Asia Update: Criminalization of Sexuality in Indonesia + Timor-Leste: Successes and challenges in building a new nation
- When:
- March 22, 2018
- Time:
- 03:00 PM - 04:15 PM
- Category:
- Community event
- Location:
- Sedgewick C168
- Details:
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Please join us for our latest CAPI Asia Update, an informal discussion on current events in the region led by experts in the field.
Timor-Leste: Successes and challenges in building a new nation
Kathryn Robertson is a graduate of Social Work at UVic. She has been working on Timor-Leste since 1999 and the beginning of the process for Restoration of Independence. Kathryn lived and worked in Timor-Leste and Indonesia from 2001 and has recently returned to Victoria. She has been close up to key moments in the new nation’s history including the establishment of the constitution, setting up diplomatic relations with Indonesia the former Occupier, development of laws on gender based violence and land rights, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and evolution of key civil society organizations.
Criminalization of Sexuality in Indonesia
Alex Lloyd is a Master’s student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria. She will be working as a research assistant with Dr. Leslie Butt and Dr. Lisa Mitchell on their project Southeast Asian women, Migration and Family in the Global Era. her graduate research will look at the impacts of transnational mobility on the sexual subjectivities of an increasingly itinerant generation of young Southeast Asian women studying abroad in Australia.
- Contact:
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Jonathan Woods
commcapi@uvic.ca