This symposium explores how religions influence public policy in Southeast Asia that affects women and religious minorities.  The symposium presents 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.

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

James C. Scott Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University

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

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