Annual Indonesia Lecture Series 2005
Monday 5 September 2005, 6.00 pm
refreshments for 7.00 pm start
Iwaki Auditorium, ABC
Southbank Centre
Corner Sturt Street and Southbank Boulevard,
Melbourne
Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash
Asia Institute
Department of Anthropology, Faculty of
Arts, Monash University, in association with
ABC Radio
Australia, and
Australian-Indonesian Association of Victoria
Inc.
present…
The Annual Indonesia Lecture Series 2005
"Muslim politics and democratisation in Indonesia"
Speakers
Professor Azyumardi Azra
Azyumardi Azra is Rector and Professor of History at the State Islamic University, Jakarta, Indonesia, an Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne and one of Southeast Asia's most prominent Muslim intellectuals.
Professor Robert Hefner on "Democratisation and its Others".
Robert Hefner is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at the Boston University and a Faculty of Arts Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at Monash University.
Luthfi Assyaukanie on "Islam and Liberal Democracy: Debates of Three Generations in Indonesia".
Luthfi Assyaukanie is co-founder of the Liberal Islam Network (Jaringan Islam Liberal, JIL) in Jakarta, Indonesia and a PhD candidate, Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, University of Melbourne.
About the speakers
Prof Azyumardi Azra One of Southeast Asia's most prominent Muslim intellectuals, Prof Azra is Rector and Professor of History at the State Islamic University (UIN), Jakarta, Indonesia and an Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne. Having graduated from the Faculty of Tarbiyah (Islamic Education) at the Jakarta IAIN (now UIN), he was appointed Lecturer there in 1985. In 1986 he was selected for a Fulbright scholarship to pursue advanced studies at Columbia University, New York City, from where he graduated with an MA from the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures in 1988. He also has an MA , MPhil and PhD from the Department of History, Columbia University. Prof Azra was Deputy Director, Centre for the Study of Islam and Society, IAIN/UIN Jakarta before his appointment as Deputy Rector for Academic Affiars. He has been a Visiting Professor at a number of prominent universities, including the Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford University and at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University. He is editor-in-chief of Studia Islamika, an Indonesian Journal for Islamic Studies. He has presented numerous papers at international conferences and has lectured at universities such as Columbia, Harvard, ANU, Kyoto and Leiden. The latest of his 18 books is The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia. (U of Hawai'i Press 2004)
Prof Robert W. Hefner is Professor of Anthropology, Associate Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University, where he directs the program on Islam and civil society. Hefner has conducted research on religion and politics in Southeast Asia for the past twenty-eight years and has carried out comparative research on Muslim culture and politics since the late-1980s. He is the invited editor for the sixth volume of the forthcoming New Cambridge History of Islam, Muslims and Modernity: Society and Culture since 1800. He has published more than a dozen books, as well as several major policy reports. His most recent published works are Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia (Princeton 2000) and, as editor, Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization (Princeton 2005). Other recent books include, as editor, The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia (Hawaii 2001), Democratic Civility: The History and Cross-Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal (Transaction 1998), Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms (Westview 1998), and, with Patricia Horvatich, Islam in an Era of Nation-States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia (Hawaii 1998). His early books included, Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam (Princeton 1985) and The Political Economy of Mountain Java (California 1991).
Luthfi Assyaukanie has an MA in Philosophy from the International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1995). From 1998 - 2002 he was a Lecturer in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Paramadina, Jakarta, Indonesia and from 1998 - 2002 he was a Lecturer in the Department of Islamic Studies, Al-Azhar University, Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2001, he co-founded the Liberal Islam Network (Jaringan Islam Liberal, JIL), which recently held its Fourth Anniversary conference in Teater Utan Kayu, Jakarta, Indonesia. He is the author of two books, Wajah Liberal Islam di Indonesia [Faces of Liberal Islam in Indonesia] (Jaringan Islam Liberal: Teater Utan Kayu, 2002) and Politik, HAM, dan Isu-isu Teknologi dalam Fikih Kontemporer [Politics, Human Rights, and The Issues of Technology in Contemporary Islamic Law] (Bandung: Pustaka Hidayah, 1998). He has published numerous articles and conference papers in Indonesian and in English, including 'Democracy and the Islamic State: Muslim Arguments for Political Change in Indonesia', The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 20: 32-46, 2004 and 'Islamic Arguments for Democracy', paper presented at the conference on "Decentering South East Asia?", the 6th ASEAN Inter-University Seminars on Social Development, held at University Sains Malaysia, Penang. 14-16 May 2004.
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