Katharine McGregor is Professor of Southeast Asian History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Kate has researched many topics related to Indonesian history and struggles with memory and violence from the colonial period through to the present. Her most recent book Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia (Critical Human Rights Series, University of Wisconsin Press, 2023) won the 2024 NSW Premier’s General History Prize. Kate is also a research co-lead for the University of Melbourne’s History, Memory and Decolonial Futures Research Collective.