The Symposium on Social Science (SOSS) is a biennial international event in the field of social science organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS), Universitas Gadjah Mada. The theme of the 2nd symposium is ‘Rethinking the Social World in the 21st Century.’ Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the committee of SOSS 2020 has decided the symposium to go online. We extend the deadlines with new timeline as mentioned in the posters. Update on panels and technicalities will be informed further once abstracts selected and finalized.  The SOSS 2020 Committee invites students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit their abstract include but are not limited to the sub-themes : read more

As a part of the working collaboration between the Center for Southeast Asian Social Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada and the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan, A joint paper by Prof. Jian Bang Deng, Prof. Hermin Indah Wahyuni and Dr. phil. Vissia Ita Yulianto is just published. This paper calls attention to the close linkage between transnational mobility and social inequality. It showed how the transnationalization of social inequality could get new faces through the new waves of labor migration. The issue of social inequality not only reflects the policy levels of receiving and sending countries, but it also is shown in experiences of the individual labor migrants in their transnational careers.
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Sebagai bagian dari kolaborasi antara PSSAT UGM dan Universitas Tamkang Taiwan, telah dipublikasikan joint paper oleh Prof. Jian Bang Deng, Prof. Hermin Indah Wahyuni dan Dr. phil. Vissia Ita Yulianto. Paper ini memberikan gambaran mengenai hubungan mobilitas transnasional dan ketimpangan sosial. Dalam penelitian ini, dijabarkan bahwa transnasionalisasi dari ketimpangan sosial dapat memberikan gelombang baru isi buruh migrant. Isu ketimpangan sosial bukan hanya direfleksikan oleh kebijakan pengirim dan penerima tenaga kerja namun juga terlihat dari pengalaman yang dialami para migran saat bekerja diluar negeri. read more

Seri kelima dalam Webinar SEATALK Pusat Studi Asia Tenggara Universitas Gadjah Mada yang dilaksanakan pada Kamis, 12 Mei 2020. Webinar ini mengundang Dr. Siddharta Chandra dari Michigan State University, USA dan Sumadi Lukman Anwar, MD., Ph.D, FKKMK UGM

Lessons from the 1918 influenza pandemic for the COVID-19 pandemic and Experience from Cancer Navigation in Indonesia

“1918 inlfluenza pandemic is the mother virus which gave birth to major global pandhemic which had taken the lives of millions of people worldwide”, said Prof. Siddarth Candra, an epidimiolgist in the WEBINAR series of South East Asia Talk, organized by the Centre of Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS), Universitas Gadjah Mada, a center of excellence in social science under the Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education since 2016. This Webinar 36# was a cooperation between CESASS and the American Institute of Indonesian Studies (AIFIS), State University of Michigan, USA. read more

Seri keempat dalam Webinar SEATALK Pusat Studi Asia Tenggara Universitas Gadjah Mada yang dilaksanakan pada Selasa, 28 April 2020. Webinar ini mengundang Prof. Bambang Hari Wibisono, Kepala Pusat Studi Perencanaan Pembangunan UGM dan Prof. Sigit Riyanto, Dekan Fakultas Hukum UGM.

Seri ketiga dalam Webinar SEATALK Pusat Studi Asia Tenggara Universitas Gadjah Mada yang dilaksanakan pada Selasa, 21 April 2020. Webinar ini mengundang I Gusti Agung Made Wardana Ph.D dari Departemen Hukum Lingkungan, Fakultas Hukum UGM dan Dr. Aprinus Salam M.Hum, Kepala Pusat Studi Kebudayaan UGM.

RELASI SOSIAL – EKOLOGIS DAN KENORMALAN BARU

“Setelah berakhirnya pandemi Covid-19, kemungkinan akan kembali ke skenario business as usual atau munculnya kenormalan-kenormalan baru karena belum ada bahasan mengenai bagaimana seharusnya membangun relasi sosial dan ekologis,” tutur I Gusti Agung Made Wardana, Ph.D. dalam webinar SEATALK #34 yang diselenggarakan oleh Pusat Studi Sosial Asia Tenggara (PSSAT) UGM pada hari Selasa (11/04/2020). read more