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Indonesia: Balinese Arts and Social Change

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Ni Wayan Pasek Aryati, Academic Director

Ni Wayan Pasek Aryati is a PhD candidate at Charles Darwin University of Darwin, Australia. Aryati comes from a small rice-farming community in the Tabanan region of Bali and is still deeply involved in the social and religious life of her native town.  She completed her BA in English Literature and Linguistics at Udayana University in Denpasar in 1988, and joined the Indonesian language teaching staff of the Bali, Indonesia Program of SIT in 1991. She was appointed coordinator of that program in 1992 and served in that capacity until 1997, when she and her family shifted to Darwin, Australia. 

In Darwin she worked as an instructor in Indonesian language before returning to the SIT Program in Bali in 1999. In 2000-2001, she was one of the Academic Directors for that program, and subsequently took up posts with SIT in Western Samoa and North India. Her experiences in North India kindled her desire to make a comparative study of female images in the Hinduism of India and Bali. This led to her begin a graduate program in History and Comparative Religion at Charles Darwin University (CDU) in 2002.

Thomas Hunter, Academic Director

Thomas Hunter received his MA and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan, and his BA in Indian Civilizations at the University of California, Berkeley. Tom first served as Academic Director for SIT Study Abroad Bali from 1989 to 1996, then again from 2000-2001, and in the North India Arts and Culture program in 2002-2003. During this period he also carried out research and translation work supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Southeast Asia Regional Research Program (1992), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1996), Institute for Advanced Study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2003-4) and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute for Advanced Study of Berlin (2006-7). His current research interests are the literary history of Java and Bali during the age of the "Sanskrit cosmopolis" (c. 400-1500 CE), modern Indonesian literature during the nationalist and post-colonial periods, and linguistic anthropology of the Malay-Indonesian archipelago.