Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
40 people KINTEX Building 2 Room number 307A
Date: Monday, 28/July/2025
1:30pm
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3:00pm
(105) Comparative Literature and AI (ECARE 5)
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: Sohan Sharif, Jahangirnagar University
 

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

Debasmita De Sarkar

Visva Bharati University, India




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Can AI act as a Comparatist?

Sohan Sharif

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




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Accommodating Textual Anxieties: Authenticity and AI in Technelegy by Sasha Stiles

Abhirami Ajith Kumar

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(110) Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene (ECARE 10)
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: Cynthia Yingjuan Lin, Peking University
 

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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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Deconstruction of anthropocentrism and alternatives to post-humanism: Focusing on Agustina Bazterrica’s "Tender is the Flesh"

Minji Choi

Hankuk university of foreign studies, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)




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Urban Wildernesses: Searching for a Unity of Nature and Man in Can Xue’s Barefoot Doctor

Cynthia Yingjuan Lin

Peking University, China




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Repositioning Human-nonhuman Binaries through Ecophobia: A Study of Classic of Mountains and Seas

Meilin LIU

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

Date: Tuesday, 29/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(115) Intermedial craft 1 (ECARE 15)
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: Masako Hashimoto, National Institute of Technology Numazu College
 

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Housun and the Creative Woodblock Print Movement: The Fusion of Art, Literature, and Technology in Modern Japan

Masako Hashimoto

National Institute of Technology Numazu College, Japan




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Mythology, Chimaera Women and Golden Texts: Intermediality as Gender Critique in Indonesian Contemporary Art

Syakirah Aqilah Binte Sanusi

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore




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Cross-Media Music Narrative in Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”

Yuki Liu

the School of Foreign Studies of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (ZUEL), China, People's Republic of




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Intermedia Art: A Multimodal Analysis of Li Shun’s Art Exhibition “Capture the Light and Shadow”

Ruhui Wang

Hangzhou Normal University, China, People's Republic of

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(120) Literature, memory, history (ECARE 20)
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: Di Yan, Northwestern Polytechnical University
 

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A striving pursuit of literary redress: revisiting the lives of “comfort women” in Mary Lynn Bracht’s White Chrysanthemum

Seoung Yun {Vanessa} Lee

SOAS, University of London, UK




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Between Conformity and Dissent: Remembering the Deportation of 1944 in early post-Soviet Fiction across the North Caucasus

Elisa Mucciarelli

University of Regensburg, Germany




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A Study on the Rewriting of Caribbean History in V. S. Naipaul’s The Loss of El Dorado

Di Yan

Northwestern Polytechnical University, People's Republic of China




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Poetry and truth of turning Heroes: the portrayal of Zhu Fusheng's image in newspapers and drum lyrics

xiao xiao

Shangqiu Normal University, China, People's Republic of

Date: Wednesday, 30/July/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(125) Performance in the digital age (ECARE 25)
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: Ziyu Zhang, Wuhan University of Technology
 

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From Jinjiang to the Global Stage: Reimagining Chuānyuè (time travel) as a Bridge Between Cultures, Genres, and Times

Song Huang

University of Virginia, United States of America




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Integration, Alienation and Reconstruction: A Cross-cultural Interpretation of Brecht's Dramatic Concepts from the Perspective of Comparative Literature

Ziyu Zhang

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




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Care and Kinship: Staging the more-than-human in Canadian and Greenlandic theatre

Felicia Cucuta

Harvard University

11:00am
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12:30pm
(130) Technology, Companionship and ethics in Kazuo Ishiguro (ECARE 30)
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: Lixin Gao, Shanghai International Studies Universtiy
 

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Tropes of Othering in Flannery O'Connor's "The Artificial Nigger" and Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go"

Zidong Li

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan




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Disadvantaged yet Dignified: Reaffirming Humanity through Companionship in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun

Yiqun Xiao

Kyoto University, Japan




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Art and Justice: On the Intermedia Writing of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled

Lixin Gao

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




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

Tianxiang Chen

Harbin Engineering University, People's Republic of China

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(135) Translation and circulation (ECARE 35)
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: Kai Lin, University of Alberta
 

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On Philology in Three Dimensions and Its Interaction with World Literature Studies

Jingyu Zhuang

Fujian Normal University, China, People's Republic of




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Translating Queerness Across Censorships: The Fan Translation of Pioneer Summer: A Novel from Russia to China

Kai Lin

University of Alberta, Canada




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Translation as Rewriting-the (Re)constructed Female Images in Outlaws of the Marsh

Zichen Zhao

RMIT University, Australia

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(140) Disney Tells Many Interesting Things
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: Hyosun Lee, Underwood College, Yonsei University
 

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Cross-Dressing, Gender Transgression, And Empowerment in Disney’s “Mulan” (1998) And Yoshiki Tanaka’s “Fly, Wind, Across the Vast Expanse” (1991)

Hideko Taniguchi

Kyushu University, Japan




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Self-Reliance or Radical Individualism: On Disney’s Characterization of Mulan

Xiujuan Yao

Tianjin Chengjian University, China, People's Republic of




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Montage and metaphor: Eisenstein, Modesto Carone, and the dynamics of meaning

Palmireno Moreira Neto

State University of Campinas, Brazil




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Trauma, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Aftershock from Book to Screen

Yan Lu

Huron University, Canada




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Writing the River: A Comparative Study of River Narratives in Victorian British and Modern Chinese Literature

Peiyao Wu

King’s College London, United Kingdom

Date: Thursday, 31/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(431) Voyage of Images
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: S Peter Lee, Gyeongsang National University
 

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“To Get along with the Sea”: Technologies of (Re-)mediating Darkness in Beyond the Blue: Kuroshio’s Voyage

Julian Chih-wei Yang

National Taitung University, Taiwan




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Reconstructing women's experience in transmedia narratives: a multidimensional perspective on film adaptations of contemporary feminist literature

Bei Tang

Southern Medical University, China, People's Republic of




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(Re)Mapping the Virtual and the Imaginary: Site-Specific Video Installations and Digitally Mediated Heterotopias

Deok Yu Elizabeth Wang

University College London, United Kingdom




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Poetics/prosthetics of imagination: Poetry, Cinema, and Artificial Intelligence in Jean Epstein

Ennuri Jo

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(436) Portrait of Ghosts
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: Jun Soo Kang, anyang University
 

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GENDERED GOLD AND GOLDEN GHOSTS: GOTHIC HEROINES OF NINETEENTH CENTURY BENGAL

Camellia Paul

Jadavpur University, India




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Question of Crisis in Early Bengali Film Discourse: Tracing Film Criticisms of the 1930s and the 1940s

Dattatreya Ghosh

Jadavpur University, India




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«Portrait du moine athonite à travers le prisme de trois récits de voyageurs français au Mt Athos au tournant des années 1920: histoire de genre ou histoire de privilège lié aux catégories sexuelles?»

Jean-Michel Sourd

Diocesan Boys’School, HK




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American ‘Goddess of Mercy’ in the Nanjing Massacre: Minnie Vautrin and the Afterlife of Her Wartime Diary

PINGFAN ZHANG

Zhejiang Gongshang University, China, People's Republic of

Date: Friday, 01/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(441) Digital (dis-) Embodiment
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: Juri ­Oh, Catholic Kwandong University
 

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Analyzing The Advanced Isolation of "Developed" Technology Through Science Fiction

Praniti Gulyani

UC Berkeley, United States of America




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Digital (dis-) Embodiment and the Rhetoric of Belonging: Reimagining Queer Chinese Diaspora in Cyberspace

Wai Chi Wong

Western University, Canada




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The Intersection of Literature and Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Study of Narrative Evolution in the Digital Age

PETER NJENGA KAMAU, ELIZABETH NJERI NJUGUNA, KENNEDY MAINA GATHONI

Paula Solutions Ltd, Kenya

11:00am
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12:30pm
(446) The Mother of Korean Literature
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: Seiwoong Oh, Rider University
 

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The Mother of Korean Literature Struggling with Freud : Park Wan-seo’s Reading of Sigmund Freud

You-Kyung Lee

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




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Polyphonic Resistance and Secret Utopias: Technology and Language in the works of Cathy Park Hong and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Neethi Alexander

Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India




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The Oral Reading of DICTEE as a Shamanistic Ritual

Yoon Ju Oh

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




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The in-betweenness in Places: Exploring the Gumiho and Dakshin Rai in an ecopostcolonial mnemoscape

Neepa Sarkar

Independent, India

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(451) Spectrum of World Literature
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: Seiwoong Oh, Rider University
 

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Shifting Paradigms: R/Evolution of Literary Canons and Hierarchies in a Globalized Context

Alassane Abdoulaye Dia

Université Numérique Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Senegal




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Travel (of) Literature and the Question of Hospitality; Spectrum of World Literature

MUSTAPH Ait KHAROUACH

lusail university, Qatar.




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Bombay in Goan Portuguese-Language Short Stories

Paul Michael Melo e Castro

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom




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WRITING THE FEMALE SYMBOLIC-IMAGETIC BODY IN CLARICE LISPECTOR AND CHUN KYUNGJA: READINGS ON THE ÉCRITURE OF TRANSNATIONAL FEMALE BODY AND SPACE.

Melissa Rubio dos Santos

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil




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Le rôle du narrateur et le worldbuilding dans la fantasy historique française

Shuko Rauber

Université Toyo, Japon

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(492) From Colonial to Postcolonialism
Location: KINTEX 2 307A
Chair: Minjeon Go, Dankook University
 

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Conversations with Postcolonial Indigenous Literatures: The Potential of Comparative Poetics as a Relational Tool.

MARC MAUFORT

Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium




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A Postcolonial Reading of Natsume Soseki’s: Anticolonial Inclinations and Their Limitations

Héctor Benjamín Uclés Flores

Osaka University, Japan




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Anticolonial Aesthetics and the Sociological Imagination

James Daniel Elam

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




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Towards a Nonhumanist World Literature: Precarious Nonhuman Cosmopolitanisms in Satyajit Ray’s Short Stories

Dhee Sankar

Independent Researcher, India