Activities

The First Undergrad Conference

Sun, 07 Jul 2013

The First Undergraduate Conference on English Language Teaching (ELT), Linguistics and Literature, aka UC USD PBI 2013, was organized by the English Language Education Study Programme (PBI) of Sanata Dharma University (USD) Yogyakarta, with the theme Showing Identtity through Language, on Saturday 6 July 2013 at 7 am till 5 pm in the USD Mrican campus. The 2013 conference, involving totally some 150 undergraduate students representing several institutions, saw 21 parallel paper presentations and two plenary speakers' lectures. The proceeding book of the UC 2013 is downloadable at UC USD 2013 Proceedings.pdf

 

Rector of Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta, Rev Dr Paulus Wiryono P SJ officially opens the UC 2013 by hitting the gong, accompanied by Master of Ceremony (MC) Chika (leftmost), MC Vena (second from right) and UC 2013 chairperson Cemara (rightmost)

 

PBI-ers of batch 2011 (left-right) Tiara, Hani, Sri and Vero participate cheerfully  

 

Masters of Ceremony (MCs) Chika (left) and Vena (right) warmly welcome UC presenters and participants  

 

USD PBI chairperson Ms Tutyandari (left), Father Rector (centre) and UC plenary speaker Dr Bismoko (right) are seated in front of the main conference venue in Koendjono room of the USD Central Building in Mrican, Sleman, Yogyakarta 

 

Plenary speaker one Dr Bismoko speaks to his audience

 

Moderator-UC vice chairperson Sesi (left) moderates the second plenary session delivered by Pius Nurwidasa EdD  

 

UC attendees digest their first plenary session, whose speaker is Dr Bismoko  

 

PBI academic staff Krisna (left, in maroon) sits among UC participants  

 

 Security persons Friska (left, in brown) and Helen (right)

 

UC participants and parallel paper speakers head for their presentation rooms 

 

Nana (left) poses with Sandy, the person behind the successful UC rundown 

 

Moderator Ajeng (left) listens to a paper presenter (right) 

 

A group of UC-ers attend a parallel session 

 

UC 2013 participants sit in a circle and listen to the presenter, standing in front

 

 A parallel presenter representing Dehasen University Bengkulu (left) stresses a point and moderator Stella listens attentively   

 

Treasurers-Fundraisers Ika (left) and Tia (right) enjoy some warm tea 

 

Dancers Rini (left) and Tamara perform beautifully to entertain UC attendees 

 

Here comes part one of the door prizes ... UC chairperson Cemara (second from left) randomly picks lucky numbers

 

Pungky lends a hand to carefully check conference certificates  

 

 Enjoy a coffee break heh heh ... :-)

 

Refreshment section members Dhian (left) and Ika show satisfactory smiles since UC-ers very much enjoy the menu provided     

 

Hooray .... door prizes part two 

 

Sony (left) documents UC agenda items and his fellow Sandy stands behind   

 

USD PBI's English Teacher Vocal Group (ETVG), consisting of six vocalists and two musicians, perform elegantly in black     

 

Musicians Nanda (left) and a friend accompay ETVG 

 

The group Mr Baracoustic entertains UC attendees 

 

The front cover of UC proceedings 2013 is the design of Bona, and the models (left-right) are Ajeng, Dhian and Hayu

The UC proceeding book is downloadable at UC USD 2013 Proceedings.pdf

 

Is it a similar posing to that of the cover of the proceedings?  

  

Let's have a picture of us taken at the entrance 

 

UC photographers-committee members stand by with cameras  

  

Four presenters of Dehasen University, Bengkulu pose for a picture before their lecturer

 

 UC 2013 info is also carried by Kompas daily

 

USD UC 2013 participating institutions/universities are listed non-alphabetically as follows:

1. Ahmad Dahlan University Yogyakarta (UAD), 2. Dehasen University (Unived) Bengkulu, 3. Sanata Dharma (Sadhar) University Yogyakarta, 4. Satya Wacana Christian University (UKSW), Salatiga,  Central Java, 5. Yogyakarta Muhammidiyah University (UMY), 6. Purworejo Muhammidiyah University (UMP), 7. Siswa Bangsa International University (Sampoerna School of Education), East Java, 8. State University of Malang (UM), East Java, 9. Yogyakarta State University (UNY), 10. Sarjanawiyata Tamansiswa University (UST) Yogyakarta, 11. Mercu Buana University (UMB) Yogyakarta, 12. Brawijaya University, Malang, East Java, 13. Sultan Agung Islamic University, Semarang, and 14. Muria Kudus University, Central Java

 

Wowww ... what a cool UC!

Yosafat, one of the paper presenters, expresses his joys and excitement at the end of UC USD 2013    

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