Workshop

Studying Islam in Southeast Asia: State of the Art and New Approaches

7-8 July 2008 | Snouck Hurgronjehuis, Rapenburg 61, Leiden

This workshop focuses on three major themes: Governance of Islam in colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia, Transnational networks in Southeast Asia (and beyond), and Media and Performances.

Organized under the auspices of The Australia-Netherlands Research Collaboration (ANRC), in co-operation with the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), this conference is convened by Greg Fealy (ANU) and Martin van Bruinessen (ISIM / Utrecht).

Workshop Participants

Governance of Islam in colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia

Governance of Islam in the Netherlands Indies: some preliminary results
by Gerrit Knaap & Isabel van der Heiden (Netherlands Historical Institute) 

Reflections on Netherlands Indies Islam policies and new approaches in research
by Elsbeth Locher-Scholten & Remco Raben (Utrecht and Netherlands Institute for War Documentation)

The resilience of Islam under Guided Democracy
by Kees van Dijk (Leiden)

Darul Islam
by Quinton Temby (PhD cand. ANU)

Governing the Hajj: Pilgrimage Bureaucracy and Its Consequences in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia
by Dadi Darmadi (PPIM/Harvard)

Governing Islam: The Bureaucratization of Religious Authority in Malaysia under Mahathir Mohammad and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
by Joseph Liow (Singapore) 

Sharia and national law in Indonesia – an overview and reflections on new research
by Jan-Michiel Otto (Leiden)

Sharia and Legal Pluralism in Indonesia
by Nadirsyah Hosen (Wollongong)

Local sharia regulations in Indonesian districts
by Robin Bush (Asia Foundation Jakarta)

Transnational Islamic networks in Southeast Asia (and beyond)

Post-jihadists without borders
by Najib Azca (PhD cand. Amsterdam) 

Ikhwani transnationalism: the case of the PKS in Indonesia
Greg Fealy (ANU)

International influences on Islamic liberalism in Indonesia and Malaysia
Greg Barton (Monash)

Salafi madrasas in Indonesia and their transnational connections
Din Wahid (PhD cand, ISIM) 

Transnational Islamic Networks in South Thailand
Ernesto Braam (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and PhD student)

Media and Performances

Islamic music in Aceh
Margaret Kartomi (Monash)

Film Islami versus the spectacle of Ramadan and religious soaps on Indonesian television between 2003-2007
Katinka van Heeren (PhD cand Leiden)

Nasyid groups
Bart Barendregt (anthropology Leiden)

Spiritual Refreshment, Medicine for the Heart: Preaching on Record and on the Air in Indonesia
Ben Arps (professor Indonesian languages, Leiden)

Sundanese/Indonesian: Preaching and social difference in West Java
Julian Millie (postdoctoral fellow, Monash University)

Sufism in the Popular Mass Media
Julia Day Howell (associate professor, Griffith University)

Please note that registration for listening participants has reached maximum capacity and is now closed.