MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
Council on Southeast Asia Studies

RELIGION AND PUBLIC POLICY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

March 10, 2017, Yale University

This symposium convened to explore how religions influence public policy in Southeast Asia that affects women and religious minorities.  The symposium presented the findings of a 9 country research project funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and led by the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS).  ICRS is a consortium of secular, Muslim and Christian Universities, based at Gadjah Mada University.  The research involved leading universities in Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore and the USA. 
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PANELISTS

From the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS) at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia:

Dr. Siti Syamsiyatun
Director of ICRS, Islam and Gender, Women and Muhammadiyah

Dr. Jeanny Dhewayani
Associate Director of ICRS, Anthropologist, Religion and Popular Culture in Indonesia

Dr. Dicky Sofjan
ICRS doctoral faculty, Project Director on Religions and Public Policy in Southeast Asia, Islam and politics

Dr. Leonard Epafra
ICRS doctoral faculty, History of Abrahamic religions, Religion and the Internet

Dr. Bernard Adeney-Risakotta
International Representative of ICRS, Religion, Culture and Politics in Indonesia

 

RESPONDANTS

Faizah Zakaria
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Yale University

Kate Ott
Assistant Professor of Social Ethics, Drew Theological School; Lecturer in Practical Theology, Yale Divinity School; Co-editor, Feminist Studies in Religion

Heidi Hadsell
President of Hartford Seminary and Professor of Social Ethics

MODERATORS

Dinny Aletheiani
Lector, Indonesian Language Studies, Yale University

Michael R. Dove
Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Professor of Anthropology; Curator of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Yale University

Indriyo Sukmono
Senior Lector, Indonesian Language Studies, Yale University