Studium Generale: Literature and Philology in a Semiotic Perspective

The Master of Literature study program carried out Studium Generale activities with the title Literature and Philology in a Semiotic Perspective on Friday, July 7 2023 at 13.00 WIB which was carried out in a hybrid manner. This studium generale activity was attended by 157 participants from various institutions such as Diponegoro University, Padjadjaran University, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, University of Indonesia, Muria Kudus University, UIN Salatiga, Gadjah Mada University and other institutions.
The invited speaker at this event was Dr. Ari Jogaiswara Adipuwadijana from the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Padjadjaran University, Prof. Oman Fathurohman from the Faculty of Adab and Humanities at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, and Dr. Ken Widyatwati, M. Hum. as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Diponegoro University.

Dr. Ari Jogaiswara Adipurwawidjana in his presentation of the material said, “What is semiotics, what is its object and what is its method? If semiotics is “a general theory about the process of signification,” is there a way to study literary texts, cultural products and social practices? Is there a special place for literature (and perhaps art in general) in semiotics?”

“As previously explained by Dr. Ari about the semiotics of various figures, what needs to be known in philology is text editing, how we understand the signs in the text to interpret the content of literary texts. The text will enter historical sociology leading to human civilization. Philology is criticizing the text by sequence: explaining, interpreting, reproducing, reconstructing and contextualizing”, Prof. Oman Fatrurahman in his delivery at the public lecture.

According to Dr. Ken Widyatwati, “Semiotics cannot stand alone in its relationship to culture and society. Semiotics has a relationship with other sciences in social life. For example, Roland Barthes raised the problems of France at that time and analyzed their cultural significance. Signs have their own cultural glamour. Example of Cambodia “It is seen differently in Java and differently in Bali. This is closely related to myths etc. Including the use of keris in Javanese culture, different types of keris have different uses, different positions of use have different functions.”