• October 28^th, 2017
• GOH BENG LAN (National University of Singapore (NUS))

Abstrack:

With the collapse of art into mass culture, recent academic debates have tried to recover the critical efficacy of art via the broader concept of aesthetics. Spurred by the thinking of French philosophers such as Adam Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, there-theorization of aesthetics has revived hope in the revolutionary potential of art. Among other things it has given rise toglobally oriented discourses on art and the creation of a democratic future. Yet a sophisticated return to a universalism of thought and action can be detected in these recent analytical procedures. The arising question here is whether the universality of human emancipation has onlyto be understood in teleological, singular, or transcendental terms? read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• SUNYOTO USMAN (Gadjah Mada University)

Abstrack:

The topic that I would like to talk to you is gated community, space and social inequality. For me the topic is very important and relevant to be explored in discussing the urban culture and society, particularly it is indicated that the gated community has produced many kinds of social problem in city life. It seems that the problems become more complex, and some people feel that the gated community gradually is destroying urban culture. I would like to focus my discussion in the impact of gated community on space domination and environmental conflict. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• ARDIANI IKA S (Economic Faculty of Semarang University)

Abstrack:

In Indonesia today there is a shortage of the number of public accountants. Based on data from IAPI (Institute of Public Accountants Indonesia) as at 25 March 2008, a public accountant (Holders of practice in Indonesia is 877 people aged 26-40 years with a composition of as many as 106 people (12%), aged 41-50 years as many as 229 people (26 %), aged 51-60 years as many as 257 people (29%), aged 61-70 years as many as 243 people (28%), aged 71-80 years as many as 37 people (4%) and aged 81-90 years by 5 people (1%). read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• GEORGE MARTIN SIRAIT (Dept. of Indonesian Studies University of Sydney Faculty of Business Administration Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta)

Abstrack:

The existence of modern retailing in Indonesia can be traced back to the 1970s when retailers served mostly upper class consumers and expatriates in urban areas.1 Among those are Hero, KemChick, Gelael, Ramayana and Matahari which were owned by locals. While Matahari and Ramayana focused on fashion retailing, the rest involved in food business. Some foreign indirect investment, such as Circle-K and 7Eleven, had been also in place during the 1980s through franchising arrangement. Foreign direct investment commenced entering market of this fourth most populous country in the world in the next decade. read more