Introduction to Academic Writing for International Publication: A Virtual Workshop

Presented by: 

The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) 
and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Workshop Dates: 6-9 December 2021

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in collaboration with the American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) offers an introductory workshop on Academic Writing for International Publication to enhance the capacity of early-career Indonesian scholars to write and publish in English language journals. The workshop focuses on the challenges faced by Indonesian scholars working in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and applied sciences, in publishing internationally, and on strategies and methods to overcome these challenges. Through a series of talks and individual consultations, workshop participants will learn about preparing manuscripts for submission to academic journals, and receive feedback on their writing. In individual sessions with one of the Presenters, participants will receive feedback on the paper’s central question, argument, and presentation. Participants will leave the workshop prepared to complete a preliminary draft of a research manuscript.

The workshop is open to Indonesian scholars and researchers who are at the beginning to intermediate stage in the development of a research publication. Workshop participants will submit concept papers outlining research articles they are planning to prepare for publication. Participants who have a preliminary draft should submit that as well.

Application Submission Deadline: Sunday, 14 November 2021 at 23:59 WIB (Jakarta time)

IMPORTANT DATES
Application Open 25 October 2021
Application Submission Deadline 14 November 2021, 23:59 WIB
Notification of Selected Applicants 26 November 2021
Workshop Dates and Times 6 December 2021, 18:30-21:30 WIB
7 December 2021, 19:00-22:00 WIB
8 December 2021, 19:00-22:00 WIB
9 December 2021, 19:00-22:00 WIB
Post-workshop Individual Sessions 10-17 December 2021 

OVERVIEW OF WORKSHOP GOALS
The 1-week intensive workshop will cover three broad topic areas:
i) What editors look for in a manuscript
ii) How to communicate an idea and develop a focused argument 
iii) Using the Salient Points of Publishable Academic English to Write a Research Article in English

WORKSHOP PRESENTERS / PRESENTATIONS

Paul H Kratoska was formerly Publishing Director of NUS Press at the National University of Singapore. He served on the Board of Directors of the US Association for Asian Studies from 2003-2005 and is past editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies and current editor of The Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. He taught at the Ateneo de Manila (1975-77), Universiti Sains Malaysia (1977-87) and the National University of Singapore (1987-2005). His research focuses on Southeast Asia and he has published books and articles on the Japanese Occupation, the history of rice cultivation, ethnic minorities, school textbooks, and academic publishing. He was a contributor to the Cambridge History of South-East Asia, the Cambridge History of World War II, and the Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History, and serves on the boards of Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS, Kyoto University), TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia (Sogang University), and The Journal of History (Philippine Historical Society). He is lead mentor for the US Social Science Research Council’s Global Scholars Initiative. 
Presentations by Paul H Kratoska: 
1). What Editors Look For ; 2). Writing for International Publications ; 3). Why Your Dissertation is Not a Book ; 4). The Ethics of Scholarly Communication

Susan Lopez-Nerney designed, coordinated and taught language, writing and professional communication courses for undergraduates and graduates in the Centre for English Language Communication at the National University of Singapore from 1992 until 2013. She has conducted writing workshops for graduate degree candidates and junior faculty in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. She is a mentor for the US Social Science Research Council’s Global Scholars Initiative. 
Presentation by Susan Lopez-Nerney: Salient Features of Publishable English

Paul Nerney designed, taught and coordinated courses in English as a Second Language and English as a First-School Language for the Centre for English Language. He also worked under the Provost’s Office to design, teach and coordinate writing and critical thinking modules for the University Scholars Programme and University Town Residential Programme. More recently, he has conducted writing workshops for graduate degree candidates and junior faculty in Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Indonesia. He is a mentor for the US Social Science Research Council’s Global Scholars Initiative. 
Presentation by Paul Nerney: Planning and Drafting Strategies for Research Papers

Linda Grove is Consulting Director of the Social Science Research Council's Tokyo office and program director for the Council’s Global Scholars Initiative. She formerly taught Chinese social and economic history at Sophia University in Tokyo, where she served as dean and vice president with responsibility for international programs and research management. Her publications include books and articles on Chinese rural industrialization and social change, East Asian trade history, and Chinese women's history, as well as translations of Japanese and Chinese scholarship on Chinese history. 
Presentation by Linda Grove: Preparing a Literature Review

Siddharth Chandra is past President of the American Institute for Indonesian Studies, and Director of the Asian Studies Center and Professor of Economics in James Madison College at Michigan State University. Prior to joining Michigan State University, he was Director of the Asian Studies Center and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include behavior and policy relating to addictive substances, the intersection of demography, economics, health, and history in Asia, and applications of portfolio theory to fields outside finance, for which the theory was originally developed. His research has appeared in a variety of journals across the disciplines including American Psychologist, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Demography, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, the International Journal of Drug Policy, the Journal of Regional Science, the Journal of Economic History, World Politics, The British Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of Asian Studies. 
Presentation by Siddharth Chandra: How Your Target Audience Affects Writing Style

If you have any inquiries, please contact: annas.bentari@aifis.org

'Idrek' for Humanity: Screen Capturing Malang

Currently society is experiencing significant changes due to globalization, technological advances and cultural shifts. Therefore, now is the perfect time to foster collaboration between universities and communities to overcome the problems caused by dramatic changes in society. Idrek for Humanity is a collaboration of language scholars from three leading universities in Malang: Ika Nurhayani, Ph.D (Universitas Brawijaya), Nurenzia Yannuar, Ph.D (Universitas Negeri Malang) and Wawan Eko Yulianto, Ph.D (Universitas Ma Chung). Idrek for Humanity was founded by them to bring universities in Malang closer to the surrounding community by capturing the nuances of languages, literature in Malang and advocating them for scholarly discussions in those fields. Idrek is a reversal of a Malangan Javanese word kerdi (coined from kerja ‘to work’ + rodi ‘corvee labor’), meaning ‘to work hard’. Word-reversal, referred to as Walikan, is a common language practice in Malang. The use of a Walikan word in the name of the community symbolizes our intention to capture the spirit and ethos of the people of Malang. For its first event, Idrek for Humanity will hold an online discussion entitled Screen Capturing Malang, in which the founders of Idrek Humanity will speak about literary works set in Malang. The event will be held by Universitas Negeri Malang, in collaboration with AIFIS, Universitas Brawijaya and Universitas Ma Chung.

Date : Saturday, October 2, 2021
Time : 09.00-11.10
Venue : Virtual (Zoom)
Registration: https://tiny.cc/GuestLecture

Book Discussion: The Mushroom at the End of the World

BOOK TITLE AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

In this book, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing takes an in-depth look at the Matsutake mushroom commodity chain by exploring unexpected corners of capitalism. Matsusake is an important mushroom. With its ability to care for trees, Matsusake helps the preservation of the wilderness. In Japan, Matsusake is a food commodity with an expensive price. In this book, Tsing invites us to see the varied and unique Matsusake trade from the Japanese culinary world to capitalist traders to Hmong forest warriors to industrial forests to Yi China goat herders to Finnish tour guides. This take us into the history of the forest and fungal ecology to better understand ways of living together in a time of great human destruction. Examining the world's most sought-after mushroom, this book presents an examination of the relationship between the destruction caused by capitalism and the collaborative way of life in a multispecies landscape.

A DIALOG WITH:

Hatib Abdul Kadir (Department of Anthropology, Universitas Brawijaya; UCSC alumni) and
Fathun Karib (Department of Sociology, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah; Ph.D candidate, Binghamton University, NY)

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 5PM WIB

Registration: https://eutenika.org/daftar

Language Documentation and Studies of English Spoken in Indonesia

Malang Graduate Student Webinar in Linguistics: Language Documentation and Studies of English Spoken in Indonesia

The Master’s Study Program of Linguistics, of the Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya will hold a webinar entitled 2021 Malang Graduate Student Webinar in Linguistics: Language Documentation in Indonesia and Studies of English Spoken in Indonesia in collaboration with AIFIS.

The aim of this event is to provide an opportunity for graduate students in linguistics in Malang and in the United States to share ideas and receive feedback from their peers. In addition, graduate students in Malang will be able to network with their peers in the United States.

Speakers Speakers invited for the event are graduate students from Universitas Brawijaya, Universitas Negeri Malang, Cornell University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The speakers are Ekarina Winarto (Ph.D Candidate, Cornell University), Radha Andhra Swari (Master Student, Universitas Brawijaya), Khairunnisa (Ph.D Candidate, University of Hawaii at Manoa), Alifa Camilia Fadillah (Master Student, Universitas Brawijaya), Naima Khairunisa (Master Student, Universitas Negeri Malang), and Christian Edison Bani (Master Student, Universitas Brawijaya).

Date and Time: Friday, August 6, 2021 at 08.00-11.00

Registration: tiny.cc/GraduateStudentWebinar

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earlier States

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earlier States

By: James C. Scott (Yale University Press, 2017)

In this book, James C. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the “barbarians” who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and non-subject peoples. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family—all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction.

DISCUSSANTS
-            Irsyad Martias (Department of Anthropology, Universitas Brawijaya)
-            Rucitarahma Ristiawan (Wageningen University, Belanda)

 MODERATOR
Hatib Abdul Kadir (UCSC alumni; researcher at Center for Culture and Frontiers Studeis, Universitas Brawijaya)

Day, Date : Friday, July 30th, 2021
Time : 15-17 WIB

Decolonising the Catastrophe Discourse: Forensic Portraiture, Competing Storylines

SPEAKER
Hendro Sangkoyo (researcher at School of Democratic Economics, Indonesia)

ABSTRACT
In this presentation I use the notion of catastrophe as a shorthand for a phenomenon, process or event —depending on its space-time framing— of the disappearance or interruption in the fulfilment of a set of salient wellbeing criteria of a group of living beings —including humans— as its subject of suffering. To date, the official convention of what does or does not fit to be called a disaster, its further classification, its genesis and tail ends, and how to address and deal with it, have all been the dominion of the political/statal and the knowledge authorities, both are instrumental to the maintenance of global biopolitics. Under such a discursive system and practice, the central predicates pertaining to catastrophe, namely, to mobilize, to cope with and to prevent, in that sequence, got placed within a deterministic and contested imagination of catastrophe’s space-time topology. Against the backdrop of such ruling interpretation and analytics, the present precis intends to advance the notion of catastrophe as part and parcel of the daily living condition under the social-ecological crisis. The scrutiny focuses on the dynamics of catastrophe phenomenon within the context of industrial-urbanism, the dominant mode of social-metabolism in our common life-time|space. Based particularly upon shared understandings from a sustained solidarity and social-learning work over the past two decades, the discussion shall gravitate around the nature of catastrophes, the divergence and conflation of chronotypes and spatiotypes of the phenomenon, social tropes and division of labor of its management, and the economistic transformation of the catastrophe-discourse in tandem with its attendant mobilisatory politics. Such a transformation reveals the fingerprints of colonial and imperial leitmotifs, as well as its oft revealing racist and patriarchal disposition, which manifest remarkably in the ground rules on how pain and the suffering subject under catastrophe should get treated and valorized.

MODERATOR
Siti Maimunah (University of Passay, Germany)

DISCUSSANT
Rita Padawangi (Singapure University of Social Sciences, Singapore)

Writing Ethnography Online Course (WE.OC)

Background

“Culture” has been one of the most interesting topics for Indonesian scholars and publics in general. However, ethnography has yet to be familiar for Indonesians researchers. Although it is very popular among anthropology and some sociology departments, the pedagogy of ethnography in Indonesian campuses has been very troubling since the very limited reading materials on ethnography are available in Bahasa Indonesia. Resources on research methods in social sciences and humanities have been dominated by positivist approaches. This project then is also meant to the mainstreaming of humanistic approach into social sciences and humanities studies in Indonesia. The Writing Ethnography Online Course (or WE.OC) will explore various strategies and ways to become a professional ethnographer. WE.OC will assist participants in a series of sessions designed to train scholars from various disciplines and levels to engage with ethnographic fieldwork and writing. WE.OC is designed to ease first timers of ethnography as well as experienced ethnographers exercising ethnographic writing for academia and beyond. Synchronous sessions will be delivered via Zoom which parallels asynchronous assignments via Google Classroom.

Objectives

❏           To introduce ethnography, ethnographic fieldwork, and ethnographic writing; and how this approach is different from other research approaches.
❏           To develop skills and ways in doing ethnography, especially in writing fieldnotes, data analysis and data interpretations.
❏           To address and discuss key issues which might emerge during ethnographic fieldwork and writing.
❏           To translate and publish relevant reading materials for the learning and pedagogy of ethnographic approaches into Bahasa Indonesia.
❏           To publish some ethnographic writings by course’s participants
❏           To mainstream ethnographic approach in the area of social sciences and humanities in Indonesia

Outcomes
❏           A series of online course on writing ethnography
❏           Translations and publications of relevant reading materials on ethnography into Bahasa Indonesia
❏           Publications of ethnographic writing of participants of WE.OC

Timeline
Open registration :  10 May 2021
Target participant  : Students and researchers - who have completed and/or been doing fieldwork. Limited to 50 participants (20-seats will be allocated for participants from Tanah Papua)
Registration’s requirements : A short bio (250-word max.); a motivation letter (500-word max.); abstract/paper proposal: consisting of research problem(s), research question(s), methods, key findings, initial hypothesis (1,500-word max.); Participation commitment of IDR200,000 which can be disbursed through bank transfer to CIMB NIAGA 705613 776300 (account holder name Perkumpulan Peneliti Eutenika). Unsuccessful applicants will get a refund deducted by administration fee (IDR10,000).
Method : Online synchronous and asynchronous
Language of instruction : Indonesian
Close registration :  12 June 2021
Selection : 12-22 June 2021
Announcement : 22 Juni 2021
Note :  Certificate will be only given to participants who enrolled in all sessions AND submitted a final paper for the publications.

Decolonizing Lapindo “Science”: Power, Knowledge, and Legacies of Misinformation

This presentation surveys a series of influential studies by scientists affiliated with Lapindo Brantas, identifying a pattern of spreading misleading information about (1) what first triggered the Lapindo mudflow and (2) the mudflow’s social and ecological effects. These studies have been influential in shaping government responses to the disaster, from investigations to disaster management operations. And by promoting a narrative that shields Lapindo Brantas from responsibility, these studies also have undermined efforts by mudflow victims to receive justice and prevent unsafe energy mining in the future. Despite glaring flaws in many of these studies, many which will be outlined in this presentation, professional journals continue to publish these scientists’ reports, which raises broader questions about power and ethics within scientific institutions. I will conclude by asking whether it might be possible to decolonize Lapindo science, and consider what inquiry about geological, environmental, and human systems might look like outside of the hierarchies of power that often permeate mainstream global science. By paying closer attention to knowledge gathering activities of victims, residents, activists, and others who have touched by the disaster, alternative models of decolonized science might emerge to provide more accurate and nuanced information about disasters. Beyond advancing safety, equity, and resiliency among communities affected by the mudflow, these local scientific practices might provide lessons that could help vulnerable populations facing hazards throughout the world.

DISCUSSANT
Dr. Judith E. Bosnak (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

MODERATOR
Dr. phil. Anton Novenanto (Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia)

Environment, Development, and Governance in Indonesia: Theories, Issues, and Trends

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (editors: Anna Tsing, Elaine Gan, Heather Anne Swanson, Nils Bubandt, University of Minnesota Press, 2017)

Divided into two main parts (Ghosts on a Damaged Planet and Monsters and the Arts of Living), this edited volume consists of contributions from various background and disciplines on how to be resilient with the damaged planet earth. This volume offers various “arts of living” from all over the planet.

DISCUSSANTS

- Dr. Nils Bubandt (Professor of Anthropology, Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University, Denmark; editor and contributor of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet)

- Dr. Suraya Afiff (Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Universitas Indonesia; chair of Indonesian Anthropology Association)

- Dr. Anton Novenanto (Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Universitas Brawijaya)

MODERATOR

Dr. Hatib Abdul Kadir (Lecturer, Department of Anthropology & researcher, Center for Culture and Frontiers Studies, Universitas Brawijaya)

Via Zoom Meeting ID: 999 9204 3035 (Passcode: 28052021)

Fire Otherwise: Lifeways Enhanching Fire Management in a Changing World

Webinar Series: "Fire Otherwise: Lifeways Enhanching Fire Management in a Changing World"

Speaker : Dr. Cynthia 'Cissy' Fowler, PhD (University of Hawaii)

Registration link: bit.ly/WebinarFire

This event is co-organized by The Forest & Society Universitas Hasanuddin, Sebijak Institute, Dala Institute, Universitas Gadjah Mada, and The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS).

Workshop on ELAN and Audacity

To build local linguists’ capacity in doing language documentation using tools for language documentation, PKBB and AIFIS are conducting a workshop on ELAN and Audacity. This workshop will be hosted for undergraduate students in Kupang, Nusa Tenggara Timur, the province where about 10 percent of the local languages are found. Most of the undergraduate students are native speakers of these local languages.

Fire

Principle and Application of Technology in Observing Wildlife Population

Introduction:
- Technologies are needed to observe wildlife population, especially primates, in a more precise and applicative way to support the conservation of wildlife.
- The type of technology that can be used to observe wildlife population varies, such as bioacoustics, drones, Geographic Information System and its corresponding software, camera traps, thermal cameras, etc.
- Information regarding those technologies are still limited and not everyone has access to them. Therefore, a forum in which every person has access to discuss and gain knowledge to the latest technology is needed.

Purpose: To gather information and introduce the latest methods and technologies in observing wildlife population that are more precise and applicative, and also the challenges that follows.

The Challenge of Mental Rehabilitation for Lapindo Mudflow’s Survivors

ABSTRACT

When explained as episodic, disasters are often based on its carrier agents, its temporality, its duration, and emerging attributions of industrial, sudden, slow disasters, etc. However, when the ability of authorities is incorporated, disasters are also intertwined with crises and incidents. In a long-term period, they can appear simultaneously and interchangeably. In such a situation, we are both perpetrators and survivors, because disasters, incidents, and crises are closely related to the illusions of control, especially the overconfidence of human ability to stem risks—say from a gas drilling by relying on science and technology. Thus, being able to control is an exchange of losses—the accumulation of national capital with the price of socio-ecological damages of local communities. In the context of restoring mental condition of survivors, as the payer, it becomes a complicated matter, especially when traditional psychological approach is being used and relying more on the modification and individual intervention to overcome problems which are systemic. Disasters took away individual, household, social, and cultural capitals. The subsequent question is: how do the survivors live in such social and environmental vulnerability which continues to increase? Popular terms such as “coping” and “adaptation” are insufficient to explain this because “coping” is a modification of individual’s internal system while “adaptation” is relatively carried out in a “manageable” situation framework. So, we shifted to “resilience” as to the ability to peel all of this. However, caution needs to be applied in the use of the concept which has recently become increasingly popular and has begun to be familiar in state-institutions, replacing the discourse of “sustainability”. The concept of “resilience” is included because it contains a positive final solution. In short, even though the crisis is not taken seriously and fully resolved, the system will automatically renew itself. Fortunately, there is hope that this concept can still be accessed as long as it is on the map of power relations and considering the context. A kind of ecological framework which involves various elements is stratified and contains relationships between social-ecological systems so that resilience must lead to transformative adaptations targeting the root causes of a problem from a corrosive human civilization. Thus, a critical view, local and containing practical work, including empowering networks, becomes an option that gives a glimmer of hope in the dark clouds. Furthermore, when talking about locality, the embodied everyday life will become the seed of memory which is more authentic than the dream of bureaucrats. This memory ensures the survival of a community so that it must be collected and made as input to the dominant system.

Flooding in Indonesia

Fisheries and the Ocean

National Parks and Conservation

Learning to Navigate the Ethics of Boundaries Schools, Youth, and Inter-Religious Relationships in North Sulawesi

Plantation Governance, Politics and Justice in Indonesia