This hybrid event examines the history of alcohol in Java and is organized around the recent publication of Jiří Jákl’s Alcohol in Early Java (2021, Brill). Cecilia Leong-Salobir will discuss the book from the perspective of culinary history and Arlo Griffiths from Javanese philology, after which the floor is open for questions from the live audience as well as Zoom participants

Join Laksono Trisnantoro (Universitas Gadjah Mada) and Retna Hanani (University of Amsterdam) for a discussion of Indonesia's healthcare system and what lessons can be drawn from public management of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The rapid expansion of oil palm plantations across Southeast Asia is triggering equally rapid environmental, economic and social transformations. As the size of plantations is doubling nearly every decade, rural Southeast Asia is facing considerable challenges: not only do countries like Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia face an uphill struggle to protect remaining forests, but they are also confronted with widespread land conflicts, appalling labour conditions and a rapidly changing rural economies.

You are invited to the Island(er)s at the Helm public meeting on Wednesday 18 May 2022 from 7 pm to 10 pm in St. Maarten, hosted by the University of St. Martin.

This symposium commemorates the 100th anniversary of Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) by examining the party’s global legacies in the realms of history, politics, and culture. While not neglecting the atrocity of the 1965-66 massacre, this symposium proposes to probe the party-in-motion prior to the mass killings.

In the first part of his address, Rudolf Mrazek (Professor Emeritus of History at The University of Michigan) will be daringly personal. But he will argue that the story of his encounters with the problem of Communism may serve as a lesson in a serious study of Communism, revolution, and despair among other things