Come and Join Returned Volunteers and friends of the Peace Corps in celebration of the 49th Peace Corps anniversary. There will be 2 presentations focusing on Indonesia. Parking on campus is $5.
Indonesia: Priorities and the Peace CorpsMaya Soetoro-Ng
Maya Soetoro-Ng and her elder brother President Obama spent several years together in Indonesia. While living in Indonesia, she was home schooled by her mother and then attended Jakarta International School from 1981 to 1984. Like her older brother, Soetoro-Ng returned to Hawaii and attended the private Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, graduating in 1988.
Maya Soetoro-Ng is an alumna of Barnard
College in Manhattan, New York.
She received an M.A. degree in secondary language studies and an M.A. degree in
English from New York University and a Ph.D degree in international
comparative education from the University
of Hawaii.
Maya is an educator and has taught high-school history at La Pietra: Hawaii School
for Girls in Honolulu.
She has also been a lecturer at the University
of Hawaii. She previously
taught and developed curriculum at The Learning Project, an alternative public
middle school in New York City, from 1996–2000. Maya is the maternal
half-sister of President Barack Obama.
Professor Barbara Watson-Andaya
Barbara Watson Andaya is Professor of Asian Studies at
the University of Hawai’i and Director of the Center for Southeast
Asian Studies. In 2005-06 she was President of the American Association
of Asian Studies Educated at the University of Sydney (BA, Dip.Ed.),
she received an East West Center grant in 1966 and obtained her MA in
history at the University of Hawai’i. She subsequently went on to study
for her Ph.D. at Cornell University with a specialization in Southeast
Asian history.
Her career has involved
teaching and researching in Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand,
Indonesia, the Netherlands, and since 1994, Hawai’i. She maintains an
active teaching and research interest across all Southeast Asia, but
her specific area of expertise is the western Malay-Indonesia
archipelago. In 2000 she received a Guggenheim Award, which resulted in
The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Southeast Asian History,
1500-1800 (a Choice Academic Book of the Year in 2007).