Zoom Sessions

With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, we reached out to our members via Zoom online sessions, held on a fortnightly basis with guest speakers on a range of interesting topics.

The sessions are very social, not webinars. Topics and speakers during 2021 and 2022 and upcoming sessions for 2023 are shown below.

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Upcoming Sessions 2023

  • 20/8/23 – TBA
  • 2/9/23 – Jane Lyndon: Macassans – Australian histories
  • 7/10/23 – TBA
  • 4/11/23 – TBA

Past Sessions

2023
  • 05/08/23 – Janet de Neeve: Ubud Writers Festival
  • 01/07/23 – Elizabeth McClean: DJAMU – Social Enterprise in Jakarta. Reimagining work with informal waste workers in Jakarta & developing products made from up-cycled plastic waste.
  • 03/06/23 – Ian Burnet: Batavia and the Dutch Golden Age
  • 06/05/2023 – Yuli Ismartono: Women in Indonesian Media – Trials & Tribulations
  • 15/4/2023 – Duncan Graham: The Majapahit Era
  • 1/4/2023 – John McGlynn: the history of Lontar & translation of Indonesian literature
  • 4/3/2023 – Nick Hughes: Change of Topic to Gunung Tambora – The biggest recorded volcanic erruption – 1815
2022
  • 26/3/22 – Filomena Reissi: Baduy Tribe
  • 2/4/22 – Gerda Kassing: Developments at the National Museum, Jakarta
  • 16/4/22 – Shaun Wellbourne-Wood: Indonesian student market to Australia and opportunities for Australian HEd
  • 7/5/22 – Nick Hughes: Mountain climbing in Indonesia
  • 21/5/22 – Denise Finney: Current Trends in English Language Teaching in Indonesia
  • 4/6/22 – David Reeve: The history of
  • 18/6/22 – Ian Burnet: Archipelago – a journey across Indonesia
  • 2/7/22 – Bill Sullivan: Mining in Indonesia
  • 16/7/22 – Annee Lawrence: Indonesians in Australia
  • 6/8/22 – Miriam Tulevski: Indonesian Tourism update
  • 20/8/22 – Justin Roocke: Australian military in Indonesia
  • 3/9/2022 – Russell Darnley: Indonesia – Living, learning, working, and writing
  • 17/9/22 – Russell Darnley: Living, learning, working and writing in Indonesia.
  • 1/10/22 – Max Richter: Riding the Megatropis – Life, Music and Work as a Jakarta Volunteer
  • 15/10/2022 – Natali: Indonesia’s ship salvaging policies
  • 5/11/2022 – Tjandra Kerton: talk on the art work of her late father, Sudjana Kerton, one of Indonesia’s master painters. She will also describe the current art scene in Indonesia, as well as touch upon the fake painting market
  • 19/11/22 – John McBeth: Journalism and Indonesia. John is an author and journalist spending many years in South East Asia including being the Far Eastern Economic Review bureau chief in Jakarta in the 1990’s.
2021
  • 6/2/21 – Ian Burnet: Duyfken
  • 20/2/21 – Robbie Gaspar: Sport, diplomacy & business
  • 6/3/21 – Chris Barnes: Surabaya
  • 20/3/21 – Campbell Bridge: Culture and Photography in Indonesia
  • 3/4/21 – David Reeve: “The diasporic imagination in recent Indonesian films and novels set overseas”
  • 17/4/21 – Miriam Tulevski: Travel and Tourism
  • 1/5/21 – Jeffrey Mellefont: Sea Stories from the Archipelago
  • 5/6/21 – Herald van der Linde: Jakarta Misunderstood
  • 19/6/21 – Kevin Evans: The evolution of Indonesia’s democratic system
  • 13/7/21 – Marilyn Ardipraja: ANZA and C4 – for foreign women married to Indonesians
  • 17/7/21 – Scott Merrillees: FACES OF INDONESIA: 500 Postcards 1900-1945
  • 24/7/21 – Dr Pandu Riono: Update on the covid situation in Indonesia
  • 7/8/21 – Ron Witton: My 60 years of Indonesia: Its land, its language and its history
  • 21/8/21 – Willi Toisuta: The Salatiga Language program
  • 4/9/21 – Adrian Vickers: Australia in the Indonesian Press, 1945–1964
  • 19/9/21 – Kelli Swazey: Indonesian tourism and religious/cultural identity
  • 2/10/21 – Sven Verbeek Wolthuys: “Jakarta: Menteng’s metamorphosis (part 2)”
  • 16/10/21 – Ian Burnet: speaking on his new book – Joseph Conrad’s Eastern Voyages. Tales of Singapore and an East Kalimantan River.
  • 6/11/21 – Indra Rudiansyah: Indonesian PhD student speaking on his involvement in research and development of the Astra Zeneca vaccine
  • 20/11/21 – Paul Thomas: Lost Sacrifice: An Indonesian in Australia’s War
  • 4/12/21 – Margaret Kartomi: Performing and visual arts of Indonesia’s province of Lampung
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