Helen Mary Hill

Helen Hill (2014)

Helen Mary Hill (born February 22 ) is an Australian university professor and East Timor expert .

Career

In early 1975, Hill traveled to Dili , the capital of Portuguese Timor , which was preparing for independence. Hill planned to write her master's thesis on the independence process, but took up FRETILIN as a central topic , which was already the dominant party in the colony at that time. Her work is regarded as pioneering work on East Timorese nationalism from 1974/1975. After the Indonesian invasion of East Timor , Hill was one of the founders of the Association of Timor-Leste and Australia AETA. In New York she supported José Ramos-Horta in building the "Diplomatic Front" of the East Timorese independence movement. In 1984 she organized an event at the National Press Club in Canberra , where Ramos-Horta spoke for the first time after the Indonesian invasion of Australia. In 1997 she was part of the team at Victoria University in Melbourne , which organized the conference “Strategic Development Planning for East Timor” at the request of the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Timorense CNRT.

Hill's analyzes aroused the interest of RENETIL members, the student independence movement of East Timor , in the 1990s . Adérito de Jesus Soares and Nuno Rodrigues translated Hill's work, together with the Indonesian Nug Katjasungkan. In 2000 the translation was officially published; two years before republishing in English. Even today, Helen Hill's 1975 contemporary analysis is viewed as far-sighted, and retrospectively proved the finding correct, even if the work largely ignores the role of other important institutions in the independence movement, such as the Catholic Church.

Hill received a PhD from the Australian National University for her work on non-formal education and development in Fiji , the US Micronesia and New Caledonia Trust Territory . For two years she taught a course for a diploma in “Youth and Development” in Fiji. Hill then taught for 21 years at Victoria University in Melbourne on “Pacific sociology” and the bachelor's course in “Asia-Pacific Community Development” (later “International Community Development”). There she organized study visits for East Timorese scientists and university managers.

After East Timor became independent , Hill began research into the country's independence. After retiring from Victoria University, she took a job in East Timor at Universidade Nasionál Timór Lorosa'e (UNTL), where she continues to do research in the fields of education and development, gender roles and solidarity economy. She is also an advisor to the East Timor Ministry of Education .

Awards

On August 27, 2014, Hill was awarded the Collar des Ordem de Timor-Leste by President Taur Matan Ruak .

Publications

• The Timor Story , 1976.
• Fretilin: the origins, ideologies and strategies of a nationalist movement in East Timor , Center for Continuing Education, Australian National University, 1978 (Master's thesis).
• Gerakan Pembebasan Nasional Timor Lorosae , Yayasan HAK dan Sahe Institute for Liberation Dili, 2000, ISBN 978-979-29-0272-3 .
• Stirrings of nationalism in East Timor: Fretilin 1974–1978: the origins, ideologies and strategies of a nationalist movement , 2002 (dissertation).
• Timor Lorosae , Cetakan Pertama, Sahe Institute for Liberation dan Yayasan Hak Dili, East Timor, 2010.

Web links

• Michael Leach: Helen Hill's contribution to the understanding of early East Timorese nationalism 1974-1975

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Leach: Helen Hill's contribution to the understanding of early East Timorese nationalism 1974-1975 , 2013 , accessed on November 16, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Tempo Semanal Sabadu: Estado TL condecorados Membros da Solidaridade no dia 30 de Agosto de 2014 , August 30, 2014 , accessed on August 30, 2014 on TIMOR CONDECORA .
3. ↑ Francisco da Costa Guterres : Elites and Prospects of Democracy in East Timor , Griffith University, 2006 , accessed November 16, 2019.
4. ^ Research Gate: Helen Mary Hill , accessed November 16, 2019.
5. ↑ Decreto do Presidente da República n ° 25/2014 de 27 de Agosto , accessed on September 18, 2019.