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Session Overview
Location: KINTEX 1 204
260 people KINTEX room number 204
Date: Monday, 28/July/2025
1:30pm
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3:00pm
(145) Literary Theory Committee
Location: KINTEX 1 204
Chair: Anne Duprat, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne/ Institut universitaire de France
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Formalism: From Manufacturing to Data Processing

Susanne Strätling

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Games as a Creative Technology for Literary Writing

Karin Kukkonen

University of Oslo, Norway




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Social Media Infrastructures and Consciousness Representation in the Contemporary American Novel

Marco Caracciolo

Ghent University, Belgium




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Technologies of Fiction: How does literary theory account for the affordances of fictions?

Anne Duprat

Université de Picardie-Jules Verne/ Institut universitaire de France, France

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(167) Translation Studies (6)
Location: KINTEX 1 204
Chair: Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Gained in Translation: Comparative Translation in the 21st Century

Mashrur Shahid Hossain

Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of




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Langston Hughes Translates Nellie Campobello

Emron Esplin

Brigham Young University, United States of America




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East-West Collaboration to Translate East-West Literature: the Case of Xie Hong

Harold Wayne Swindall Jr, Jicheng Sun

Woosong University, South Korea




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Time and Gender in Translation: Dealing with euphemisms and invisibility of Urdu in the translation of futuristic gender discourse of Sibylle Berg

SYED SALMAN ABBAS

ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY, India




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Translatable or Not? Tracking Yiyun Li’s Fiction Style from 2003 to Today

Wenqing Wang

Independent scholar, teacher in Shanghai Yangpu Bilingual School, China, People's Republic of

Date: Tuesday, 29/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(189) Translation Studies (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 204
Chair: Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Collaborative Translation of Indigenous Literature: Digitization and Preservation

Saswati Saha

Sikkim University, India




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LLMs and Creative Translation: Decolonial Methods in Human-AI collaboration

Deepshikha Behera

The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India, India




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Digital Reading Now: How Does Meaning Travel

Xinyi Li

The University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The




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Convergences of Information Literacy and Translation Literacy

Marlene Hansen Esplin

Brigham Young University, United States of America

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(211) Translation Studies (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 204
Chair: Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University
 

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Translating the Self: Maja Lee Langvad's Transnational Autofictional Narrative Identities

Julie Allen

Brigham Young University, United States of America




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Translating Posthuman’s Power: A Subversion-Containment Analysis of Human’s and GenAI’s Rewriting

Zhenhao Zhong

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




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The Mantle of a Multi-hyphenate Translator

Arra Dianne Beatingo Marcelo

Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines




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Deleuze en Chine : traduire pour un savoir local

Long Ao

Nanjing University, China, People's Republic of

Date: Wednesday, 30/July/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(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

Suchorita Chattopadhyay

Jadavpur University, India




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POS Tagging and Grammatical Structures in Tamil Lyrics by a Prominent Lyricist: A Natural Language Processing and Friedman's Model Analysis

Saviour Prakash Gnana Prakasam Louis Raja.1, Ramesh Ganesan2, Christina Martha GL3

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




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A Statistical Analysis of Vallinam and Idaiyinam Grammar in Tamil Pulavarkal from the 3rd Century BC to the 3rd Century AD.

Ramesh Ganesan1, Saviour Prakash Gnana Prakasam Louis Raja2, Christina Martha GL3

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




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Revisiting Shakuntalam's translations: Rethinking cultural translation in a digitized world

Sachida Nand Jha

Rajdhani College, Delhi University, India

11:00am
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12:30pm
(255) Translation Studies (4)
Location: KINTEX 1 204
Chair: Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University
 

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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

Mariana Souza. Mello Alves de, Carolina Magaldi. Alves

Federal University of Juiz de Fora - UFJF, Brazil




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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”.

Megha Sathianarayanan Kombil

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

Rindon Kundu

SRI SRI UNIVERSITY, India




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Translation and Reparation

Martina Kopf

Université de Caen Normandie, France




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Eco-Technical Turn in Translation Studies: Translation in the Feedback Loops of Ecology and Technology

Youngmin Kim

Dongguk University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(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)

Chunsik Kim

Dongguk University




Host Sessions (Korean Students and Scholars Only)

「'승려' 를 이야기하는 방법: 승려 행장에서 나타나는 꿈 화소의 양상과 기능」

Jin-kyung Choi

Dongguk University

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(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

Wonjae Choi

Dongguk University Convergence Hallyu Academy




Host Sessions (Korean Students and Scholars Only)

Poet Lee Sang is me

Jiyeon Park

PaTI

Date: Thursday, 31/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(321) Who is Afraid of Fiction? (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 204
Chair: Francoise Lavocat, Sorbonne Nouvelle
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Bad Readers of Deceptive Fictions

Brian Richardson

University of Maryland, United States of America




Open Group Individual Submissions

Fear of comics – fear of fiction?

Charlotte Krauss

Université de Poitiers, France




Open Group Individual Submissions

Fiction narrative et fiction normative

Otto Pfersmann

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(343) Who is Afraid of Fiction? (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 204
Chair: Francoise Lavocat, Sorbonne Nouvelle
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

La fiction romanesque comme antidote au dogmatisme au siècle des Lumières

Michèle Bokobza Kahan

Université de Tel Aviv, Israël




Open Group Individual Submissions

The Double Threat of Fiction: Escapism and Documentation

Maria Crina Bud

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France




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Résistance à l’immersion fictionnelle et effondrement de l’espace poétique : les hétérotopies littéraires chez GE Fei

Yiting WO

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, France




Open Group Individual Submissions

Attitudes Toward Fiction in Ancient Greek and Chinese Philosophy: Implications for AI Ethics in Western and Chinese Societies

Xiaofang LIU

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

Date: Friday, 01/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(365) Who is Afraid of Fiction? (3)
Location: KINTEX 1 204
Chair: Francoise Lavocat, Sorbonne Nouvelle
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Tender Rhetorics and Rhetorics of Realism: Stimulants and Sedatives Against the Fear of Fiction

Henning Hufnagel

University of Zurich, Switzerland




Open Group Individual Submissions

What harm does fiction do to women?

Francoise Lavocat

Sorbonne Nouvelle, France




Open Group Individual Submissions

“Stopping Me to Take Martin Chuzzlewit for State-Security Purposes”: the Troubles and “Suspicious” Reading Fiction-While-Walking in Anna Burns’ Milkman

Yian Zhu

Tongji University, China

11:00am
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12:30pm
(387) Who is Afraid of Fiction? (4)
Location: KINTEX 1 204
Chair: Francoise Lavocat, Sorbonne Nouvelle
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

The ratio of fiction: looking for a safety threshold

Barbara Bisetto

University of Verona, Italy




Open Group Individual Submissions

A True(ish) (Hi)Story: The (B)Onus of Historical Fiction in Classical Reception

BEATRIZ SEELAENDER

University of São Paulo, Brazil




Open Group Individual Submissions

L’art du témoignage et le rejet de la fiction – les critiques de la fiction chez Claude Lanzmann

Akihiro Kubo

Kwansei Gakuin University, Japon




Open Group Individual Submissions

Renegotiating Frontiers of Fact and Fiction in Ma Boyong’s "Historical Possibility Novels"

Danqi Lu

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

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(409) Who is Afraid of Fiction? (5)
Location: KINTEX 1 204
Chair: Francoise Lavocat, Sorbonne Nouvelle
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Fiction and artistic value in modern Japan: literature and cultural identity discourses

Marie-Noëlle Beauvieux

Meiji Gakuin University, Japon




Open Group Individual Submissions

Who is afraid of reading Dalit fiction

Purba Basak

Jadavpur University, India




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Fiction as Impersonation

Alison James

University of Chicago, United States of America




Open Group Individual Submissions

« De garde » et « en garde » pour les humanités médicales

Margarida Esperança Pina

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas /Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(466) AI: Another Way of Reading
Location: KINTEX 1 204
Chair: Hyungji Park, Yonsei University
 

Open Free Individual Submissions

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Comparative Literature: A New Frontier

PETER NJENGA KAMAU

Paula Solutions Ltd, Kenya




Open Free Individual Submissions

Mechanism or Subjectivity: The Production of AI Literature

Tongsheng Zhang

Lanzhou University, China, People's Republic of




Open Free Individual Submissions

AI Dystopias and the Cry for Our Endangered Humanity in Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Mushroom by Mohamed Al-Agami

LOBNA ABDEL GHANI ISMAIL

CAIRO UNIVERSITY, Egypt

5:00pm Closing Ceremony
Location: KINTEX 1 204