UPEL Participated in Holding a National Seminar Conducted by the Faculty of Letters and Cultures

Depok, Thursday, August 10 2023, UPEL participated in holding a national seminar conducted by the Faculty of Letters and Cultures, Universitas Gunadarma. This seminar carried the theme of “Perempuan dan Penerjemahan: Seksism dalam Penerjemahan Karya Sastra” (Women and Translation: Sexism in the Translation of Literary Works). The seminar was attended by three study programs under the Faculty of Letters and Cultures, one of which is UPEL.

The national seminar event organized by the Faculty of Letters and Cultures, Universitas Gunadarma, presented speakers from other universities. Universitas Gunadarma invited Dra. Sri Kusumo Habsari, Ph.D, a lecturer at Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta, to attend this seminar as speaker 1; and Dr. SF. Luthfie Arguby Purnomo, S.S., M. Hum. who is a lecturer from UIN Raden Mas Said University, Surakarta, to attend this event as speaker 2. Both speakers presented material related to sexism in translation in the field of literature.

This national seminar was also attended by Prof. Dr. E.S. Margianti, SE., MM., as the Chancellor of Universitas Gunadarma, and Prof. Dr. Didin Mukodim, MM, as vice chancellor IV, Universitas Gunadarma. In this seminar event, UPEL lecturers acted as the organizing committee and as seminar participants. Not only lecturers, students from the three study programs under the Faculty of Letters and Culture also attended this event, considering the importance of this seminar to broaden the knowledge of academic community at Universitas Gunadarma.

On the next occasion, UPEL will continue to participate in organizing academic events at Universitas Gunadarma. Not only involving the academic community within the campus, UPEL and the Faculty of Letters and Cultures, Universitas Gunadarma, are also active in involving other universities to participate, in the context of sharing knowledge and strengthening cooperation.