3-10 July 1995
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL BALI STUDIES WORKSHOP

BALI IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS,
NATIONAL IDENTITY, AND LOCAL CONNECTIONS

A Five-day interdisciplinary workshop that will bring together
scholars of Balinese society from the social sciences and the
humanities will take place in Sydney in july, 1995. The
workshop will focus on key issues confronting Balinese society
in the late twentieth century including the politics of Bali's
participation in the Indonesian nation, the commodification of
culture, and the ecological and economic pressures associated
with the various forms of development which are currently
unfolding on the island.
Continuing the tradition of the First and Second International
Bali Studies Workshops held at Leiden University, the
Netherlands, in 1986, and Princeton University, USA, in 1991
respectively, the aims of the workshop will be:

1. to foster interdisciplinary and international dialogue
between scholars of Balinese society and culture.
2. to consolidate and advance social science and humanities
research on Bali.


The workshop will be of five days duration. Four days will be
devoted to discussion of papers. An extra day will be
allocated to informal discussion and other activities. It will
also provide an opportunity to visit two important exhibitions
which will coincide with the workshop: 'Pictures of Power', an
exhibition of 1930s paintings from Batuan curated by Professor
Hildred Geertz; and an exhibition of Balinese art curated by
Robyn Maxwell from the National Gallery of Australia.
Approximately 20 papers will be invited, and they will be
pre-circulated to participants. In other words, the workshop
will be geared towards scholarly discussion of pre-read papers
rather than presentation of papers.
Some suggested panels are: Art and Commodification; Ecology
and Tourism; Bali in the Indonesian State; Cultural Revivals
and Extinctions; Economics of Everyday life; Marketing in
Bali; Migrations; Hierarchy; Women.
It is planned to make a selection of the papers for
publication after the workshop.