Wildan Sena Utama is a scholar of modern international and transnational history, with an interest in the history of the connections between Indonesia and the Afro-Asian world in the 20th century. He obtained his PhD at the Department of History, University of Bristol in 2023, researching on the involvement of Indonesians in Afro-Asian movements in the 1950s-1960s to demonstrate that South-South Solidarity was central to the history of national independence, anti-imperialism, and decolonial worldmaking. He got his BA in history from Universitas Gadjah Mada and Leiden University and MA in Colonial and Global History from Leiden University. His first book, Konferensi Asia-Afrika 1955: Asal Usul Intelektual dan Warisannya bagi Gerakan Global Antiimperialisme (Marjin Kiri, 2017), examines the global history of the Bandung Conference and its legacy in international politics. In 2018, the Indonesian newspaper Jakarta Globe selected this book as one of the thirty book that helped you to understand the Southeast Asian Giants (Indonesia). His latest article is written with Su Lin Lewis entitled “The Politics of Development at Afro-Asian Women’s Conferences” in Su Lin Lewis and Nana Osei-Opare (eds.), Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World (London: Bloomsbury, 2024).

Email: wsutama@ugm.ac.id