English Letters Department Holds the 10th Literary Studies Conference in Collaboration with Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Wednesday (19/10): The English Letter Department of Universitas
Sanata Dharma has successfully held its annual activity, the Literary Studies
Conference (LSC) in collaboration with Ateneo de Manila University Philippines.
This year is the 10th sequence of LSC with the theme “Critical Envisioning of
Literature, Catastrophe and its (Un)equal Interplay” which is divided into 13
topics related to the big theme. This activity was held online for two days
from 18 to 19 October 2022 via the Zoom platform. The theme was referring to
similar discourses on how disasters, their causes, and their recovery are
viewed; and why was it always the minority who have to bear more of the burden
and consequences. In its commemoration of its 10th anniversary, LSC invited
writers, researchers, and also students to share their critical vision of literature
through this program.
On the first day, the
seminar was opened with a greeting from the Committee of 10th LSC, Elisabeth
Oseanita Pukan, S.S. M.A.,then it was continued by a welcome note from the
University President, Fr. Albertus Bagus Laksana, S.J., S.S, Ph.D., afterwards
the commencement of the conference was declared by Paulus Sarwoto, S.S., M.A.,
Ph.D, as the Steering Committee. The conference was divided into two plenary
and several parallel sessions for the participants to present their papers and
have question and answer sessions. The first plenary session was filled by Alex
Taek-Gwang Lee from Kyung Hae University with the topic Existential
Distortion: Korean Literature and the National Question and Ari J.
Adipurwawidjana from Universitas Padjajaran with Ill Stars, Turning Points,
and the Pleasure of Irony as his topic. Then the conference was continued
with two parallel sessions where 29 papers were presented by each author.
On the next day, there
was the second plenary session presenting three speakers, such as Joff P. N.
Bradley from Teikyo University with the topic Ecologies for Learning and
Practice; Emerging Ideas, Sightings, and Possibilities, Emmanuel M. Luna
from University of the Philippines with Nature and Human Dissonance: The Social
Dimension of Disasters as his topic, and Elisa Dwi Wardani from Universitas
Sanata Dharma with the topic Communication and Confinement in Pandemic
Fictions. After that, there were the third and fourth parallel sessions
where 24 papers were presented by their authors. The conference then was closed
by Novita Dewi as the Steering Committee Member.
This conference went
smoothly and was enjoyable for both the participants and the
committee. There is a great deal of enthusiasm surrounding the LSC.
According to Mala Hernawati, a returning presenter, the conference should
continue to explore fascinating and relevant topics that bridge literary works
with our socio-historical realities. It is hoped that LSC will continue to
provide academics, researchers, and authors with the opportunity to exchange
ideas and stay abreast of the most recent research in literary and other
humanities studies.
(SSH&NP)
