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 1 207A
50 people KINTEX room number 207A
Date: Monday, 28/July/2025
1:30pm
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3:00pm
(150) Global South Futurism
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
Chair: Guangyi Li, Chongqing University
 

Group Session

Global South Futurism

Guangyi Li




Open Group Individual Submissions

Redefining Global Narratives from the South: Technology, Crisis and Identity in El Eternauta and Kentukis

Yilun Fan

University of California, Riverside, United States of America




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Explorations in Africanjujuism:The Unconscious and Materialism of Juju

kaiqing xie

Chongqing University




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"Between Inner Sage and Outer King": A Preliminary Exploration of Mou Zongsan’s Neo-Confucian Thought

Ke Wang

Hunan University, , Yuelu Academy,China




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Possible Worlds: Afrofuturism, Postcolonial Temporality, and the Remapping of Black Futures

Elżbieta Binczycka-Gacek

Jagiellonian University, Poland

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(172) Global Renaissances (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
Chair: Gang Zhou, Louisiana State University
 

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Reimagining the Renaissance: Chinese Intellectual Engagements with Western Historiography and the Birth of the “Chinese Renaissance”

Xinyao Xiao

Chongqing University, China, People's Republic of




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Has the Iranian Renaissance Already Happened?

Behnam Fomeshi

Monash University, Australia




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Reframing the Renaissance: Don Quixote, the Catalan Renaixença, and the Harlem Renaissance in Dialogue

Carmela Mattza

Louisiana State University, United States of America




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Global Renaissances

Gang Zhou1, Lital Levy2, Alaaeldin Mahmoud3, Behnam Fomeshi4, Carmela Mattza5, Andrew Hui6, Brenda Schildgen7

1: Louisiana State University; 2: Princeton University; 3: AUM University; 4: Monash University; 5: Louisiana State University; 6: National University of Singapore; 7: University of California at Davis

Date: Tuesday, 29/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(194) Global Renaissances (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
Chair: Gang Zhou, Louisiana State University
 

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The First Nahḍawī: Shaykh Ḥasan al-‘Aṭṭār as a Beacon of Indigenous Modernity

Alaaeldin Mahmoud

The American University of the Middle East, Kuwait




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Multiple Renaissances: A Thesis

Gang Zhou

Louisiana State University, United States of America




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Moderator

Brenda Deen Schildgen

UC Davis, United States of America




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Global Renaissances

Andrew Hui

National University of Singapore

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(216) Linguistic and Cultural Negotiations in Contemporary Novels and Films Produced in Hong Kong, Japan, and North America
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
Chair: Jessica Tsui-yan Li, York University
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Ghost Narrative and the Politics of Recognition: the Intervention Writing of Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter

Wenjun DING

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, China, People's Republic of




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Traversing and transforming cultural memory: the “pure language” and future invisibility in Li Kotomi’s An Island Where Red Spider Lilies Bloom

Chialan Sharon Wang

Middlebury College, United States of America




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Eileen Chang’s The Greatest Wedding on Earth (1962)

Jessica Tsui-yan Li

York University, Canada




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

Transcultural Identity: Chinese Opera in Chinese American Literature

Jack Hang-tat Leong

York University, Canada




ICLA Research Committee Individual Submissions

The Good Death in Ann Hui's "A Simple Life"

Hsiu-Chuang Deppman

Oberlin College, United States of America

Date: Wednesday, 30/July/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(238) Translating ethics, space, and style (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
Chair: Richard Mark Hibbitt, University of Leeds
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Between Self and Other: Symbolist Writers and the Art of Translation

Clément Dessy

ULB, Belgique




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Fridriech Schleiermacher's Oscillation and the Ethics in Translation

SEEYOUNG PARK

Ewha Womans University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)




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The Translators’ Dilemma: Ethics and Aesthetics of Translating Native Literature into World Literature

Saswati Saha, Abrona Lee Pandi Aden

Sikkim University, India




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Where is Allemonde? Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and the Ethics of Cosmopolitan Hospitality in Turn-of-the-century France

Philip Ross Bullock

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

11:00am
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12:30pm
(260) Translating ethics, space, and style (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
Chair: Richard Mark Hibbitt, University of Leeds
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Self-translation and Style: Jhumpa Lahiri's Volgare

Richard Robinson

Swansea University, United Kingdom




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Normative Presumptive Factuality Intersecting the Context of Subjectivity - Civil Disobedience and Relativism

Jayshree Singh1, Salvatore Tolone Azzariti2

1: Bhupal Nobles' University Udaipur Rajasthan, India; 2: Woxsen School of Law, Woxsen University, Telangana, Andhara Pradesh




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A Migrating/Translating Self: Ha Jin and Jhumpa Lahiri

Jae Eun Yoo

Hanyang University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)




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Literary translingualism between non-places and third space

AURELIE MOIOLI

Universite de Poitiers, FoReLLIS, France




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Self-Translation as an Act of Self-Reading: A Comparative Perspective on the Ethics of Self-Translation

Siddhi M S

English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India, India

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(282) Translating ethics, space, and style (3)
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
Chair: Richard Mark Hibbitt, University of Leeds
 

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Samuel Beckett’s Translingualism as a Framework for Bilingual Literary Creation

Yoo-jung Kim

Korea University, 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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“Different and yet the Same, the Same and yet Different”: Translation as Metaphor for Colonialism in Levy Hideo’s Japanese Prose

Thomas Brook

Otemon Gakuin University, Japan

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(304) Translating ethics, space, and style (4)
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
Chair: Richard Mark Hibbitt, University of Leeds
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

At Home in Japan: Hospitality and Translation in Bruno Taut’s Architectural Writings

Stefano Evangelista

Oxford University, United Kingdom




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Gender and Nation in Translation: A comparative study of British and American English translations of Hsieh Pingying’s Autobiography

Qingquan Qiao

Hunan Normal University, China, People's Republic of




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Translation, Allusion, and Graphic Illustration: the Unstable Spatio-Temporality of the World Republic of Translated Letters

Jongsook Lee

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




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Language and Space in Sarah Bernstein’s Study for Obedience

Richard Mark Hibbitt

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Date: Thursday, 31/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(326) Exploring the Trans
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
 

Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Scandal, Prestige, and Soft Power: The Transnational Afterlife of the Prix Goncourt

Francesc Galera

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(348) Gesar and Shakespeare
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
Chair: Byung-Yong Son, Kyungnam University
 

Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

The Canonization of The Epic of Gesar

Wang Yan

Northwest Minzu University, China, People's Republic of




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Tsubouchi Shōyō’s Comparativism and the Techne of Shakespeare Translation

Daniel Gallimore

Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan




Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)

Exploring the Translatability of the Costume Culture: Case Studies of Dream of the Red Chamber

RUIYING HU

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

Date: Friday, 01/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(370) Transformations of literature in media evolution: Representation and time (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
Chair: Richard Müller, Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

The new literary forms of encyclopaedism: totalising knowledge in the digital age

Laurence Dahan-Gaida

université de Franche Comté, France




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Poetry and its Mediality among Other Media

Josef Hrdlička

Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic




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Writing with/out reading – “Distant reading” as a poetic instrument

Johanne Mohs

Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

11:00am
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12:30pm
(392) Transformations of literature in media evolution: Representation and time (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
Chair: Richard Müller, Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Stream of consciousness, time and music in two novels in dialogue with Beethoven’s Eroica

DANIEL ARRIETA DOMINGUEZ

KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES, Japan




Open Group Individual Submissions

Moviesque and Picturesque: The Perspective of Urban Space in A Day at Ninety-Nine Degree Fahrenheit

Yaqi Wang

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

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(414) Transformations of literature in media evolution: Representation and time (3)
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
Chair: Richard Müller, Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
 

Open Group Individual Submissions

Attention in multilinear fiction and interferences of simultaneity and sequentiality: Searching for the new epic

Richard Müller

Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic




Open Group Individual Submissions

Literature and Gaming: Transformative Interactions in Media Evolution

Naomi Iliana Mandel

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel




Open Group Individual Submissions

The Media that Invade Us: Stiegler’s Temporal Industrial Objects and Toussaint’s Ironic Techniques of Existence

Josef Sebek

Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(471) Perspective of Transnational Literary Community
Location: KINTEX 1 207A
Chair: Lianggong Luo, Central China Normal University
 

Open Free Individual Submissions

The construction of Black symbolism in the works of Conceição Evaristo and Rosana Paulino

Natalia Candido

Uerj, Brazil




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Revisiting Harlem Renaissance Movement: A Perspective of Transnational Literary Community

Lianggong Luo

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




Open Free Individual Submissions

When Worlds Collide (or Don't): Literature and Geography in the Nineteenth Century

Meghan Elizabeth Hodges

Louisiana State University, United States of America




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Folklore as Resistance: Cultural Identity and Empowerment in Contemporary African-American and Iraqi Novels

Haydar Jabr Koban

Al-Bayan University, Iraq