The fourth Herb Feith Lecture 2006
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 Asia
Institute of the University of Melbourne present
...
Thursday 30 November
2006, 6.00 pm refreshments for 7.00 PM start
Iwaki Auditorium,
ABC Southbank Centre
Corner Sturt Street and Southbank
Boulevard, Melbourne
Contemplating Violence in Indonesia
Speaker: Dr Ruth
McVey
Dr McVey is Emeritus Reader in Southeast Asian
Politics at the University of London. She received her PhD in Government
at Cornell University and subsequently held positions at Yale University,
the Center for International Studies at MIT, Cornell University and
the School of Oriental & African Studies at the University
of London
Her early work concentrated on the history of the Indonesian Communist movement and the general relationship between ideology and social change in Indonesia. Later she studied social and ideological transformation in rural southern Thailand and the rise of the Southeast Asian business-political elite.
Among her principal publications are "The Rise of Indonesian Communism"(1965), "Southeast Asian Transitions" (1978), "Southeast Asian Capitalists"(1992) and "Money and Power in Provincial Thailand" (2000). In October 2005 Professor McVey was awarded the Asian Pacific Forum, Awaji Conference Japan, 4th Iue Asia Pacific Culture Prize.
ALL WELCOME
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Convenor: Dr Penny Graham,
Director, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute.
Email: penny.graham@arts.monash.edu.au
RSVP (essential) for lecture with "Herb Feith Lecture 2006" in the subject heading of the email to Dr Tony Donaldson, tony.donaldson@adm. monash.edu.au