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BAJRA’s main aim to is to promote research on South East Asian classical and popular culture, with particular reference to Indonesia, notably Bali and Java.  BAJRA specializes in research issues to do with the representation of culture in contemporary mass media, including radio, television, digital and web-based mediation.

Current research includes:

Mark Hobart

• The Social Importance of Indonesian Television (funded by the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Board)

• Representations of ‘cultural heritage’ in Java and Bali (AHRB)

Ni Madé Pujawati with Dr Alessandra Iyer

• Analysis system to assess the influence of cultural background on dance movements

Ni Madé Pujawati with Dr Alessandra Iyer and Dr Mark Hobart

• Representing the dance body: Balinese dance and its mediation

AHRB Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance

• Interpreting and (re)constructing dance and music heritage

Richard Fox

• From text to television: mediating religion in contemporary Bali (PhD thesis)

• Online catalogue of Hindu-related materials from the BAJRA collection.

Helen Creese

• Details forthcoming

Pam Nilan

• Details forthcoming

Related Research and work

Criticalia.org

A website devoted to critical discussion and analysis in anthropology, cultural and media studies.

Balinesedance.org

A website for the development and performance of Balinese dance and theatre internationally.

Berubah.org

A website dedicated to providing access to, and analysis of, materials relating to the study of media and religion in Southeast Asia.

Media Research Program at SOAS

http://www.soas.ac.uk/AnthSoc/MACourses/maanthmed.html

http://www.soas.ac.uk/PhDMedia/home.html

SOAS website for AHRB Centre

http://www2.soas.ac.uk/Research/resnew.html

Verbal art in the Audio-Visual Media of Indonesia homepage

http://www.iias.nl/host/va-avmi/index1.html

David Hanan's Indonesian film archive: Between three worlds.

http://www.monash.edu.au/mai/films