CSEAS Seminar Programme, 2006
Unless otherwise indicated, seminars are held on:
- Thursdays 11.00 am - 12.30 pm Manton Room SG02, Ground Floor, Menzies Building (11) South, Monash University Clayton campus
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30 November 2006, Early evening
Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre, corner Sturt Street and Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne.
Herb Feith Lecture - Prof Ruth McVey
REMINDER: NO SEMINAR on 2nd November 2006
The seminar previously scheduled for that date is being held over till 2007, when Martin Polkinghorne, PhD candidate in Archaeology and Art History & Theory, University of Sydney, will speak on "Khmer Architecture: Local transformations of Indianisation at the turn of the 1st millennium".
The CSEAS seminar series will recommence for 2007 at the start of 1st semester on Thursday, 1st March.
26 October 2006
Joint seminar Centre of Southeast Asian Studies and Centre for Malaysian Studies, MAI.
Recent Malay Religious Magazines as Approaches to Islamic High Culture
Dr Dennis Walker, Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Malaysian Studies, Monash Asia Institute
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19 October 2006
Herb Feith: Knowing Indonesia inside and out
Dr Jemma Purdey, Writer-in-Residence Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, MAI
12 October 2006
Pentecostal Movements in Indonesia and the Philippines: The Vitality of Christian Shamanism in a Globalizing World
Dr John Prior, svd, Candraditya Research Centre for the Study of Religion & Culture, Ledalero, Maumere.
Abstract
Southeast Asia has witnessed an unprecedented resurgence of religious vitality over the past fifty years as countries regained their political independence, embarked on economic development and became enveloped by globalisation. The most dramatic upsurge taking place in Asian Christianity is in the Pentecostal/charismatic sector. While mainline church networks have opted for the poor, the poor have been opting for Pentecostal-like movements.
This presentation looks at the indigenous roots of Pentecostal movements in the Philippines and Indonesia and the practical role of shamanism (healing and spirit possession) for the culturally displaced in a rapidly globalising world.
5 October 2006
Orchestras of Local Legend: The Revival of the Balinese Gamelan Gong Gede
Dr Made Mantle Hood, Indonesian and Ethnomusicology, School of Music- Conservatorium, Monash University
Abstract
The gamelan gong gede orchestra has inspired a rejuvenation of interest in sacred temple music on the island of Bali. For centuries, it has been a musical offering (upakara) for temple ceremonies, its musical aesthetic synonymous with introspection, meditation and spiritual balance. However, in the 1930's, the gong gede orchestra began to disappear. Its large bronze gongs and metallophones were being melted down by blacksmiths who were busy filling orders for a new orchestra called gong kebyar. Kebyar music was rebellious and dynamic, rhythmically aggressive, reflecting the socio-political situation on the island, a time when Balinese guerilla soldiers were fighting a war against their Dutch colonial oppressors. Through the 20th century, kebyar music dominated and no one was really sure how many gong gede orchestras were left on the island. Today, Balinese musicians are beginning to look back at what has been lost, and there is a revival of interest in devotional sacred music. Part of this devotion is inspired by local legends where magical gongs descend from heaven and instruments make people invisible. I argue that these legends are a tangible sociological force that helps propel a deepening of faith in Bali's multifaceted neo-Hinduism movement.
28 September 2006
Joint National Centre for Australian Studies/Centre for Malaysian Studies/Centre for Southeast Asian Studies Seminar
Cinematique-intent: Visual culture and the discourse of multiculturalism in Malaysia and Australian cinemas
Mr Badrul Abu Hassan, Australia-Malaysia Fellow with Monash University's National Centre for Australian Studies.
Chair: Dr Wendy Smith, Director, Centre for Malaysian Studies, Monash Asia Institute
This
seminar explores to what extent visual narratives and aesthetics
have been deployed by Australian and Malaysian filmmakers in visually
constructing the realities of their respective multicultural societies.
It examines how selected features of a film's visual narrative
or images can engage its audience into thinking about their subjectivities
and everyday experience of living within a multicultural society.
It aims to enhance our understanding about multicultural society
in Australia and Malaysia from a cinematic perspective.
Biodata
Badrul Redzuan ABU HASSAN is an academic at the
School of Media and Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences
and Humanities, National University of Malaysia (UKM). He currently
teaches undergraduate courses such as Media Discourse, Media Semantics
and Audience Analyses. He was formerly affiliated with the School
of Language Studies and Linguistics, where he taught literary courses
under the domain of Postcolonial Literature. This grounding in literary
scholarship (corpus, theories and criticism) has given him a multi-disciplinary
focus, which is advantageous in teaching and researching media and
cultural studies. His research interests are in Visual and Mobile
Cultures, Postcolonial Literatures and Films.
Enquiries:
Dr Wendy Smith 9905-9250 wendy.smith@buseco.monash.edu.au
21 September 2006
Thomas Karsten, practising architect and planner in Indonesia 1914 - 1945
Dr Hugh O'Neill, Architect and Adjunct Professor, Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Deakin University
Abstract
The nexus between the ideals of a political and cultural polemicist and the problems of an architect/town planner in practice, made Thomas Karsten one of the best known Netherlanders in the Indies during the first half of the 20th century. Since 1945 Indonesian architects and planners have tried to work through his legacy. This presentation complements the seminar in first semester by Dr Joost Coté on 'Colonial utopias: Thomas Karsten (1885 - 1945) and the design of modern Indonesia'.
About the speaker
Hugh O'Neill is Adjunct Professor at the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University and Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has written about Islamic architecture in Southeast Asia following two terms as Visiting Fellow at The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and M.I.T. in 1990-91.
14 September 2006
Negotiating Recognition and Identity Amongst the Non-Government Elites in West Papua Post-1998
Ms Anna Lumban Goal, PhD candidate in Politics, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
Abstract
In 1999 the West Papuans, represented by the Team of 100, visited the President of Indonesia and told him in person that they wished to be independent from Indonesia. The term that the West Papuans used to couch their claim was recognition of the independence they claimed to have gained in 1961. This thesis examines how this movement has impacted upon both the West Papuan identity reconstruction and the formation of West Papuan elites since the visit. I will suggest that the independence movement is best understood in terms of two interrelated 'struggles for recognition': a struggle with Indonesia over the recognition of West Papua as a distinct nation and a struggle within West Papua for the right to speak on behalf of the nation and act as the legitimate representatives of its interests.
The aim of the thesis is to illustrate how discussions of being (or becoming) West Papuan in Indonesia have taken place amongst the pro-independence elites and hence influenced their ideas of West Papuan identity and the popular forms of resistance during 1998 to 2006.
7 September 2006
Joint seminar Centre for Malaysian Studies and the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, MAI
Chair: Dr Wendy Smith, Centre for Malaysian Studies, MAI
Democracy and Exclusion: Islam, Citizenship and the Law in Malaysia
Mr Julian C H Lee, PhD candidate in Anthropology, SAGES, University of Melbourne.
Abstract
Processes of Islamisation have increasingly been felt in various areas of Malaysian life. It would seem that Islam is beginning to provide the underlying framework or Grundnorm of law, society and politics. This is manifest, for instance, in the tendency for civil court judges to defer to the Shari'ah courts in matters which involve an element of Islam. This is notably so in cases where people wish to convert out of Islam or argue that the religion of a deceased person was not Islam. In such cases, the Shari'ah court is judged to be the appropriate venue to determine this even though non-Muslims have no standing there and even though Article 11 of the Malaysian constitution guarantees freedom of religion. The centralisation of Islam in Malaysian politics predictably marginalises non-Muslim and unorthodox Malaysians. This naturally has a bearing on citizenship and democracy. The openness of public space is a pre-condition for enacting one's citizenship and participating in democracy in its widest sense. The reduction of public space which Islamisation brings about for certain segments of the population constitutes an attrition of Malaysian democracy.
In this paper, Julian Lee will describe some of the manifestations of Islamisation in Malaysia and he will point to what he thinks are the primary factors in shaping and propelling it. Amongst the theorists Lee will use in his description are Roy Rappaport, Michael Jackson and Ward Goodenough.
31 August 2006
Please note venue: Burchill Room, Performing Arts Precinct (Building 67-68), Monash University Clayton campus
How to think about Australia-Indonesia relations
Prof Richard Tanter, Adjunct Professor of International Relations, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Senior Research Associate, Nautilus Institute in San Francisco and at RMIT.
24 August 2006
Understanding Indonesian Pesantren
Mr Suparto, Lecturer, State Islamic University (UIN), Jakarta, and PhD candidate in Education, Monash University
Abstract
Indonesia's pesantren, or Islamic boarding schools, have been a part of Indonesian Islam for hundreds of years. Pesantren are traditionally known as reputable institutions, spreading literacy, traditional knowledge and an independence of thought to the masses. In recent times many people outside Indonesia have come to associate pesantren with names like Amrozi and Imam Samudra, assuming that Islamic schools are little more than breeding grounds for extremism, Islamic militants and terrorists. With thousands of pesantren found throughout Indonesia today, how have they changed over time? Who has influence over the curriculum and how are they dealing with an ever-globalising world? What resemblance do the negative stereotypes now found in the West have to the real life teachings of Indonesia's pesantren?
Suparto is completing a PhD thesis at Monash University on the remaking of Pesantren.
Friday
18 August, 2.00 pm for 2.30pm
Executive lounge, Alan
Gilbert building, 161 Barry St, Carlton
Sidney Jones launches two new books, including Jemma Purdey's "Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia, 1996-1999".
17 August 2006
Digital Visions of Angkor
Mr Tom Chandler, Lecturer, Faculty of Information Technology and PhD candidate, Monash University
10 August 2006
The Troubled Tribunal: 'Punishing' the Perpetrators of the Cambodian Genocide
Dr Trudy Jacobsen, ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology and CSEAS, MAI , Monash University
Abstract
Cambodia is preparing to relive the horrors of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) as the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime brace themselves for trial. Consensus on what constitutes an appropriate punishment for those responsible for the deaths of millions, however, eludes Cambodians and international observers alike. Until the end of the nineteenth century, punishment in Cambodia usually consisted of fines, enslavement, amputation of the nose or ears, or torture. Guilt extended to the entire family of the perpetrator. Incarceration was used to determine guilt or innocence, rarely as a punishment in itself until the colonial period (1864-1953). The signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1991 saw further externally imposed changes implemented in an attempt to bring the Cambodian penal system into line with recent developments in western human rights discourse. The Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal may be seen as the latest of these externally imposed changes.
This paper discusses whether western notions of appropriate punishment can be reconciled with Cambodian Buddhist tenets of karma and dharma, and how the imposition of western values on the Cambodian penal system, through colonial and more contemporary forms of imperialism, has altered traditional ideas of Cambodian punishment - if at all.
This seminar is based on Jacobsen, T. "Paying through the nose: Punishment in the Cambodian past and lessons for the present", Southeast Asia Research 13, 2 (July 2005):235-256.
Thursday 3 August 2006
The Black Portuguese and stranger kings: on the invention of dual sovereignty in eastern Indonesia
Speaker: Dr Douglas Lewis, School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne
Thursday 27 July 2006
Global Trends in Religion: Terrorism, Tourism, Migration and the Reaffirmation of Hindu Identity in Bali
Speaker: Dr Thomas Reuter, Post Doctoral Fellow, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Note Venue for this seminar: Burchill Room, Building 68 Performing Arts Precinct), Monash University Clayton campus
Abstract
Ajeg Bali, a new cultural revival movement in Bali, Indonesia, is reflecting a growing sense of disenfranchisement and desire for self-empowerment among Hindu Balinese. Contributing factors to the rise of this movement are political decentralisation after 32 years of authoritarian rule, the touristification of local culture, increasing economic dependence on a global market, the perceived security threat after the terrorist bomb attack in Bali in October 2002, the growing influx of Muslim labour migrants from the 1980s onward, and fears of a possible Islamisation of the Indonesian state. The study of this and similar social movements in Indonesia sheds light on new global trends in religion and an associated politics of identity.
Thursday 20 July 2006
Problems and challenges of rehabilitation and reconstruction in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam
Speaker: Associate Prof Robert Rice, Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
Abstract
Associate Prof Rice recently completed a nine month project with AUSAID and the UNDP as Economic Revitalisation and Development Advisor to the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency, the main Indonesian Government agency responsible for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of these two tsunami and earthquake hit regions.
This talk focuses on the problems and challenges and how the agencies have attempted to deal with them in Aceh.
Friday 23 June 2006
13th Annual Workshop on Southeast Asian Women
Thursday 1 June 2006
Colonial utopias: Thomas Karsten (1885 - 1945) and the design of modern Indonesia
Speaker: Dr Joost Coté, Senior Lecturer Asian Studies, School of Social and International Studies, Deakin University
Abstract
Between 1914 and 1942, Thomas Karsten made a major contribution to the social, intellectual and aesthetic foundations of modern Indonesia. He was involved in the town planning of 12 of the 19 urban municipalities in Java (the most prominent exception being Surabaya), 3 of the 9 towns in Sumatra, and the only town in Kalimantan. As an architect of some major domestic, commercial and public buildings - including buildings of major social and cultural significance - he established a number of aesthetic and technical principles central to the development of Indonesian architecture. As a man of social vision and commitment to social and cultural reform, Karsten was a major force in shaping the progressive discourse of late colonial Indonesia through progressive colonial journals such as De Taak, De Stuw and Kriteik en Opbouw.
While his utopian vision of a post-war world articulated in a Japanese internment camp was swept aside, Karsten was arguably an influential figure within certain Javanese cultural circles in his day. Drawing on private family papers, this seminar examines Karsten's psycho-cultural ideas that underpinned his urban planning designs. They reveal an interbellum intellectual, powerfully influenced by the ideas of Carl Gustav Jung, concerned as much with providing a framework for the construction of Indonesian modernity as with the 'decline of the West'.
About the speaker
Joost Coté is senior lecturer in the School of History, Heritage and Society at Deakin University (Burwood) where he teaches Modern Southeast Asian History, Australian Studies and contributes to the post graduate program of the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and Pacific. His recent publications are "Recalling the Indies: Colonial Memories and Postcolonial Identities", edited with Loes Westerbeek (Aksant Amsterdam 2005) and "On Feminism and Nationalism: Kartini's letters to Stella Zeehandelaar" (MAI 2005). He is currently preparing an edited translation of the correspondence of Kartini's sisters, as well as chapters for a book on Thomas Karsten. His articles include 'Towards an Architecture of Association': H.F.Tillema, Semarang and the construction of colonial modernity', in P. Nas (ed) "The Indonesian Town revisited" (ISEAS Singapore, 2002), 'A Conglomeration of [...] often Conflicting Ideas': Resolving the 'Native Question' in Java and the Outer Islands in the Dutch East Indies, 1900-1925, "Itinerario", Vol XXVII, No 3/4, 2004, and 'Tirto Adhi Soerjo and the narration of Indonesian modernity', in Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs (RIMA), vol 32,2, 1998.
Thursday 25 May 2006
Alune ethnoecology and livelihood in an uncertain world: a report from western Seram, Indonesia
Speaker: Dr Chris Healey, Honorary Research Associate in Linguistics, Monash University.
Thursday 18 May 2006
Dealing with the Khmer Rouge: Collective memory, external pressure and induced amnesia
Speaker: Prof Emeritus David Chandler, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute.
A world-renowned Cambodia expert, David Chandler has published a number of books on Cambodian history, the Khmer Rouge and its leader Pol Pot, including "A History of Cambodia", 3rd edition, Westview Press, 2000; "Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison", University of California Press, 1999; "Brother Number One: a Political Biography of Pol Pot", Westview Press, 2nd rev ed. 1999.
David Chandler has had a long association with Monash University. He was Director of the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies from 1979 to 1996, Associate Professor (1972- ) then Professor of History 1993 till 1997. Since then, he has held Professorial positions at the University of Wisconsin, John Hopkins University and Cornell University and been a Senior Advisor at the Center for Khmer Studies in Siem Reap, Cambodia. From 2003, he returned to Monash University and to living in Melbourne.
David Chandler has also worked as a consultant for USAID evaluating their democracy and governance programs and the Asia Foundation assessing election support activities in Phnom Penh. His expertise has been called upon by Amnesty International and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees to accompany research and fact finding missions to Cambodia, and he has also researched Cambodia archives for the US Department of Defence, Office of POW/MIA Affairs. Early in his career David was posted to Phnom Penh as a Foreign Service Officer with the US Department of State. After leaving the Foreign Service, David turned to academic life, writing his dissertation on pre-colonial Cambodia (University of Michigan, 1973).
Thursday 11 May 2006
Macbeth in Bali: the Arti Foundation and the practice of pelestarian
Speaker: Dr Brett Hough, Lecturer in Anthropology and Indonesian Studies, Monash University.
Dr Brett Hough currently holds a joint appointment at Monash as Lecturer in Anthropology (School of Political and Social Inquiry) and Indonesian Studies (School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics).
Brett Hough undertook undergraduate studies at the Australian National University, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana in Salatiga, Central Java, and Monash University gaining a BA (Hons) in Anthropology and Indonesian Studies in 1988. In 1989 he began a PhD in the Department of Indonesian and Chinese Studies at Monash, which involved two years of fieldwork in Bali. His thesis is an ethnographic study of the College of Indonesian Arts, Denpasar, examining College processes of institutionalisation and bureaucratisation within the wider context of nationalism, the cultural politics of the New Order State and the incorporation of Bali into the nation-state of Indonesia. As part of his research in Bali, Brett also studied topeng (mask dancing) with I Ketut Kantor in Batuan. As well as his continuing research on several Balinese related topics, he is the Australian representative of the ARTI Foundation.
Thursday 4 May 2006
Maluku, the long road to recovery
Dr Craig Thorburn is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, International Development & Environmental Analysis (IDEA) program, Monash University. Craig completed a PhD on customary coastal and marine resource management in the Kei Islands, eastern Indonesia, in 2000, at the University of California Los Angeles. He has worked at the community level with NGOs , development agencies and bilateral aid programs in Indonesia for over 20 years. His research interests are in the management of common-property resources, customary rights, decentralisation and regional governance issues.
Thursday 27 April 2006
The rice culture of the Cordilleras
Mr Dave Leprozo Jr., award winnning photojournalist from the Philippines
Mr Dave Leprozo Jr is a multi-award winning photojournalist, well-known for his photographs of contemporary Cordilleran life and rituals. Dave Leprozo came to Melbourne recently for an exhibition of his photographs in conjunction with the International Igorot Consultation, held at a city hotel from 20-23 April 2006. Himself a Cordilleran, Mr Leprozo will be speaking to some of his own photographs, which he is bringing to Monash especially for this seminar.
In the Philippines, Mr Dave Leprozo Jr. works as a journalist for the Cordilleran newsagency and publishes in newspapers including the Manila Standard and the Business Mirror.
Thursday 13 April 2006
Inscribing Sumatran space: local representations
Dr Jane Drakard is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Historical Studies at Monash. She is the author of several books on Sumatran history including A Malay Frontier (Ithaca, 1990) and A Kingdom of Words (Kuala Lumpur, 1999).
Thursday 30 March 2006
Placename narratives and identity in the north east of Ambon Island
Dr Simon Musgrav, ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistic, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Ambon Island in the Central Maluku region of Eastern Indonesia has a long history of contact with non-indigenous cultures. During the seventeenth century, the Dutch colonizers caused many inland villages on Ambon to relocate to the coast, including a group of villages in the north-eastern corner of the Island: Tulehu, Tengah-tengah and Tial. In these villages, traditional narratives which tell of the origins of the villages are still current. A central feature in these narratives is an account of how the villages came to have their names. None of these narratives mention the European presence or its role in the relocation of the communities. Instead, the narratives seek to construct identities for the communities based on relations to natural phenomena such as bird cries and the sea. This paper examines linguistic aspects of several such narratives to show how ideas of place and identity are imagined in these communities.
About the speaker
Dr Simon Musgrave is currently conducting research in the Maluku region of Indonesia, as an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in Monash Linguistics' project "Endangered Moluccan Languages: Eastern Indonesia & the Dutch diaspora" in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts.
Thursday 23 March 2006
The life and art of Sudjana Kerton: Memories of his homeland
Dr Tony Donaldson, Monash Asia Institute
Sudjana Kerton (1922-1994) is one of the best known artists
in Indonesia. He first came to public attention in Indonesia in the
1940s as a war artist. He travelled to Europe in 1950 to further
his studies, and for the next twenty-six years he spent his life
in France, the Netherlands, the United States, and Mexico. He returned
to Indonesia in 1976 to build Sanggar Luhur, his studio-gallery on
Dago Pakar Hill overlooking Bandung.
Kerton was an Indonesian
nationalist. Bandung was his hometown and he chose to return from
his travels to live there. For all that, Kerton's art also reveals
a paradox about his feelings for Indonesian society insofar as that,
while he was deeply proud of his Indonesian heritage, he was disappointed
by the negative changes that he saw taking place in Indonesia, including
the rise of cronyism, corruption, bribery, and materialism, and he
often used his art to inspire Indonesians to reflect on their country
and their own lives and values.
This talk will look into
Kerton's early days as a war artist, his association with Bung
Karno, his life in Indonesia, Europe and the United States, and perspectives
about how he communicates through his art. The talk also touches
on issues concerning recent art crimes in Indonesia, including the
theft of 19 Kerton oil paintings in 1997.
Thursday 9 March 2006
Historical hatred: the roots of Cambodian hostility toward the Vietnamese
Dr Trudy Jacobsen, ARC Postdoctoral Fellow 2006-2008, jointly in the CSEAS, MAI and the Anthropology program, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Abstract:
Cambodian antipathy towards the Vietnamese is deeply ingrained. Yuan, a term denoting Vietnamese ethnicity, is one of the most derogatory insults Cambodians can hurl at each other during an argument. Corrupt politicians are said to have links to Vietnam; prostitutes are popularly believed to be of Vietnamese descent. Pro-Vietnamese conspiracies are revealed every week in the press. Past sovereigns of Cambodia who were supported by the Vietnamese are loathed, whereas those placed on the throne by the Thai are lauded. In the past two decades, this hostility has often resulted in ethnic violence towards the large population of Vietnamese cobblers, tailors, and fishing families resident in Cambodia. Explanations for Cambodian ill-will towards the Vietnamese are vague and unsatisfactory, usually relating to a time in the distant past when the Vietnamese are alleged to have killed hundreds of Cambodians in the course of constructing a canal between the two countries, or elucidated in terms of Vietnamese encroachment of Cambodian territory over the past 150 years. So entrenched is the Cambodian hatred of the Vietnamese that the role the latter played in liberating Cambodia from the bloody Democratic Kampuchea regime in 1979 was quickly forgotten in a wave of resentment at the imposition of Vietnamese practices onto Cambodian culture in the 1980s. Yet many of these justifications for hostility appear to be unfounded. A Cambodian king of the seventeenth century, for example, invited the Vietnamese 'encroachment'; another turned toward the court at Hué for assistance against the Thai, setting a precedent for Vietnamese involvement in Cambodian politics. This paper explores these and other explanations for Cambodian hostility toward the Vietnamese in order to determine whether this 'historical hatred' is based in fact or is being perpetuated for more sinister political ends.
About the speaker:
Dr Trudy Jacobsen was recently awarded an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship to come to the CSEAS, MAI and the Anthropology program, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University for three years from 2006-2008. Her ARC APD research project is entitled 'Sexual Contracts in Burma and Cambodia: Intersections of Desire, Duty, and Debt'. She has a BA Honours (1999) in history and anthropology, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Classical Languages East and West (2004) from the University of Queensland, where she also completed her PhD in History (2004), now published as "Women, Time and Power in Cambodia", Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2005. Before joining Monash Trudy was a Lecturer at the University of Queensland and a Research Fellow at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, at Griffith University.
Joint seminar
Centre of Southeast Asian Studies and Centre for Malaysian Studies
Monash Asia Institute
Thursday 2 March 2006
Talking about biotechnology: Notes from the field on the political economy of Malaysian media
Dr. Sandra Smeltzer, Assistant Professor,
Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario,
Canada.
Chair: Dr Wendy Smith, Director, Centre for Malaysian
Studies
About the speaker
Dr Sandy
Smeltzer is coming here after field research on (the lack of) public
discourse surrounding the Malaysian government's new biotechnology
policies and initiatives. This research includes examination of the
ability of alternative 'politically contentious'
media in Malaysia to procure information about these biotechnology
plans. Dr Smeltzer has previously conducted research on the MSC and
government-led programs to create a 'knowledge-based' IT-ready
Malaysian economy and society.
Seminar organiser
Dr Penelope Graham
Senior Lecturer and Head
of Anthropology, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty
of Arts
Director, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies,
Monash Asia Institute
Executive Director, Herb Feith
Foundation
Email: penny.graham@arts.monash.edu.au
ALL WELCOME
The CSEAS seminar series will recommence for 2007 at the start of 1st semester on Thursday, 1st March.