The third Herb Feith Lecture 2005
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 ...
Thursday 4 August 2005, 6.00 pm refreshments for 7.00 PM
start
Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre
Corner Sturt Street and Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne
Can Indonesia hold? Unity and diversity revisited
Speaker: Dr Joan Hardjono
MC: Mr Nuim Khaiyath, Executive Producer of Radio Australia's Indonesian service Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre Corner Sturt Street and Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne
About the speaker
Australian by birth, Joan first went to Indonesia as a Volunteer Graduate and taught in Semarang during 1957-58. She married and stayed on in Indonesia, teaching in the English Department of the Faculty of Arts at Padjadjaran State University in Bandung from 1960. She took a doctorate in human geography from the University of New England, Armidale, NSW , Australia. A prominent scholar in her field, DR Joan Hardjono has written extensively on environmental issues, transmigration, poverty and rural conditions in Indonesia. She has also worked as a social assessment consultant, undertaking studies for various international institutions. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the SMERU Research Institute, Jakarta, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. She edited Indonesia: Resources, Ecology, and Environment (1991) and co-edited Labour: Sharing in the Benefits of Growth? (1993) and Development in Eastern Indonesia (1996). More recently, she co-authored People, Poverty and Livelihoods: Links for Sustainable Poverty Reduction in Indonesia (2002).
Prior to the lecture, refreshments will be served from 6.00 pm.
ALL WELCOME
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Convenor: Dr Penny Graham, Director,
Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute.
Email: penny.graham@arts.monash.edu.au
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