JOIN EMINENT HISTORIAN TONY REID FOR A DISCUSSION ABOUT HIS FIRST
HISTORICAL NOVEL.
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY JAVA IS IN TURMOIL BETWEEN ITS HINDU-BUDDHIST PAST
AND ITS MUSLIM FUTURE, WHILE PEPPER DRAWS EUROPE’S QUARRELLING
SPICE-HUNGRY TRADERS TO ITS SHORES. THOMAS HODGES OF THE EAST INDIA
COMPANY SEIZES A CHANCE AT GLORY BY BEING THE FIRST TO VENTURE ASHORE
AT THE PEPPER PORT OF BANTEN IN 1608. WILL HE UNLOCK THE MYSTERIOUS
RICHES OF JAVA FOR THE ENGLISH, OR DIE FORGOTTEN WITH A JAVANESE
_KRIS_ OR PORTUGUESE POIGNARD BETWEEN HIS RIBS? THE KEY MAY LIE WITH
HIS CAPTIVATING INTERPRETER SRI, UNDER WHOSE SPELL HE FALLS.
_"ROMANCE, INTRIGUE, WARFARE, ADVENTURE – MATARAM HAS ALL THE
INGREDIENTS NECESSARY TO BRING 17TH-CENTURY JAVA TO LIFE.” _
PROF. BARBARA ANDAYA, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Tony Reid is better known as Professor Anthony Reid, author of ten
historical works on Southeast Asia, including the much-read and
translated _Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, c. 1450 – 1680_.
He has taught Southeast Asian history at universities in the US (Yale,
UCLA, Hawaii) and Australia (ANU) as well as Malaysia, Indonesia and
Singapore. He now lives in Canberra. This is his first work of
fiction.
Adrian Vickers is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at SYDNEY
University, cultural historian and author of _Bali: A Paradise
Created_ (2012), _A History of Modern Indonesia _(2013) and many other
interpretive works.
_This event is co-hosted by SSEAC, the Department of Indonesian
Studies at USyd, and the Australia Indnesia Youth Association NSW. _
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