Prof. AQUARINI PRIYATNA, M.A., M.Hum, Ph.D - UNIVERSITAS PADJADJARAN, BANDUNG, INDONESIA
Prof. Aquarini Priyatna is currently teaching at the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, Universitas Padjadjaran. She holds a Master’s Degree from the Institute for Women’s Studies Lancaster University, UK (2002) and another Master’s Degree from the Women’s Studies Postgradute Program, Universitas Indonesia (2003). She completed her PhD, which looked at celebrity auto/biographies, at the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, Monash University, Australia. She has published two books on Feminist Cultural Studies. Her latest book publication is on novels by Nh. Dini, a prominent Indonesian feminist writer.
Her presentation in the 4th colalite is entitled Indonesian Female Superheroes: Forging the Feminine in the Masculine World.
AP. Dr. LIAM BURKE - SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Associate Professor Liam Burke is the discipline leader in Cinema and Screen Studies at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Liam has published widely on comic books and adaptation. His books include The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre, Superhero Movies, and the edited collection Fan Phenomena Batman. His most recent book, the edited collection The Superhero Symbol (with Ian Gordon and Angela Ndalianis), was published by Rutgers University Press in 2019. Liam is a chief investigator of the Australian Research Council funded project Superheroes & Me.
His presentation in the 4th Colalite is entitled Navigating National Identity: How Cultural Natonalism Can Challenge Comic Book Superheroes.
AP. Dr. SURINDER KAUR - UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA
Associate Professor Dr Surinderpal Kaur is the Deputy Dean of Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistic, University Malaya. Her research centers on the critical discourse analysis of media texts and the interface of multimodality within these texts. Her research focuses on issues of gender, migration as well as terrorism and conflict.
Her presentation in the 4th Colalite is entitled Visual Narratives of Race and Gender
in Representations of Superheroes/ines.
MOHAMED ZAIN SULAIMAN, B.A., MSc., Ph.D - UNIVERSITY KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA
Zain has been working as a professional Arabic-English-Malay translator and interpreter since 1995. He served as Chief Translator and Interpreter at one of Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic missions for eight years. In 2008 he joined Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia as a lecturer in Translation Studies and continues to work as a professional translator. Zain’s doctoral research on the translation of tourism won third place worldwide for the CIUTI PhD Award 2015. In January 2016, he was invited to the CIUTI Forum held at the United Nations, Geneva to present his research findings and receive the award from the CIUTI Council. He is also currently an editor for GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies and New Voices in Translation Studies. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Monash University from 2017 to 2018. In 2019, he co-authored a book titled Translation and Tourism: Strategies for Effective Cross-Cultural Promotion published by Springer.
His presentation the 4th colalite is entitled The Global "Pandemic" of Mistranslations: Calling for Superheroes!
TRI MURNIATI, S.S., M.Hum., Ph.D - UNIVERSITAS JENDERAL SOEDIRMAN INDONESIA
Tri Murni is a lecturer in the department of English Language and Literature at the Universitas Jenderal Soedirman where she has been a faculty member since 2008. She graduated from Universitas Diponegoro, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature and earned her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Arkansas. Her research interests lie in the broad area of literature, migrant literature, border studies, gender studies, and transnationalism.
Her presentation in the 4th Colalite is entitled Superheroes AcrossBorders: Indonesian Domestic Workers (IDWs) as Transnational Mothers.
Prof. SU XINCHUN (TAN KAH KEE COLLEGE,XIAMEN UNIVERSITY)
Prof. Su Xinchun is one of the representatives scholars of Cultural Lexicology in Chinese Cultural Linguistics from the 1980s to 19902. Several books, The Crystallization of Culture, Meaning (1994, Jilin Education Press), Contemporary Chinese Lexicology (1995, Guandong Education Press), involved. The Meaning of Culture and Explore Ze (1997. Guangzhou Press), and as teaching material is Cultural Linguistics (2007, foreign language teaching and research).
The paper he presented in the 4th colalite is entitled Ethnic Cultural and Modernity Extension of Chinese Characters.
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Dr. R. LAKSHMI PRIYA - FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, PACHYDERM TALES
Miss R. Lakshmi Priya is one of the core members in her startup that encourages creativity and online w/reading culture. As a part of kahaniya, she organises melange gatherings where individuals meet like minded people and create in a social environment. As the founder of Melange, she inspires students to indulge in creative process, her aspiration is to not waste any of the raw materials produced, she helps in polishing and taking it to publishing level. She has conducted workshops to motivate and prepare students in challenging publishing industry in numerous countries, including Bhutan, Bangladesh, India and Indonesia. Despite her passion for corporate world, she is also pursuing her Ph.D from Bharatidasan university. She has recently submitted her thesis titled Decanonising the Sleuth.
Her presentation in the 4th colalite is entitled Super(Un)Heroes and the Zeitgeist.
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