Calendar – recent and coming events
Contact Max Lane at maxrlane@gmail.com
KITLV Leiden seminar on Wednesday 24 September
Max Lane, visiting fellow at the Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore, will give a presentation on ‘Aksi, the fall of Suharto and Indonesian history: the line of argument in Unfinished Nation: Indonesia before and after Suharto’.Date: Wednesday 24 SeptemberTime: 15.30 h – 17.00 h
Venue: KITLV Conference Room
For more information: bakker@kitlv.nl
October 2, Fordham University,
Arok's Conspiracy: Literature, History, and Political Activism
Arok of Java is a novel of revolution and of revolutionary activism. In it, Pramoedya Ananta Toer proposes a protagonist, the peasant, priest and knight, Arok, that overcomes, through fusion and transcendance, the caste/class divisions of Javanese despotism. He leads a classed based revolution that is resolved through restoration of most of the old system. Where does Arok fit in contemporary human types? How does Arok relate to contemporary revolution? Can Arok of Java, the novel, be described as a revolutionary text?
Max Lane (Visiting Fellow, National University of Singapore) is the English translator of the Buru Quartet of novels by Indonesian novelist, Pramoedya Ananta Toer (This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps, House of Glass); and the author of Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After Suharto (Verso, 2008). He has recently translated Pramoedya Ananta Toer's novel Arok of Java (Horizon Books, 2007), a historical novel set in 13th century Java, whose relevance for contemporary political activism and the dynamics of Indonesian history will discuss at the Fordham event on Friday, October 3, 2008, at 5:00 pm (McMahon Lounge, Room 109, Lincoln Center).
This event coincides with the 8th annual Fordham Graduate English Association conference on "Innovation and Evolution" (October 3-4).
October 5, Brecht Forum, New York: The Left and the struggle against neo-liberalism in Indonesia and comparison's with Venezuela. Sponsored by East Timor and Indonesia Alert Network (ETAN).
October 21: Brecht Forum, New York: Performing Resistance: Pramoedya Ananta Toer on Stage. Main speaker: Faiza Mardzoeki, Institut Ungu, Jakarta.
Other lectures and talks are being scheduled a the venues below. Final dates and topics will be put un the blog in a week or so.:
Tentative dates:
October 8, Yale University, Southeast Asian Studies
October 10-11 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Centre for Asian Studies
October 14 Northwestern University, Chicago, Department of Political Science
October 17, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies,
October 25 Bluestockings Book Shop, East Village, New York, Sponsored by East Timor and Indonesia Alert Network (ETAN).
City University of New York, Graduate Centre for Worker Education
November 3 Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen
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