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Dear colleagues and friends,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to attend the
International Conference Navigating Global Flows of
Capital, Policy and Values: Conceptualizing
Trajectories toward Alternative Modernities in
Indonesia to be held in Palu Central Sulawesi
Indonesia from 19th to 22nd December 2016.

Many social and humanist scientists

who have confronted these issues in
their field research often have found
themselves confronted with various
dilemmas in their analytical work:
How is the analysis of the communal
and cultural repertoires of Indonesia a ILUSTRASI 1
distinctive endeavor? How do the
humanizing phenomena analyze in this
nation represent unique constellations
and how are they variants of other
examples of the effect of such social
forces and transnational networks?
What is it that makes the study of
Indonesia, among other forms of sociocultural analysis, possible in the contemporary
situation? Alternatively, other potential questions include: How can the social
scientist work in Indonesia and elsewhere begin to explore critically the saturations
and meaning impasse occasioned by the ontological and ethical turns in development
discourse and practice? And, in a more practice sense with interventionist
implications: how can the environmentalist, historians, the political scientists as well
as the anthropologist and the economist begins understanding values in inclusive
ways that enable development and its agencies to fulfill its transformative potential?

These challenges are deeply embedded in political conditions that inflect how those
parties produce their vantage points in the quest to produce mutually all-embracing
understandings.

The aim of the conference is to throwing down

a gauntlet to the social researches in order to
foster original ideas, new narratives and
alternative ways of thinking about the central
concepts in the sociocultural analysis of
Indonesia and beyond. The enmeshing of
intellectual and activist concerns can be seen
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quandaries of analysis in dealing with the local
manifestations of capital formations, power
and resilience spheres, regarded in the larger
context of changes in the regional, national
and global discourses and policies guiding
historical trajectories and the dynamics of
contemporary realms. Those questions are aimed at thinking about an inclusive
engagement within the world of which they are part of it as a wholein terms of both
activism of particular intellectual and political implications of different ways of social
and cultural exegesis. Setting up the debate in this way is intended to ensure a
mutually constitutive, entanglement amongst scholars of various orientations, as they
reflect upon the historical dynamics which simultaneously which have created not
only the situations they study, but also their own positions.

On behalf of the Organizing & Scientific Committee

we wish you a very warm welcome to Palu in
December 2016!

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Keynote Speaker:

A Tropical Lecture by Professor Bruno Latour

Professeur des Universits, Institut dEtudes Politiques de Paris
(Sciences Po)

A French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist of science. He

is especially known for his work in the field of Science and
Technology Studies (STS). After teaching at the cole des Mines de
Paris (Centre de Sociologie de
l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he is
now Professor at Sciences Po Paris
(2006), where he is the scientific
director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He
is also a Centennial Professor at the
London School of Economics.

Latour is best known for his books We

Have Never Been Modern (1991; English
translation, 1993), Laboratory Life (with
Steve Woolgar, 1979) and Science in
Action (1987). Although his studies of
scientific practice were at one time
associated with social constructionist approaches to the philosophy
of science, Latour has diverged significantly from such approaches.
He is best known for withdrawing from the subjective/objective
division and re-developing the approach to work in practice. Along
with Michel Callon and John Law, Latour is one of the primary
developers of actornetwork theory (ANT), a constructionist
approach influenced by the ethnomethodology of Harold Garfinkel,
the generative semiotics of Algirdas Julius Greimas, and (more
recently) the sociology of mile Durkheim's rival Gabriel Tarde.

Latour's monographs earned him a 10th place among most-cited

book authors in the humanities and social sciences for the year
2007.
(Source: Wikipedia)

Honorary Speaker:

Michael M.J.FISCHER
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

"The Work of Epic Art in a Post-Wayang World"

Michael Fischer trained in geography and philosophy at Johns

Hopkins, social anthropology and philosophy at the London School of
Economics, anthropology at the University of Chicago. Before joining
the MIT faculty, he served as Director of the Center for Cultural
Studies at Rice. He conducts fieldwork in the Caribbean, Middle East,
South and Southeast Asia on the anthropology of biosciences, media
circuits, and emergent forms of life (Source: MIT Anthropology).

Special Speakers and Chairs:

Tania Murray Li is a Professor, Canada Research

Chair and Tier One at the Department of
Anthropology University of Toronto Canada. She is
also the Director of Centre for Southeast Asian
Studies. Lis early research in Southeast Asia
concerned urban cultural politics in Singapore. Since
then she has focused on culture, economy,
environment, and development in Indonesias upland
regions. She has written about the rise of Indonesias
indigenous peoples movement, land reform, rural
class formation, struggles over the forests and
conservation, community resource management, and
state-organized resettlement.

Link source for more detail information:

http://anthropology.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/tania-li/

David Henley currently position is a Professor in

Indonesia Studies, Southeast Asian History and
Southeast Asian Politics at Leiden University the
Netherlands. His fields of interest cover the politics,
history and geography of Southeast Asia, particularly
Indonesia. Within Indonesia he has a special interest
in the island of Sulawesi. He has published on
nationalism and regionalism, on environmental,
demographic and agricultural history, on colonial
expansion, on political institutions and ideology, and
on economic development and finance. His recent
research has been on the comparative economic
histories of Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa,
and on processes of state formation in Southeast Asia.

Link source for more detail information:

http://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/davi
d-henley

Greg Acciaioli currently permanent position is a

senior lecturer at the Department of Anthropology
and Sociology Discipline Group and Asian Studies
Discipline Group, School of Social and Cultural
Studies, The University of Western Australia. He has a
broad range anthropological research interests
including among others: environmental anthropology,
applied anthropology and development studies,
ecological knowledge and resource management,
customary law and indigenous peoples, semiotics and
post-structuralism, protected areas, ethnicity and
nationalism. Greg also has been elected as the
President for the upcoming Australian
Anthropological Society (AAS).

Link source for more detail information:

http://www.web.uwa.edu.au/people/gregory.acciaioli
Dave McRae is a senior research fellow at the
University of Melbournes Asia Institute and an
associate in the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and
Society. His current research interests include
contemporary Indonesian politics, Indonesian foreign
policy, Australia-Indonesia relations and regional
security issues. He is the author of A Few Poorly
Organized Men: Interreligious Violence in Poso,
Indonesia (2013) and translator of Solahudins The
Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia (2013). He writes and
comments frequently in both English and Indonesian
in the Australian, Indonesian and other international
media. Dave has researched conflict, politics,
democratisation and human rights issues in Indonesia
for well over a decade.

Link source for more detail information:

http://asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/academ
ic/david_mcrae

Jennifer Nourse studied Indonesian at Cornell

University, UC Berkeley and Satya Wacana University
and has conducted fieldwork in Sulawesi, Indonesia
(Southeast Asia) and Bassarel, Guinea-Bissau (West
Africa). In addition to numerous articles and
presentations, Dr. Nourse's book, Conceiving Spirits:
Birth Rituals and Contested Identities Among Lauje of
Indonesia was published in the Fall of 1999 by
Smithsonian Press.
In addition to articles and presentations on her
research topics she has appeared on Indonesian talk
shows and world news programs to discuss changing
attitudes in the history of marriage and problems with
issues in sex trafficking.

Link source for more detail information:

http://socanth.richmond.edu/faculty/jnourse/