[Indonesian_open] FW: SISC Seminar Friday 21 September

Tue Sep 11 14:43:15 EST 2007

Teman-teman yang baik

Below is information about the next SISC seminar. 

Leonie

Leonie Wittman

Chief Learning Design Officer

Learning Design and Resource Development

Centre for Learning Innovation

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From: Steven Drakeley [mailto:S.Drakeley at uws.edu.au] 
Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2007 11:21 AM
To: Steven Drakeley
Subject: SISC Seminar Friday 21 September

Dear friends and colleagues

This is to inform you of the SISC (Sydney Indonesia Study Circle) public
seminar which will take place on Friday 21 September when David Reeve
will discuss Minangkabau Bus Names. Please note, he has agreed to modify
his dry presentation style and will try to insert a little humour into
his presentation. 

Speaker: David Reeve

Associate Professor David Reeve has been visiting Indonesia for 38
years, as a diplomat, researcher, historian, visiting lecturer, beach
comber 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. David retired from his position at UNSW
in July 2006. The piss off/piss up party to lament his departure is
still spoken of in tones of awe. Late tokens of esteem are still
accepted.

Topic: Minangkabau Bus Names

It is odd that Minangkabau bus names have not been the subject of
sustained scholarly enquiry.In fact, the analytical study of the names
of Indonesian trucks, intercity buses, city minibuses (angkot) and becak
is still in its infancy. How can this be so? - on arrival in Padang, one
of the most striking images is the array of multi-coloured,wildly
patterned and language-decorated public transport speeding in all
directions. Still, linguists and sociologists are noted for not noticing
what's right under their very noses.As with family names, bus names are
special and carefully chosen, reflecting aims and hopes,ambitions and
ideals: power-words, identity politics.Bus names may be as expressive of
Minang culture as buffalo-horn houses and head-dresses, plate and candle
dances, pantun and sayur jengkol.

Time and Date: 6pmFriday 21 September

Venue: University of Technology, Sydney, CMO5C.02.44

The location is in the Haymarket Building on Quay St (the Business
Faculty) opposite Paddy's, Level 2, Room 44. The following web address
provides a map and directions.

http://www.uts.edu/about/mapsdirections/hay.html
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Any problems ring 0412 299849

We look forward to seeing you there, all welcome!

Steven Drakeley for the SISC Organising Committee

For one year of prosperity plant grain. For ten years of prosperity
plant trees. For a hundred years of prosperity educate people.

Steven Drakeley PhD

Senior Lecturer Asian History and Politics

BA Honours Coordinator

School of Humanities and Languages UWS

Office: CG19 Kingswood campus

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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