Ni Wayan Pasek Ariati

As an Academic Director of Operations, I have become very skillful in managing the calendar with all the details of time, excellent collaboration with our teamwork, stakeholders (NGO and Government), very organized in reporting both academic and non-academic. I have become skillful in carrying and teaching research methods and ethics.

I have been exposed to many cross-cultural similarities and differences due to my work as the academic director of operational, therefore I became a very culturally sensitive about the current issues like diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.

I have worked as the Academic Directors for more than 20 years, therefore now I would like to do something different using my skills and knowledge to forter young people or those who are interested in understanding more about the global citizens and our current issues.

• 2003-2023, Academic Director, SIT Study Abroad Indonesia: Arts, Religion, and Social Change, Bali, Indonesia
• 2001-2003, Academic Director, SIT Study Abroad-North Indian Arts and Culture; SIT Study Abroad/World Learning
• 2001, Program Assistant, SIT Study Abroad-Western Samoa: Traditional Culture and Modernity
• 2000, Academic Director, SIT Study Abroad-Indonesia: Balinese Art and Culture
• 1998-9, Creator and Coordinator, Ubud Arts In-Country Program of Study for students of the Fine Arts from Charles Darwin University; Faculty of Law, Business and Arts: Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
• 1997-9, Instructor in Indonesian Language, Indonesian Study Program, Faculty of Law, Business and Arts; Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
• 1994-6, Coordinator, Program in Intensive Indonesian Language Study: SIT Study Abroad-Indonesia: Balinese Art and Culture
• 1991-3, Instructor in Indonesian Language, SIT Study Abroad-Indonesia: Balinese Arts and Culture

• Historical background of the Spiritual Power of Masks in my village
• Gendering as a theme in historical, social, ritual, and mythological processes
• Evolution of representations of goddesses in Hindu religious imagery
• Modern Indonesian history with a focus on the destruction of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) and its consequences for contemporary Indonesian society

• 2021, 2nd author with Laurel Kendall, Animism? Animated? Ensouled? The active lives of Balinese masks, Handbook of Material Religion, Routledge, Abington, UK
• 2020, 2nd author with Laurel Kendall, Scary Mask/Local Protector: the curious history of Ida Ratu Gedé Gombrang (a.k.a. Jero Amerika), Anthropology and Humanism, Vol. 45, Issue 2, 279-300, Wiley Periodicals LLC, USA
• 2016, The Journey of the Goddess Durga: India, Java and Bali, Aditya Prakashan Publishers, New Delhi, India
• 2011a, The Goddess Durga in Java: Two Forms of Representation, Tracing Transactions, an Anthology of Critical Essays on India and Southeast Asia, Suchorita Chattopadhyaya and Soma Mukherjee, Centre for Advanced Study, Department of Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 219-283
• 2011b, The Demonic Image of Women in Bali, Beyond the Eastern Horizon, Essays in Honour of Professor Lokesh Chandra, Manjushree, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, India, 173-182
• 2010, The Journey Of The Goddess Durga: India, Java And Bali, Ph.D. dissertation, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
• 2009, Theodicy in Paradise, South and Southeast Asia Culture and Religion, the SSEASR Journal, Vol. III, 47-63

• 2007, Purwakaning Bhatari Durga Ring India, Bali Post
• 2005, Food, Social Customs and Lifestyle, Art and Literature, Oral Traditions, Gender, Courtship and Marriage, Festivals and Holidays, Indonesia-Daily Life Module 1: Culture and Customs, an Online Database, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT, USA
• 2000, Women's Roles in Balinese Society, Balinese Traditions, Balinese Dilemmas, A Reader for the Thematic Seminar of the SIT Study Abroad Program-Indonesia: Balinese Art and Culture, Thomas Hunter, SIT-Study Abroad Program Curriculum Material, 1st edition, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
• 1995, The Art of the Offering, The Gallimard Guide to Bali, Gallimard Editions and Editions Didier Millet, Paris, France, Singapore

• 2023, Social Change in Bali in the Past, Present, and Future Outlooks of Bali, International Seminar, Infineon, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Nusa Dua, Bali
• 2023, The Journey of the Goddess Durga: India, Java, and Bali, International Seminar on Brahma Widya (INARA), Sanur, Bali
• 2022, Keynote Speaker for the BWCF (Borobudur Writers and Cultural Festival), Pidato Kebudayaan, Perjalanan Dewi Durga: India, Jawa, dan Bali
• 2021, Virtual Presentation on the Dehumanization and Demonization of Women in Indonesia, SIT Critical Conversation: Webinar Series on Gender, DEI, and the Institutionalization of Patriarchy
• 2020, With Laurel Kendall, Scary Mask/Local Protector: the curious history of Jero Amerika, a Balinese mask, Association for Asian Studies in Asia, France Alps, France
• 2019, With Laurel Kendall, Scary Mask/Local Protector: the curious history of Jero Amerika, a Balinese mask, Association for Asian Studies in Asia, Bangkok, Thailand
• 2018, With Laurel Kendall, Scary Mask/Local Protector: the curious history of Jero Amerika, a Balinese mask, Association for Asian Studies in Asia, British Museum, London
• 2014b, Between Tradition and Modernity, Women in Contemporary Bali, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• 2014a, Perjalanan Dewi Durga di India, Jawa dan Bali, Pura Jagatnatha Temple, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
• 2013, The Demonic Image of the Goddess Durga in Bali, International Seminar on Cultural Connections Between India and Indonesia, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
• 2012a, Symbolic Gender in Balinese Kinship, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• 2012b, The Indonesian Massacre of 1965 and Reconciliation Efforts in Contemporary Indonesia, International Symposium on Conflict and Resolution, Kigali, Rwanda
• 2012c, Two Images of the Goddess Durga: demonic and divine, Symposium India and Indonesia-Shared History and Culture and Opportunities for Deepening People-to-People Contacts, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
• 2011, The Role of Traditional Healers and Medicine in Bali, Academic Director's Symposium of SIT Study Abroad, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
• 2010, The Myth of Durga and the History of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani), Annual Seminar of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA), National University of Singapore
• 2009, The Representation of Women in Indonesian History; from Social to Political Mythology, Endeavour Language Training Fellowships Program in Indonesian Language, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia
• 2008, Hindu Rituals in India and Bali, Regional Workshop on Identity, Multiculturalism and Arts of SIT Study Abroad/World Learning, Accra, Ghana
• 2007c, The Transformation of an Indic Goddess: Durga in India, Java and Bali, Donnerstagskolloquium of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute for Advanced Study
• 2007b, The Transformation of an Indic Goddess: Durga in India, Java and Bali, The Attic, a Space for the Living Arts, New Delhi, India
• 2007a, The Transformation of an Indic Goddess: Durga in India, Java and Bali, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
• 2006, Transformasi Citra Bhatari dari India (The Transformation of an Indic Goddess), National Seminar series on Literature, Society and Culture, Universitas Udayana, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
• 2001, The Courtship of Language and Culture, Fourth Annual International Conference for the Teaching of Indonesian Language to Nonnative Speakers, Sanur, Bali, Indonesia

• 2010, Ph.D., History, School of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities; Faculty of Law, Business and Arts; Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
• 1988, B.A., English Language, Literature, and Linguistics, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia