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Session Overview
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
50 people KINTEX room number 208A
Date: Monday, 28/July/2025
1:30pm
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3:00pm
(152) Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
Chair: Biwu Shang, shanghai jiao tong university
 

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Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature: The Strange Case of “My Life with a Wave,”by Octavio Paz

Rudyard Joel Alcocer

University of Tennessee, USA, United States of America




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Thing, Scale and Worldmaking: from Human Narrators, Nonhuman Narrators to “Scale Narrators”

Jie Zheng

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, People's Republic of




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Nonhuman Agency and Ecological Justice: Reimagining Capitalism and Environmental Crisis in Gun Island

Xue Shi

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China




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The Nonhuman Narrative in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide

Juyeon Son

Hanyang University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)




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Character Focalization and Nonhuman Ethics in The Velveteen Rabbit

Xinyue Yuan

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, People's Republic of China




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Androgyny and Non-Human Perspectives: A Comparative Analysis of Orlando and The Left Hand of Darkness through Donna Haraway’s Lens

Mariana da Silva Santos

Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Brazil




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Language, Seashells and Tropisms: Writing Ecosophical Subjectivities in Ponge and Sarraute

Yuting Cai

University of Chicago, United States of America

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(174) Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature (2)
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
Chair: Biwu Shang, shanghai jiao tong university
 

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Stray And A Cat’s Perspective On The Post-human

Isabel Escobar Rodriguez

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




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A Multi-scalar Cosmos: Nonhuman Narration in Calvino’s The Complete Cosmicomics

Mengqing Gong

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, People's Republic of




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Video Games as Literary Creation and Reception: Interactive Mythmaking with Monkey Player-Character in Black Myth: Wu Kong

Kanjing He

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of




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Womb Envy and Fetal Anxiety: on Nutshell's Desire Flow of Body

Jiasi Dai

Shanghai Jiaotong University




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“Deictic Scale Shifting”:An Extension of Anthropocene Narrative Theory

Tianxin Li

Sichuan University, China, People's Republic of




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Reimaging nature and culture through animal and interspecies writing: a comparative reading on Zhang Wei’s Songs from the Forest and Lin Zhao’s Tidal Atlas (2022)

Hoi Yan CHU

King's College London, United Kingdom; University of Hong Kong




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Flowing with the Cosmos: Gu Cheng’s Poetry as Nonhuman Narrative

Ruoshui Zhang

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Date: Tuesday, 29/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(196) Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature (3)
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
Chair: Biwu Shang, shanghai jiao tong university
 

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Non-human Narratives in Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter and Lisa See’s The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

Qiping Liu

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




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Encountering the Non-Human with Narrative Form: J. M. Coetzee’S The Lives Of Animals

Yafei Li

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




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BEYOND THE FERMI PARADOX: ALIEN NARRATIVES AND CHINESE EPISTEMOLOGY IN LIU CIXIN’S SCIENCE FICTION

Siqi Zhao

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of




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Pain, Pleasure, Preference: Consider the Lobster and Dilemmas of Animal Narratives

Wan Xiaomeng

Tongji University, China, People's Republic of




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Redefining Humanity in the Posthuman Context: Emotional Narratives of AI in Klara and the Sun

Lili Wang

Harbin Engineering University, China, People's Republic of




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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)




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From Window to Heart: Human-machine Coexistence and Emotional Evolution in Klara and the Sun

Xiaojuan Zhang

Ningxia University, China, People's Republic of




Group Session

Pain, Pleasure, Preference: Consider the Lobster and Dilemmas of Animal Narratives

Wan Xiaomeng

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(218) Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature (4)
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
Chair: Biwu Shang, shanghai jiao tong university
 

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Ontology and Agency: Corpses in Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories

Kang Wu

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




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Making the world of connections visible: nonhuman narrative as world literature

Li Zou

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of




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The Past and Present of Posthuman Mimetic Desire — An Investigation of a Textual Sequence: Oedipus Rex, The Beast in the Jungle and The Beast

Tingting Hu

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




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Divine or Demonic?: Reshaping the Image of the Dragon in The Night Eaters

Yun Lan

Nanjing Normal University, China, People's Republic of




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A Study on the Thing Narrative Function of Lists in Joyce's Ulysses

Yihan Chu

Beijing Normal University, China, People's Republic of




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

Dhee Sankar

Independent Researcher, India




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On the Acceptance and Adaptation of Western Nonhuman Narrative in the early period of the Republic of China from Zhou Shoujuan's Translation of "The Mysterious Bride"

Li Sun

Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, People's Republic of

Date: Wednesday, 30/July/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(240) Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
Chair: Biwu Shang, shanghai jiao tong university
 

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“Harmless vagaries of a madman”: a comparative study of cannibalism writings of Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain and Lu Xun

Jiazhao Lin

Shenzhen University, China, People's Republic of




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Visualizing Confidante Culture through Animation Art: Re-examination of Guqin Memory in "Feelings of Mountains and Waters" (ShanShuiQing)

Chunning Guo

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




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The Feline Gaze and Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Natsume Sōseki’s I am a Cat

Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe

Central Connecticut State University, United States of America




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Towards an Envisioned Human-Nonhuman Community: The “New Human” Narrative and Ethical Choice in Wang Jinkang’s The Artificial Human

You Wu

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




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Meteorology, Apocalypse and Slow Violence: Climate Writings in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poems

Xianming Gao

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




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Reading D. H. Lawrence’s Vegetal Poetics in the Anthropocene

CHAO Xie

central china normal university, China, People's Republic of

11:00am
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12:30pm
(262) Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature (6)
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
Chair: Biwu Shang, shanghai jiao tong university
1:30pm
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3:00pm
(284) Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
Chair: Biwu Shang, shanghai jiao tong university
 

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The Critique of Romanticism in Kierkegaard and the Image of the Plant: Irony, Lilies, and Romantic Poetry

Guanlin LIU

Fudan University, China, People's Republic of




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Beyond Bestiary: Identification and Dis-identification between Animals and Humans in Julio Cortázar’s and Guadalupe Nettel’s Short Stories

Yilin Wang

University College London, United Kingdom

3:30pm
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5:00pm
(306) Reading through the Colorful Lens
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
Chair: ChangGyu Seong, Mokwon University
 

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Bernard Stiegler, noetic necromass and the crisis of the savoirs

joff p. n. bradley

Teikyo University Tokyo, Japan




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Contemporary Dystopian Speculative Fictions: Intersection of Labor, Technology, and Surveillance

Hamidah Allogmany

Taibah university, Saudi Arabia




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Resisting the Algorithm: The Enduring Power of Close Reading

Arun Dharmadath Mannathukandy

CHRIST ( Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India.




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L’ambivalence de la technologie pensée et mise en fiction dans Les Liens artificiels de Nathan Devers et Les Tout-puissants Mirwais Ahmadzai

José Domingues de Almeida

Institut de Littérature Comparée Margarida Losa/Un. de Porto (Portugal) APLC, Portugal




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Cross cultural reception between Bengali Baul Geet and the Blues Music.

Sweata Saha

The English and Foreign Languages University, India

Date: Thursday, 31/July/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
(328) Rethinking Historical Trauma and Memory in Comparative Literature
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
Chair: Younghee Son, Kyungpook National University
 

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Rethinking Historical Trauma and Memory in Comparative Literature

Younghee Son, Jaehwan Han, Joungim Park, Chang-ae Oh, Insuk BAE

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

1:30pm
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3:00pm
(350) Body, Representation, and Narrative: Cross-Cultural Encounters Between East and West in Globalized Literature
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
Chair: Kai-su Wu, Tamkang University
 

Group Session

Body, Representation, and Narrative: Cross-Cultural Encounters Between East and West in Globalized Literature

Kai-su Wu, Liying Wang, Lijun Wang, Jingyun Xiao




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Portraits by Self and Other: The Large-scale Release of Chinese Women’s Literary Series and its Text-Image Interplay in the 1990s

Yunyi Wang

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




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The Eroticized Chinese Body in Intercultural Works: Articulating Dichotomy and Hybridization in Shan Sa’s Les Conspirateurs and Preljocaj’s The Fresco

Song Huang

University of Virginia, United States of America

Date: Friday, 01/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
(372) Reimagining the “Orient”: Multiple “Orients” across Asia in the Early 20th Century (1)
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
Chair: Zahra Moharramipour, The International Research Center for Japanese Studies
 

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A Turning Point in Japan’s “Oriental” Art History: Perspectives on Persian Art in the 1920s

Zahra Moharramipour

The International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan




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Feeling the Cosmic Rhythm: St. Denis’s “Oriental” Dance and its Resonance in Japan

Yorimitsu Hashimoto

Osaka University, Japan




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The Aesthetics of the 'Orient' by Nyoiti Sakurazawa (George Ohsawa): Focusing on his Livre des fleurs

Junko NIMURA

Kansei Gakuin University, Japan




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The Return to the 'Orients' in Japanese Art around 1920: Focusing on the Magazines Shirakaba and Toa Geijutsu

Koya Hirose

Miyagi University of Education, Japan

11:00am
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12:30pm
394
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
1:30pm
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3:00pm
416
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
3:30pm
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5:00pm
(473) A Comparative Study of the Genre
Location: KINTEX 1 208A
Chair: Robert Kusek, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
 

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Introduction to a theory and transformation of literary genres utilising chaos theory

Fernando Darío González Grueso

Tamkang University, Taiwan




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Un nouvel outil de visualisation de textes pour la littéraire comparée

Claude Patricia Tardif

Université Paris 8, France




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A New Bloodland: Unearthing Central European History of Violence in South African Literature

Robert Kusek

Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland




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A Comparative Study of the Ecological Writings in William Faulkner and Jia Pingwa

Chunfang Yi

Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, People's Republic of