Zachęcamy do udziału w gościnnym wykładzie profesora Franka Dhonta (National Cheng Kung University), który odbędzie się 10 kwietnia 2024 roku o godzinie 16.00 online na platformie MS Teams.
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Abstrakt:
Indonesia as a nation began as a visionary concept in the Dutch colonial possessions of the Netherlands Indies decades before the national independence of 1945. What followed was a long and painful, ongoing integration process to bring all these different people and cultures living in this shared space into one nation-state. The lecture will highlight for various time periods the major challenges and difficulties faced by the Indonesians and the ways these were addressed. The lecture will address specifically: the concept of an Indonesian nation as envisioned by prominent Indonesian thinkers and challenged by the Dutch colonial authorities; the difficulties but also opportunities during the Japanese occupation of World War II; the struggle that followed the declaration of independence of 1945; the era of president Sukarno and the non-aligned movement; the 1965 massacre and rise of Suharto; the fall of Suharto after the 1997 Asian financial crisis and Indonesia in the present democratic era. Through these key moments the process of Indonesia’s growth during the 20th century into a major Southeast Asian nation can be explained and understood.
Notka biograficzna:
Professor Frank Dhont holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of History at National Cheng Kung University, having previously served as a Senior Lecturer in FASS-IAS at the University of Brunei Darussalam. Professor Dhont earned his Ph.D. in History from Yale University, specializing in the history of Indonesia and Southeast Asia. He also holds an MHum in history from Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia, as well as an MA in Indonesian from Lund University in Sweden.
Professor Dhont's area of expertise lies in the study of Indonesia, and he is regularly involved in multidisciplinary initiatives. Professor Dhont's research interests are vast and include the reactions of both indigenous rulers and ordinary people to colonialism in the Netherlands Indies and the Japanese occupation of Indonesia. He has also conducted extensive research on the history of both World Wars in Asia and the spread of ideologies such as nationalism and Islam, particularly in the context of colonial empires in Southeast Asia.
Professor Dhont is the founder and chair of the International Indonesia Forum and has published extensively on his research interests. Professor Dhont's expertise is highly valued in the academic community, we feel privileged to have him as a guest lecturer at our Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations, Jagiellonian University.
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Wykład został zorganizowany przez dra Tobiasza Targosza.