A Conversation with the Indonesian Ambassador to the UN
Date/Time: January 29, 2018 - 4:00pm
Location: Room 430, Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, New York, NY 10007
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Democracy and Political Development in Asia
Date/Time: January 24, 2018 - 6:30pm
Location: Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021
2018 marks the 150th anniversary of Japan’s Meiji Restoration, an important period in Japanese history credited for ushering in an era of major political and social change. The subsequent transformation during the Meiji period resulted in Japan’s modernization and democratic transition. This program will discuss political transitions in Indonesia and Myanmar, each of which face crucial challenges in shaping the future of their democratic practices. Through examining democratic transitions, the panel of experts will address issues related to interaction between democracies and authoritarian regimes that continue to influence the future of the region.
Members $20; Students/Seniors $30; Nonmembers $40
Rising Discrimination Against LGBT in Indonesia
January 28, 2018 - 12:00pm
Mulberry Conference Room, NYU Wagner, 295 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012
More than 300 Indonesians were arrested in 2017 for alleged LGBT-associated behavior, and countless others were intimidated and harassed. Already, several have been convicted under the Pornography Law and sent to prison. Andreas Harsono will explore whether this trend is related to the rise of Islamic populism and more sharia-inspired regulations in Indonesia. He also will ask what the Joko Widodo government is doing to stop this discrimination.
Andreas Harsono has been the senior Indonesian researcher for Human Rights Watch since 2008. He has also had a long career as a journalist, and he has written several books about Indonesia.
Andreas Harsono
Call for Papers - Gendered Violence Conference
Call for Papers Conference on Gendered Violence Across Time and Space: The Netherlands East Indies, Indonesia, East Timor (Timor-Leste)
To be convened by Dr Ana Dragojlovic, Dr Hannah Loney and Associate Professor Katharine McGregor
Across time and space Indonesian, Dutch and East Timorese people have been included to different degrees in versions of the modern nation state today known as Indonesia. From the Dutch colonial period and through the Japanese occupation and the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, the degrees of inclusion or exclusion of persons from those states, have had direct bearings on patterns of gendered violence. Those patterns of inclusion or exclusion introduced structural based economic, political, legal and social inequalities that made some persons more vulnerable to gendered violence. In these diverse contexts, through periods of conflict and peace, people have faced and tried to resist different forms of gendered violence including, for example, violence perpetrated by state agents in the context of conflict, violence against sex workers, and violence within homes.
Although scholars have offered many valuable case studies of gender based violence (GBV) across the region today made up of the nations of Indonesia and Timor-Leste, and related diasporas, rarely have such analyses been brought together to consider diverse forms of gendered violence and their causes. This particular region of the world is important to consider because of multiple experiences of armed conflict and occupation as well as the diversity of people affected by gendered violence and the complexity of the religious and cultural communities involved. It is also important that we stop now to reflect on what we can learn from historical and contemporary cases because gendered violence is today on the rise in the region.
This conference seeks to place gendered violence at the centre of analysis of this region and to invite critical conversations around how we might reframe discussions of what historically has been termed gender based violence. What is meant by gendered violence, and gender-based violence
(GBV)? Are these conceptualizations sufficient for the challenges that historians, human rights activists, anthropologists, feminists and queer studies scholars have been grappling with? How can we adequately capture the roles played by structural forms of inequalities such as economic, political, and racialized forms of marginalization? We are particularly interested in papers that offer critical lenses to our thinking about gendered violence beyond reproducing essentializing dichotomies of vulnerability versus resilience and pathologization of ethnic and religious ‘others’.
We invite papers that reflect on historical and contemporary cases of gendered violence in the region and across diasporas through the analysis of archives, testimonies, detailed ethnographies, activism, legal cases, film, literature and art.
Papers might take up themes such as:
- affective and visceral aspects of violence
- violence and embodiment
- narrative modalities including silence
- knowledge production and activism
- visual and performing arts
- the law and gender based violence
Key Information
Date: 10-12 May 2018
Location: The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Abstracts: Please send an abstract proposal of 250 words and a CV of publications to date to Hannah Loney (loneyh@unimelb.edu.au)
Due date: 10 January 2017
Notifications of acceptance will be made by 19 December 2017.
The expectation is that draft papers will also be circulated one month prior to the conference so that we can carefully consider plans for a conference publication.
Registration:
Waged participants: $100
Students, non-waged participants, and participants from the region: $30
Postgraduate bursaries: 2 x postgraduate bursaries of $500 each to contribute to flights and accommodation are available. If you wish to be considered for one of these bursaries, please attach a short statement outlining how attending the conference will contribute towards your research and practice, and why you require funding to attend the conference, to your abstract proposal.
This conference is supported by the MAEVe and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.
Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad
Apply Now to the 2018 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program!
Deadline: February 2, 2018
Did you know that the U.S. Department of Education provides grants to K-12 and postsecondary educators to study and travel abroad?
The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program provides short-term seminars abroad for U.S. educators in the social sciences and humanities to improve their understanding and knowledge of the peoples and cultures of other countries. Each seminar features educational lectures and activities specifically designed for the group, including visits to local schools and organizations, meetings with teachers and students, and visits to cultural sites. Participants draw on their experiences during the program to create new, cross-cultural curricula for their classrooms and school systems back in the U.S.
In 2018, summer programs will be offered in Ecuador, India, and Poland. A total of 48 awards are available (sixteen per program). The program covers airfare, room and board, and program costs. Teacher participants are responsible for a cost-share of $600.
How to Apply
The 2018 Seminars Abroad application is now available on the G5 website at www.g5.gov.
If you are a new user, click “Sign Up” on the G5 Homepage. Once registered and activated, click on “Package Submission” under Grant Setup. Follow the steps provided, filling out the forms and uploading the necessary files. See the Application package for more detailed directions.
Eligibility Requirements
In order to be eligible for the Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program, the applicant must meet the following requirements:
- Must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States
- Must hold a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
- Must have at least 3 years of full-time teaching or administrative experience by time of departure
- Must be currently employed full-time in a U.S. school, institution of higher education, Local Educational Agency, State Educational Agency, library, or museum as a teacher/ administrator
- Must be an educator in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences (this criterion does not apply to administrators)
- Must work at the grade level of the seminar
- Must be physically and psychologically able
COTI 2018 Language Training Program
Yth. Bapak dan Ibu Pengajar dan Pegiat BIPA di AS,
Situs web program pelatihan COTI 2018 dengan aplikasi daringnya sekarang tersedia di tautan berikut: https://coticornell.wordpress.com
Harap disampaikan kepada mahasiswa, kolega dan/atau peserta ajar bahasa Indonesia lain yang berminat.
The website for the COTI 2018 language training program and online application is now available at this link: https://coticornell.wordpress.com
Please share it with college students, colleagues and/or other Indonesian language students who are interested.
Berikut tanggal-tanggal penting penyelenggaraannya:
The following are the key dates:
Batas waktu penyerahan berkas lamaran: 16 Februari 2018
Application submission deadline
Pengumuman penerimaan: 2 Maret 2018 atau sebelumnya
Announcement of acceptances
Konfirmasi peserta: 15 Maret 2018
Confirmation of acceptances
Orientasi pra-keberangkatan: 18 Mei-1Juni 2018
Pre-departure orientation
Program pelatihan bahasa: 21 Juni-15 Agustus 2018
Language training program
Terlampir daftar persyaratan berkas lamarannya. Silakan mengajukan pertanyaan sehubungan urusan administrasi dan berkas lamaran untuk pelatihan bahasa COTI ke cotiprogram@gmail.com. Untuk urusan mendesak, hubungi Jolanda Pandin (jmp244@cornell.edu) atau Thamora Fishel (tfishel@cornell.edu). Atas perhatian dan bantuannya, saya haturkan banyak terima kasih.
Attached is a list of the required application documents. Please send inquiries about administrative matters and the required application documents for the COTI language training to cotiprogram@gmail.com. For urgent matters, contact Jolanda Pandin (jmp244@cornell.edu) or Thamora Fishel (tfishel@cornell.edu). Thank you very much for your attention and assistance in advance.
