Academic Writing Workshop & Short Course, Week 3: Argumentation & Navigating the Peer Review Process, Faculty Perspectivess

Please join us for the 2023 AIFIS Academic Writing Workshop! This year we are presenting the event in the form of a short course and workshop that spans over three weeks from May 8-27. Public participants are invited to follow along with the coursework provided here.

The third and final week of the short-course explores faculty perspectives in argumentation and navigating the peer review process. In it we will learn to understand what reviewers are instructed to look for in articles that they are sent for review and develop strategies for responding to referee reports to maximize the probability of acceptance in a journal.

Youtube Livestream Link: https://tinyurl.com/joinacadwritingweek3

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to listen to and engage with experts and scholars and learn from their experiences and insights in getting published in international academic journals!

Academic Writing Workshop & Short Course, Week 2: Language & the Writing Process

Please join us for the 2023 AIFIS Academic Writing Workshop! This year we are presenting the event in the form of a short course and workshop that spans over three weeks from May 8-27. Public participants are invited to follow along with the coursework provided here.

The second live Q&A session will take place on Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 9-11 am WIB, where we will be in conversation with 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 at NUS), and 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).

Youtube Livestream Link: https://tinyurl.com/joinacadwritingweek2

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to listen to and engage with experts and scholars and learn from their experiences and insights in getting published in international academic journals!

Academic Writing Workshop & Short Course, Week 1: Getting Published in International Academic Journals

Please join us for the 2023 AIFIS Academic Writing Workshop! This year we are presenting the event in the form of a short course and workshop that spans over three weeks from May 8-27. Public participants are invited to follow along with the coursework provided here. The first live Q&A session will take place on Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 9-11 am WIB, where we will be in conversation with Dr. Paul Kratoska, formerly the Managing Director of NUS Press at the National University of Singapore, past editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, and current editor of The Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Youtube Livestream Link: https://tinyurl.com/joinacadwritingweek1

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to listen to and engage with experts and scholars and learn from their experiences and insights in getting published in international academic journals!

Dragon For Sale: Environmental Justice and the Illusion of "10 New Balis" Development in Indonesia

The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS), in collaboration with the Graduate Education & Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium and Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab), is proud to present a screening of Dragon for Sale followed by a discussion with the film’s Director, Producers, and Research Team.  

Dragon for Sale documents the Indonesian government’s “10 New Balis” development project in Eastern Indonesia and attempts to turn Flores and the Komodo Islands into an international tourist destination. The documentary film highlights the darker side of the project’s history, including catastrophic environmental degradation and multiple human rights violations as local populations are forced out of their ancestral homes to make way for resorts and restaurants. The film showcases the resistance movements of local communities striving to create alternative tourism development and conservation plans through an indigenous framework of human-animal kinship and coexistence.  

This hybrid event, simulcast in-person at six leading universities across the United States and on Zoom across the globe, is the first international screening of this groundbreaking documentary since its mid-April release in Indonesia. Join us on May 1, 2023 at 12:00p (Hawaii) / 3:00p (PDT) / 5:00p (CDT) / 6:00p (EDT) via Zoom at https://bit.ly/41Uqw0X. 

Click here to download JSEALab Article / Translation to supplement the discussion: https://bit.ly/41YPrkb

𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬: 𝐀𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Analisis Percakapan ‘Conversation Analysi’s (CA) merupakan sebuah teori dan metode yang digunakan untuk meneliti bahasa dan pola interaksi antar penutur. Pada mulanya, CA merupakan sebuah pendekatan kajian hubungan sosial di bidang sosiologi yang dikenalkan pada tahun 1960an oleh Harvey Sacks. Pendekatan ini kemudian berkembang dan dikneal di bidang linguistic, antropologi dan ilmu komunikasi. Objek utama dalam penelitian CA bukan bahasa, melainkan pola interaksi sosial. Namun demikian, bahasa merupakan unsur terpenting dalam komunikasi, penelitian CA biasanya melibatkan analisis percakapan.

Penelitian dengan metode CA sangat menarik sebagai sebuah sarana penelitian interdisipliner yang paling tidak melibatkan unsur bahasa dan interaksi sosial. Namun sayangnya, penelitian ini belum banyak dikenal oleh peneliti di Indonesia. Padahal, dalam konteks Indonesia, penelitian yang menggunakan pendekatan CA tentulah penting, terutama untuk mengkaji bagaimana penutur dalam sebuah komunitas bahasa tertentu berinteraksi dalam percakapan dan bagaimana bahasa dan budaya dari etnis tertentu berpengaruh pada atau mempengaruhi pola interaksi sosial di antara mereka.

Registrasi online: https://tinyurl.com/Conversational-Workshop

𝐖𝐚𝐤𝐭𝐮 𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭:

Selasa-Rabu, 2-3 Mei 2023, jam 13:00-16:00 WIB

Ruang ZOOM

𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫:

Dwi Noverini Djenar, Ph.D. (the University of Sydney)

Nicholas Williams, Ph.D. (Potsdam University, CAORCH-NEH Research Fellow of 2018-2019)

Fakry Hamdani, Ph.D. (UIN Sunan Gunung Djati)

LuceSEA Webinar Series: Migrations, Labor & Smallholder Livelihoods

Date & Time: March 08, 2023, 3:00-4:30pm HST

Speakers: Dr. Amanda Flaim, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Sociology & James Madison College; Dr. Christina Griffin, Fellow, University of Melbourne Nasrullah, PhD Scholar, University of Mulawarman.

Co-sponsors: UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Michigan State University, Chiang Mai University, Henry Luce Foundation. 

Description: Engaging across disciplines and case studies from Southeast Asia, this webinar panel discussion centers migration as an entry point into understanding dynamic landscapes and livelihoods. Complex and varied, seasonal and long term, rural to urban, or distant and across borders, migration not only reshapes places of origin but also remake destinations in distinct ways. Refocusing on migration trends also presents insights into the often overlooked interconnectedness of a complex and rapidly changing region.

LuceSEA Webinar Series: Smallholder Definitions, Presents, and Futures - Agriculture & Aquaculture

Date & Time: February 08, 2023, 3:00-4:30pm HST

Speakers: Nurhady Sirimorok, PhD Candidate, Hasanuddin University; Sumvilary Chanthalounnavong, National University of Laos.

Co-sponsors: UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Michigan State University, Chiang Mai University, Henry Luce Foundation. 

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.

Agreement in Amarasi: Topics in synchronic & diachronic morphosyntax

Background: This research project aims to document and investigate the morphology of Amarasi (ISO: aaz), an Austronesian language spoken in the Kupang Regency of South-West Timor in the East Nusa Tenggara Province of Indonesia. Spoken by approximately 80,000 individuals, Amarasi is the westernmost end of a complex language/dialect continuum falling under the umbrella of Uab Meto (also known as Timorese, Dawan(ese), or Atoni).
In collaboration with native speakers and community members, primary data collection took place from October -- December 2022 in the Amarasi Barat district. Data collection focused on naturalistic data including narratives, oral histories, and songs/poetry. This data is currently being processed into linguistically-annotated trilingual audio recordings suitable for adaptation into community-facing literary, pedagogical, and/or reference material for the Amarasi-speaking community, with a broader goal of helping to preserve linguistic diversity in the region.

From a theoretical perspective, the collected data is also being used to analyse the morphology of Amarasi and trace its development over time, so as to further our understanding of linguistic universals, grammatical structure, and the ways in which languages change. Amarasi has innovated many novel constructions and characteristics in comparison to its ancestor language Proto-Malayo-Polynesian. As such, this project investigates the origin of several of these innovations, including prefixal subject agreement, verbal inflection classes, and a ternary class distinction, and explores what these systems tell us about languages throughout Nusa Tenggara Timur.

Speaker: Tamisha L Tan is a final year PhD Candidate in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University and an affiliate of Nanyang Technological University. Before pursuing her doctoral studies, she received a BA (Hons) in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on historical linguistics and theoretical morphosyntax, with a specific emphasis on the Austronesian languages of South East Asia.

Museums for the 21st Century: Curation

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.

This session will discuss non-Western museum paradigms, curatorial approaches, and concepts of cultural heritage preservation, which are inherent characteristics of Indigenous curation (Kreps 2002).  In addition, it will show various museological behavior promoting Indigenous curation and the vital involvement of cultural custodians in museums' activities aimed at preserving and transmitting cultural heritage.

Date/Time: Monday, February 20, 2023 / 10am WIB Jakarta Time

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:

• Tracing Patterns Foundation

• The American Institute of Indonesian Studies (AIFIS)

• Museum Ceria

• Institut Konservasi

• Smithsonian Institution

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

Higher Education in Post-Covid 19: Challenges and Opportunities for Indonesian Islamic Higher Education

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)