Andries Teeuw, better known as A. Teeuw in scholarly circles and Hans Teeuw to his friends, was a Dutch critic of Indonesian literature. Teeuw conducted a field study of Indonesian literature in Yogyakarta between 1945 and 1947. While in Yogyakarta, he worked on translating the Bhomakhawya, … [Read more...]
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Ben Anderson
Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 – December 13, 2015) was a political scientist andhistorian, best known for his 1983 book Imagined Communities, which explored the origins of nationalism. Anderson was the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government … [Read more...]
Burton Raffel
Burton Nathan Raffel was an American translator, a poet and a teacher. He is best known for his translation of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, as well as classic poetry like Beowulf, poems byHorace, or Gargantua and Pantagruel. ((Wikipedia)) Burton Raffel spent two years in Indonesia in the … [Read more...]
David Reeve
David Reeve has been visiting Indonesia for over 45 years, as a diplomat, researcher, historian, visiting lecturer, beach comber and project manager. He has lived in Indonesia for some sixteen years, and worked at six Indonesian universities. He was a founding lecturer in the Australian Studies … [Read more...]
David Van Reybrouck
David Van Reybrouck is a non-fiction author, playwright and poet whose work focuses on colonialism, democracy, and populism. He is considered 'one of the leading intellectuals in Europe' (Der Tagesspiegel) and 'one of the most brilliant European intellectuals of the moment' (Le … [Read more...]