The Paper Economy of the Indonesian Student Movement, 1980-2005

IIAS Lunch Lecture by Doreen Lee.

This talk is based on archival materials from the Indonesian Student Movement archives kept at the International Institute of Social History (IISG) in the Netherlands.

The different forms of archived paper permit a holistic perspective on the patterns of writing and resistance that animated student politics over the last two decades. In particular Dr Lee will focus on the unexpected directions and deviations of political speech in state and student documents generated by subversion trials under the New Order regime. “Tickling the archive,” as Rudolf Mrazek puts it, opens up questions of public and political culture, techniques of dissent and repression, and undermines the narratology of event-based political histories. Her reading of the archives has yielded new insights that complicate the picture of the 1980s – 1990s as a period of relatively weak, campus-based and institutionally-bound dissent; instead the “gestational” era showed significant unrest, networking, and social activism by students, intellectuals, peasants, and workers.

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Next Lunch Lectures

18 March         Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Buddhist Himalayas, by Swargajyoti Gohain (Emory University, GA, USA)

1 AprilMasculinity, Autonomy, and Attachment in Buddhist Burma, by Ward Keeler (University of Texas, TX, USA)

15 April Restoration or Ruination? The Politics of Timurid Architectural Heritage in Samarqand, by Elena Paskaleva (Leiden University Institute for Area Studies)

6 May Somewhere in between. Hybrid forms of Chinese engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa by Romain Dittgen (Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne)

20 MayThe Returns of Faith: Engaging Sri Lankan Catholicism in an Italian Parish, by Bernardo Brown (Cornell University, NY, USA)

3 JuneTracing Absence: Work of Hope and Mediation of Transgenerational Emotional Suffering, by Ana Dragojlovic (Australian National University, Australia)

17 JuneTBA.

About IIAS Lunch Lectures

Every third Tuesday of the month (and temporarily also every first Tuesday), one of the IIAS researchers will present his or her work-in-progress in an informal setting to colleagues and other interested attendees. IIAS organises these lunch lectures to give the research community the opportunity to freely discuss ongoing research and exchange thoughts and ideas. Lunch is provided by IIAS.

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