Does the post-colonial plantation enable the community
to deal with its underpinning power, namely world capitalism? This is one of several questions that will be discussed in Wednesday Forum this week, with a topic “Drinking with the Devil: Plantation Community and World Capitalism in Java, 1870s-2000s”. The speaker of this forum is Dr. Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono. We invite you to join this forum. Brief information about this forum can be read as follows.

Date: Wednesday,25 February 2009

Time: 12.30 pm

Does the post-colonial plantation enable the community to deal with its underpinning power, namely world capitalism? This is one of several questions that will be discussed in Wednesday Forum this week, with a topic “Drinking with the Devil: Plantation Community and World Capitalism in Java, 1870s-2000s”. The speaker of this forum is Dr. Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono. We invite you to join this forum. Brief information about this forum can be read as follows.

Date: Wednesday,25 February 2009
Time: 12.30 pm ? 2.30 pm (free lunch)
Venue: Room 306, UGM Graduate School Jln. Teknika Utara Pogung YKT
Speaker: Dr. Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono

We invite you to join Wednesday Forum this week and discuss about ?Media Coverage on Woman in a Conflict Area: Case Study in Poso, Indonesia?. Elis Zuliati Anis, M.A. is the speaker in this forum. More information can be read as follows:

Date: Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Time: 12.30 pm ? 2.30 pm (free lunch)
Venue: Room 306, UGM Graduate School Teknika Utara Pogung YKT
Speaker: Elis Zuliati Anis, M.A.

Abstract:

This research will analyze how the local newspapers in Palu, Central Sulawesi portrayed women during the Poso conflict (1998 ? 2003). The present argument is that women in conflict reporting are often depicted as passive victims, such as in the case of sexual harassment, rape, and murder. The women?s effort in peace building and their effort as an active agent of the family survival were rarely covered by the media. My previous research on ?Framing conflict news in Poso? (2005) indicated that women?s perspective in the local media was often ignored, while men?s view dominated the news. The research also concluded that the local media often used provocative language and images in describing the conflict news. The conflict news obviously had a bias reporting, both in terms of religious affiliation and gender perspective. This can be explained that the local journalists during the conflict had less understanding or skill in peace reporting and gender viewpoint. In addition, the local journalists were part of the victims and had difficulties to avoid their personal perspectives.

We invite you to join Wednesday Forum this week and discuss about

This week Wednesday Forum will provide the discussion with the topic Shifting Images of Young Womanhood Among Muslim Women: Nasyiatul Aisyiyah

This week Wednesday Forum will provide the discussion with the topic Shifting Images of Young Womanhood Among Muslim Women: Nasyiatul Aisyiyah?s Experiences. The Speaker is Dr. Siti Syamsiyatun. We invite you to join this forum. The time, place, and brief information about this forum are here inturn:

Date: Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Time: 12.30 pm ? 2.30 pm (free lunch)
Venue: Room 306, UGM Graduate School Teknika Utara Pogung
Speaker: Dr. Siti Syamsiyatun

Abstract: The concept of youth has been broadly discussed by many different parties and involving many facets of different considerations, from that related to biological development, psychological, as well as sociological approaches. This presentation attempts to discuss how the notion of youh has been interpreted and applied among Muslim women, particulalrly by those who are involved in Nasyiatul Aisyiyah (henceforth shortened as Nasyiah), an Islamic organization claimed to be serving young Muslim women. Founded in 1931 ?during the late colonial period, in Yogyakarta , Nasyiah couldn?t ascape from the general assumption of the meaning of youth in the community within which it has operated. However, during its course of history, Nasyiah has attempet to promote new idea of young womanhood whisch different from that commonly held by community. Marriage had been a significant, if not the most significant rite of pessage in which a girl is becoming a woman ?an adult woman, regardless of their age. With the availability of public schooling and economic development, age has become more prominent sign of youth than marriage, because many girls have remained longer in the school and many too have sought jobs afterward. Thus marriage age has been delayed and increased. The contemporary trend of youthfulness among Nasyiah activists is no longer marriage and age, but more on the willingness to take up challenges and face risks in the context of organizatioal development..