2020

Workshop: ‘Disaster in Indonesia’

Monash University, 10 July 2020.

Watch workshops here:

• Susie Protschky, ‘Militarised forms of knowledge in a volatile tropics’

• Adam Bobbette, ‘From sea to volcano: Volcanism, myth, and 150 years of the politics of plate tectonics in Java’

• Maurits Meerwijk, ‘“Plague Rat or Anopheles”: Man-made health disasters in late-colonial Java’

• Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, ‘Natural disaster in premodern Java’

• Hans Pols, ‘Disaster medicine in Indonesia’

Panel: ‘Environmental Histories Connecting Asia and Australasia’

Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Future Asias Conference, July 2020.

Watch the panel here:

• James Beattie, ‘Chinese farming, rural enterprise and environmental change in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1870s-1950s’

• Ruth Morgan, ‘Fuel for empire: Australian trees in southern India, 1850s to 1980s’

• Y.H. Phoebe Tang, ‘Trouble with water taps: Debates between the government and sanitation experts in Hong Kong and Melbourne’

• Susie Protschky, ‘Indonesia’s volcanoes as sites of tourism and tourism work’

2019

Seminar: ‘Disaster work: Histories of Indonesian lives and livelihoods around volcanoes’

Monash Indonesian Seminar Series (MISS), 12 September 2019.

2018

Public lecture: ‘The volatile tropics: Albums and commercial photography from the Edwards Collection’

31 October 2018, Leiden University Library, in conjuction with Scaliger Institute.

Public lecture: ‘Burdens of proof: Photographic archives from the Dutch military actions in Indonesia’

8 November 2018, KITLV Seminar Series.

Seminar: ‘Photographic sources and historical research on the Dutch military operations in Indonesia’

5 December 2018, Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH), The Hague.