Lecture
Karo Women in Time of Revolution
On 23 June, 1995, the Collaborative Research programme on Cultural Traditions of
Endangered Minorities in South and Southeast Asia sponsored a lecture by Professor
Mary Margaret Steedly of Harvard University. The lecture was entitled "Gender in a Time
of Revolution: placing Karo women in the struggle for Indonesian independence, 1945-50"
and was held in the Nonnensteeg, Leiden. Professor Steedly has worked among the Karo
Batak of Sumatra and discussed the problems one faced (both theoretical and methodological)
in trying to recover the history of women's experience in war, given the usual lack of
documentation of such experience.
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