[ANU Pacific.Institute] Invitation: Thurs 29 Sept - The Inaugural Tony and Yohanni Johns Lecture

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ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
The inaugural Tony and Yohanni Johns Lecture
RESTORING RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL COMPLEXITY TO THE STUDY OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN ISLAM.

Date: Thursday 29 September 2022
Time: 4.30pm reception for 5-6pm lecture
Venue: Molonglo Theatre, Level 2, J.G. Crawford Building #132, Lennox Crossing, ANU, Acton ACT 2601
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Professor Helen Sullivan, Dean, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific warmly invites you to attend the Inaugural Tony and Yohanni Johns Lecture.

The lecture will be presented by Emeritus Professor Greg Fealy, Department of Political and Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific.


In recent decades, scholarship on Southeast Asian Islam – as with Islam elsewhere – has become dominated by the fields of politics, international relations or security studies. These studies often characterise faith as something delineated, measurable and susceptible to state-directed change. Much of these analyses overlook the subtle variations in Islamic life, and the disjunctions between formal orthodoxy and everyday religious experience. How Muslims comprehend and express their faith ranges widely, crosses typological boundaries, and confounds many of the accepted categories applied to Islam.

Our speaker Greg Fealy is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Political and Social Change. He specialises in the study of Islamic politics and history, primarily in Indonesia, but also other Muslim-majority regions in Southeast Asia.

This is an in-person only event.
Registration is essential as seating is strictly limited.

Tony and Yohanni Johns
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Tony and Yohanni’s time at ANU as academics began in 1963, when Tony Johns became the inaugural professor of Indonesian languages and literature at the University.

During their extensive time in Canberra and at ANU, Yohanni would become a critical figure in Indonesian teaching at the University and in Australia, producing a series of seminal Indonesian language textbooks.

Professor Tony Johns is a towering figure in the scholarship on Southeast Asian Islam. Throughout his long career as a researcher and teacher at ANU, he emphasised the need for high linguistic competence, the close study of primary texts and history, and an intimate knowledge of the religious life of communities in the region.

The Tony and Yohanni Johns Annual Lecture Series

Hosted by the ANU Indonesia Institute and the ANU Malaysia Institute, this annual lecture series honours both Tony and Yohanni's enduring legacy at ANU, focussing on humanities studies across Nusantara and the Malay and Islamic worlds, as well as the examination of Austronesian identity.

It is also hoped that this lecture series will help advance the cause of understanding of Southeast Asian in Australia, as well as celebrating two giants of the field who have contributed so much to contemporary knowledge of the region.
The Johns Endowment
This lecture series is made possible by the generosity of Emeritus Professor Anthony Reid, as well as friends and family of Tony and Yohanni Johns, who have contributed to the newly established Johns Endowment.

The purpose of the Endowment is to recognise and celebrate the pioneering contribution of Tony & Yohanni Johns to the study and teaching of Indonesian, Nusantara and Islamic humanities at ANU.

The Endowment will support the creation of the annual lecture series which will focus on the humanities, broadly defined as literature, language, religion, ideas, history, prehistory, linguistics, music, the arts, and socio-cultural phenomena. Its geographical scope will extend beyond Indonesia to embrace Nusantara or the ‘Malay World’, Islam ‘below the winds’ and Austronesian identity.

If you would like to contribute by making a gift to the Johns Endowment please contact Brooke Disney, Head of Advancement for the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific.
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