Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

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Session Overview
Location: KINTEX 1 208B
50 people KINTEX room number 208B
Date: Monday, 28/July/2025
1:30pm
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3:00pm
(153) Comparative World Literature and New Techno Humanities
Location: KINTEX 1 208B
Chair: Seung Cho, Gachon University
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Ethical Literary Criticism: Oral Literature and the Formation Mechanism of Brain Text

Zhenzhao Nie

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies/Zhejiang University, China




Open Group Individual Submissions

Irony and the Philosophy of Happiness in Emma

Qiping Yin

Hangzhou Normal University

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(175) Convergence of Literature and Technology
Location: KINTEX 1 208B
Chair: Seung Cho, Gachon University
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Interpreting Ethical Chronotopes in Victorian War Poems

Lizhen Chen

Hangzhou Normal University, China, People's Republic of




Open Group Individual Submissions

Convergence of Literature and Technology: Ethics and Aesthetics of AI-generated literature

Anca Mihalache

Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France




Open Group Individual Submissions

Redemptive Allegory and Cyclical Redemption: A Comparative Study of William Faulkner’s *A Fable* and Mo Yan’s *Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out*

Tiao Wang

Harbin Institute of Technology, China, People's Republic of




Open Group Individual Submissions

A Poor Man's 007: Alan Ford Between Spy Story and Superhero Comics

Umberto Rossi

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Date: Tuesday, 29/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(197) Cold War East Eurasian Cultural Diplomacy and the Geopolitics of Literature (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 208B
Chair: Yukari Yoshihara, University of Tsukuba
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

American Literature in the Cold War Transpacific: Limin Chu as a Case Study

Yi-hung Liu

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Taiwan




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Canada’s Cold War Cultural Diplomacy and the Nicheness of CanLit

Myles Kent Chilton

Nihon University, Japan




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Tradition in the Nuclear Age

Hajime Saito

University of Tsukuba, Japan

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(219) Cold War East Eurasian Cultural Diplomacy and the Geopolitics of Literature (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 208B
Chair: Yukari Yoshihara, University of Tsukuba
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Hoki Ishihara and Cultural Cold War

Yukari Yoshihara

University of Tsukuba, Japan




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Working in Cold War cultural networks: Momoko Ishii and Her Library Projects

Hiromi Ochi

Senshu University, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

Mobilizing Émigré Literature: The Chekhov Publishing House and the Geopolitics of Tamizdat

Atsushi Goto

Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan

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

Juanjuan Wu

Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of




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Soundscapes of Otherness: Polish and Serbian Travel Accounts of India, 1859–1914

Tomasz Jerzy Ewertowski

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

Gorica Majstorovic

Stockton University, United States of America




Open Group Individual Submissions

Fragment and Frame: Barthes, Buruma, and the Evolving Gaze on Japan

Simla Dogangun

Amsterdam University

11:00am
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12:30pm
(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

Orlando Alfred Arnold Grossegesse, Rasib Mahmood

Universidade do Minho, Portugal




Open Group Individual Submissions

Representing the Other While Revealing the Self: Italian Contemporary Intellectuals on Japanese Culture

Michela Meschini

University of Macerata, Italy




Open Group Individual Submissions

A Hungarian Lady in India: Rózsa Hajnoczy in Santiniketan

zsuzsanna varga

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

1:30pm
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3:00pm
285
Location: KINTEX 1 208B
3:30pm
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5:00pm
307
Location: KINTEX 1 208B
Date: Thursday, 31/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(329) From Literary Tourism to Contents Tourism: 'Dialogical Travel' Emerging from the Transmedial and Transnational Dimensions of Literature (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 208B
Chair: Takayoshi Yamamura, Hokkaido University
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

The new literary pilgrimage phenomenon inspired by the Japanese manga and anime Bungo Stray Dogs

Aki NISHIOKA

Ritsumeikan University, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

The transnational development and tourism surrounding Chinese detective novels

Kyungjae Jang

Hiroshima University, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

The transmedia and transnational spread of Korean webtoons

Sueun Kim

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)




Group Session

From Literary Tourism to Contents Tourism: 'Dialogical Travel' Emerging from the Transmedial and Transnational Dimensions of Literature

Takayoshi Yamamura, Aki Nishioka, Kyungjae Jang, Sueun Kim




Open Group Individual Submissions

Transnational Adaptations and Contents Tourism Surrounding the Three Kingdoms

Takayoshi Yamamura

Hokkaido University, Japan

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(351) From Literary Tourism to Contents Tourism: 'Dialogical Travel' Emerging from the Transmedial and Transnational Dimensions of Literature (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 208B
Chair: Takayoshi Yamamura, Hokkaido University
Date: Friday, 01/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(373) Biofiction across the world: comparison, circulation, and conceptualisations (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 208B
Chair: Lucia Boldrini, Goldsmiths University of London

Revision

Session Chairs: Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths University of London) ; Laura Cernat (KU Leuven)

 

Open Group Individual Submissions

The Outsider Female Writer as a Worlding Force in the Biofictions of Anchee Min and Caryl Phillips

Laura Cernat

KU Leuven, Belgium




Open Group Individual Submissions

Through the red trees: the clash between biofiction and the proletarian novel in "Como un árbol rojo"

Francisco Javier Siredey Escobar

University of Washington, United States of America

11:00am
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12:30pm
(395) Biofiction across the world: comparison, circulation, and conceptualisations (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 208B
Chair: Lucia Boldrini, Goldsmiths University of London

Revision

Session Chairs: Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths University of London); Laura Cernat (KU Leuven)

 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Biofiction About Zelda Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway: Writer and Writer’s Wife in Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald and The Paris Wife

Youngmi Kim

Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)




Open Group Individual Submissions

Repetition and Difference: The Writing of "Boléro" in Jean Echenoz's Ravel

Mingrui Li

Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(417) Biofiction across the world: comparison, circulation, and conceptualisations (3)
Location: KINTEX 1 208B
Chair: Lucia Boldrini, Goldsmiths University of London

Revision 

Session Chairs: Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths University of London); Laura Cernat (KU Leuven)

 

Open Group Individual Submissions

A Power of Biofiction: A Case Study of SHIBA Ryōtarō’s Ryōma ga Yuku (Ryōma Goes His Way)

Kumiko Hoshi

Aichi Gakuin University, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

Biofiction, montage, and the deconstruction of the 'heroic biography' in Konrad Bayer's "Der Kopf des Vitus Bering"

Reinhard M. Moeller

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany




Open Group Individual Submissions

Novel Laboratories of Biofiction: Life-Writing in Michel Butor's Degrés (1960)

Meike Robaard

Emory University, United States of America

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(474) Poetic Rewriting and Literary Modernity
Location: KINTEX 1 208B
Chair: Sue Jean Joe, Dongguk University
 

Open Free Individual Submissions

Translating Byron in ‘May Fourth’ China, 1919-1927: Poetic Rewriting and Literary Modernity

Kexin Du

School of Languages and Communication Studies, Beijing Jiaotong University, Haidian District, Beijing, People’s Republic of China




Open Free Individual Submissions

The Folklore and Lyricism: On the Literary Reimagination of The Book of Songs (Shijing) in Republican-Era Chinese Literary Historiography

Dan Wang

复旦大学, China, People's Republic of




Open Free Individual Submissions

A Comparative Analysis of Cityscapes in the Poetry of Ezekiel, Kolatkar, Daruwalla, and Mahapatra

Satyananda Maharana

Godavarish Mahavidyalaya, Banpur, India