Lectures and Workshops
AIFIS sponsors a series of lectures and workshops across Indonesia. Please check back here for announcements of current activities, events and opportunities.
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Center for Linguistic and Cultural Studies (PKBB) Atma Jaya University, supported by AIFIS, proudly presents the 21st Annual Linguistics Conference which will be held on June 20-22, 2023 in Atma Jaya University, Jakarta.
Abstract submission deadline: Januari 15, 2023
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Abstract: Women have made significant inroads into political life in recent years, but in many parts of the world, their increased engagement has spurred attacks, intimidation, and harassment. In her recent book, Violence against Women in Politics (Oxford University Press, 2020), Krook argues that violence against women in politics is not simply a gendered extension of existing definition of political violence but, rather, a distinct phenomenon involving a broad range of harms to attack and undermine women as political actors. This talk traces how political women around the world came to name their experiences "violence against women in politics," illustrates what this problem looks like in practice, and catalogues emerging solutions, with a particular focus on the challenges posed by violence against women in politics to democracy around the globe.
Date : Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Time : 9AM WIB Jakarta Time or 9PM ET (Monday, 28 November 2022)
Short Bio: Mona Lena Krook is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Women and Politics Ph.D. Program at Rutgers University. Shas published widely on gender and political representation, particularly on electoral gender quotas and the impact of women in public office, including the award-winning Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide (Oxford University Press, 2009). She is currently the lead editor of Politics & Gender, the official journal of the Women, Gender, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Her most recent book, Violence against Women in Politics, published by Oxford University in 2020, was researched with the support of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Written for scholars and practitioners, it won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, given to “those who have taken on issues of world importance and presented viewpoints that could lead to a more just and peaceful world”. Since 2015, Krook has collaborated with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) on the #NotTheCost campaign to stop violence against women in politics, which over the last five years has informed NDI’s global programming, contributed to debates at the United Nations, and inspired efforts in the U.S. Congress to address this problem.
Muslim family law is a crucial determinant of women’s rights in many Muslim settings. Muslim family law is commonly interpreted to stipulate a family structure in which husbands are breadwinners and household leaders while wives are responsible for the domestic realm and may be expected to obey their husbands. However, gender norms and practices in majority Muslim societies have changed with increasing numbers of women pursuing higher education and careers. This study examines Indonesian Muslim women’s divorce narratives during a period of increasing divorce cases. I find that by facilitating women’s exit from marriages, Indonesia’s Islamic courts accommodate women’s changing expectations of marriage. The case of Indonesia illuminates how a religious legal system may have unintended consequences, promoting women’s higher aspirations for marriage and potentially shifting gender norms more broadly.
Speaker: Rachel Rinaldo is associate professor of sociology and faculty director of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Rachel Rinaldo (PhD University of Chicago, 2007) is a cultural sociologist interested in gender, globalization, social change, religion, an qualitative methods, with a special focus on the developing world and Muslim societies in Southeast Asia. She has conducted fieldwork in Indonesia since 2002. Her first book, Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia (Oxford, 2013) is an ethnographic. She is currently on sabbatical as a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia, conducting research on women and work in the Covid era.
Date and Venue: Wednesday, 2 November 2022
13:00 (Western Indonesia Time)
Graduate School Building, Universitas Gadjah Mada
3rd Floor, Room 307, Jl. Teknika Utara, Pogung , Yogyakarta
Livestream on YouTube: CRCS UGM
Background
Ethnic riots are a costly and all too common occurrence during political transitions in multi-ethnic settings. Why do ethnic riots occur in certain parts of a country and not others? How does violence eventually decline? Drawing on rich case studies and quantitative evidence from Indonesia between 1990 and 2012, join the International Institute for Peace at Rutgers University, Newark, the American Institute for Indonesian Studies, and NYSEAN for a book talk with author Risa Toha. Her book argues that patterns of ethnic rioting are not inevitably driven by inter-group animosity, weakness of state capacity, or local demographic composition. Rather, local ethnic elites strategically use violence to leverage their demands for political inclusion during the political transition, and that violence eventually declines as these demands are accommodated. The book breaks new ground in showing that particular political reforms—increased political competition, direct local elections, and local administrative units partitioning—in ethnically diverse contexts can ameliorate political exclusion and reduce overall levels of violence between groups.
Speaker: Risa J. Toha, Ph.D. Wheaton College, Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Politics and International Relations
Time: Wednesday, 26 October 2022, starts at 2.30 PM Eastern Time
This symposium aims to reveal the cultural aspect, the needs, and the cause of how the curriculum was changed across the globe. Master of English Education aims to provide an insight into how curriculum adaptation was applied in secondary and higher education contexts from the perspective of educators from different countries. We believe that different perspectives foreign educators can provide a new lens on how new concepts, policies, and emergency responses are perceived. To achieve the purpose the Master of English Education held this international symposium series on the topic of Curriculum in time of crisis: Re-conception, responses, and innovations. In addition, this symposium also equips teachers or students to get a deeper understanding of how to adjust to the changes.
This symposium is jointly organized by the the Master of English Education of Universitas PGRI Semarang in cooperation with the American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS). The symposium will be conducted virtually on: Friday, August 19th 2022.
Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5504804864
Meeting ID: 550 480 4864 Passcode: CRCLM
This year, Eutenika in collaboration with AIFIS will organize a book talk series inviting participants from academia and the general public focusing on the relation between human and technology. In this series we will discuss how technologies are developed, deployed, and applied in different societies, especially in Indonesian societies. In each event, we will invite discussants from various backgrounds. To reach a wider audience, the event will be organized virtually via Zoom and broadcasted live on our Youtube Page. It will begin with a 45-minutes conversation with panel discussants and followed by open discussions with the rest of participants. All recordings from the Youtube Page will be useful for teaching materials for courses related to the topic of technology and society as well as introducing and popularizing science and technology studies (STS) to Indonesian academics and the general public.
ORGANIZERS
The Book Discussion Forum is jointly organized by Perkumpulan Peneliti Eutenika in collaboration with
American Institute for Indonesian Studies.
DATE
Day, Date : Saturday, July 30, 2022
Time : 19.30 - 21.00 WIB
Zoom link : TBA (open for public and Youtube Live)
BOOK TITLE AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION
The Sociology of Science by Robert K. Merton (University of Chicago Press, 1973). It consists of a collection of papers in sociology of science written by Robert K. Merton, which before were published or presented in various journals, symposia, and other books. The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations is a response to the development of sociology of science as a distinct sociological specialty. This book presents sociology of science as a discipline that exemplifies current ideas and findings about the emergence of scientific specialties through theoretical and empirical investigations.
DISCUSSANT
Dr. Anton Novenanto (Department of Sociology Universitas Brawijaya; AIFIS Luce-fellow)
MODERATOR
Pratama Yudha Pradheksa (AMINEF-Fulbright, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Graduate School Fellowship)
Peserta akan berlatih menganalisis aspek akustik bunyi-bunyi konsonan dengan menggunakan Praat, sebuah program komputer yang dapat diunduh secara gratis. Praat dikembangkan oleh Paul Boersma dan David Weenik dari University of Amsterdam dan sudah banyak digunakan dalam mempelajari aspek akustik suara manusia. Para peserta pelatihan kali ini akan berlatih menginvestigasi gelombang suara konsonan stops, fricatives, afficates, approximants, dan nasals pada spectogram. Contohnya bagaimana bisa mengobservasi secara visual pergetaran pita suara pada bunyi-bunyi voiced stops [b,d,g] dan membedakannya dengan voiceless stops [p,t,k] yang tidak mengalami getaran pita suara. Selain itu peserta pelatihan juga akan berlatih teknik segmentasi, anotasi IPA, dan bagaimana memproses hasilnya ke dalam bentuk visual (pdf, png, jpeg, tiff) yang bisa dipakai nantinya dalam publikasi ilmiah.
Tanggal: 27-28 Juli 2022 (Pukul 09:00 - 15:00 WIB)
Tempat: Aula Seminar Gedung K2, Lantai 2, Kampus Semanggi Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya Jl. Jenderal Sudirman 51, Jakarta 12930
AIFIS in collaboration with Universitas Brawijaya, Eutenika, WALHI, and JATAM will organize a public lecture series to address specific themes calles SALON EUTENIKA. The second session will discuss how the response of the people who are affected by the Lapindo mudflow seen as coping mechanisms to live with the ruins caused by the disaster of capitalism. There are various ways the people respond to the complexity of socio-political situations and the drastically changing environmental conditions in the aftermath of Lapindo mudflow eruption. This session offers a view that any response of the people is needed to be understood as part of various arts to survive with the ruins of capitalism which have been also practiced by grassroots in other parts of the world.
Date: Friday, July 8,2022 at 3PM WIB
Resource person: Fathun Karib, PhD (Department of Sociology, SUNY, Binghamton)
Responder: Siti Maemunah (University of Passau/JATAM)
Moderator: Lutfi Amiruddin (Department of Sociology, Universitas Brawijaya)
Registration: https://eutenika.org/daftar
AIFIS in collaboration with Universitas Brawijaya, Eutenika, WALHI, and JATAM will organize a public lecture series to address specific themes calles SALON EUTENIKA. In this series, we will explore an era known as the “Capitalocene”, or a geohistorical period in which corporations, states and science formed various geological forces. This geological force has the ability to conquer nature and human population through the capacity and ability to manage these two factors to overcome the accumulation crisis that arises from a disaster. In this context, the Lapindo mud disaster that occurred since May 29, 2006, in Porong, East Java is a geological phenomenon where the alliance of geological forces, namely the company-state-science nexus succeeded in managing natural and human agencies to overcome the crisis of accumulation and environment caused by negligence in the drilling process carried out by the company. This series of seminars aims to understand two interconnected processes, namely: (1) how the operational work of these geological forces in overcoming the accumulation crisis and the environmental crisis they are facing? (2) understanding the impact of disasters and the operational work of these geological forces producing conditions- certain living conditions for villagers in the environmental space affected by the Lapindo mudflow disaster?
The first session will discuss how geological forces overcome the accumulation crisis by implementing disaster management to cope with the threat of natural movements in producing mud and changes in soil structure formation as well as overcoming potential “social” problems that arise from the affected villagers. This meeting offers the view that Lapindo mud management needs to be understood as part of the broader management of capitalism and places the company, state, and science as one geological force in different positions on the accumulation continuum. Companies are on the continuum of capital accumulation; the state is on the continuum of power and knowledge as the continuum of knowledge accumulation.
Date: Friday, July1 , 2022, at 3PM WIB
Speaker: Fathun Karib, PhD (Department of Sociology, SUNY, Binghamton)
Responders: Rere Christanto (WALHI)
Moderator: Lutfi Amiruddin (Department of Sociology, Universitas Brawijaya)
Registration: eutenika.org/daftar
Pelatihan Conservation Biology and Global Health tahun ini merupakan pelatihan yang ke-30, diselenggarakan atas kerjasama antara Pusat Sudi Satwa Primata, Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masayarakat, Institut Pertanian Bogor (PSSP LPPM IPB) dan Center for Global Field Study, University of Washington. Peserta pelatihan tahun ini adalah mahasiswa yang berasal dari universitas di dalam negeri, antara lain mahasiswa Pascasarjana IPB, mahasiswa Universitas Sebelas Maret, mahasiswa dari Universitas Indonesia dan mahasiswa dari universitas lainnya.
Pelatihan Conservation Biology and Global Health tahun ini akan dilakukan di Laboratorium lapang PSSP LPPM IPB di Pulau Tinjil, Banten. Pelatihan akan dilakukan pada tanggal 10-23 Juli 2022.
Penyampaian materi berupa kuliah oleh instruktur selama 100 menit per sekali pertemuan dalam satu hari, lima hari dalam seminggu. Diskusi kelompok selama 60 menit, dua kali pertemuan dalam seminggu, serta praktikum dan prkatik penggunaan alat (GPS, radio telemetry, tulup dan drone).
Instruktur:
1. Prof. Randall C. Kyes, PhD (Center for Global Field Study, University of Washington)
2. Dr. Matthew Novak (Central Oregon Community College)
3. Dr. Pensri Kyes (Center for Global Field Study, University of Washington)
4. Drh. Huda S Darusman, MSi, PhD (Primate Research Center, IPB University)
5. Dr. Ir. Entang Iskandar, MSi (Primate Research Center, IPB University)
For registration, kindly contact us at 0251-8313637/0251-8320417* or email: pssp-ipb@apps.ipb.ac.id
*limited seats available
Street photography at its essence means candid photography of humanity. A street photograph is a real moment.
Join us on webinar of “Indonesia Street Photography: an Emergent Genre in Troubled Times” on Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 09:30 - 11:00 WIB with Brent Luvaas, Ph.D. from Drexel University, USA.
For further information, visit our Instagram account: @binus_internationaloffice, or you can send your inquiries to io@binus.edu (email)
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Friday, April 15, 2022
Dr. Colleen Pilgrim, #AIFIS Fellow and Professor at Schoolcraft College in the Psychology Department, will be giving a lecture on “Challenges in teaching adult learners (Andragogy)”. Her global projects have included collaborative efforts in Colombia, Turkey, China and Indonesia and focus on substance use, mental health and lifespan issues. She is an active member of the Schoolcraft College International Institute as well as the Midwest Institute for International and Intercultural Education.
This event is co-organized by The American Institute for Indonesian Studies in collaboration with English Studies Program of Universitas PGRI Semarang
Wednesday Forum – 23 March 2022
Monsoon Music: the Soundscape of Indonesian Islam in an Indian Ocean World inviting readers and listeners, through hearing, seeing, and reading, to experience the foundational tenets of religion as they are activated in the performance of daily life. I use the five pillars of Islam as an organizing device that pulls back the curtain on the resonant praxis of religion. Audio recordings, videos, stunning images, instructive figures, and musical transcriptions – collected and developed by me over 25 years of ethnographic research and embedded in the text – offer the reader experiences of the performances I describe. Thanks to open access publishing, rich media examples may be presented alongside text and made freely available to multiple audiences including the numerous consultants in Indonesia whose generosity has made this research possible for more than two decades. In this presentation I describe and solicit feedback on my newest book project, one that seeks to decolonize the production of and access to knowledge production.
Anne K. Rasmussen is professor of ethnomusicology and Middle Eastern studies at the College of William and Mary. She is author of several books and articles on the intersection of religion, gender, and performance in Indonesia, including Women, the Recited Qur’an and Islamic Music in Indonesia (U. California Press 2010).
Friday, April 1, 2022, 07.30 - 09.00 (Jakarta Time), via Zoom Meeting Room
Organized by the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Brawijaya, and supported by American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS)
Rationale:
The development of students’ capacity is not only obtained from in-house classrooms, but also from exchanging ideas with academics from around the globe. This webinar is organized inline with the annual agenda of the course of the Politics of Environment and Natural Resources (PLSDA) to invite scholars to introduce students to the recent and actual debates on environmental issues. This year the Department of Sociology invites three speakers: Dr. Phillip Drake (University of Kansas), Dr. Rita Padawangi (Singapore University of Social Sciences; PhD, Loyola University Chicago), and Dr. Kristina van Dexter (George Mason University) to discuss an umbrella theme of “Environmental Justice”.
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The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in collaboration with the American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) offers a workshop on Getting Publishing in International Academic Journals to enhance the capacity of Indonesian scholars to submit manuscripts focusing on Indonesian Studies 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 finalizing a paper for submission, selecting a journal, the publishing process, and current trends in academic publishing. Each participant will be paired with a scholar active in Indonesian studies who works on comparable material. These mentors will provide feedback on sources used and research methodology, and suggest target journals. Selected applicants will have the opportunity to present there work at the AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies to take place virtually in June 2022.
The workshop is open to Indonesian scholars and researchers who have completed draft manuscripts on topics relating to Indonesia and are ready to finalize them for submission to a journal. Workshop participants will submit (i) an abstract of the manuscript not exceeding 200 words, (ii) a manuscript of length not exceeding 10,000 words, excluding tables, references, and figures, and (iii) a recent CV or resume.
A Workshop Presented by
The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS)
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation
6-10 December 2021
Academics today face great pressure to publish research findings in highly regarded journals. Each year, universities in Indonesia produce many postgraduate theses and dissertations that contain the results of research projects, but only a small proportion of this material gets published in scholarly journals and books, and the impact of material that is published is low. Several reasons explain why. One is that writing a dissertation is vastly different from writing for publication; graduate students learn how to do the first but not necessarily the second. A further challenge arises from the fact that English is not the first language of Indonesian scholars. Other common weaknesses include:
Absence of a clearly stated research question;
Lack of an argument developed in response to the research question;
Failure to identify the central issue when writing the abstract and introduction;
Failure to identify a target audience;
Insufficient explanation of the significance of the research;
Inclusion of irrelevant material;
Excessive detail in the supporting data; and
Failure to provide adequate support for the argument.
Given this situation, the need for training in academic writing is an urgent need. This workshop is a joint effort by the Social Science Research Council in New York and the American Institute for Indonesian Studies, with generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation, to provide Indonesian scholars with basic information about publishing in highly ranked English-language academic journals. The goal of the workshop is to help researchers prepare manuscripts that will clear an initial editorial screening. The presentations will:
Explain what editors look for when reviewing submissions;
Highlight the underlying dynamics or argumentation in a research article so that the presentation is clear and effective;
Increase awareness of linguistic conventions that help convey ideas accurately, clearly and appropriately;
Discuss strategies for planning and revising a manuscript.
The workshop includes three days of webinar presentations on academic writing that is open to the public. The starting point for this workshop is what journal editors look for in reviewing a manuscript submission. The remainder of the workshop concerns how to prepare a paper that will meet the expectations of an editor, and improve your chances of avoiding a desk rejection, in which an editor concludes that an article has no chance of success and does not send it to referees. 24 selected participants will additionally take part in small group sessions and individual discussion sessions.
Recordings of the December 2021 Workshop can be streamed here:
Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoseHoCqJPY&t=1184s
Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A9ELy12aEs&t=11s
Day 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNs9RepMsxg&t=5651s
To enhance the academic atmosphere during the covid-19 pandemic and to support our mission in promoting academic and research collaboration among scholars, The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) and Faculty of Teacher Education Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University (UKWMS) will jointly organize a guest lecture on foreign language education and intercultural learning. In this presentation, AIFIS past fellow, Tabitha Kidwell, Ph.D (Professorial Lecturer & Department Associate Chair, World Languages & Cultures, American University, USA), presents the findings from her study in Indonesia on novice Indonesian EFL teachers’ beliefs regarding teaching about culture.
Date: Friday, November 12, 2021 at 8am WIB
SPEAKER
Tabitha Kidwell is a faculty member in the TESOL program at American University. Her research focuses on language teacher education and the role of culture in language teaching. Her recent work has been published in TESOL Journal, Language and Intercultural Communication, and Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. She has taught French, Spanish, and English to students ranging from pre-schoolers to adults, and has conducted professional development for language teachers around the world. Dr. Kidwell has chaired the Standards Professional Council for TESOL International, and is a frequent presenter at regional and international TESOL conferences.
ABSTRACT of the Speaker:
Contemporary perspectives on the global role of English have necessitated new approaches to teaching about culture. Rather than conveying knowledge about the ‘target cultures’ of English-dominant nations, English teachers should help students develop the intercultural competence and awareness needed to engage with the diverse cultures of English worldwide. The objective of this multiple case study was to better understand the beliefs of 14 novice Indonesian EFL teachers regarding teaching about culture. Data sources included: interviews; lesson observations; professional learning community sessions; and journal entries. Data were analyzed through a cross-case analysis that resulted in the classification of participants in two groups: those who associated teaching about culture with the need to protect students from unfamiliar cultures, and those who focused on preparing students for encounters with unfamiliar cultures. An important distinguishing factor between the groups was access to and investment in intercultural learning opportunities. This work highlights the importance of offering intercultural experiences to novice teachers before and during their early careers.
DISCUSSANTS
Yohanes Nugroho Widiyanto, Ph.D. (Head of English Teaching Department, Lecturer of English Education Department, Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University)
Mateus Yumarnamto, Ph.D. (Vice Dean for Academic and Students’ Affairs, Faculty of Teacher Education, Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University)
MODERATOR
Maria Josephine KS, M.Pd.
To enhance the academic atmosphere during the covid-19 pandemic and to support our mission in promoting academic and research collaboration among scholars, The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) and Faculty of Cultural Studies-Universitas Brawijaya will jointly organize a public talk on language practices and ideologies in Indonesia. In this presentation, AIFIS Fellow and Fulbright English Teaching Asisstant alumni, Moniek Van Rheenan (Ph.D Candidate, University of Michigan, USA), presents the findings from her study in Indonesia on multilingual interactions between ethnic groups in Pekanbaru, with a focus on former migrants and their generational successors.
Due to this pandemic year, the event will be organized virtually via Zoom and broadcasted live on Youtube. It will begin with a 45 minute presentation from the speaker and followed by open discussions with the rest of participants. The webinar is conducted in English and Indonesia, and open for the public.
Date & Time: Thursday, October 28 at 7pm WIB / 8am EDT
SPEAKER
Moniek van Rheenen is a PhD candidate in Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her current research aims to complicate the narrative about conservative Muslim women in Indonesia and argues that they are not passive repositories for male preaching and Islamic knowledge; rather,they are deeply engaged in political and social activism in ways that have resounding effects on Indonesian politics and society, although their labor often goes unseen. She was awarded a full grant for the 2014-2015 academic year in Indonesia on behalf of the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program and taught English in SMAN 8 Pekanbaru. Her dissertation research is supported by Fulbright, AMINEF, and the National Science Foundation. She also received an AIFIS-CAORC grant in 2018 to conduct research in collaboration with the State Islamic University of Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau in Pekanbaru.
ABSTRACT of the Speaker:
This project explores the effects of modern migration on youth linguistic practices and identity formation in Pekanbaru, Indonesia. My research questions center on the way that local languages of former migratory families do or do not get appropriated by the youth generation, and how the nationalist idealization of one motherland, one nation, and one language from the colonial and post-colonial era is coming to fruition in present-day Indonesia. Specifically, my project probes at the following questions: how does the language use of youth born in Pekanbaru differ from the language use of their elders (parents or grandparents) born in rural communities and later migrated to Pekanbaru? If such variation exists, what are the reasons for it? How much multilingual variation occurs in the speech of different generations still living in the kampung, comparatively? What might these multiethnic and multigenerational linguistic practices and patterns index about orientations towards globalization or national unification?
