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Location: KINTEX 1 211A
50 people KINTEX room number 211A
Date: Monday, 28/July/2025
1:30pm
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3:00pm
(158) Han Kang, Bora Chung, and Cities
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: Jungman Park, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
 

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An Ethical Encounter with Alterity in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

Mengni Kang

Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau S.A.R. (China)




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The Cosmopolitan Fear and the Fantasy in Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny: A Representation of How Horror Resides in Reality and Vice-Versa.

Nodi Islam

Southeast University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of




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An Eastern Nobel in a Western Context: The Question of Universality in the Reception of Han Kang’s Nobel Prize in Swedish and Western Media.

Karin Nykvist

Lund University, Sweden




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Cities as Archives: Comparative Urbanism, Literary Practices, and the Everyday

Klaudia Lee

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(180) Morality, Ethics, and Text-to-Text
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: ChangGyu Seong, Mokwon University
 

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An Exploration of the English Translations of The Zhongyong (The Doctrine of the Mean): Origins, Foci, and Impacts of Twenty-Nine Interpretations, with a Critical Analysis of Four Representative Renditions of the Book Title

Wei Guo, Junkang Huang

Central South University, China, People's Republic of




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Queering the Bhanita: Exploring how Tagore transforms Vaishnava poetry, and Twichell translates Tagore

Aadrit Banerjee

St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, India




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A Comparative Study of the Morality and Ethics between Confucius Analects and the Bible

Lin Peng

Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, People's Republic of




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From Source Text to Target Text: A Comparative Analysis of Anandamath in Translation, Ideology, and Cultural Context

Nabila Haque

Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of




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Demoness, Monk and Forbidden Desire: A Contemporary Interpretation of the ‘Demoness-monk seduction’

Jiayin Yang

University of Freiburg, Germany

Date: Tuesday, 29/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(202) Patterning of Literature
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: ChangGyu Seong, Mokwon University
 

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The Comparative Study on Shakespeare`s The Merry Wives of Windsor and Rescued by a Coquette Drama of Yuan Zaju-Focusing on Female Ethical Choices

Xiaoshu Wang, Heyu Xue

Harbin Engineering University, People's Republic of China




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The Meaning of “Pattern”: The Logic of Perception in Peter Handke's “Die Wiederholung”

Huixin Xie

Fudan University, China, People's Republic of




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Varying Contours of Absurdity: Beckett, Pinter, and Sriranga

Shreya Ghosh

The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India




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Decoding ‘the counter-narrative’: Inter-artistic comparative discussion between John Milton’s epic poem 'Paradise Lost' and Alexandre Cabanel’s painting 'Fallen Angel'

Aynun Zaria

Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh,

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(224) Cultural Context and Translation
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: ChangGyu Seong, Mokwon University
 

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Ethics Behind the Choices: Opposition and Coexistence between Clones and Communities in Never Let Me Go

Tianxiang Chen

Harbin Engineering University, China




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Cultural Context and Translation of Nizami’s Sikandarnama: A Comparative Study of Sayeed Alaol’s Adaptation and Captain H. Wilberforce Clarke’s Literal Translation.

Obaydullah Nikari

Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of




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Translation Politics and Changing Practices of Translation with AI: Evolution or Devolution?

Debasmita De Sarkar

Visva Bharati University, India

Date: Wednesday, 30/July/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(246) Modernity, Human, and Nature
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: Eun-joo Lee, independent scholar
 

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The Call of the Wild ---- The Animal Ethics and Rhetoric of Ecological Novels

ChunPing PANG

HongKong Baptist University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)




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Mirrors of Modernity: The Secularization of Visual Discourse in The Celestial Shadow of the Shanghai Dust

Shiyun Qiu

Fudan University, China, People's Republic of China




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Facing Nature: Examining the (Im)Permeable Boundaries between Self and Nature in the Poetry of Luís de Camões and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

Jacob Dodd

University of Birmingham, United Kingdom




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Possibilities of Life, Possibilities of Death: A Comparative Reading of 'Daytripper' and 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold'

Shreya Ghosh

The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Possession: A Romance as Ethical Reflection

JIA JIN

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

11:00am
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12:30pm
(268) Poetry of Myself
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: Eun-joo Lee, independent scholar
 

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An Influence Study of William Blake on W.B. Yeats’s Poetic works

Linhong Bai, Dan Zhou

Wuhan University of Technology, China




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Going for Refuge: Zen in Pound’s Seven Lakes Canto

Wenya Huang

Shanghai International Studies University, China, People's Republic of




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“I too call myself I”: Interrogating the Genre of ‘Personal’ Poetry

Shreya Ghosh

The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India




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Cycles of Continuity: Death and Rebirth in the Poetry of Jibanananda Das and Ko Un

Sohan Sharif

Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(290) Images and Memory
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: Seung Cho, Gachon University
 

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“Tree” and “Illusory Flower in the Sky” - A Comparison of Images in Heidegger's and Buddhist Discourses on “Being”

Yakun Liang

Shanxi University, China, People's Republic of

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(312) Space, Human, and Movie
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: Hyun Kyung Park, Namseoul University
 

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Subterranean and Skyscraper Apocalypses: A Comparative Study of Spatial Ideology in Han Song’s Metro Narratives and J.G. Ballard’s Disaster Fiction

Honghu ZHANG

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)




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Stillness, Death and the Parasitic Work of Art: 'The Oval Portrait' and 'The Vulture and the Little Girl'

Shreya Ghosh

The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India




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Gendered Motivations Behind Screen Depictions in Late Medieval China’s Boudoir-themed Lyrics—Centered on Among the Flowers 花間集

Chenxin Guo

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, People's Republic of

Date: Thursday, 31/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(334) Juxtaposition, Transposition, Heterotopia, and Communication
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: Seung-hye Mah, Dongguk University Seoul Campus
 

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The Station as Heterotopia: A Contemporary Chinese Odyssey

Dingding Zhao

Xi'an Jiaotong University




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Juxtaposition, Identity, and Politics: Narrative and Aesthetics in 'Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability' and 'Persepolis'

Shreya Ghosh

The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India




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In/fidelity in transposition: Alan Moore’s “Watchmen” in Brandon Vietti’s Adaptation

Redwan Ahmed

Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of




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Comic studies and Graphic narrative and also how the idea of communication changes over time

SINJINI GHOSH

Visva Bharati University, India




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Politics of Pathos as Social Commentary in Mahakavi Laxmi Prasad Devkota’s Muna Madan

Khum Prasad Sharma

Tribhuvan University, Nepal

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(356) Intersectional Lives
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: Jinim Park, Pyongtaek university
 

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Research on the "Michiko-style" in "The Pure Land of Suffering: My Minamata Disease".

Jinying Yang

东北师范大学, China, People's Republic of




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The Modern Writing of Women's Dilemma-Taking Under the Tree,Vegetarian,and Brick Lane as Examples

Xinyu Luo

长安大学人文学院, China, People's Republic of




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Perfumed Pastes and Painted Desires: Exploring the Material Culture of Cosmetics Through Early Indian Erotic Literature

Hemasoundari Rajadurai

English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India




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Fluid Identities and Intersectional Lives: A Queer Reading of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Zahra Munir, Zhao Sasa

Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, People's Republic of

Date: Friday, 01/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(378) Crossing the Borders Between the Self and the Other (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: Kejun XU, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 

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Interiority in Contrast: Psychological Realism in Eileen Chang’s Fiction in the 1940s

Kejun XU

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of China




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Cigarettes, Gender and Subjectivity: The Dual Visual Intoxication of Self-representation in Chinese Media Culture around the 1930s.

Yujie Cao

Fudan University, China, People's Republic of




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Famous character, City and Modernity in Late Qing Shanghai Newspaper Publication:A Study of “Yang Yuelou Case” in Shen Bao

weiwei fang

Shanghai Normal University, China, People's Republic of




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The "Invisible" as a Modern Imaginary of Technological Threats: A case study of The Invisible Man’s Cinematic Adaptations

Yafei Huang

Chongqing University, China, People's Republic of

11:00am
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12:30pm
(400) Crossing the Borders Between the Self and the Other (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: Kejun XU, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 

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Modern Elegant Gatherings for Movie Spectacles: A Study on Yingxi Fiction of Great World Entertainment Center

SHAO DONG

HKMU, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)




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Sentimental Writing in Autobiographical Novels of Republican-era Overseas Students — Memories of France in Su Xuelin’s Thorny Heart (1929) and Xu Zhongnian’s My Beauty Faraway (1946)

Xinying YANG

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)




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Foreign Country, Distant Region, and Motherland: Women’s Travel Narratives of the Northwest Frontier

DI LIU

CIty University of HongKong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)




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Children on the Move: Supplementary Learning Materials for School Children in Republican China (1926–1939)

Fanghao Chen

Shanghai Normal University, China, People's Republic of

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(422) Crossing the Borders Between the Self and the Other (3)
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: Kejun XU, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 

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An Experimental Study of Liang Qichao's Utopian Imagination and Modern Consciousness--From the Future of New China to My Travel Impressions in Europe

Qiu Fangjin

Shanghai International Studies University, China, People's Republic of




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The Cultural Perspectives and Ideological Concepts of Panking: A French-educated intellectual

Hui Nie, Jue Cai

National University of Defense Technology, China, People's Republic of




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Imagining Northern Europe: A Semiotics of Communication Study of Foreign Lands

Jingwen Yin

Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of China

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(479) Transcultural Memories
Location: KINTEX 1 211A
Chair: Eun-joo Lee, independent scholar
 

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The Chinese Nobel Complex and Transcultural Memories

Michael Ka-chi Cheuk

Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)




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Doing What Could Not Be Done: The Way of Comparative Literature In Memory of Professor Yue Daiyun

Pei Zhang

PekingUniversity, China, People's Republic of




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Separation Italian style: Zhou Shoujuan’s translation of two short-stories by Salvatore Farina and Matilde Serao

Barbara Bisetto

University of Verona, Italy




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Facets of Translation: Verlaine in China

Dinu Luca

National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan