Open to All: Gender Seminar 2025 at Universitas Padjadjaran
Jatinangor, September 2nd, 2025 — On Thursday, June 5, 2025, Seminar Gender 2025 took place at the Aula PSBJ, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, as part of the faculty’s commitment to making education accessible to the wider public and supporting lifelong learning. The event started with a keynote lecture by Dr. Lestari Manggong, M.A., who delivered an engaging talk titled “Naratif Palimpsestis dalam Tiga Karya Maxine Hong Kingston.” Her presentation highlighted the layered storytelling strategies of Kingston’s works and invited the audience to consider how narrative form intertwines with questions of identity and migration.
The seminar was facilitated by faculty members Prof. Aquarini Priyatna, M.A., M.Hum., Ph.D., Dr. Rasus Budhyono, M.Hum., Dr. Mega Subekti, S.S., M.Hum., and Trisna Gumilar, S.S., M.A., who guided discussions and offered scholarly insights throughout the day. A central feature of the event was the participation of fourteen graduate students from the Master’s Program in Literary Studies Program, each of whom presented their research proposals in themed panels.
The presentations spanned critical issues at the intersections of gender and cultural studies, touching on femininity, masculinity, performativity, and queer theory. Among some of them were Annisa Ayu Shafira’s “Manifestasi Penundukan Feminitas: Kebutuhan Perempuan pada Aplikasi Flo,” which examined how digital health applications frame women’s bodily needs; Felisita Angelique Novena’s study of “Representasi Maskulinitas Berbasis Penyajian Diri Strategis dalam Akun TikTok @pov_husband,” which questioned new constructions of masculinity in social media; and Dinda Akhlakulkarimah’s “Perempuan dan Kekerasan Institusional dalam Film Anatomie d’une Chute (2023),” which explored systemic power and gendered violence in contemporary cinema. The seminar also provided a platform for queer scholarship, with Elvia Vania Putri presenting “Queer Shame dalam Film Pendek Two Little Boys (2021),” a critical reading of shame as both stigma and resistance within queer narratives.
By combining the voices of senior scholars with those of the students as emerging researchers, the event highlighted lifelong learning, opening space for dialogue not only within the academic community but also for members of the public who joined the discussions.
Red. Dhia Anaulva Putri
