Professor Adrian Vickers

BA PhD, Appointed 2007
Professor of South East Asian Studies
Room 637, Brennan MacCallum Building A18

Phone: +61 2 9351 2878
Fax: +61 2 9351 2319

I have been carrying out research on Indonesia for almost thirty years, and in that period have observed the shifts in relations between Australia and Indonesia. My disciplinary background is mainly in history, anthropology and cultural studies. As well as the Indonesian language, my research has involved drawing on sources in Balinese, Kawi (Old and Middle Javanese), and Dutch.

• Indonesian history and historiography
• Indonesian art
• Panji stories in Southeast Asia
• Labour and globalisation in the Asia-Pacific
• Australian-Indonesian relations

• The politics of Indonesian history since the fall of Suharto
• Indonesian labour migration to northern Australia
• The clothing industry in the Asia-Pacific
• The history of Balinese painting

Books

• A History of Modern Indonesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2005
• Journeys of Desire: The Balinese Malat in Text and History. Leiden: KITLV (Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology) Series VKI 217, 2005
• Balinese Modern Art. Mementos, Diversions and Masterworks 1928-1942. Amsterdam/Singapore: The Pepin Press, still to appear

Articles

• “Everybody Needs Good Neighbours?”, in Good Neighbour, Bad Neighbour: Australia’s Relations with Indonesia. Papers from the Uniya Seminar Series 2006, pp. 18-29, Kings Cross: Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre
• “Balinese Art and the Struggle to be Modern”, TAASA Review vol. 15, no. 4 (December 2006): 8-9.
• and Leo Haks “Ida Bagus Nyoman Rai: Painter of History”, IIAS Newsletter 41 (Summer 2006): 14
• and Kate McGregor, “Public Debates about History: Comparative Notes from Indonesia”, History Australia vol. 2, no. 2 (2005)
• “The Country and the Cities.” Journal of Contemporary Asia vol 34, no 3 (April 2004): 304-317. Republished in Labour Migration in Asia, ed. Kevin Hewison and Ken Young, Routledge/Curzon, London, 2006, pp. 37-54
• and Linda Connor, “Crisis, citizenship and cosmopolitanism: living in a local and global risk society in Bali.” Indonesia 75 (April 2003): 153-180
• “Being Modern in Bali after Suharto. ” in Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali, ed. Thomas Reuter, pp. 17-29. London: Curzon/Routledge, 2003
• “Bali Merdeka? Internal Migration, Tourism and Hindu Revivalism.” in Beyond Jakarta: Regional Autonomy and Local Societies in Indonesia, ed. Minako Sakai, pp. 80-101. Adelaide: Crawfurd, 2002
• “The New Order: Keeping Up Appearances.” in Indonesia Today Challenges of History, ed. Grayson Lloyd and Shannon Smith, pp. 72-84. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2001

For a full list of publications by Professor Vickers, please click here.

Teaching

• Indonesian history, culture and society
• Southeast Asian history
• Empires and states

Supervision

• Australia and Indonesia
• Indonesian art and culture
• Indonesian history and politics
• Southeast Asian history
• Colonial history

• Convenor, 16th Biennial conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, University of Wollongong 26-29 June, 2006, Proceedings available as: Adrian Vickers and Margaret Hanlon, Asia Reconstructed: Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 2006, Wollongong, Australia. Canberra: Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Inc. & Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University (ISBN: 978-0-9580837-3-7)

• Public lectures on Indonesia
• Media interviews in Australia and Indonesia
• Consultancies to business on social impacts of development in Southeast Asia
• Consultancies to the media and public galleries and museums on Indonesian culture and art.