Textual Microcosms team members presented their work at the 2025 ASEAS Conference in Cambridge on September 15, 2025

17 September, 2025

Textual Microcosms Panel at ASEAS Conference 2025 

The Textual Microcosms team presented a panel at the ASEAS Conference 2025, held at St John’s College, University of Cambridge on 15-17 September 2025. 

Our panel, “Voices Across the Archipelago: Translation and Textual Cultures in Indonesia,” highlighted the rich diversity of textual traditions across the Indonesian archipelago: 

  • Fadhli Lukman discussed Surau Texts Translated: Translation in Form, Textual Analysis in Substance, focusing on the Malay–Minangkabau tradition. 

  • Keiko Kamiishi presented Writing Reverence: Honorific Practices in Javanese and Balinese Kakawin Translations. 

  • Mery Tambaria D. Ambarita explored Batak oral culture in her talk, Peeling Back the Layers: Exploring the Batak Proverb “Nipis mantat neang, hapal mantat dokdok”. 

 

 

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