All events are free and open to the public, but space will be limited.
A block of hotel rooms at the Holiday Inn University Center in Oakland have been made available for conference attendees on a first-come first-serve basis at the special conference rate of $114.00 per night plus tax for reserverations made through September 18, 2008. Individuals must contact the hotel on their own by phone (412-681-4737) and ask for the special rate under the group name 'Pitt - Asian Studies Center.' UPDATE: The Holiday Inn is now sold out. For reservations at nearby hotels, please try these alternative hotels located near the conference site: Wyndham Pittsburgh University Place; Hampton Inn Oakland University Place; Residence Inn Pittsburgh University/Medical Center.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
All conference events are free and open to the public, but space will be limited
Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia
Friday, Saturday, Sunday – 10, 11, 12 October 2008
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Melwood Screening Room - 477 Melwood Ave., North Oakland
Tel. 412.682.4111 OR 412.681.5449
2:30 PM - WELCOME
- Andrew Weintraub, Conference Organizer – Associate Professor of Music
- N. John Cooper, Academic Dean – School of Arts and Sciences
- Larry Feick, Director – University Center for International Studies
3:00 PM - SESSION 1: Islam, Popular Culture & Southeast Asian Studies
- Moderator: Tony Day, Independent Scholar
- Ariel Heryanto, Senior Lecturer & Convener of the Indonesian Program at Asia Institute,
The University of Melbourne - Shamsul A.B., Professor of Social Anthropology & Director, Institute of the Malay World & Civilization (ATMA) & the Institute of Occidental Studies (IKON), National University of Malaysia
5:30 PM - RECEPTION & BUFFET DINNER FOR PRESENTERS
The Panther Room – Holiday Inn University Center
7:30 PM - FILM SHOWING: Gubra, directed by Yasmin Ahmad
Melwood Screening Room – 477 Melwood Ave., North Oakland
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Martin Colloquium Conference Room - 4127 Sennott Square, 210 S. Bouquet St.
Speaker Tel.: 412.624.2159
8:00 AM - Coffee and Refreshments
8:30 AM - INTRODUCTIONS
- Andrew Weintraub, Conference Organizer – Associate Professor of Music
- Siddharth Chandra, Director, Asian Studies Center – Associate Professor of Public & International Affairs
9:00 – 10:15 AM - SESSION 2: Media Industries and Islam in Indonesia
Moderator: Drew McDaniel, Professor of Media Arts & Studies and Interim Director of the Center for International Studies, Ohio University
- “Negotiating Mass Media Interests & Heterogeneous Muslim Audiences in the Contemporary Social-Political Environment of Indonesia”
Ishadi S.K., Director & President, TransTV, Indonesia - “Music, Islam, & the Commercial Media in Contemporary Indonesia”
R. Anderson Sutton, Professor of Music, University of Wisconsin – Madison
10:15 AM - Break
10:30 – 11:45 AM - SESSION 3: Women, Gender and Sexuality I
Moderator: Sarah Weiss, Assistant Professor of Music, Yale University
- “Taking Liberties: Independent Filmmakers Representing the tudung in Malaysia”
Gaik Cheng Khoo, Senior Lecturer in Gender, Sexuality & Culture, The Australian National University - “Sex Sells, or Does It?” Discourses of Sex and Sexuality in Popular Women’s Magazines in Contemporary Indonesia”
Sarah Krier, PhD candidate in Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM- Lunch
Lunch for participants in 4127 Sennott Square, catered by Spice Island Tea House
1:15 – 2:30 PM - SESSION 4: Islam and the Internet in Indonesia
Moderator: Richard Scaglion, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
- “Islam and Pop-Politics in the Indonesian Blogosphere”
Merlyna Lim, Assistant Professor of the Consortium of Science, Policy & Outcomes, School of Justice & Social Inquiry, Arizona State University - “The Powers and Limits of Cyberspace: Indonesian Progressive Islam Networks”
Muhamad Ali, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of California – Riverside
2:30 – 2:45 PM - Break
2:45 – 4:00 PM - SESSION 5: Southeast Asia in the World of Islam
Moderator: TBA
- “Arab Aesthetics and Musical Modernity in Indonesian Islamic Popular Culture”
Birgit Berg, Voice of America (DC) - “Cinema, Islam and Nationhood in Muslim Asia: Focus on Bangladeshi and Malaysian Film Cultures”
Zakir Hossain Raju, Senior Lecturer of Communication & Cultural Studies, Monash University, Sunway campus – Malaysia
4:00 – 5:30 PM - Break
5:30 – 7:30 PM - DINNER FOR PARTICIPANTS
Ali Baba Restaurant - 404 So. Craig St. - Tel. 412.682.2829
8:00 PM - MUSIC CONCERT
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
315 South Bellefield Ave.
Islam Meets Rock in Indonesia: Rhoma Irama and Soneta, with the Dangdut Cowboys
Admission free at the door
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Martin Colloquium Conference Room - 4127 Sennott Square, 210 S. Bouquet St.
Speaker Tel.: 412.624.2159
8:00 AM - Coffee and Refreshments
8:30 – 10:00 AM - SESSION 6: Gender and Sexuality II
Moderator: Nicole Constable, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
- “Holy Matrimony? Polygamy in Indonesian Popular Culture”
Suzanne Brenner, Professor of Anthropology, University of California – San Diego - “Sexing Islam: Religion and Contemporary Malaysian Cinema”
Noritah Omar, Senior Lecturer in English, Universiti Putra, Malaysia (Selangor)
10:00 - 10:15 AM - Break
10:15 – 11:45 AM - SESSION 7: Popular Music, Masculinity, and Islam in Southeast Asia
Moderator: Andrew Weintraub
- “Preaching, Pop and Politics: Nasyid Boy Band Music in Muslim Southeast Asia”
Bart Barendregt, Lecturer, Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, Leiden University - “Music, Media, Da’wah: A Conversation with Rhoma Irama”
Rhoma Irama, Musician and Composer
Andrew Weintraub, Associate Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh
12:00 - 1:30 PM - LUNCH AND DISCUSSION OF OUTCOMES
Lunch for participants in 4127 Sennott Square, catered by Indonesian Students’ Association
Sponsored by: School of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Provost, University Center for International Studies, Global Studies Program, Asian Studies Center, Indo-Pacific Council, Department of Music, Women's Studies Program, Department of Anthropology, Film Studies Program, Department of English, Cultural Studies Program, Consortium for Education Resources on Islamic Studies (CERIS), and Ohio University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Silkscreen Festival, and Falcon Interactive (Indonesia).