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Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a discussion on Asian scholarship with Inaya Rakhmani, Director of Academics of the Asia Research Centre at the University of Indonesia (ARC-UI), and Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih, Deputy Director of Academics at ARC-UI. Additional talk details are forthcoming. Lunch will be served at 12:15 p.m.

Inaya Rakhmani is a visiting scholar in residence hosted by Laura Hein, Director of the Arryman Scholars Program within the Roberta Buffett Institute’s Equality Development & Globalization Studies Program (EDGS). Rakhmani is the Director of Academics of the Asia Research Centre at the University of Indonesia (ARC-UI). She uses cultural political economy to study media and communications as well as knowledge and information to explain broader capitalist changes. She researches the role of social and mass media in hindering democratic developments in Indonesia, with comparisons to India, Egypt, and Turkey from 2015 to the present day.

Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih is a visiting scholar in residence, also hosted by Laura Hein. Widya Permata Yasih is the Deputy Director of Academics of the Asia Research Centre at the University of Indonesia (ARC-UI). Her doctoral research investigates the expansion of precarious work arrangements tied to the gig economy and its effects on workers’ subjective experience, identity formation, and organizing propensity in Indonesia. She is also a faculty member at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia.

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