indonesian_open FW: SISC Seminar Reminder this Friday 26 May

[Wittman, Leonie]

Reminder from Steven Drakeley about SISC seminar this Friday.

 

Leonie Wittman

Chief Learning Design Officer

Learning Design and Resource Development

Centre for Learning Innovation

NSW Department of Education and Training

51 Wentworth Road

Strathfield NSW 2135

 

Tel: 02 9715 8263

Fax: 02 9715 8279

leonie.wittman at det.nsw.edu.au

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From: Steven Drakeley [mailto:S.Drakeley at uws.edu.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 24 May 2006 02:13
To: Steven Drakeley
Subject: SISC Seminar Reminder this Friday 26 May
Importance: High

 

Dear colleagues and friends 

 

This is to remind you of the SISC (Sydney Indonesia Study Circle)
seminar on Friday 26 May when David Reeve will enlighten and entertain
us on the topic of Theosophy.

 

Speaker: Associate Professor David Reeve

 

David Reeve has been visiting Indonesia for nearly 37 years, as a
diplomat, researcher, historian, visiting lecturer and project manager.
He has lived in Indonesia for eleven years, and worked at four
Indonesian universities. He was a founding lecturer in the Australian
Studies program at Universitas Indonesia in the 1980s. He had a
three-year stretch at Universitas Gadjah Mada and Universitas
Muhammadiyah Malang in the 1990s, as resident director for the ACICIS
program. He has written on Indonesian politics, Indonesian language, and
Australian-Indonesian relations. He will retire from his position at
UNSW in July 2006. Presents can be ordered from a special list at David
Jones.

 

Topic: Madras, Batavia, Mosman - The Theosophical Convergence

 

When I was researching early Indonesian nationalism, I was struck by how
many nationalists had connections with the Theosophical Society of the
East Indies, and how many were friends with the leading Theosophist and
Ethicus, van Hinloopen Labberton. Sukarno's father was a lifelong
theosophist; Hatta was a member for a while; Yamin, Supomo,
Wediodiningrat. One of the Solo palaces backed it strongly. 

This led me to look into the Theosophical Society, formed in New York in
1875, by Colonel Olcott and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (HPB). HPB was a
most startling and compelling figure.

The two founders of the TS moved to India in 1879, after which the
Society had phenomenal growth around the world: Australia, Egypt,
Nairobi, Uruguay etc etc - with a particular intertwining of the TS and
nationalist politics in parts of Asia. In Australia future PM Deakin was
member.

Recent works have dealt with the TS in certain countries: Australia,
India, Indonesia, Britain, Russia. In this paper I want to trace the
'convergence' between India, Indonesia and Australia, when Theosophical
ideas and personalities travelled the imperial sea-lanes.

Time and Date: 6pm Friday 26 May

Venue:University of Technology, Sydney, 5C.01.15

Steven Drakeley for the SISC Organising Committee

 

 

 

Steven Drakeley PhD

Lecturer Asian History and Politics

BA Honours Coordinator

School of Humanities and Languages UWS

 

Email: s.drakeley at uws.edu.au

Phone: +61 2 4736 0442

Fax: +61 2 4736 0244

Mobile: 0412 299849

 

School of Humanities and Languages

University of Western Sydney

Locked Bag 1797 Penrith South DC

NSW 1797 Australia

 

 

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