本次讲座中，Spyer教授将探讨在印尼苏哈托政权的垮台后国内部分无人管理地区的装饰和毁坏的问题。这些地区最大的特点是不断增长的不确定性和“中央管理极度松散”。在这个背景下，Spyer教授将重点介绍几个案例，这些案例都发生在2000年初穆斯林和基督徒的冲突爆发时，在这个过程中，暴力的毁坏城市的行为时有发生，而摩鹿加群岛上的安汶岛上的基督徒想要得到并且改造一些地区。Spyer教授援引的理论依据是，当移动、以日常生活形态出现的信任缺失，和饱受战争摧残的城市环境迫使人们对城市形态进行再造和改造时，困扰主题和客体的外形危机的理论。Spyer教授想强调的是，外形通常不被承认，或是被认为是一些更基本的事物的表现，但它其实是日常现象的形成和再造的熔炉。本次讲座的主要目的是提示听众关注关于外形/外表的一些重要研究以及这类研究现今面临的挑战——而这并不只是在印尼。 

Patricia Spyer is Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Institute Geneva that she joined in 2016. She was the Chair of Cultural Anthropology of Contemporary Indonesia at Leiden University (2001-15), Global Distinguished Professor at New York University’s Center for Religion & Media and Department of Anthropology (2009-12), and a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University in 2014. She is the author of The Memory of Trade: Modernity’s Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island, Duke 2000, editor of Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces, Routledge 1998, co-editor of the Handbook of Material Culture, Sage 2013 [2006] and of Images That Move, SAR Press, 2013. She has published, among other topics, on media and visual culture, materiality, violence, and religion. Her current book project Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and the Work of Appearances in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia focuses on the mediations of violence and post-violence in the religiously inflected conflict in the Moluccas, Indonesia. She is on the board of the Prince Claus Fund, a member of the Advisory Council of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and an editorial board member of the Annual Review of Anthropology.

Introduction and moderation of the Q&A by Associate Professor Francesca Tarocco.