Second Herb Feith Memorial Lecture 2004
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
Centre of Southeast Asian Studies
and Faculty
of Arts, Monash University in association with
ABC
Radio Australia and the Melbourne
Institute of Asian Languages & Societies of the
University of Melbourne present ...
Honouring the memory of the late Herb Feith - teacher, scholar, activist and humanitarian
Monday 28 June 2004, 6.30 pm refreshments for 7.30 pm start
Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre
Corner Sturt
Street and Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne
Divisive Modernity: Thoughts on Southeast Asian History
Speaker: Professor Wang Gungwu
Director, East
Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
MC:
Graeme Dobell, Radio Australia's Foreign Affairs and Defence
Correspondent
About the speaker
Professor Wang Gungwu (PhD History, University of London) is a specialist in Chinese Overseas, Chinese History, Nationalism & Migrations in the Asian region. He was Chairman of The Institute of East Asian Political Economy (1996-1997) before it was reconstituted as The East Asian Institute and is also Faculty Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore ( NUS ). He was Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong from 1986 to 1995, and is an Emeritus Professor and former Director of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. A close friend and colleague of Herb Feith, Professor Wang Gungwu's visit to Melbourne on this occasion will not involve any other public presentations apart from this lecture.
Brochure about the lecture in Word format or pdf format is available for downloading here.
Get the Transcript of the lecture in pdf format or Word format
The CSEAS also acknowledges with gratitude to Professor Wang Gungwu and the ABC(Australian Broadcasting Corporation) for making available a transcript of the lecture.
More information about the Herb Feith Foundation.
Convenor: Dr Penny Graham, Director, Centre of Southeast
Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute.
Email: penny.graham@arts.monash.edu.au