[Asia_news] Seminar Reminder: Restructuring Sulawesi: Factionalism and Unity in the Drive for Development [Monday 9 October]

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Dear all,

Asia Pacific Seminar Series (APSS) at UNSW at ADFA will be held on Mondays at
12:10-13:00 in Room SL1 (upstairs), Building 21 at UNSW at ADFA, Northcott
Drive, Canberra. Map/Venue: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/images/adfamap.pdf

9 October 2006
Restructuring Sulawesi: Factionalism and Unity in the Drive for Development
By Dr Elizabeth Morrell
Director of Studies, Flinders Asia Centre, Flinders University

Abstract
This paper explores some of the key geo-political movements which are
occurring as people seek new economic and political advantages in
Indonesia's transition. In Sulawesi, the realignment of local government and
province boundaries has simultaneously generated new partnerships and
competing interests. Some of this activity attempts to bypass the capitals
of Makassar and Manado as centres of power. At the same time, planners in
each of those cities are endeavouring to bypass Jakarta and establish their
respective regions as the driving force of eastern Indonesian development.

***Next Seminars***

16 October 2006
Emblematic Lives of Cosmopolitan Pluralists: Sketching the Social Context of
Indonesia's Sufi Revival By Associate Professor Julia Howell, Associate
Professor, Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith
University

23 October 2006
Language Shift and Language Choice in a Chinese-Indonesian Family By
Francisca Handoko, PhD candidate, RSPAS, Australian National University

30 October 2006
Literary Links: Australia and the Asia-Pacific By Professor Bruce Bennett
Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW at ADFA

For the abstracts of the seminars please visit our website:
http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/hass/APSS/Apss.html

Suggestions: 
The Asia-Pacific Seminar convenors welcome suggestions for seminar speakers
and topics. Please contact 2006 convenors:
Minako Sakai (m.sakai at adfa.edu.au), Glenn Banks (glenn.banks at adfa.edu.au),
Paul Tickell (p.tickell at adfa.edu.au)

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