Online Seminar on Javanese Culture, Heritage and Identity

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We are delighted to invite you to the second international online seminar of the Diaspora in Beweging project.

Saturday, 27 September 2025
Nederland: 13:00 – 14:30 CET |Suriname 08:00 – 09:30 | Indonesia 18:00 – 19:30
Online (free participation – register via the link below)

This 90-minute seminar brings together experts from Indonesia and Suriname to reflect on Javanese cultural heritage in the diaspora. The session will include short presentations and an open discussion exploring questions such as:

·&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è; How do Javanese cultural practices and artistic expressions connect, change, and adapt between and beyond home and host countries?

·&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è; How does the concept of heritage function in diaspora processes?

·&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è; What local policy frameworks – or gaps – exist in relation to this form of heritage?

Speakers:

·&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Prof. Sahid Teguh Widodo (Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia)

·&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Dr. Dewi Cahya Ambarwati (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)

·&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Dr. Arifah Arum Candra Hayuningsih (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)

·&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Mr. Warsodikromo (Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Suriname

This seminar is part of the project Diaspora in Beweging, a collaboration between the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) and Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ.

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