Call for International Symposium of Humanity Studies Literary Culture and the Culture of Literacy

The Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas cultural works and its engagement with Literary Gadjah Mada in commemorating its 72th the outside has also improved with The literary theme explores the anniversary, will be hosting an international more publication and translation of works development and present condition symposium this August 2018. The by young Indonesian academics, novelists of Indonesian literary culture and its symposium titled “Literary Culture and the and other cultural producers. By looking receptivity by the wider Indonesian Culture of Literacy in ” will broadly at both the development of Indonesia’ population. Since the 1990s, there have examine the reading and writing traditions literary culture and its culture of literacy, been greater interest in the consumption of Indonesia and its historical development. the conference hopes to give a long lasting of novels, comics and other products of It will look into the developments of literary contribution of defining not only the current literature by the general populace stemming cultures in its traditional, colonial, post- state of the art for Indonesian humanities, from increasing availability of translated colonial and recent digital forms. It will but also provide stronger paths both to cultural products in a globalized world. also look into the major works published its root traditions and its possible future Yet, there has been a noticeable shift in by and non-Indonesians that developments. the taste and strategies of consumption have affected the discourse of particular There are four sub-themes that are to of literature that also affects the literary subjects and themes, producing particular be explored in the symposium, which are as culture of the nation as a whole. The historiographical discourses that affected follows; expansion of popular culture and its variants the overall Indonesian literary culture. The in the form of the low brow popular novel, symposium thus aims to take stock of the Historical the comic books and mangas, the rise of present day traditions of literary cultures The first is a historical approach toward digital literature and the consumption of and discourses and the development of an understanding Indonesia’s literary culture blog-posts and forum postings show the Indonesian humanities that have developed and its culture of literacy. It looks at how increasingly changing environment of for centuries but which have undergone major political and social changes in Indonesia’s culture of literacy and how it is significant changes especially in the post- Indonesian history has affected its cultural affecting its literary culture. How has critical colonial period. In particular, we would like traditions and practices, from the pre- literary analysis developed in Indonesian to emphasize a reading into the contribution colonial, colonial and post-colonial period humanities department dealt with the of the rise of faculties of humanities in up to the present time. This historical increase in cultural production? What kinds Indonesian history. How has the rise of the outlook looks at possible periodization of values that are being transmitted with university system and the sciences of the in the changing literary culture of the these new popular consumption of literary humanities affected the Indonesian literary nation and the kinds of institutions that works? What has been the effect of the culture and the culture of literacy of the affected the culture of literacy amongst the internet and the digitalization of private wider Indonesian population? The Faculty of Indonesian population. How has the literacy lives in the culture of literacy in Indonesia? Cultural Sciences which had formerly been for Indonesian culture been developed and How has long established literary traditions called as the Humanities Faculty was the cultivated during these periods? What kinds transformed so as to live on in this changing first faculty of Indonesia’s first postcolonial of major tomes on history, culture and the world? University; Universitas Gadjah Mada, arts were read during these periods and how established during the revolutionary period were they read and by whom? How did major Linguistic of 1946 when became the capital works affected both the way Indonesian The theme on linguistic explores also this of the Republic. consumed the discourse on their history and changing world of literary culture from The development of Indonesia’s literary culture? For instance, the great works of a linguistic perspective, especially in culture has surely affected the culture of science, history and anthropology by Dutch looking at how popular and digital literary literacy of Indonesia, yet how and in what Indologists and their effect on the literary culture are creating new forms of linguistic way remains a mystery. Understanding the culture amongst the Indonesian population, strategies. It looks at how traditional conditions of the literary culture require the works of novelists, artists and other literary culture from Indonesian history also understanding how the wider society cultural producers and their relationship has affected speech patterns, morphology, consume that literary culture. Thus, the with the culture of literacy. The changing syntax, semantics and other linguistic symposium aims at understanding not just strategies of discourse consumption from aspects of the . How the the production side of the literacy culture, traditional performance to the written , colonial and postcolonial state formalized but also the way in which it is engaged and the expansion of the school system and and normalized a form of standardized consumed by the wider society throughout popular literacy, the changing landscape Bahasa Indonesia, yet also how Indonesian Indonesia’s history. The general popular of literary consumption resulting from people through their literary culture idea is that Indonesians don’t read and that technological changes from the radio, and its culture of literacy changed this this has been exacerbated by the spread television to the present digital age and the formal Bahasa Indonesia into their own of social media with its new, strategies of history of the book itself and its relationship language, borrowing other languages information consumption. Yet, at the same with the wider Indonesian audience in all of the archipelago, creating new forms time, Indonesia’s literary world is booming its manifestations; the academic tomes and and popularizing them through novels, with new authors and greater production quarterlies, the self-help manual, the novels radio shows, soap operas and internet of academic works, literary works and and comic books and so forth. postings. How should we take stock of the Themes Important Dates Literary Culture and the Culture of Abstract Deadline (online): Literacy in Indonesia March, 30th 2018 Full Paper Deadline (online): Venue & Date June 22nd 2018 Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Non-presenter Registration: Universitas Gadjah Mada June 1st – 30th 2018* Yogyakarta | August 15th-16th 2018 *For registration, participants are welcomed to contact us. Research Area Linguistic, Literature, History, Contact Us Archaeology, Anthropology, Cross Department of History Cultural Studies Faculty of Cultural Sciences Universitas Gadjah Mada Abstract and Paper Submission Soegondo Building 3rd Floor Abstract (250 words) should Email: [email protected] include a title, name of author, institutional affiliation, email address and a brief personal biography (150 words).

Selected authors will be expected to submit a full paper of maximum 6,000 words.

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increasing changing forms of the Indonesian with literature and history. In fact, the language and how has the different relationship between artists and novelists, mediums of literary culture as a result of historians and other cultural specialists the technological revolution in information have been strong and productive. Yet, technology since the 20th century? What it hasn’t received the attention that it has been the response of the linguistic should have afforded. The theme explores departments in Indonesia in responding to this relationship and how artists have these changes in the language? What kinds interpreted the through of changes can we expect in an environment reading the works of literary specialists, that is prone to constant change and historians, anthropologists and others in whether the digital language forms their work. The production of the imaginaries represent a linguistically different language of Indonesia depend, to some extent, on in comparison to the written and spoken the interpretation of the artists and these language of Bahasa Indonesia? imaginaries have a strong role in building our identities. Exploring this aesthetic and Values of Culture and Arts intellectual connection is an important part

The last theme wants to explore how the in building our understanding of the present MADA GADJAH UNIVERSITAS SCIENCES OF CULTURAL FACULTY art world has affected Indonesian literary condition of Indonesia’s literary culture and culture and its culture of literacy. The the role of the humanities in forming what it humanities departments often forget means to be Indonesian in the present day. how important and entwined the arts are