Wednesday Forums Archive

Dutch Missionary Wives in Indonesia during the Colonial Period
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Voice vs Noice: Technology-Mediated Sound in Interfaith Dialogue
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Bioethics for Sectarian Conflict Resolution
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Anti-Terrorism Batik as Cultural Communication Against Radicalization
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Framing the Complementarity Between the Disciplines of Islamic and Western Economics
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Art, Politics and Aboriginality
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Blaming the Victim and Enabling Hate
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Bringing “Ecofeminism” and Post Collonialism to Address Ritual and Dancing and the Dancing as Ritual
It is interesting to address ritual and dancing in the ways they are complicatedly connected to broader contexts. For instance, by considering political effects of the "international" and globalization to local aesthetics. Accordingly, meanings of ritual and dancing can be explored by questioning...

Muslim in America and Its Complexity
Despite the fact that Muslim is a religious minority in America (less than1% of the total population), there are estimated to be 6-7 million Muslims living in America. Moreover, there are over 2,100 mosques in the USA. Interestingly, the number is growing significantly through immigration,...

Drug and Collonialism in Java: Opium-Related Problems in the Dutch East Indies
Since the mid-nineteenth century, one of the most disputable issues in colonial Indonesia was the Dutch government policy on opium. The dispute is related to ethical reasons denouncing the colonial state exploitation by taking profits from selling various drugs to the population. The drugs include...