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Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute public lectures24 August 2005 'Young Muslims: religion, education, and gender transformation in contemporary Java', by Associate Professor Nancy Smith-Hefner, Department of Anthropology, Boston University. When: Thursday 1 September, 11 am -- 12.30 pm Dr Smith-Hefner's research is on Muslim youth, education and socialisation in the context of modern social change in Indonesia and the Islamic resurgence from the late 1970s. This research project examines the changing nature of family, marriage, sexuality, and gender ideals among Muslim youth in the central Javanese royal seat and university town of Yogyakarta. Dr Smith-Hefner is particularly interested in the contrast between modernist Muslim youth, loosely linked to the modernist organisation Muhammadiyah and neo-traditionalist youth culturally linked to Nahdlatul Ulama, the largest traditionalist Muslim organisation in the world. 'Civil democratic Islam: Prospects and policies for a plural Muslim world', Professor Robert Hefner, Department of Anthropology and associate director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University and currently a Monash Faculty of Arts visiting scholar in Anthropology. When: Thursday 1 September, 4 pm Professor Hefner has conducted research on religion and politics in Southeast Asia for the past 28 years and has carried out comparativeresearch on Muslim culture and politics since the late-1980s. He is the invited editor for the sixth volume of the forthcoming New Cambridge History of Islam, Muslims and Modernity: Society and Culture since 1800. He has published more than a dozen books, as well as several major policy reports. His most recent published works are 'Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratisation in Indonesia ' (Princeton 2000) and, as editor, 'Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratisation' (Princeton 2005). RSVP to monash.asia.institute@adm.monash.edu.au with 'Civil democratic Islam seminar' in subject heading of your message. 'Muslim politics and democratisation in Indonesia' The Annual Indonesia Lecture Series 2005 When: Monday 5 September, 6 pm refreshments for 7 pm start Speakers: Professor Azyumardi Azra, one of Indonesia 's most prominent Muslim intellectuals, is Rector and Professor of History at the State Islamic University, Jakarta. Professor Robert Hefner, Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University. Mr Luthfi Assyaukanie, co-founder of the Liberal Islam Network (Jaringan Islam Liberal, JIL) in Jakarta, Indonesia. All welcome. RSVP to monash.asia.institute@adm.monash.edu.au with 'AILS 2005' in the subject heading of your message. |