Tulisan ini adalah liputan konferensi pascasarjana tahunan ke-15 kajian Asia Tenggara yang diselenggarakan di Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, pada 1-3 Maret 2013. Saya masih hutang satu lagi tulisan lain mengenai perjalanan saya secara keseluruhan. Tapi yah, silakan baca ini dulu. Penyelenggaraan konferensi dikelola oleh mahasiswa-mahasiwa pascasarjana, …

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I’m enjoying Digital_Humanities, by Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp (MIT Press, 2012). It has been very helpful in providing a thorough, comprehensive introduction to Digital Humanities, considering the diverse, patchwork nature of this emerging field. It elaborates on its histories, methodologies, giving us case studies, social life and a short guide. An …

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This is an interesting talk by Ben Anderson delivered for the 9th Golay Lecture in Cornell, about libraries and archives in Southeast Asia, with many points particularly addressed to Indonesia.

Last October, I wrote a short article titled “Open Access in Indonesia?” for the Networked Researcher Open Access Week 2012 Blogging Unconference. My article was borne out of my unawareness and perplexity, since back then, although we could find Indonesian journals listed under DOAJ, and many green standard self-archiving initiatives, I could not find any …

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Terjemahan dari tulisan Jennifer Howard, “Secret Lives of Readers,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 Desember 2012:  http://chronicle.com/article/Secret-Reading-Lives-Revealed/136261/ Buku mengungkap diri mereka sendiri. Apakah mereka hadir dalam bentuk cetak ataupun pixel, buku dapat dibaca dan diperiksa dan diungkap rahasianya. Pembaca, sebaliknya, jauh lebih sukar dipahami. Mereka meninggalkan jejak—catatan di pinggir halaman, noda pada jilidan—tapi petunjuk-petunjuk penanganan buku itu …

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“Something’s missing that once was essential to me and is so no longer. I don’t need it anymore, as though I had lost a third leg that until then kept me from walking but made me a stable tripod. It’s that third leg that’s now missing. And I’ve gone back to being someone I never …

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Tulisan ini saya buat untuk tugas kuliah. Semoga berguna. Pada tanggal 28 Oktober 2012, Perdana Menteri Australia Julia Gillard meluncurkan buku putih (white paper) Australia in the Asian Century, yakni sebuah “peta perjalanan untuk memandu Australia menjadi negara yang lebih maju dan berkembang, sebagai bagian dari daerah [Asia Pasifik] yang terbuka pada dunia,” sebagaimana dituliskan …

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