28 November 2006
Violence in Indonesia -- its many nuances and manifestations -- will be under the spotlight when Monash University convenes its fourth annual Herb Feith Lecture on Thursday 30 November.
Dr Ruth McVey - who will give the lecture "Contemplating Violence in Indonesia" -- is the Emeritus Reader in Southeast Asian Politics at the University of London.
Dr McVey's 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 (1978).
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.
What: The fourth Annual Herb Feith Lecture
Topic: Contemplating Violence in Indonesia
When: Thursday 30 November, 2006 at 7pm
Where: Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre, corner Sturt Street and Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne
The lecture is being convened by Monash University's Centre for Southeast Asian Studies and the Faculty of Arts, in association with ABC Radio Australia, the Asia Institute and University of Melbourne.
RSVP to Tony.Donaldson@adm.monash.edu.au using the subject line "Herb Feith Lecture 2006".
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