, Anthropology and
Director, CSEAS, Monash University.
Break for afternoon tea
Bugis Migration to
Samarinda, East Kalimantan: Establishing a Colony?
Dr. Riwanto Tirtosudarmo, Senior Research Fellow, Center for
Social and Cultural Studies, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (PMB-LIPI),
Jakarta, Indonesia.
The 'Butonese'
of Banda: Historical Movement and Contemporary Identification in
Central Maluku
Phillip Winn, Visiting
Fellow, Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
The Australian National University.
The
Sacred and Beloved Maubere Patriot: Homeland and Resistance in East
Timor
Sara Graham, Research Associate,
Anthropology, Monash University.