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Session Overview
Date: Sunday, 27/July/2025
  1. Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Series (CHLEL)
 

Literatures in European Languages in a Post-European World

Helga Mitterbauer, Stefan Helgesson

2. South Asian Literatures and Cultures
 

Decolonising 'World Literature' : Perspectives of Oratures and Literatures from South Asia

E.V. Ramakrishnan, Sayantan Dasgupta

3. Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative
 

Beyond Masks and Capes: Comparative “Heroisms” in Graphic Narratives

Stefan Buchenberger, Abhishek Chatterjee

4. Comparative Gender Studies Research Committee
 

Precarious Mediations: Queer Bodies in Virtual Spaces

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza

5. Comparative History of East Asian Literatures
 

Literary History of Asia: Connections, Translations, Reinventions

Haun Saussy

6. Literary Theory
 

ICLA Literary Theory Committee

Robert Young

7. Scriptural Reasoning and Comparative Studies
 

Proposal for Group Session by ICLA Research Committee on “Scriptural Reasoning and Comparative Literature”

Chengzhou He, Jing Jia

8. Translation Studies
 

Translation Futures

Marlene Hansen Esplin, Rindon Kundu, Stephen Wu

9. Religion, Ethics and Literature
 

Literature as a Heretical Techne in Modernity

Kitty Millet, Maria Rethelyi, Iphshita Chanda, Michal Ben-Horin, John Hawley, Kyra Sutton

     
1:00am 10. Arabic Comparative Literature
 

Korean Culture and the Arab World from the Middle Ages to the Internet Age

Lobna Ismail, Fatiha Taib

11. Comparative African Literatures
12. Digital Comparative Literature
 

12. Research Committees Proposal - Digital Comparative Literature

Simone Rebora, Roxana Patras, Christof Schöch, Gabriele Vezzani, Pieter Francois, Yina Cao, Alexandra Huang-Kokina, Youngmin Kim, Marko Juvan

13. Language Contact in Literature: Europe
 

Language Contact in Literature: Europe

Eugenia Kelbert, Marianna Deganutti

14. Literature, Arts & Media (CLAM)
 

Intermedial studies and ‘New Materialisms’

Jørgen Bruhn

Accepted Open Group Individual Submissions
 

Approaching Nonhuman Narrative in World Literature

Biwu Shang, Yafei Li



Comparative Literature in the Philippines

Lily Rose Tope, Ruth Jordana Pison, Maria Rhodora Ancheta, Maria Ana Micaela Chua Manansala, Rosella Moya-Torrecampo, Mary Grace Concepcion, Anna Melinda De Ocampo, Joseph Salazar, Ysabelle Bartolome, Lakan Umali, Christine Lao, Marikit Tara Alto Uychoco, Francis Eduard Ang, Jose Mari Cuartero, Julie Jolo, Augusto Xavier Ledesma



Digital Social Reading and Comparative Literary Studies

Simone Rebora



Ecotravel literature: Translating the Amazon

Julio Cesar Monteiro, Marie Helene Torres, Juliana Cristina Bergmann, Michel François, Andreia Guerini, Gilles Jean Abes, Lilian Cristina Pereira, Andrea Cesco



Ethical Literary Criticism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Yili Tang



Global Futurism: Next Generations of Literary and Artistic Narratives

You Wu



Meaning of historicization of trauma and violence in Han Kang’s literary works.

Dae-Joong Kim



Métiers et techniques des œuvres plurimédiales: peut-on parler d'arts subalternes ?

Romain Bionda, Marie Kondrat, Irène Le Roy Ladurie, Melina Marchetti



Mutual Learning of Civilizations and Reconstruction of World Literature

Shunqing Cao, Damrosch David, Huiming Jin, Zhejun Zhang, Qing Yang, Shishi Liu, Erik Larsen Svend



Polyphony and Semiotics of Literary Symbols

Inna Gennadievna Merkoulova, Rahilya Geybullayeva, Marina Gennadievna Merkoulova, Bella Musayeva



Reimagining Tradition: Transmedial Narratives in the Digital Age of Cyborg and Hyperreality

Krishna Priya Kannan



Retour sur le comparatisme d’Étiemble : quel héritage, quelles perspectives ? / Looking back at Étiemble’s comparativism: what legacy, what prospects?

Tristan Mauffrey



Revisiting Narratology: From East Asian Perspectives

Shiho Maeshima, Atsuko Sakaki, Jin-su Park, Akiko Takeuchi, Young-hee An, Eliko Kosaka



Talking about nuclear experiences: Atomic bomb literature as World literature

Irina Holca, Lukas Bruna, Go Koshino, Akane Nishioka



Transformations of literature in media evolution: Representation and time

Laurence Dahan-Gaida, Josef Hrdlička, Richard Müller, Josef Šebek



Translating the Other: The Process and Re-Creation of Dialogue Across Asian and Other Languages and Cultures

Felipe Chaves Gonçalves Pinto, Lina Rosalina, Zixin Lian, Brenna Tanner, Mio Saito, David Andrew Schlies



Translation and Cultural Transfer in Soviet and Cold War Contexts

Peter Budrin, Artem Serebrennikov, Benjamin Musachio



Who is Afraid of Fiction ?

Francoise Lavocat, Charlotte Krauss



Authorship and Technology: Agent, Material Context and Literary Production in Different Textual Cultures

Xi'an GUO, Zhuming YAO, Xiaojing MIAO, Chao LING, Wan HUANG, Wen XU, Zhenyao QIN, Jing ZHAO, Lin CHENG, Yui TONG



Comparative Literature and Digital Literary Studies in Georgia

Irma Ratiani, Maka Elbakidze, Irakli Khvedelidze, Gaga Lomidze, Tatia Oboladze, Lili Metreveli, Salome Lomouri, Tamar Barbakadze, Nino Gagoshashvili



Forelives and Afterlives of Iconic Heroes/Heroines of Children's Literature

Yuriko Yamanaka, Takashi Kawashima, Kaori Chiba, Kimiko Watanabe, Aki Nishioka, Motoko Sato



Literature and Science: Conflict, Integration and Possible Future in Science Fiction

Yiping Wang



Oriental Literature in World Literature: Exchanges and Mutual Learning

Weirong Zhao, Lu Zhai, Rongzhen Guan, Dongri Xu, Cha Zhang, Pinjing Fu



Penser les « améliorations » technologiques de l’humain et de la machine dans la littérature contemporaine

Carlos Tello



Postcolonial coming-of-age novels in the Indian and Pacific Ocean worlds

Daniela Spina, Duarte Drumond Braga



Prix Goncourt - Choix du Vietnam : Enjeux de reconnaissance et construction d'un canon littéraire

Hoai Anh TRAN



Seqing: Interrogating Pornography in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Media

Yushu Geng, Yucong Hao, Linshan Jiang, Zhange Ni



Translating ethics, space, and style

Richard Mark Hibbitt, Richard Peter Robinson, See-young Park



Travelling Nations: Romanian Literature as World Literature Revisited

Andrei Terian, Ștefan Baghiu, Snejana Ung, Maria Chiorean, Ovio Olaru, Vlad Pojoga



"Web Soseol" and foreign novels in the internet as literary art, powered by technology

Soonim Shin



Body Image(s) of Women in Literature

Peina Zhuang, Steven Totosy de Zepetnek



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

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



Bridging and Morphing Temporal and Geographical Cultures

Seunghyun Hwang, Yan Huang



Technogenesis and Comparative Literature/DigitalHumanities

Heejin Kim, Youngmin Kim



From Taste Appreciation to Professional Research -- On the Exhibition of Chinese Painting in the British Museum and the Spread of Chinese Art to the West(1888-1914)

weizhen bai



Global Auerbach

Robert Doran



Literary Anthropology and Digital-Intelligence Civilization

Shuxian Ye, Zhao Liang, Qingchun Luo, Li Yang, Jia Tan, Qicui Tang, Yan Wu, Xinjian Xu, Keyang Tang



Marginal Encounters: South Korea and the Globe in Contemporary Culture

Janeth Manriquez Ruiz, Inha Park



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

Wan Xiaomeng



Reimagining the “Orient”: Multiple “Orients” across Asia in the Early 20th Century

Zahra Moharramipour, Yorimitsu Hashimoto, Junko Nimura, Koya Hirose, Anqui Sun, Jihu Park, Masaho Kumazawa



Rethinking (post)Humanist Discourses in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction: Historicity, Locality, and Technology

Xi Liu, Jessica Imbach, Xuying Yu, Danxue Zhou, Yue Zhou, Tang Fei



Translating Migration: The Movement of Texts and Individuals in World Literature

Spencer Lee-Lenfield, Chun-Chieh Tsao



A Study on the Archetype of East-West Literature

Gyu Seob Shin



Cosmopolitanism and Localism: Comparative Literature in Global Flows in the Digital Age

Hui Zhang, Yuanyuan Hua, Jing Zhang



The East Asian Literature from a Global Perspective

Zhang Zhejun, Kou Shuting, Luo Yu



Biofiction across the world: comparison, circulation, and conceptualisations

Lucia Boldrini



Cross-Cultural Dialogue Between China and Central and Eastern Europe

Yading Liu, Zhe Yuan, Heng Fu, Jingfan Liu, Kangli Xu, Shuangyu Li, Miao Yu, Baohui Tong, Ke Tang, Jiewei Xie



Nationalism and Homeland Imagery in Bolaang Mongondow Folk Songs: A Discourse and Semiotic Analysis

Hadirman Hadirman, Ardianto Ardianto



Linguistic and Cultural Negotiations in Contemporary Novels and Films Produced in Hong Kong, Japan, and North America

Jessica Tsui-yan Li, Jack Hang-tat Leong, Hsiu-Chuang Deppman, Chialan Sharon Wang



Translating (from) the Margins. Rethinking East-Central European Literatures within the World Canon (1990-2020)

Oana Fotache Dubalaru, Magdalena Raduta, Laura Dumitrescu



Of Pedagogic Practice and Ethics: Rethinking Indigenous Literatures from India

Debashree Dattaray, Nibedita Mukherjee



Diaspora of the Ghazal

JIHEE HAN



Crossing the Borders Between the Self and the Other: Interiority, Subjectivity, Urban and Transcultural Modernity in Chinese Literature and Media Adaptations from the Late Qing to the Modern Era

Kejun XU, Yujie Cao, Weiwei Fang, Yafei Huang



Comparative Literature in East Asia: Cross-Cultural Practice as a Bridge between East and West

Jianxun JI, Hyebin Lim, Dong Han, Guo Zhang



Convergence of World Literature and Digital Humanities-KEASTWEST Session I

Youngmin Kim, Noh-Shin Lee, Sunyoung Um



AI, Decoloniality and Creative Translation

Matthew Reynolds, Joseph Hankinson, Karen Cresci, Vani Nautiyal, Wen-Chin Ouyang, Cosima Bruno



Buddhism and its role Modernism in Asia

Jooseong Kim, Youngmin Kim, Sejeong Han



Cold War East Eurasian Cultural Diplomacy and the Geopolitics of Literature

Yukari Yoshihara



Expanded Literature: Intersections between the Book, Digital Media, and Narrative Ecosystems

Massimo Fusillo, Yorimitsu Hashimoto, Mirko Lino



From Literary Tourism to Contents Tourism: 'Dialogical Travel' Emerging from the Transmedial and Transnational Dimensions of Literature

Takayoshi Yamamura, Aki Nishioka, Kyungjae Jang, Sueun Kim



Re-globalization in Literature: from Euro-Asian Encounters to Cross-racial Dialogue

Wen Jin, Jang Wood Huh, Cheng Yiyang, Ji Gao, Dongqing Wang, Shuangzhi Li, Shuyue Liu, Zengxin Ni



Technique or Technology? Editing Diaries as Intermedial, Cross-genetic and Collective Objects

Matilde Manara



Intermediality and Comparative Literature

Wei Feng, Jørgen Bruhn, Chang Chen



La technologie est-elle un défi pour l’approche des extraits littéraires en FLE ?

Kim Thanh NGUYEN THI



"Existence Precedes Essence": (Post)Colonial Reconciliations

Anupama Kuttikat, Rafid Chenadan, Chinmay Pandharipande



Convergence and Comparative Digital World Literature-KEASTWEST Session II

Youngmin Kim



East meets West: Travellers and Scholars writing about India, Japan and Korea

zsuzsanna varga, Angeliki Spiropoulou, Richard Hibbitt, Emilia di Rocco, Bernard Franco



Exophonic writing in the Era of A.I.

Benedetta Cutolo, Anna Bourges-Celaries



Factory of the present: literature, culture and criticism in the Global South

Rachel Esteves Lima, Ana Lígia Leite e Aguiar, Anderson Bastos Martins, Cláudia Consuelo Amigo Pino



Forced Migration, Hospitality and Hostility in Más allá del invierno by Isabel Allende

Guadalupe Escalante-Rengifo



From Post-Colonial to Transnational: Worlding Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese Literature and Culture

Chee Lay Tan, Qianru He, Zhiwei Sun, Lee Fair Moh, Jia Yu Teoh, Liting Zhou



Global Auerbach

Robert Doran



Global Renaissances

Gang Zhou, Lital Levy, Alaaeldin Mahmoud, Behnam Fomeshi, Carmela Mattza, Andrew Hui, Brenda Schildgen



Global South Futurism

Guangyi Li



Lafcadio Hearn and Asia

Toshie Nakajima, Rodger Williamson, Mariko MIzuno, Mami Fujiwara, Ayako Nasuno



Progression and Regression: Technologies and Power in the Literary Imagination

Rui Qian, Zengxin Ni, Xiang Gao, Jimin Lee



Social Media as a Cultural Archive: Examining the Narratives of Lord Ram and Ram Mandir in Ayodhya in a Post-Truth Era

Priyalekha Nimnaga Sadanandan



The Potential of Unexpected Comparisons in Japan Studies

Julia Meghan Walton, Oliver William Eccles, Harry Izue Izumoto



Translation, Hospitality & Imagination in the Age of Technological Reproducibility | Open Session

Alexandra Lopes, Michelle Woods, Loredana Polezzi, Joana Moura, Rita Bueno Maia, Verena Lindemann Lino



What is literature if not a book? An intermedial approach to literature in a digitized society

Beate Schirrmacher



Black Women on the Move: Transnational Negotiations of Identity and Community

Tong He, Fangfang Zhu, Chenchen Wang



Protest Cultures

Haun Saussy, Olga V. Solovieva

   

 
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