Hefner’s Week as Visiting Professor & International Research Fellow at UIN Jakarta
Over the 2025 Thanksgiving break, Robert Hefner, Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at the Pardee School, was invited by Indonesia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs to be a Visiting Professor and International Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Jakarta, Indonesia (UIN Jakarta). With…
Hefner Comments on Islam in Indonesia
On September 4, 2023, Robert Hefner, Professor of Anthropology and of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the School’s Center for the Study of Asia, was interviewed by Dr. Muqtedar Khan on his show, Khanversations with Prof. Muqtedar Khan, on the nature of Islam in Indonesian government and society. In the…
Hefner Authors New Journal Articles
In June, 2023, Robert Hefner, Professor of Anthropology and of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the School’s Center for the Study of Asia, authored two new academic articles. Hefner first published a chapter in the Cambridge Handbook of the Anthropology of Ethics and Morality, entitled “Capitalism and Ethical Plurality.”…
Hefner Keynotes International Conference
On August 3, 2023, Robert Hefner, Professor of Anthropology and of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the School’s Center for the Study of Asia, was invited to give a keynote presentation by the Executive Director of Nahdlatul Ulama, KH Yahya Cholil Staquf. Nahdlatul Ulama is the world’s largest Muslim…
Robert Hefner Concludes Film in Indonesia
Professor Robert Hefner traveled to Yogyakarta, in Java, Indonesia, from May 10 to May 21. Professor Hefner was putting the final touches on his three-year documentary film project, “Indonesian Pluralities: Social Resources for Citizen Belonging in Contemporary Indonesia.” The project was funded by the Henry Luce Foundation in New York and co-produced with Zainal Abidin…
Hefner Publishes Review in LA Review of Books
Prof. Robert Hefner reviewed Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017) by Irfan Ahmad.