The 41st RIHN seminar series
The 2nd Jakarta Seminar
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The 2nd Jakarta Seminar and the 41st RIHN seminar series will be held
on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009.
Date & time: |
November 12th (Thu), 2009 13:30-17:15 |
Venue: |
RIHN Lecture Hall ( access) |
Title: |
"Post-revolutionary Djakarta: Accessible City" |
Lecturer: |
Professor Benedict Anderson |
Commentators: |
Kouji Sato (National Museum of Ethnology)
Yuko Yamashita (Department of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi
University)
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Coordinator: |
Goh Kato (Department of Sociology, Ryukoku Universtiy) |
The Jakarta Urban Study Group has established to inherit the accumulated academic knowledge concerning Jakarta with a critical eye. For our second lecture, we will be happy to welcome Professor Benedict Anderson, a renowned author of “Imagined Communities,” who will talk about Jakarta, a city where he had been conducting field research since when he was a young scholar. As he wrote in his recent book "Jumping out of a Coconut Shell Bowl", NTT Publication, translated by Gho, KATO, 2009, Tokyo), lucky Ben the Frog did not stay inside of a coconut shell bowl and jumped around many different cities in the world--Kunming, Waterford (Ireland), London, Ithaca, Jakarta, and Bangkok. He would give us an interesting lecture based on his wide and deep insights and sharp thinking regarding these cities.
Schedule:
13:30-13:35: |
Opening Remarks |
13:35-15:45: |
Lecture by Professor Benedict Anderson |
15:45-16:00: |
Intermission |
16:00-16:30: |
Comments |
16:30-17:15: |
Questions and answers |
Message from Guest Lecturer:
I will talk about accessibility in various contexts in post–revolutionary Djakarta. All streets were open to betjaks (tri-cycles) and bicycles, even occasionally a kuda (horse) or two. Access to districts, and there were no gated communities. Access to public spaces: near naked boys playing soccer opposite Hotel Indonesia; access to Presidential Palace for wayang performances; access to politicians; access to universities and schools. Access to prostitutes, since they were not yet sequestered. Street culture, children outside houses most of the time, not inside. Linguistic access: everyday bahasa Indonesia without levels of deference.
Contact:
HAYASHI Kengo

Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
(RIHN)
zip code: 603-8047
457-4, Motoyama Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto
City, Japan
tel: +81-75-707-2340(direct) / 2353
fax: +81-75-707-2508
project's
homepage
KOZAN Osamu
Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University
tel: +81-75-753-9652

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