Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
50 people KINTEX room number 206B
Date: Monday, 28/July/2025
1:30pm
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3:00pm
(149) What is "the Beyond"?
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: Jun Soo Kang, anyang University
 

Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Taiwan Literature as Kafkaesque? — A Case Study of L’abécédaire de la littérature: K comme Kafka

Alex Wai-Lok Lo

National Taiwan University, Taiwan




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

What is "the Beyond"?: The Supernatural and the Quest for Irish Identity in Conor McPherson’s Plays

Wenying Jiang

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




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Fast-Books: an Academy for the Writer and a Dose for the Fast-Reader

Aurora Gomez-Rovira

Universitat Abat Oliba CEU - CEU Universities, Spain




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Bureaucratic Fiction: Aesthetic Regimes of Administration in World Literature and Film

Alexandra Irimia

Western University, Canada & University of Bonn, Germany

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(171) Misreading the East
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: Jun Soo Kang, anyang University
 

Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

On Posthuman Subjectivity in Belyaev

Ziqi Liu

Tianjin Normal University




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

How does the media frame vasectomy: a political issue, a gender issue, or a medical issue? ——A comparative content analysis on vasectomy reportings in United States and China

Yuxiao Zhang

University of Maryland, United States of America




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Misreading the East: AI, Aesthetic Misrecognition, and the Technological Hegemony over Bengali Literature

Hamayat Ullah Emon

Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Technologies de l’imaginaire : littérature viatique et conscience simulée dans la fabrique prémoderne du Japon

Ibtihel Ghourabi1,2

1: Aix-Marseille Université; 2: l’Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco)




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Emplotting Yin-Yang and Changes in Life: To What Extent is Eileen Chang’s The Book of Change a Yijing?

Yuchen Xie

Bejing Normal Hong Kong Baptist University, China, People's Republic of

Date: Tuesday, 29/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(193) Factory of the present: literature, culture and criticism in the Global South
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: Rachel Esteves Lima, Federal University of Bahia
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Between Disorder and Return: The Brazilian National Flag Remixed for the 21st Century

Ana Lígia Leite e Aguiar

Federal University of Bahia, Brazil




Open Group Individual Submissions

Beatriz Sarlo and Leyla Perrone-Moisés: Crossed paths

Claudia Amigo Pino

University of São Paulo, Brazil




Open Group Individual Submissions

The Expanded Field of Literature and its Relationship with the Arts and Media

Marcia Arbex

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brésil




Open Group Individual Submissions

Vagues de résistance: littérature et insurrections contemporaines

Rachel Esteves Lima

Federal University of Bahia, Brazil




Open Group Individual Submissions

Comparativism Today and the Foundation of the World Republic of Global-South Letters

Anderson Bastos Martins

Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(215) Diaspora of the Ghazal
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: JIHEE HAN, Gyeongsang National University
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Adapting the Ghazal to English and German: Zeina Hashem Beck and Jan Wagner

Doris Hambuch

United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates




Open Group Individual Submissions

Yalli Yalli or Yali Hali: A Reading of Cheongsanbyeolgok as a Korean Ghazal

JIHEE HAN

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




Open Group Individual Submissions

Diverse Musical Influences: Ghazal Performance in Pakistan:

AIZAZ UL HAQ

Gyeongsang National university,korea, Republic of (South korea).




Open Group Individual Submissions

Translating the Nonverbal in Diasporic Ghazals: A Cultural Turn Approach

Raja Lahiani

UAE University, United Arab Emirates

Date: Wednesday, 30/July/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(237) Digital Comparative Literature (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: Simone Rebora, University of Verona
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Digital World Literature

Youngmin Kim

Dongguk University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Crisis of Subjectivity in Technological Networks: Bruno Latour and Impersonal Generation in Digital Age

Shengke Deng

Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Digital Humanities and Publishing Scholarship in the Humanities

Steven Totosy de Zepetnek

Sichuan University

11:00am
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12:30pm
(259) Digital Comparative Literature (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: Simone Rebora, University of Verona
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

The Power Not to Think: LLMs as Poetic Impotential Machines

Alberto Parisi

Kobe University, Japan




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Vocational but Vernacular: Forestry Policies and Sinophone Malaysian Literature

Nicholas Y. H. Wong

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




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

The Net-like Narrative Structure of The Dream of Red Mansions: A “Corpus” Statistic Analysis Based on the Text Mining of Character Appellations

Yue Wang

Tianjin Normal University, People's Republic of China




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Digitally Mapping Decolonial Thought: Ahmad Hassan Al-Zayyat’s Al-Risala and the Postcolonial Arab Identity

Eid Mohamed

Qatar University, Qatar

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(281)
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: Simone Rebora, University of Verona
3:30pm
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5:00pm
(303) Digital Comparative Literature (4)
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: Simone Rebora, University of Verona
 

ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Digital Social Reading and Comparative Literature: Three Case Studies

Simone Rebora

University of Verona, Italy




Open Group Individual Submissions

Documentation, Textual Authority, and the Digital Afterlife of Dracula

Hyun Kyung Jung

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




Open Group Individual Submissions

Fan Fiction as Paratext: An Intervention of Real Audiences in the Narrative Process of Storyworld

Yunqian Wang

Gent University, Belgium




Open Group Individual Submissions

Empathy, Curiosity, and Critique: An AI-driven Mapping of Reader Responses to Asian American Literature via ChatGPT

Shuyue Liu1, Changkang Li2

1: School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, The United Kingdom; 2: School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, The People’s Republic of China

Date: Thursday, 31/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(325) Rethinking (post)Humanist Discourses in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction: Historicity, Locality, and Technology (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: Xi Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
 

Open Free Individual Submissions

The Matriarchal Utopia? Reimagining Human Reproduction in Chinese and Western science fiction

Ye Lin

Frontiers, China, People's Republic of




Open Group Individual Submissions

Reworking of human ethics in contemporary Chinese SF crisis narratives

Danxue Zhou

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University




Open Group Individual Submissions

Reworking of human ethics in contemporary Chinese SF crisis narratives

Yue Zhou

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University




Open Group Individual Submissions

Technological Advancement, Gender Roles,and Female Agency in Female-authored Chinese Science Fiction

Xi Liu

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(347) Rethinking (post)Humanist Discourses in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction: Historicity, Locality, and Technology (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: Xi Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Rediscovering Labour - A Study of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction Literature in the Post-Liu Cixin Generation

Jinhua LI

THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)




Open Group Individual Submissions

Reconstructing Humanistic Ideals in Solarpunk: On the Cultural Politics Implications of Zhang Ran’s When the Sun Falls

Weiming Gao

University of Freiburg




Open Group Individual Submissions

How to Cross Boundaries: Gender and Cyborg in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

Ran Li

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




Open Group Individual Submissions

The Algorithmic Other in Cognitive Assemblages: Chen Qiufan's "The Algorithms for Life" and the Localization Dilemma of the Posthuman Subject in China

Yi Yuan

Capital Normal University, China, People's Republic of

Date: Friday, 01/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(369) Untranslatability and Translation
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: Seonggyu Kim, Dongguk University
 

Open Free Individual Submissions

The Problem of Untranslatability and Lotman's Myth

SOYEON PARK

KOREA UNIVERSITY, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)




Open Free Individual Submissions

The Study of English Translation of The Genial Seed

Buyong Lee

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




Open Group Individual Submissions

Glocalization: Rooted Cosmopolitanism in Sherwood Anderson’s Small-Town Bidwell

HONGZHA AGA

Si Chuan University, China, People's Republic of

11:00am
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12:30pm
(391) Reimagining the “Orient”: Multiple “Orients” across Asia in the Early 20th Century (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: Zahra Moharramipour, The International Research Center for Japanese Studies
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Interaction Between Multiple Identity and the Fluid Perceptions of the Mind-Body: Kawabata Yasunari’s Dance Novels in the 1930s

Masaho Kumazawa

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

Representations and Adaptations of the Nanyo by East Asian Writers: Literary Interpretations of the Nanyo and Toyo

JIHU PARK

Kyushu University, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

The Transformation of Taiwan Narratives in Japanese Literature from the Prewar to Postwar Periods: Insights from Khu Eng-Han's Koen (1955)

Anqi Sun

The University of Tokyo, Japan

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(413) Tales of Near and Far
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: ChangGyu Seong, Mokwon University
 

Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Représenter le culturel à l’ère numérique : entre lecture rapprochée et lecture distante

Loubna Ouardirhi

Université Sidi Mohammed ben Abdellah Maroc, Maroc




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Technological Ethics in A Tale for the Time Being

Zhenling Li

Shenzhen University, China, People's Republic of




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Michel Clouscard, Christopher Caudwell, and Comparative Social Ontologies of Love

Matthew Herzog

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

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(470 H) Aliens Over Society
Location: KINTEX 1 206B
Chair: Byung-Yong Son, Kyungnam University
 

Open Free Individual Submissions

Individual, Family, and Society: Multiple Identity Dilemmas of Mulattos in The Vanishing Half

Dongxu Tang

College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of




Open Free Individual Submissions

Aliens Over Texas: A Comparative Literary Analysis of An Aerial Sighting in Texas Originating In Medieval European Manuscripts

Evelyn McCune

Texas Tech University, United States of America




Open Free Individual Submissions

"Marvelous real" of Latin American Magic Realism and Mutual learning among Civilizations

Mengmeng Yao

Henan University of Economics and Law, China, People's Republic of




Open Free Individual Submissions

Cultural Representations of the Ship of the Slaves’ Arrival in 1619 and the Ship of Pilgrims’ Landing in 1620 in the current realities of US immigrants

Temitope Dorcas Adetoyese

University of Texas at Austin, United States of America