Herb Feith Memorial Lectures
Honouring the memory of the late Herb Feith – teacher, scholar, activist and humanitarian
Herb Feith (1930-2001) was Australia's finest scholar of Indonesia. His example and idealism inspired the founding of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme that developed into Australian Volunteers International. Teaching politics at Monash University from 1962 to 1990, he led generations of students to share his passionate concern for Indonesia, international politics, democracy, human rights, peace studies and conflict resolution.
The Herb Feith Foundation was set up by the Council of Monash University in 2003 in honour and recognition of Herb Feith's life long work and dedication.
2011 Herb Feith Memorial Lecture
The Centre of Southeast Asian Studies of the Monash Asia Institute and the Faculty of Arts, Monash University present:
The seventh annual Herb Feith Lecture
honouring the memory of the late Herb Feith – teacher, scholar, activist and humanitarian Herb Feith (1930-2001) was Australia’s finest scholar of Indonesia. His example and idealism inspired the founding of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme that developed into Australian Volunteers International. Teaching politics at Monash University from 1962 to 1990, he led generations of students to share his passionate concern for Indonesia, international politics, democracy, human rights, peace studies and conflict resolution.
Speaker: HE. Kirsty Sword Gusmão, Chairwoman of the Alola Foundation and Goodwill Ambassador for Education, Timor-Leste
Tuesday 2 August, 2011, 6.30 pm – 8 pm
H1.16, Ground Floor, Building H
Monash University (Caulfield Campus)
900 Dandenong Road Caulfield East VIC 3145
RSVP to Eric Cheng by 25 July 2011
via phone, 03 9903 4616 or email, eric.cheng@monash.edu
Kirsty Sword Gusmão grew up in Melbourne and Bendigo and attended Melbourne University where she completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), majoring in Indonesian and Italian, and a Diploma of Education.
In 1991, after working as an Administrative Secretary with the Overseas Service Bureau (Australian Volunteers International), she joined the Refugee Studies Program at Oxford University as Assistant to the Development Coordinator.
During 1991, she travelled to East Timor as the Researcher/Interpreter the Yorkshire Television documentary film (In Cold Blood: The massacre of East Timor) on political and social developments in the territory.
She lived and worked as a teacher and human rights campaigner in Jakarta, Indonesia from 1992-1996, during these years her work for the East Timorese independence cause intensified and brought her into contact with the independence leader, Xanana Gusmão, who was serving a 20-year sentence in a Jakarta jail and whom she married in July, 2000.
She has lived in East Timor since October 1999 and is the founder and chairwoman of the Alola Foundation which she established in 2001 to address the needs of East Timorese women and their families. Information about the work of the Alola Foundation can be found on the website: www.alolafoundation.org
Kirsty was appointed by the President Dr. Jose Ramos Horta as Goodwill Ambassador for Education in October 2007. This appointment was in recognition of Kirsty’s tireless efforts to date and to formalize future endeavours in addressing the educational priorities of Timor-Leste.
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