Here are the lecturers involved in the 2015 summer school at USM, Penang. Some of the previous summer school lecturers and their lecture topics are listed below:
Prof. Dr. Vincent Houben (Humboldt University) is Professor of modern Southeast Asian history and society. His research interests include the comparative history of Southeast Asia, theory and methods of area studies, and particularly the economic as well as colonial history of insular Southeast Asia. He is one of the founding lecturers of the summer school.
Prof. Dr. Bambang Purwanto (Universitas Gadjah Mada) is Professor of Indonesian history at UGM and Leiden University. He currently occupies the Leiden Chair for the History of Dutch-Indonesian Relations. His research interests include the economic history of Indonesia and Southeast Asia, History of Everyday Life, and Historiography.
Dr. Soon Chuan Yean (USM) is a political scientist who uses cultural studies and social-anthropological approaches to comprehend Southeast Asian societies, in particular those of the Philippines. He continues to work on the inter-subjective relations between politics and religion in the Philippines, and the politicisation of Malaysian arts communities.
Dr. Sri Margana (Universitas Gadjah Mada) is lecturer in the History Department of UGM. He obtained a masters degree from UGM, and an advance masters and Ph.D. from Leiden University. His research interests include traditional historiography and the early modern period.
Dr. Lye Tuck-Po (USM) is an environmental anthropologist who has conducted studies of Malaysian indigenous peoples including the Orang Asli and the Penan of Sarawak. She has also worked in Cambodia. Her areas of interest include the symbols and politics of landscape, applications of indigenous knowledge, protected areas management, and hunting and gathering societies. She has also edited books on the political ecology of tropical forests and the social ecology of migration.
Datin Dr. Mahani Musa (USM) is a lecturer in Malaysian history. Her research interest is in sociopolitical histories. She has published monographs and books in relation to her major interests including Malay Secret Societies in the Northern Malay States, 1821-1940s (published in Malay and English by the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2003 and 2006 respectively). She also has published her research in a range of journals including Indonesia and the Malay World, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies and Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Aleah Connley (Humboldt University) is a research assistant and lecturer in the field of Southeast Asian Studies. She has a background in Islamic studies and her research interests include democratisation and Islamism, Indonesian politics, Islamic theology, and grounded theory methodology. Aleah is currently working on her dissertation which examines the dynamics of local politics and Islam in mid-sized Indonesian cities outside of Java.
Kuah Li Feng is a cultural practitioner and researcher. She set up Studio Good Think in 2011, one of the first private consultancies in Penang focused on oral history documentation and interpretation. Her current undertakings include a three-year oral history project commissioned by George Town World Heritage Incorporated (GTWHI) to document stories and memories from long-time local residents. Her personal research interest is in exploring and interpreting shared narratives that shape the subaltern history and identity of a place. Li Feng also sits as a committee member of Arts-ED, an NGO that specialises in placed-based arts and culture education for young people in Penang.
Brooke Nolan (University of Western Australia) is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology and Asian Studies. Her research examines concepts of social, political and biological bodies in Sulawesi. In 2013–2014 she was a visiting scholar at Humboldt University, supported by a DAAD scholarship. Her 2010 Masters thesis was a comparison of womens' agency in impoverished fishing villages in East Java and Rote. As a recipient of The Prime Minister's Australia Asia Award, she was based at Muhammadiyah University in Malang, East Java, during that year. Brooke's research interests include Southeast Asian cultures, feminism, concepts of subjectivity and agency and queer cultures in Asia.
Lecturers at the 2014 Universitas Gadjah Mada summer school and their lecture topics:
Joszef Berta (Humboldt guest lecturer). “The battle goes on: Debates on (negative) memory in post-authoritarian and post-colonial societies”
Dr. Budiawan (Gadjah Mada). “The uses and abuses of memory”
Rosa Castillo (Humboldt). “Memory, violence and emotions”
Aleah Connley (Humboldt). “Philosophical and practical considerations in field research”
Prof. Dr. Vincent Houben (Humboldt). “Memory, memory-making, and heritage: Some fundamental considerations”
Dr. Olivia Killias (Humboldt) “The resonance of silence: Remembering Indië in the post-colonial Netherlands”
Dr. Lye Tuck-Po (USM). “Other ways of remembering”
Prof. Dr. Bambang Purwanto (Gadjah Mada). “Memory and the national canon of Indonesian historiography”
Dr. Soon Chuan Yean (USM). “Legitimacy, lost heroes, and memory”
Dr. Sri Margana (Gadjah Mada). “Memory, monument and national hero”
Lecturers at the 2013 USM summer school and their lecture topics:
Dr. Ahmad Fauzi Abd. Hamid (USM). “Political and transnational Islam in Southeast Asia”
Dr. Frederik Holst (Humboldt). “Civil society concepts” “Legal and political frameworks in Malaysia and Germany”
Prof. Dr. Vincent Houben (Humboldt). “Nation and state in Southeast Asia”
Dr. Olivia Killias (Humboldt) “Transnational migration, citizenship and the nation-state: An ethnography of domestic worker migration from Indonesia”
Prof. Francis Loh (USM). “Nation and state in Southeast Asia”
Dr. Lye Tuck-Po (USM). “State, society, environment”
Dr. Noraida Endut (USM). “Women's lived realities in Malaysia: Socio-legal perspectives”
Dr. Norzarina Zaharim (USM). “Contemporary Malaysian families”
Dr. Shakila Abd. Manan (USM). “Creative arts as a bridge between the state and civil society”
Dr. Soon Chuan Yean (USM). “The ambiguity of state-society relations: Oligarchy politics, the middle class and everyday politics in the Philippines”
Prof. Dr. Vincent Houben (Humboldt University) is Professor of modern Southeast Asian history and society. His research interests include the comparative history of Southeast Asia, theory and methods of area studies, and particularly the economic as well as colonial history of insular Southeast Asia. He is one of the founding lecturers of the summer school.
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Lecturers at the 2014 Universitas Gadjah Mada summer school and their lecture topics:
Joszef Berta (Humboldt guest lecturer). “The battle goes on: Debates on (negative) memory in post-authoritarian and post-colonial societies”
Dr. Budiawan (Gadjah Mada). “The uses and abuses of memory”
Rosa Castillo (Humboldt). “Memory, violence and emotions”
Aleah Connley (Humboldt). “Philosophical and practical considerations in field research”
Prof. Dr. Vincent Houben (Humboldt). “Memory, memory-making, and heritage: Some fundamental considerations”
Dr. Olivia Killias (Humboldt) “The resonance of silence: Remembering Indië in the post-colonial Netherlands”
Dr. Lye Tuck-Po (USM). “Other ways of remembering”
Prof. Dr. Bambang Purwanto (Gadjah Mada). “Memory and the national canon of Indonesian historiography”
Dr. Soon Chuan Yean (USM). “Legitimacy, lost heroes, and memory”
Dr. Sri Margana (Gadjah Mada). “Memory, monument and national hero”
Lecturers at the 2013 USM summer school and their lecture topics:
Dr. Ahmad Fauzi Abd. Hamid (USM). “Political and transnational Islam in Southeast Asia”
Dr. Frederik Holst (Humboldt). “Civil society concepts” “Legal and political frameworks in Malaysia and Germany”
Prof. Dr. Vincent Houben (Humboldt). “Nation and state in Southeast Asia”
Dr. Olivia Killias (Humboldt) “Transnational migration, citizenship and the nation-state: An ethnography of domestic worker migration from Indonesia”
Prof. Francis Loh (USM). “Nation and state in Southeast Asia”
Dr. Lye Tuck-Po (USM). “State, society, environment”
Dr. Noraida Endut (USM). “Women's lived realities in Malaysia: Socio-legal perspectives”
Dr. Norzarina Zaharim (USM). “Contemporary Malaysian families”
Dr. Shakila Abd. Manan (USM). “Creative arts as a bridge between the state and civil society”
Dr. Soon Chuan Yean (USM). “The ambiguity of state-society relations: Oligarchy politics, the middle class and everyday politics in the Philippines”
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