Unit Penelitian dan Publikasi, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Gadjah Mada menyelenggarakan Workshop Penelitian Guru Besar bertema “Bahasa dan Masyarakat dalam Teori dan Aplikasi Ilmu Budaya” pada:

hari, tanggal : Rabu, 22 Februari 2017,
pukul          : 08.00 – 15.00,
tempat       : Ruang Sidang 1, FIB.

Workshop ini terbuka bagi seluruh dosen Fakultas Ilmu Budaya UGM.

The Theme of 15th Urban Research Plaza Forum 2017:

“Urban Resilience: Voicing ‘Others’ through Art and Culture”

Cities and urban areas in various part of the world, including in Asia and Japan and Indonesia in particular, are currently facing critical and continuous problems such as population pressure, climate change, social polarization and segregation, high unemployment, unbalanced composition of the population, endemic violence, and chronic food and clean water shortage. These problems have marginalized further powerless group in society and created stresses to all groups of societies that weaken the fabric of a city on a daily or cyclical basis to an extent that cities are no longer livable places. Among those powerless groups in urban areas are those sexually defined as ‘others’, which means among other people with disabilities, elderly people and LGBT (lesbians, gays, bisexual and transsexual).
Recently, the idea of urban resilience has a pivotal role in urban growth and planning. Yet, the concept of urban resilience is often applied only to the city as a whole, and put societal problems including the marginalization of ‘others’. Therefore, efforts are needed to include ‘others’ and strategies to give voice for them as part of the idea and practice of urban resilience.
Putting this into consideration, the 15th Urban Research Plaza Forum 2017 takes the following theme: “Urban Resilience: Voicing ‘Others’ through Art and Culture”. The forum invites urban researchers, activities and academia to discuss the role and participation of local government, communities, universities and other related stake holders, who use arts – modern and traditional – and cultural institutions, music, and social capitals in giving voice for ‘others’.
By taking this theme as a focus, the forum seeks to examine the way ‘others’ and its supporters using art and culture to negotiate their socio-cultural position in their respective societies. The forum also discusses the effectiveness of arts and culture as media for voicing the interests of ‘others’ as part of urban resilience. It is believed that arts and culture provide wider access for different agents, institutions and communities to be involved in solving such increasingly complex and sensitive urban issues in Japan as well as Indonesia.

15th Urban Research Plaza Academic Forum
Date : February 22, 2017
Venue : Multimedia Room, Rectorate Building (3rd Floor, North Wing), Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta
Time : 08.30am – 03.00pm

Speakers :
1. Mr. Sohei Yamada. (Osaka City University)
2. Mr. Atsushi Fujita. (Osaka City University)
3. Ms. Yu Ishikawa. (Osaka City University)
4. Dr. Farabih Fakih. (History Dept., UGM)
5. Rahmawan Jatmiko, M.A. (English Dept., UGM)
6. P. Gogor Bangsa, M.Sn. (Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta)
7. Dr. Kurniawan Adi Saputra (Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta)

Public Lecture

Land, Lumber, Labor and Excrement:
The Circular Economy of Nineteenth-Century Tokyo Slums

Jordan Sand, Georgetown University

It has been almost forgotten that like many cities elsewhere in Asia, Tokyo once had large areas of informal and unplanned settlement, occupied by thousands of tiny houses for the poor—little more than shacks. The twentieth century saw a process of formalization of housing accompanied by the expansion of real estate speculation. This presentation takes up the case of a slumlord-builder in late nineteenth-century Tokyo to consider a transitional moment before modern planning mechanisms and a land-centered real estate market redefined the economics of housing. Micro-scale examination of the economic factors in building Tokyo tenements reveals a settlement-building calculus quite different from the patterns often examined in studies of contemporary megacity informal housing. Tokyo’s case thus encourages us to reconsider how unplanned housing develops and how it might be addressed.

The discussion will be held on:
Monday, 16th January 2017
10.00-12.00
Ruang Sidang I, Gd. Purbatjaraka Lt. 1 Fakultas Ilmu Budaya UGM

ALL ARE INVITED, FREE AND LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE

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Javanese batik to the world: Europe, Africa, India and Australia

24 November 2016 ; Ruang Sidang 1 ; 13.00-15.00 wib

From the end of the 19th century, batik of Java – its technique, motifs as well as aesthetics, became a source of inspiration for textile producers, designers and artists across the world. In the early stage, this process was an outcome of colonial encounters when the wax-dyeing technique was introduced to the decorative arts of the Netherlands. In a short time batik became very popular among thousands of Western artists and craftsmen. While at times it was an informed adaptation of the Javanese technique that, in the process, was creatively adjusted to Western conditions, at the other extreme batik was used as an embodiment of Oriental fantasy.
The influence of Javanese batik on African textiles was an indirect process — an outcome of colonial globalisation facilitated by European industrialists. It also started in the last decade of the 19th century, when imitations of Javanese fabrics printed in the Netherlands and United Kingdom, started to be traded to West Africa. Javanese designs have been enthusiastically received by African people and, following a process of extensive adaptation, have become an integral part of the African textile tradition and identity.
To India, the Javanese technique was introduced in the late 1920s, following the visit of Rabindranath Tagore to Java and Bali. The great Indian poet and philosopher was fascinated with the cultural traditions of Indonesia and introduced some of them to the Visva Bharati University courses. Javanese batik helped to revive the old Indian tradition of wax-resist dyeing and provided the impulse to develop a new group of textiles that reflected Tagore’s philosophy and aesthetics.
The most recent of the cross-cultural encounters commenced in the 1970s with the introduction of the batik technique to the Aboriginal communities of the central desert of Australia. In the following years several collaborative projects took place, in which Australian and Indonesian artists worked side by side. In a process parallel to Java, in some cases patterns of Aboriginal batiks became imbued with cosmological meanings.
The great popularity of the batik technique had far-reaching consequences: it stimulated world-wide interest in Javanese culture and led to the organisation of public and private collections of Javanese art as well as numerous exhibitions and publications promoting the culture of this island.

Maria Wronska-Friend
James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
Maria Wronska-Friend is a Senior Research Fellow at the College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia. She is a cultural anthropologist with a particular interest in Southeast Asian dress and textiles as well as museum anthropology. Batik of Java, analysed as a cross-cultural phenomenon, is the main topic of her studies. Her PhD from the Institute of Arts at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, investigated the influence of Javanese batik on European art at the turn of 19th-20th centuries (Art Nouveau and Art Deco). As a museum curator she has organised several exhibitions, in Australia and Poland, promoting Indonesian textiles. She is the author of several books and exhibition catalogues on Indonesian textiles, as well as of academic papers. In October 2016, in Jakarta, she published a book ‘Batik Jawa bagi Dunia. Javanese Batik to the World’ that examines the influence of the batik technique and aesthetics on textiles made in Europe, Africa, India and Australia.