I attended the Third Critical Island Studies Conference with the theme "Islands and Commodities" last 2 October 2023 at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada at Yogyakarta, Indonesia. More information on the conference may be found in their official website: https://cis.fib.ugm.ac.id/ugmcon/.

It was held back to back with the 11th Literary Studies Conference with the theme "Geopolitics & Literature: Reimagining The Past, Present, & Future" from 3-4 October 2023 at Universitas Sanata Dharma in the same city. In this conference, I presented my paper titled Of Golden Ships and Divine Mediators: Folklore in Small Bisayan Island Communities. More information on this conference may be found here: https://lscusd.id/.