Memorial Lectures
This lecture series is presented by the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies and Faculty of Arts at Monash University, in association with Radio Australia and the Asia Institute at The University of Melbourne.
You can listen to each of the Herb Feith Lectures (via audio streaming) by clicking on the links provided. Note that you need RealPlayer on your computer for you to listen to these recordings. You can download it free from RealPlayer Website if you don’t already have it.
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Emeritus Professor Dan Lev, Department of Political Science at The University of Washington - 7 November 2002
Dan Lev's lecture was revised and published as an article in Asian
Studies Review, vol 29, no. 4, pp. 345-356, Dec 2005. His presentation
was entitled Misunderstanding the politics of Indonesia, but for the
subsequent publication he used his preferred title 'Conceptual fiiters and
obfuscation in the study of Indonesian politics'
Daniel S Lev (PhD, Cornell University) sadly died in July 2006.
He was a specialist in the comparative politics, legal systems and human rights of Southeast Asia. His book Islamic Courts in Indonesia (University of California Press, 1972) is published in English and Indonesian. Among his other publications are The Transition to Guided Democracy, 1966; Hukum dan Politik di Indonesia [Law and Politics in Indonesia], 1990, a collection of his essays in Indonesian translation; Legal Evolution and Political Authority in Indonesia, 2000, a collection of pieces on law; and articles and essays on Indonesian and Malaysian politics, legal institutions and human rights. Professor Lev was a longstanding colleague and close friend of Herb Feith.
Click on the following for audio-recording of Dan Lev lecture:
http://www.mulo.monash.edu.au/artsfac/Herb_Feith_2002.ram
Read about Dan Lev's and Herb Feith's friendship Professor Dan Lev (PDF Format)
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Divisive Modernity: Thoughts on Southeast Asian History - 28 June 2004
Professor Wang Gungwu
Director, East Asian Institute
National University of Singapore
Professor Wang (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 & Asian Studies, Australian National University. He was a close friend and colleague of Herb Feith.
Click on the following for audio-recording of Wang Gungwu lecture:
http://www.mulo.monash.edu.au/artsfac/Herb_Feith_2004.ram
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Can Indonesia hold? Unity & diversity revisited - 4 August 2005
Dr Joan Hardjono
eminent human geographer
Australian by birth, Joan first went to Indonesia as a Volunteer Graduate and taught in Semarang during 1957-58. She married and stayed on in Indonesia, teaching in the English Department of the Faculty of Arts at Padjadjaran State University in Bandung from 1960. She took a doctorate in human geography from the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. A prominent scholar in her field, DR Joan Hardjono has written extensively on environmental issues, transmigration, poverty and rural conditions in Indonesia. She has also worked as a social assessment consultant, undertaking studies for various international institutions. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the SMERU Research Institute, Jakarta, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. She edited Indonesia: Resources, Ecology, and Environment (1991) and co-edited Labour: Sharing in the Benefits of Growth? (1993) and Development in Eastern Indonesia (1996). More recently, she co-authored People, Poverty and Livelihoods: Links for Sustainable Poverty Reduction in Indonesia (2002).
Click on the following for audio-recording of Joan Hardjono lecture:
http://www.mulo.monash.edu.au/artsfac/Herb_Feith_2005.ram
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Next Lecture on 30 November 2006
On 30 November 2006, Dr Ruth McVey will deliver the next lecture at the Iwaki Auditorium in Melbourne
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