Menchik Co-Launches Indonesia Social Science Seminar Series
Jeremy Menchik, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, co-launched the Indonesia Social Science Seminar Series (IS4), a virtual seminar series bringing together social science experts from across the globe to discuss pressing issues facing Indonesia. In addition to providing in-depth scholarly analysis of social issues in Indonesia, this series will foster new opportunities for networking between those working in Indonesia.
The organizing committee is comprised of Samuel Bazzi (UCSD), Ward Berenschot (KITLV), Najib Burhani (LIPI), Michele Ford (Sydney), David Kloos (KITLV), Amelia Liwe (UPH), Menchik, Tom Pepinsky (Cornell), and Jessica Soedirgo (Amsterdam).
The seminar will meet in the last week of each month on Zoom. The first event – titled “The Political Language of Islamic Populism” – will be lead by Professor Vedi Hadiz and Dr Inaya Rakhmani in conversation with BU’s own Professor Nancy-Smith Hefner as they unpack the complex structure of Islamic populism in Indonesia. The conversation will be moderated by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre’s Professor Michele Ford and will take please Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 8 p.m. (ET). Registration is available online.
To learn more about the IS4 or sign up any of the webinars, visit the webpage or Facebook page for the IS4 series.
Jeremy Menchik is Associate Professor in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and faculty affiliate in Political Science and Religious Studies. His first book, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance without Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2016) explains the meaning of tolerance to the world’s largest Islamic organizations and was the co-winner of the 2017 International Studies Association award for the best book on religion and international relations. His work has appeared in the academic journals Comparative Studies in Society and History, Comparative Politics, International Studies Review, Politics and Religion, Asian Studies Review and South East Asia Research as well as in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. His recent research focuses on social movements, the politics of modern religious authority, and the origins of the missionary impulse. Read more about Professor Menchik on his faculty profile.