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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY & GLOBAL HEALTH
In collaboration with the Primate Research Center at the University of Washington, AIFIS helped support the 29th annual training course held on Tinjil Island, Banten. The course brought together pirmatologists from Indonesia and the United States, all aimed to develop greater sensitive to the environmental and the natural habitats of different primates in Indonesia. The field course was held between July 6-20, 2019.
INTEGRATING ECOLOGICAL & ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH TO DEVELOP EFFECTIVE CONSERVATION IN THE THREATENED RUNGAN LANDSCAPE
On July 2 – 4 2019, our collaborative team – representing conservation scientists and practitioners from the Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF), Universitas Muhammadiyah Palangkaraya (UMP), the University of Exeter, Rutgers University, Cornell University, and Brunel University – co-led a two-day interactive event to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives and diverse stakeholders to support conservation. Our conservation research program targets the Rungan landscape in Central Kalimantan, a 135,000-ha area comprising diverse primary and secondary habitats within a matrix of human activities. Our event aimed to strengthen, expand, and promote the findings of the Rungan conservation program and further collaborative research through an international research symposium and training workshops.
Interested in learning about jamu, Javanese traditional herbal medicine? The University of Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta is offering a two week intensive course on the practice and ideas of jamu. Topics will include the cultural roots of jamu; biodiversity and uses of jamu in daily life; the science of herbal medicine; producing herbal extracts; and discussions on the benefits of herbal medicine in contemporary life. For more information visit the Gadjah Mada website.
Aromatic Religion: Eliciting the Olfactory in the Everyday. Working with Equinox Press in the UK, editors James Edmonds and Justin Doran are soliciting submissions for a new anthology based on the teleology of scent. In the editors words:
Smell is often ancillary to sight, hearing, and touch in conceiving of what counts as religious practice. However, smell is not bounded in the same ways that the other senses are. It can sneak up on you, take hold of your senses, and move between the porousness of the world—it transcends the preconceived boundaries between the material and intellectual. This work seeks to grapple with smell, not as a feature of religion, but as its very manifestation in the world.
For information on contributing to this anthology, download the official call for submissions.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARDS RECIPIENTS OF AIFIS-CAORC RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS 2019-2020
Ryan Crewe, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado, Denver, “The Seed of all Discord: The Spice Wars in Global History, 1520-1670.”
David Hanks, Ph.D., (Candidate) Department of Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, “Eat, Pray, Love, Speak: The Commodification of Language Education for Tourism in Bali.”
Claire-Marie Hefner, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Religion – Islamic Studies, Florida State University, “Gendered Exemplarity: Women Teachers and Ethical Modeling in Indonesian Islamic Boarding Schools.”
Joseph Klein, Ph.D., (Candidate) Department of Anthropology – Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Circuits of Credit and Debt in the Indonesian Live Coral Trade.”
Erica Larson, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hanover College, “Inheriting a Religious and Corrupt Nation: Ethical Dilemmas of Indonesian Youth.”
Brian MacHarg, Ph.D., Director of Academic Civic Engagement, Department of Academic Affairs – Education/Civic Engagement, Appalachian State University, “From Student Mobilization to Service-Learning: Kuliah Kerja Nyata in Indonesian Higher Education.”
Antonius Wiriadjaja, Visiting Lecturer as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Department of Film/TV – Animation, Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) Yogyakarta,“Shadows of the Future: How New Technologies Can Integrate With Traditional Javanese Shadow Puppetry.”
Tyler Yamin, Ph.D., (Candidate) Herb Alpert School of Music – Ethnomusicology, UCLA,“Listening to the Gibbons in the Anthropocene: The Politics and Poetics of Endangered Species Conservation.”
Tyler Yamin performing gamelan at UCLA.
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is inaugurating its first annual photography competition. In an attempt to acknowledge the ever increasing role of photography and media in contemporary research practices, AAS is looking for a broad range of photographic submissions, looking at how photography is used in research and education. Winning photos from the submissions will be:
Featured in a 2020 Calendar as a thank you gift for donors
Published in an online gallery for the membership to view
Featured on our website
