“Fulbright and the Cultural Politics of Interfaith Action” is the theme, which will be presented at CRCS&ICRS Wednesday Forum. Discussion will be held on Wednesday, March 5, 2008. The key speaker will be Dr. Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta.

Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta is a head of LPPM (Institute for Research and Community Development) at Duta Wacana Christian University (DWCU), Yogyakarta, Indonesia and a general secretary, District of Sleman, Indonesian Women?s Coalition. She is also a core Doctoral Faculty at International Consortium for Religious Studies, Yogyakarta (ICRS-Yogya). She earned her Ph.D in Social Science at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. She is the editor of a book entitle ?Women and Disaster?.

“Fulbright and the Cultural Politics of Interfaith Action” merupakan tema diskusi rutin Forum Rabu CRCS&ICRS. Diskusi akan diselenggarakan pada hari Rabu, 5 Maret 2008. Sebagai pembicara Dr. Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta.

Dr. Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta adalah ketua LPPM (Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengembangan Masyarakat) di Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, serta Sekertaris Umum, Koalisi Perempuan Indonesia, Cabang Sleman. Beliau juga adalah core doctoral faculty pada International Consortium for Religious Studies, Yogyakarta (ICRS-Yogya). Beliau pemperoleh gelar Ph.D dari Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. Selain itu, beliau merupakan editor buku Perempuan dan Bencana.

“The Arab Jews and the Zionist Politics in Israel” is the theme, which will be presented at CRCS&ICRS Wednesday Forum. Discussion will be held on Wednesday, February 27, 2008. The key speaker will be Leonard C. Epafras. The discussion will take place at the Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University, third floor, room 306, at 13:00 to 15:00.

Below is the abstract of theme, which will be presented.

The Arab Jews and the Zionist Politics in Israel
By; Leonard C. Epafras

We observed that in Indonesia, generally people equated the Jews with the Israelis and the Zionists. However, the three should not be easily equated because in fact, the dynamics within the three is more complex than one could imagine. There are anti-Israel and anti-Zionist Jews, and besides the politics to Judaize Israel, there is also the politics to Israelize Israel by Israeli Arabs. The Israelize Israel basically a the Judaization of Israel. This complexity of the issue is even mask one of the growing stingy issue in Israel, that is the recognition of the Arab Jews. The Jews whose heritage rooted not in New York and London, or any Western cities, but in Baghdad, Cairo, Tunis, San?a, and other Islamic countries in Middle East. Zionism not only displaced seven hundred thousand Palestinians from their land but also nine hundred thousand of Arab Jews from their homelands for centuries. Furthermore, this Jewish group was not getting equal treatment as the Jews from Western countries in the newly established State of Israel. This politics of discrimination, along with the discrimination toward the Arabs and Palestinians, is arguably, structured by the politics of colonialism and Orientalism of the Western discourse. This paper would give a preliminary assessment of the issue how an ideology could forge the intended identity of its fellow citizen by leveling the identity of the other, makes it unproblematic and undivided.

“The Arab Jews and the Zionist Politics in Israel” merupakan tema diskusi rutin Forum Rabu CRCS&ICRS. DIskusi akan diselenggarakan pada hari Rabu, 27 February 2008. Sebagai pembicara Leonard C. Epafras. Diskusi akan dilaksanakan di Gedung Sekolah Pascasarjana UGM, lantai 3, ruang 306, jam 13:00-15:00.

Dibawah ini merupakan abstrak dari tema yang akan dipresentasikan.

The Arab Jews and the Zionist Politics in Israel
By; Leonard C. Epafras

We observed that in Indonesia, generally people equated the Jews with the Israelis and the Zionists. However, the three should not be easily equated because in fact, the dynamics within the three is more complex than one could imagine. There are anti-Israel and anti-Zionist Jews, and besides the politics to Judaize Israel, there is the politics to Israelize Israel by Israeli Arabs. The Israelize Israel basically the Judaization of Israel. This complexity of the issue is even mask one of the growing stingy issue in Israel, that is the recognition of the Arab Jews. The Jews whose heritage rooted not in New York and London, or any Western cities, but in Baghdad, Cairo, Tunis, Sana, and other Islamic countries in Middle East. Zionism not only displaced seven hundred thousand Palestinians from their land but also nine hundred thousand of Arab Jews from their homelands for centuries. Furthermore, this Jewish group was not getting equal treatment as the Jews from Western countries in the newly established State of Israel. This politics of discrimination, along with the discrimination toward the Arabs and Palestinians, is arguably, structured by the politics of colonialism and Orientalism of the Western discourse. This paper would give a preliminary assessment of the issue how an ideology could forge the intended identity of its fellow citizen by leveling the identity of the other, makes it unproblematic and undivided.

Diskusi rutin Forum Rabu CRCS & ICRS akan dilaksanakan pada hari Rabu, 20 February 2008. Tema yang akan diangkat dalam diskusi kali ini adalah Muslim in Cambodia: Past, Present and Future. Sebagai pembicara Anna M. Gade, Ph.D.

Anna M. Gade adalah dosen senior pada Departemen Studi Agama di Universitas Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand. Beliau pernah menjadi asisten dosen di the Oberlin College, USA. Anna M. Gade memperoleh gelar Ph.D dari Universitas Chicago, USA. Beliau adalah penulis buku Perfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the Recited Qur’an in Indonesia.

On Wednesday, February 20, 2008, CRCS&ICRS will hold discussion. The theme will be ??Muslim in Cambodia: Past, Present and Future?. The key speaker will be Anna M. Gade, Ph.D.

Anna M. Gade is a senior lecture at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand. She is the former assistance lecture at the Oberlin College, USA. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, USA. She is the author of a book entitle: Perfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the Recited Qur’an in Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.