Organizer: London School of Economics (LSE) Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Center

Type/Location: Virtual

Description:

Join LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Center for a talk by Rianne Subijanto, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York. Her book, Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia, tells a story of the processes through which ordinary people mobilized an anticolonial communist resistance against Dutch rule through the production of revolutionary communication in the 1920s.

About the Speaker:

Rianne Subijanto is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York. She received a B.A. in English from Universitas Indonesia, an M.A. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, and a PhD in Communication and Graduate Certificate in Critical Theory from University of Colorado - Boulder. Her research interests include communication technology and infrastructures, social movements, social and environmental justice, and the history of colonialism and capitalism in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Her book, Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia (2025, Cornell University Press), tells a story of the processes through which ordinary people mobilized an anticolonial communist resistance against Dutch rule through the production of revolutionary communication in the 1920s.

Registration Link:

To attend the event virtually, please register here.