Global Asia Lecture Series: Papuan Lives Matter: Race and Justice in Indonesia and the Connections to the Global Black Community

Event description

  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Free
  • Open to the public

The Asia Center at ASU would like to invite you to join our fifth lecture in the Global Asia Lecture Series. As part of ASU's commitment to global engagement, sustainability and future-oriented knowledge and research, the Asia has organized a series of virtual lectures for the 2022–23 academic year on the theme of "Global Asia in a Multipolar World." This virtual lecture series highlights research from prominent scholars in an array of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and beyond, broadly centered on Inter-Asian networks and flows of ideas, peoples and texts across national and linguistic borders. 

This lecture will be provided by Chris Lundry, Professor-Investigador at El Colegio de Mexico. For more information. visit us at AsianStudies.asu.edu.

Synopsis

The Papuan Lives Matter movement emerged in 2020, a year after racist violence directed at West Papuans spread from East Java to other places in Indonesia. Through the use of social and traditional media, West Papuan activists are drawing attention to structural racism in Indonesia, and linking to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States and elsewhere - continuing a link to the African American community that dates to the early twentieth century. Long viewed as "primitive" or "savage," attributes assigned to them by outsiders, West Papuans are decrying these continuing stereotypes and creating new self-defining epistemologies.

Food will be provided to those who RSVP.

Event contact

Chan Lwin
4807270968
clwin@asu.edu
Date

Friday, January 20, 2023

Time

11:00 am12:00 pm (MST)

Location

Durham 240 + Zoom

Cost

Free