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10 Mahasiswa Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Tidar melebarkan sayap mengikuti seminar intenasional bertajuk “Reviving Benedict Anderson: Imagined (Cosmopolitan) Communities, pada 13-14 Januari 2017, di Auditorium Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, yang digelar oleh Lembaga Studi Realino. Seminar yang mengahdirkan pembicara dari Indonesia, Thailand, Filipina, dan Singapura ini diikuti masyarakat umum, baik dari kalangan akademisi, masyarakat sipil, maupun non pemerintah.
Zaqy Mubarok, salah satu mahasiswa semester tiga PBI yang mengikuti seminar ini menuturkan, bahwa dirinya ingin sekali merasakan menjadi peserta seminar internasional karena belum pernah ikut, ditambah seminar ini free tidak dipungut biaya apapun, “Kaget banget karena menjadi peserta yang paling muda sendiri, padahal terbuka untuk umum.” Begitu juga dengan Axel Alessandro, meskipun baru pertama kali mengikuti seminar internasional dirinya tidak merasa malu “Terkesan sekali dan malah merasa kekinian lho, peserta seminar kebanyakan mahasiswa S2, sedangkan saya masih S1, makanya perasaannya senang sekali karena bisa menambah relasi foreigner.”
Seminar tersebut membahas riwayat hidup dan pemikiran Ben Anderson, ilmuwan progresif dan figur besar dalam ilmu-ilmu sosial kontemporer, serta membahasa kata-kata atau pernyataan Ben yang diperlukan dalam berpikir, serta membayangkan masyarakat kosmopolitan di luar kehadiran duniawinya. Secara keseluruhan seminar ini mengedepankan konsep bahwa cosmopolitan menjelaskan mengenai identitas diri sebagai manusia untuk saling berkontribusi atau saling tolong menolong tanpa harus memandang ras, suku, agama, dan tempat tinggal asal. “Ternyata banyak hal yang dipelajari bahwa cosmopolitan memiliki tiga identitas, pertama self identity yang berarti idestitas budaya dan agama, kedua national identity yakni identitas di Indonesia, dan ketiga regional identity artinya identitas kita yang tinggal sebagai warga ASEAN” tutur Zaqy.
Terakhir para mahasiswa merasa antusias untuk selalu bisa mengikuti seminar-seminar internasional yang diadakan di dalam negeri “Ternyata atmosfernya beda dengan seminar nasional, merasa lebih keren, jadi pingin terus ikutan dan akan terus mencari pengalaman. Pesertanya saja banyak yang dari luar seperti University of Philippines Diliman, Kyoto University, University of the Philippines, dan University of Bucharest ” ungkap Zaqy mengakhiri.
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Ten Students of Department of English Education, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, Tidar University participated an international seminar entitled “Reviving Benedict Anderson: Imagined (Cosmopolitan) Communities. The seminar, which was held on 13-14 January 2017 in the Auditorium of Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, was organized by the Realino Institute of Studies. The seminar, which presented speakers from Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, and Singapore, had attracted public, both from academia, society, and non-governmental sectors.
Zaqy Mubarok, one of the third semester PBI students who attended the seminar said that he felt excited to be one of the participants of an international seminar. He has never participated such seminar before. It was such a great experience. He added, this was a good chance since seminar was free of charge. He said, “I feel shocked because he was the youngest participants of all. Another PBI students, Axel Alessandro, had similar opinion. He was impressed and felt enthusiastic for the events. “The participants are mostly graduate students, but I am an undergraduate student. Moreover, it will widen my foreigner friends”
In the seminar, it was discussed the life and thought of Benedict Anderson, a progressive scientist and prominent figure in contemporary social sciences. Besides that, it talked about the Benedict’ words or statements, and his imagination of a cosmopolitan society. Overall, this seminar put forward the concept cosmopolitan as individual identity to help each other disregarding to race, ethnicity, religion, and origin. “I’ve learned a lot of things about cosmopolitan. It has three identities of self-identity (culture and religion identity), national identity (identity as Indonesian), and the regional identity (as citizens of ASEAN)”, said Zaqy.
At last, the students were excited to always be able to join international seminars particularly those, which are held in the country. “It has different atmosphere with the national seminar. It is nice to be here, we look forward typical seminar in the future. The participants are not only Indonesian, but also some from other countries such as the University of the Philippines Diliman, Kyoto University, University of the Philippines, and the University of Bucharest “said Zaqy. (TP/WR)
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