Lectures,
talks, and conference presentations by Bernard Arps since 1988
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2022
- ‘And God Knows Best What Is Correct’: The Marvels of the Real in
the Epic of Amir Hamza. 28 June 2022. Paper presented
to panel Ambiguity and its “Enemies”
in Southeast Asian Islamic Societies at European Association for Southeast
Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) conference, Campus Condorcet, Paris-Aubervilliers,
28 June–1 July 2022.
- Dewa Ruci, ‘the Radiant Deity’: adventure and wisdom in a Javanese
wayang narrative. Guest lecture, Institute for Ethnomusicology, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria), held at Leiden University, 10 June 2022.
- What became of Java’s Islam of quest?
Paper presented to online workshop Recentering
the Islamic World: Perspectives from Java, Columbia University, 30 April 2022.
- ‘Their journey shall be not described’: Travel and foreign places
in a Javanese narrative paradigm. 25 March 2022. Paper
presented to virtual panel Reading
Javanese Literature and Questions of Theory at Association of Asian
Studies (AAS) annual conference, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 24–27 March 2022.
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2021
- The epic of Hamzah in Nusantara: tale-telling, puppetry,
manuscripts, books. Keynote lecture presented
online to international conference Pemartabatan Bahasa Indonesia
[The prestige of Indonesian], Faculty of Teacher Training and Education,
Universitas Islam Malang, Indonesia, 27 November 2021.
- Wayang, character, and research: Studying the history of rasa in Amir Hamzah puppetry. 8 November 2021. Lecture to seminar Peran Wayang Sebagai Sarana Pembangunan Karakter dan Jatidiri
Bangsa [The Roles of Wayang as a Means of National Character and
Identity Building], part of Living
Intangible Cultural Heritage Forum for Wayang Puppet Theater in Indonesia,
Jakarta, 7–9 November 2021.
- Jozef op Java: voordracht van zijn levensverhaal als ritueel en als
erfgoed. [‘Joseph in Java: recital of
his biography as ritual and as heritage.’] Lecture to 16th Zenobia
Congress Jozef / יוֹסֵף / يوسف : Hoe een 3000 jaar oud verhaal de wereld over reisde [How a 3000-year-old narrative
travelled the world], Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, 30 October
2021.
- Feelings and stability in the epic of
Amir Hamza.
9 October 2021. Keynote lecture presented online to International
Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture 2021,
Universitas Brawijaja, Malang, Indonesia, 9–10 October 2021.
- The Hamza affect: feeling as a moving force in the Asian-Islamic
epic. Paper presented to online international
workshop New Directions in the Study
of Javanese Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 3 October
2021.
- Area Studies made over. Paper presented to panel Area Studies under Late-Capitalism
at online conference Citizens of the
World: Indonesian Studies in Australia, University of Melbourne, 29
September 2021.
- Hamza around the Java Sea: manuscripts,
books, tale-telling, puppetry. Online lecture, Research Institute for Languages and
Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 21 June
2021.
- The Hamza affect: feeling and plot across renditions. 8 March 2021. Paper presented to online international workshop New Directions in the Study of Javanese
Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 7–9 March 2021.
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2020
- Epic protests: a South/Southeast Asian narrativity in politics. 10 November 2020. Plenary lecture to virtual International
Conference on Indonesian Culture (ICONIC), Directorat General of Culture,
Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia, 10–12 November
2020.
- The devil and an apostate give balance to Islam. 4 November 2020. Keynote lecture to virtual conference BASA IV
– International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural
Studies, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia, 4–5 November
2020.
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2019
- The lettuce song and its trajectory: the vagaries of a pop song in
three eras. 16 December 2019. Presentation to the workshop Suppressed Songs, Suspicious Sounds: Popular
Music, Archiving & Cultural Amnesia in Southeast Asia, KITLV,
Leiden.
- Azazel and Aji Saka give balance to Islam: A history-theory of Old
Javanese literature and religion in early modern Java. 13 December 2019. Presentation to the international symposium Towards a history of Javanese
literature (Willem van der Molen farewell symposium), Leiden, 11–13
December 2019.
- Devotion, humour, violence: studying
affect in performance.
17 July 2019. Presentation to the session Online tools and performance
in Asia, 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS),
Leiden, 15-19 July 2019.
- Muslim moods in writing: the creation of
affect in Amir Hamza texts from Java. 18 June 2019. Paper presented to international
conference Java in Jerusalem: New Directions in the Study of Javanese
Literature and Culture, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, 17-19 June 2019.
- The history and contemporary forms of
Javanese shadow puppet theater. 11 March 2019. Outreach lecture, Israel Institute for
Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Epical protests: a South/Southeast Asian
narrativity in politics.
16 January 2019. Guest lecture, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie,
Universität Wien, in collaboration with the Österreich-Indonesische
Gesellschaft and the Verein Weltmuseum Wien Friends.
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2018
- The story of Amir Hamza as a
South/Southeast Asian epic. 3 December 2018. Lecture, research group New
Directions in the Study of Javanese Literature, Israel Institute for
Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- The shadowplay of Java, a digital
philology of performance, and religious worldmaking. Lecture at the
Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia
University, Tokyo, 3 July 2018.
- ‘If you desire to live, follow my
prophet, Ibrahim the friend of God’: conversion to Islam and the epic of
Amir Hamza in Malay and Javanese literature. 1 July 2018. Paper presented to international
symposium Transformation of Religion as Reflected in Javanese Texts
(2): Rethinking the Process of Islamization, Osaka University, 30
June–1 July 2018.
- The potency of the heart that is power in
the world: Islamic princehood from the Hindu-Buddhist classics in early
modern Java.
Paper presented to journée d'études Hybrid identities in classical
Malay and Javanese mystical literature: a Sufi-Tantric synthesis?
École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) and Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE),
Paris, 29 May 2018.
- Kepekaan Filologis untuk Pengkajian
Islam.
[‘Philological Sensitivity for the Study of Islam.’] 29 March 2018.
Plenary lecture at the international conference Islamic Education and
Its Challenges in the Digital Age, State Islamic University Sunan
Gunung Djati, Bandung, Indonesia, 28–30 March 2018.
- Tasawuf into Javanism, and Out into the
World. 27
February 2018. Paper presented to the international workshop Reorienting
Islam in Southeast Asia: Global Forces, Local Projections, Alwaleed
Center For Muslim–Christian Understanding, Georgetown University,
Washington DC, 27–28 February 2018.
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2017
- Fashioning a language and Islam: Local
linguistics, language activism, popular religion, and legacies of New
Order violence in Banyuwangi, Indonesia, 1970s–2017. 11 September 2017.
Paper presented to the international workshop Unsettling encounters:
Scholarly study, religious knowledge, and difficult histories in Asia and
the Caribbean, Royal Netherlands Institute of Linguistics and
Anthropology (KITLV), Leiden, 11–12 September 2017.
- Can Jesus Be Dewa Ruci? 17 August 2017. Paper
presented to the panel How Do Indonesians Argue? at the 9th Conference
of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS),
University of Oxford, 16–18 August 2017.
- ‘The Sweet-Talking Prince’: A Panji story
at the interface of Islam, colonialism, and Buddhic Javaneseness. 17 August 2017. Paper
presented to the panel Panji and cultural patterns in Southeast Asia
at the 9th Conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian
Studies (EuroSEAS), University of Oxford, 16–18 August 2017.
- Learning to Make Sense of Southeast Asia
in Europe.
26 May 2017. Paper presented at the inaugural BUFS international teaching
workshop on Southeast Asia Teaching Southeast Asian Studies:
Foundations and New Approaches, Busan University of Foreign Studies,
Busan, Korea.
- Who’s pulling the strings? Narrativity
and the figure of the Instigator in Indonesian politics. 13 May 2017. Lecture at
the symposium Stories and Storytelling in the Indonesian Archipelago,
organized by KITLV and Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia.
Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden.
- Fashioning a language and Islam. 12 January 2017. Expert
lecture at the Doctoral Programme in Cultural Studies, Faculty of Cultures
Sciences, in the context of a two-week visiting professorship at
Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia.
- Teaching Indonesian and Javanese in the
Netherlands.
11 January 2017. Lecture at the Master's and Doctoral Programmes in
Indonesian and Javanese Language Education, Faculty of Education Sciences,
in the context of a two-week visiting professorship at Universitas Sebelas
Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia.
- Javanese communication and culture: a
search of understanding.
10 January 2017. Expert lecture at the Master's and Doctoral Programmes in
Communication Studies, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, in the
context of a two-week visiting professorship at Universitas Sebelas Maret,
Surakarta, Indonesia.
- Javanese wayang, global art,
personal narrative: Dewa Ruci in Australia, the Netherlands, and
Singapore.
10 January 2017. Expert lecture at the Master's Programme in Arts Studies,
in the context of a two-week visiting professorship at Universitas Sebelas
Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia.
- Javanese philology from Tantular to
Internet. 9
January 2017. Public lecture at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, in the
context of a two-week visiting professorship at Universitas Sebelas Maret,
Surakarta, Indonesia.
- Language of the second kind: media and
the constitution of a regional language for easternmost Java. 5 January 2017. Public
lecture at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, in the context of a two-week
visiting professorship at Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia.
- Literature as a means of worldmaking: an
approach in the study of Javanese literature and its offshoots. 4 January 2017. Lecture
at the national seminar The development of Classical, Modern, and
Contemporary Javanese literary studies, Faculty of Cultural Sciences,
in the context of a two-week visiting professorship at Universitas Sebelas
Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia.
- Area Studies as an arena for the study of
local cultures in a global context. 3 January 2017. Lecture at the discussion session The
roles of the cultural sciences in the acceleration towards a world class
university, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, in the context of a two-week
visiting professorship at Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia.
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2016
- Where are the areas of Area
Studies?—Javanese and Chams abroad. 26 November 2016. Plenary lecture at International
Conference on Nusantara Sudies (ICoNS) 2016, Universitas Indonesia,
Jakarta, 24–25 November 2016.
- Modern religious relocations: Javanese
and Cham abroad.
28 October 2016. Lecture at the Institute for Asian and African Studies,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
- Bima's quest for purity: the game and the
ride. 17
September 2016. Paper presented to the panel Shadow Puppet Theatres of
Southeast Asia, Association for Southeast Asian Studies in the United
Kingdom (ASEASUK) Conference 2016, School of Oriental and African Studies,
London, 16–18 September 2016.
- The ethnolinguistic looker-on: Islam and
the ideologies of Osing in urban Banyuwangi. 17 July 2016. Paper presented to the international
symposium Conceptualising Rapport, La Trobe University, Melbourne,
17–20 July 2016.
- Dewa Ruci, De
Lichtende God: avontuur en wijsheid in een Javaans wajangverhaal. [Dewa Ruci, the
Resplendent God: adventure and wisdom in a Javanese wayang story.] 3 June
2016. Lecture at Tong Tong Fair, The Hague.
- Fashioning a language and Islam. 31 March 2016.
Presentation at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of
Exeter.
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2015
- The benefits of purity in Amarta and
Surakarta: the shadow play of Bima Suci, 1810s–1830s. Paper presented to the
international symposium Transformation of religions as reflected in
Javanese texts, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 11–13 February
2015.
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2014
- Religious culture displaced: A
comparative-historical view of Javanese world-making overseas. 8 July and 20 June
2014. Presentation to the Asian Studies Association of Australia 20th
biennal conference AsiaScapes: Contesting Borders, University of
Western Australia, Perth, 8–10 July 2014, and to the international
Cosmopolis conference The Making of Religious Traditions in the
Indonesian Archipelago: History and Heritage in Global Perspective
(1600–1940), Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, 20–22 June 2014.
- Drona’s Betrayal and Bima’s Brutality: Javanaiserie
in Malay Culture.
25 April 2014. Paper presented to the international workshop Traces of
the Two Great Epics: Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay
Literature, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 24–25
April 2014.
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2013
- Southeast Asian studies and religion. 26 August 2013. Paper
presented to roundtable Religion and Area Studies: History and Practice
at the international workshop Grounding the Study of Religion,
Leiden University, 26–28 August 2013.
- Area studies and narrativity. 14 August 2013. Paper
presented to the panel Rethinking ‘region’, Forefront Asia
Signature Series The Study of Southeast Asia Today: A Dialogue at NUS,
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore,
14–16 August 2013.
- Area studies and narrativity. 5 July 2013. Paper
presented to the panel Shifting perspectives: theoretical approaches,
area studies and ‘the disciplines’, 7th conference of the European
Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS), Lisbon, 2–5 July 2013.
- Zang in de Javaanse gamelan. [‘Singing in Javanese
gamelan.’] 19 May 2013. Talk at the Javanese gamelan networking day Gamelan
Jawa 2013, Gamelanhuis, Amsterdam.
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2012
- The affordances of the Quest: a Javanese
myth in Singapore (with comparative comments on Byron Bay and
Westerwijtwerd).
12 December 2012. Paper presented at the workshop Literature and the
global city, Departments of English and Social Anthropology, Stockholm
University, 12–13 December 2012.
- Roundabouts with character: why Bhima
should slay the serpent in Indonesian public space. 28 June 2012. Indonesia
Studies Group Seminar, Asia Research Institute, National University of
Singapore.
- Bhima meets Vairocana: Java in Asia,
religious doctrine, and the quest. 18 April 2012. Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Lecture
Series, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.
- Bima’s quest as Malay heritage in
Bussorah Mall: novel meanings for a Javanese myth. 20 March 2012. ARI
Seminar, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
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2011
- A doctoral programme in Asian studies: a
perspective from the Netherlands and Europe. 22 October 2011. Presentation to roundtable discussion
“A PhD Programme in Asian Studies at FASS, NUS”, Faculty of Arts and
Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.
- Language of the second kind: media and the
social constitution of language in Southeast Asia and beyond. 19 October 2011.
Department Seminar, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National
University of Singapore.
- The Lettuce Song and its trajectory: the
vagaries of a pop song in three eras. 14 October 2011. Presentation to international seminar
Voice of the Archipelago, Indonesian Art Festival VII, Institut
Seni Indonesia Surakarta.
- A shadow-play from Java in Japan: the
cross-religious resonance of a quest. 20 September 2011. ARI Seminar, Asia Research
Institute, National University of Singapore.
- Story crossing faiths: Bhima’s quest for
purity in Java, Bali, and beyond. 18 August 2011. In-the-Beginning/Work-in-Progress
Seminar presentation, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
- ‘The Sweet-Talking Panji’: trust in
language in Java.
16 June 2011. Paper presented to the interdisciplinary symposium Trust
and emerging media, Universiteit Utrecht.
- Taalpolitiek in Indonesië sinds de
Reformasi: turbo-Indonesisch en officiële regiotalen. [‘Language politics in
Indonesia since Reformasi: happening Indonesian and official regional
languages.’] 5 June 2011. Lecture at Tong-Tong Fair, the Hague.
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2010
- The lettuce song and its vagaries: one
pop song in three eras.
28 June 2010. Paper presented to the international symposium Cultural
performance in post-New Order Indonesia: new structures, scenes, meanings,
Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, 28–30 June 2010.
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2009
- Making a Literature for the Osing
Language (East Java, Indonesia). 29 August 2009. Paper presented to the colloquium Documenting
Oral Traditions in the Non-Western World, Leiden University, 27–29
August 2009.
- The demand for wayang scripts: a
century and a half of Irawan’s Wedding. 16 July 2009. Paper
presented to the First International Wayang Conference “Iravan: origin
and transformations in South and Southeast Asia”, Gadjah Mada
University, Yogyakarta, 16–17 July 2009.
- The sounds of timeless texts, now:
translations of Scripture on Indonesian audio recordings. 6 March 2009. Paper
presented to the workshop Translation in Asia: theories, practices,
histories, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore,
5–6 March 2009.
- Ki Enthus Susmono: de wajang krijgt een
menselijk gezicht.
[‘Ki Enthus Susmono: wayang gets a human face.’] 30 January 2009.
Lecture in connection with the exhibition Wayang superstar: de
theaterwereld van Ki Enthus Susmono [‘Wayang superstar: Ki
Enthus Susmono’s theatre world’], Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam.
- The treatment of a treacherous teacher:
mythology, nationalism, and education in Javanese Indonesia, 1930s and
1950s. 7
January 2009. Presentation to the international Encompass conference States
of transition: modernization, performance and meaning of state and
authority in the era of decolonization, Universitas Medan, Omlandia,
and Universitas Sumatra Utara, Medan, 6–8 January 2009.
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2008
- Stories of the spirit world in Javanese
media. 13
November 2008. Lecture at the Center for Southeast Asia Studies,
University of California, Berkeley.
- Spiritual refreshment, medicine for the
heart: Islamic preaching on record and on the air in Indonesia. 10 November 2008.
Colloquium at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Center for Near
Eastern Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Spiritual refreshment, medicine for the
heart: preaching on record and on the air in Indonesia. 7 November 2008.
Lecture in the Center for Asian Studies speaker series, University of
Colorado at Boulder.
- Spiritual refreshment, medicine for the
heart: preaching on record and on the air in Indonesia. 8 July 2008. Paper
presented to the Australia–Netherlands Research Collaboration (ANRC)
workshop Studying Islam in Southeast Asia: state of the art and new
approaches, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the
Modern World (ISIM), Leiden, 7–8 July 2008.
- Dari dialek-dialek desa menjadi sebuah
Bahasa: terjadinya bahasa Osing di Banyuwangi. [‘From village dialects
to Language: the becoming of basa Osing in Banyuwangi.’] 10 June
2008. Paper presented at the international workshop Language Change in
Post New Order Indonesia, Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya,
Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, 9–11 June 2008.
- Perubahan arti politik sebuah pencarian:
lakon Dewa Ruci, tahun 1818 sampai sekarang. [‘The changing politics
of a quest: the Javanese shadowplay of Bhima’s encounter with God, 1818 to
the present.’] 5 June 2008. Lecture at Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian
kepada Masyarakat, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta.
- Panji
Priyambada: kecemburuan, kemarahan, penipuan dan malu dalam sebuah
lontar dari Gresik (1750). [‘The Sweet-Talking Panji: jealousy, anger,
deceit, and embarrassment in a palmleaf manuscript from Gresik (1750).’] 4
June 2008. Lecture at Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Gadjah Mada,
Yogyakarta.
- Javaanse spoken en geesten in tijdschriften,
op radio en TV.
[‘Javanese spectres and ghosts in magazines, on radio and TV.’] 19 April
2008. Lecture at Faculty of Arts Open Day, Leiden University.
- ‘The Sweet-Talking Panji’: the place of a
Javanese story in the Southeast Asian Panji/Inao corpus of the 18th
century. 18
January 2008. Lecture at the Department of Thai, Chulalongkorn University,
Bangkok.
- Why wayang has the ring of truth:
the realism of Javanese shadowplay. 14 January 2008. Lecture at the Department of Thai,
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
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2007
- The Indonesian literary landscape today. 14 December 2007.
Lecture to the conference/debate Littérature indonésienne: les
nouvelles tendances, Institut néerlandais, Paris.
- De behoefte aan islam op radio en TV:
Nederland 2004–2007, Nederlands-Indië 1934–1938. [‘The need for Islam on
radio and TV: the Netherlands 2004–2007, the Netherlands Indies
1934–1938.’] 24 November 2007. Lecture at Faculty of Arts Open Day, Leiden
University.
- Scannen, veldwerk, vrije mannen en de
Javaanse lexicografie.
[‘Scanning, fieldwork, free men, and Javanese lexicography.’] 27 October
2007. Talk at the launch of Rob van Albada and Th. Pigeaud, Javaans–Nederlands
woordenboek, Royal Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
(KITLV), Leiden.
- Dewa Ruci and the light that is Muhammad:
the Islamization of a Buddhist text in the Yasadipuran version of the Book
of Dewa Ruci.
5 September 2007. Paper presented at the seminar Pantheisme –
manunggaling kawula lan Gusti dalam naskah Nusantara [‘Pantheism – the
union of servant and Lord in Indonesian manuscripts’], National Library of
the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, 5–6 September 2007.
- Hoe een Javaanse bruiloft te horen is. [‘How a Javanese
wedding can be heard.’] 31 May 2007. Lecture to the seminar Verstilde
klanken? De toekomst van muziek in een visueel tijdperk [‘Quitened
sounds? The future of music in a visual age’], Department of Cultural
Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University.
- How Bima meets his God, and why: the
translation of a mystical adventure between media, languages, and
religions in Asia and the west. 10 May 2007. Lecture to the Anniversary General
Meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London.
- Christian truth in a Javanese classic. 27 April 2007. Lecture
at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
- Islam on Dutch TV and Indies radio:
representation as an idée fixe. 12 April 2007. Lecture at the University of Chicago
Divinity School.
- The Old Javanese Ramayana in Java
and Bali: three textualizations and their performative dimensions. Lecture to the
symposium The Ramayana in Performance Across Asia. Center of
Southeast Asian Studies, International Institute, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, 28 March 2007.
- Javanaiserie: Malay
religiosity and sin in wayang stories. 5 March 2007. Presentation to Javanese Studies Group,
University of Michigan.
- Sounds of Islam on Dutch TV: the current
situation and its colonial antecedents. 15 February 2007. Lecture in the Conversations on
Europe series, Center of European Studies, International Institute,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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2006
- Mystical monuments: Bima fights the
serpent in Indonesian places. 13 December 2006. Presentation to the international
Leiden–Yale project symposium The placement of culture in Java and
beyond: cultural dimensions of mobility and localization in three eras,
Leiden University, 11–13 December 2006.
- Language, media, and locality: recent
developments in Indonesia. 16 November 2006. Center of Southeast Asian Studies,
International Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- Secularism, Islam, and Bhima’s enlightenment:
doing politics in Indonesia with a Javanese myth. 10 November 2006.
Bridging Seminar, Center for Media and Religion, New York University.
- Round table on religion in Southeast Asia, with Deirdre
de la Cruz and Patrick Pranke. 19 October 2006. Center of Southeast Asian
Studies, International Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- Shiva teaching Bhima in Muslim Java: the
effects of a scholarly edition in a world of performance. 17 October 2006. Guest
lecture in the course “Southeast Asian knowledge and the politics of
information”, University of Washington, Seattle.
- Nationalism, Islam, and Bhima’s
enlightenment: doing politics in Indonesia with a Javanese myth. 16 October 2006. Guest
lecture in the course “Studies in the literature of emerging nations:
colonialism, neo-colonialism, and the nation form”, University of
Washington, Seattle.
- The changing politics of a quest: the
Javanese shadowplay of Bhima’s encounter with God, 1818 to the present. 13 October 2006.
Institute of Asian Research seminar, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver.
- Christian truth in a Javanese classic. 11 October 2006. Center
for Asia-Pacific Initiatives brown bag seminar, University of Victoria,
Canada.
- Shiva teaching Bhima in Muslim Java: the
effects of a scholarly edition in a world of performance. 4 October 2006. Council
on Southeast Asia Studies seminar, Yale University.
- Christian truth in a Javanese classic. 15 September 2006.
Friday-at-Noon lecture, Center of Southeast Asian Studies and Center for
European Studies, International Institute, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor.
- European initiatives for joint Masters
programmes in Southeast Asian Studies. 1 June 2006. Presentation to a conference of the
European League for Non-Western Studies, held at Leiden University.
- New questions about locality and language
in Indonesia (as illustrated by a radio quiz show). 3 April 2006.
Presentation at the School of Languages and Cultures, University of
Sydney.
- Propaganda on and off the dance-floor:
theoretical considerations and a Javanese case. 20 February 2006.
Public lecture on the occasion of the School of Oriental and African
Studies and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Postgraduate Symposium,
SOAS, London, 20–21 February 2006.
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2005
- Durna’s betrayal and Bima’s brutality:
the Nawaruci episode in a Malay book of wayang stories (hikayat
papakem).
20 October 2005. Presentation to the seminar on Malay-Indonesian
literature Navigating Convention in New Terrains: Writing in the 18th
to Early 20th Centuries, International Institute for Asian Studies,
Leiden.
- Audio language and its allure: the sounds
of performance in Indonesian contexts. 28 July 2005. Humanities Research Centre Seminar,
Australian National University, Canberra.
- Getting to hear the news: audio media and
the management of time in Indonesia. 13 July 2005. Asian Studies Seminar, Curtin University
of Technology, Perth.
- Audio scandals and their actors: crimes,
gaffes and sensations involving sound media in recent Indonesian history. 11 July 2005. Asia
Research Centre Seminar, Murdoch University, Perth.
- Big joint research projects. 8 June 2005. Discussion
with staff members, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong.
- Spiritual refreshment, medicine for the
heart: preaching on record and on the air in Indonesia. 8 June 2005. CAPSTRANS
seminar, Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, University
of Wollongong.
- Radio stations and music shows as
meeting-places in Java.
19 May 2005. Centre of Southeast Asian Studies seminar, Monash Asia
Institute, Melbourne.
- Scripture now. 16 May 2005. Seminar in
the Islam in Indonesia seminar series, School of Languages, Cultures and
Linguistics and School of Political and Social Enquiry, Monash University,
Melbourne.
- Media in the making of a “regional
language” for Banyuwangi (East Java), c. 1970–2004. 21 April 2005. Paper
presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics
Society (SEALS XV), Australian National University, Canberra, 20–22 April
2005.
- Audio scandals and their actors: crimes,
gaffes and sensations involving sound media in recent Indonesian history. 20 April 2005.
Indonesia Study Group Seminar, Indonesia Project, Division of Economics,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National
University, Canberra.
- Getting to hear the news: audio media and
the management of time in Indonesia. 15 April 2005. Faculty of Asian Studies Research
Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra.
- Making a Javanese wedding heard. 7 April 2005. Guest
lecture in the series “Indonesian (regional) performing arts, media, and
language”, the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence
Force Academy, Canberra.
- Preaching on record and on the air in
Indonesia.
4 April 2005. Seminar in the Asia Pacific Seminar Series, the University
of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.
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2004
- De media in Indonesië. 27 November 2004.
Lecture at Faculty of Arts Open Day, Leiden University.
- (with Patricia Spyer and P. M. Laksono) Mediation and community after Reformasi. 26
August 2004. Paper presented to Academy Symposium Indonesia in transition:
reform, crises, conflicts, continuities, Royal Netherlands Academy of
Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, 25–27 August 2004.
- Javanese across cultures on the world
wide web.
Presentation at mini-symposium Modes of address in the Indonesian media,
Leiden, 23 April 2004.
- Het Javaans in de audio-visuele media en
op het internet.
Lecture at KITLV open day, Leiden, 26 March 2004.
- Javanese across cultures on the world
wide web. 23
March 2004. Lecture at international symposium Non-Javanese, not yet
Javanese, and un-Javanese: encounters and fissures in a civilization,
Leiden, 23–25 March 2004.
- Indonesische audio-schandalen. Talk at annual
departmental festival (really a one-day symposium), Department of
Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania, Leiden University, 6
February 2004.
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2003
- Christian truth in a Javanese classic. 12 December 2003.
Lecture at international conference Christianity in Indonesia:
perspectives of power, Institut für Historische Ethnologie, Johann
Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, 12–14 December 2003.
- “I’m an Osing Kid”: music and the
ambience of Banyuwangi.
9 December 2003. Paper presented to 17th KITLV International Workshop on
Southeast Asian Studies, Southeast Asian pop music in a comparative
perspective, Leiden, 9–12 December 2003.
- Menganehkan percakapan: pertunjukan
bahasa setempat dalam media di Banyuwangi. [‘Conversation as a curiosity: performing
autochthonous talk in the media of Banyuwangi.’] 3 October 2003. Keynote
lecture at Seminar Asosiasi Tradisi Lisan IV, Jakarta, 2–4 October 2003.
- De media in Indonesië. 12 June 2003. Lecture
at Pasar Malam Besar, the Hague.
- Making a modern literature in Banyuwangi,
East Java.
30 May 2003. Lecture at workshop Modernism, history, thought: visions
of social interchange, AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures,
School of Oriental and African Studies and University College London,
28–30 May 2003.
- (with Edwin Jurriëns) Local
media and the making of language and community in contemporary Indonesia.
9 May 2003. Lecture at IIAS Open Seminar Indonesia in transition,
Universiteit van Amsterdam.
- A Banyuwangi quiz and its meanings:
competing concepts of language, culture, and ethnicity in eastern Java. 12 April 2003. Lecture
at conference The organization of knowledge, Centre for Research in
the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of
Cambridge, 9–12 April 2003.
- The issue of origins in an Indonesian pop
music: “drums ’n’ gongs” and patriotism in Banyuwangi, east Java. 14 March 2003.
Presentation to international conference Media and the making of
history in contemporary Indonesia, Leiden University, 13–15 March
2003.
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2002
- The issue of origins in an Indonesian pop
music: “drum ’n’ gongs” and patriotism in Banyuwangi, east Java. 7 December 2002.
Presentation at the IIAS Workshop Chewing the west, Leiden, 5–7
December 2002.
- De klank van Javaanse bibliotheken. [‘The sound of Javanese
libraries.’] 2 December 2002. Lecture at Hogeschool voor Muziek en Dans,
Rotterdam.
- Film and other media in Indonesia. 27 November 2002.
Introductory lecture at exhibition of recent films, Rijksmuseum voor
Volkenkunde, Leiden, for the international conference Anthropological
futures for a 21st-century Indonesia.
- De bloemenstrijd: zelfverzekerdheid en
geweld in de Javaanse wajang. [‘The flower battle: self-assurance and violence in
Javanese wayang.’] 17 November 2002. Lecture at annual meeting of Wiyoeng
Wanara Foundation, Amstelveen.
- Geen onvertogen woord over ambtenaren. [‘Not a bad word about
civil servants.’] 7 October 2002. Laudatio on the occasion of the
award of the Professor Teeuw Prize to F. X. Suhardi Djojoprasetyo, Leiden.
- Language and media in Banyuwangi. 21 September 2002.
Presentation at the first Javanese studies masterclass, Australian
National University, Canberra, 21–22 September 2002.
- A reflection on the title of the
workshop.
13 September 2002. Opening address at International Institute for Asian
Studies workshop Globalizing media and local society in Indonesia,
Leiden, 13–14 September 2002.
- Media and sounding native in Banyuwangi. 6 April 2002. Paper
presented to panel Possible publics, old, new, and never happened:
questions of mediation in Indonesia at annual meeting of Association
for Asian Studies, Washington, DC, 4–7 April 2002.
- Conversation as a curiosity: performing autochthonous
talk in the media of Banyuwangi (Java, Indonesia). 16 March 2002. Paper
presented at international conference Media performance and practice
across cultures, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 14–17 March 2002.
- The poetry of drinking-bouts: song and
drunkenness in Javanese performance and literature. 15 March 2002. Lecture
at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of
Wisconsin–Madison, USA.
- Letters on air in Banyuwangi. 22 January 2002. Paper
presented at 16th KITLV International Workshop on Southeast Asian Studies,
Manuscripts from insular Southeast Asia: epistolography, Leiden,
21–24 January 2002.
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2001
- Wajang en de islam. 18 November 2001.
Lecture at annual meeting of Wiyoeng Wanara Foundation, Amstelveen.
- Taal in Banyuwangi en de media. [‘Language in
Banyuwangi and the media.’] 23 June 2001. Lecture in the session De
culturele rol van literatuur en drama op de Indonesische radio en
televisie [‘The cultural role of literature and drama on Indonesian
radio and television’], Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology
(KITLV), Leiden.
- Gesah bersama Prof. Dr. Bernard Arps. [‘A conversation with
. . . .’] 1 March 2001. Lecture and discussion, organized
by the Blambangan Arts Council and the Banyuwangi branch of the Department
of Tourism, Arts, and Culture, Banyuwangi, Indonesia. (Those who like to
see their name in print: click on the thumbnail and be humbled.)
- Penelitian bahasa dan budaya Jawa. [‘Researching Javanese
language and culture.’] 24 January 2001. Talk at Department of Javanese,
Universitas Negeri Surabaya.
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2000
- “Een taal leert men niet zwijgen”: audio,
video en internet in de cursus Hedendaags Javaans. [‘“One doesn’t learn to
be silent in a language”: audio, video, and internet in the course
Contemporary Javanese.’] 22 September 2000. Friday lecture, Department of
Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania, Leiden University.
- Verbal performance in and out of context:
the sounds of Javanese weddings on audio cassettes. 24 August 2000. Paper
presented at international IIAS and CHIME conference Audiences,
patrons, and performers in the performing arts of Asia, Leiden, 23–27
August 2000.
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1999
- De media in Indonesië. 27 November 1999.
Lecture at Leiden University Open Day, Faculty of Letters.
- Wacana media dan pertunjukan di
Banyuwangi.
[‘Media discourse and performance in Banyuwangi.’] 29 April 1999. Talk to
Indonesian students at Leiden University.
- Modes of mediation and genres of
performance.
23 April 1999. Lecture to research cluster Intercultural Study of
Literature and Society, Leiden University.
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1998
- Local media and local cultures in Indonesia:
patterns of cultural transference in an East Javanese town. 4 November 1998.
Gastvortrag at the Lehrstuhl für Südostasienkunde, Universität Passau,
Germany.
- Kleine letteren en kleine media: een
nieuwe impuls in de oriëntalistiek. [‘Small humanities and small media: a new impulse in
Asian studies.’] 30 September 1998. Lecture on the occasion of the
presentation of: Dirk van Delft, De wijde wereld van de kleine talen:
25 portretten (Amsterdam: Bulaaq, 1998) in Sociëteit de Burcht,
Leiden.
- Taalkunst in de audio-visuele media van
Indonesië.
[‘Verbal art in the audio-visual media of Indonesia.’] 27 May 1998.
Presentation to annual PIONIER symposium, NWO, the Hague.
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1997
- Naming genres, classing texts: a Javanese
gentleman’s personal library, 1948–1949. 10 December 1997. Presentation at International
European Science Foundation workshop Encompassing knowledge: indigenous
encyclopedias in Indonesia in the 17th–20th centuries, Leiden
University, 8–10 December 1997.
- Love songs and media in easternmost Java. 8 November 1997.
Lecture at Alumni Day, Faculty of Arts, Leiden University.
- Stories of the spirit world: encounters
with the supernatural in Javanese literature. 5 September 1997.
Lecture at summer course Modern South-East Asian Literature, SOAS,
London, 27 August–5 September 1997.
- Love songs and media in easternmost Java. 3 June 1997. Lecture at
VA|AVMI multimedia symposium, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden.
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1996
- Penelitian macaan dan syair lagu daerah
Banyuwangi.
[‘Research on literary recitation and the lyrics of Banyuwangi regional
music.’] 22 December 1996. Lecture at symposium on cultural development
organized by the Blambangan Arts Council in Banyuwangi, Indonesia.
- Macaan di Banyuwangi. [‘Literary recitation
in Banyuwangi.’] 3 June 1996. Lecture to Faculty of Arts, Universitas
Negeri Jember.
- Condensed or in instalments? – Historical
drama and the pressure of time in Java. 14 May 1996. Part of ISLS Double Lecture held on the
occasion of the international symposium Oral traditions and theatrical
performance, Research School CNWS, Leiden University (the other part
of the double lecture was given by Prof. James J. Fox, Australian National
University).
- Taal, status, hiërarchie. [‘Language, status,
hierarchy.’] 23 April 1996. Lecture in Studium Generale series Wiens
taal spreken wij? – Taal en normering [‘Whose language do we speak? –
Language and norms’], Leiden University.
- Javaans schimmenspel: de wereld van en in
de wayang.
[‘Javanese shadow puppetry: the world in and of the wayang.’] 26 March
1996. Lecture at Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam.
- Jozef op Java: een Indonesische versie
van een verhaal uit de wereldliteratuur. [‘Joseph in Java: an Indonesian version of a story
from world literature.’] 22 February 1996. Lecture at People’s University
Arnhem.
- Shadow puppets and the shadow play in
Indonesia.
13 February 1996. The Ferens Fine Art Lectures, University of Hull.
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1995
- Tekst en uitleg: de voordracht en
vertaling van sacrale teksten op Indonesische geluidscassettes. [‘Text and exegesis: the
performance and translation of sacred texts on Indonesian audio
cassettes.’] 2 June 1995. Presentation to congress of Oosters Genootschap
in Nederland (Asiatic Society in the Netherlands), held in Leiden.
- Djoenaidi’s sermon on heaven and hell:
Arabic scripture in a Javanese cassette comedian’s da‘wah. 16 May 1995.
Presentation at Oral Traditions seminar, Research School CNWS,
Leiden.
- The regulation of beauty: J. Kats and
Javanese poetics.
6 April 1995. Presentation at international workshop The canon in
South-East Asian literatures, School of Oriental and African Studies,
London, 5–7 April 1995.
- Recente ontwikkelingen in het Javaanse
schaduwtoneel.
[‘Recent developments in Javanese shadow puppetry.’] 18 March 1995.
Lecture at Leiden University Open Day, Faculty of Letters.
- Sastra Jawa dalam kaset. [‘Javanese literature
on audio cassettes.’] 23 January 1995. Lecture to Department of Regional
Letters, University of Indonesia, Jakarta.
- Pengajaran bahasa dan budaya Jawa di
Universitas Leiden.
[‘The teaching of Javanese language and culture at Leiden University.’] 6
January 1995. Talk at Javanese Language Programme, IKIP Semarang.
- Pamulangan basa lan kabudayan Jawi wonten
Universitas Leiden.
[‘The teaching of Javanese language and culture at Leiden University.’] 5
January 1995. Talk at Department of Javanese, Universitas Negeri Sebelas
Maret, Surakarta.
- Pengajaran bahasa dan budaya Jawa di
Universitas Leiden.
[‘The teaching of Javanese language and culture at Leiden University.’] 3
January 1995. Talk at Department of Regional Letters, Universitas Gadjah
Mada, Yogyakarta.
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1994
- Songs of passion: media discourse and
cultural change – a case from Java. 20 December 1994. Presentation to IIAS symposium Changing
lifestyles in Asia: consumption/media/religion, Leiden, 19–21 December
1994.
- A tour of pantun tracts: planes of
movement in a song from Banyuwangi. 9 December 1994. Lecture at seminar in honour of
Professor Muhammad Haji Salleh, Leiden University.
- Correct Amerikaans en aanstotelijk
Javaans.
[‘Correct American and offensive Javanese.’] 14 October 1994. Inaugural
address as professor of Javanese linguistics and literary studies, Leiden
University.
- The Song Guarding at Night: grounds for
cogency in a Javanese incantation. Presentation at international workshop Anthropologie
de la prière, Institut de Recherche sur le Sud-Est Asiatique,
Aix-en-Provence, 28–30 June 1994.
- Traditionele poëzie van Indonesië. [‘Traditional poetry of
Indonesia.’] 19 June 1994. Lecture, Pasar Malam Besar, the Hague.
- Poetic performance and the lure of music:
Javanese literature on audio cassette. 8 June 1994. Presentation at Ninth International
Workshop on Indonesian Studies, Performing arts in South-East Asia,
Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV), Leiden, 6–10 June
1994.
- The sound of space in shadow play: how to
hear mise en scène on wayang cassettes. Presentation at
symposium Perceptions of space in Southeast Asia, Research School
CNWS, Leiden University, 2–3 June 1994.
- Koning Salomo en het dwerghert: de eerste
Javaanse grammatica’s voor Javanen. [‘King Solomon and the chevrotain: the first Javanese
grammars for Javanese.’] 18 March 1994. Presentation to IIAS Seminar De
Nederlandse koloniale taalpolitiek [‘Dutch colonial language policy’],
Leiden.
- Taalkunst in de Javaanse media. [‘Language art in
Javanese media.’] 11 February 1994. Friday lecture, Department of
Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania, Leiden University.
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1993
- To propagate morals through popular
music: the Indonesian qasidah modéren. 15 July 1993.
Presentation to international conference Qasida: the literary heritage
of an Arabic poetic form in Islamic Africa and Asia, School of
Oriental and African Studies, London, 14–16 July 1993.
- De kwestie van het Javaanse kerkgezang:
een discussie in 1901–1902. [The issue of the Javanese church hymns: a discussion
in 1901–1902.’] 11 June 1993. Presentation to seminar on the significance
of Protestant and Catholic mission for Indonesian studies, Department of
Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania, Leiden University.
- Wayang colonized? – Dutch involvement in
Javanese shadow theatre, 1840–1930. 27 May 1993. Centre of Southeast Asian Studies
seminar, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
- Wie niet voelen kan moet horen: over rasa
in het gamelanspel door Europeanen. [‘Those who cannot feel must hear: about rasa
in gamelan playing by Europeans.’] 2 April 1993. Lecture at study day on
Indonesian music and dance, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden.
- Definiteness in Javanese syntax. 12 February 1993.
Lecture at meeting of Philological Society, London.
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1992
- The regulation of beauty: Dutch influence
on traditional Javanese poetics. 22 May 1992. Paper presented to a symposium on
comparative poetics, Centre for Non-Western Studies, Leiden University.
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1991
- Pengkajian bahasa dan sastra Jawa di
Britania Raya: sejarah dan keadaan sekarang. [The study of Javanese language and literature in Great
Britain: history and current situation.] 15 July 1991. Paper presented to
Kongres Bahasa Jawa I, Semarang, 15–20 Juli 1991.
- Fokus pada pertunjukan dalam pengkajian
sastra lisan dan sastra tulis. [A focus on performance in the study of oral and
written literature.] 26 June 1991. Lecture at the Centre for Language
Guidance and Cultivation (Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa),
Jakarta.
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1990
- Yusup, Sri Tanjung, and fragrant water:
the spread of a popular Islamic poem in Banyuwangi, East Java. Paper presented to
conference Java and the Java Sea, Leiden University, 19–22 June 1990.
- Singing the life of Joseph: an all-night
reading of the lontar Yusup in Banyuwangi, East Java. 12 March 1990.
Indonesia Circle Annual Lecture, School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London.
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1989
- Antara nembang dan maca:
dampak ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi modern pada pembacaan puisi Jawa
tradisional di Yogyakarta. [Between ‘singing’ and ‘reciting’: the impact of
scholarship and modern technology on the performance of traditional
Javanese poetry in Yogyakarta.] 29 October 1989. Paper presented to the
first scientific meeting of the Indonesian Musicological Society
(Masyarakat Musikologi Indonesia), Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, 27–29
October 1989.
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1988
- Literaire avonden in Yogyakarta: hoe
lezen Javanen hun klassieke poëzie? [Literary evenings in Yogyakarta: how do Javanese read
their classical poetry?] 12 February 1988. Lecture to Society for
Southeast Asian Studies, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Zuiver
Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek.
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