Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
50 people KINTEX room number 205A
Date: Monday, 28/July/2025
1:30pm
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3:00pm
(146) Dwelling Between Life and Death
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: ChangGyu Seong, Mokwon University
 

Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

A General Overview of Northern and Southern Dynasties and Tang-era Silla Monks’ Eastward Pilgrimage for Buddhist Learning

Jialing Li

SICHUAN University, China, People's Republic of




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

A comparative study of ecological thoughts in children's literature between East and West -- A case study of China and Germany

Pinjing Fu

Southwest Jiaotong University, China, People's Republic of




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Dwelling Between Life and Death: A Study of "厝" in Minan Rurul Society

GUO TIANZHEN

Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

“Fearless and Free”: Josephine Baker’s Transnational Performatives of Raced Femininity

Fangfang Zhu

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

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(168) Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: Stefan Buchenberger, Kanagawa University
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

She is Judged! Tezuka Osamu’s Female Mephistopheles as Anti-heroine

Maria Ana Micaela Chua Manansala

University of the Philippines, Philippines




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

The Representation of Modern Female Heroes in Webtoons: A Case Study of Indonesian Works

Noriko Hiraishi

University of Tsukuba, Japan




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

The Enemy’s Face – How the Presence of the Enemy Influences the “Hiroshima of Anger” and “Nagasaki of Prayers” Narratives in Cartoon Animation

Joachim Alt1,2

1: National Museum of Japanese History, Japan (until March 31, 2025); 2: Niigata University, Japan (from April 1, 2025)




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

The Futuristic Legacy of Animal Fables: Tracing Animal Motifs in Chinese Science Fiction

Luyao Yu

East China Normal University (ECNU), China, People's Republic of

Date: Tuesday, 29/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(190) South Asian Literatures and Cultures (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Tracing Liminality: Performing Decolonization in South Asia

Subhayu Chatterjee

Jadavpur University, India




Open Group Individual Submissions

Revisiting Tagore's Vishyasahitya: The Development and Contemporary Relevance of Comparative Literature

Sohan Sharif

Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Decolonizing Literary Discourse: The Emergence of Comparative Literature in Post-Independence India

Tias Basu

Jadavpur University, India




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Politics of Categorization and Idea about ‘World Literature’: An Indian Perspective

Soma Mukherjee

Visva-Bharati, India

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(212) South Asian Literatures and Cultures
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Beyond the bloodshed: Poonchi life-writings of survival and re-consolidation

Arun Jot Kaur

Panjab University, India




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Disability & Struggle among Religious Minorities of India: Naseema Hazruk’s The Incredible Story & Preeti Monga’s The Other Senses

Kumar Parag

University of Allahabad, India




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Beyond ‘Mother India’ and ‘New Indian Woman’: Indian educated middle-class women in Partition Novels

Ziwei Yan

University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, China, People's Republic of

Date: Wednesday, 30/July/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(234) South Asian Literatures and Cultures
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Manjushree Thapa : the Voice from Nepal in South Asian Diasporic Studies

Suchorita Chattopadhyay

Jadavpur University, India




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

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

Khum Prasad Sharma

Tribhuvan University, Nepal




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Cross-Border Adaptations: The South Asian Context

Sayantan Dasgupta

Jadavpur University, India

11:00am
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12:30pm
(256) South Asian Literatures and Cultures
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Ensemble: Toward Resonant Comparisions

Jimin Lee

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Decolonizing Climate Narratives: Amitav Ghosh'sGun Islandand South Asian Oratures of Environmental Crisis

Cui Chen

Shandong University, China, People's Republic of




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

From “Reading” to “Listening”: Collaborative Translation, Inclusivity and Indigenous Oral Literature

Saswati Saha

Sikkim University, India

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(278) South Asian Literatures and Cultures (5)
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: ChangGyu Seong, Mokwon University
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Bangla Science Fiction: Extending the Horizons of a Genre in working out World Literature

Kunal Chattopadhyay

Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI), India




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Colonial Indian Novel-- National Or Supranational: Illustrating A History Of Literary Systems Using The "Horizon Of Expectations As A Tool Through Fakir Mohan Senapati's Six Acres And A Third (1896) and O. Chandumenon's Indulekha (1889)

Shreya Dash

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




Group Session

Decolonising 'World Literature' : Perspectives of Oratures and Literatures from South Asia

E.V. Ramakrishnan, Sayantan Dasgupta




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

'Muhyidhin Mala' and the Imagination of ummah (community) in early 17th century Kerala.

Sherin Basheer Saheera

The English and Foreign Languages University, India

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(300) South Asian Literatures and Cultures (6)
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Revisiting the Past : Diasporic Dilemma in Anita Rau Badami's Can You Hear the Nightbird Call ? and Sorayya Khan's Five Queen's Road

NEERAJ KUMAR

MAGADH UNIVERSITY BODH GAYA, INDIA, India




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Class Struggle and Socio-economic disparities: A Marxist analysis of Interpreter of Maladies and Boori Maa

Muhammad Ali

Umt, Pakistan




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Creating ' History', Forging Resistance: Reading Mahasweta' s Devi' s ' Major Literary Works

URWASHI KUMARI

MAGADH UNIVERSITY BODHGAYA, INDIA, India




Group Session

Flesh of the World: Phenomenology of Body in Norona’s Thottappan

Libin Andrews

Date: Thursday, 31/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(322) Expanded Literature: Intersections between the Book, Digital Media, and Narrative Ecosystems (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: Massimo Fusillo, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Augmented Literature Through Locative Media: Trans-mediality, Locative Media, Trans-materiality

Mirko Lino

University of L'Aquila, Italy




Open Group Individual Submissions

Between Gods and Goblins: Japan’s Colonial Fantasy in Propaganda Animated Film "Momotaro: Sacred Sailors" (1945)

Yorimitsu Hashimoto

Osaka University, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

Experiencing the Novel: Hypertext on Erfahrung and Erlebnis

Jeongin Ko

Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)




Open Group Individual Submissions

Less Than an Author, More Than a Tool: AI in Literary Writing

Daniel Raffini

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

The Book as Catalyst of Intermediality Peter Greenaway re-mediates Shakespeare

Massimo Fusillo

Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(344) Expanded Literature: Intersections between the Book, Digital Media, and Narrative Ecosystems (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: Massimo Fusillo, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

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




Open Group Individual Submissions

Music of <The Nine Cloud Dream> and the Cloudy Dreamy Music

Jiin Ko

Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Date: Friday, 01/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(366) Forelives and Afterlives of Iconic Heroes/Heroines of Children's Literature (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: Yuriko Yamanaka, National Museum of Ethnology
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Transformations of Heidi—Comparison of Johanna Spyri's original novel and the animation series "Heidi, Girl of the Alps"

Takashi Kawashima

Kyoto University, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

Image of Europe through Japanese Animation: A Case Study of the Reception of Heidi, Girl of the Alps in Iran

Yuriko Yamanaka

National Museum of Ethnology, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

British Classic to Japanese Animation: The Adaptation of F. H. Burnett’s A Little Princess

Kaori Chiba

Heidi Children's Literature Society of Japan

11:00am
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12:30pm
(388) Forelives and Afterlives of Iconic Heroes/Heroines of Children's Literature (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: Yuriko Yamanaka, National Museum of Ethnology
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Translations of Sans famille in Early 20th Century Japan: On the Source of the Popularity of the Work

Kimiko WATANABE

Osaka University, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

Kitaro's Journey - From Child-rearing Ghost Folklore to Picture-story Shows, Manga, and Animation

Aki NISHIOKA

Ritsumeikan University, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

The World Beyond in KASHIWABA Sachiko’s The Marvelous Village Veiled in Mist and MIYAZAKI Hayao’s “Spirited Away”

Motoko Sato

Chiba University, Japan

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(410) Talking about nuclear experiences: Atomic bomb literature as World literature
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: Go Koshino, Keio University
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

A-bomb literature and the representation of Nuclear-reality: Selected Indian texts

Prabuddha Ghosh

The Assam Royal Global University, India




Open Group Individual Submissions

Atomic Bomb in Soviet Science Fiction

Go Koshino

Keio University, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

Talking about nuclear experiences: Atomic bomb literature as World literature

Irina Holca

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

Atomic Bomb in Postwar German Poetry

Akane Nishioka

JCLA, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

Too Bright to See: On the Motifs of Atomic Bombing in Czech and Slovak Postwar Poetry

Lukas Bruna

Jissen Women's University, Japan

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(467) Beyond the Boundaries
Location: KINTEX 1 205A
Chair: Minyoung Cha, Dankook university
 

Open Free Individual Submissions

Gender and Childbirth in Feminist science fiction :Focusing on the Work of Sayaka Murata

Kang Hyebin

Iryo Sosei University, Japan




Open Free Individual Submissions

Beyond Boundaries: Comparative Insights into SF Urban Peripheries

Mingying Zhou

Shenzhen University, China, People's Republic of




Open Free Individual Submissions

A Comparison of Universe perspectives between The Three-Body Problem and Foundation

Xinglong Han

Northwestern Polytechnical University.