2010 Herb Feith Memorial Lecture
The Centre of Southeast Asian Studies of the Monash Asia Institute and the Faculty of Arts, Monash University present…
The sixth 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.
Indonesia at 65: The alchemy of nation building and the formation of modern Indonesia
Speaker: Emeritus Professor Anthony Reid, Australian National University
Wednesday 27 October 2010, 6.00pm for 6.30pm
Melbourne City Conference Centre,
333 Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
RSVP to Rhonda Ohis by Thursday, 21 October 2010
via phone, 03 9903 4683 or email, rhonda.ohis@monash.edu
Prof Anthony Reid is a Professor (emeritus) at the ANU where he was Professor of History from 1970 to 1999. More recently he was the founding director of the Asia Research Institute (ARI) and the National University of Singapore (2002-2007) and then Professor of Southeast Asian History at NUS (2007-2009). Before that he was Professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Malaya (1965-1970), Yale (1973-4) and the Australian National University (1970-1999) and then the founding director of the Southeast Asia Center at UCLA (1999-2002). He was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2002 and was appointed as a Corresponding Fellow at the British Academy in 2008.
Professor Reid is the author of numerous scholarly papers and has edited or co-edited about thirty books, mostly addressing particular themes in Southeast Asian or Indonesian history. His books include The Indonesian National Revolution (1974); The Blood of the People: Revolution and the End of Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra (1979); Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, c.1450-1680 (2 vols. 1988-93); An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and other histories of Sumatra (2004); Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and political identity in Southeast Asia (2010), and the forthcoming To Nation by Revolution: Indonesia in the 20th Century.
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