ANU Professor James J. Fox to give talk at Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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- ANU Professor James J. Fox to give talk at Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 2012-07-03T12:00:00+02:00
- 2012-07-03T14:00:00+02:00
- Wann 03.07.2012 von 12:00 bis 14:00
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When: July 3, 2012, 12:00h
Where: Room 117, Invalidenstraße 118
Title: "The Idea of Ziarah and the current Sufi Revival on Java"
Bio: Professor James J. Fox is currently Emeritus Professor in the Resource
Management in Asia Pacific Program in the College of Asia and the Pacific at
the Australian National University.
He was educated at Harvard (AB ’62) and Oxford (B Litt.’65, DPhil. ’68). His
first appointment at the ANU was as Professorial Fellow in 1975. He has
served as Director of the Research School from August 1998 to February 2006.
Professor Fox has taught at various American Universities: Harvard, Cornell,
Duke and Chicago and at various European Universities: Leiden, Bielefeld and
the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is a Foreign
Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Academy of
the Social Sciences in Australia.
Professor Fox’s publications include the following books: Harvest of the
Palm: Ecological Change in Eastern Indonesia; The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern
Indonesia; To Speak in Pairs: Essays on the Ritual Languages of Eastern
Indonesia; Inside Austronesian Houses: Perspectives on Domestic Designs for
Living; Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian
Ethnography; The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on
Austronesian Ideas of Locality; The Heritage Encyclopedia of Religion and
Ritual in Indonesia and with Dionisio Babo-Soares, Out of the Ashes:
Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor, and with Helder da Costa, Colin
Piggin and Cesar J. da Cruz: Agriculture: New Directions for a New Nation,
East Timor (Timor-Leste).
Professor Fox has had a long-standing interest in tomb pilgrimage – ziarah –
on Java.
Some of his publications on this topic are the following.
1991: ‘Ziarah Visits to the Tombs of the Wali, The Founders of Islam on Java’
in Ricklefs, M.C. (ed), Islam in the Indonesian Social Context, pp.19-38.
Clayton, Vic: Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University.
1997: ‘Sunan Kalijaga and the Rise of Mataram: A Reading of the Babad Tanah
Jawi as a Genealogical Narrative’ in Riddell P. and Street, A. (eds), Islam:
Essays on Scripture, Thought& Society: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor
Anthony Johns, pp. 187-218. Leiden: Brill.
1998: ‘Wali: The first preachers of Islam in Java’ in J.J. Fox (ed), Religion
and Ritual. Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia, Vol.9:18-19. Singapore:
Archipelago Press.
2002: ‘Interpreting the Significance of Tombs and Chronicles in Contemporary
Java’ in Reid, A. and Chambert-Loir, H., The Potent Dead: Ancestors, Saints
and Heroes in Contemporary Indonesia, pp. 160- 172. Sydney: Allen& Unwin.