Session 1 |
| Cultural Studies and Communication
Session Chair: Hengtai Zhang
11:20 –
Cultural Communication Through Music Festivals: A Case Study of the Ziro Festival of Music (ZFM) (113535)
Horreithing Lungleng is an Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at Saint Claret College (Autonomous), Ziro. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Rajiv Gandhi University, researching cultural communication and the Ziro Festival of Music.
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11:45 –
Two Regimes, One Source: the Making of Indo-Japanese Anime in India (111258)
Khushboo Bansal, PhD researcher, University of Delhi. Interests: anime glocalisation, broadcast censorship, OTT platforms. Current project: comparative study of Japanese anime adaptation on Indian TV and OTT.
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12:10 –
Sarimanok: from Native Symbol to National Icon in the Philippines (113892)
Nor-anisha Schaharazhed C. Guro is an employee at Mindanao State University – Main Campus. A culture and arts enthusiast, she also enjoys dabbling in research in the fields of media, communication, and digital society.
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12:35 –
Visualising Cultural Continuity: Representational Authority and Accountable Documentary Practice in Northeast China (112017)
Dr Zhang Hengtai is a Lecturer at the Image Art College, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts. His work spans photography, documentary filmmaking, and generative moving image, focusing on land narratives in Northeast China.
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| Digital Humanities
Session Chair: Gaman Palem
11:20 –
From Digital Representation to Travel Intention: Cultural Identity Satisfaction in Social Media-Mediated Tourism Behaviour (110185)
Putri Rakhmadhani Nur Rimbawati is a media and communication researcher and doctoral candidate in New Media Studies at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, focusing on digital representation, identity, and behaviour in Southeast Asia.
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11:45 –
Performing Humanity: Opera, Identity Economies, and the Crisis of Voice, Authenticity, and Cultural Legitimacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (111159)
Dr Derek Barker-Ciganik, Senior Research Fellow, University of Vienna, Austria.
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12:10 –
Visual Strategies for Inclusive Organ Donation Communication Design: An Eye-Tracking and GSR Pilot Study with Generation Z (113412)
Dr. Simge Kırteke is currently a Research Assistant of Visual Communication Design Department at Üsküdar University, Türkiye.
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12:35 –
Generative AI and Creative Learning: Rethinking Comics Pedagogy in Visual Communication Classrooms (110625)
Dr. Gaman Palem is currently an Associate Professor of School of Design at School of Design, Presidency University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Interests are into visual arts, digital art, cross platform integration of art, sequential art narrative
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| Literature, Literary Studies and Theory
Session Chair: Michiko Tsushima
11:20 –
‘Fantasy or Reality?’ The Intermediate Area and the Uncanny in Aickman’s ‘The Inner Room’ (113302)
Atikah, M.A is currently a lecturer in Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Tarbiyah (STIT) Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. She is teaching English subject to Islamic Education major students. Her research interest is in English Literature.
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11:45 –
No Journey Ends Alone: Frieren and the Perceptual Training of Post-Heroic Time (112645)
Francesca Romana Petroselli is a PhD Candidate in Management for Digital Transformation at Niccolò Cusano University. Her interests include anime, visual culture, AI and complexity; her current project studies anime as perceptual environments.
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12:10 –
“Coming Out of the Dark”: The Everyday in Samuel Beckett’s Radio Play, All that Fall (113632)
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Session 2 |
| Film Criticism and Theory
Session Chair: Anran Liu
13:10 –
Evolving Karbi Identity in Cinematic Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Wosobipo (1990) and Kangbo Aloti (2024) (108879)
Ms. Anubhuti Dutta is currently pursuing her PhD from the department of Mass Communication and Journalism, Tezpur University, Assam, India.
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13:35 –
Addressing the Spectator as Female: Mizuki Yōko’s Jun’ai Monogatari (1957) from Script to Screen (113716)
Shuaiwei Cheng is an independent researcher and screenwriter interested in film narratology, gender, and East Asian cinema. His current project traces the work of postwar Japanese women screenwriters from page to screen.
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14:00 –
From Gazing Subject to Listening Body: Embodied Simulation, Auditory Resonance, and Cinematic Slowness in Drive My Car (111045)
Anran is currently a second-year PhD candidate in Film Studies at the University of Essex, United Kingdom.
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| Visual Culture
Session Chair: Hoang-Vu Nguyen
13:10 –
Platform Aesthetics in the OTT Landscape of India: A Computational Analysis of Trailer Design in Netflix and Amazon Prime Video (111261)
Anonyaa Dutta is an independent researcher with an M.Tech. in Information Technology from Tezpur University. Her research interests include AI/ML and media analysis.
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13:35 –
Deceptive by Design: A Systematic Literature Review of Dark Patterns, User Behaviour, and Ethical Concerns in E-Commerce (111156)
Ryan Pratama Sutanto is a lecturer from Petra Christian University but currently studying his PhD Degree in Dongseo University. His research interest are UI Design, UX Design, and Visual Communication Design in general.
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14:00 –
Civic Kitsch as a Social Technology of Cheerfulness: Affective Governance in Vietnamese Festive and Leisure Infrastructures (113058)
Thuy-Tien Vo is an Associate Lecturer in Advertising at RMIT University Vietnam. Her research examines civic kitsch as affective governance in Vietnamese public space, with interests in visual culture, curatorial practice, and practice-led research.
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| Area Studies
Session Chair: Noriaki Hoshino
13:10 –
Shift in Narrative of Nationalism in Thai Historical Comics and Animation: The Case of 2475 Dawn of Revolution (113717)
Woraporn Wajjwalku is currently a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Global Society, Kyushu University, Japan
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13:35 –
Inventing “Studious Korea”: The National Charter of Education and the Making of a National Educational Ethos (113443)
Seri Yoon is Master’s student at Waseda University focusing on economic growth and higher education under macroeconomics and education professors, exploring sustainable development and fostering economic resilience through higher education policies.
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14:00 –
Revisiting the Past: on Postwar Japanese Intellectual Discourses on Early Modern Japan (113872)
Dr. Noriaki Hoshino is currently an Associate Professor of History at Hong Kong Baptist University.
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Session 3 |
| Communication and Politics
Session Chair: Kenji Saietto
14:35 –
Rethinking Creative Economy Policy Through Practice: Evidence on Inclusion, from a Place-Based Creative R&D Cluster (108260)
Dr Jess Hoare is a Research Associate at the Centre for the Creative Economy at Cardiff University. Jess current leads research on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) within Media Cymru, a £50m UKRI-funded creative industries growth programme.
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15:00 –
The Correlation Between Anthropocene and Anthropocentrism in Forming the Foundation of Environmental Ethics (113774)
Dr Kien Trung Do is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH) in Vietnam
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15:25 –
Negotiating Religious Identity and Civic Responsibility: Muslim Communities and Multicultural Coexistence in Contemporary Japan (111527)
Kenji Saietto is Program Coordinator at the University of Idaho Hiroshima Campus. His research focuses on international education, intercultural communication, and multicultural coexistence in Japan.
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| Gender in Media and Films
Session Chair: Laura Stephenson
14:35 –
Reclaiming the Monstrous: The Female Gaze and Narrative Intervention in Contemporary Indonesian Horror (111504)
Ms ANNAPURNA SINHA is a University Doctoral Student at University of Hyderabad in India
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15:00 –
Women Medical Professionals Under Contested Authority: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Chinese Medical Dramas (113509)
Xiaotan Wan is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication at the University of Oklahoma. Her interests include popular culture, gender discourse, and health communication. Her current project examines female discourse in Chinese television dramas.
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15:25 –
Sensitive Pedagogies: Ethics, and LGBTQ+ Intimacy Coordination in Film Production Teaching (113147)
Dr Laura Stephenson, Senior Lecturer and Course Lead (Film), Psychoanalysis, gender theory, cinema.
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| Cultural Studies
14:35 –
Toward an Integrated Framework for Sacred and Community Space: A Case Study of Wat Suan Dok, Chiang Mai (113619)
Korn Jaiprajong is a Master of Architecture student and private business owner interested in sacred spaces, cultural heritage, and community design, currently researching Wat Suan Dok, Chiang Mai.
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Session 4 |
| Film Studies
Session Chair: Joel Campbell
16:00 –
The Native-Land Community Within Diasporic Experience: An Examination Centering on the Creative Archives of Li Hsing’s Execution in Autumn (1971) (113984)
Wenlu Huang, Lecturer at Guangzhou University. PhD from NCCU. Research: Taiwan cinema history, media history, & cultural studies. Current project: Reconstructing the micro-history of colonial media consumption via private diaries.
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16:25 –
The Meanings of Illness and Mental Health Across Life Stages in Contemporary Thai Cinema (111778)
Supamonta Supanan is deeply interested in human stories, social dynamics, and the subtle connections between everyday life and cultural expression. Her passions include literature, visual art, film, and travel. She is currently an instructor at Bangkok University.
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16:50 –
A Few Dollars More? The Influence of Spaghetti Westerns on Hollywood (110053)
Dr Joel Campbell is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Troy University in Japan
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| Education/Pedagogy
Session Chair: Charles Brown
16:00 –
Synthetic Futures: AI Discourse and the Planetary University (113094)
Jiayuan Tian is an MPA student at Columbia SIPA whose work focuses on education policy, youth development, AI, discourse, and global citizenship. His current research explores AI-generated future imaginaries and the planetary university.
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16:25 –
Manifestations of AI Bias in Language Teaching Materials (108488)
Charles Allen Brown is the coordinator of non-credit offerings for English language learners in the Purdue Language and Cultural Exchange program at Purdue University, USA.
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| Arts and Culture
Session Chair: Punam Madhok
16:00 –
The Aesthetics of Care in Pre-Raphaelite Art: Re-reading Elizabeth Siddal’s the Lady of Shalott (1853) (113826)
Aisha Horimoto is a master's student at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Her research focuses on Victorian art, care ethics, vulnerability, and Pre-Raphaelite painting.
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16:25 –
From Viewing to Understanding: Metadata Strategies to Enhance Art Literacy (112647)
Dr Matlala Rachel Mahlatji is currently the lecturer in the Department of Information Science, Unisa. She is interested in reading and literacies, policies and policy making, standards and guidelines, and, information and community development.
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16:50 –
The Sacred Void: Tokonoma in Japanese Architecture (111128)
Dr Alexandre Avdulov is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at Saint Mary's University in Canada
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17:15 –
Mithila Painting: Continuity and Change (109047)
Dr. Punam Madhok is currently an Associate Professor of Art History at East Carolina University, USA.
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Time Zone: Asia/Tokyo