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)

Annual Linguistic Conference (KOLITA 20)

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Social Movements & Civil Society Activities in Dealing with the Coastal Reclamation

Coastal reclamation, the process of creating land by infilling coastal waters or wetlands, offers a possible bulwark against rising sea-levels associated with climate change. Yet, reclamation also demands wrenching distributional trade-offs that often favor developers and property owners over poor fishing communities. As a result, battles over reclamation have erupted in dozens of Indonesian cities in recent years. In this paper, I propose a theory to explain variation in the effectiveness of anti-reclamation movements. I argue that geographically and economically diverse coalitions are well-suited to mobilize mass demonstrations and coordinate voters to oppose reclamation, while local and class-based coalitions resort to litigation due to their relative weakness. Based on primary source documents, local news archives, and fieldwork in Makassar and Bali, my findings suggest that reclamation projects succeed when elite coalitions of politicians, developers, and local businesses bulldoze class-based opposition. Under such conditions, reclamation is likely to accelerate a process of “climate gentrification” in which climate change adaptations benefit the rich and deepen the vulnerability of the poor.

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”.

Getting Published in International Academic Journals (March 14-18, 2022)

A Virtual Workshop Presented by: 

The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) and

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

With Sponsorship by:

The Henry Luce Foundation

Workshop Dates: March 14-18, 2022

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.

Application Submission Deadline: January 31, 2021, 11:59 WIB

Academic Writing for International Publication - Public Webinar (Dec 6-8, 2021)

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.

WORKSHOP FORMAT

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

Protectors and Preparers: Novice Indonesian EFL Teachers’ Beliefs Regarding Teaching about Culture

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.

Guest Lecture: Modern Migration, Language Habits & Youth Identity in Pekanbaru, Indonesia

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?

Introduction to Academic Writing for International Publication: A Virtual Workshop

Presented by: 

The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) 
and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Workshop Dates: 6-9 December 2021

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in collaboration with the American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) offers an introductory workshop on Academic Writing for International Publication to enhance the capacity of early-career Indonesian scholars to write 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 preparing manuscripts for submission to academic journals, and receive feedback on their writing. In individual sessions with one of the Presenters, participants will receive feedback on the paper’s central question, argument, and presentation. Participants will leave the workshop prepared to complete a preliminary draft of a research manuscript.

The workshop is open to Indonesian scholars and researchers who are at the beginning to intermediate stage in the development of a research publication. Workshop participants will submit concept papers outlining research articles they are planning to prepare for publication. Participants who have a preliminary draft should submit that as well.

Application Submission Deadline: Sunday, 14 November 2021 at 23:59 WIB (Jakarta time)

IMPORTANT DATES
Application Open 25 October 2021
Application Submission Deadline 14 November 2021, 23:59 WIB
Notification of Selected Applicants 26 November 2021
Workshop Dates and Times 6 December 2021, 18:30-21:30 WIB
7 December 2021, 19:00-22:00 WIB
8 December 2021, 19:00-22:00 WIB
9 December 2021, 19:00-22:00 WIB
Post-workshop Individual Sessions 10-17 December 2021 

OVERVIEW OF WORKSHOP GOALS
The 1-week intensive workshop will cover three broad topic areas:
i) What editors look for in a manuscript
ii) How to communicate an idea and develop a focused argument 
iii) Using the Salient Points of Publishable Academic English to Write a Research Article in English

WORKSHOP PRESENTERS / PRESENTATIONS

Paul H Kratoska was formerly Publishing Director of NUS Press at the National University of Singapore. He served on the Board of Directors of the US Association for Asian Studies from 2003-2005 and is past editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies and current editor of The Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. He taught at the Ateneo de Manila (1975-77), Universiti Sains Malaysia (1977-87) and the National University of Singapore (1987-2005). His research focuses on Southeast Asia and he has published books and articles on the Japanese Occupation, the history of rice cultivation, ethnic minorities, school textbooks, and academic publishing. He was a contributor to the Cambridge History of South-East Asia, the Cambridge History of World War II, and the Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History, and serves on the boards of Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS, Kyoto University), TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia (Sogang University), and The Journal of History (Philippine Historical Society). He is lead mentor for the US Social Science Research Council’s Global Scholars Initiative. 
Presentations by Paul H Kratoska: 
1). What Editors Look For ; 2). Writing for International Publications ; 3). Why Your Dissertation is Not a Book ; 4). The Ethics of Scholarly Communication

Susan Lopez-Nerney designed, coordinated and taught language, writing and professional communication courses for undergraduates and graduates in the Centre for English Language Communication at the National University of Singapore from 1992 until 2013. She has conducted writing workshops for graduate degree candidates and junior faculty in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. She is a mentor for the US Social Science Research Council’s Global Scholars Initiative. 
Presentation by Susan Lopez-Nerney: Salient Features of Publishable English

Paul Nerney designed, taught and coordinated courses in English as a Second Language and English as a First-School Language for the Centre for English Language. He also worked under the Provost’s Office to design, teach and coordinate writing and critical thinking modules for the University Scholars Programme and University Town Residential Programme. More recently, he has conducted writing workshops for graduate degree candidates and junior faculty in Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Indonesia. He is a mentor for the US Social Science Research Council’s Global Scholars Initiative. 
Presentation by Paul Nerney: Planning and Drafting Strategies for Research Papers

Linda Grove is Consulting Director of the Social Science Research Council's Tokyo office and program director for the Council’s Global Scholars Initiative. She formerly taught Chinese social and economic history at Sophia University in Tokyo, where she served as dean and vice president with responsibility for international programs and research management. Her publications include books and articles on Chinese rural industrialization and social change, East Asian trade history, and Chinese women's history, as well as translations of Japanese and Chinese scholarship on Chinese history. 
Presentation by Linda Grove: Preparing a Literature Review

Siddharth Chandra is past President of the American Institute for Indonesian Studies, and Director of the Asian Studies Center and Professor of Economics in James Madison College at Michigan State University. Prior to joining Michigan State University, he was Director of the Asian Studies Center and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include behavior and policy relating to addictive substances, the intersection of demography, economics, health, and history in Asia, and applications of portfolio theory to fields outside finance, for which the theory was originally developed. His research has appeared in a variety of journals across the disciplines including American Psychologist, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Demography, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, the International Journal of Drug Policy, the Journal of Regional Science, the Journal of Economic History, World Politics, The British Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of Asian Studies. 
Presentation by Siddharth Chandra: How Your Target Audience Affects Writing Style

If you have any inquiries, please contact: annas.bentari@aifis.org

'Idrek' for Humanity: Screen Capturing Malang

Currently society is experiencing significant changes due to globalization, technological advances and cultural shifts. Therefore, now is the perfect time to foster collaboration between universities and communities to overcome the problems caused by dramatic changes in society. Idrek for Humanity is a collaboration of language scholars from three leading universities in Malang: Ika Nurhayani, Ph.D (Universitas Brawijaya), Nurenzia Yannuar, Ph.D (Universitas Negeri Malang) and Wawan Eko Yulianto, Ph.D (Universitas Ma Chung). Idrek for Humanity was founded by them to bring universities in Malang closer to the surrounding community by capturing the nuances of languages, literature in Malang and advocating them for scholarly discussions in those fields. Idrek is a reversal of a Malangan Javanese word kerdi (coined from kerja ‘to work’ + rodi ‘corvee labor’), meaning ‘to work hard’. Word-reversal, referred to as Walikan, is a common language practice in Malang. The use of a Walikan word in the name of the community symbolizes our intention to capture the spirit and ethos of the people of Malang. For its first event, Idrek for Humanity will hold an online discussion entitled Screen Capturing Malang, in which the founders of Idrek Humanity will speak about literary works set in Malang. The event will be held by Universitas Negeri Malang, in collaboration with AIFIS, Universitas Brawijaya and Universitas Ma Chung.

Date : Saturday, October 2, 2021
Time : 09.00-11.10
Venue : Virtual (Zoom)
Registration: https://tiny.cc/GuestLecture

Book Discussion: The Mushroom at the End of the World

BOOK TITLE AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

In this book, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing takes an in-depth look at the Matsutake mushroom commodity chain by exploring unexpected corners of capitalism. Matsusake is an important mushroom. With its ability to care for trees, Matsusake helps the preservation of the wilderness. In Japan, Matsusake is a food commodity with an expensive price. In this book, Tsing invites us to see the varied and unique Matsusake trade from the Japanese culinary world to capitalist traders to Hmong forest warriors to industrial forests to Yi China goat herders to Finnish tour guides. This take us into the history of the forest and fungal ecology to better understand ways of living together in a time of great human destruction. Examining the world's most sought-after mushroom, this book presents an examination of the relationship between the destruction caused by capitalism and the collaborative way of life in a multispecies landscape.

A DIALOG WITH:

Hatib Abdul Kadir (Department of Anthropology, Universitas Brawijaya; UCSC alumni) and
Fathun Karib (Department of Sociology, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah; Ph.D candidate, Binghamton University, NY)

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 5PM WIB

Registration: https://eutenika.org/daftar

Language Documentation and Studies of English Spoken in Indonesia

Malang Graduate Student Webinar in Linguistics: Language Documentation and Studies of English Spoken in Indonesia

The Master’s Study Program of Linguistics, of the Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya will hold a webinar entitled 2021 Malang Graduate Student Webinar in Linguistics: Language Documentation in Indonesia and Studies of English Spoken in Indonesia in collaboration with AIFIS.

The aim of this event is to provide an opportunity for graduate students in linguistics in Malang and in the United States to share ideas and receive feedback from their peers. In addition, graduate students in Malang will be able to network with their peers in the United States.

Speakers Speakers invited for the event are graduate students from Universitas Brawijaya, Universitas Negeri Malang, Cornell University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The speakers are Ekarina Winarto (Ph.D Candidate, Cornell University), Radha Andhra Swari (Master Student, Universitas Brawijaya), Khairunnisa (Ph.D Candidate, University of Hawaii at Manoa), Alifa Camilia Fadillah (Master Student, Universitas Brawijaya), Naima Khairunisa (Master Student, Universitas Negeri Malang), and Christian Edison Bani (Master Student, Universitas Brawijaya).

Date and Time: Friday, August 6, 2021 at 08.00-11.00

Registration: tiny.cc/GraduateStudentWebinar

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earlier States

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earlier States

By: James C. Scott (Yale University Press, 2017)

In this book, James C. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the “barbarians” who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and non-subject peoples. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family—all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction.

DISCUSSANTS
-            Irsyad Martias (Department of Anthropology, Universitas Brawijaya)
-            Rucitarahma Ristiawan (Wageningen University, Belanda)

 MODERATOR
Hatib Abdul Kadir (UCSC alumni; researcher at Center for Culture and Frontiers Studeis, Universitas Brawijaya)

Day, Date : Friday, July 30th, 2021
Time : 15-17 WIB

Decolonising the Catastrophe Discourse: Forensic Portraiture, Competing Storylines

SPEAKER
Hendro Sangkoyo (researcher at School of Democratic Economics, Indonesia)

ABSTRACT
In this presentation I use the notion of catastrophe as a shorthand for a phenomenon, process or event —depending on its space-time framing— of the disappearance or interruption in the fulfilment of a set of salient wellbeing criteria of a group of living beings —including humans— as its subject of suffering. To date, the official convention of what does or does not fit to be called a disaster, its further classification, its genesis and tail ends, and how to address and deal with it, have all been the dominion of the political/statal and the knowledge authorities, both are instrumental to the maintenance of global biopolitics. Under such a discursive system and practice, the central predicates pertaining to catastrophe, namely, to mobilize, to cope with and to prevent, in that sequence, got placed within a deterministic and contested imagination of catastrophe’s space-time topology. Against the backdrop of such ruling interpretation and analytics, the present precis intends to advance the notion of catastrophe as part and parcel of the daily living condition under the social-ecological crisis. The scrutiny focuses on the dynamics of catastrophe phenomenon within the context of industrial-urbanism, the dominant mode of social-metabolism in our common life-time|space. Based particularly upon shared understandings from a sustained solidarity and social-learning work over the past two decades, the discussion shall gravitate around the nature of catastrophes, the divergence and conflation of chronotypes and spatiotypes of the phenomenon, social tropes and division of labor of its management, and the economistic transformation of the catastrophe-discourse in tandem with its attendant mobilisatory politics. Such a transformation reveals the fingerprints of colonial and imperial leitmotifs, as well as its oft revealing racist and patriarchal disposition, which manifest remarkably in the ground rules on how pain and the suffering subject under catastrophe should get treated and valorized.

MODERATOR
Siti Maimunah (University of Passay, Germany)

DISCUSSANT
Rita Padawangi (Singapure University of Social Sciences, Singapore)