Saskia E. Wieringa is a honorary Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam. She is also the co-founder of the Kartini Asia Network. Since the late 1970s she has done research on women’s movements, sexual politics and same-sex relations in many parts of the world, particularly in Indonesia. She chairs the International People's Tribunal on the 1965 Crimes Against Humanity in Indonesia and co-organized the Tribunal on that topic, held in November 2015. She wrote and (co-) edited more than 30 books and over 200 articles.

The latest books include: (2012 co-edited with Nursyahbani Katjasungkana) The Future of Asian Feminisms; (2013 co-edited with Horacio Sivori) Sexual Politics in the Global South and (2013, co-edited with Maznah Mohamad, Family ambiguity and domestic violence in Asia: concept, law and process. Sussex Academic Publishers; Heteronormativity in Asia (2015 Sussex Academic Press). Propaganda and the genocide in Indonesia; imagined evil (2018 Routledge); co-editor of The International People’s Tribunal and the Indonesian genocide (2019 Routledge). Her recent research projects focus on women’s same- sex relations in historical perspective in Indonesia and on the post-1965 violence in East Java.

Research methods

• oral history
• indicators
• ethnography
• literature review

Current research projects

• ITTP: Indonesia Trauma Testimony Project, with an Australian consortium. Collecting and digitizing records of survisors of the 1965/6 genocide in Indonesia
• Decolonizing sexuality studies. History of the LBT movement in vIndonesia over the last 40 years

Current cooperation with organisations

ANU, Canberra, Australia

PhD Supervision

Female masculinity in China | Shuiqing Zhu