09:10 –
IAFOR Information Session
This information session provides an overview of what to expect at the conference, including guidance on preparing your presentation, publishing opportunities, and ways to engage with IAFOR.
- read abstract
10:00 –
Expanding Film and Media History: Lessons from Japan
-Dr Aaron Gerow is Alfred W.
-Dr Yutaka Kubo is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Kanazawa University, Japan.
-Dr Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Director of the Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies programme in the Graduate School of Letters at Kyoto University, Japan.
-Professor Timothy W. Pollock lectures on film and visual culture at Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan.
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Session 1 |
Room A (4F) | KAMC2025 | Digital Humanities and Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Michael North
11:30 –
01110100 01101111: A Practice-Based Inquiry into Digital Archival Bias and Legibility (100542)
Wei-Cheng HSU is currently a graduate of the College of Arts, National Tsing Hua University. Specializing in virtual reality art, live video design, video art, performance, and theater.
Yu Fang Lai is now pursuing a master’s degree in Integrative Design and Media at New York University. Originally from Taiwan, her work spans interactive installations, VR sound design, and other explorations at the intersection of multimedia.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yu-fang-lai
- read abstract
11:55 –
Informing Higher Education Multilingual Policy with Intercultural Communication Competence: A Global South Case Study (98311)
Robson is also a lecturer at the University of the Free State (QwaQwa Campus) with over three years of experience teaching intercultural communication and introduction to research to undergraduates. He holds a master's degree in rhetoric.
- read abstract
12:20 –
Machine Mediators: Rethinking Intelligence and Posthuman Ecologies in the Artist’s Book (96735)
Teresa Weinholtz is a PhD student at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal. Her research interests lie in contemporary artists’ books in the digital age.
- read abstract
12:45 –
Empowering Tertiary Arts Educators: A Case Study in Digital Tools for Collaborative Programme Viability Planning (100558)
Michael North is Academic Programme Manager for Performing and Screen Arts at Unitec, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Room B (4F) | KAMC2025 | Performing Arts Practices: Theatre, Dance, Music
Session Chair: Keung Hung
11:30 –
The Dawn of the Feely Effect – How Ancient Narrative Practices Can Inform the Storytelling of the Future (95376)
Elizabeth Swift is a writer& director of performance. She lectures at the University Gloucestershire, UK, and her research relates to the evolution of the audience. Her new book, Practical Spectating, will be published in 2026 by Palgrave. Macmillan
- read abstract
11:55 –
Sacred Intelligence: Exploring Humanity and Human Intelligence Through Religious Communication in India (97820)
Name: P J MATHEW MARTIN PhD Age:60 years (Retired), Visiting Faculty DCJ, University of Mumbai and GNC-Chembur, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at CCD-HumES, Orebro University, Sweden, Visiting Faculty in Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Mumbai, India and GNC Chembur, Mumbai, India.Joint Secretary, Indian Sign Language Interpreter Association, India.
- read abstract
12:20 –
Appropriation or Appreciation? Musical Representations of Japan in Screen Media (95292)
Ryoka Hagiwara is a composer, pianist, and researcher. A Master of Music graduate from the University of Edinburgh and a current researcher and doctoral candidate in musicology and transcultural studies at Heidelberg University, her research explores Japanese music and cultural identity.
- read abstract
12:45 –
Enhancing Cultural Heritage Awareness Through Digital Puppetry: Bridging Intergenerational Connections via Immersive Technologies (96509)
Dr. Hung Keung is an internationally renowned digital media artist, researcher, and scholar who has been involved in the creative and research aspects of film, video and digital new media art since 1995.
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Room C (4F) | KAMC2025 | Climate Change and Arts, Media, and Culture
Session Chair: Tham Nguyen
11:30 –
Metaphors of Disaster: Examining Media Representations of the 2013 Bohol Earthquake Using Conceptual Metaphor Theory (95541)
Jay Israel De Leon is a lecturer and PhD candidate of the Filipino Department, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. His current research project examines media representation of disasters using conceptual metaphor theory and frame semantics.
- read abstract
11:55 –
Telemetry Breath: Digitally Mediated Micro-environment as a Vector of Environmental Closeness (96789)
Dr. Lim Kok Yoong, RMIT Vietnam's associate professor, his research expertise spans media arts, media culture, media philosophy & aesthetics. Central to his inquiry is the embodied and disembodied consciousness in art and technology contexts.
Dr. Agnieszka Kiejziewicz – currently working at Game Design at RMIT Vietnam. She is the author of over fifty peer-reviewed articles about audiovisual art, media art, Asian film, media, culture, digital art, games.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Agnieszka-Kiejziewicz?ev=hdr_xprf
- read abstract
12:45 –
Eye-tracking Study: The Effects of Spatial and Temporal Distance in Visual Climate Change Communication (100600)
Dr. Tham Nguyen is a lecturer in Public Relations/Professional Communication at the School of Communication and Design, RMIT University (Vietnam campus).
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Room E (4F) | KAMC/MediAsia2025 | Interdisciplinary Media Studies
Session Chair: Chie Noyori-Corbett
11:30 –
Informal Distributed Networks: How UK National Museums Sustained European Collaboration After Brexit (95706)
Kirsty Warner is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on cultural policy, international relations, and museums. She currently contributes to the ESRC project Living with the Neighbours.
- read abstract
11:55 –
Transforming Creative Leadership, Collaboration, and Education: Liminality, Deep Attention, and Improvisation (100538)
Dr Jack Tsao is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at The University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong
- read abstract
12:20 –
WhatsApp and the Reconfiguration of News Production Processes in the Community Radio Space in South Africa (96629)
Mr. Mfundo Telson Radebe is currently an associate lecturer at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.
- read abstract
12:45 –
Visual Art as a Methodological Strategy in Community Participatory Research (100481)
Dr Chie Noyori-Corbett is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at University of Oklahoma in United States
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Room G (4F) | KAMC2025 | Literature, Literary Studies, and Theory
Session Chair: Bernard Montoneri
11:30 –
Relational Intelligence: Human and More-than-Human Co-Becoming (96817)
Dr. Ioana Clara Enescu is a lecturer assistant at the Faculty of Letters, Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania. She also serves as a copyeditor for Ecokritike, an international peer-reviewed journal in the field of environmental humanities.
- read abstract
11:55 –
Software and Cultures: Integrating Storytelling, Reflections, and Art Studies into a Graduate Course for AI-literate Computer Science Students (96541)
Dr Evgeny Pyshkin is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at University of Aizu in Japan
- read abstract
12:20 –
From Mr. M’Choakumchild to Bradley Headstone: Impact of Ongoing Educational Reforms on Schoolteachers in Hard Times and Our Mutual Friend (100298)
Professor AKIKO TAKEI is a at Chukyo University in Japan
- read abstract
12:45 –
Absurdism and Consumerism in the Morgan Library Manuscript of the Little Prince (98395)
Bernard Montoneri earned his PhD in History and his BA in Chinese from the University of Provence, Aix-Marseille I, France. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Session 2 |
Room A (4F) | KAMC2025 | Digital Humanities, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Xavier Lin
14:10 –
Writing a New Future: Digital Humanities and the Script Transition in Manipur (96653)
Dr. Akoijam Malemnganbi is an Asst. Prof of English at IIIT Manipur, India. She has a PhD from UoH, Hyderabad, India and previously taught at the EFLU. Her academic interests include Translation, Cultural Studies and intersectional feminism.
- read abstract
14:35 –
Cantonese Opera Libretti Translation into English: Reception of Lyrical Resonances (98442)
Dr Kar Yue Chan is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at Hong Kong Metropolitan University in Hong Kong
- read abstract
15:00 –
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Verb to Be? A Parallel Translational Comparison Dealing with the Vocabulary Incompatibility (93684)
Dr Xavier Lin is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at National Chi Nan University in Taiwan
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Room B (4F) | KAMC2025 | Performing Arts Practices: Theatre, Dance, Music
Session Chair: Jonathan Dimond
14:10 –
Exploring Intercultural Learning: Practices and Challenges in Collaborative Performing Arts Projects (95740)
Dr Peishi Weng is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Taipei University of Marine Technology in Taiwan
- read abstract
14:35 –
Fostering Intercultural Communication Through Dramatic Monologue: An Online Drama Initiative Between Tertiary Students from Singapore and Japan (96115)
Dr Ken Mizusawa is a Lecturer at the National Institute of Education, an institute of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, textbook author, teacher educator, and a playwright represented by Playmarket, New Zealand.
- read abstract
15:00 –
Symmetry in Intercultural Rhythm: a Geometric Perspective on Rhythm in Indian and Balinese Music (95666)
Dr Jonathan Dimond is a multi-instrumentalist composer/performer, trained in Western classical, jazz and intercultural music. His special interests include Indian classical music, with which he explores hybridisation with other traditions.
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Room C (4F) | MediAsia2025 | Critical Cultural Studies in Gender and Communication
Session Chair: Manjula Venkataraghavan
14:10 –
The Queer Yōkai (96441)
Huynh Tan Gia Bao, PhD candidate at Waseda University (GSICCS), studies queer media and performance in Vietnam. His research connects anthropology, cultural studies, and queer theory to explore how queerness is shaped through media.
- read abstract
14:35 –
Male Beauty Influencers in India: Challenging Masculinity Through Digital Labour and Self-Branding Online (98533)
Shemol Misra is a PhD scholar in Media and Communication at MAHE, India. Her research explores beauty influencers in India, with an emphasis on gender, identity, and self-representation within the broader dynamics of digital and platform culture.
- read abstract
15:00 –
Son Preference: A Cinematic Contemplation (95823)
Dr. Manjula Venkataraghavan is an Associate Professor and Head of PG Diploma Programs at the Manipal Institute of Communication, MAHE, Karnataka, India.
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Room E (4F) | MediAsia2025 | Film Criticism and Theory
Session Chair: Hoang Bao Linh Du
14:35 –
Border-Crossing Girlhoods and Middle-Voiced Subjectivity in East Asian Youth Cinema: A Case Study of Bai Xue’s The Crossing (2018) (96936)
Yiqing (Maggie) Yang is currently an MFA student at Kyoto University of the Arts. Her interests include cinema, youth subjectivity, and mobility. She is completing a film on a third-culture girl.
- read abstract
15:00 –
The Chinese American Daughter Figure in Contemporary American Films: Searching for Belongingness in Liminal Spaces (96724)
Ms Linh Du is currently a graduate researcher of the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, Australia. Her research interests include: film sound, transnational cinema, diasporic Asian cinema, and gender & sexuality in film and media.
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Room G (4F) | MediAsia | Featured Panel: A Review of the State of World News in Japan
Session Chair: Virgil Hawkins
14:10 –
Featured Panel: A Review of the State of World News in Japan
-Sonja Viktorija Anić is a PhD candidate at the Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, Japan.
-Dr Virgil Hawkins is a professor specialising in world affairs and the news media, and is based at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), The University of Osaka, Japan.
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Session 3 |
Room A (4F) | KAMC2025 | Cultural Studies and Communication
Session Chair: Jea Agnes Taduran-Buera
15:40 –
Reframing Cultural Authority: A Study on Subcultural Tastemakers on Discord (98549)
Arghya Das is a doctoral research student at Manipal Institute of Communication, MAHE, India. His research is based around digital subcultures and their exhibition of transgression as resistance to the dominant cultural paradigm.
- read abstract
16:05 –
Leveraging Social Media for Wildlife Conservation Awareness and Advocation: A Content Analysis of Tesso Nilo National Park Instagram Account (100552)
Acniah Damayanti, M.Sc. is a lecturer at the Department of Communication Science, Universitas Gadjah Mada. Her research interest is organizational communication and digital landscape.
- read abstract
16:30 –
TikTok’s Influence: A Rhetorical Analysis of a Vegan Advocate’s Reels (100434)
Dr. Jea Agnes Taduran-Buera is currently a faculty member in the Communication Division of the Department of Humanities at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). She is the proponent of major courses under the Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts program which are SPCM 158: Strategies in Conflict Resolution and SPCM 159 Nonverbal Communication. She has recently published two journal articles and a book chapter in the Elsevier Academic Press, the Philippine Humanities Review, the Southeast Asian Media Studies Journal, and the Journal of East Education. She has presented research papers at various conferences both within the Philippines and internationally. She serves as an associate editor for Makiling Review and is a reviewer for the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Plaridel, International Communication Association, and Simbolismo.
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Room B (4F) | KAMC2025 | Differences, Identity, Ethnicity
Session Chair: Quyet Tien Ly
15:40 –
Reframing the Legacy of Slavery: Historical Injustices, Contemporary Realities, and Black Agency (96057)
Ms. Rheagan Humphrey is a doctoral candidate at Southern Methodist University. Her research explores agency and personal responsibility in African American communities while critiquing contemporary victimhood frameworks.
- read abstract
16:05 –
Beyond the Hospital Bed: Reproductive Justice and Immigration in the U.S. (96635)
Daniela Gallardo is a PhD student at Arizona State University in the School of Social Transformation in Arizona, United States. Her research focuses on immigration studies in the United States.
- read abstract
16:30 –
Vietnamese Buddhism in the 21st Century (93766)
Dr TIEN LY QUYET is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at Eastern International University in Vietnam
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Room C (4F) | KAMC2025 | Sociology
Session Chair: George Vincent Gamayo
15:40 –
Reflexive Green Entrepreneurship: The Innovative and Sustainable Practice Among Young Indonesians (96513)
Deena Nirmala Putri Soedikto is a doctoral student of Sociology at Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
- read abstract
16:05 –
Using Design Thinking to Promote Behavior Change in Tourism and Generate Individual and Societal Benefits (100513)
I am Hsiang Hsin Chu, a graduate student at NCKU in Creative Industries Design. With a background in sports medicine and over six years’ experience in yoga instruction, I now explore wellness tourism and behavior change through service design.
- read abstract
16:30 –
Pagsulong: Social Constructions of Climate Justice Among Urban Poor Families in Manila, Philippines (95676)
Mr George Vincent Gamayo is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Philippines
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
Room E (4F) | MediAsia2025 | Film and Literature
Session Chair: Xuelin Zhou
16:05 –
The Paradigm of New Cinema Movement in India (1960s to 1980s): Exploration of Ideological and Cultural Manifestation (94530)
Dr. Debjani Halder is a national and international award-winning writer, film historian, and filmmaker. She is working as an associate Professor of Filmmaking and head of short course in Manipal Institute of Communication, MAHE, Udupi.
- read abstract
16:30 –
The Return of the Repressed: The Resurrection of Chinese Thriller in the 1980s (100307)
Dr Xuelin Zhou is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at University of Auckland in New Zealand
- read abstract
go back to the top
|
back to the top
Time Zone: Asia/Tokyo