Theme: "Community, Identity, Change"
Location: Downstairs Lounge, UCLA Faculty Center
Conference Schedule
Friday, April 17, 2009
8:45-9:45
Opening Remarks:
Michael L. Ross, Director, UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Hon. Subijaksono Sujono, Indonesian Consul General in Los Angeles
Keynote: Livia Iskandar, PULIH Center for Trauma Recovery and Psychosocial Intervention Indonesia
9:45-10:00 Coffee
10:00-12:30 Panel 1: Crafting and Contesting Identities
Donald K. Emmerson, Stanford University, moderator
Risa Toha, UCLA, The Politicization of Indonesian Identity after 1998
Maria Dona, Institute of Women and Child Protection, Reproducing Ethnic Identity and Stereotyping in the Community of Sampoerna’s Female Laborers
Nuning Purwaningrum Hallett, State University of New York at Buffalo, Indonesian Women, Transnational Families, and the Role of Transborder Citizenship
Kimberly Twarog, UCLA, Inventing Tradition, Constructing Community: The Function of Tradition in Indonesian Performing Arts
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-4:00 Panel 2: Conflict and Violence
Geoffrey Robinson, UCLA, moderator
Gustav Brown, UCLA, Comparing Ethnic and Religious Violence in West Kalimantan and Ambon
Herry Yogaswara, University of Indonesia, After the Riot: Madurese in the Town of Sampit, Central Kalimantan
Gyda Sindre, UCLA and University of Oslo, Conflict Resolution and Democratization: The Shifting of Political Identities within the Acehnese Independence Movement
Senia Febrica, University of Indonesia, The Paradox of the U.S. Campaign Against Terrorism in Indonesia
4:00-4:15 Coffee
4:15-5:45 Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker/Director Robert Lemelson
“40 Years of Silence: an Indonesian Tragedy”
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
8:45-9:00 Introductory Remarks
9:00-11:00 Panel 3: Modern Communities and Culture
Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine, moderator
Brent Luvaas, UCLA, Indie Internationalism: Indonesian Underground Pop and the New Politics of Youth Identity
Sophie Dewayani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Money or Milk for Street Children? The Imagined Childhood in Contemporary Indonesia
Tuti Alawiyah, University of Texas at Austin, Correlates of Charitable Giving in Indonesian Muslim Communities
11:00-12:30 Lunch/ Workshop on Getting Published
Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine
12:30-2:30 Panel 4: Perspectives on Islam
Laurie Sears, University of Washington, moderator
Riry Khahriro, Ohio University, Islamic Feminism in Contemporary Indonesia: The Critical Reading on Islamic Texts
Magfirah Dahlan-Taylor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, “Baby” al-Banna: A Case of Islamic “Teen-Lit” in Indonesia
Alexander Supartono, Jakarta Art Institute, Mohammad and Me: Daily Life within Muslim Societies in Indonesia
2:30-3:00 Coffee
3:00-5:00 Panel 5: Space and Place
Nancy Peluso, University of California, Berkeley, moderator
Steve Rodriguez, UCLA, What’s in a Name? The Hazards of Categorizing Ujung Kulon as a “Taman Nasional”
Kartika Gondoboentoro, DDH Quality Surveyor, The Impact of Public Private Partnership (PPP) on Communities’ Sustainability in Public Low Cost Apartments
Saiful Mahdi, Cornell University, Reconstructing Gampöng: Community Resilience in Post-Tsunami Aceh
This conference is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the UCLA Indonesian Studies Program, which was created in 2008 through a generous grant from Robert Lemelson. The Indonesian Studies Program is part of UCLA's Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and is designed to support the study of Indonesia by UCLA graduate students and faculty through conferences, faculty lectures, and graduate fellowships.
Robert Lemelson, Ph.D., is an anthropologist who received his M.A. from the University of Chicago, and his doctorate from the UCLA Department of Anthropology. He is currently a research anthropologist at the Semel Institute of Neurosciences at UCLA, and lecturer in the Depts of Anthropology and Psychology. He is also the president and founder of The Foundation for Psychocultural Research, a non-profit research foundation supporting research and training in the neurosciences and social sciences, and the director of Elemental Productions, a ethnographic documentary film production company.