Wednesday Forums Archive

Broken Marriage: A Perspective From Gender Studies
Many people enter the new world of marriage with their idealized sets of perceived and expected gender roles they learned from such sources as religion and culture. Many of them are successful, remaining in their married life untill death parts them, while others are not. Unfortunately, we see a...

Sufis, Soldiers, and the State: A State-Tariqa Alliance in Contemporary Java
The long history of organized Sufism has shown not only tensions, but also alliances with indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial states across the Muslims world. Focusing on the alliance between a tarīqa leader, Habib Luthfi bin Yahya (b. 1947) of Pekalongan, and the Indonesian state, this talk...

Peace Education for Inner Transformation in Higher Religious Education Institutions
There is a rising awareness among peace scholars and religious leaders that the future of sustainable peacebuilding relies on the work of inner transformation. However, this dimension of peacebuilding has not been paid proper attention in mainstream peace education and even within religious...

Piety as Commodity: The Rise of Muslim-only Housing Complexes in Indonesia
This talk discusses how Islam as an ideology has been represented into urban space as exclusively Muslim housing and shopping complexes, which have emerged in the context of laissez-faire urban development, the rise of an urban middle class, the New Order’s legacy in today’s...

Protecting the Future: Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice
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Constructing Ideas and Practices on Womanhood in Post-New Order Indonesia
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Preparing the Modern World: The Historical and Cultural Significance of the Reformation
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Living in a Sacred Cosmos (Indonesia and the Future of Islam)
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Why Do People Attack Stones? (On Jan Assmann and Mnemohistory)
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Human Centered Security (Reimagining Conflict Stakeholder Relationships)
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