Museums for the 21st Century: Conservation

Museums for the 21st Century (M21) is a program, which brings together curators and scholars from the US and Indonesia , who specialize in  the future direction of museums in three critical areas: 1. Collection exhibition and research; 2. Engagement with the family and youth; 3. Art conservation. This program consists of in-person workshops in 3 Indonesian institutions in December 2022, including Museum Tekstil Jakarta, Museum Provinsi Kalimantan Barat in Pontianak, and Museum Balanga in Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah. The in-person course modules will be followed by a  series of Online Webinars that will disseminate results from the workshops and discuss further/future implementations of course outcomes and solutions to challenges faced by Indonesian museums. The M21 program is funded by the US Embassy Jakarta.

The second session of the "Museums for the 21st Century (M21)" webinar series will discuss growing trends in conservation practice (collaborative conservation / conservation and community). It will also explore pertinent challenges in conserving organic materials in hot and humid environments (tropical climate).

Date/Time: Monday, February 14, 2023 / 10am WIB Jakarta Time

Museums for the 21st Century: Education

Museums for the 21st Century (M21) is a program, which brings together curators and scholars from the US and Indonesia , who specialize in  the future direction of museums in three critical areas: 1. Collection exhibition and research; 2. Engagement with the family and youth; 3. Art conservation. This program consists of in-person workshops in 3 Indonesian institutions in December 2022, including Museum Tekstil Jakarta, Museum Provinsi Kalimantan Barat in Pontianak, and Museum Balanga in Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah. The in-person course modules will be followed by a  series of Online Webinars that will disseminate results from the workshops and discuss further/future implementations of course outcomes and solutions to challenges faced by Indonesian museums. The M21 program is funded by the US Embassy Jakarta.

The first session will discuss how museums in the 21st century engage with their audience in creating relevant and participatory public programs. Relevance is a keyword in the 21st century. As today the world changes very fast, it is imperative for a museum to always be relevant for the audience they serve.

Date/Time: Monday, February 6 2023 / 10am WIB Jakarta Time


Museums 21st Century: Presenting, Caring, and Curating Cultural Heritage

Join us in this exciting three-part online lecture series on Education, Conservation, and Curation of Cultural Heritage!
The M21 webinar series brings together educators, conservators, and curators from the US and Indonesia to address some relevant issues faced by Indonesian museums. In the first lecture of series, Savita Monie of the Metropolitan Museum of Art will share her expertise in Teen Education Programs for museums. In the second lecture, Ellen Pearlstein of the UCLA/ Getty Program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage will discuss Conservation for the Tropical Climate. The last event of the series present Christina Kreps and Ana Labrador, who will address the topic of Indigenous Curation.

The M21 webinar series is a follow-up to the in-person workshops conducted in Indonesia in December 2022, funded by the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta.

CO-ORGANIZERS:

Smallholder definitions, presents & futures: Agriculture & Aquaculture

Description

With rapid and diverse transformations taking place across Southeast Asia, the conditions of smallholder farming and fishing are increasingly coming into question. From different disciplinary vantage points, this webinar brings together a diverse group of panelists to discuss emerging challenges to smallholder livelihoods. From Cambodia to Indonesia, Vietnam to the Philippines, and more, we examine the ways smallholders are preparing to navigate the future of farming.

Speakers:
Nurhady Sirimorok, Phd candidate, Hasanuddin University
Somvilay Chanthalounnavong, Professor, National University of Laos
SANGO Mahanty, Professor, Australian National University

Moderator:
Wolfram Dressler, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY of Melbourne

Time

Feb 8, 2023 03:00 PM in Hawaii
Feb 9, 2023 08:00 AM in Jakarta

Annual Linguistics Conference (KOLITA) 21

[CALL FOR ABSTRACT]

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

Click flyer for further info!

Violence against Women in Politics: A Rising Threat to Democracy Worldwide

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.

Divorce and Muslim Women’s Empowerement in Indonesia

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

Book Talk: Rioting for Representation

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

Curriculum in time of crisis: Re-conception, responses, and innovations

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

The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations, Robert K. Merton (University of Chicago Press, 1973)

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)

Pelatihan Dasar Fonetik Akustik Menggunakan Program Komputer Praat

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


Capitalism II: Living in the Catastrophe Ruins of Capitalism

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

Capitalocene I: Accumulation of Crisis, Geological Forces, and Disaster Management of Lapindo Mudflow

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


Field Course in Conservation Biology & Global Health: At the Human-Environment Interface

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

Indonesia Street Photography: an Emergent Genre in Troubled Times

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)

International Symposium on Linguistics and Education Challenges in teaching adult (Andragogy)

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

Monsoon Music The Soundscape of Indonesian Islam in an Indian Ocean World

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).

Webinar on Environmental Justice

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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