Reading Asia, Forging, Identities in Literature

The 2nd RAFIL International Conference (Reading Asia, Forging, Identities in Literature)
East-West Encounters (18 - 19 February 2009)

Conference Themes

The conference looks at the reading experience across Asia-what Asia reads, the langauage and form in which its literatures flower, the collective interest that the region projects on the literary screen, and intriguing analogues of culture, politics and the postcolonial struggle that asia gleans from literature.

The issues addressed at the conference are:

• Eastern values and experiences in Western language literary works
• Eastern literary works written in Western language
• Presentation of English literature in mass media and the internet
• Translation of Eastern literary works in to Western language
• The use of literary works for language teaching
• Approaches, methods, and strategies in the teaching of English literature to Asian students

Plenary Speakers

• Prof.Melany Budianta - University of Indonesia, Indonesia
• Prof.Dr.Harry Aveling - La Trobe University, Australia
• Prof.Maria Luisa Torres Reyes, Ph.D, Atenso de Manila, the Philippines
• Prof.Dr.Bakdi Soemanto, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia

Seminar Commitee
Department of English Letters, Sanata Dharma University,Jl. Affandi, Mrican, Yogyakarta
Phone: +62 274 518910, 518911 Ext. 1324 Fax. +62 274 562383
Email: (for abstract ewi@staff.usd.ac.id, for registration harris@staff.usd.ac.id
Deadline for submission of proposal: August 30,2008Deadline for registration: January 31,2009