The Inaugural Herb Feith Lecture 2002
Honouring the memory of the late Herb Feith - teacher, scholar, activist and humanitarian
Herb Feith (1930-2001) was Australia's finest scholar of Indonesia. His example and idealism inspired the founding of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme that developed into Australian Volunteers International. Teaching politics at Monash University from 1962 to 1990, he led generations of students to share his passionate concern for Indonesia, international politics, democracy, human rights, peace studies and conflict resolution.
The Centre of Southeast Asian Studies and Faculty of Arts, Monash University in association with
ABC Radio Australia and the Melbourne
Institute of Asian Languages & Societies of the University
of Melbourne present ...
Honouring the memory of the late Herb Feith - teacher, scholar, activist and humanitarian
Misunderstanding the politics of change in Indonesia
Speaker: Professor Daniel S Lev, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
Thursday 7 November
2002, 5.45 pm for 6.00 pm start
Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre
Corner Sturt Street and Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne
About the speaker
Daniel S. Lev (PhD, Cornell University) is
a specialist in the comparative politics, legal systems and human
rights of Southeast Asia. His book Islamic Courts in
Indonesia (University of California Press, 1972) is
published in English and Indonesian. Among his other publications
are The Transition to Guided Democracy ,
1966; Hukum dan Politik di Indonesia [Law
and Politics in Indonesia], 1990, a collection of his essays in Indonesian
translation, Legal Evolution and Political Authority
in Indonesia, 2000, a collection of pieces on law; and
articles and essays on Indonesian and Malaysian politics, legal institutions
and human rights. He is currently completing a biography of the human
rights lawyer Yap Thiam Hien. A long-standing colleague and close
friend of Herb Feith, Dan Lev is visiting Australia especially to
present this lecture.
Copies of the flyer in MSWord format or pdf format are available for downloading.
Convenor: Dr Penny Graham, Director, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University (penny.graham@arts.monash.edu.au )