The 2025 Sadli Lecture will be held on Wednesday 7 May 2025. 'Colonial legacies and postcolonial agendas: How does the Indonesian gender order move into a postcolonial future to address climate change?'
Announcing Professor Ann R Tickamyer as a speaker
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Date: 7 May 2025
Time: 8:30-13:30 WIB / 11:30-16:30 AEST
Venue: Rinjani 1 Room, Novotel Jakarta Cikini, Jalan Cikini Raya number 107-109, Jakarta and online via zoom
Event description
The ANU Indonesia Project, LPEM FEB Universitas Indonesia, and KONEKSI invite you to the 19th Sadli Lecture, to be held on Wednesday, 7 May 2025 in Jakarta. In a special continuation of our gender-focused dialogue and supported by KONEKSI, this marks the 2nd Sadli Lecture in the Gender Series, held in honour of Professor Saparinah Sadli. Traditionally focused on Indonesia’s economic challenges, the Sadli Lecture now embraces broader interdisciplinary themes, highlighting the intersections of gender in the Indonesian context. This year’s lecture, titled ‘Colonial legacies and postcolonial agendas: How does the Indonesian gender order move into a postcolonial future to address climate change?’, will be delivered by Professor Ann R. Tickamyer, Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography at Penn State University. As in previous years, a commissioned paper will be published in the August edition of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES).
Following the Sadli Lecture, a symposium on Social Inequality, Communities and Climate Change will be held to deepen the discussion on this important intersection. The symposium provides a platform for KONEKSI grantees whose research focuses on the gender-related aspects of climate change. Each invited grantee team will share their findings from their KONEKSI-funded projects and engage in discussions with leading experts from academia, policy, and civil society. The goal is to improve the quality and policy relevance of the research through expert feedback and peer exchange. This event is a part of broader series of events aimed at fostering collaborative learning and supporting inclusive, evidence-based responses to climate challenges in Indonesia.
The detailed program will be updated soon. Stay tuned.
Abstract
In Indonesia, as in much of the world, women and girls remain disadvantaged in the household, community, and society. At the same time there is great variability of gender roles and relations across the Republic that make it an outstanding testing ground for the impact of gender on disaster risk and resilience. Our research over the past several decades has been to investigate these relationships, empirically and theoretically. We apply a riskscape model to examine the spatial, temporal, and most significantly, social relations entailed in disaster risk, recovery, and resilience. In this paper we start by exploring some of the ways that colonial legacies have structured the exploitation of both gender and the environment and whether and how it is possible to find a postcolonial agenda with hope for a better future for both. We examine the lessons to be learned from studying disaster response and recovery in Indonesia and elsewhere as keys to managing climate change. Finally we propose the use of a riskscape model of disaster and climate change as means to plan and manage both with the ultimate goal of finding transformative resilience.
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Event Speakers
Professor Ann R Tickamyer
Ann R. Tickamyer, is Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography with affiliations in Sociology and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. Her scholarship focuses on rural poverty and livelihoods, gender and development, disaster, and climate change, and social welfare policy in the United States and Southeast Asia.