Parallel Session 3
- Parallel session 3 is scheduled to be on Friday, 14 November 2025 at 08.00-09.30 (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)
Venue: S.202, Second Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Ramayda Akmal
PANEL TITLE: Ecological Imperialism: Tracing the Ongoing Environmental Impacts of Colonialism in Indonesia
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Ramayda Akmal Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Margins of Resistance: Ecological Imperialism in Fatris MF’s travelogue Indonesia dari Pinggir |
| Rucitarahma Ristiawan Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Urban Pastoralism? Rethinking Mobility, Informality and Spatial Justice in Yogyakarta’s Informal Parking Economies |
| Arifah Arum Candra Hayuningsih Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | “Our Bodies, Our Lands”: Indigenous Female Voices Against Ecological Imperialism in Tanah Tabu and Kuessipan |
| Ahmad Zamzuri National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia | Living in Spaces of Trauma: Buru Island and Journeying of Self in Laksmi Pamuntjak’s Amba |
| Bramantio Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia | Bridging Boundaries: Ecocritical Exploration from Literature to Visual Art in the Works of Kiki Sulistyo and Agan Harahap |
Venue: S.203, Second Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Natalia Santos
SESSION TOPIC: Ecocriticism and Pedagogy
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Epata Puji Astuti & Fortuna Devi Gunputri Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Voicing The Indigenous: Cultural Ecology of the Baduy’s Tribe in Uten Sutendy’s Novel |
| Yoseph Bavo Agung Prasaja & Widiyatmo Ekoputro Universitas 17 Agustus 1945, Surabaya, Indonesia | Anthropocene Character Building of “Kitab Ambyo” Reading in Bedingin Ponorogo |
| Aldrin E. Manalastas & Jan Raen Carlo M. Ledesma (online) University of Santo Tomas, Philippines | An Ethological-Hydrographic Reading of the Ecological Literacies of Selected Philippine Ecopoems in English |
| Owen Harry National University of Singapore, Singapore | Teaching Ecospirituality: Encountering Interfaith Ecological Affinities in Southeast Asia |
Venue: S.302, Second Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Emma Luana Sophie Lengkong
SESSION TOPIC: Climate change and ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Anesya Brilliana Maryadi, Laura Angelrich Sianipar, Dewi Widyastuti, & Catharina Brameswari Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | The Concerns Towards Environmental Situation as Expressed in Students Creative Writing |
| Catherine Diamond Soochow University, Taiwan | Singaporean Eco-Theatre |
| Gayatri Thanu Pillai National University of Singapore, Singapore | Reimagining Ecocritical Pedagogies for the Future |
| Md Abu Shahid Abdullah (online) East West University, Bangladesh | Reflecting Environmental Issues and the Human Connection to Nature: An Ecocritical Flight into Amitav Ghosh’s Novels |
| Almira Ghassani Shabrina Romala Universitas Sanata Dharma | Translation Ideology and Strategies in Rendering Cultural Words in Selected Children’s Environmental Storybooks: An Ecotranslatological Perspective |
Venue: S.303, Second Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Gabriel Ephifanio Suwanto
PANEL TITLE: Environmental-Justice ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Joan Chiung-huei Chang National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan | Stages of Resistance: Catherine Diamond’s Eco-Theatre and Mobilization of Local Environmental Consciousness |
| Tanvir Mustafiz Khan (East West University, Bangladesh) & Nure Saba Tahura (Uttara University, Bangladesh) (online) | Exploring Gendered and Ecological Destruction in Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s “Dust Child” |
| Yosafat Andrew Gabrian Kameo & Bella Valencia Bawondes Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Climate Un-Awareness, Heideggerian Averaging, and The Drowned Sublime |
| Nur Hasanah Indonesia | Spatial Injustice and Symbolic Exclusion in Christian Surya’s Bedtime Stories of Hong Kong’s Helpers |
| Anand A.S & Rukmini.S Vellore Institute of Technology, India | Necessity for inclusion of environmental ethics curriculum in engineering education |
Venue: S.304, Third floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: DANG Thi Thai Ha
SESSION TOPIC: Phytocriticism and Postcolonial ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Iping Liang (online) Hungkuang University, Taiwan | Specters of Rubber: Trauma, Memory and Plant Narratives in State of Emergency |
| Carmel Bernadette R. Poblete & John Jay L. Morido (online) Mindanao State University-General Santos, Philippines | The Sentient Green: Rethinking Plant Personhood in Literary Narratives |
| Arga Dara Ramadhani & Dwi Mayang Sagita (online) Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia | The Human-Nature Relationship in Silvester Petara Hurit’s Short Story “Ama Tewo” (2024) |
| Desri Maria Sumbayak Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia | Khairani Barokka’s “extraction rumination, in the words of the lithosphere”: Neo Colonisation, Palm Oil Plantation Expansion and the Loss of Humans’ Lives |
| Chitra Sankaran National University of Singapore, Singapore | The Underside of Humanism: Human-Nature Relations Gone Wrong: An Analysis of Some Southeast Asian Fictions |
Venue: S.305, Third floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Zulfi Zumala Dwi Andriani
PANEL TITLE: Postumanist and ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Fitrilya Anjarsari Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Recalibrating conflated paradigms of posthumanism and ecocriticism: a perspective of quantum entanglement |
| Indah Fadhilla, S.S., M.Hum. University of Indonesia/UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Indonesia | Posthumanist Ecocriticism in Triyanto Triwikromo’s Short Story: Exploring the Perpetual Becoming Process in Human-Nature Relationships |
| Isaraporn Pissa-ard (online) Chiang Mai University, Thailand | Existential Concerns and Ecocritical Messages in Amitav Gosh’s Gun Island and Uthis Haemamool’s Juti |
| Jepri Ali Saiful Muhammadiyah University of Surabaya, Indonesia | When GenAI Talks Climate Change: A Posthuman Ecocriticism Inquiry into Human–ChatGPT Climate Change Conversations |
| Kanza Fatima Mirza (online) West Virginia University, USA | The Mesh of Illness and Nature: Exploring Hamnet through Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology |