Conference Agenda
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| Date: Wednesday, 30/July/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(233) Translation Studies (3) Location: KINTEX 1 204 Chair: Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University |
(234) South Asian Literatures and Cultures Location: KINTEX 1 205A Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat |
(235) Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (5) Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Stefan Buchenberger, Kanagawa University |
(236) Cosmopolitanism and Localism: Comparative Literature in Global Flows in the Digital Age (1) Location: KINTEX 1 206A Chair: Jing Zhang, Renmin University of China |
(237) Digital Comparative Literature (1) Location: KINTEX 1 206B Chair: Simone Rebora, University of Verona |
(238) Translating ethics, space, and style (1) Location: KINTEX 1 207A Chair: Richard Mark Hibbitt, University of Leeds |
(239) Translating the Other: The Process and Re-Creation of Dialogue Across Asian and Other Languages and Cultures (1) Location: KINTEX 1 207B Chair: Felipe Chaves Gonçalves Pinto, University of Tsukuba |
(240) Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature Location: KINTEX 1 208A Chair: Biwu Shang, shanghai jiao tong university |
(241) East meets West: Travellers and Scholars writing about India, Japan and Korea (1) Location: KINTEX 1 208B Chair: zsuzsanna varga, University of Glasgow |
(242) Lafcadio Hearn and Asia (1) Location: KINTEX 1 209A Chair: Toshie Nakajima, The University of Toyama |
(243) Ethical Literary Criticism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (1) Location: KINTEX 1 209B Chair: Sean Hand, University of Warwick |
(244) Literature and Science: Conflict, Integration and Possible Future in Science Fiction (5) Location: KINTEX 1 210A Chair: Yiping Wang, Sichuan University |
(245) Comparative Literature in Digital Age Location: KINTEX 1 210B Chair: Minji Choi, Hankuk university of foreign studies |
(246) Modernity, Human, and Nature Location: KINTEX 1 211A Chair: Eun-joo Lee, independent scholar |
(247) Re-globalization in Literature: from Euro-Asian Encounters to Cross-racial Dialogue (1) Location: KINTEX 1 211B Chair: Wen Jin, East China Normal University |
(248) Oriental Literature in World Literature: Exchanges and Mutual Learning (3) Location: KINTEX 1 212A Chair: Lu Zhai, Central South University, China Change in Session Chairs Session Chairs: Lu Zhai (Central South University) ; Weirong Zhao (Sichuan University) |
(249) Mutual Learning of Civilizations and Reconstruction of World Literature (5) Location: KINTEX 1 212B Chair: Qing Yang, Sichuan University |
(250) Polyphony and Semiotics of Literary Symbols (1) Location: KINTEX 1 213A Chair: Inna Gennadievna Merkoulova, State Academic University for the Humanities Pre-recorded video by the chair, Dr. Inna Merkoulova https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a-KNgf8qlgny-T5QytwLDxnJMROULFLo/view?usp=sharing
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/gb7yFmCBt40LmA ICLA invite you to the Zoom. Theme: ICLA Session 250
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(251) The East Asian Literature from a Global Perspective (1) Location: KINTEX 1 213B Chair: Zhejun Zhang, Sichuan University,China |
(252 H) Exophonic writing in the Era of A.I. Location: KINTEX 1 302 Chair: Benedetta Cutolo, CUNY - The Graduate Center 24th ICLA Hybrid Session WED 07/30/2025 (in Korea) 252H(09:00) LINK : |
(253) Intermediality and Comparative Literature (1) Location: KINTEX 1 306 Chair: Chang Chen, Nanjing University |
(254) Religion, Ethics and Literature (3) Location: KINTEX 1 307 Chair: Ipshita Chanda, The English & Foreign Languages UNiversity, Hyderabad |
(121) Narrative form and scripture, old and new (ECARE 21) Location: KINTEX 2 305A Chair: Nainu Yang, National Kaohsiung Normal University |
(122) Narrative in the longue durée of capitalism (ECARE 22) Location: KINTEX 2 305B Chair: Karsten Klein, Saarland University |
(123) New comparative approaches (ECARE 23) Location: KINTEX 2 306A Chair: Yakun Liang, Shanxi University |
(124) New possibilities in digital reading (ECARE 24) Location: KINTEX 2 306B Chair: Congwei He, Sichuan University |
(125) Performance in the digital age (ECARE 25) Location: KINTEX 2 307A Chair: Ziyu Zhang, Wuhan University of Technology |
(456) Authorship and Technology (2) Location: KINTEX 2 307B Chair: Xi'an GUO, Fudan University |
(500 H) Translating Migration: The Movement of Texts and Individuals in World Literature (1) Location: KINTEX 2 308A Chair: Chun-Chieh Tsao, University of Texas at Austin 24th ICLA Hybrid Session WED 07/30/2025 (in Korea) 500H(09:00) LINK : PW :12345 |
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(255) Translation Studies (4) Location: KINTEX 1 204 Chair: Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University |
(256) South Asian Literatures and Cultures Location: KINTEX 1 205A Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat |
(257) Comparative Literature in East Asia Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Hui Nie, National University of Defense Technology |
(258) Cosmopolitanism and Localism: Comparative Literature in Global Flows in the Digital Age (2) Location: KINTEX 1 206A Chair: Jing Zhang, Renmin University of China |
(259) Digital Comparative Literature (2) Location: KINTEX 1 206B Chair: Simone Rebora, University of Verona |
(260) Translating ethics, space, and style (2) Location: KINTEX 1 207A Chair: Richard Mark Hibbitt, University of Leeds |
(261) Translating the Other: The Process and Re-Creation of Dialogue Across Asian and Other Languages and Cultures (2) Location: KINTEX 1 207B Chair: Felipe Chaves Gonçalves Pinto, University of Tsukuba |
(262) Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature (6) Location: KINTEX 1 208A Chair: Biwu Shang, shanghai jiao tong university |
(263) East meets West: Travellers and Scholars writing about India, Japan and Korea (2) Location: KINTEX 1 208B Chair: zsuzsanna varga, University of Glasgow |
(264) Lafcadio Hearn and Asia (2) Location: KINTEX 1 209A Chair: Toshie Nakajima, The University of Toyama |
(265) Ethical Literary Criticism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2) Location: KINTEX 1 209B Chair: Biwu Shang, shanghai jiao tong university |
266 H (ECARE 40) Location: KINTEX 1 210A Chair: Yuan-yang Wang, Duke University 24th ICLA Hybrid Session LINK : |
(267) Global Futurism (1) Beyond the Human—AI, Animality, and Posthuman Futures Location: KINTEX 1 210B Chair: You Wu, East China Normal University |
(268) Poetry of Myself Location: KINTEX 1 211A Chair: Eun-joo Lee, independent scholar |
(269) Literature, Arts & Media (1) Location: KINTEX 1 211B Chair: Hanyu Xie, University of Macao |
(270) Oriental Literature in World Literature: Exchanges and Mutual Learning (4) Location: KINTEX 1 212A Chair: Lu Zhai, Central South University, China Change in Session Chair Session Chairs: Lu Zhai (Central South University) ; Weirong Zhao (Sichuan University) |
(271) Mutual Learning of Civilizations and Reconstruction of World Literature (6) Location: KINTEX 1 212B Chair: Qing Yang, Sichuan University |
(272) Polyphony and Semiotics of Literary Symbols (2) Location: KINTEX 1 213A Chair: Inna Gennadievna Merkoulova, State Academic University for the Humanities |
(273) Language Contact in Literature Location: KINTEX 1 213B Chair: ChangGyu Seong, Mokwon University |
(274 H) The East Asian Literature from a Global Perspective (1) Location: KINTEX 1 302 Chair: Zhejun Zhang, Sichuan University,China 24th ICLA Hybrid Session WED 07/30/2025 (in Korea) 252H(09:00) LINK : |
(275) Intermediality and Comparative Literature (2) Location: KINTEX 1 306 Chair: Chang Chen, Nanjing University |
(276) Religion, Ethics and Literature (4) Location: KINTEX 1 307 Chair: Ipshita Chanda, The English & Foreign Languages UNiversity, Hyderabad |
(126) Philosophy, spirituality and literature (ECARE 26) Location: KINTEX 2 305A Chair: Sushil Ghimire, Balkumari College, Bharatpur-2, Chitwan, Nepal |
(127) Posthumanism and AI (ECARE 27) Location: KINTEX 2 305B Chair: Kyu Jeoung Lee, Oklahoma State University |
(128) Rethinking world literature (ECARE 28) Location: KINTEX 2 306A Chair: ASIT KUMAR BISWAL, University of Hyderabad |
(129) Tech, Ethics, Heidegger (ECARE 29) Location: KINTEX 2 306B Chair: Kehan Mei, University of Tibet |
(130) Technology, Companionship and ethics in Kazuo Ishiguro (ECARE 30) Location: KINTEX 2 307A Chair: Lixin Gao, Shanghai International Studies Universtiy |
(457) Authorship and Technology (3) Location: KINTEX 2 307B Chair: Xi'an GUO, Fudan University |
(501 H) Translating Migration: The Movement of Texts and Individuals in World Literature (2) Location: KINTEX 2 308A Chair: Chun-Chieh Tsao, University of Texas at Austin 24th ICLA Hybrid Session WED 07/30/2025 (in Korea) 500H(09:00) LINK : |
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(277) Dongguk Univ: Korean Buddhist Literature Location: KINTEX 1 204 |
(278) South Asian Literatures and Cultures (5) Location: KINTEX 1 205A Chair: ChangGyu Seong, Mokwon University |
(279) Decolonising 'World Literature' : Perspectives of Oratures and Literatures from South Asia Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat |
(280) Cosmopolitanism and Localism: Comparative Literature in Global Flows in the Digital Age (3) Location: KINTEX 1 206A Chair: Jing Zhang, Renmin University of China |
(281) Location: KINTEX 1 206B Chair: Simone Rebora, University of Verona |
(282) Translating ethics, space, and style (3) Location: KINTEX 1 207A Chair: Richard Mark Hibbitt, University of Leeds |
(283) Translating the Other: The Process and Re-Creation of Dialogue Across Asian and Other Languages and Cultures (3) Location: KINTEX 1 207B Chair: Felipe Chaves Gonçalves Pinto, University of Tsukuba |
(284) Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature Location: KINTEX 1 208A Chair: Biwu Shang, shanghai jiao tong university |
285 Location: KINTEX 1 208B |
(286) Comparative Literature in East Asia: Cross-Cultural Practice as a Bridge between East and West (1) Location: KINTEX 1 209A Chair: Jianxun JI, Shanghai Normal University; Chinese Comparative Literature Association |
(287) Location: KINTEX 1 209B |
(288) Re-globalization in Literature: from Euro-Asian Encounters to Cross-racial Dialogue (2) Location: KINTEX 1 210A Chair: Wen Jin, East China Normal University |
(289) Global Futurism (2) Translating the Future—Chinese Sci-Fi on the Global Stage Location: KINTEX 1 210B Chair: Dominic Hand, University of Oxford |
(290) Images and Memory Location: KINTEX 1 211A Chair: Seung Cho, Gachon University |
(291) Literature, Arts & Media (2) Location: KINTEX 1 211B Chair: Hanyu Xie, University of Macao Intermedial studies and ‘New Materialisms’ Jørgen Bruhn, Linnaeus University E-Mail: jorgen.bruhn@lnu.se Most theoretical models of intermediality are inherently epistemological: media studies, including intermedial studies, basically investigates, criticizes and historicizes all the different ways of perceiving the world by way of different apparatus or communicative entities which may be more or less technical, advanced and complex. However, in recent decades a new set of questions has occurred, approaching the world not only epistemologically but also ontologically: such questions are often subsumed under the heading of New Materialism(s): ontological ideas relating to process philosophy and studies of emergent qualities have become more and more prominent in Media- as well as Literary – and Gender Studies. Such an ontological frame is of special relevance to Comparative Literature, where it raises important questions on the nature, practice, and relevance of comparison, and indeed of the notion of literature itself. As the integration of such non-substantialist approaches within intermedial studies and comparative literature is still in its early stages, these theoretical-methodological relations deserve closer academic attention. The general aim of this panel is therefore to investigate in depth the possible relations between intermedial studies and new materialist methodologies. Political Darkness with Musical Luminosity: Kalaf Epalanga’s “musical romance” Whites can dance too as a “safe place”, a rhythm of hope Hanyu Xie University of Macao, China, People's Republic of; yc47743@um.edu.mo Kalaf Epalanga is a contemporary writer, musician and poet, an African emigrant who settled in Europe during his youth for better education, and as a result of the civil war in Angola. Over the last decades, he experienced the cultural reality of Lisbon and Berlin. Like a 21st century flâneur, Epalanga and his music are present in the center and on the outskirts of Lisbon. The Portuguese press see him as a “cultural agitator”, who demonstrates on behalf of African culture or, in a broader sense, on behalf of black cultures around the world. The present study has as object Epalanga’s novel Whites can dance too (Também os brancos sabem dançar), which could be seen as a “musical novel”, based on the concept of “melophrasis” developed by Rodney Edgecombe (1993) and Therese Vilmar (2020) in response to the idea of “musicalized fiction” by Werner Wolf (1999). In the novel, Epalanga creates a thought-provoking narrative, woven together with the history of African music, including genres like Kuduro and Kizomba, and exploring its complex interactions with canonical genres such as Fado and Rap. Additionally, the author guides the reader through the complex feelings and subjectivity of the characters, providing an experience of their diverse emotions through metamusic. Epalanga thus constructs a unique musical land (a safe space) through words. It is important to note that these music-centered or music-based narratives are intertwined with ancient colonial memories, as well as contemporary narratives that highlight the suffering of the African diaspora on the European continent. In this musical land of the novel, the three main characters are on very different life trajectories, but they all cross paths at some point because of music and, at the end of the story, each of them finds in music a kind of redemption or sanctuary of their own. This narrative conception results in a remarkable contrast between darkness and luminosity, which evokes the clashes in the social arrangement of white and black voices (Achile Mbembe, 2003; Michel Foucault, 1997), and the proposition of a world-space that houses “non-hegemonic” voices. This contrast between darkness and light inspired me to explore the idea of literary music as a “safe space”. What I propose to discuss in this study is not music in its strict and concrete sense, but rather music as a possible verbal and aesthetic experience for the literary reader, for the reader of Os brancos também podem dançar, in short, a music that “can be read”. What is the “song” really about? How can this “musical romance” inspire new perspectives on issues of ethnicity today? How do the rhythm of ideas, frustrations and hopes intertwine with the mixed beat of rap, kuduro and fado? In seeking these answers, I also seek a new path of reflection on the construction of ethnic identities and the forms of existence and resistance of marginalized groups in today’s world. Research on the dissemination of academy culture in Sichuan Bashu Academies under the mutual learning of civilizations yaqi Liang Media and Cultural Industry Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of; 2021321030060@stu.scu.edu.cn Chinese academies emerged in the Tang Dynasty, and their functions gradually evolved from book repair and collection to reading and learning. Their service targets ranged from individuals to the general public, and they could cultivate talents and spread culture. The civilization of Bashu Academies not only benefited from the exchange and mutual learning between ancient BaShu culture and other cultures, but also from the "Southern Silk Road" that has lasted for thousands of years and crossed centuries. As a trade and cultural inheritance road, it inherits not only a culture, but also a spiritual force. The Academies culture in the Bashu Academies has shaped the urban character of "openness, innovation and creativity" and the humanistic characteristics of "broad mindedness and friendliness". Communication can make civilization colorful, mutual learning can enrich civilization, and communication and mutual learning can make civilization full of vitality and creativity. Exchange and mutual learning help promote the integration of civilizations from all over the world, and forge a magnificent force for the development and progress of human society. This points out the direction for promoting the development of world civilization and provides a good strategy for resolving conflicts between civilizations. Civilizations communicate through diversity, learn from each other through communication, and develop through mutual learning. The exchange and mutual learning among different countries, ethnic groups, and cultures in the world can enhance the humanistic foundation of a community with a shared future for mankind, spread and exchange each other's cultures, and promote the mutual learning of civilizations. The academies in the Bashu Academies can become a distinctive medium for cultural dissemination, relying on new academies and utilizing forms such as new media and intelligent media to tell the "Chinese story" well, promoting the true transformation of Chinese civilization from "going out" to "going in" on the global stage. Bashu Academies is a "magnet" that uses advanced cultural dissemination concepts to gather and integrate excellent cultures from ancient, modern, Chinese, and foreign cultures as a "iron"; The Academies is also a "neighborhood". It uses advanced cultural communication concepts to stimulate and amplify the charm of various cultures and vigorously spread them, so that the Academies will become a characteristic platform and an important channel to promote folk friendly cooperation in cultural exchanges along the "the Belt and Road". In effective communication, enhance cultural confidence internally and increase the influence of Chinese culture externally. Classified and Digitalized Illustrations of Animals in Human Societies - Gaze and Trajectories Jayshree Singh, Priyanka Solanki Literary animal studies - delving into the roots of human-animal interactions examine how animals are portrayed in different literary works in context of cultural attitudes, and ethical issues, is the study of animals and their representation in literature (Ortiz-Robles 55). Emerging as an interdisciplinary field, human/animal studies encompass a wide range of disciplines that make up the so-called "new humanities," which are concerned with human behavior and culture (Gottschalk11). The discussion draws from a wide range of fields, including but not limited to: “primatology, ethics, genetics, cognitive science, literature, history, philosophy, and cultural studies” (Singer 1). The classified and digitalized illustrations of Animals in the Human Societies worldwide by way of tangible or intangible depiction for consciousness-raising towards their predicament or for extracting the allegorical aesthetics use medium of language and form in creative writings, while visuals are either in digitalized generative images or as sculptures to denote perceptual observation, selection of sensitivity for the sake of perceptual defense to sensitize the readers and viewers. Their existing signifiers signify a set of dominant power relations or religion-ethical connotations of society towards animalism or for animals. Literature, Arts and Media have shown how the 'Animals in Question' are the agents through their mode of action to compete for legitimacy and authority and it is the medium of writing or the pictorial depiction categorically function either as a manner of Liar's Paradox or a counterpoint to humans' humanity. The research area of study attempts to analyze the ’gaze’ that sorts the trajectories, strategies of the internal and external stimuli and draws a brilliant analytical parallel picture of cultural, social, and hegemonic origin and influence by way of totalitarianism, imperialism, capitalism, and materialism. The eco-system both fragmented and diversified epitomize ‘the deepest tensions, social conflicts, rituals, taboos, and myths of humanity’s struggle to come to terms with its physical environment ‘through the bewildering, skeptical world of fictional’ (Orwell, xii).) animal fables in order to transform and restructure society. Otto Keller's enormous two-volume book "Die Antike-Tierwelt" from 1913 (reprinted 1963) served as the only thorough compilation of data on specific animal species in the ancient sources for over a century (Campbell 27). Scholars like Liliane Bodson and Richard Sorabji began to radically alter this perception and identification. Their goals are comparably metaphorical to bring paradigm shift for understanding both digitalized and non-digitalized, protected or non-protected archival visual representation of animals in order to pave for humanitarian conflict resolution towards prehistoric and modern arguments, and to make the prehistoric data speak to larger issues and concerns in classical research (Sorabji 36). |
(292) Oriental Literature in World Literature: Exchanges and Mutual Learning (5) Location: KINTEX 1 212A Chair: Lu Zhai, Central South University, China Change in Session Chair Session Chairs: Lu Zhai (Central South University); Weirong Zhao (Sichuan University) |
(293) Mutual Learning of Civilizations and Reconstruction of World Literature (7) Location: KINTEX 1 212B Chair: Qing Yang, Sichuan University |
(294) Polyphony and Semiotics of Literary Symbols (3) Location: KINTEX 1 213A Chair: Inna Gennadievna Merkoulova, State Academic University for the Humanities |
(295) The East Asian Literature from a Global Perspective (3) Location: KINTEX 1 213B Chair: Zhejun Zhang, Sichuan University,China |
(296 H) Comparative Literature and Digital Literary Studies in Georgia Location: KINTEX 1 302 Chair: Irma Ratiani, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University 24th ICLA Hybrid Session WED 07/30/2025 (in Korea) 252H(09:00) LINK : |
(297) Intermediality and Comparative Literature (3) Location: KINTEX 1 306 Chair: Chang Chen, Nanjing University |
(298) Religion, Ethics and Literature (5) Location: KINTEX 1 307 Chair: Kitty Millet, San Francisco State University |
(131) Text and tech (ECARE 31) Location: KINTEX 2 305A Chair: Yichen Zhu, Fudan University |
(132) The Comics frontier (ECARE 32) Location: KINTEX 2 305B Chair: Sara Mizannojehdehi, Concordia University |
(133) The web novel frontier (ECARE 33) Location: KINTEX 2 306A Chair: Yimeng Xu, The University of Hong Kong |
(134) Translation and agency (ECARE 34) Location: KINTEX 2 306B Chair: Juanjuan Wu, Tsinghua University |
(135) Translation and circulation (ECARE 35) Location: KINTEX 2 307A Chair: Kai Lin, University of Alberta |
Special Session II: Roundtable on Living With Machines: Comparative Literature, AI, and the Ethics of Digital Imagination Location: KINTEX 1 Grand Ballroom Chair: Matthew Reynolds, University of Oxford 2025 ICLA SPECIAL SESSION 2 - YouTubeSpecial Session II: Roundtable on Living With Machines: Comparative Literature, AI, and the Ethics of Digital Imagination#5: Wednesday, 7.30, 13:30 am - 15:00 pm
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(458) Next Generations of Literary and Artistic Narratives Location: KINTEX 2 307B Chair: You Wu, East China Normal University |
(502 H) Translating Migration: The Movement of Texts and Individuals in World Literature (3) Location: KINTEX 2 308A Chair: Chun-Chieh Tsao, University of Texas at Austin 24th ICLA Hybrid Session WED 07/30/2025 (in Korea) 500H(09:00) LINK : |
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(299) DUHA: Korean-Wave Location: KINTEX 1 204 Chair: Dae-Joong Kim, Kangwon National University |
(300) South Asian Literatures and Cultures (6) Location: KINTEX 1 205A Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat |
(301) Translation and Cultural Transfer in Soviet and Cold War Contexts Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Peter Budrin, Queen Mary University of London |
(302) How to modernize Location: KINTEX 1 206A Chair: Minji Choi, Hankuk university of foreign studies |
(303) Digital Comparative Literature (4) Location: KINTEX 1 206B Chair: Simone Rebora, University of Verona |
(304) Translating ethics, space, and style (4) Location: KINTEX 1 207A Chair: Richard Mark Hibbitt, University of Leeds |
(305) Translating the Other: The Process and Re-Creation (4) Location: KINTEX 1 207B Chair: Minjeon Go, Dankook University |
(306) Reading through the Colorful Lens Location: KINTEX 1 208A Chair: ChangGyu Seong, Mokwon University |
307 Location: KINTEX 1 208B |
(308) Comparative Literature in East Asia: Cross-Cultural Practice as a Bridge between East and West (2) Location: KINTEX 1 209A Chair: Jianxun JI, Shanghai Normal University; Chinese Comparative Literature Association |
309 Location: KINTEX 1 209B |
(310) Re-globalization in Literature: from Euro-Asian Encounters to Cross-racial Dialogue (3) Location: KINTEX 1 210A Chair: Wen Jin, East China Normal University |
311 Location: KINTEX 1 210B |
(312) Space, Human, and Movie Location: KINTEX 1 211A Chair: Hyun Kyung Park, Namseoul University |
(313) Literature, Arts & Media (3) Location: KINTEX 1 211B Chair: Hanyu Xie, University of Macao |
(314) Oriental Literature in World Literature: Exchanges and Mutual Learning (6) Location: KINTEX 1 212A Chair: Lu Zhai, Central South University, China Change in Session Chair Session Chairs: Lu Zhai (Central South University); Weirong Zhao (Sichuan University) |
(315) Mutual Learning of Civilizations and Reconstruction of World Literature (8) Location: KINTEX 1 212B Chair: Qing Yang, Sichuan University |
(316) Shaping the Literary Canon Location: KINTEX 1 213A Chair: Seonggyu Kim, Dongguk University |
(317) The East Asian Literature from a Global Perspective (4) Location: KINTEX 1 213B Chair: Zhejun Zhang, Sichuan University,China |
(318H) Translation Studies (5) Location: KINTEX 1 302 Chair: Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University 24th ICLA Hybrid Session WED 07/30/2025 (in Korea) 252H(09:00) LINK : |
(319) Intermediality and Comparative Literature (4) Location: KINTEX 1 306 Chair: Chang Chen, Nanjing University |
(320) Comparative African Literatures Location: KINTEX 1 307 Chair: JIHEE HAN, Gyeongsang National University |
(136) Translation, cultural exchanges and tech (ECARE 36) Location: KINTEX 2 305A Chair: Jing Hu, Nankai University |
(137) Trauma, body, resistance (ECARE 37) Location: KINTEX 2 305B Chair: Redwan Ahmed, Jahangirnagar University |
(138) Technology can Do so Many Things Location: KINTEX 2 306A Chair: Seung Cho, Gachon University |
(139) Comparative Literature in Action Location: KINTEX 2 306B Chair: Jun Soo Kang, anyang University |
(140) Disney Tells Many Interesting Things Location: KINTEX 2 307A Chair: Hyosun Lee, Underwood College, Yonsei University |
Special Session III: Korean Literature, World Literature, and Glocal Publishing: Celebrating Han Kang's Nobel Prize Award Location: KINTEX 1 Grand Ballroom 2025 ICLA SPECIAL SESSION 3 - YouTube Special Session III: Korean Literature, World Literature, and Glocal Publishing: Celebrating Han Kang's Nobel Prize Award
Chair: KWAK Hyo Hwan, Ph.D. (Poet, Former President of Literature Translation Institute of Korea)
Speakers:
1. KWAK Hyo Hwan, Ph.D. (Poet, Former President of Literature Translation Institute of Korea) “From 'Globalization of Korean Literature' to 'Korean Literature as World Literature' - The Future of Korean Literature After Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize” Author Han Kang has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is a sudden blessing that has come less than 10 years since The Vegetarian was published in the UK in 2015 and won the Booker International Prize the following year, drawing attention from the world of literature. As stated in the reason for selection by the Swedish Academy, Han Kang’s work “achieved powerful poetic prose that confronts historical trauma and reveals the fragility of human life,” the long and extensive world of Han Kang’s works was evaluated. In The Vegetarian, she captivatingly portrayed the violence of norms and customs that bind the family and society through the heroine who refuses to eat meat and tries to become a tree, and in The Boy Comes and We Don’t Say Goodbye, she excelled in dealing with the vulnerability of individuals who were sacrificed in the horrific tragedies caused by great power through the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement and the Jeju April 3 Incident, thereby achieving even deeper literary achievements. However, considering that the Nobel Prize in Literature is more of an award for merit that encompasses the author’s entire literary world and literary life rather than a prize for a work, this award cannot be anything but a surprising event. This Nobel Prize in Literature is not only an award for author Han Kang, but also an award for Korean literature and translation. The aspiration of Korean literature in the periphery to move to the center has been fulfilled by going beyond ‘introducing Korean literature overseas’ and ‘globalizing Korean literature’ to ‘Korean literature as world literature’ and ‘Korean literature read together by people around the world’. Now, Korean literature has opened a path for communication without time difference by being simultaneous with world literature, and has reached a turning point where it has transitioned from being a receiver of world literature to a sender. The power of translation, which has enabled readers around the world to read Korean literature without language and cultural barriers, has played an absolute role in this. And the Korean Literature Translation Institute and Daesan Cultural Foundation have made a great contribution to supporting this for a long time and systematically. Now, after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, it is time to calmly look at the process and meaning of receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature and what Korean literature should do. This is because the Nobel Prize in Literature is an important gateway that Korean literature must pass through, not a goal. Therefore, in this lecture, we will examine the process of Korean literature advancing to world literature, the role and achievements of translation at its core, Korean literary works that have attracted attention in the world literary community, and what Korean literature needs to prepare as world literature.
2. KIM Chunsik (Dongguk U) “Nobel Prize in Literature, and After” This essay critically reflects on the global significance of Korean literature in the wake of Han Kang’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Drawing on the author’s personal experiences as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley (2004) and a participant in an academic conference in India (2009), the paper explores the tension between center and periphery as a persistent framework in literary and cultural discourse. These episodes underscore how Korean literature has historically occupied a marginal position in global literary hierarchies, yet how such marginality also fosters critical reflections on identity, representation, and power. The essay highlights the Swedish Academy’s appraisal of Human Acts as revealing “historical trauma and the fragility of human life,” arguing that this speaks not only to Han Kang’s literary sensibility but also to the core concerns of contemporary Korean literature. Using the concept of the “politics of mourning,” as theorized by Judith Butler, the author contends that Korean literature engages in an ethical task: to retrieve the voices of the dead and reframe trauma as a shared human condition. Literature thereby becomes a medium that bridges the abyss between human dignity and violence, past suffering and present vulnerability. Ultimately, the author rejects the triumphalist view that Han Kang’s award marks Korean literature’s arrival at the “center” of world literature. Instead, it affirms a longer, ethical trajectory in which Korean literature, shaped by historical wounds and peripheral positions, has always already been global. The essay argues that the true value of Korean literature lies not in global market expansion, but in its sustained engagement with planetary concerns violence, mourning, and coexistence through ethical and imaginative inquiry
3. CHO Hyung-yup (Korea U) “Significance of Han Kang's Nobel Prize in Literature and Her Status in World Literature History”
1. The significance of Han Kang's Nobel Prize in Literature Han Kang's Nobel Prize in Literature can be seen as a great feat for the Republic of Korea, achieved through the combination of four factors: Han Kang's creative ability, the power of Korean literature that made it possible, the translator's ability, and institutional support from the government and the private sector. 2. Han Kang's literary achievements Han Kang's literary achievements are summarized in the expression “powerful poetic prose that confronts historical trauma and reveals the fragility of human life” that the Swedish Academy announced as the reason for her selection when it announced her winning the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 10, 2024. If I were to interpret this reason for her selection in my own way, I would say that “confronting historical trauma” is a “realistic thematic consciousness,” “revealing the fragility of human life” is a “modernist formal experiment,” and “powerful poetic prose” is an “organic style experiment.” So I think that author Han Kang's creative ability is obtained by successfully fusing these three things that are difficult to coexist. In other words, author Han Kang's literary achievements were obtained by independently fusing realistic thematic consciousness such as feminism, ecology, and historical trauma with modernistic formal experiments such as fantasy, aesthetics, composition, and point of view. In fact, realism and modernism are heterogeneous and conflicting literary trends that are difficult to coexist with. I think that the stylistic experiment called 'poetic prose' played a decisive role in fusing these two poles. 3. Han Kang's status in Korean and world literary history So I think that the core characteristic of Han Kang's literature is that he exquisitely fused these three items by putting ‘realistic thematic consciousness’ and ‘modernistic formal experiments’ in a crucible and using the catalyst called ‘organic stylistic experiments.’ Another important point here is that the methodology of stylistic experimentation based on ‘physical sensibility and organic imagination’ is partly an inheritance of the tradition of romanticism and symbolism accepted from Western literature, but also partly an inheritance of our country’s ‘traditional aesthetics’, ‘Korean aesthetics’ and ‘shamanistic native culture’. In the end, Han Kang can be evaluated as having creatively developed a dimension by accepting the three contradictory and conflicting literary lineages of modern Korean literature, realism, modernism, romanticism, and symbolism, which were influenced by world literature, while absorbing Korea’s traditional aesthetics and native culture and creatively fusing them. Therefore, I think that the status of Han Kang’s works in the history of Korean literature and world literature is that he returns the newly developed high-level achievements to Korean literature and world literature, which provided him with literary nutrients.
Discussants:
CHO Hyungrae (Dongguk U) JEONG Gi-Seok (Dongguk U) KIM Eun-seok (Dongguk U)
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