INVITED TALKS
2021
Litprom-literaturtage 2021: “Global vernetzt oder jede*r für sich?” April 24-25, 2021.
“Old Stories, New Forms with Intan Paramaditha and Sarah Maria Griffin,” Paisley Book Festival, February 19, 2021.
“Usmar Ismail’s After the Curfew,” Guest Lecture, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, February 11, 2021.
2020
“Feminist Cultural Activism in Indonesia,” Asian Studies Association of Australia/ University of Melbourne (part of the “Politics of the Unseen” roundtable), November 20, 2020.
“The Wandering: Global Nomadism in the 21st Century,” Hong Kong International Literary Festival, November 12, 2020.
“Intan Paramaditha: The Wandering,” Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, November 3, 2020.
“The Bottom Drawer with Intan Paramaditha,” Bagri Foundation, September 30, 2020.
Monash Indonesia Seminar Series: “In conversation with Intan Paramaditha and Stephen Epstein: The Wandering,” Monash University, September 24, 2020.
“The Wandering: Intan Paramaditha in conversation with Shameem Black,” Jaipur Literary Festival Brave New World, August 7, 2020.
“Intan Paramaditha: The Wandering,” Sydney Writers Festival, May 13, 2020.
English PEN presents: Hina Belitz, Meena Kandasamy & Intan Paramaditha, Waterstones Gower Street, London, March 4, 2020.
Perth Festival: Literature and Ideas Weekend, February 21-23, 2020.
2019
“Decolonising Feminism,” Broadside Feminist Festival, Melbourne, November 9-10, 2019.
JLF in Adelaide/ Oz Asia Festival, Adelaide, November 1-3, 2019. Panels: “Gender in the 21st Century,” “Women and Horror,” and “The Landscape of Fear.”
“Global Literature and Cosmopolitan Borders,” keynote speaker, ICUS 5, Airlangga University, Surabaya, October 25-27, 2019.
“Decolonising Feminism,” Feminist Research Network, University of Wollongong, July 25, 2019.
Jakarta International Literary Festival, Jakarta, August 20-24, 2019.
Makassar International Writers Festival, Makassar, July 27-30, 2019.
PEN Literary Salon, London Book Fair, March 13, 2019.
“Feminist Fairy Tales,” London Book Fair, March 13, 2019.
“Resistance: Literature as Activism.” Free Word Centre (English PEN), London, March 12, 2019.
2018
Singapore Writers Festival, November 7-12, 2018.
Hong Kong International Literary Festival, November 2-6, 2018.
NT Writers Festival, Darwin, May 25-28, 2018.
Sydney Writers Festival, May 6, 2018.
New Zealand Writers and Readers Festival, Wellington, March 11, 2018. Panels: “The Horror! The Horror!”; “Science and Magic.”
2017
“The Deadly Seductresses.” George Town Literary Festival, Penang, November 24-26, 2017.
“Gender(s) and Tradition.” La Bellone Maison du Spectacle, Europalia Arts Festival, Brussels, November 20-21, 2017.
“Sea of Memories: Intan Paramaditha in Conversation with Author/ Journalist Leila S. Chudori.” University of Melbourne, November 9, 2017.
“An Archipelago of Arts.” Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Bali, October 25-29, 2017.
“Horror, Feminism, and Literature.” University of Sydney, October 6, 2017.
“Film Studies in Indonesia: An Experiment of A New Generation.” KITLV/ Leiden University, Leiden, February 16, 2017.
“Women’s Resistance Through Arts and the Media in Indonesia.” Public talk at Perdu, Amsterdam, February 9, 2017.
Framing Asia Film Screening, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University, February 7, 2017.
2016
Short story reading. IntraAction: transCOLONIALISM – Soonsbeek Festival/ Dutch Arts Institute, Arnhem, June 5, 2016.
2015
“Indonesian Women Writers and the Taboo.” Frankfurt Book Fair, October 18, 2015.
“A Feminist Trajectory of Literary Influences.” Goethe University Frankfurt, October 13, 2015.
2014
“Post-Suharto Islamic Resurgence and the Secular Responses of Queer and Feminist Cultural Producers.” Transnational Genders on Screen Symposium, organized by the Critical Asian Studies Collaborative, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 17-18, 2014.
“Obsession for the Visible: The Politics of Vilified Bodies and Religious Morality in Indonesia.” Centre Asie du Sud-Est, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, May 23, 2014.
2013
“Tentang Seksualitas dan Pemikiran Perempuan (On Sexuality and Women’s Thoughts).” Salihara, Jakarta, May 28, 2013.
2012
“Waria Warrior.” A public discussion on cinema and transgender discourses. Q! Film Festival, Jakarta, October 3, 2012.
2011
“Revisiting Gender in the New Order Film Culture.” Center for South East Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa. April 1, 2011.
2010
“Post-98 Indonesian women’s cinema.” International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (for the “Asian Spectrum forum”), April 10, 2010.
“Tubuh Perempuan dan Sensor (Women’s Bodies and Censorship).” V Film Festival, Salihara, Jakarta, April 2010.
2008
“Excavating Fragmented Memories: Films on 1965 Coup.” Yale Indonesia Forum Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, April 12, 2008.
2007
Utan Kayu International Literary Biennale, Jakarta, August 23-26, 2007.