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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 ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions THE CHANGING CONNOTATION OF TRANSLATION : PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES IN TRANSLATING LITERATURE Jadavpur University, India ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions POS Tagging and Grammatical Structures in Tamil Lyrics by a Prominent Lyricist: A Natural Language Processing and Friedman's Model Analysis 1: Department of Computing Technologies, SRM institute of science and technology, Kattankulathur, Chengalpattu, 603203, Tamilnadu, India; 2: Department of Tamil, Central University of TamilNadu, Thiruvarur, 610 005, Tamilnadu, India; 3: Department of English, Jammal Mohammed College (Autonomous), TVS Tolgate, Tiruchirappalli, 620014, Tamilnadu, India ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions A Statistical Analysis of Vallinam and Idaiyinam Grammar in Tamil Pulavarkal from the 3rd Century BC to the 3rd Century AD. 1: Department of Tamil, Central University of TamilNadu, Thiruvarur, 610 005, Tamilnadu, India; 2: Department of Computing Technologies, SRM institute of science and technology; 3: Department of English, Jammal Mohammed College (Autonomous), TVS Tolgate, Tiruchirappalli, 620014, Tamilnadu, India ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Revisiting Shakuntalam's translations: Rethinking cultural translation in a digitized world Rajdhani College, Delhi University, India |
(234) South Asian Literatures and Cultures Location: KINTEX 1 205A Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Manjushree Thapa : the Voice from Nepal in South Asian Diasporic Studies Jadavpur University, India ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Politics of Pathos as Social Commentary in Mahakavi Laxmi Prasad Devkota’s Muna Madan Tribhuvan University, Nepal ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Cross-Border Adaptations: The South Asian Context Jadavpur University, India |
(235) Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (5) Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Stefan Buchenberger, Kanagawa University ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions “Homages: Graphic Narratives of the War Heroes of Gallup, New Mexico” University of New Mexico-Gallup, United States of America Open Group Individual Submissions (De)colonized Superheroes: Interrogating the ‘Third World’ in Filipino Superhero Komiks University of the Philippines, Diliman, United Arab Emirates Open Group Individual Submissions Iberia Inc, the Americanization of the figure of the hero in Spain Universidad de Alcala, Spain |
(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 Open Group Individual Submissions A Re-understanding of the Centennial History of Chinese Translation of Ancient Greek Tragedy Beijing Language and Culture University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Glocalization: Rooted Cosmopolitanism in Sherwood Anderson’s Small-Town Bidwell Si Chuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions To navigate difficult pasts through cosmopolitanism? Afrikaans literature and the South African transition University of the Free State, South Africa Open Group Individual Submissions Western Origin of “Synthesis” in Yuan Kejia’s Poetics of “Modernizing Chinese New Poetry” Shandong University, China, People's Republic of |
(237) Digital Comparative Literature (1) Location: KINTEX 1 206B Chair: Simone Rebora, University of Verona ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Digital World Literature Dongguk University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Crisis of Subjectivity in Technological Networks: Bruno Latour and Impersonal Generation in Digital Age Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Digital Humanities and Publishing Scholarship in the Humanities Sichuan University |
(238) Translating ethics, space, and style (1) Location: KINTEX 1 207A Chair: Richard Mark Hibbitt, University of Leeds Open Group Individual Submissions Between Self and Other: Symbolist Writers and the Art of Translation ULB, Belgique Open Group Individual Submissions Fridriech Schleiermacher's Oscillation and the Ethics in Translation Ewha Womans University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Open Group Individual Submissions The Translators’ Dilemma: Ethics and Aesthetics of Translating Native Literature into World Literature Sikkim University, India Open Group Individual Submissions Where is Allemonde? Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and the Ethics of Cosmopolitan Hospitality in Turn-of-the-century France University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
(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 Open Group Individual Submissions Indirect Translation as an Act of Reform: An Attempt to Translate Jules Verne’s Works into Japanese The University of Tokyo, Japan Open Group Individual Submissions The Journey of a French Detective Novel in Meiji Japan: Tracing the Indirect Translation of Gaboriau’s Le Crime d’Orcival University of Tsukuba, Japan Open Group Individual Submissions Gender Norms Across the West, Japan, and China: The Struggles of Chinese Female Translators in Indirect Translation via Japanese during the Early Twentieth Century University of York, United Kingdom Open Group Individual Submissions Translating Christian Ideals: The Meiji Bible and the Negotiation of Religious Language in Japan Tsukuba University, Japan |
(240) Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature Location: KINTEX 1 208A Chair: Biwu Shang, shanghai jiao tong university Open Group Individual Submissions “Harmless vagaries of a madman”: a comparative study of cannibalism writings of Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain and Lu Xun Shenzhen University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Visualizing Confidante Culture through Animation Art: Re-examination of Guqin Memory in "Feelings of Mountains and Waters" (ShanShuiQing) Renmin University of China, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Feline Gaze and Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Natsume Sōseki’s I am a Cat Central Connecticut State University, United States of America Open Group Individual Submissions Towards an Envisioned Human-Nonhuman Community: The “New Human” Narrative and Ethical Choice in Wang Jinkang’s The Artificial Human East China Normal University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Meteorology, Apocalypse and Slow Violence: Climate Writings in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poems Suzhou University of Technology, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Reading D. H. Lawrence’s Vegetal Poetics in the Anthropocene central china normal university, China, People's Republic of |
(241) East meets West: Travellers and Scholars writing about India, Japan and Korea (1) Location: KINTEX 1 208B Chair: zsuzsanna varga, University of Glasgow Open Group Individual Submissions Reworlding Asia from the Below: Affective Mobilities in British Women’s Travel Narrative on Aisa Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Soundscapes of Otherness: Polish and Serbian Travel Accounts of India, 1859–1914 Shanghai International Studies University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Eastward Bound: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez in La vuelta al mundo de un novelista Stockton University, United States of America Open Group Individual Submissions Fragment and Frame: Barthes, Buruma, and the Evolving Gaze on Japan Amsterdam University |
(242) Lafcadio Hearn and Asia (1) Location: KINTEX 1 209A Chair: Toshie Nakajima, The University of Toyama Open Group Individual Submissions The inner universe of Lafcadio Hearn : What could be understood from the writing survey of the Hearn Library University of Toyama, Japon Open Group Individual Submissions Shadows of Japan and Haunting Echoes in Virginia: The Clifton Waller Barrett Collection and Lafcadio Hearn’s Legacy The University of Kitakyshu, Japan Open Group Individual Submissions Between Borders: The Shifting Perspectives of Lafcadio Hearn and Yanagi Muneyoshi Tokoha Universtiy Open Group Individual Submissions Lafcadio Hearn and Yone Noguchi: Perspectives on Japan and Japanese Culture The University of Toyama, Japon Open Group Individual Submissions Lafcadio Hearn as a Mediator for Japanese Writers Adopting French Literature Yamaguchi University Open Group Individual Submissions Lafcadio Hearn as a Mediator for Japanese Writers Adopting French Literature Yamaguchi University, Japan |
(243) Ethical Literary Criticism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (1) Location: KINTEX 1 209B Chair: Sean Hand, University of Warwick Open Group Individual Submissions Technology and Loneliness: Ethics of Artificial Friends in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Open Group Individual Submissions Ethical Identity and Ethical Literary Criticism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Zhejiang University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Blurring Boundaries: Human-Machine Entanglements in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me Dankook University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Open Group Individual Submissions Humanistic Concerns of Slaughterhouse-Five in a posthuman framework Northwestern Polytechnical University, People's Republic of China Open Group Individual Submissions Gender, Technology and Post-Modernism: Reading Han Song’s Exorcism University of New South Wales, Australia Open Group Individual Submissions The Regression Towards Inhumanity: The Ethical Implications in Tom McCarthy’s Virtual Realist Fiction Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of |
(244) Literature and Science: Conflict, Integration and Possible Future in Science Fiction (5) Location: KINTEX 1 210A Chair: Yiping Wang, Sichuan University Open Group Individual Submissions Narratives of "Homeland" and Writing of Destiny: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of The Wandering Earth and The Songs of Distant Earth 1: Sichuan University, China; 2: Sichuan University, China Open Group Individual Submissions The national salvation strategy in Sakyo Komatsu's “Japan Sinks”: Technology and Cultural Relics 1: Sichuan University, China; 2: Hubei Minzu University, China Open Group Individual Submissions Multi-Agent Dialogic Mechanisms in AI Narratives of Science Fiction: A Perspective from Embodied Cognitive Linguistics College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Sichuan University |
(245) Comparative Literature in Digital Age Location: KINTEX 1 210B Chair: Minji Choi, Hankuk university of foreign studies ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Digital Methods and Peripheral Literary Exchange: Portuguese-Chinese Translation Networks The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Places, Narratives, and Attitudes: A Computational Analysis of the Local vs. the Global in Modern Arabic Literature American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions One Sphere Two Systems: The Digital Politics of the Chinese Diaspora Florida State University, United States of America Open Free Individual Submissions Relevance of Adaptation of Fiction: A Study Independent Scholar, India Open Free Individual Submissions The Representation of the 'Stranger' in Ukrainian Literature at the End of the Nineteenth Century: An Analysis of Olha Kobilyanska's Short Story ‘Nature’ Kitasato University, Japan |
(246) Modernity, Human, and Nature Location: KINTEX 1 211A Chair: Eun-joo Lee, independent scholar Open Free Individual Submissions The Call of the Wild ---- The Animal Ethics and Rhetoric of Ecological Novels HongKong Baptist University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Open Free Individual Submissions Mirrors of Modernity: The Secularization of Visual Discourse in The Celestial Shadow of the Shanghai Dust Fudan University, China, People's Republic of China Open Free Individual Submissions Facing Nature: Examining the (Im)Permeable Boundaries between Self and Nature in the Poetry of Luís de Camões and Carlos Drummond de Andrade. University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Open Free Individual Submissions Possibilities of Life, Possibilities of Death: A Comparative Reading of 'Daytripper' and 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only) Possession: A Romance as Ethical Reflection Hangzhou Normal University, China, China, People's Republic of |
(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 Open Group Individual Submissions Re-globalization in Literature: from Euro-Asian Encounters to Cross-racial Dialogue 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) Open Group Individual Submissions On the Inevitability of the “Succeeding Translation” of Wen-Hsin Tiao-Lung: Comparison of the Four English Translations of “ The Tsan” as an Example Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Study on the Evolution of Japanese War-Supporting Poetry Southwest Jiaotong University, People's Republic of China Open Group Individual Submissions "Newspeak" or "Hearsay" ？Analysis of the Outward Transmission and Return of Jiandeng Xinhua Sichuan University, China Open Group Individual Submissions The Subjectivity of Translators of Ancient Chinese Literary Thoughts Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Image of Emperor Qianlong as Seen Through the Eyes of Korean Joseon Dynasty Envoys on the Yanxing Missions yanbianuniversity, China, People's Republic of |
(249) Mutual Learning of Civilizations and Reconstruction of World Literature (5) Location: KINTEX 1 212B Chair: Qing Yang, Sichuan University Open Group Individual Submissions Spatialization of viewing and meaning: The White-haired Girl in English-speaking World Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Reproduction or Reconstruction: Histories of Chinese Literature in the Francophone World Southwest Jiaotong University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Studies on Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Appreciation and Collection in the Anglophone World Sichuan University Open Group Individual Submissions From "Heavenly Kingdom" to "Way of Humanity": Three Dimensions of Translating the Concept of Tian in The Analects Hunan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Sonnet as World Literature Sichuan University, China |
(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
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Open Group Individual Submissions The symbolic mode University of Bologna, Italy Open Group Individual Submissions Comparing the Status of Odin and Ali Kishi: Polyphonic Motifs in Folkloric Texts ADA University and Baku Slavic University, Azerbaijan Open Group Individual Submissions Semiotics and polyphony of theatrical enunciation State Academic University for the Humanities and Media Project ARTIST, Russian Federation |
(251) The East Asian Literature from a Global Perspective (1) Location: KINTEX 1 213B Chair: Zhejun Zhang, Sichuan University,China Open Group Individual Submissions A Preliminary Study on the Multiplicity of "Similarity and Difference Factors" and Communication Relations in Comparative Literature Sichuan University, China Open Group Individual Submissions Cultural Interaction and Collective Identity between 19th Century Korean Literati and Qing Dynasty Literati ——Taking Dong Wenhuan's "Autumn Thoughts Singing and Poetry" as the starting point Yanbian unversity, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Research on the Relationship between Yasui Sokken's Zuozhuan Jishi and Textology of Qing Dynasty The College of Literature and Journalism of Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Female Perspective in the Japanese Translation of Zhang Jie's Works HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,WEIHAI Open Group Individual Submissions The Reception of Records on Entering Shu in Japan and Japanese Modern Literati's Travel Accounts of China Sichuan University, China Open Group Individual Submissions The Transmission and Variation of Yang Guifei's Image in Japanese Literature 四川大学, China, People's Republic of |
(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 : Group Session Exophonic writing in the Era of A.I.
Open Group Individual Submissions L’écriture exophonique à l’ère de l’IA : une étude sur l’usage des outils de traduction automatique par des apprenants de coréen en France Université Lyon 3, France Open Group Individual Submissions Voices from the Outside: The Accidental in Exophony, Diasporic Crossings, and AI The University of Chicago, United States of America Open Group Individual Submissions The Devil Wears ... a Purple Blouse. On the Intertwinement of Domestic and Supernatural Villainy in the Vanessa series (1982-91) 1: Merz Akademie, Germany; 2: AG Comicforschung / Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Forgotten Figures: Viewing Past and Present Chronicles of Taiwanese Indigenous and African American Cinema, Novels, and Graphic Novels Comparative Literature, University of California Riverside, USA, United States of America |
(253) Intermediality and Comparative Literature (1) Location: KINTEX 1 306 Chair: Chang Chen, Nanjing University Open Group Individual Submissions Optional or Necessary? – Theatre and Intermediality Aarhus University, Denmark Open Group Individual Submissions Reconstructing Beckett: Kris Verdonck’s Posthuman Performance in a Cross-Media Perspective 1: Taiyuan University of Technology, China, People's Republic of; 2: Communication of Shanxi Open Group Individual Submissions Puppet And Human: The “Presenting Sign” Of the Contemporary Puppetry 南京大学，中华人民共和国 |
(254) Religion, Ethics and Literature (3) Location: KINTEX 1 307 Chair: Ipshita Chanda, The English & Foreign Languages UNiversity, Hyderabad ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Tuvia Ruebner's Haiku: Translating the Far as Agency of Intimate Memory Bar-Ilan University, Israel ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Returning to Tradition?: An Ethical Reading of I. B. Singer’s The Magician of Lublin Shanghai International Studies University, China, People's Republic of ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Nonhuman Narrative in Lu Xun's The Old Tales Retold Huazhong Agricultural University, China, People's Republic of ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Kitsch Christianity and Irony in Yi Kwangsu's The Heartless New College of Florida, United States of America ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions The Heresy of Literary Creation San Francisco State University, United States of America |
(121) Narrative form and scripture, old and new (ECARE 21) Location: KINTEX 2 305A Chair: Nainu Yang, National Kaohsiung Normal University ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Gaming and Time Travel: The New Narrative of Cyberpunk in William Gibson’s The Peripheral National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Narrative Situations in The Grapes of Wrath Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, People's Republic of ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions The influence of Climate conditions on the Number of symbols in World Writing Systems. Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of |
(122) Narrative in the longue durée of capitalism (ECARE 22) Location: KINTEX 2 305B Chair: Karsten Klein, Saarland University ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Overseas Trade, Jews and the Imperial Imagination in The Jew of Malta capital normal university, China, People's Republic of ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Parallax and Existence: An Interpretation of Ae-ran Kim’s “There Is Night There, and Songs Here” from the Perspective of Existentialism Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Dematerialized Money and Technological Change: (Economic) Speculation in the AI Age in Cosmopolis and Fear Index Saarland University, Germany ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Expressive Montage in Ragtime: Characterization of the Confused Mainstream Group Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, People's Republic of |
(123) New comparative approaches (ECARE 23) Location: KINTEX 2 306A Chair: Yakun Liang, Shanxi University ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Beyond Borders and States: Corporate Hegemony as the New Frontiers of Comparative Literature 1: Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh; 2: Institute of Business Administration, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Analysis of the Interpretation Logic and Methods Based on the Analysis of Buddhist Scripture Texts from the Perspective of Hermeneutics 山西大学，中华人民共和国 |
(124) New possibilities in digital reading (ECARE 24) Location: KINTEX 2 306B Chair: Congwei He, Sichuan University ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions When the reader picks up the pen! AI ‘role playing’ stories and critical analysis of the author-reader dynamics in digital literature Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions The Challenges and Possibilities in the Post-Digital Age: Literature in the shifting media Visva Bharati University, India ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Digital Social Reading on Chinese Podcast App Xiaoyuzhou FM Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of |
(125) Performance in the digital age (ECARE 25) Location: KINTEX 2 307A Chair: Ziyu Zhang, Wuhan University of Technology ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions From Jinjiang to the Global Stage: Reimagining Chuānyuè (time travel) as a Bridge Between Cultures, Genres, and Times University of Virginia, United States of America ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Integration, Alienation and Reconstruction: A Cross-cultural Interpretation of Brecht's Dramatic Concepts from the Perspective of Comparative Literature Wuhan University of Technology, China, People's Republic of ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Care and Kinship: Staging the more-than-human in Canadian and Greenlandic theatre Harvard University |
(456) Authorship and Technology (2) Location: KINTEX 2 307B Chair: Xi'an GUO, Fudan University Open Group Individual Submissions The Apocryphal Techniques and Author Concepts: The Study of Apocryphal Confucian Classics in the Early Qing Dynasty and the Confirmation of Author Identity Fujian Normal University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Shanghai Mechanical Printing Capitalism in Relation to Changing Concepts of Authorship in Modern Chinese Literature Suzhou University of Science and Technology, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Is It Time to Discuss the Added Value of a Biotranslator ? Translator’s Authorship Enhanced or Diminished by Machine-Assisted Translation Fudan University, China |
(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 Open Group Individual Submissions Mirok Li and Exilic Literature: Beyond Borders – Mediating East Asian Literature within World Literature Korea University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Open Group Individual Submissions Traduire le déplacement : migrations, langues et récits dans les œuvres de trois autrices iraniennes en France Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Open Group Individual Submissions Translating Migration in "Balada de los Apalaches," by Melanie Márquez Adams University of Tennessee, USA, United States of America Open Group Individual Submissions The Place of Migration in Literary Translation Studies: A Provocation Harvard University, United States of America |
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(255) Translation Studies (4) Location: KINTEX 1 204 Chair: Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions A brief analysis of the characteristics of Sijo and its translation as a bridge to Korean culture and the formation of cultural identities in Brazilian chant poetry Federal University of Juiz de Fora - UFJF, Brazil ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions An Exploration of the ‘Perspectives’ and ‘Ethics’ of Translation as a Cross-Cultural Encounter: Comparative Analysis of the English Translations of Madhavikutty’s Short Story, “ജനൽപ്പടിയിലെ വിളക്ക്”. The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Black Translation as a Site of Reparation: Translation, Healing and Global South SRI SRI UNIVERSITY, India ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Translation and Reparation Université de Caen Normandie, France ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Eco-Technical Turn in Translation Studies: Translation in the Feedback Loops of Ecology and Technology Dongguk University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) |
(256) South Asian Literatures and Cultures Location: KINTEX 1 205A Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Ensemble: Toward Resonant Comparisions Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Decolonizing Climate Narratives: Amitav Ghosh'sGun Islandand South Asian Oratures of Environmental Crisis Shandong University, China, People's Republic of ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions From “Reading” to “Listening”: Collaborative Translation, Inclusivity and Indigenous Oral Literature Sikkim University, India |
(257) Comparative Literature in East Asia Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Hui Nie, National University of Defense Technology Open Group Individual Submissions The Formation of Catholic Biji Novels in Late Ming China: A Preliminary Study to the Genre of Li Jiugong’s Lixiu Yijian 华东师范大学, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Cultural Perspectives and Ideological Concepts of Panking: A French-educated intellectual National University of Defense Technology, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Study on the Love of Thomas Aquinas from the Perspective of the New Psychology of Love Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Ekphrasis in the Oral Tradition---The Mongolian Epic as an Example Inner Mongolia Normal University, China, People's Republic of |
(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 Open Group Individual Submissions A Mobility Study of Herzog Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Theological Debate in the Three-Body Problem Renmin University Open Group Individual Submissions Historicity, Reality Perception, and Publicness: Theoretical Reflections on Theater and Cinema in the Age of AI Beijing Language and Culture University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Eros as the grounds for comparison: a new Global Modernism University of Sydney |
(259) Digital Comparative Literature (2) Location: KINTEX 1 206B Chair: Simone Rebora, University of Verona ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions The Power Not to Think: LLMs as Poetic Impotential Machines Kobe University, Japan ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Vocational but Vernacular: Forestry Policies and Sinophone Malaysian Literature The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions The Net-like Narrative Structure of The Dream of Red Mansions: A “Corpus” Statistic Analysis Based on the Text Mining of Character Appellations Tianjin Normal University, People's Republic of China ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Digitally Mapping Decolonial Thought: Ahmad Hassan Al-Zayyat’s Al-Risala and the Postcolonial Arab Identity Qatar University, Qatar |
(260) Translating ethics, space, and style (2) Location: KINTEX 1 207A Chair: Richard Mark Hibbitt, University of Leeds Open Group Individual Submissions Self-translation and Style: Jhumpa Lahiri's Volgare Swansea University, United Kingdom Open Group Individual Submissions Normative Presumptive Factuality Intersecting the Context of Subjectivity - Civil Disobedience and Relativism 1: Bhupal Nobles' University Udaipur Rajasthan, India; 2: Woxsen School of Law, Woxsen University, Telangana, Andhara Pradesh Open Group Individual Submissions A Migrating/Translating Self: Ha Jin and Jhumpa Lahiri Hanyang University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Open Group Individual Submissions Literary translingualism between non-places and third space Universite de Poitiers, FoReLLIS, France Open Group Individual Submissions Self-Translation as an Act of Self-Reading: A Comparative Perspective on the Ethics of Self-Translation English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India, India |
(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 Open Group Individual Submissions Aesthetics of Sincerity and the English Translation of Mieko Kawakami’s Heaven University of Tsukuba, Japan Open Group Individual Submissions A brief analysis of the characteristics of Sijo and its translation as a bridge to Korean culture and the formation of cultural identities in Brazilian chant poetry Federal University of Juiz de Fora - UFJF, Brazil Open Group Individual Submissions Self-Translation Practice in Indonesia and Japan: Case Study of Laksmi Pamuntjak and Yoko Tawada University of Tsukuba, Japan Open Group Individual Submissions Bridging the Linguistic Divide: A Multimodal Approach to Translating the Soul of Tanka Tsukuba University, Japan |
(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 Open Group Individual Submissions Appropriation, Recontextualization and Fictionalization: A Postcolonial Study of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha Universidade do Minho, Portugal Open Group Individual Submissions Representing the Other While Revealing the Self: Italian Contemporary Intellectuals on Japanese Culture University of Macerata, Italy Open Group Individual Submissions A Hungarian Lady in India: Rózsa Hajnoczy in Santiniketan University of Glasgow, United Kingdom |
(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 Open Group Individual Submissions The Ethical Anxiety in Chinese Suspension and Riddle Games Guangzhou College of Commerce, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Premeditation and Betrayal: On Affective Encoding and Logical Conflicts in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me Shanghai International Studies University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Back to the Future: Ethical and Ideological Paradoxes in Machine Writing Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Ethics of Reading Revisited in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Zhejiang University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Title: Risks and Opportunities in Three-Dimensional Interactions: World Literature in the Era of Digital Intelligence Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Illusion World : literary community and post-human era Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of |
266 H (ECARE 40) Location: KINTEX 1 210A Chair: Yuan-yang Wang, Duke University 24th ICLA Hybrid Session LINK : ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Locked in, Streamed out: How Live-streaming Reshapes Our Perceptions of Surveillance in Everyday Performance The University of Chicago, United States of America ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Consumerism, Cyborgs and Diaspora: Fishiness in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl Peking University, People's Republic of China ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Translator, Listener: Collaborator, Voice, and Corporeality of A Record of the Black Slaves’ Plea to Heaven Duke University, United States of America ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Memento Mori and Fetishism of Head in Hedda Gabler and Salomé Fudan University, China, People's Republic of ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Evaluating ChatGPT-4's Effectiveness in Translating the Emirati Dialect in Short Stories into English United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates |
(267) Global Futurism (1) Beyond the Human—AI, Animality, and Posthuman Futures Location: KINTEX 1 210B Chair: You Wu, East China Normal University Open Group Individual Submissions The Life Paradox of Uploaded Consciousness: A Posthumanist Reading of Disembodied Digital Selves in Science Fiction Shanghai University Open Group Individual Submissions The Futuristic Legacy of Animal Fables: Tracing Animal Motifs in Chinese Science Fiction East China Normal University (ECNU) Open Group Individual Submissions Ethical Reflections on the Future AI-Generated Literary Creation xi'an Jiaotong University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Creative Fungibility: Drawing Parallels Between Virtual Production, AI Filmmaking, and Comic Book Creation United International College Hong Kong Baptist / University of Beijing |
(268) Poetry of Myself Location: KINTEX 1 211A Chair: Eun-joo Lee, independent scholar Open Free Individual Submissions An Influence Study of William Blake on W.B. Yeats’s Poetic works Wuhan University of Technology, China Open Free Individual Submissions Going for Refuge: Zen in Pound’s Seven Lakes Canto Shanghai International Studies University, China, People's Republic of Open Free Individual Submissions “I too call myself I”: Interrogating the Genre of ‘Personal’ Poetry The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India Open Free Individual Submissions Cycles of Continuity: Death and Rebirth in the Poetry of Jibanananda Das and Ko Un Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of |
(269) Literature, Arts & Media (1) Location: KINTEX 1 211B Chair: Hanyu Xie, University of Macao ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Individual Experience and Affective Engagement in VR Films The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Group Session Male Gaze and Sexual Violence : A Comparative Study of I, Phoolan Devi and The Bandit Queen
ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Life Finds a Way: A New Materialist-Intermedial Approach to the Jurassic Park Franchise Università dell'Aquila, Italy |
(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) Open Group Individual Submissions Han Kang’s Poetics of Violence and the Exploration of Human Nature Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Study on the English Translation of Yuewei Caotang Biji from the Perspective of Translation Semiotics: A Case Study of Victor H. Mair’ Translation of The Great Fire Cracks No Filial Son’s Home Sun Yat-sen University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Brief Discussion on the Occurrence of "Patricide" in Oriental Literature and Its Modern Identity Implications: Take "Cries in the Drizzle" and "The Red-Haired Woman" as examples Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Mapping the Contours of Culture: “Aesthetic Foreign Concessions” in Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Works Purdue University, United States of America Open Group Individual Submissions The Origin of Wenxindiaolong（文心雕龙） in Korean Peninsula Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Study on the Translation and Dissemination of the Dunhuang Manuscript “Qinfuyin” in the English-speaking World Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of |
(271) Mutual Learning of Civilizations and Reconstruction of World Literature (6) Location: KINTEX 1 212B Chair: Qing Yang, Sichuan University Open Group Individual Submissions The Construction and Writing of the East Asian Community by Liu Linxi Who was a Literatus in the Late Joseon Dynasty of Korea Suqian University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions From Difference to Variation: Rewriting the History of Civilization from the Perspective of Variation Theory Southwest Jiaotong University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Chinese Elements in the “Formal Construction” of Japanese Arts and Literature: A Case Study of the Development and Variation of “Shin-Gyō-Sō” in the Japanese Artistic Sphere sichuan university, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Study of Anna Seghers' Writing on the Chinese Revolution in the 1920s and 1930s Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Re-examining the Literary Historical Value of Chinese Huiwen Poetry ——Taking Su Hui’s “Xuan Ji Map” as an Example Sichuan University, China |
(272) Polyphony and Semiotics of Literary Symbols (2) Location: KINTEX 1 213A Chair: Inna Gennadievna Merkoulova, State Academic University for the Humanities ICLA invite you to the Zoom. Theme: ICLA Session 250
Open Group Individual Submissions Comparing the Status of Odin and Ali Kishi: Polyphonic Motifs in Folkloric Texts ADA University, Azerbaijan Open Group Individual Submissions Adam Mickiewicz’s poem “Aryman i Oromaz” through a polyphonic lens of good and bad BAku SLAVIC University, Azerbaijan |
(273) Language Contact in Literature Location: KINTEX 1 213B Chair: ChangGyu Seong, Mokwon University Open Group Individual Submissions From (Mono-)hybridity to Double Hybridity: (Auto)translations in/from French in the 19th Century Romanian Novels Lucian Blaga Univerity of Sibiu, Romania ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Entre l’unilinguisme français et la littérature européenne : le cas de Germaine de Staël École normale supérieure de Paris, France ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Distortion of Perspectives: Linguistic, Personal and Historical Influences on the Perception of Ilze Berzins’ Autobiographical Novel “Happy Girl” University of Latvia, Latvia ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions The Validity and Limitations of Life Narratives as Historical Documents Maulana Azad National Urdu University, India |
(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 : Open Group Individual Submissions A Study on Lee Kyung Son Recognition of Chinese New Literature in the 1930s in Shanghai and the Chinese Play <Taiwan> HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, WEIHAI, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Misplaced Capital Writing: Lin 'an and Chang 'an in Japanese Five-Mountain Literature Chongqing University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Research on the Study Notes in Gozan Bungaku Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Mythos of Tan Jun（檀君） and Tan Jun（壇君）in Korea Sichuan University, China Open Group Individual Submissions Wenxin Diaolong in the Historical Works of Chinese Literature in Modern Japan Sichuan University ,China, China, People's Republic of |
(275) Intermediality and Comparative Literature (2) Location: KINTEX 1 306 Chair: Chang Chen, Nanjing University Open Group Individual Submissions Virtual Simulation, Science Fiction Digital Games, and the Construction of Cyborg Theoretical Frameworks Shenzhen University, P.R.China Open Group Individual Submissions The Intervening Power of Literature and Art: Intermedia performativity in Station Eleven and its TV Adaptation Nanjing University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Black Myth： Wu Kong as a Game-Novel Nanjing University, China, People's Republic of |
(276) Religion, Ethics and Literature (4) Location: KINTEX 1 307 Chair: Ipshita Chanda, The English & Foreign Languages UNiversity, Hyderabad ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Reconstructing the Gospel Passion Narrative: The Religious Interpretation of Ivan’s Spiritual Transformation in Anton Chekhov’s “The Student” Middlebury College, United States of America ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions CAT WORDS, IDIOMS, PHRASES: SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT ON HUMAN CREATIVITY Manav Rachna University, India ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Poetry as “Heresy” in Modernity: A Phenomenology of Suffering and Resistance in “Regimes” of Progressive Literary Movements from India University of Hyderabad, India |
(126) Philosophy, spirituality and literature (ECARE 26) Location: KINTEX 2 305A Chair: Sushil Ghimire, Balkumari College, Bharatpur-2, Chitwan, Nepal ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions The Symposium and Zhuangzi: Mutual Illumination of Chinese and Western Aesthetics and Philosophy from a Comparative Literature Perspective Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, People's Republic of ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Yeats and Sri Aurobindo : Discursive and Harmonious Worldviews Gokhale Education Society's Jawhar College University of Mumbai, India ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions The Snow Leopard and Dolpo: Analyzing Two Tales of Adventure and Spirituality from the West and the East Balkumari College, Bharatpur-2, Chitwan, Nepal, Nepal ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Death and Rebirth in Jibanananda Das’s Rupasi Bangla and Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris: A Comparative Analysis Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of |
(127) Posthumanism and AI (ECARE 27) Location: KINTEX 2 305B Chair: Kyu Jeoung Lee, Oklahoma State University ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Cha Cha on the Bridge: AI Heroes Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Samantha, not Sam, Eve, not Adam: Feminist Posthumanism as the Posthumanism for All? Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions “Machines” and Miscommunication: A Comparative Analysis of American and Korean Science Fiction Oklahoma State University, United States of America ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions “We all complete.”: Posthumanist Reflections on Never Let Me Go Chungbuk National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Host Sessions (Korean Students and Scholars Only) Nonhuman Entanglements: Rethinking Anthropocentrism and Subjectivity in Korean Speculative Fiction Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) |
(128) Rethinking world literature (ECARE 28) Location: KINTEX 2 306A Chair: ASIT KUMAR BISWAL, University of Hyderabad ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions TO WORLD LITERATURE: SYMBOLIC-IMAGETIC BODIES IN CLARICE LISPECTOR AND PARK WAN SEO. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions A Baroque Universality? Alejo Carpentier on Magical Realism and World Literature. University of Cyprus, Cyprus ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions The Gaze of “Other” Disciplines: An Evaluation of the Composition of Volumes of Comparative Literature Scholarship in the 21st Century University of Hyderabad, India ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Indigenous Life and Culture in Bengali Fiction: A Critical Analysis of Shaukat Ali’s Kapil Das Murmur’s Last Task and Alaudddin Al Azad’s Karnaphuli. Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of |
(129) Tech, Ethics, Heidegger (ECARE 29) Location: KINTEX 2 306B Chair: Kehan Mei, University of Tibet ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Graphical Heidegger: 'Weltgeviert' Explained University of Tartu, Estonia ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Technology and Loneliness: Ethics of Artificial Friends in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Tao and Sein: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Civilizational Dialogue between Laozi and Martin Heidegger University of Tibet, China, People's Republic of |
(130) Technology, Companionship and ethics in Kazuo Ishiguro (ECARE 30) Location: KINTEX 2 307A Chair: Lixin Gao, Shanghai International Studies Universtiy ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Tropes of Othering in Flannery O'Connor's "The Artificial Nigger" and Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go" Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Disadvantaged yet Dignified: Reaffirming Humanity through Companionship in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun Kyoto University, Japan ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Art and Justice: On the Intermedia Writing of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled Shanghai International Studies Universtiy, China, People's Republic of ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Ethics Behind Choices: Opposition and Coexistence between Clones and Communities in Never Let Me Go Harbin Engineering University, People's Republic of China |
(457) Authorship and Technology (3) Location: KINTEX 2 307B Chair: Xi'an GUO, Fudan University Open Group Individual Submissions Mallarmé's tékhnē : An 'au-delà' in Authorship Theories Renmin University of China, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Can a AI-Author pass the Turing Test? -- The Experiments and Reflexions of Clemens Setz and Daniel Kehlmann about AI-Authorship Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions 探索人工智慧和區塊鏈的交匯點：數位時代創意寫作的機會和挑戰 (Navigating the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain: Opportunities and Challenges for Creative Writing in the Digital Age) Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) |
(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 : Open Group Individual Submissions From Censorship to Canonization: Ulysses in the Making University of Texas at Austin, United States of America Open Group Individual Submissions Polyphony and Cultural Translation: Narratives of Displacement in Postwar East Asia, 1945–1952 Johns Hopkins University, United States of America Open Group Individual Submissions The Untranslated Other in Pai Hsien-yung’s diasporic literature “Love’s Lone Flower” University College London, United Kingdom |
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(277) Dongguk Univ: Korean Buddhist Literature Location: KINTEX 1 204 Host Sessions (Korean Students and Scholars Only) The Birth of Modern Korean Literature and Buddhism – Seokjeon, Manhae, and Midang’s Buddism(한국현대 문학의 탄생과 -석전, 만해, 미당의 불교) Dongguk University Host Sessions (Korean Students and Scholars Only) ｢'승려' 를 이야기하는 방법: 승려 행장에서 나타나는 꿈 화소의 양상과 기능｣ Dongguk University |
(278) South Asian Literatures and Cultures (5) Location: KINTEX 1 205A Chair: ChangGyu Seong, Mokwon University ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Bangla Science Fiction: Extending the Horizons of a Genre in working out World Literature Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI), India ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Colonial Indian Novel-- National Or Supranational: Illustrating A History Of Literary Systems Using The "Horizon Of Expectations As A Tool Through Fakir Mohan Senapati's Six Acres And A Third (1896) and O. Chandumenon's Indulekha (1889) The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India, India Group Session Decolonising 'World Literature' : Perspectives of Oratures and Literatures from South Asia
ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions 'Muhyidhin Mala' and the Imagination of ummah (community) in early 17th century Kerala. The English and Foreign Languages University, India |
(279) Decolonising 'World Literature' : Perspectives of Oratures and Literatures from South Asia Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat Open Group Individual Submissions Narrative Resistance in Fictionalised Autobiography: A Critical Study of Anita Desai’s Clear Light of the Day and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things Amity University, Punjab, India Open Group Individual Submissions The Broken and Forgotten: Fractured Histories and Uncharted Margins of Partition. The English and Foreign Languages University, India Open Group Individual Submissions Mapping Myth, Ecology, and Ecofeminism: Digital Humanities and AI in the Comparative Study of Bonobibi 1: Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh, People's Republic of; 2: University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia Open Group Individual Submissions Parsi Thatre and Its Sonosphere University of Delhi, India |
(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 Open Group Individual Submissions Samuel Beckett’s Translingualism as a Framework for Bilingual Literary Creation Korea University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Open Group Individual Submissions Polyphonic Resistance and Secret Utopias: Technology and Language in the works of Cathy Park Hong and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India Open Group Individual Submissions “Different and yet the Same, the Same and yet Different”: Translation as Metaphor for Colonialism in Levy Hideo’s Japanese Prose Otemon Gakuin University, Japan |
(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 Open Group Individual Submissions Feminist Translation: a comparative approach to translations of "Shōjo", by Mariko Ōhara University of Tsukuba, Japan Open Group Individual Submissions Friendship as the Basis for Individual Happiness and Political Peace in Japanese Children's Literature National University of Quilmes, Argentine Republic Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only) Dialogic possibilities in translation: the collaborative translation of Ishikawa Takuboku’s tanka into Portuguese University of Tsukuba, Japan |
(284) Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature Location: KINTEX 1 208A Chair: Biwu Shang, shanghai jiao tong university Open Group Individual Submissions The Critique of Romanticism in Kierkegaard and the Image of the Plant: Irony, Lilies, and Romantic Poetry Fudan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Beyond Bestiary: Identification and Dis-identification between Animals and Humans in Julio Cortázar’s and Guadalupe Nettel’s Short Stories University College London, United Kingdom |
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(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 Group Session Comparative Literature in East Asia: Cross-Cultural Practice as a Bridge between East and West
Open Group Individual Submissions Proverbs or Sacred Words? Linguistic Practice and Cultural Adaptation of Westerners in China During the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties Shanghai International Studies University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Reimagining Railway Modernity through Tradition: Railway Games and Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchange in the 1930s Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Travels of Souvenirs Entomologiques: from Fabre to Osugi Sakae to Lu Xun Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Dilemmas of Modernity in Mrs Dalloway and Fortress Besieged: Temporal Discipline, War Violence and the Crisis of Spiritual Ecology Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, People's Republic of |
(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 Open Group Individual Submissions A Cog in a Global Machine: Reification in Chinese and American High-Tech Narratives Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Open Group Individual Submissions The absence of the Absolute and Piping of Heaven: An Interpretation of Zhang Zao's Kafka to Felice Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Pilgrimage for Self-Expression: The Archetypal Imagination of China in British Romantic Poetry East China Normal University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Affective Consumption: Branding, Alternative Media, and Transnational Community in Pattern Recognition University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
(289) Global Futurism (2) Translating the Future—Chinese Sci-Fi on the Global Stage Location: KINTEX 1 210B Chair: Dominic Hand, University of Oxford Open Group Individual Submissions Navigating Narrative Galaxies: Translating the Complexities of Chinese Science Fiction University of Macau, Macau S.A.R. (China) Open Group Individual Submissions The International Reach of Chinese Web Science Fiction: Exploring Fan Culture Dynamics Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of China Open Group Individual Submissions Chinese Space-themed Science Fiction: Rise, Western Influences and Cultural Roots Shanghai University Open Group Individual Submissions “Chinese Imagination” Goes Global: The Translation and Dissemination of Chinese Science Fiction to the West East China Normal University, China, People's Republic of |
(290) Images and Memory Location: KINTEX 1 211A Chair: Seung Cho, Gachon University Open Free Individual Submissions “Tree” and “Illusory Flower in the Sky” - A Comparison of Images in Heidegger's and Buddhist Discourses on “Being” Shanxi University, China, People's Republic of |
(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). Group Session Intermedial studies and ‘New Materialisms’
ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Political Darkness with Musical Luminosity: Kalaf Epalanga’s “musical romance” Whites can dance too as a “safe place”, a rhythm of hope University of Macao, China, People's Republic of ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Research on the dissemination of academy culture in Sichuan Bashu Academies under the mutual learning of civilizations Media and Cultural Industry Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Classified and Digitalized Illustrations of Animals in Human Societies - Gaze and Trajectories Bhupal Nobles' University Udaipur Rajasthan, India |
(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) Open Group Individual Submissions The Image of Chinese Women in Western Anthropocene Novels ——A Case Study of Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea SIchuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Chinese placenames in Korean Gasa : the construction of literary imagination and symbolic meaning Yanbian University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Tu Fu's Influence on American Poems: The Cases Study in the New Poetry Movement, the Mid-and-late 20th Century and Contemporary Era 郑州大学, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Girl Without a Name: Women’s Self-realization in City of Broken Promises Sichuan Uinverisity, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Oriental Dreams in Fantasy Novels: The Cross-cultural Variations and Derivations of Contemporary Chinese Fantasy Novels under the Influence of Western Fantasy Trends Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of |
(293) Mutual Learning of Civilizations and Reconstruction of World Literature (7) Location: KINTEX 1 212B Chair: Qing Yang, Sichuan University Open Group Individual Submissions A Comparative Study of the Ecological Writings in William Faulkner and Jia Pingwa Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions On the Writing of Civilization History in Digital Games Taiyuan Normal University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions From national literature to world literature: Shen Yanbing's early conception and practice of world literature City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Open Group Individual Submissions The Symbolic Code in Bone Divination Rituals: An Analysis of the Correlations among Sanxingdui Symbols, Ba-Shu Graphical Symbols and Early Ancient Yi Script 四川大学, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Eliminating Opposition and Promoting Dialogue: Mutual Learning of Civilizations in Overseas Pre-Qin Thought Research University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China, People's Republic of |
(294) Polyphony and Semiotics of Literary Symbols (3) Location: KINTEX 1 213A Chair: Inna Gennadievna Merkoulova, State Academic University for the Humanities ICLA invite you to the Zoom. Theme: ICLA Session 250
Open Group Individual Submissions Refilling Homer’s Cup: A Study of 'Circe' and 'The Song of Achilles' Central University of Haryana, India Open Group Individual Submissions Jongmyo Shrine as a Semiotic Space: A Lotmanian Approach Korea University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Open Group Individual Submissions Memory's Forked Paths and the Restructuring of Symbolic Systems Capital Normal University, Chine |
(295) The East Asian Literature from a Global Perspective (3) Location: KINTEX 1 213B Chair: Zhejun Zhang, Sichuan University,China Open Group Individual Submissions A Comparative Study of the Concept of “Teaching through Non-Teaching” in Chinese and Western Traditions— Focusing on Mencius and Socrates Hunan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Affective Narrative Genres in Cross-Cultural Contexts: A Comparative Study of East Asian and Western Texts through Hogan’s Theory of Emotional Systems Sun Yat-sen University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions On the Dual Dimensions of Early Buddhism and the Interpretation of the Book of Songs The College of Literature and Journalism，Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions On the Polyphony of Wang Wenxing's novel Family Catastrophe Xiamen University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Stephen Owen's Research on Tang Poetry Shanghai International Studies University, China, People's Republic of |
(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 : Open Group Individual Submissions Formation and Development of Comparative Studies in Georgia Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA) Open Group Individual Submissions Perspectives and Challenges in the Creation and Digital Analysis of Georgian Literary Corpora Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA) Open Group Individual Submissions Quantitative-Statistical Analysis of the Semantics of Color in The Knight in the Panther's Skin Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA) Open Group Individual Submissions Digitizing Georgian-French Cultural Exchanges: Archival Methods and Accessibility Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA) Open Group Individual Submissions Digital Analysis of the Symbols in the Life of Saint Nino Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA) Open Group Individual Submissions A Quantitative Analysis of Versification Parameters in The Knight in the Panther’s Skin Based on Nestan-Darejan’s Two Letters Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA) |
(297) Intermediality and Comparative Literature (3) Location: KINTEX 1 306 Chair: Chang Chen, Nanjing University Open Group Individual Submissions Intermedial Performativity and Contemporary Chinese Performance Arts Nanjing University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Interaction Between Film and Theater: A Case Study of New/ Gates Dragon Inn. Hangzhou Normal University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Lost in Projection: A Critique of Contemporary Resonance and the Erosion of Jingju in Contemporary Legend Theatre’s Julius Caesar Shandong University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Intermedia Art: A Multimodal Analysis of Li Shun's Art Exhibition “Capture the Light and Shadow" 1: Hangzhou Normal University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Wenzhou-Kean University, China, People's Republic of |
(298) Religion, Ethics and Literature (5) Location: KINTEX 1 307 Chair: Kitty Millet, San Francisco State University ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions An Interpretation of Perpetrator Trauma in Louise Erdrich’s Larose Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Angels and Roombas: a Bloody Post-Human Parallel Jadavpur University, India ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions How religilon can contribute to literature The institute for Science of Mind, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions The Western Plight and Survival Ethics in The Grapes of Wrath Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, People's Republic of ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions A SINGULAR LOVE IN 56 LANGUAGE-FORMS : LITERATURE AS TRANSFORMATIVE ETHICS The English & Foreign Languages UNiversity, Hyderabad IN, India |
(131) Text and tech (ECARE 31) Location: KINTEX 2 305A Chair: Yichen Zhu, Fudan University ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Adaptation Beyond the Text: Uttara as a hypertext of Uratiya Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions The Tension Between Intuition and Craft: Media Technology and Genre Transition in Close Reading Fudan University, China, People's Republic of |
(132) The Comics frontier (ECARE 32) Location: KINTEX 2 305B Chair: Sara Mizannojehdehi, Concordia University ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Where to Draw the Line: Exploring the Intersections of Comics Journalism, Oral History, and Memoir Concordia University, Canada ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Asterix and the Postmoderns: History, Resistance, and Empire in the 20th Century University of São Paulo, Brazil ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Priya Comic Series: A Voice of Protest Against Gender Violence & Fundamentalism NIT Mizoram, India ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Creative Fungibility: Drawing Parallels Between Virtual Production, AI Filmmaking, and Comic Book Creation UIC - United International College Hong Kong Baptist / University of Beijing, China, People's Republic of |
(133) The web novel frontier (ECARE 33) Location: KINTEX 2 306A Chair: Yimeng Xu, The University of Hong Kong ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Digital Ethnography on the Soft Power Building of the Online Platform Webnovel’s Literary Translation Communication University of China, People's Republic of China ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Hoarding in Survival Fantasy: Chinese Women’s Affective Labor in Web Novel Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions The Docile Husband: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Soft Masculinity in Digital Culture The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Considering the Social Significance of the Isekai Genre Waseda University, Japan |
(134) Translation and agency (ECARE 34) Location: KINTEX 2 306B Chair: Juanjuan Wu, Tsinghua University ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions On Translator’s Subjectivity Through the Paratexts of Three Chinese Translations of Ulysses Nanjing University, China, People's Republic of ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Translator Behavior in Chinese Folk Language Translation: A Case Study of The Mountain Whisperer Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, People's Republic of ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Affective Translation, Poetic Capital, and Cosmopolitan Modernism in the Ayscough/Lowell Translation Project on Tang Poetry Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions A Comparative Study on Translator Autonomy in Korean-Chinese/Chinese-Korean Children's Literature Title Translations - Focusing on Revised Target Texts after Source Text ‘Transformation’- Zhejiang Gongshang University, China |
(135) Translation and circulation (ECARE 35) Location: KINTEX 2 307A Chair: Kai Lin, University of Alberta ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions On Philology in Three Dimensions and Its Interaction with World Literature Studies Fujian Normal University, China, People's Republic of ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Translating Queerness Across Censorships: The Fan Translation of Pioneer Summer: A Novel from Russia to China University of Alberta, Canada ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Translation as Rewriting-the (Re)constructed Female Images in Outlaws of the Marsh RMIT University, Australia |
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 Open Free Individual Submissions AI and Machine Translation in Indian Comparative Literature: Challenges, Opportunities, and Global Impact. Visva-Bharati, India Open Free Individual Submissions Narrative Worlds of K-pop Idol Fan Fiction: A Comparative Digital Humanities Approach to Domestic and Global Fandoms Korea University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Open Group Individual Submissions Reclaiming Black Futures: Afrofuturism as a Transformative Response to Afropessimism. University of Texas at Austin, United States of America |
(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 : Open Group Individual Submissions Self-translation as World Making: River of Fire and the Migrant Translator’s ‘Burden’ Seneca Polytechnic, Canada Open Group Individual Submissions Translating Self, Performing Migrancy: Ha Jin’s Transnational Poetics in A Distant Center 1: University of Glasgow; 2: Lingnan University Open Group Individual Submissions Songs of the River: Migration and the Fluidity of Meaning in the Translations of ‘Bhatiali’ and ‘Bhawaiya’ Sister Nivedita University, India |
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(299) DUHA: Korean-Wave Location: KINTEX 1 204 Chair: Dae-Joong Kim, Kangwon National University Host Sessions (Korean Students and Scholars Only) Poet Lee Sang as the Central Driving Force of the Korean Wave Dongguk University Convergence Hallyu Academy Host Sessions (Korean Students and Scholars Only) Poet Lee Sang is me PaTI |
(300) South Asian Literatures and Cultures (6) Location: KINTEX 1 205A Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Revisiting the Past : Diasporic Dilemma in Anita Rau Badami's Can You Hear the Nightbird Call ? and Sorayya Khan's Five Queen's Road MAGADH UNIVERSITY BODH GAYA, INDIA, India ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Class Struggle and Socio-economic disparities: A Marxist analysis of Interpreter of Maladies and Boori Maa Umt, Pakistan ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Creating ' History', Forging Resistance: Reading Mahasweta' s Devi' s ' Major Literary Works MAGADH UNIVERSITY BODHGAYA, INDIA, India Group Session Flesh of the World: Phenomenology of Body in Norona’s Thottappan
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(301) Translation and Cultural Transfer in Soviet and Cold War Contexts Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Peter Budrin, Queen Mary University of London Group Session Translation and Cultural Transfer in Soviet and Cold War Contexts
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(302) How to modernize Location: KINTEX 1 206A Chair: Minji Choi, Hankuk university of foreign studies Open Group Individual Submissions "Translating Freedom: Identity, Power, and Cultural Translation in Lea Ypi's Free" IU International University, Germany ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Vladimir Jankélévitch et le piano: D'après les souvenirs d'Anne Queffélec. Shizuoka University, Japon Open Free Individual Submissions How to modernize Realist Poetic: the Inspiration of the History of Bakhtin’s Acceptance for the Transformation of Chinese Realist Poetics Guangxi Normal University, China, People's Republic of |
(303) Digital Comparative Literature (4) Location: KINTEX 1 206B Chair: Simone Rebora, University of Verona ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Digital Social Reading and Comparative Literature: Three Case Studies University of Verona, Italy Open Group Individual Submissions Documentation, Textual Authority, and the Digital Afterlife of Dracula Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Open Group Individual Submissions Fan Fiction as Paratext: An Intervention of Real Audiences in the Narrative Process of Storyworld Gent University, Belgium Open Group Individual Submissions Empathy, Curiosity, and Critique: An AI-driven Mapping of Reader Responses to Asian American Literature via ChatGPT 1: School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, The United Kingdom; 2: School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, The People’s Republic of China |
(304) Translating ethics, space, and style (4) Location: KINTEX 1 207A Chair: Richard Mark Hibbitt, University of Leeds Open Group Individual Submissions At Home in Japan: Hospitality and Translation in Bruno Taut’s Architectural Writings Oxford University, United Kingdom Open Group Individual Submissions Gender and Nation in Translation: A comparative study of British and American English translations of Hsieh Pingying’s Autobiography Hunan Normal University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Translation, Allusion, and Graphic Illustration: the Unstable Spatio-Temporality of the World Republic of Translated Letters Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Open Group Individual Submissions Language and Space in Sarah Bernstein’s Study for Obedience University of Leeds, United Kingdom |
(305) Translating the Other: The Process and Re-Creation (4) Location: KINTEX 1 207B Chair: Minjeon Go, Dankook University Open Group Individual Submissions Nazım Hikmet’s 'Kız Çocuğu': Tracing Its Origins and Journey into Japanese Translation University of Tsukuba, Japan Open Group Individual Submissions Exploring the English Translation of ‘Talks at the Yen'an Forum on Literature and Art” Shenzhen University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Comparative Analysis of Natural Themes in Zhuang Mythology and the Works of Aboriginal Writers from the Perspective of Cultural Ecology——Taking Buluotuo Book of Songs and the Works of Erdrich and Silko as Examples Guangxi Minzu University, China, People's Republic of |
(306) Reading through the Colorful Lens Location: KINTEX 1 208A Chair: ChangGyu Seong, Mokwon University Open Free Individual Submissions Bernard Stiegler, noetic necromass and the crisis of the savoirs Teikyo University Tokyo, Japan Open Free Individual Submissions Contemporary Dystopian Speculative Fictions: Intersection of Labor, Technology, and Surveillance Taibah university, Saudi Arabia Open Free Individual Submissions Resisting the Algorithm: The Enduring Power of Close Reading CHRIST ( Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India. Open Free Individual Submissions L’ambivalence de la technologie pensée et mise en fiction dans Les Liens artificiels de Nathan Devers et Les Tout-puissants Mirwais Ahmadzai Institut de Littérature Comparée Margarida Losa/Un. de Porto (Portugal) APLC, Portugal Open Free Individual Submissions Cross cultural reception between Bengali Baul Geet and the Blues Music. The English and Foreign Languages University, India |
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(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 Open Group Individual Submissions Using Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis as a tool for the explanation of literary genre history Sophia University, Japan Open Group Individual Submissions A Comparative Study on the Historical Consciousness of "Seeing" in Chinese and Korean New Wave Cinema during the Globalization Transition Period SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Open Group Individual Submissions Cultural Hybridity in Missionary Novels: Re-interpret Joseph de Prémare’s Dream of a Pilgrim in Cross-Cultural Context Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Open Group Individual Submissions A Comparative Study on the Proletarian Cinema Organizations in China and Korea Sungshin Women's University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Open Group Individual Submissions Toward a Comparative Theory of Knowledge: Zhu Xi’s Investigation of Things and Hermeneutic Intuition Shanghai Normal University, China, People's Republic of |
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(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 Open Group Individual Submissions How Mutual Understanding and Communication Become Possible—After the Leak of Computer Viruses University of St Andrews Open Group Individual Submissions Mixed race Images and cross-cultural problems in Francis Spufford's Golden Hill and Rebecca F. Kuang's Babel JiLin University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Staging Chineseness: Ethnic Performativity and Narrative Perspectives in 21st-Century Chinatown Novels School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, The United Kingdom |
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(312) Space, Human, and Movie Location: KINTEX 1 211A Chair: Hyun Kyung Park, Namseoul University Open Free Individual Submissions Subterranean and Skyscraper Apocalypses: A Comparative Study of Spatial Ideology in Han Song’s Metro Narratives and J.G. Ballard’s Disaster Fiction The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Open Free Individual Submissions Stillness, Death and the Parasitic Work of Art: 'The Oval Portrait' and 'The Vulture and the Little Girl' The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India Open Free Individual Submissions Gendered Motivations Behind Screen Depictions in Late Medieval China’s Boudoir-themed Lyrics—Centered on Among the Flowers 花間集 The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, People's Republic of |
(313) Literature, Arts & Media (3) Location: KINTEX 1 211B Chair: Hanyu Xie, University of Macao ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Reinventing Contemporary Exhibition Space: Novels, Domestic Space and Cinematic Cartography university of glasgow, United Kingdom ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Polyphonic Resistance and Secret Utopias: Technology and Language in the works of Cathy Park Hong and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions “To Be Technologically Up-to-Date”: Media Anxiety and the Cinematic Quality in Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions Nanjing University, China, People's Republic of |
(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) Open Group Individual Submissions A Corner of Sino-Indian Cultural Variation: The Multiple Evolutions of the Wish-Fulfilling Tree Belief The College of Literature and Journalism，Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Study on the English Translation of Chinese Classical Poems by Wu Jingxiong and the Issue of Translator's Identity Central South University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A comparative study of ecological thoughts in children's literature between East and West -- A case study of China and Germany Southwest Jiaotong University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Comparison of the Aesthetic Characteristics of Suzhou Tan-Ci and Pansori 1: Shandong University, China; 2: Central China Normal University, China Open Group Individual Submissions Cross-Cultural Dialogue and Critical Practice in Landscape Poetics: A Study Centered on Scenic Discourse in the Literary Supplement of Xin Shu Newspaper in Wartime Chongqing Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of |
(315) Mutual Learning of Civilizations and Reconstruction of World Literature (8) Location: KINTEX 1 212B Chair: Qing Yang, Sichuan University Open Group Individual Submissions Connection & Division: An Ethical Reading of the Traditional Interpretation of Pearl S. Buck as a Cultural Bridge Lanzhou University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Re-writing the History of Woman: From the Perspective of World Literature Xihua University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Mutual Learning of Eastern and Western Civilizations and the Rewriting of World Civilization History: Centered on the Contemporary Value of Confucian Classics Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions An Analysis of Wang Meng's Literary Sign View From the Perspective of Mutual Learning of Civilizations Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Mythological Encoding of Blood and Power: The Patriarchal-Patricide Paradigm in the Narratives of Houji and Oedipus Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Study of Writing the History of Chinese Civilization with Chinese Characters as Clues Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of |
(316) Shaping the Literary Canon Location: KINTEX 1 213A Chair: Seonggyu Kim, Dongguk University Open Free Individual Submissions Reading Aloud in Charlotte Brontë’s Novels: Shaping the Literary Canon University of Helsinki, Finland Open Free Individual Submissions 从文学文化角度切入：与中国银龄群体共同营造“未来花园” 清华大学未来实验室, China, People's Republic of Open Free Individual Submissions Culture of remembrance of women victims of Soviet repression Ilia State University, Georgia Open Free Individual Submissions Dialogue between Literature and Science by Female Writers: Sawako Ariyoshi’s Compound Pollution and Rachael Carson’s Silent Spring University of Tsukuba, Japan |
(317) The East Asian Literature from a Global Perspective (4) Location: KINTEX 1 213B Chair: Zhejun Zhang, Sichuan University,China Open Group Individual Submissions Reimagining Violence: Sensation, Bodily Deformation and Female Trauma in Can Xue’s The Last Lover and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian University of New South Wales, Australia Open Group Individual Submissions Parallax and Existence: An Interpretation of Ae-ran Kim’s “There Is Night There, and Songs Here” from the Perspective of Existentialism Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Application of the book “Wen Zhang Gui Fan” in the Education of Chinese Classics Studies in the Meiji Era: An Example from the Lecture Notes of Kato Fukusai, a Student at the Nishogakusha Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Discussion of the Japanese Yappari sekai wa bungaku de dekite iru and the View of World Literature Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of |
(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 : ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Cultural Appropriation and Identity Reconstruction: The Translational Journey of One Thousand and One Nights in Modern China Peking University, United Kingdom ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Can AI Truly Capture the Complexity of Women’s Voices in Bengali Literature? Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Teaching LLM-Assisted Translation in the College Literature Classroom Boise State University, United States of America ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Fluidity in the ‘In-comparative’ Framework of Comparative Literature: Understanding the many ‘crises’ of the Discipline SRI SRI UNIVERSITY, India |
(319) Intermediality and Comparative Literature (4) Location: KINTEX 1 306 Chair: Chang Chen, Nanjing University Open Group Individual Submissions The corporeality and agency of the ‘Eight-brokens’ from the perspective of global art communication Nanjing University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions “Poet-Painter of China”: E. E. Cummings’ Intermedial Prosody and Transpacific Modernism Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Exploring Cross-Media Communication of "Journey to the West" in Animated Films Yangzhou University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Medicine, Morality, and Modernity: Reimagining Great Expectations in Post-War Hong Kong University of Exeter, United Kingdom |
(320) Comparative African Literatures Location: KINTEX 1 307 Chair: JIHEE HAN, Gyeongsang National University ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions "Bridging Narratives: Exploring Comparative African Literatures in a Global Context" ONJCSPPA Tizi-Ouzou, Algérie Open Group Individual Submissions The Outsider’s Dispassion: A Comparative Study of Meursault in The Stranger and Mustafa Saeed in Season of Migration to the North Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions The ‘oral’ in the ‘written’: The novels of Flora Nwapa Institute of Engineering & Management Kolkata, India ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions A study of “The Masque of Africa" from the Postcolonial Ecocriticism perspective Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, People's Republic of |
(136) Translation, cultural exchanges and tech (ECARE 36) Location: KINTEX 2 305A Chair: Jing Hu, Nankai University ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions A brief analysis of the characteristics of Sijo and its translation as a bridge to Korean culture and the formation of cultural identities in Brazilian chant poetry Federal University of Juiz de Fora - UFJF, Brazil ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Translation and/as Hospitable Reading in Tony Hillerman’s Diné/Navajo crime novels University of Glasgow, United Kingdom ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions A study of the translation and influence of the Book of Changes in the Portuguese-speaking world Nankai University, China, People's Republic of China |
(137) Trauma, body, resistance (ECARE 37) Location: KINTEX 2 305B Chair: Redwan Ahmed, Jahangirnagar University ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Experiential History as Resistance: Ken Liu’s The Man Who Ended History and the Politics of Memory Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions The Anatomy of Silence: Absence as Narrative in "Comfort Women" Literature Cotton University, India ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Beyond Boundaries: Gender Fluidity and Stereotypical Marginalization in Amruta Patil’s Kari The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India ECARE/NEXT GEN Individual Submissions Wounds of Partition: A Comparative Discussion between Krishan Chander’s “پشاور ایکسپریس” (Peshawar Express) (1948) and Syed Waliullah’s “The Escape” (1950) Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of |
(138) Technology can Do so Many Things Location: KINTEX 2 306A Chair: Seung Cho, Gachon University Open Free Individual Submissions From QR Code to Stone: halfway through, the Acts of Reading rethought University of Macau, Macau S.A.R. (China) Open Free Individual Submissions Absent Writers and Uncritical Readers: Large Language Models and the Ends of Invention University of Tampa, United States of America Open Free Individual Submissions Digital Technologies and Literature/Music: Pros and Cons Osaka University, Japan Open Group Individual Submissions Changing Times: The Campus Novel as a Global Genre Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam Open Free Individual Submissions Technologies of erasure: a material (re)turn in contemporary experimental women’s writing 1: Radboud University, Netherlands, The; 2: Utrecht University, Netherlands, The |
(139) Comparative Literature in Action Location: KINTEX 2 306B Chair: Jun Soo Kang, anyang University Open Free Individual Submissions Dilemma of Orphan Chao and its Development from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism —— An Investigation Centered on “Second-Generation Remnants” School of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Free Individual Submissions Dilemma of Forgiveness: Between Remembering and Forgetting in Tan Twan Eng’s Novels Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom Open Free Individual Submissions An Inquiry into Aesthetical Ethics and the Subjectivity of AI Aesthetics Ningbo University, China, China, People's Republic of Open Free Individual Submissions Comparative Literature in Action: Joint Authorship and Cultural Collaboration in the Work of Understanding University of Oklahoma, United States of America Open Group Individual Submissions Modernism and Zen Buddhism: Representations of Eastern thought in the Early 20th Century by Japanese in the USA Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only) Dream images of India: Hermann Hesse and his Romantic sources Sorbonne Université, France |
(140) Disney Tells Many Interesting Things Location: KINTEX 2 307A Chair: Hyosun Lee, Underwood College, Yonsei University Open Free Individual Submissions Cross-Dressing, Gender Transgression, And Empowerment in Disney’s “Mulan” (1998) And Yoshiki Tanaka’s “Fly, Wind, Across the Vast Expanse” (1991) Kyushu University, Japan Open Free Individual Submissions Self-Reliance or Radical Individualism: On Disney’s Characterization of Mulan Tianjin Chengjian University, China, People's Republic of Open Free Individual Submissions Montage and metaphor: Eisenstein, Modesto Carone, and the dynamics of meaning State University of Campinas, Brazil Open Free Individual Submissions Trauma, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Aftershock from Book to Screen Huron University, Canada Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only) Writing the River: A Comparative Study of River Narratives in Victorian British and Modern Chinese Literature King’s College London, United Kingdom |
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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