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The 11th LSC 2023 Geopolitics and Literature: Reimagining the Past, Present, and Future

Universitas Sanata Dharma

Yogyakarta, ID

October 3, 2023 – October 4, 2023

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

1. Ian Buchanan, Ph.D., Wollongong University, Australia
2. Dalan Perangin-angin, Ph.D., Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia

CONFERENCE FOCUS

We have lived in turbulent times. The not-long past two-year global Covid-19 crisis has brought about economic injustice, conspiratorial brokerage, and corrupt leadership at all levels. To worsen this predicament, wars have escalated in Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, and there have been ill-fated transitions of political power in several Asian countries as well. In addition, threats of cyber-security, the rise of sectarian movements, and severe climate change across the globe have expedited changes in today's geopolitical landscape. Contestations in world powers characterized by environmental collapse are 21st-century nightmares. Despite the seemingly daunting future, the shining geopolitics may yet open up transformation toward the new world order. Concepts of East-West and North-South relations could evolve with the current global power shifts whose complexity would not exclude the archipelagic nations in the East and Southeast Asian regions. Given this geopolitical dynamic, the transnational mobility of language, literature, and culture has never been the same. The 2023 Literary Studies Conference invites students, scholars, and researchers from different disciplines to address this geopolitical reality and its lasting implications. Contributions and ideas from the varied participants of this conference may shed light on the opportunities and challenges in literary studies.

SPECIFIC TOPICS

Colonialism/Postcolonialism and Critical Island Studies; Global Capitalism and Critical Island Studies; Race, Class, Gender, and Critical Island Studies; Translation and Critical Island Studies; Geophilosophy and Geoplotitics; Maritime Literature; Film and New Media; Language and Discourse; Ecocriticism; Art and Performance; Religion, History, and Philosophy; Diversity and Cultural Practices; Education and Teaching; Myths, Legends, and Folklores.

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The 10th LSC 2022: Critical Envisioning of Literature, Catastrophe, and its (Un)Equal Interplay

Universitas Sanata Dharma

Yogyakarta, ID

December 18, 2022 – December 19, 2022

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

1. Dr. Alex Taek-Gwang Lee - Kyung Hee University
2. Emmanuel M. Luna, Ph.D. - University of the Philippines
3. Dr. Joff P. N. Bradley - Teikyo University
4. Dr. Ari J. Adipurwawidjana - Universitas Padjadjaran
5. Elisa Dwi Wardani, S.S., M.Hum. (Doctor candidate at Universitas Gadjah Mada) - Universitas Sanata Dharma

CONFERENCE FOCUS

There is a Chinese proverbial blessing: ‘May you not live in interesting times.’ Many of us today have survived through two different centuries with its fin de siecle turmoils, not to mention the catastrophic event of covid pandemic that is still with us now; it is indeed a very ‘interesting time.’ We have experienced this communal affliction not only physically but also in its complex socio-economic and political aspects.

Catastrophe whether in the form of natural disasters, viral and pestilent pandemics, wars, or violences may befall to us indiscriminately, yet it impacts people differently for those privileged or unprivileged ones. We can no longer innocently claim that behind this tragic event we will see the workings of a benevolent God.  Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor (1988) has shown how diseases such as tuberculosis and cancer are not only literally perceived but has also become a cultural imagination. Media coverage has widely displayed how covid pandemic has been used as a political rhetoric in many parts of the worlds and how capitalist ventures have accumulated big profits in the name of quarantine protections and medical cures.

In literature, scholars have published books articulating diverse perspectives of literature and catastrophe. Similarly, writers have also produced various literary imaginations of catastrophe from ancient Greek to modern times. From time to time, there is a similar discourse of how catastrophe, its roots, and cures are viewed; and it is always the minority groups who have to shoulder more burdens and consequences.

With such contexts in mind, LSC in its decadal anniversary invites writers, scholars, and researchers to present their critical envisioning of literature and catastrophe with its (un)equal power relation to contribute more scholarly insights in the academia and to create more efforts to lessen the social inequality in our communities.

TOPIC AREAS (Include but not limited to)

Race, Class, & Gender; Apocalyptic Literature; Dystopian Literature; New Media; Ecocide; Language of Catastrophe; (Un)Equal Discourses; (Un)Equality Discourses; (Post)Pandemic Teaching; (Post)Pandemic (Un)Equality in Cultural Practices; (Post)Pandemic and the (De)Mystification of Power; (Post)Pandemic Contestation in Everyday Lives; Catastrophe in Religion, History and Philosophy

 

 

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The 9th Literary Studies Conference 2021 : Literature and Interdisciplinarity

Prodi Sastra Inggris - Universitas Sanata Dharma

Yogyakarta, ID

October 20, 2021 – October 21, 2021

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