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 2 305B
40 people KINTEX Building 2 Room number 305B
Date: Monday, 28/July/2025
1:30pm
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3:00pm
(102) (Re)Interpreting Confucionism (ECARE 2)
Location: KINTEX 2 305B
Chair: ZHIWEI SUN, NTU
 

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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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China as an Idea and Symbol: The Construction of the ideal country Huaxia Ordus in the “Eurasian Symphony”

Yin Nan Song

Nankai university, China, People's Republic of




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Between the East and the West: Lim Boon Keng's Cross-Cultural Legacy and Foresight

ZHIWEI SUN

NTU, Singapore




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Chinese Philosophy and Transformation of Media Narrative

Yun LI

South China University of Technology, China, People's Republic of

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(107) Digital humanities (ECARE 7)
Location: KINTEX 2 305B
Chair: Debasmita Sarkar, Shri Ramasamy Memorial University Sikkim
 

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Reimagining Neo-Confucian Diagrams: Insights from 3D Animation

Maria Hasfeldt Long

Linnaeus University, Sweden




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Virulents and the Viral: Rhizomatic Horror in the Digital Age

Debasmita Sarkar

Shri Ramasamy Memorial University Sikkim, India




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“Cartography of the Borderlands” in the Global South: Diaspora Identities and National Allegories in Borderland Spaces in Postcolonial Contexts

Xinyang Li

University of Georgia, United States of America

Date: Tuesday, 29/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(112) Futurity, the environment and tech (ECARE 12)
Location: KINTEX 2 305B
Chair: Mingyang Liu, The University of Hong Kong
 

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Le progrès technologique vu par Michel Houellebecq : utopie ou dystopie ?

Ruike Han

Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique (CELIS), Université Clermont Auvergne, France




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Imagining an Alternative Eco-Future: Technology, Ecology, and Bodies in The Ozone Layer Vanishes (1990)

Qiyan Chen

University of California, San Diego, United States of America




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Visual Expression of China's Future: Affective Mechanisms and Societal Imaginary Symptomatology in the "Sino-topia" of Grand-Infrastructure

Mingyang Liu

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

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(117) Limitations and possibilities in the Third space (ECARE 17)
Location: KINTEX 2 305B
Chair: Lúcia de Fátima Oleiro Bentes, Portuguese Public School
 

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The Fixed “Fever” and Transnational “Third Space” In Severance of Ling Ma

Sisi Meng

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




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Problematizing the Third Space: A Study of Home Fire and Disgraced

Prapti kakati

University of Georgia, United States of America




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Spaces of War in Iman Humaydan Younes’s "B as in Beirut": On a Poetic of ‘in-between space’

Lúcia de Fátima Oleiro Bentes

Portuguese Public School, Portugal




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Intercivilizational Dialogue between China and Germany: An Interpretation of the "Third Space" in the Novels of German-Chinese Writer Luo Lingyuan

Lisha HUANG

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

Date: Wednesday, 30/July/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(122) Narrative in the longue durée of capitalism (ECARE 22)
Location: KINTEX 2 305B
Chair: Karsten Klein, Saarland University
 

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Overseas Trade, Jews and the Imperial Imagination in The Jew of Malta

Bo Li

capital normal university, China, People's Republic of




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Parallax and Existence: An Interpretation of Ae-ran Kim’s “There Is Night There, and Songs Here” from the Perspective of Existentialism

Meiqi Wu

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




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Dematerialized Money and Technological Change: (Economic) Speculation in the AI Age in Cosmopolis and Fear Index

Karsten Klein

Saarland University, Germany




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Expressive Montage in Ragtime: Characterization of the Confused Mainstream Group

Shijia Du

Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, People's Republic of

11:00am
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12:30pm
(127) Posthumanism and AI (ECARE 27)
Location: KINTEX 2 305B
Chair: Kyu Jeoung Lee, Oklahoma State University
 

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Cha Cha on the Bridge: AI Heroes

Kyunghwa Lee

Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)




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Samantha, not Sam, Eve, not Adam: Feminist Posthumanism as the Posthumanism for All?

Yoon Chung

Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)




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“Machines” and Miscommunication: A Comparative Analysis of American and Korean Science Fiction

Kyu Jeoung Lee

Oklahoma State University, United States of America




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“We all complete.”: Posthumanist Reflections on Never Let Me Go

Narae Min

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

CAIYI JIN, MIRI YOO

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

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(132) The Comics frontier (ECARE 32)
Location: KINTEX 2 305B
Chair: Sara Mizannojehdehi, Concordia University
 

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Where to Draw the Line: Exploring the Intersections of Comics Journalism, Oral History, and Memoir

Sara Mizannojehdehi

Concordia University, Canada




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Asterix and the Postmoderns: History, Resistance, and Empire in the 20th Century

BEATRIZ SEELAENDER

University of São Paulo, Brazil




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Priya Comic Series: A Voice of Protest Against Gender Violence & Fundamentalism

Dwaipayan Roy

NIT Mizoram, India




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Creative Fungibility: Drawing Parallels Between Virtual Production, AI Filmmaking, and Comic Book Creation

Damien Rinaldo Tomaselli

UIC - United International College Hong Kong Baptist / University of Beijing, China, People's Republic of

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(137) Trauma, body, resistance (ECARE 37)
Location: KINTEX 2 305B
Chair: Redwan Ahmed, Jahangirnagar University
 

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Experiential History as Resistance: Ken Liu’s The Man Who Ended History and the Politics of Memory

Seungyun Oh

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




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The Anatomy of Silence: Absence as Narrative in "Comfort Women" Literature

Shreyashi Sharma, Dr. Rakhee Kalita Moral

Cotton University, India




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Beyond Boundaries: Gender Fluidity and Stereotypical Marginalization in Amruta Patil’s Kari

Megha Sathianarayanan Kombil

The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India




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Wounds of Partition: A Comparative Discussion between Krishan Chander’s “پشاور ایکسپریس” (Peshawar Express) (1948) and Syed Waliullah’s “The Escape” (1950)

Redwan Ahmed

Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of

Date: Thursday, 31/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(142) Transmedia, and Comparative Literature
Location: KINTEX 2 305B
Chair: Byung-Yong Son, Kyungnam University
 

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Electronic Fiction, Transmedia, and Comparative Literature

Maria Bhuiyan

Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh, People's Republic of




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From “Solitary” to “Solidary”: An Ethical-Ecological Approach to Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

Di Wu

Hangzhou Normal University




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Mapping Myth, Ecology, and Ecofeminism: Digital Humanities and AI in the Comparative Study of Bonobibi

Maria Bhuiyan1, Imtiaz Bhuiyan2

1: Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh, People's Republic of; 2: University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia




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Digital Narratives and Authorship: Electronic Fiction and Transmedia Storytelling in Comparative Literature

Maria Bhuiyan

Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh, People's Republic of




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AI, Stylistic Emulation, and Hypothetical Literary Comparisons

Maria Bhuiyan1, Imtiaz Bhuiyan2

1: Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh, People's Republic of; 2: University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(433) From Han Kang to Han Kang
Location: KINTEX 2 305B
Chair: JIHEE HAN, Gyeongsang National University
 

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From Handke to Han Kang: How the Nobel Prize in Literature Survived

Paul Tenngart

Lund University, Sweden




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Han Kang’s Vegetarianism

Changnam Lee

Institute for American and European studies, Daegu, South Korea




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A comparative study of feminist themes between the novels of Korean writer Han Jiang and Chinese writer Zhang Ailing

Ying-hui Pan

Shandong University of Aeronautics, China, People's Republic of




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Reimagining Violence: Sensation, Bodily Deformation and Female Trauma in Can Xue’s The Last Lover and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

Yi He

University of New South Wales, Australia

Date: Friday, 01/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(438) Decentred Subjects
Location: KINTEX 2 305B
Chair: Minji Choi, Hankuk university of foreign studies
 

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Persona, Relationality, Decentred Subjects: Digital Editions as Life-Writing Projects

Sandra Mayer

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria




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Ethnographic Poetics, Culture and Art in Virtual Eco-System with the Liability of Newness

Jayshree Singh1, Salvatore Tolone Azzariti2, Aishwarya Singh3

1: Department of English, Bhupal Nobles' University Udaipur Rajasthan, India; 2: Woxsen School of Law, Woxsen University, Telangana, Andhara Pradesh; 3: Faculty of Law and Justice, University of New South Wales, Sydney




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Transhumanistic Sym-poiesis through the speculative post-apocalyptic and analogue steampunk literature of Ai Jiang and Noah Medlock

Anita Purcell-Sjölund1, Zita Farkas2

1: Dalarna University, Sweden; 2: Dalarna University, Sweden

11:00am
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12:30pm
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Location: KINTEX 2 305B
1:30pm
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3:00pm
(448) What T.S. Eliot Says
Location: KINTEX 2 305B
Chair: Sunghyun Kim, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
 

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The Early Reception of T. S. Eliot in China: Under the influence of I. A. Richards, William Empson and others

Chen Lin

Shanghai Normal University, China, People's Republic of




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A Record on The Gramophone: Intertextuality and soundscape in “The Waste Land”

Soelve Ingeburg Curdts

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany




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Aesthetics as Anaesthetics: A Reading into Nirālā’s Psyche of Relieving Pain through Writing Poetry

Prabha Shankar Dwivedi

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, India




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A Digital Literary Comparison of Antonio Machado and T. S. Eliot

Hye-Yoon Chung, Sung-Hyun Jang

Korea University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(489) in a Korean Colouring Book
Location: KINTEX 2 305B
Chair: Sunghyun Kim, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
 

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Literary Border-Crossing of Juhea Kim’s Beasts of a Little Land

Seiwoong Oh1, Sunmi Oh2

1: Rider University, United States of America; 2: Drexel University, United States of America




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Doris Lessing's and Shin Gyeongsook's Mother: Motherhood in The Fifth Child and Please Look After Mom

Sunhwa Park

Konkuk University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)




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Queer lovers in the West and East: four authors, C.P. Cavafy, E.M. Forster, Ki Hyeong-do, Park Sang-young.

Yoonjoung Choi

Durham University, United Kingdom




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The Library of Travel: Post-Orientalism and the Library Trope in a Korean Colouring Book

Dhee Sankar

Independent Researcher, India