Internasional Seminar and Workshop
February 28, 2013

I
have worked at a number of universities in Australia and Indonesia
since 1974. I took up my current position at Parahyangan University in
2009, and at the Griffith Asia Institute the following year. My primary
fields of teaching and research expertise are in the modern history,
politics and economics of Indonesia, and Australia-Indonesia relations. I
am currently based at the Parahyangan University in Bandung.
• Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
–present • Professor, Dept of International Relations, Parahyangan
Catholic University, Bandung, Indonesia –present • University of
Queensland, PhD, 1975 • A Short History of Indonesia: The Unlikely
Nation?, Talisman, Singapore 2011 • Strategic
Re-Alignment or Deja Vu? Russia-Indonesia Defence Cooperation in the
Twenty First Century, Working Paper 411, Strategic and Defence Studies
Centre, Australian National University, Canberra 2008 • Sport and Nation
Building: The Indonesian National Games of 1951 and 1953, Bijdragen tot
de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 164, 4, pp 431-449 2008 • Playing the
Game: Ethnicity and Politics in Indonesian Badminton, Indonesia 2006 •
International Relations (160607) • Asian History (210302) Syed Farid
Alatas, a Malaysian national, is Head of the Department of Malay Studies
and Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of
Singapore. He lectured at the
University of Malaya in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies
prior to joining NUS. His areas of interest are historical sociology,
the sociology of social science, the sociology of religion and
inter-religious dialogue. Among his recent books is Alternative
Discourse in Asian Social Science: Responses to Eurocentrism (Sage,
2006). His book on the thought of Ibn Khaldun is forthcoming in 2012 by
Oxford University Press and I.B. Tauris. Another book on Ibn Khaldun’s
historical sociology is forthcoming by Routledge. Contact Office: AS1
03-12 Tel: 6516-3837 Email: socsfa@nus.edu.sg FASS profile page Recent
Publications Syed Farid Alatas (2011) “Ibn KhaldÅ«n”, in The
Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists: Classical Social
Theorists, Vol I, ed. Ritzer, George and Stepinsky, Jeffrey. Chichester,
West Sussex: Wiley & Sons, pp. 12-29. Syed, Farid Alatas (2010)
“Intellectual and Structural Challenges in to Academic Dependency”, in
Academic
Dependency in the Social Sciences: Structural Reality and
Intellectual Challenges, ed. Kajhinka, Sinha-Kerkhoff and Syed Farid
Alatas. Manohar, pp. 55-77. Syed Farid Alatas (2010) “Music and Worship
in Islam: Zafin Among the Arabs of Southeast Asia”, in Contributions to
Southeast Asian Economy and Society, ed. Syed Farid Alatas. Singapore:
National Library of Singapore, pp. 65-70. Syed Farid Alatas (2010)
“Religion and Reform: Two Exemplars for Autonomous Sociology in the
Non-western Context”, in The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological
Traditions. London, UK: SAGE Publications, pp. 29-40. Syed Farid Alatas
(2010) “The Call for Alternate Discourses in Asian Social Sciences”, in
World Social Science Report. Paris: UNESCO Publications, pp. 171-172 Dr.
Syed Farid ALATAS :: Head, Department of Malay Studies; Associate
Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts & Social
Sciences ::The Shaw Foundation Building (AS7), #04-21 :: 5 Arts Link ::
Singapore 117570 :: Republic of Singapore :: Tel: +65 6516 3707 (DID) ::
Fax: +65 6773 2980 :: E-mail:
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:: Website:
www.fas.nus.edu.sg/malay<http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/malay> Dr. Ir.
Suriptono (University of Merdeka Malang) Chairman : Prof. Dr. Nazief
Nirwanto, MA (University of Merdeka Malang) Venue : GEDUNG PUSAT
PERTEMUAN ILMIAH UNIVERSITY OF MERDEKA MALANG Saturday, March 30, 2013.
Contact Person: Prof. DR. Grahita Chandrarin, SE Ak., Msi email:
grahitac@yahoo.com, grahitac.unmer.ac.id