Where Max is speaking
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November, 2010
November 3, UniversitasParamedina: ” “Economic Crisis in Europe and United States; A respond from Globalist Perspective in IR”, Graduate School of Diplomacy. Consortium on Indonesian Foreign Policy.
November 8, Singapore: Singapore as Hub for A Democratic Nusantara
November 11: “”Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s 30 year long writer’s block: the present absence of Indonesia’s revolutionary vernacular?” : – Conference: GREAT ASIAN WRITERS AND VERNACULAR LITERATURES IN POST-COLONIAL PERSEPECTIVE, Departrment of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore.
November 14: “Asia Africa: two blocks or three blocks: the relevance of Sukarno;s OLDEFOS versis NEFOS today.” , Center for Global Civil Society Studies (PACIVIS) , University of Indonesia. Conference: BANDUNG SPIRIT CONFERENCE.
November 21-25 Lectures at Gajah Mada University on Indonesian political history. (internal)
November 26 (TBC): Launching of Indonesian edition of CATASTROPHE IN INDONESIA by Max Lane. http://www.seagullindia.com/books/detailviewnew.asp?prodid=3625
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May 4: Radicalism and the labour movement 10 years after Suharto, seminar presentation, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Victoria University Melbourne.
More May-June events in Melbourne and Amsterdam:
May 14. “Development and Underdevelopment in Indonesia: bring back the debate,” VUISA, Victoria University. (Bahasa Indonesia)
May 20: “Rebels and Refugees: Indonesians and the Australian Labour Movement, 1942-46“, reviewing Jan Lingard’s book “Rebels and Refugees” together with a screening of INDONESIA CALLING. Indonesia Australia Solidarity, Melbourne University, Alice Hoy building, room 225 (behind the Asia Centre)
Thursday May 20, 6:15pm
May 29: Capitalist crisis & imperialism in the 21st Century, talk on panel – Empire & Revolution: Direct Action Seminar, Saturday May 29, 2pm, Direct Action Centre, VictoriaTrades Hall basement, cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts Carlton (enter Victoria St).
Entry by Donation. Speakers: Aurelien Mondon, researcher in nationalism, racism and populism & co-founder of the Melbourne Free University. Max Lane, writer and lecturer on Indonesian politics, history and literature and Southeast Asian affairs; most recent publication Unfinished Nation: Indonesia before and after Suharto, Verso, 2008. ALSO The challenge to imperialism in Latin America. Speakers: Cecilia Saravio, Peace & Justice for Colombia; Salvador Nunez, Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN); Jorge Jorquera, Revolutionary Socialist Party RSP & Centre for Latin America Studies & Solidarity CLASS.
June 10: Power and Resistance in Contemporary Indonesia, International Institute for Research and Education (Ernest Mandel Centre), Amsterdam.
June 15: Radicalism and the labour movement 10 years after Suharto, seminar presentation, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands
June 19: Working Class politics in Indonesia in the age of the “planet of slums”, (tentative topic), (update presentation tbc) Netherlands Southeast Asia Update, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
FEBRUARY
Indonesia in 2010: what kind of neighbourhood?
18 Feb, 6.30pm GLEEBOOKS, Glebe Point Rd., Glebe
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An “In Conversation” discussion flowing from Max Lane’s book: UNFINISHED NATION: Indonesia before and after Suharto, (Verso, 2008). Max Lane has just returned to Australia after being based in Singapore and Jakarta for three years.
Ten years after Suharto, the Indonesian government is still banning political films, such as Balibo. The police, prosecutor’s office and the courts are revealed as implicated in plots to frame rivals, including in the anti-corruption agencies, but nobody is arrested and tried. Books are still banned and even burned in public.Ministers claim that natural disasters are God’s response to moral decadence.Raising a flag in Papua still means gaol.
Are these anomalies in a new democratising Indonesia, ot the results of unfinished business in an unfinished nation.
What is going to happen politically in Australia’s largest Asian neighbour, Indonesia – the fourth most populous nation in the world.
The “In Panel” discussion will ne started off by an exchange between author, Max Lane, and the University of Sydney’s professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Dr Adrian Vickers
APRIL
The crisis to come: Indonesia and the politics of 21st century underdevelopment
ASIA INSTITUTE Public Lecture, University of Melbourne
15 April, Thursday 6.30pm
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