Parallel Session 1
- Parallel session 1 is scheduled to be on Thursday, 13 November 2025 at 13.00-14.30 (GMT+7).
- Please select the room to view the list of presenters assigned in each room.
- The venue for this session is in the Faculty of Letters Building.
- The designated rooms are as follows:
- Room 1: S.202 (Second Floor)
- Room 2: S.203 (Second Floor)
- Room 3: S.302 (Third Floor)
- Room 4: S.303 (Third Floor)
- Room 5: S.304 (Third Floor)
- Room 6: S.305 (Third Floor)
- Room 7: S.307 (Third Floor)
Venue: S.202, Second Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: TRAN Ngoc Hieu
PANEL TITLE: Natural Disasters, Catastrophes, and Ecological Anxiety in Contemporary Vietnamese Literature
| Presenter | Title |
|---|---|
| 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 online 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 University of Danang – University of Science and Education, Vietnam | Migrant Farmers: Reading Vietnamese Literature on Labor Export after 1986 |
| DANG Thi Thai Ha Institution of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam | Eco-Trauma and Eco-Recovery in Contemporary Vietnamese Narratives of Extinction and [Post-] Apocalypse |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| TRAN Ngoc Hieu | Tran Ngoc Hieu has worked as a lecturer at Hanoi National University of Education since 2001. He has contributed to some edited volumes such as Southeast Asian Ecocriticism: Theories, Practices, and Prospects, ed. John Charles Ryan (Lexington Books, 2018); Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia, ed. Jason Paolo Telles, Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach, John Charles Ryan (Springer Singapore, 2022); The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies, ed. Jeremy Tambling (London: Palgrave, 2022); Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries, ed. Ignasi Ríbo (Lexington Books, 2025). |
| DO Hai Ninh | DO Hai Ninh (PhD) is a researcher in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Vietnamese Literature at the Institute of Literature (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences). Her primary research interests include modern Vietnamese literature in general, with a specific focus on contemporary novels and comparative literature. In addition to her monograph Tiểu thuyết có yếu tố tự truyện trong văn học Việt Nam đương đại (Autofiction in Contemporary Vietnamese Literature, 2020), she has authored numerous articles published in journals such as Nghiên cứu văn học (Journal of Literary Studies), Lý luận, phê bình văn học, nghệ thuật (Literary and Art Theory and Criticism), and Văn nghệ quân đội (Military Literature and Arts). She has also co-authored several research works on Vietnamese literature. |
| TRAN Thi Anh Nguyet | TRAN Thi Anh Nguyet (PhD) is a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Language, Literature and Communication, The University of Danang – University of Science and Education, Vietnam. Her main research interest is the environmental literature and ecocritical theory, with special focus on urban nature, ecofeminism, and the history of Vietnamese eco-literature. She has published several books and articles on environmental literature, such as Human and Nature in Vietnamese Prose After 1975 from an Ecocritical Perspective (2016) and Ecocriticism and the Southern Vietnamese Prose (co-authored, 2018) |
| DANG Thi Thai Ha | DANG Thi Thai Ha is a researcher at the Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Science. She specializes in studying contemporary literature from the perspectives of ecocriticism and gender theory. The ways in which female bodies and natural beings are represented in artistic works and the relationship between bodies of humans and their surrounding physical environment are the two favorite topics she is especially interested and commit to pursuit. She has published one monograph titled “Identity, Body and Ecology – Some experiences on reading literature” (Writers Association Publishing House, Hanoi, 2019). She has participated in some national and international workshops and conferences related to gender, literature, ecocriticism and identity. |
Venue: S.203, Second Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Lauren Rebecca Clark
PANEL TITLE: The Affirmative Instrumentality of Literary Forms
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Sarah Kimmet Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand | The Affirmative Instrumentality of Emet North’s In Universes |
| Orada Lelanuja online Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand | Sineenadh Keitprapai’s Moving with Nature: Exploring Meditative and Spiritual Connections |
| Lauren Rebecca Clark Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand | Bodies of literature, bodies of water, quaking in their (work)boots |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Sarah Kimmet Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand | Sarah Kimmet is an assistant professor in the Integrated Center for Humanities Innovation at Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Her fields are Marxist literary theory, theory of the novel, and the transatlantic novel of late capitalism. She has published papers in the American journals MELUS, Novel: A Forum in Fiction, and The Henry James Review. |
| Orada Lelanuja online Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand | Orada Lelanuja is a lecturer at the Integrative Center for Humanities Innovation, Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She is also a member of the Crescent Moon Theatre, a Bangkok-based theater company. Her areas of interest include performing arts, theatre, playwriting, and creative writing. |
| Lauren Rebecca Clark Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand | Lauren Rebecca Clark (PhD) completed a Leverhulme PhD at the University of Sunderland, with a dissertation on Irish advertising, consumer culture and literature (Peter Lang). She has taught in the fields of literature and linguistics in higher education institutions in Oman, Thailand, Hong Kong, and the People’s Republic of China. She publishes in the fields of literature and history and currently focuses on the environmental humanities, particularly in environmental justice and ecopoetics. She is a Lecturer at the Integrative Center for Humanities Innovation, Faculty of Humanities, Chiangmai University. |
Venue: S.302, Third Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Alexandra Francesca A. Bichara
SESSION TOPIC: Challenging Anthropocentrism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Epata Puji Astuti & Andrea Kasih Anggita Simarmata Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Value Reflected in Papua Children Literature: A Study of Archipelago |
| XU LAN, Zainor Izat Zainal Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia | Environmental Virtue Ethics for the Anthropocene in Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer |
| Asima Gogoi (online) Namrup College, Namrup, India | “Images of Hope for Our Troubled Times”: Ecospiritual Imaginaries and Multispecies Kinship in Swarnalatha Rangarajan’s Final Instructions: A Novel |
| Muhamad Marup University of Indonesia | Suara Hewan: Eksplotasi dan Representasi Burung Perkutut dalam Kooong (1975) Karya Iwan Simatupang/Animal Voice: Exploitation and Representation Turtledove Bird in Kooong (1975) |
| Ivan Rey Carl L. Asilum & Regie P. Amamio (online) Mindanao State University – General Santos, Philippines | Literature as an Ecological Vision: Deconstructing Human-Nature Interactions in Selected Novels |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Epata Puji Astuti Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | Epata Puji Astuti is a lecturer in English Letters Department, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta. She was born in Madiun, on December 5, t1988. She is a public speaking enthusiast and is interested in literature, especially ecocriticism and gender studies. She earned her bachelor’s degree in the English Letters Department of Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, and completed her master’s degree in Literature at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Some of her previous researchers are Colonial Representation of Caribbean in Rosaliene Bacchus’ Haiku Poems (2021), Ecological Consciousness in the Children’s Literatures One Small Hop, The Leaf Detective, and One Plastic Bag (2023), Challenging Patriarchal Culture of Taliban Regime: A Woman Struggle as Seen in Homeira Qaderi’s Dancing in The Mosque (2023). She published books entitled Speaking is Fun (2020) and Public Speaking: From Fear to Fun (2021). |
| Andrea Kasih Anggita Simarmata Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | Andrea Kasih Anggita Simarmata is a third-year English Letters student at Sanata Dharma University. Andrea is passionate in children literature and feminist literature. She assists her lecturer for a paper titled “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Value Reflected in Papua Children Literature: A Study of Archipelago” which analyze how Papua children literature applied SDS values using ecocriticism theory. This conference presentation marks an important step in her academic development and grow. |
| XU LAN Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia | Xu Lan is a PhD student of the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Modern Languages & Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor (phone: 86-18213556439; e-mail: gs64220@student.upm.edu.my). |
| Zainor Izat Zainal Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia | |
| Asima Gogoi (online) Namrup College, Namrup, India | I am an Assistant Professor in the department of English, Namrup College, Namrup, Assam, India. My research interest lies in ecocriticism, environmental humanities and South Asian Literature. |
| Muhamad Marup University of Indonesia | Muhamad Marup based in Bandung and active in literary community like Arena Studi Apresiasi Sastra (ASAS) and Buruan.co portal for literature and art issue. Have experience as journalist in mass media (2019-2025) and have many achievement for his work. His literature work published in several media like Pikiran Rakyat, Tribun Jabar, and Buruan.co also published in joint anthology like Keluarga Owig (Buruan Publisher, 2017). He also have some achievement in writing competition like 2nd position at Perayaan Bulan Bahasa dan Sastra Universitas Gadjah Mada (2018) and 3rd at Gebyar Bahasa dan Sastra Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (2019). He can contacted at email: Madenmarup@gmail.com. |
| Ivan Rey Carl L. Asilum Mindanao State University – General Santos, Philippines | He is Ivan Rey Carl L. Asilum, 21 years old, and studied Bachelor of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies in Mindanao State University – General Santos City. He loves to explore the field of Ecocriticism and Anthropocene because he wants to find meaning and connection between nature and human realm. |
| Regie P. Amamio (online) Mindanao State University – General Santos, Philippines | Prof. Regie P. Amamio, Phd is a faculty member and the current Program Coordinator of the Bachelor of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies (BALCS) under the Department of English at Mindanao State University – General Santos, Philippines. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in English in Literary Studies from Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Philippines. Her expertise and research interests lie in stylistics and literary and cultural studies, with a focus on literary folkloristics, postcolonial studies, and Indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge. |
Venue: S.303, Third Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Catherine Diamond
SESSION TOPIC: Environmental Folklore
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Elisabeth Kivana Damayanti & Nur Rizka Kadir Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Reimagining Nyi Roro Kidul: Environmental Values in the Rituals and Folklore of Logending Beach |
| Wigati Yektiningtyas & Reimundus Raymond Fatubun Universitas Cenderawasih, Indonesia | Green Heroes: How Folklore Can Inspire Eco-Friendly Habits in Children |
| Regie Panadero Amamio (online) Mindanao State University – General Santos, Philippines | Sea Lore and Shifting Tides: A Literary Folkloristic Study of Fisherfolk Narratives and Socio-Environmental Realities in General Santos |
| Ignasi Ribó Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand | Anthropocene Vulnerability and Spectrality in Contemporary Thai Fiction |
| Rangga Kala Mahaswa (online) Centre for Anthropocene Studies and Geophilosophy, Indonesia | The Uncanny Subject in the Anthropocene |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Elisabeth Kivana Damayanti Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Elisabeth Kivana Damayanti is a graduate student in Master Program of Linguistics, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada. Her research interest are discourse analysis, ecolinguistics, and anthropological linguistics. |
| Nur Rizka Kadir Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | |
| Wigati Yektiningtyas Universitas Cenderawasih, Indonesia | Wigati Yektiningtyas adalah seorang dosen pada Program Studi Pendidikan bahasa Inggris, PBS, FKIP Universitas Cenderawasih. Ia tinggal di Jayapura sejak 1987. Ia menyelesaikan S1 (Sastra Inggris), S2 (Pengkajian Amerika) dan S3 (Ilmu Sastra) yang semuanya diselesaikan di UGM. Selain aktif meneliti, ia menulis buku-buku referensi tentang folklor Sentani dan buku-buku cerita dalam bahasa Inggris, Indonesia, dan lokal yang beberapa di antaranya sudah digunakan dalam pembelajaran di PAUD, TK, Keaksaraan Fungsional dan SMP di Kab. dan Kota Jayapura. Ia juga aktif mengikuti berbagai seminar/konferensi nasional/internasional sebagai pembicara baik di dalam maupun luar negeri dan menulis artikel pada jurnal nasional/internasional. Kecintaan akan folklor Papua mendorongnya untuk tekun melakukan penelitian di bidang ini yang membawanya menjadi seorang guru besar yang dikukuhkan pada 7 November 2023. Sejak 2016 ia mendedikasikan diri pada kegiatan literasi melalui penelitian, penulisan buku-buku, dan pengajaran dan membagikannya kepada berbagai rumah baca. |
| Reimundus Raymond Fatubun Universitas Cenderawasih, Indonesia | |
| Regie Panadero Amamio (online) Mindanao State University – General Santos, Philippines | Prof. Regie P. Amamio, Phd is a faculty member and the current Program Coordinator of the Bachelor of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies (BALCS) under the Department of English at Mindanao State University – General Santos, Philippines. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in English in Literary Studies from Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Philippines. Her expertise and research interests lie in stylistics and literary and cultural studies, with a focus on literary folkloristics, postcolonial studies, and Indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge. |
| Ignasi Ribó Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand | Ignasi Ribó is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University (Chiang Rai, Thailand). Currently, he is a member of the research unit Linguistics, Literature and Language Education for Sustainability (LLLES). His research deals with issues in the environmental humanities, bridging across the interdisciplinary fields of ecosemiotics, ecocriticism, education for sustainability, and human ecology. He is the author of Habitat: The Ecopolitical Nation (2012) and a contributor to the edited collections Southeast Asian Ecocriticism: Theories, Practices, Prospects (2017), Open Semiotics (2023), and Intersections of Religion, Education, and a Sustainable World (2024). He has also published the textbook Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative (2019) and the edited collection Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries (2025), as well as five novels and various academic essays in international journals. For more information, see www.ignasiribo.com. |
| Rangga Kala Mahaswa (online) Centre for Anthropocene Studies and Geophilosophy, Indonesia | Rangga Kala Mahaswa is an assistant professor at the Department of Western Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Universitas Gadjah Mada. Beginning in 2025, he developed the Centre for Anthropocene Studies and Geophilosophy (cas-geo.org) as part of his PhD project at the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow. His research focuses on geophilosophy, archipelagic thinking, and Anthropocene discourses. Also, the latest publication includes “Introducing the Pluriverse of the Anthropocene: Toward an Ontological Politics of Environmental Governance in Indonesia” (2023); “The pluriverse of the Anthropocene: One Earth, many worlds” (2023); “Bioinspired Technology and The Uncanny Anthropocene” (2025), and “Questioning local wisdom in Indonesian Indigenous research” (2025). Email: mahaswa@ugm.ac.id |
Venue: S.304, Third floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Christian Jil R. Benitez
SESSION TOPIC: Climate change and ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Donny Syofyan Universitas Andalas, Indonesia | We are the leftovers”: Legacies of Ecological Destruction in Tim Winton’s Juice |
| Hope Sabanpan Yu (online) University of San Carlos, Philippines | Verses of the Earth: Exploring Climate Change Through Cebuano Poetry |
| Agnes Anggraeni Yanuar Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | The Influence of Climate Change on Racial Exploitation Against Indigenous People in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves |
| Angel Mae Batua Arnaiz & John Jay L. Morido (online) Mindanao State University, Philippines | Preserving the Hills: Ecocultural Identity of the Tboli Upland Farmers Amidst Climate Change |
| Pham Thi To Thy (Phạm Thị Tố Thy) (online) Tra Vinh University, Vietnam | Ecocritical Perspectives on Folktales and Rituals: Intergenerational Transmission of Cultural Values in The Southern Khmer Community of Vietnam |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Donny Syofyan Universitas Andalas, Indonesia | Donny Syofyan, a distinguished lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities at Universitas Andalas, is a prolific author with a bibliography exceeding 15 books. His extensive body of work also includes over a thousand articles, penned in both English and Indonesian, that delve into a wide array of subject |
| Hope Sabanpan Yu (online) University of San Carlos, Philippines | Hope Sabanpan-Yu is is the current Director of the USC Cebuano Studies Center, the Commissioner for the Cebuano language of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), a CHED Technical Committee for Literature member and a commissioner of the Cultural Historical Affairs Commission (CHAC) of Cebu City. She is full professor of Comparative Literature of the Department of Communications, Linguistics and Literature of the University of San Carlos. She is past Chair of the NRCP Division of the Humanities and of the National Committee on Literary Arts of the NCCA and the Women in Literary Arts-Cebu, Inc. She has written four poetry collections published in Canada, a creative non-fiction collection, Naglangoy sa Langit which won the NCCA Writers Prize for the Cebuano Essay, a novel, two textbooks, eleven books on literary criticism and translated/edited of twenty six books from Cebuano into English. She was research fellow at the Kyoto University Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, a visiting professor at the Universitas Gadjah Mada and fellow at the Cornell University School for Criticism and Theory and at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. She is also the editor-in-chief of the Tugkad: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. |
| Agnes Anggraeni Yanuar Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | My name is Agnes Anggraeni Yanuar, but people usually call me Agnes. I was born in Jayapura on 10 January 2005. I spent my childhood in Jayapura, and I have lived in Yogyakarta since middle school. I study English Letters at Sanata Dharma University, and now I am in my third year of study. I have an interest in literature, especially in children’s and young adult’s literature. I also have an interest in literature with some topics like feminism and racial equality. In my free time, I like reading books like novels and comics, and talking about the stories with other people. I am so excited to continue developing all my interests and curiosity in the field of literature. |
| Angel Mae Batua Arnaiz (online) Mindanao State University, Philippines | My name is Angel Mae B. Arnaiz from the Philippines, a fourth-year BA in Literary and Cultural Studies student at Mindanao State University. I live in Purok Ondok Gawan, Barangay San Jose, General Santos City. My academic background focuses on cultural research and critical inquiry. In my second year, I presented a paper on tarot reading in the Philippines at the 10th PASCHR International Conference, which led to my membership in PASCHR. I’ve produced several research papers and joined university research colloquiums. As part of my OJT, I co-authored a community-based study to improve the bulad (dried fish) industry in Calumpang which was submitted to the local barangay and recognized for its community impact. I also visited Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, and met “Manlilikha ng Bayan” (National Living Treasures) Bundos Fara and Barbara Ofong, witnessing traditional brass casting and t’nalak weaving of the Tboli people in The Philippines. |
| John Jay L. Morido (online) Mindanao State University, Philippines | John Jay L. Morido is a playwright, theater director, researcher and a faculty member of the English Department of Mindanao State University – General Santos, General Santos City, Philippines. He is teaching English language, literature, communication, theater, and arts. He finished his AB English at MSU General Santos and Master of Arts in English at Ateneo de Davao University. His research interests and publications range from literary metanarratives, literature, language structure, folklore of Indigenous Peoples, ecocriticism, conventions of home and migrations. Currently, he is a Jurist Doctor student at the Mindanao State University College of Law. |
| Pham Thi To Thy (Phạm Thị Tố Thy) (online) Tra Vinh University, Vietnam | Pham Thi To Thy is a Lecturer at the College of Southern Khmer Language – Culture – Arts and Humanities, Tra Vinh University, Vietnam. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Vietnamese Studies at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City. Her research work focuses on Southern Vietnamese literature, Southern Khmer folklore, and heritage studies. She has delivered presentations at conferences and authored both research papers and books on these subjects. ORCID: 0009-0008-4383-7448. E-mail: pttothy@tvu.edu.vn. |
Venue: S.305, Third floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Fitrilya Anjarsari
SESSION TOPIC: Environmental, National, Justice ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Yusuf Arimatea Neno, theresia enny anggraini, & Harris Hermansyah Setiajid Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Morphological Analysis and Deforming Tendencies in the Bilingual Book of Keong Mas |
| Reimundus Raymond Fatubun & Wigati Yektiningtyas Universitas Cenderawasih, Indonesia | Whispers of the Ancestral Reef: Ecocritical Readings of Biak’s Sasori Sisumdo Myth and The Rhythms of Ecological Inheritance |
| Famala Eka Sanhadi Rahayu (online) University of Hasanuddin, Indonesia | Green Narratives or Greenwashing? A Comparative Ecological Discourse Analysis of IKN |
| Vae Ann C. Dadia University of Santo Tomas, Philippines | Slow Violence in Two Philippine Disaster Novels |
| Sreejata Paul (online) Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR, India | Indigenous Autoecotheory: The Textile Art and Associated Storytelling of Alyen Foning |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Yusuf Arimatea Neno Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | A translation enthusiast who has been a member of JLTC since 2022. Interested in translating children’s literature. One of the translators of the book “Aesop’s Fables: Timeless Tales” and a contributor to articles on the JLTC website. Currently pursuing a master’s degree in literature at Sanata Dharma University. |
| theresia enny anggraini Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | |
| Harris Hermansyah Setiajid Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Harris Hermansyah Setiajid is a translator, writer, and lecturer in the field of Translation Studies. He devotes most of his time to mentoring students, translating literary works, and researching interdisciplinary issues in translation, including ecology, ethics, and social justice. He previously pursued a doctoral degree in Translation Studies at Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta. However, due to personal considerations and unexpected life circumstances, he chose to end his studies before the dissertation stage. For Harris, this decision was not the end of his learning process, but rather a transformation of his intellectual path into spaces beyond formal academic boundaries. As a practitioner, lecturer, and independent thinker, Harris continues to actively write, translate, and share knowledge through the Jogja Literary Translation Club, a translation community he initiated. He believes that translation is a cross-border endeavor that goes beyond the transfer of languages, but also builds bridges of understanding between people, cultures, and the universe. |
| Reimundus Raymond Fatubun Universitas Cenderawasih, Indonesia | Reimundus Raymond Fatubun is a Professor of English at the Department of Languages and Arts at Cenderawasih University, Jayapura, Indonesia and a Fulbright alumnus of 1995 and 2006. He studied at Cenderawasih University and IKIP Malang for his undergraduate degree (1987), at Michigan State University and Iowa State University for his Master’s degree (1995), and at UM (Malang) and UCLA, Los Angeles, USA for his doctoral degree (2006). Some of the courses he teaches include Pedagogical English Grammar, Research Methodology, Philosophy of Science, and Literary Theories and Practices. He has presented many national and international seminar and conference papers. Two of his scholarly articles include The Contemporary Significance of Orwell’s Animal Farm in Indonesia’s Contemporary Political Situation (International Journal of Special Education, 2022, 37(3)); Demolishing Humanity through Pleasure and Pain: Reading Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 Side by Side (Yogyakarta: Sanata Dharma University Press, 2023) |
| Wigati Yektiningtyas Universitas Cenderawasih, Indonesia | Wigati Yektiningtyas adalah seorang dosen pada Program Studi Pendidikan bahasa Inggris, PBS, FKIP Universitas Cenderawasih. Ia tinggal di Jayapura sejak 1987. Ia menyelesaikan S1 (Sastra Inggris), S2 (Pengkajian Amerika) dan S3 (Ilmu Sastra) yang semuanya diselesaikan di UGM. Selain aktif meneliti, ia menulis buku-buku referensi tentang folklor Sentani dan buku-buku cerita dalam bahasa Inggris, Indonesia, dan lokal yang beberapa di antaranya sudah digunakan dalam pembelajaran di PAUD, TK, Keaksaraan Fungsional dan SMP di Kab. dan Kota Jayapura. Ia juga aktif mengikuti berbagai seminar/konferensi nasional/internasional sebagai pembicara baik di dalam maupun luar negeri dan menulis artikel pada jurnal nasional/internasional. Kecintaan akan folklor Papua mendorongnya untuk tekun melakukan penelitian di bidang ini yang membawanya menjadi seorang guru besar yang dikukuhkan pada 7 November 2023. Sejak 2016 ia mendedikasikan diri pada kegiatan literasi melalui penelitian, penulisan buku-buku, dan pengajaran dan membagikannya kepada berbagai rumah baca. |
| Famala Eka Sanhadi Rahayu (online) University of Hasanuddin, Indonesia | Famala Eka SanhadiRahayu is a Linguistic Doctorate Student at Hasanuddin University and a lecturer at Mulawarman University. Specializing in Ecological Discourse Analysis (EDA), her work delves into the complex interplay between language and environmental ethics, particularly within public discourse. Her current doctoral research offers a critical EDA of the New Capital (IKN) discourses in Indonesia, analyzing how linguistic constructions influence environmental perceptions. She has contributed to national journals on the use of metaphor in environmental poetry and to international publications on governmental and media framing of the IKN project. Her research aims to illuminate the profound impact of language on environmental policy and societal attitudes towards nature. |
| Vae Ann C. Dadia University of Santo Tomas, Philippines | Vae Ann Dadia teaches Literature and the Environment at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines. |
| Sreejata Paul (online) Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR, India | Sreejata Paul is Assistant Professor of English at Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR, India. Her research and writing largely revolve around environmental humanities, plant humanities, women’s intellectual networks and Islam in South Asia. Her work has been published in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Women: a cultural review, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, South Asian Review and a number of edited volumes. |
Venue: S.307, Third floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Purwanti Kusumaningtyas
SESSION TOPIC: Feminist ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Kaisa R. Aquino Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines | The Fragmented Life of the Revolutionary: Preliminary Notes on the Jungle-Village-City Relations Across Three Novels from Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia |
| Minanto University of Indonesia, Indonesia | The Woman’s Body and Environment as A Critique of Men’s Sexuality in Cicilia Oday’s Duri dan Kutuk (2024) |
| Kenar Syalaisha Kanayana, Leticia Amora Loviani Br Perangin Angin, & Sultan Mahesadewa Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | A Saussurean Analysis of Symbols: A Representation of Eco-Feminism in Nenengisme or Neneng Rosdiyana’s Facebook Posts. |
| Elvis A. Galasinao, Jr. (online) De La Salle University, Philippines | Monsters of Us All: The Monster-Human in Barbara Jane Reyes’s Diwata |
| Manal Shakeel (online) Forman Christian College University, Pakistan | Reimagining Nature in Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Kaisa R. Aquino Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines | Kaisa Aquino teaches literature and creative writing at the Department of Fine Arts, Ateneo de Manila University. Her debut novel, Isabela (2024), was published by the Ateneo Press under the Bughaw Imprint, and has been translated into Albanian and French. Her other writing has appeared in Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia, Akda, Katipunan, Likhaan, The Best Asian Short Stories 2019, and in PA-LIWANAG (Translating Feminisms). |
| Minanto University of Indonesia, Indonesia | |
| Kenar Syalaisha Kanayana, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | I’m an undergraduate student of English Letters at Sanata Dharma University, currently in my final semester and still trying to survive uni one deadline at a time. Now, I’m preparing to work on my thesis, with a strong interest in linguistics and politics. |
| Leticia Amora Loviani Br Perangin Angin Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Leticia Amora Loviani Br Perangin Angin is a student of English Letters at Universitas Sanata Dharma in Yogyakarta. She is currently the president of the English Debating Society and has served as a moderator in various events, including parallel sessions at the 12th Literary Studies Conference and the 3rd APTIK International Conference. She also moderated the SUBI TALK online webinar and hosted SUBI LIVE by Sudut Bicara, and moderated a bootcamp event organized by House Ilmu Indonesia. Leticia enjoys public speaking and helping others express their ideas. She was also the Master of Ceremony for the student event REALLY 2024. She has experience in social media, education, and event organizing. Her interests include language and communication. She is excited to join the 13th Literary Studies Conference and the 6th ASLE-ASEAN Conference as both a presenter and a moderator. |
| Sultan Mahesadewa Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | |
| Elvis A. Galasinao, Jr. (online) De La Salle University, Philippines | Elvis A. Galasinao is a queer PhD student in Comparative Literature. He obtained his Master of Arts in Language and Literature major in Literature at De La Salle University. His research papers on poetry, language education, and gender performances have been presented at international conferences. He is currently writing a paper focusing on the performed cultural narrative of Bambanti Festival and the representation of Isabelino identity. |
| Manal Shakeel (online) Forman Christian College University, Pakistan | I’m a postgraduate student at Forman Christian College University, Lahore, and an English instructor at the Government Polytechnic Institute for Women, Islamabad. My research interests lie in exploring the human condition through literature, particularly our relationship with nature, technology, the supernatural, and one another. I’m drawn to interdisciplinary approaches, and my recent work engages with ecogothic theory to explore how literature reflects ecological and existential anxieties. |