PILI,Camarines Sur -- Dr. Judith B. Salamat will attend an international conference as a lecturer at the Roger William’s University, Rhode Island, on October 5-7, this year.

        The island, considered the smallest of the 50 states of the U.S., is bounded northeast by Massachusetts and Connecticut.

        The symposium, organized by Prof. Roxanne O’Connoll of the said school, is to gather some 200 participants from all over the world to tackle the subject, “New Media and the Global Diaspora.”

        Salamat, who attended a related language and literature discussion in Gadjah Madah University in Indonesia last year, joins the group of academicians with another Filipino representative from the De La Salle University, Manila.

        Attending by way of application, she will lecture on “Blogs and Blogging: Towards a Wider Bikol Readership.”

        Her presentation, to dissect the interfacing of technology and Bikol literature, is based on the writings of Kristian Cordero (a Bicol Mail columnist), Rizaldy Manrique, Estelito Jacob, Francisco Penones Jr., Victor Nierva, and Jazmin Llana, all national artists of note.

        Asked on the relevance of the foreign discussions to common teaching, she said, “The regional picture amounts to this: Bikol interrelated with regional vernaculars and the Asian perspective on the most recent approaches. It becomes wholistic, better than fragments in the threshold of students’ perception.”

        Salamat agreed with this reporter that the concept being formed is like the model being done in the visual arts by the syndicated Oragon Republic and Tuldok.

        The young professor is a native of Pili, this province, and teaches English at the CSSAC.

        She graduated from the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, and the University of the Philippines for her masteral and doctoral decrees, respectively.