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).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 1st Aug 2025, 09:22:10pm KST
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Location: KINTEX 1 205B 50 people KINTEX room number 205B |
| Date: Monday, 28/July/2025 | |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
(147) Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (1) Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Stefan Buchenberger, Kanagawa University ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Frank Miler’s Daredevil. The Transformation of a Superhero. Kanagawa University, Japan Open Group Individual Submissions Beyond Good and Evil: The Subversion of Heroic Archetypes in The Wicked + The Divine Catholic University of Lublin, Poland Open Group Individual Submissions First Impressions: Cover Art and Otherness in Metal Hurlant and Sharaz-De Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Open Group Individual Submissions The Fascist Superhero Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
169 Location: KINTEX 1 205B |
| Date: Tuesday, 29/July/2025 | |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
(191) Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (3) Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Stefan Buchenberger, Kanagawa University ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions M’quidech : l’héroïsme à l’algérienne Université ,Echahid Cheikh Larbi Tebessi.Tébessa. Algérie Open Group Individual Submissions Yearning for Girls and for Selkies: Lesbian coming-of-age in The Girl from the Sea and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me UCL, United Kingdom ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Drawing the Ghosts Away: Graphic Narrative as a Medium for Trauma, Postmemory, and Healing in Feeding Ghosts Chungbuk National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Cha Cha on the Bridge: AI Heroes Yonsei University, Republic of (South Korea) |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
(213) Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (4) Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Stefan Buchenberger, Kanagawa University ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Polish Comic Book Westerns University of Warsaw, Poland Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only) Moloch as Anti-Hero, Carl Solomon as Hero: Reconfiguring Howl in Graphic Form 1: RV University, Bengaluru, India; 2: St. Joseph's University, Bengaluru, India ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions Asterix and the Postmoderns: History, Resistance, and Empire in the 20th Century University of São Paulo, Brazil |
| Date: Wednesday, 30/July/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
(235) Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (5) Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Stefan Buchenberger, Kanagawa University ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions “Homages: Graphic Narratives of the War Heroes of Gallup, New Mexico” University of New Mexico-Gallup, United States of America Open Group Individual Submissions (De)colonized Superheroes: Interrogating the ‘Third World’ in Filipino Superhero Komiks University of the Philippines, Diliman, United Arab Emirates Open Group Individual Submissions Iberia Inc, the Americanization of the figure of the hero in Spain Universidad de Alcala, Spain |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
(257) Comparative Literature in East Asia Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Hui Nie, National University of Defense Technology Open Group Individual Submissions The Formation of Catholic Biji Novels in Late Ming China: A Preliminary Study to the Genre of Li Jiugong’s Lixiu Yijian 华东师范大学, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Cultural Perspectives and Ideological Concepts of Panking: A French-educated intellectual National University of Defense Technology, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions A Study on the Love of Thomas Aquinas from the Perspective of the New Psychology of Love Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Ekphrasis in the Oral Tradition---The Mongolian Epic as an Example Inner Mongolia Normal University, China, People's Republic of |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
(279) Decolonising 'World Literature' : Perspectives of Oratures and Literatures from South Asia Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat Open Group Individual Submissions Narrative Resistance in Fictionalised Autobiography: A Critical Study of Anita Desai’s Clear Light of the Day and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things Amity University, Punjab, India Open Group Individual Submissions The Broken and Forgotten: Fractured Histories and Uncharted Margins of Partition. The English and Foreign Languages University, India Open Group Individual Submissions Mapping Myth, Ecology, and Ecofeminism: Digital Humanities and AI in the Comparative Study of Bonobibi 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 Parsi Thatre and Its Sonosphere University of Delhi, India |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
(301) Translation and Cultural Transfer in Soviet and Cold War Contexts Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Peter Budrin, Queen Mary University of London Group Session Translation and Cultural Transfer in Soviet and Cold War Contexts
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| Date: Thursday, 31/July/2025 | |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
(323) Postcolonial coming-of-age novels in the Indian and Pacific Ocean worlds (1) Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Daniela Spina, CHAM - Centre for Humanities Open Group Individual Submissions Growing up in a garden: Anglo-Indian adolescence and (post-)imperial Englishness in Rumer Godden’s The River (1946) Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Open Group Individual Submissions About friendship and mentorship in two coming-of-age novels set in Sri Lanka and Goa: Reef by Romesh Gunesekera (1994) and O Último Olhar de Manú Miranda by Orlando da Costa (2000) CHAM - Centre for Humanities, Portugal Open Group Individual Submissions On the Blue Gender Dilemma in Jack London's South Pacific Novel "The Seed of McCoy" / 论杰克·伦敦南太平洋小说《麦考伊的种子》中的“蓝色性别困境” Hainan Normal School, China, People's Republic of |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
(345) Postcolonial coming-of-age novels in the Indian and Pacific Ocean worlds (2) Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Daniela Spina, CHAM - Centre for Humanities Open Group Individual Submissions Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet as Postcolonial Bildungsroman: The Emergence of Indigenous Elites in East Indies Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions Colonial and postcolonial ambiguities in Luís Cardoso’s Crónica de uma Travessia University of Lisbon School of Arts, Portugal Open Group Individual Submissions Disciplining South Asian Childhoods: A Study of Post-independence Novels from India The University of Texas at Austin, United States of America |
| Date: Friday, 01/Aug/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
(367) Global Auerbach (1) Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Robert Doran, University of Rochester Open Group Individual Submissions A Postmodern Hugh of St. Victor? The paradoxes of Auerbach's Weltliteratur University of Macau, Macau S.A.R. (China) Open Group Individual Submissions After Philology: Auerbach, Soroush, and the Literary Tsinghua University Open Group Individual Submissions Auerbach, Ranciere, and the Democratic Politics of World Art University of Rochester, United States of America |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
(389) Global Auerbach (2) Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Robert Doran, University of Rochester Open Group Individual Submissions Auerbach's Legacy and Non-European Realism Konan University, Japan Open Group Individual Submissions Global Auerbach and Weltliteratur in the Postmodern Regimes of Art Duke University, United States of America Open Group Individual Submissions The Materiality of aesthetic historicism: From Vico, Auerbach to Hayden White Lanzhou University, China, People's Republic of Open Group Individual Submissions The Radiances of World Literature: Erich Auerbach’s Literary Humanism for an Other World in the Making University of Bayreuth, Germany |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
(411) The Potential of Unexpected Comparisons in Japan Studies Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Oliver William Eccles, University College London Group Session The Potential of Unexpected Comparisons in Japan Studies
Open Group Individual Submissions What is the meaning of Shunryu Suzuki’s coming to the West? An inquiry on Jane Hirshfield University of the Philippines-Diliman, Philippines |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
(468) Imagination and Anthropocene Location: KINTEX 1 205B Chair: Hyun Kyung Park, Namseoul University Open Free Individual Submissions Imagination and Music : The Shaping of Literary Imagination in British Romantic Poetry and Prose Louisiana State University, United States of America Open Free Individual Submissions Comparative Study of Punjabi Poets Dhani Ram Chatrik and Nand Lal Noorpuri: A Literary and Socio-cultural Perspective Central University of Punjab, VPO Ghudda, Dist. Bathinda, India Open Free Individual Submissions “Deictic Scale Shifting”：An Extension of Anthropocene Narrative Theory Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of |