Jakarta, ID
Tuesday, May 29 2012, 08:42 AM

National

Ecole scholar to lecture at RI universities

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JAKARTA: Paris-based Ecole des Hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) professor Michael Wieviorka is scheduled to give a series of public lectures on democracy at several universities in Indonesia.

Wieviorka, a EHESS director, will give a lecture on “Laicite” and diversity at the Salihara center in Jakarta on March 11.

On March 14, Wieviorka will lecture on democracy and cultural diversity at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, and then on “social science in change” at the University of Indonesia on March 15.

On March 16, Wieviorka will lecture would on the changes of global sociology at the Airlangga University in Surabaya.

Wieviorka has published a number of books, including The Making of Terrorism in 1993. — JP