LSC & ASLE-ASEAN Ecocritical Conference
Accepted Abstracts

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS

Corresponding Author	Affiliation (Institution/City/Country)	Abstract Title
Agatha Faye J. Buensalida	Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines	When the Apocalypse Howled: The Woman-Animal Relationship in the Time of Climate Change and Genocide Through Poetry
Agnes Anggraeni Yanuar	Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	The Influence of Climate Change on Racial Exploitation Against Indigenous People in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves
Ahmad Abdul Karim	Universitas Negeri Malang	Women, Nature, and Power: An Ecofeminist Study of the Folklore of Nyi Mas Ratu Ayu from Karawang
Albi Fathurahman	Universitas Padjajaran	Postcolonial Ecocriticism Based on Anthropomorphism in the Novel Tanah Tabu by Anindita S. Thayf
Alexandra A. Bichara	University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines	Unsettling Identity: Nonhuman Becomings in Clarissa Militante’s State of Happiness (2022)
Almira Ghassani Shabrina Romala,	Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Translation Ideology and Strategies in Rendering Cultural Words in Selected Children’s Environmental Storybooks: An Ecotranslatological Perspective
Anand AS	Vellore Institute of Technology	Ethical Dimensions of Emotional Spaces in Universal Aesthetics: A Tell Tale of Water, the life force in Indian Aesthetics
Anesya Brilliana Maryadi	Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	The Concerns Towards Environmental Situation as Expressed in Students’ Creative Writing
Angel Mae B. Arnaiz	Mindanao State University, General Santos City, Philippines	Preserving the Hills: Ecocultural Identity of the Tboli Upland Farmers Amidst Climate Change
Arga Dara Ramadhani	Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia	Relasi Manusia dan Alam dalam Cerpen “Ama Tewo” Karya Silvester Petara Hurit (2024)
Asima Gogoi	Namrup College, Namrup, Assam, India	“Images of Hope for Our Troubled Times”: Ecospiritual Imaginaries and Multispecies Kinship in Swarnalatha Rangarajan’s Final Instructions: ANovel
Assoc. Prof., Ph.D. Nguyen Viet Hung	Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam	FOREST SYMBOLISM IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATURE AND CULTURE: A STUDY IN THE ORAL TRADITIONS OF ETHNIC GROUPS IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF VIETNAM
Augusto Xavier Ledesma	University of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines	Surviving on the Wind’s Breath: Notes Toward an Ecological Reading of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Benedicta Angie Azaria Prasetyo Rahayu	Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Perceiving the Monsters’ Portrayal of Scottish Kelpie and Indonesian Baru Klinthing Folklores Through the Lens of Second-Wave Ecocriticism
Bratati Barik	VIDYASAGAR COLLEGE, KOLKATA, INDIA	Postmodern Ecocriticism: A Perspective of Transnational Visions
Cajimat, Richpearl Kaye A. & Yacas, Michael Y.	University of Northern Philippines, Vigan City, Philippines	SOLARPUNK TEXTS: EXPLORING STUDENTS’ ECOCRITICAL THINKING THROUGH CRITICAL INQUIRY
Carmel Bernadette R. Poblete	Mindanao State University – General Santos, General Santos City, Philippines	The Sentient Green: Rethinking Plant Personhood in Literary Narratives
Catherine Diamond	Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan	Singapore and its Island Alter-ego in Recent Ecoperformances
Catherine Monica	Universitas Sanata Dharma	Ecofeminist Readings of Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk and Lawino
Celine Nugrahani Prabowo	Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Kinipan: Silenced Resistance of the Dayak Tomun Amid the Collapse of Nature
Chitra Sankaran	National University of Singapore, Singapore	The Underside of Humanism: Human-Nature Relations Gone Wrong: An Analysis of Some Southeast Asian Fictions
Christa I. De La Cruz	De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines	Dáyo: Poetics of Travel and Tourism in the Anthropocene
Desri Maria Sumbayak	Universitas Sumatera Utara	Khairani Barokka’s “extraction rumination, in the words of the lithosphere”: Neo-Colonisation, Palm Oil Expansion and the Loss of Humans’ Lives
Donny Syofyan	Universitas Andalas	We are the leftovers”: Legacies of Ecological Destruction in Tim Winton’s Juice
Dr. I.G.N. Anom Maruta, M.M.	Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 Surabaya	ANTHROPOCENE CHARACTER BUILDING OF “KITAB AMBYO” READING IN BEDINGIN PONOROGO
Dr. Panchali Bhattacharya	National Institute of Technlogy Silchar, Assam, India	Anthropocene Water(s): Hydro-Politics and Water Injustice in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction
Dr. Pham Vu Lan Anh	Vietnam	Scorching Sunlight and Fine Dust: Narrative about internal migrants in Vietnam urban areas
Dr. Tania Roy	Department of English, Literature and Theatre Studies, National University of Singapore	The Inheritance of Indigeneity in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s Garden of Queer Pain
Elaine L. Monserate	University of the Philippines Visayas, Iloilo City, Philippines	Residual Ma-aram Subjectivity: Ecofeminist Resistance and Indigenous Spirituality in the Fiction of Alice Tan Gonzales
Elisabeth Kivana Damayanti	Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Reimagining Nyai Rara Kidul: Environmental Values in the Folklore and Rituals of Karangbolong Beach
Elisha Camille B. Catimpo	Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines	Komiks and Collective Action: A Marxist Review of ’10 Years to Save the World,’ a Comics Anthology in Response to the Climate Crisis
Elvis A. Galasinao, Jr.	De La Salle University, Philippines	Monsters of Us All: The Monster-Human in Barbara Jane Reyes’s Diwata
Eventus Ombri Kaho	Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	FOOD ESTATE IN MERAUKE: CAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE SPEAK
Famala Eka Sanhadi Rahayu	Universitas Mulawarman, Samarinda, Indonesia	Green Narratives or Greenwashing? A Comparative Ecological Discourse Analysis of IKN
Fitrilya Anjarsari	Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Recalibrating Conflated Paradigms of Posthumanism and Ecocriticism: A Perspective of Quantum Entanglement
Florencia	Universitas Padjadjaran, Jatinangor, Indonesia.	Plants vs Horrors: A Phyto-criticism of Plants in Indonesian Horror Cinemas
Gayatri Thanu Pillai	National University of Singapore	Reimagining Ecocritical Pedagogies for the Future
Hawasi	Gunadarma University, Jakarta, Indonesia	Ecofeminism Reading on Iwan Fals’ Ecological Protest Songs towards Economic Based Developmentalism Project in Indonesia
Hazel Ann Cesa	University of San Carlos	Gendered Vulnerabilities and Care: An Ecolinguistic Study of Creative Nonfiction on Disaster by Women Writers from the Philippines
Henrikus Joko Yulianto, M.Hum., Ph.D	State University of Semarang (Unnes), Central Java, Indonesia	PETRODYSTOPIA IN CONTEMPORARY INDONESIAN AND WESTERN POETRY: A SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL VISION IN THE POSTHUMANIST ERA
Hope Sabanpan Yu	University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines	Verses of the Earth: Exploring Climate Change Through Cebuano Poetry
Hsinya Huang	DIstinguished Professor of American and Comparative Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan	Islands of Resistance: Indigenous Feminisms and Climate Justice Across Oceans
Hugo Sistha Prabangkara	Program Doktor Kajian Seni dan Masyarakat, Universitas Sanata Dharma Yogyakarta	The Empire of Flavour: Indomie and the Gastropolitical Standardization of Indonesian Cuisine
Ifo Kornelius Hilboh Telaumbanua	Universitas Kristen Indonesia, East Jakarta, Indonesia	Land, Loss, and Memory: Postcolonial Ecocriticism in Korrie Layun Rampan’s “Dataran Melengen”
Ignasi Ribó	Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand	Anthropocene Vulnerability and Spectrality in Contemporary Thai Fiction
Indah Fadhilla	University of Indonesia	Posthumanist Ecocriticism in Triyanto Triwikromo’s Short Story: Exploring the Perpetual Becoming Process in Human-Nature Relationships
Iping Liang	National Taiwan Normal University	Specters of Rubber: Trauma, Memory and Plant Narratives in State of Emergency
Isaraporn Pissa-ard	Chiang Mai University	Existential Concerns and Ecocritical Messages in Amitav Gosh’s Gun Island and Uthis Haemamool’s Juti
Ivan Rey Carl L. Asilum	Mindanao State University – General Santos, General Santos City, Philippines	Literature as an Ecological Vision: Deconstructing Human-Nature Interactions in Selected Novels
Jan Gabriel S. Boller	Polytechnic University of the Philippines	Spinoza and the Problem of Modernity
Jan Raen Carlo M. Ledesma	University of Santo Tomas, España, Manila, Philippines	An Ethological-Hydrographic Reading of the Ecological Literacies of Selected Philippine Ecopoems in English
Jayson Jimenez	Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines	Jimmy, pro vita sua (A Spinozist reading of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake)
Jepri Ali Saiful	Muhammadiyah University of Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia	When GenAI Talks Climate Change: A Posthuman Ecocriticism Inquiry into Human–ChatGPT Climate Change Conversations
Jessa A. Amarille	University of the Philippines Tacloban College, Tacloban City, Philippines	Writing Local History and Reimagining Home Post-Disaster: A Reading of Dinah Roma’s Weaving Basey (A Poet’s History of Home)
Jesus Emmanuel S. Villafuerte	Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines	Patining: A Tale of a Small Town, A Tale of a Nation
Joan Chiung-huei Chang	National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan	Stages of Resistance: Catherine Diamond’s Eco-Theatre and Mobilization of Local Environmental Consciousness
John Meir Aberle Meñoto	Mindanao State University – General Santos, General Santos City, Philippines	Resilient Waters: Examining Coastal Livelihoods and Environmental Challenges through Personal Narratives of Fishers in Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat
John Ray Hontanar	University of the Philippines Visayas	PAGHIDAET KAG PANAET: An ecocritical inquiry of the Enduring Babaylanism in Panay, Central Philippines
Jonathan Irene Sartika Dewi	Universitas Mulawarman, Samarinda, Indonesia	Bridging Semiotics and Ecology: Actantial Roles in Environmental Storytelling and Discourse
Joselito D. De Los Reyes	University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines	ECO-REEL for ECO-REAL: Narratives and Challenges of Eco-Critical Influencers and Content Creators in the Philippines
Joseph P. Casibual Jr.	Western Mindanao State University-Pagadian Campus, Philippines	Currents and Memories: Framing Solastalgia in the Narratives of Sibugay River Folks
Joseph P. Casibual Jr.	Western Mindanao State University-Pagadian Campus, Philippines	Paglatik sang Malagkit: Narrativizing Local Practices vis-à-vis Gastronomic Culture among Sibugaynon Hiligaynon in the Philippines
Josephine Intan Candra Dewi	Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Fostering Environmental Awareness and Preserving Cultural Heritage through EFL Creative Writing
Joshua Lloyd L. Blas	Mindanao State University – General Santos, General Santos City, Philippines	Beyond the Idyllic: Rethinking Island Ecology and Cultural Resilience in Balut Island
Kaisa Aquino	Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City (Metro Manila), Philippines	The Fragmented Life of the Revolutionary: Preliminary Notes on the Jungle-Village-City Relations Across Three Novels from Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia
Kathryn Yalan Chang	Department of English, National Taitung University, Taiwan	Vegetal Memory-Scapes and the Poetics of Displacement: Reading Dispersals through Phytocriticism
Kenar Syalaisha Kanayana	Sanata Dharma University	A Saussurean Analysis of Symbols: A Representation of Eco-Feminism in Nenengisme or Neneng Rosdiyana’s Facebook Posts.
Kiu-wai Chu	Nanyang Technological University	Mouse-Deer Crossing the River: Transcultural Adaptations of Multispecies Folktales in Zhang Xu Zhan’s Compound Eyes of Tropics
Le Thi Huong Thuy	Vietnam	Perceptions of water: presentation in contemporary Vietnamese literature (survey of the case of Nguyễn Ngọc Tư)
Leomar P. Requejo	Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines	Kalikasan at Katauhan: Ecocritical Perspectives in Joey Ayala’s Music and its Role in Environmental Advocacy and Cultural Memory
Lestari Manggong	Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang, Indonesia	Rejection and Resistance: Ecocritical Perspectives in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
Li-Ru Lu	National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan	Empire and Environment: Travel, Formosan Camphor and Tea Industries, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travelers’ Texts
Louise Jashil R. Sonido	University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines	(Re/Dis)membering: Memory and Necropolitics in Tabi Po
Lukas Henggara Nandamai Herujiyanto, S.Pd., M.A.	Universitas Widya Mandala Surabaya Kampus Madiun	Reproductive and Ecological Violence in a Repressive State: ISA–RSA and Feminist Ecocriticism in Indonesia’s New Order Literature (1966–1970)
Manal Shakeel	Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore, Pakistan	Reimagining Nature in Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black
Maria Anjelica C. Wong	University of the Philippines Visayas	Sangkatinuga as Planetary Thinking: Uncovering A Posthuman Filipino Ecopoetics through Western Visayan Ecopoetry
Maria Vincentia Eka Mulatsih	Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Ecological Reading of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s The Girl from The Coast
Marisya Befte Gulo	UKI	KINDNESS AND SACRIFICE IN SELECTED KOREAN FOLKTALES: INSIGHTS FOR ASEAN INCLUSIVITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Mark Louis P. Hernandez	Mindanao State University – General Santos, General Santos City, Philippines	Animating Ecology: Environmental Narratives and Human-Nature Interactions in Studio Ghibli Films
Maryanne Moll	University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines	The Dark Garden: The Failed Promises of Post-Martial Law Philippines and the Power of the Ecofeminine in Reine Arcache Melvin’s novel The Betrayed
Masda Surti Simatupang	Universitas Kristen Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia	Beyond the Screen: Environmental Costs and Ecological Perspectives in Post-COVID Online English Learning
Maya Sekartaji	Universitas Dian Nusantara, Jakarta, Indonesia	Sympoietic Sludge: The Posthumanist Ecocriticism and Non-Human Agency in Honeybee and the Blot
Md Abu Shahid Abdullah	East West University, Bangladesh	Reflecting Environmental Issues and the Human Connection to Nature: An Ecocritical Flight into Amitav Ghosh’s Novels
Md Abu Shahid Abdullah	East West University, Bangladesh	The Role of Narrative behind Planetary Crisis: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse
Minanto	Universitas Indonesia	The Construction of Woman’s Body and Enviroment as A Critique of Male Domination in Duri dan Kutuk (2024)
Muhamad Ma’rup	Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia	Suara Hewan: Eksplotasi, Representasi, dan Resistensi Burung Perkutut dalam Kooong (1975) Karya Iwan Simatupang/Animal Voice: Exploitation, Representation, and Resistance Turtledove Bird in Kooong (1975)
Muhammad Nurul Islam	University of Houston, Houston, The USA	Contested Waters, Bodies of Metal, Bodies of Flesh: Narrating Ecoprecarity and Resistance in Shaheen Dill-Riaz’s Iron Eaters and Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace
Neneng Sri Wahyuningsih	Universitas LIA, Jakarta, Indonesia	Climate Fiction and AI Translation: Challenges and Opportunities
Ngo Bich Thu	VNU-International School (VNU-IS), HANOI, VIETNAM	THE WORLD OF OBJECTS IN “THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH” BY E.A. POE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ECOCRITICISM
Nguyen Dac Kim Phung	Lương Thế Vinh High School for the Gifted, Dong Nai, Viet Nam	Narrating the Process of Vegetalization as Feminine Restoration in the Short Stories The Pale Fairy (Võ Thị Hảo, Vietnam) and The Fruit of My Woman (Han Kang, South Korea)
Ni Komang Ayu Ristya Pramadani	Sasing USD	Myth, Gender, and Resistance in Axie Oh’s The Girl who Fell Beneath the Sea
Niccolo Angelo R. Vitug	Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines	To Be Free as Literary Envisioning through Food and Environment of Post-World War 2 Philippines
Ning Huang	Silliman University	A study of Taoism in “The Straw House”
Nur Hasanah	Yogyakarta	Spatial Injustice and Ecological Crisis: Migrant Domestic Workers in Christian Surya’s Bedtime Stories of Hong Kong’s Helpers
Nurrahmi Putri	Universitas Sanata Dharma Yogyakarta	Ritual, Harvest and Resistance: Food and Cultural Ecology in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
Owen Harry	National University of Singapore, Singapore	Teaching Ecospirituality: Encountering Interfaith Ecological Affinities in Singaporean Nature Poetry
Pham Thi To Thy (Phạm Thị Tố Thy)	Tra Vinh University, Tra Vinh Province, Vietnam	ECOCRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FOLKTALES AND RITUALS: INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF CULTURAL VALUES IN THE SOUTHERN KHMER COMMUNITY OF VIETNAM
Pim Puapanichya	University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom	Writing an Archipelagic World: Navigating the Mangrove Maze and Non-Human Agency on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Purwanti Kusumaningtyas	Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga, Indonesia	Ecofeminist Collaborative Learning for Environmental Preservation: The Case of Script Writing Class of SWCU’s English Literature Study Program
Putri Khalidah	Universitas Padjadjaran, Kab. Sumedang, Indonesia	Digital Sisters of the Earth: Female Instagram Micro-Influencers and the Culture of Sustainability
Rangga Kala Mahaswa	Centre for Anthropocene Studies and Geophilosophy, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	The uncanny subject in the Anthropocene
Ratu Tsamarah Kusumaning Ayu	Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang, Indonesia	Curated Commodities: Photocard Collecting, Instagram, and the Invisible Ecology of Fandom
Regie Panadero Amamio	Mindanao State University – General Santos, General Santos City, Philippines	Sea Lore and Shifting Tides: A Literary Folkloristic Study of Fisherfolk Narratives and Socio-Environmental Realities in General Santos
Reimundus Raymond Fatubun	Universitas Cenderawasih, Jayapura, Indonesia	WHISPERS OF THE ANCESTRAL REEF: ECOCRITICAL READINGS OF BIAK’S SASORI SISUMDO MYTH AND THE RHYTHMS OF ECOLOGICAL INHERITANCE
Rupeng Chen	University of Edinburgh	Remaindered Words of Fire: Mahua Modernism as Pyric Aesthetics
Ruthie Liza R. Lapinig	Jose Rizal Memorial State University, Tampilisan Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines	A Feminist Ecocritical Analysis of the Lebon (Subanen Woman) in Subanen Folk Literature
Sanchar Sarkar	Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, India	Agency of the Indian Ocean: Marine Ecocriticism in Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay’s Bengali Nautical Fiction
Shreya Sharma	The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India	‘Ecological unconscious’ and planetary well-being: Examining Rohan Chakravarty’s comics
Soolmaz Moeini	PhD of Persian language and literature University of Guilan/Iran	Disaster Narratives in the Works of Ahmad Mahmoud: An Ecocritical Reading
Sreejata Paul	Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, India	Indigenous Autoecotheory: The Textile Art and Associated Storytelling of Alyen Foning
Stefanus Galang Ardana	Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Can Faith Save the Planet or Destroy It? Rethinking the Fremen Religion in Frank Herbert’s Dune
Tammy Angeline S. Macalma	University of Santo Tomas, Manila, The Philippines	The Sun, the Moon, and the Wormholes: Exploring Ecological Imperialism in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon
Tanvir Mustafiz Khan	Uttara University, Dhaka, Bangladesh	Exploring Gendered and Ecological Destruction in Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s “Dust Child”
Teguh Prasetyo	Universitas Kristen Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia	Totem and Ecocriticism in Seno Gumira Ajidarma’s Short Stories
Thangamani Ravichandran	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	Overt and Covert Climate Fiction: Reading the Climate Crisis in Literature
Thomas Leonard D. Shaw	University of the Philippines, Diliman	Tropes, Tropics, and the Uncanny: Ecocritical Reflections on Select Philippine Short Stories
Tirzah Zubeidah Zachariah	Universiti Selangor	A TASTE OF SATIRE IN ‘BEANS WITHOUT KOR KOR’
Tran Ngoc Hieu	Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam	The Discourse of Human Dwelling in the Anthropocene Epoch in The Tree House (2019) by Trương Minh Quý
Tran Thi Minh	Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam	EVALUATING YOUTUBE VIDEOS ON ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN VIETNAMESE LANGUAGE: EFFECTIVENESS AND POTENTIAL
Tran Tuan Minh	Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam	Displacement and Solastalgia in Mekong Delta Narratives: A Study of Nguyễn Ngọc Tư’s Short Stories
Vae Dadia	University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines	Slow Violence in Two Philippine Disaster Fiction
Velin Jusbina Manalu	Universitas Kristen Indonesia	Feminist Ecocriticism in the movie “Tulang Belulang Tulang 2024”: Analyzing Gender Roles and Environmental Symbolism
Wigati Yektiningtyas	Universitas Cenderawasih, Jayapura, Indonesia	GREEN HEROES: HOW FOLKLORE CAN INSPIRE ECO-FRIENDLY HABITS IN CHILDREN
Xu Lan	Universiti Putra Malaysia,Selangor, Malaysia	Environmental Virtue Ethics for the Anthropocene in Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer
Yeni Yulianti	National Research and Innovation Agency, Jakarta, Indonesia	No flowers No Gods: Environmental Imperialism in Orang Rimba, Jambi
Yosafat Andrew Gabrian Kameo	Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Walking Through November: A Leopoldian Approach Against Ecological Absence
Yosafat Andrew Gabrian Kameo	Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Climate Un-Awareness, Heideggerian Averaging, and The Drowned Sublime
Yoseph Bavo Agung Prasaja	Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 Surabaya	ANTHROPOCENE NARRATIVE OF SOCIAL FORESTRY MANAGEMENT IN TEMON SAWOO PONOROGO
Youyu Hu	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Torrents of Injustice: Environmental Violence and Narrative Resistance in Ng Kim Chew’s Rain
Yuliana Meneses Orduño	Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta	Nurturing Ecological Correspondences: Practices of coexistence based on ecocriticism and transdiscipline.
Yusuf Arimatea Neno	Magister Sastra, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Morphological Analysis and Deforming Tendencies in the Bilingual Book of Keong Mas Based on Vladimir Propp’s Theory
Zawiah Binte Mohamad Rasep	National University of Singapore, Singapore	Ingesting Divinity: The Emergence of Anthropocentricism through Mythopoeic Perspectives
Zulfi Zumala Dwi Andriani	Universitas KH Mukhtar Syafaat Banyuwangi	Ecocritical Analysis of Environmental Destruction and Climate Change in Jostein Gaarder’s “The World of Anna”

 

PANEL PRESENTATIONS

Panel 1

Natural Disasters, Catastrophes, and Ecological Anxiety in Contemporary Vietnamese Literature

Panel Abstract

This panel centers around discussions concerning the pressing and acute environmental issues currently facing Vietnam. As a nation already significantly impacted by climate change, Vietnam is confronting the increasing realization of more severe climate scenarios, such as floods, droughts, and landslides, occurring with growing frequency. Concurrently, the spiritual lives of Vietnamese people are increasingly affected by existential questions related to natural disasters and catastrophes. Consequently, how has contemporary Vietnamese literature responded to these environmental realities and the ecological anxieties experienced by the Vietnamese people? This is the central question that our panel aims to address. More specifically, this panel aims to address the following pivotal questions: (1) How have phenomena such as droughts and floods impacted the livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations in contemporary Vietnamese society, including women, children, farmers, and ethnic minorities, and how is this reflected in literature? (2) What is the value of literature in documenting the crises of subsistence and the psychological distress experienced by contemporary Vietnamese people in diverse locales and social spaces? And finally, (3) In what ways can literature and the arts in general offer insights into ecological reflection and awareness to address the current state of climate change? In conclusion, it is our aspiration that this discussion session will serve as a call for greater attention to the escalating environmental phenomena that threaten and profoundly impact the existential state of the Vietnamese people, as well as to the circumstances of underrepresented populations who are frequently marginalized within discourses of economic development.

Chair: TRAN Ngoc Hieu (Department of Philology, Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam)

Presenters	Affiliation (Institution, City, Country)	Presentation Titles
TRAN Ngoc Hieu	Department of Philology, Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam	The Representation of the Great Flood in Vietnamese Literature: A Study of “The Witness of a Death” by Nguyễn Quang Thiều and “Water: A Chronicle” by Nguyễn Ngọc Tư
DO Hai Ninh	Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam	Natural Disasters, Survival Instincts, and Psychological Trauma: Reading Narratives of Landslides in Contemporary Vietnamese Literature
TRAN Thi Anh Nguyet	The Faculty of Philology and Communication, Da Nang University of Education, Vietnam	Farmers Leaving the Land: Reading Vietnamese Literature After 1986 on the Theme of Labor Export
DANG Thi Thai Ha	Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam	Eco-Trauma and Eco-Recovery in Contemporary Vietnamese Narratives of Extinction and [Post-]Apocalypse
TRINH Dang Nguyen Huong	Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam	Floods Through the Eyes of Children: Responses to the Natural Disaster in Nguyễn Nhật Ánh’s Children’s Literature

 

Panel 2

The Affirmative Instrumentality of Literary Forms

Panel Abstract

Our panel takes aim at academic practices that attempt to balkanize the study of literature, to restrict it within the domain of the cultural or to conflate literary criticism with political action. Critical examination of texts is not an end in itself; nor is self-adjustment and personal enrichment. We must expand or re-conceptualize the humanities’ mission to include interventions in or against structures of power. Following Caroline Levine’s recent book The Activist Humanist, our panelists endorse an “affirmative instrumentality” for narrative art forms. We look at how the formal dimensions and motifs of narrative art provide structures for—and road maps to—political practices that promote the collective continuance of the human species, specifically political practices that combat systemic barriers to addressing climate change. Each of our papers attempts to connect the formal dimensions of literary texts to the formal structures of environmental activism. Orada Lelanuja examines forms of interbeing in Thai actor Sineenardh Keitprapai’s eco-performances; Lauren Clark looks at restoring affirmative instrumentality to physical bodies through agent-centered literary narratives; and Sarah Kimmet is examining a queer sci-fi novel that constructs postcapitalist structures for the body and body politic.

Chair: Lauren Rebecca Clark (Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand)

Presenters	Affiliation (Institution, City, Country)	Presentation Titles
Sarah Kimmet	Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand	Postcapitalist Bodies and the Eco-Body Politic
Orada Lelanuja	Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand	Moving with Nature: Exploring Meditative and Spiritual Connection through Sineenardh Keitprapai’s Eco-Performance
Lauren Rebecca Clark	Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand	Bodies of literature, bodies of water, quaking in their (work)boots

 

Panel 3

Reimagining Islands, Forests, and Seas: Ecologies of Relation and Resistance in Philippine and Southeast Asian Imaginaries

Panel Abstract

This panel explores how Philippine and Southeast Asian landscapes—forests, islands, and seas—serve as sites of memory, power, and resistance. Glenn Diaz examines El Arbol de la Alegria, where botanical science and settler colonialism intersect with alternative ways of knowing that disrupt capital’s hold on the forest. Ian Harvey Claros turns to the Waray heteronym hurón/húron in Garab, tracing how climate change and insurgency reshape ideas of home and pastoral life in Samar and Leyte. Christian Benitez challenges static notions of the “island” through the concept of pulo, Thai jungle cinema, and imagined gardens, proposing a poetics of islands that “pull away.” Luisa L. Gomez, meanwhile, analyzes Joar Songcuya’s seascapes as visual expressions of archipelagic thought—evoking movement, memory, and relation from a seaman’s gaze. Together, the papers rethink ecological and spatial imaginaries beyond containment, foregrounding how land and sea are entangled with histories of empire, displacement, and the ongoing work of reworlding.

Chair: Luisa L. Gomez (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)

Presenters	Affiliation (Institution, City, Country)	Presentation Titles
Glenn Diaz	University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines	Privatizing Utopia: Knowledge, Capital, and The Forest in Rm Topacio Aplaon’s El Arbol De la Alegria
Ian Harvey A. Claros	Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines	Hurón, Húron: A Home Under Siege in Southern Philippines
Christian Jil R. Benitez	Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; Ateneo de Manila University, the Philippines	Forests and Gardens, or Dreams of “Island” Pulling Away
Luisa L. Gomez	Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines	Tidal Relations: Archipelagic Thinking and the Oceanic Landscapes of Joar Songcuya, a Seaman-Artist

 

Panel 4

Diasporic Women in the Global Landscape

Panel Abstract

In the global landscape, diasporic women as complex subjects must negotiate their identity, body, and power. Broderies by Marjane Satrapi represents Iranian women’s resistance to patriarchy and religious revivalism through the domestic practice of embroidery, serving as a form of écriture féminine. Similarly, Puri Viera’s YouTube vlogs highlight the hybrid identity of Indonesian women in transnational marriages, revealing the ambivalence between agency and digital coloniality. The film Anatomie d’une Chute portrays the body of a European diasporic woman within a patriarchal legal system, employing the female gaze and poststructuralist approaches to expose linguistic violence against women. Lastly, the traditional practice of Marhata Sinamot among the Batak Toba diaspora community in Bandung demonstrates gender construction and the symbolic economic value of the female body in wedding rituals. These four case studies show that diasporic women, whether in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, or Europe, consistently face systems that negotiate their bodies and identities through narrative, law, tradition, and even technology. They also serve as representations of the evolution of women’s away-from-home experiences as exemplified by Frances Trollope’s narrative. This study emphasizes the importance of re-reading the position of diasporic women in the global landscape through the intersectional and interdisciplinary lens.

Chair: Dr. Ari Jogaiswara Adipurwawidjana, M.A. (Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang, Indonesia)

Presenters	Affiliation (Institution, City, Country)	Presentation Titles
Dr. Ari Jogaiswara Adipurwawidjana, M.A.	Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang, Indonesia	The American Landscape and the Victorian Female Gaze in Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans
Rifka Alif Rahmasari, S.Hum.	Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang, Indonesia	Remembering, Writing, and Postcolonial Women’s Agency in Broideries by Marjane Satrapi
Poetry Salsabila Nurrania, S.Hum.	Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang, Indonesia	Hybrid Identities and the Postcolonial Digital Embodiment of Indonesian Women in Puri Viera’s YouTube Vlogs
Dinda Akhlakulkarimah, S.Hum.	Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang, Indonesia	Woman and Institutional Violence in Anatomie d’une Chute (2023)
Felisita Angelique Novena, S.S.	Universitas Padadjaran, Sumedang, Indonesia	The Negotiation of the Female Body in the Marhata Sinamot Ritual of Batak Toba Traditional Weddings

 

Panel 5

Ecological Imperialism: Tracing the Ongoing Environmental Impacts of Colonialism in Indonesia

Panel Abstract

Despite Indonesia’s political independence, the nation continues to be profoundly shaped by coloniality, particularly in power, knowledge, and being. The coloniality of power persists through social discrimination and regional inequalities, reflecting the enduring legacy of colonial structures in contemporary society. Similarly, the coloniality of knowledge remains dominant due to the pervasive influence of the Eurocentric knowledge system, which has infiltrated our intellectual landscape and continues to perpetuate the dominance of certain groups. This is evident in the displacement of local perspectives by “modern” frameworks, often resulting in harm to indigenous communities who maintain deep connections to their land and traditions. The coloniality of being further marginalises groups rendered invisible within national narratives, compounding social and cultural exclusion. These dimensions extend into environmental issues, forming the basis of ecological imperialism.
This panel aims to critically examine ecological imperialism, exploring how it is represented across different cultural phenomena and productions in Indonesia. It will consider ecological imperialism as a direct consequence of the persistence of coloniality, inviting a decolonial perspective as a framework to scrutinize the ongoing impact of colonial legacies on shaping environmental narratives and practices.

Chair: Ramayda Akmal (UGM, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Presenters	Affiliation (Institution, City, Country)	Presentation Titles
Ramayda Akmal	UGM, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Margins of Resistance: Ecological Imperialism in Fatris MF’s travelogue Indonesia dari Pinggir
Rucitarahma Ristiawan	UGM, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	Urban Pastoralism? Rethinking Mobility, Informality and Spatial Justice in Yogyakarta’s Informal Parking Economies
Arifah Arum Candra Hayuningsih	UGM, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	“Our Bodies, Our Lands”: Indigenous Female Voices Against Ecological Imperialism in Tanah Tabu and Kuessipan
Ahmad Zamzuri	BRIN, Jakarta, Indonesia	Living in Spaces of Trauma: Buru Island and Journeying of Self in Laksmi Pamuntjak’s Amba
Bramantio & Yesaya Sandang	UNAIR & UKSW, Surabaya & Salatiga, Indonesia	Bridging Boundaries: Ecocritical Exploration from Literature to Visual Art in the Works of Kiki Sulistyo and Agan Harahap

 

Panel 6

Vietnamese Narratives of Animals: Voices and Gazes

Panel Abstract

Most Western and, indeed, many Eastern traditions have constructed the ‘animal’ largely as Other to the human. In the value dualisms that mark the civilized from the savage, order from disorder, civic society from wilderness, the human is placed squarely on the side of the positive binary whilst the animal is exiled to the outer boundaries of civilization, to savagery and violence. The animal in its most feared aspect is constructed as the ‘beast’ that needs to be hunted and killed in order to safeguard civilization. One of the great dangers widely identified by scholars is the anthropocentric approach to animals. In Donna Haraway’s famous words, “We polish an animal mirror to look for ourselves.”. Nevertheless, in many Southeast Asian cultures, paradoxically, a parallel elevation of the animal to autonomy and agentic status continues in certain cultural spaces, albeit inconsistently. We will explore more about the animal with autonomy and agentic status through exploring its voices and gazes in Vietnamese narratives, specifically with regard to Vietnamese culture.

Chair: Chi P. Pham (Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam)

Presenters	Affiliation (Institution, City, Country)	Presentation Titles
Chi P. Pham	Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences	Myth and Animal Resistance in Vietnamese Animal Stories: Case of “Raw Fish” and “Giát Market Day”
Hoang Thi Quynh Trang	Phú Xuân University, Vietnam	The Educational Lessons in Tô Hoài’s Stories for Children
Kieu Minh Hung	University of Social Science and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City	Postcolonial ecocriticism in Vietnam: Surveying the short stories of Bùi Ngọc Tấn and Nguyễn Quang Thân
Nguyen Thuy Trang	Hue University of Education	The Fate of Animals During the Pandemic: Reflection and Metaphor in Contemporary Vietnamese Literature