Future Life in Science Fiction: Digital Worlds and The “Birth” and “Death”of Digital Lifeforms

Yiping Wang

Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of

Between Collision and Integration: The Evolution and Logic of the Relationship between Literature and Science

Min He

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Resurrection, Dust, and Entanglement: Materiality of the Computational Universe in Greg Egan’s Permutation City

Guangzhao Lyu

Fudan University, China, People's Republic of

Between the Sacred and the Profane: Posthuman Existence and Mythological Narrative in "Klara and the Sun" / 圣俗之间：《克拉拉与太阳》中的后人类生存境遇与神话叙述

Muyuan Cao, Fan Luo

Hainan Normal School, China, People's Republic of

The Persistence and Breakthrough of Mind-Body Paradox: the Cultural Logic of Subjectivity in Contemporary Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction Narration

Mingming Su

Beijing Normal University, China, People's Republic of

Anti-heroic figures, Dream Boxes, and the Search for the Essence of Human: A Cyborg Narrative in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

Yuqin Jiang

Shenzhen University, China, People's Republic of

"In Terms of Worldly Things": The Viewpoint of Science Fiction

Simona Bartolotta

University of Giessen, Germany

The Technological Allegory of the Cyborg in The Absent City

Shuyue XU

University of Chinese Academy of Social Science, China, People's Republic of

Nostalgia, Acceleration, and Equilibrium: Technological Ethics and the Accelerated Human in “Flowers for Algernon”

Maojiang Zuo

Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of

From the “Transform Nature” to “Create Newcomers”: Food Crisis and Ecological Criticism in the Works of Paolo Bacigalupi

Haoran LUO

Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of

On Ethics between Human and Robot in Science Fiction from the Perspective of Ontology

CHAO LYU

Tianjin Normal University, China, People's Republic of

Questioning on the Existence of “the Perfect Machine” ——A Study on the Human-Machine Relationship in 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Intuitionist

Xin Guo

Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, People's Republic of

From Myth to The Absurd: Irrational World in Hyperion

Ziyan Wang

Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of

Ethical Interpretation of Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction Novels: The Construction of an Ethical Community between Intelligent Robots and Humans in Machines Like Me and Professor Shalom’s Confusion

Shaoming Duan

Renmin University of China, China, People's Republic of China

Imaginative Practices through the Lens of Science Fiction Anthropology: The Case of Lenghu Mars Town

Youyi Jiang

Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of

Buddha’s Milky Way: Nichiren Buddhism and the Imagination of a Science-Informed Future by Miyazawa Kenji

Chao Liu, Ziyan Liu

Nanjing University, China, People's Republic of

Travels of “The Time Machine” in the Cosmopolitan Society: The Future Imagination in The World in 800,000 Years

Yan Shi

Xi'an Technological University, China, People's Republic of

“Turning the Wheel”: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Buddhist Transcendence of the Cycle of History in The Years of Rice and Salt

Runfeng Wu

Shandong University, China, People's Republic of

Mapping Uncertainty: Dialogues between SF and Future Foresight

Johannes Kaminski

Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic

Narratives of "Homeland" and Writing of Destiny: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of The Wandering Earth and The Songs of Distant Earth

Yina Cao¹, Hongfan Zhang²

1: Sichuan University, China; 2: Sichuan University, China

The national salvation strategy in Sakyo Komatsu's “Japan Sinks”: Technology and Cultural Relics

Bingxin Duan^1,2

1: Sichuan University, China; 2: Hubei Minzu University, China

Multi-Agent Dialogic Mechanisms in AI Narratives of Science Fiction: A Perspective from Embodied Cognitive Linguistics

Rongshan Tan

College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Sichuan University

Locked in, Streamed out: How Live-streaming Reshapes Our Perceptions of Surveillance in Everyday Performance

Xinyue Yi

The University of Chicago, United States of America

Consumerism, Cyborgs and Diaspora: Fishiness in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl

Kainan Zhao

Peking University, People's Republic of China

Translator, Listener: Collaborator, Voice, and Corporeality of A Record of the Black Slaves’ Plea to Heaven

Yuan-yang Wang

Duke University, United States of America

Memento Mori and Fetishism of Head in Hedda Gabler and Salomé

Yifan Zhang

Fudan University, China, People's Republic of

Evaluating ChatGPT-4's Effectiveness in Translating the Emirati Dialect in Short Stories into English

Mohammed Al-Batineh, Moza Obaid Al Tenaijy, Hala Sharkas

United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates

A Cog in a Global Machine: Reification in Chinese and American High-Tech Narratives

Rui Qian

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

The absence of the Absolute and Piping of Heaven: An Interpretation of Zhang Zao's Kafka to Felice

Hongze Liu

Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of

A Pilgrimage for Self-Expression: The Archetypal Imagination of China in British Romantic Poetry

Xinchen Lu

East China Normal University, China, People's Republic of

Affective Consumption: Branding, Alternative Media, and Transnational Community in Pattern Recognition

Yidan HU

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

How Mutual Understanding and Communication Become Possible—After the Leak of Computer Viruses

Siqi Ren

University of St Andrews

Mixed race Images and cross-cultural problems in Francis Spufford's Golden Hill and Rebecca F. Kuang's Babel

Cheng Jin

JiLin University, China, People's Republic of

Staging Chineseness: Ethnic Performativity and Narrative Perspectives in 21st-Century Chinatown Novels

Shuyue Liu

School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, The United Kingdom

The Return of Voice: Intelligent Story Production in Audiobooks and the Alienation Crisis

Yunqian Wang

Gent University, Belgium

Infinite Possibilities of Video Games in Media Convergence: Literariness, “Story-Universe” and “Infant-Universe”

Fanyu Yin

NanJing University, China, People's Republic of

A Multimodal Audiobook? Transforming Printed Multimodal Novels into Audiobooks

Anna Klishevich

Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

Airlines, Archives, and Aesthetics: El clan Braniff as an Intermedial Counter-History

Pascual Ariel Brodsky Soria

University of Southern California, United States of America

The Lyrics of Lament: Genres of Grief in the Voices of “Heers” in Amrita Pritam’s 'Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu' ('Today I Invoke Waris Shah') and “Rudalis” in Usha Ganguli’s dramatization of Mahasweta Devi’s 'Rudali'

Aratrika Bondopadhyay

The English and Foreign Languages University, India

Rediscovery of True Self on the Father-Seeking Journey——An Exploration of Jack Burns’ Journey of Growth in Until I Find You

Junru Xiang

Xiangtan University, China, People's Republic of

Circulation of Life: Reflection on the Archetype of Water in Walden and Travels in Hunan

Shijia Du

Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, People's Republic of

Amnesia and Authenticity: The Nixonian Conservative Turn and Remapping(s) of American Identity

Tristan Graney

Texas Christian University, United States of America

(Im)Possible Travels: the East in Latin American Modernist Chronicles

Subhas Yadav

University of Notre Dame, United States of America

mutual method learning of The French school and the American school

songlin zhang

Shangqiu Normal University, China, People's Republic of

The Normativity of Mental Illness Treatment in American Novels of the 1950s

Li Zhang

Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of