PPH Atma Jaya University Seminar Series - The Cascade of Care as a Data Model

This paper sets up the context in which the Cascade of Care is applied to HIV prevention in the Indonesian context. The Cascade of Care, hence forth referred to as the cascade, is a component of the broader Continuum of Care which is focused on the process from being at risk of HIV through to HIV prevention.  

This paper first outlines the cascade as a data model, which is a core component of providing policy makers and funders a high level picture of progress towards HIV prevention. The paper considers the implications of the 90/90/90 approach to HIV prevention - “90% of all persons living with HIV (PLHIV) are aware of their HIV status, 90% of all people who know their status are receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART), and 90% of those on ART are virally suppressed”. 

The paper then considers two main components required to supply data to the cascade. First, monitoring and evaluation which emphasises that data should be used to drive decisions is examined. Second, surveillance and survey is considered which are the tools by which this data is collected. Throughout the paper, consideration is given to the purpose of the cascade and how the cascade shapes conceptualisation of these key terms. This paper provides a critique of how the cascade provides the appearance of a standard of HIV treatment and the broader implications of this. 

Theory as reproduction: Reflections on the history of doing feminist anthropology in Australia

I co-convened a roundtable with Shiori Shakuto and Carly Schuster on the history of doing feminist anthropology in Australia. It was recorded at the 2019 Australian Anthropological Society Conference in Canberra.

https://thefamiliarstrange.com/2020/12/28/theory-as-reproduction-aas-2019

In this very special collaboration, TFS would like to present a two part roundtable we recorded at 2019’s AAS conference! It’s a shame that we haven’t been able to gather again and talk all things anthropology this year, but we hope that this might be enough to whet your appetite for more things to come in 2021! A big thank you to Dr Benjamin Hegatry, Dr Carly Schuster and Dr Shiori Shakuto for their hard work in putting together this roundtable discussion. We hope you enjoy! 

Roundtable Participants

Christine Helliwell, Emeritus Professor, The Australian National University
Margaret Jolly, Professor of Anthropology, The Australian National University
Martha MacIntyre,Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
Francesca Merlan, Professor of Anthropology, The Australian National University
Kalpana Ram, Professor of Anthropology, Macquarie University
Kathryn Robinson, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, The Australian National University

Roundtable Convenors

Benjamin Hegarty, McKenzie Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Caroline Schuster, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, The Australian National University
Shiori Shakuto, Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo – Tokyo College

Links and Citations 
Reay, Marie. ‘An Innocent in the Garden of Eden’. In Ethnographic Presents: Pioneering Anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands, edited by Terence E. Hays. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
<https://www.amazon.com/Ethnographic-Presents-Pioneering-Anthropologists-Anthropology/dp/0520077458>

Postgraduate Workshops at the Asian Studies Association of Australia

I presented on two panels for postgraduates on academic publishing for the Asian Studies Association of Australia.

Panel 1
From PhD to Book. Recent experiences in the publishing industry
Tuesday 24 November 2020, 3:00pm-4:30pm (AEST)
Watch a recording of the webinar. Password: zfG7FHRY!=3y

Not all publishing houses are built equally for Asian research. Where should the newly-minted PhD graduate publish their dissertations? How do we write a compelling book publishing proposal? What are the qualities publishers expect to see in the works of would-be-authors in Asian studies? We pose these questions to scholars working in academic book publishing and with personal publishing experience about adapting your PhD thesis into a book and presenting your work to publishing houses.

Moderator: Ms. Carman K. M. Fung (ASAA2020 Postgraduate Representative, PhD candidate in Screen and Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne)
Speakers:
Dr. Nathan Hollier (CEO, Melbourne University Publishing)
Dr. Kevin Carrico (Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, Monash University)
Dr. Sophie Chao (Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney)
Dr. Benjamin Hegarty (Mckenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne)

Panel 2
Photographs and image rights in the publishing world
Wednesday 25 November 2020, 3:00pm-4:30pm (AEST)
Watch a recording of the webinar. Password: qM8A*QzlBklU

Can you use images that you take from an archive? How about an informant who wishes to remain anonymous? What are the ethics of printing photographs from a politically unstable area? Does it matter if the images or photographs in question are produced or taken by the researcher? And when is it appropriate to request for your readers to locate the images on their own? This panel will provide tips from scholars from both visual and non-visual disciplines on how to prepare the images we collect, photograph and personally archive for possible publishing in the future.

Moderator: Ms. Chloe Ho (ASAA2020 Postgraduate Representative, PhD candidate in Screen and Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne)
Speakers:
Dr Claire Roberts (Associate Professor of Art History and ARC Future Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne)
Dr Susie Protschky (Senior Lecturer in History, Monash University)
Dr Benjamin Hegarty (Mckenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne)
Mr Wil Villareal (Liaison Librarian, University of Melbourne)

The Bubble: Pandemic Metaphors

I spoke as part of the Metaphors seminar series, held by the Institute for Postcolonial Studies and the Center for Law, Arts and Humanities at the Australian National University.

A recording is available here: https://ipcs.org.au/recording/pandemic-metaphors/

The mask and the face it covers

During the pandemic, 'the mask' became an accessory (for DIY types), a necessity (for healthcare workers), a hard fought commodity (for well-off countries), and in some parts of the world (the US), the decision to wear it or not, a political statement. Yet the focus on debates as to whether the mask is in fact effective or not in slowing pandemics such as those now upon us miss a vital question. What are the broader meanings of the 'mask'? How does the act of 'masking' reflect or present possibilities for collective action? This presentation considers these questions of the mask as metaphor and as political concept via anthropological engagement with the meanings of ‘the mask’ and related concept of the 'face.' I do so by drawing on fieldwork in Indonesia (2008 to present), a context where, in the words of Benedict Anderson, the face itself might be considered a 'built in mask.' The paper thus investigates the meaning of the face/mask during the pandemic ethnographically. I first define the ethnographic concept of 'dandan' ­— especially as used by Indonesian trans- women — a category for 'making up' through the repeated, daily effort to improve the appearance of the body through application of feminine makeup and clothing. I draw on these sources to consider how we might imagine masks less as signifier of citizenship premised on individual responsibility in the name of life as an absolute value, and more as a means of collective envisioning. Against a backdrop of securitization and intensification of punitive state surveillance, reconsidering the mask anthropologically might help to transform it into a more hopeful metaphor.

Queer Visibility in Indonesia - Deakin University GSS Seminar

I presented on Queer Visibility in Indonesia at the Deakin University Gender and Sexuality Studies seminar series in August 2018.

The recording is available here: https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/2018/08/30/ben-hegarty-on-queer-visibility-in-indonesia/

Desiring modernity: Historical perspectives on contemporary queer visibility and national belonging in Indonesia

The past two years have seen the term LGBT shift from an unknown acronym to household term in Indonesia, overwhelmingly framed in pejorative terms. Many commentators have labelled these transformations as both unprecedented and a break with a long tradition of tolerance for gender and sexual diversity grounded in moderate Islam. While sympathetic to these concerns, queer visibility in Indonesia has long been met with a broad range of responses: from outright hostility, to begrudging tolerance, to open celebration. This paper, based on historical and ethnographic research undertake in 2014-2015 in Indonesia, places the events related to the term LGBT in Indonesia over past two years within the history of Indonesian national modernity. Starting from the 1960s, I sketch out a chronology that demonstrates how transgender femininity developed a profile as a form of visibility that was at once popularly enjoyed and officially denigrated. I then present how a historical reading of queer visibility in contemporary Indonesia calls for attention in three areas: 1) the media and mediation; 2) the relationship between private and public; 3) the currents and effects of globalised knowledge. In conclusion, I tease out why historical and/or cross-cultural perspectives continue to offer a vital vantage point for scholars of gender and sexuality studies; a way to resist the temptation of reductionist and universalising notions of rights grounded in identity as a one-way movement towards modernity.