Accepted Presentations

One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity. As of July 20, 2026, KAMC2026 has received over 360 submissions from 55 countries and territories - including: Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, the United States, and Vietnam.

The following submissions have been accepted for presentation at KAMC2026.

Advertising, Marketing, & Public Relations

- Voices that Matter: the Influence of eWOM on Purchase Intention Among Personal Care and Cosmetic Consumers
- Nature Imagery and Textual Information in Sustainable Marketing
- Beyond Leisure: Digital Construction of Earned Experience in Nature-Based Sport Events in Bali
- The Role of On-Stage and Off-Stage Content in Shaping Emotional Attachment and Loyalty: A Case Study of BTS
- Context-Aware Consumer Simulation: Enhancing LLM-based Advertising Evaluation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Deceptive by Design: A Systematic Literature Review of Dark Patterns, User Behaviour, and Ethical Concerns in E-Commerce
- e-WOM Through a Green Lens: Identity and Conspicuous Value

Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music

- Revisiting Popular Song Arrangement in Prewar Taiwanese 78 RPM Records: Sound Archives, Recording Industry Documents, and an Overlooked Analytical Layer
- Bharatanatyam as an Expression of Soft Power in Indian Cultural Diplomacy
- Pentatonic Perception and Melodic Identity in Khayal and Jiuta: An Indian Listening Perspective
- Sacred Domesticity: Performance, Space, and Belonging in Batak Toba Partangiangan
- Disguised Bodies in Digital Space: Reimagining Twelfth Night, Chitrangada, and Kathak Through Intermedial Performance
- Storytelling Theatre in Training Rural Church Counselors: A Process and Reflection

Arts Practices

- Mithila Painting: Continuity and Change
- Generative AI and Creative Learning: Rethinking Comics Pedagogy in Visual Communication Classrooms
- Reconstructing Tapajó Ceramics: Fragment, Memory, and Contemporary Practice in the Brazilian Amazon
- A Method for Generating Partial Glitch Sounds and Glitch Music Creation
- Collaborative Text Writing Method in Theatre Production: A Study of Gidden’s Structuration on “Bedol Desa” (2023) and “Epilog Kota” (2025)
- Relational Collaborative Transdisciplinarity: Radicalising Arts-Science-Technology Collaboration in South America
- Between Prompt and Clay: Generative AI, Artisanal Ceramics, and the Imagination of Matter
- The Living Archive: Revitalising Embodied Folklore and Cultural Memory in Southeast Asia

Aesthetics and Design

- From Description to Translation: Transposing Curvilinear Form Language of Jiangnan Gardens into Contemporary Design
- Design Sensing: Enactive Movement as Materiality and the Continuity of Bodily Sense-Making in Real Space-Time

Literature, Literary Studies and Theory

- Weird Sensibility at the Threshold: Entropy, Narrative Saturation, and the Crisis of Perception in Contemporary Argentine Literature
- Knowledge, Power, and the Illusion of Freedom in Haruki Murakami’s ‘Kafka on the Shore’
- Rabindranath Tagore’s Kabuliwalla as Father-and-Daughter Fiction: The Kabuliwalla’s Metaphorical Paternal Love for a Girl in Hindu Patriarchal Society
- Trust in the Idol: Necropolitics and the Commodification of Trust in to Be Hero X
- Algorithmic Authorship and Posthuman Textuality: Rethinking Literary Theory in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
- Teaching Civic Responsibility Through Greek Tragedy: Antigone in the Literature Classroom
- Statelessness as a Narrative of Un-Belonging in Northeast India: Rereading the Chinese-Assamese Experience in Rita Chowdhury’s Chinatown Days
- Unraveling Narrative Complexity in Indonesian Metafiction: Strategies for Strengthening Literary Criticism Materials in Higher Education
- Rethinking Self-Actualization Beyond Maslow: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Indonesian and Thai Film Narratives

Climate Change and Arts, Media, Culture

- The Role of the Wantok System in Community Adaptation to Extreme Environmental Events in the Solomon Islands
- Galamsey and Environmental Governance in Ghana: Media Framing, Policy Gaps, and Sustainable Solutions
- Draping the More-than-Human Eco–Polynary: (Re-)conceptualising Indigenous Naga Weaving as Posthumanist Climatic Knowledge
- Craft as Art, Art as Response: Interdisciplinary Practice in the Age of Climate Crisis

Difference/Identity/Ethnicity

- From Darkness to Dignity: A Discourse on Adivasi Women as Custodians of Culture, Land and Identity in Contemporary Literature
- Reflecting Religious Identities Through Political Actions: A Case Study Among American Mennonites
- Beyond the Linguistic Wall: Affect Theory and Non-Representational Approaches to Cultural Displacement

Digital Humanities

- Pioneering Hybrid Multi-scale Forgery Detection: AI-generated Image Discrimination at Early Stages via Adaptive Frequency-CLIP Fusion
- The Photograph that Never Happened: AI and the Reimagining of Presence
- A Discourse Analysis on Indonesia’s Cyber Securitisation Posture from 2019-2024
- The Signifier and the Ground: A Computational Approach to the Symbol Grounding Problem
- Generative Art as a Socio-Spatial Mediation Interface for Investigating Urban Migration Decision-Making Among Artist-Drifters
- Performing Humanity: Opera, Identity Economies, and the Crisis of Voice, Authenticity, and Cultural Legitimacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- A Study on Multimodal Sensory Pattern Analysis in Stress-Relief Healing Interactive Design
- The Palimpsest and the Pyroclast: PHerc. 172, the Shōsōin, and a Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics of Damaged Texts
- Digital Transformation of Holistic Health Education: an Automated Knowledge Graph Framework for Art Dialogue, Meridian Bodywork, and Psychological Reflection

Politics and Philosophy

- The Theory of Incremental Normalisation: A Grounded Theory on the Cultural Habituation of Corruption in the Philippines
- Beyond the Battlefield: State Terrorism as a Tool of Foreign Policy
- Silenced Voices: Ethnic Identity, Resistance, and Cultural Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands
- From Structural Critique to Cultural Renewal: Reassessing Critical Race Theory
- Invisible Battlegrounds: Chinese Information Operations and West Philippine Sea Narratives in Filipino Online Discourse

Ageing Studies

- Ageless Afterlives: Ageing, Mortality, and the Digital Resurrection of the Dead Bodies in the Era of AI
- Community Art-Based Intervention During Wartime Displacement: Older Women’s Experiences of Creativity, Continuity, and Resilience

Gender, Sexuality and Culture

- Digital Financial Inclusion for Ethnic Minority Women in Vietnam: Between Cultural Barriers, Gendered Inequality, and Legal Empowerment
- Ritualized Femininity and Negotiated Agency: Gendered Wedding Practices in Contemporary Urban China
- Low-Risk Intimacy? Gender, AI, and the Changing Dynamics of Emotional Relationships
- Voices from the Margins: Advancing Epistemic and Social Justice Through the Lived Realities of Men Who Have Sex with Men
- Communicating Care: Role Negotiation Among Indonesian Postgraduate Women in Family, Work, and Academic Life
- Questioning Heteronormative Interpretations of Seme/Uke Dynamics in Boys Love Through Naisho No Stalker-san
- Playing the God Card: Sacred Performativity and the Negotiation of Legitimacy by Hijra Communities in India
- Beyond the Western Gaze: Computationally Decolonizing Single Women’s Discourse Across RedNote and Instagram
- Caste, Gender, and Sexuality: Methodological and Pedagogical Concerns
- Gendered Mobility and Transnational Intimacy: Japanese-Thai and U.S.-Filipina Marriages in Comparative Perspective

Architecture, Geography and Urban Studies

- Interpreting Heritage in Contemporary Design: Cultural Representation in the Works of Gen-Z Philippine Architecture Students
- Designing Inclusive Community: Architectural Space and Religious Pluralism in Gereja Maria Assumpta Klaten, Indonesia
- Tech Futures, White Futures: Tech-led Gentrification in Philadelphia’s University City and Montreal’s Parc Extension

Language and Cultural Studies

- Demythologising Subtitling in Entertainment and Media Industry: Proofreading and Revising Subtitles for the TV Show “Divine Messengers” (2025)
- Technology-Supported Reflection: AI-Generated Picture Books as Language Journey Narratives in High School English
- Exploring Podcast-Based Narrative Learning for International Students’ Sociocultural Adaptation
- Edo Period Wagashi Documentation ‘Kashifu’ and Japanese Literature: Tatsudanagashi and the Kokinwakashu
- Intercultural Communicative Competence Among Thai Ship Port Staff for International Cruise Lines: An Empirical Mixed-Methods Assessment
- Navigating Mandarin Pronouns in Mandarin-English Simultaneous Interpreting: A Corpus-Based Study
- Selective Heritage Governance in Malaysia: A Comparative Study of the Kuala Lumpur Hokkien Cemetery and the 24 Festive Drums
- The Story of Nala in Mahabharata as a Sanskrit Grammar Exercise
- The Strongman Mythos: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Algorithmic Narratives, Collective Memory, and Media Literacy in Post-truth Philippines
- Markobar as Cultural Diplomacy: Promoting Mandailing Oral Tradition on the International Stage
- Translating the Curse: Fansubbing as an Approach to the Experimental Fansub of the Anime Series JJK from English to Filipino

Media Studies

- Social Media as a Participatory Archive for Culinary Heritage: Discourse and Interpretations of Sisig on Facebook
- Mediatised Deviance and Rhythms: Journalistic Framing of Illicit Substance Use Among South African Amapiano Artistes
- AI Artivism: Where Art Remaps AI Topography Today
- Side Hustle or Soft Life: Remote Work Representation Analysis on Instagram Reels
- The Digital Discourse on Motherhood: A Case Study of YouTube Family Vlogs and Viewer Engagement
- When AI Speaks Arabic: Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to AI Adoption in Doha’s Newsrooms
- Toward a Thermodynamic Aesthetics: The Metabolic Blockchain and NFT Art
- Smartphones, Politics, and News: Media Practices of Women Councillors in Delhi, India
- From One-Way Projection to Two-Way Interaction: Deconstructing the Path from Cognition to Behavior in Character.AI Parasocial Interaction
- Different Faces, Similar Effects? Comparing AI Humans and AI Vtubers in Immersive Marketing and Consumer Purchase Intention
- The Traumatised Hero’s Journey: Healing, Endurance, and Performance from the US, Japan to Korea
- Work on the Algorithm: AI Myths in Popular Science Media
- Politicising Social Media Posts to Influence Voters: A Study on the 2024 Indian Lok Sabha Election with Reference to Bihar

Visual Culture

- Grotesque Ecologies in the Age of Collapse: Media, Artificial Intelligence, and the Crisis of the Human in Grotesquerie
- Seeing Otherwise: Intelligence, Agency, and the Colonial Photographic Encounter
- The Depictions of Skulls and Demons in Japanese Ukiyo-e
- Visuality in New Media Art: Decoding Students’ Visual Narratives
- Social Networks and the Living Archive: Practices of Urban Knowledge Production in South Africa
- Rebirthing Tradition: Gao Jianfu’s Transnational Vision for a New National Painting in Early Republican China, 1910s–1940s
- Designing the Modern: Japanese Crossovers in Indian Visual Culture and Ephemera (1920-1950)
- Manga Beyond East Asia: Audience, Industry, and the Glocalization of Asian Sequential Visual Narrative in Uzbekistan
- Essay on Representations of Brazilian Masculinity: The Homoerotic Photography of Brazilian Artist Alair Gomes

Communication

- Designing Inclusion, Reproducing Stereotype: a Content Analysis of Microaggressions in Indigenous Student Program Admission Posters at Taiwanese Universities
- The Mediating Role of Cognitive Offloading in the Relationship Between AI Companionship and Interpersonal Conflict Handling Strategies
- Algorithmic Echo Chambers: How AI-Driven Social Media Feeds Shape Political Perception Among Filipino Gen Zs
- Beyond Grammar: Investigating the Impact of Communicative Language Teaching and Task-based Learning on English Language Proficiency and Learners’ Motivation
- Developing Intercultural Communication Skills Through Video Materials: An Analysis of a Workshop for Japanese Corporate Employees Facing Growing Cultural Diversity
- Misinformation and Media Literacy: The Case of Educators and Social Media
- Navigating the Crisis of Information: Digital Literacy, Risk, and Infrastructures in India

Film Studies

- The Parajanov Paradox: Sacred Opacity and the Biopolitics of the Unassimilable
- The Toy Film as Tactile Gaze: Play, Mechanical Intelligence, and Human Agency
- Evolving Traditions: Reimagining Ritual Performance Across Two Generations of Malayalam Film
- A Few Dollars More? The Influence of Spaghetti Westerns on Hollywood
- Imaginary Companions as Narrative Agents of Schizophrenia and Recovery in ‘The Boy and the Dog’
- The Meanings of Illness and Mental Health Across Life Stages in Contemporary Thai Cinema
- A Performance Analysis of “Visually-Frozen” Animating Strategies in Hotel Transylvania
- Nostalgic Visual Storytelling in Nguyen Nhat Anh’s Film Adaptations

Cultural Studies

- Seriality, Platforms and Audiovisual Consumption Among University Students in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
- Cultural Burning Manifests More-than-human Intelligence
- From Heritage to Storytelling: Community Media and the Co-Creation of Local Historical Narratives in Lasem, Indonesia
- Reading Geometry as Culture: Ethnomathematics, Indigenous Knowledge, and Cultural Preservation Among the Baduy Community in Indonesia
- The Sacres Void: Tokonoma in Japanese Architecture
- From Ritual Tradition to Cultural Commodity: the Transformation of Arak Bali in Contemporary Bali
- The God of Taiwanese Opera and Puppetry: The Deity with a Crab on His Face
- Intimacy, Ethics, and Narrative Anthropology as Alternatives to Detached Modes of Representation
- The Five Indispensables: Contemporary Relevance of Traditional Cultural Practices Among Simbu Communities in Papua New Guinea Today
- Macaronesia as a Transatlantic Cultural Space: Identity, Intercultural Dialogue and Island-Based Cultural Hybridity
- Transcultural Exploration of Taiko: A Comparative Aesthetics Study Between Europe and Taiwan
- Developing Global Citizenship Competencies Among Student Ambassadors: The Role of SAIL in Higher Education Internationalization
- Decolonizing the Gaze: Reinterpreting Sacred Eroticism in Indian Temple Art through Indigenous Aesthetic Philosophy
- The Potential of Yokai-Based Contents Tourism: Co-creation and Hot Authentication in Kyoto’s “Ichijo Yokai Street”
- The Penitents of Nossa Senhora Aparecida (SE): Faith, Memory and Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Sergipe Backlands
- Tune in Tokyo: American Portrayal of Japanese Culture in 1980s Film

Cultural and Media Studies

- From User Empathy to Immersive Narrative: Socially Engaged Immersive Media Creation

Sociology

- Art as Advocacy: College Students’ Perspectives on the Philippines’ Socio-political Climate
- The Role of Job Insecurity, Social Capital, and Human Capital in Work-Life Balance Among Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z

Other

- Teaching Practices of MAPEH and Non-MAPEH Majors in Selected Secondary Schools in the First District of Northern Samar

Education / Pedagogy

- Manifestations of AI Bias in Language Teaching Materials
- Learning How to Practice and Value a Local Craft
- The Veil as an African Pedagogical Philosophy
- Inequity in “Shadow” Music Education: Motives and Challenges of Parents from Low-income Families in Hong Kong
- Professional Culture and Communication in the Formation of Healthcare Collaborative Competence
- Inquiry-Based and Debate-Oriented Pedagogy in Enhancing Critical Thinking Competence in English Among Freshman Students: A Mixed Method Study
- Generative AI and Creative Mediation in Graduate Industrial Design Education: Observations from Mexico