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Annual Workshop on Southeast Asian Women 2006

Monash University has a number of academic staff and graduate students conducting research relating to women in Southeast Asia. The first Women in Southeast Asia Workshop was organised by the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies in 1994, and since then such workshops have been held annually to promote research in the area and to facilitate exchange of ideas among scholars.

The aim of the Workshop is to bring together researchers and others interested in the study of matters relating to Southeast Asian women, in any field, such as politics, geography, literature, the arts, history or health.

Hosted by Centre of Southeast Asian Studies with support of Monash Asia Institute

The 13th Workshop on Southeast Asian Women

Friday 23 June 2006, 9.00 am - 5.45 pm

Guy Manton rooms (SG01 and SG02), Ground floor
Menzies Building (11), Monash University Clayton campus
N.B. Parking at the university is free in 'blue' areas at the time of the workshop.

Programme

All sessions will be held in SG01 except for the small discussion group session just before lunch: groups will meet in both rooms.

8.30 - 9.00 am Registration (Foyer outside Manton Rooms)
N.B. The workshop is free of charge but a donation of $5.00 is requested for refreshments.
9.00 - 10.00 am Life Experiences 1

Soematri Sosrohadikoesoemo (1892-1963) and Javanese modernity in late colonial Indonesia
Joost Coté (Deakin University)

The relationship between women migrant workers and their children in Indonesia: feminist perspective, community values, and motherhood
Elisabeth Dewi (Victoria University)

10.00 - 11.00 am

Life Experiences 11

Theorising adolescent sexuality in Indonesia
Lyn Parker (University of Western Australia)

Assumed identities in 'imagined communities': a study of female same-sex desire in Yogyakarta
Tracy Wright Webster (University of Western Australia)

11.00 - 11.20 am Morning tea (Foyer)
11.20 am- 12.20 pm Childbirth

Healthy mothers, modern bodies: Childbirth practice and village women in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
Simone Alesich (Australian National University)

An exploratory study of high risk pregnancy: The experience of urban Malaysian women
Andrea Quah (Monash University)

12.20 - 1.20 pm Lunch (can be bought in Campus Centre Building)
1.20 - 2.50 pm Religion I

Writing about women and Islam in Indonesia
Susan Blackburn (Monash University)

Negotiating polygamy in Indonesia: Between Islamic discourse and women's lived experiences
Nina Nurmila (University of Melbourne)

Adat, Islam and womanhood in the reconstruction of Riau Malay identity
Lugina Setyawati (Monash University)

3.0 - 3.15 pm Afternoon tea (foyer)
2.50 - 3.50 pm Religion II

Varieties of religious experience and the negotiation of gender in Vietnam
Katie Dyt (Monash University)

Sing a hero in ritual: gender and heroic representation in a Sino-Vietnam frontier Zhuang society
Gao Yaning (University of Melbourne)

3.50 - 4.10 pm

Afternoon Tea (Foyer)

4.10 - 5.10 pm Politics

Sharing the fish head: exploring the commitments to gender concerns in urban governance projects in Southeast Asia
Girija Shresthra (Monash University)

Terrorism and women in Southeast Asia: Is this the new regional mechanism for rendering power politics?
Kate Reid-Smith (Charles Darwin University)

  After drinks at the University Club, a dinner will be held in a nearby Asian restaurant. Please inform the registration desk in the morning if you wish to come.

Enquiries:

Dr Susan Blackburn, School of
Political and Social Inquiry, PO Box 11A
Monash University, Victoria, 3800.

Email address: sue.blackburn@arts.monash.edu.au
Telephone (03) 9905 2384

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