HISTORY, STORY,NARRATIVE

THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC FORUM PRESENTS
THE ASIAN CONFERENCE ON ARTS & HUMANITIESTHE ASIAN CONFERENCE ON LITERATUREART CENTER KOBE, KOBE, JAPANMARCH 30 – APRIL 2, 2017

ACAHLIBRASIA
2017
The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities
The Asian Conference on LiteratureConference ThemeHistory, Story, Narrative
Historians are far from the only interested party in writing history. In a sense it is an interest we all share – whether
we are talking politics, region, family birthright, or even personal experience. We are spectators to the process ofhistory while being intimately situated within its impact and formations.
How, then, best to write it? Is it always the victor’s version? Have we not begun increasingly to write “history frombelow”, that lived by those who are not at the top of the power hierarchy? Are accounts of history always genderin ected, hitherto, at least, towards men rather than women
ho gets to tell history if the issue is colonialism orclass? How does geography, the power of place, intersect with history? What is the status of the personal story or
narrative within the larger frame of events?
This conference addresses issues of writing history from literary and other discursive perspectives. That is to say:novels, plays, poems, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, travel logs and a variety of styles of essay. One thinks of
Shakespeare’s history plays, Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Shi Nai’an’s The Water Margin, Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine. It
also addresses oral history, the spoken account or witness, the Hiroshima survivor to the modern Syrian migrant.
hich also connects to the ne us of media and history. he great historical” films continue to hold us, be
it Eisenstein’s October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1925) or Gone with the Wind (1940). We live in an age of
documentaries, whether film or . here is a view that we also inhabit instant” history, the download to laptop,
the app, the all-purpose mobile. How has this technology changed our perception, our lived experience, of history?
What is the role of commemoration, parade, holiday, festival or statuary in the writing of history?
he different modes by which we see and understand history, ow and counter- ow, nevertheless come back tocertain basics.
One asks whether we deceive ourselves in always asking for some grand narrative. Can there only be one narrator
or is history by necessity a colloquium, contested ground? Is national history a myth? And history-writing itself: isit actually a form of fiction, an artifice which atters to deceive
hat, e actly, is a historical fact
This conference, we hope, will address these perspectives and others that connect and arise.

Organising Committee
Tan Tarn How
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dr Brian Victoria
Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, UK

Dr A. Robert Lee
Nihon University, Japan (retd.)

Dr Richard Donovan
Kansai University, Japan

Professor Myles Chilton
Nihon University, JapanDr Joseph Haldane
The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan

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Welcome from the
Chairman of IAFOR
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities (ACAH2017) and The Asian Conference on Literature(LibrAsia2017).
As the third event in IAFOR’s spring conference calendar, this long-running pair of IAFOR conferences brings
together academics and practitioners from all over the world for interdisciplinary discussion and interaction in thecosmopolitan port city of Kobe, maritime gateway to the Kansai region of Japan.
From the reopening of Kobe’s port to international trade in the mid-nineteenth century after Japan’s centuries ofself-imposed isolation, to the city’s settlement by European traders and subsequent rapid industrial development, to its
more recent devastation and then spirited recovery after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995, Kobe’s story spans
periods of change and upheaval that have shaped the city’s present-day identity, transforming it into an economic,
cultural and culinary centre with a lively, international atmosphere. In this place and country that gave the world thenovel one thousand years ago, and subsequently haiku and manga, Japan's long and rich literary history with its complex
and fascinating history provides our meeting place to welcome over 180 delegates from 35 nations to explore themesof story and narrative from a variety of a perspectives.
The programme is diverse and exciting and I expect our time together to be engaging, thought-provoking, challenging
and fun. I would like to thank the members of the ACAH2017 and LibrAsia2017 Organising Committees for giving
their valuable time and expertise in preparation for this event. I would also like to extend our thanks to the plenary
speakers, as well as to our institutional partner universities for their support.
We are pleased to welcome Ismahan Wayah, recipient of the Stuart D. B. Picken Grant & Scholarship, and James
Kin-Pong Au, Isabelle Coy-Dibley and Ashley Harbers, recipients of IAFOR Scholarships, who we are recognising
for the quality of their academic achievements and their contribution to interdisciplinarity. Newly launched for, AF
s grants and scholarships programme provides financial support for Ph students and early career
academics, with the aim of helping them pursue research excellence and achieve their academic goals throughinterdisciplinary study and interaction. We would like to congratulate all our recipients on their award.
Finally, I would like to thank each and every delegate for making the journey to Kobe to attend this IAFOR event.
I hope you enjoy your time here.
I look forward to meeting you all, and encourage your very active participation in the stimulating exchange ofknowledge and ideas that will take place over the coming days.
Warm regards,

Joseph Haldane
Chairman & CEO, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
Guest Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University, Japan

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The Reverend Professor
Stuart D. B. Picken (1942–2016)
It is with sadness that we inform our friends of IAFOR that the Chairman of the organisation, the late Reverend Professor
Stuart D. B. Picken, passed away on Friday, August 5, 2016.
Stuart Picken was born in Glasgow in 1942 and enjoyed an international reputation in philosophy, comparative religious andcultural studies, but it is as a scholar of Japan and Japanese thought for which he will be best remembered, and as one of theworld’s foremost experts on Shinto.
Picken entered University of Glasgow, Scotland, aged 16 to study divinity and philosophy, and his studies culminated with adoctorate that looked at Christianity and the work of Kant. In 1966 he was ordained in the Church of Scotland, and began
his career as a minister in Orkney.
However, his curiosity led him from isolated rural Scotland to the world’s largest city, and following a visit to Tokyo on a
Rotary scholarship, Picken was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the International Christian University (ICU) in 1972.
Here he turned his western theological and philosophical training to comparative religious and cultural studies of Japan, at atime when the country was emerging from the shadows of the Second World War.
His groundbreaking and controversial work on suicide in Japan made his name within the country, but it was his subsequent
work on Shinto that in uenced the rehabilitation of the religion at a time when it was dismissed in the west as pagan andprimitive, or unjustly caricatured for its wartime associations.
As Japan emerged as an economic superpower in the 1970s and 1980s, and given his growing prominence as an academic,
Picken was much in demand as part of a period in which Japanese wanted to learn more about themselves as seen through theeyes of the est, and where estern businesses were eager to learn from the all-con uering Japanese model. By then uentin Japanese, he served as a business consultant to such corporations and also served as a consultant to various businesses,
including Jun Ashida Ltd., Mitsui Mining & Smelting Corp., Kobe Steel and Japan Airlines. During this period he was activein the St Andrew Society, and founded the Tokyo Highland Games, which is still an annual event.
The author of a dozen books and over 130 articles and papers, Picken was to stay at ICU for 25 years, where he was a popular
lecturer and mentor to both Japanese and visiting scholars, serving tenures as Chairman of the Division of Humanities from1981 to 1983, and as Director of Japanese Studies from 1995 to 1997, as well as concurrently founding Director of the Centre
for Japanese Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland from 1985 to 1988. A keen amateur footballer, whose devotion
to Japan was rivalled only by that he felt for Glasgow angers, he continued to play into his fifties at U, encouraging many
students to take up the sport.
He left ICU in 1997, and from then until 2004 served as the founding Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and AsianStudies at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, and the founding Dean of the Graduate School Division of
Global Business Communication from 2002 to 2004.
Upon his retirement from his academic posts, he returned to Scotland to re-enter the ministry as minister of the linked chargeof Ardoch with Blackford in 2005, yet he continued his academic and Japanese interests as the Chairman of the Japan Societyof Scotland.
Whether in his research or teaching, Picken devoted much of his life to increasing understanding between his adopted
country and the West, and in 2007 he was recognised with the Order of the Sacred Treasure, an imperial decoration for his
pioneering research and outstanding contribution to the promotion of friendship and mutual understanding between Japanand the UK. He also served as the International Adviser to the High Priest of the Tsubaki Grand Shrine, one of Japan’slargest and oldest shrines.
From 2009 he was the founding Chairman of The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) where he was highly active in
helping nurture and mentor a new generation of academics, and facilitating better intercultural and international awarenessand understanding. In the years immediately preceding his illness, he continued to lecture throughout the world, in Europe,
North America, Asia and the Middle East.
He is survived by his wife, Hong Wen, and children, Fiona, Jeannette, William and Lynn.
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Conference
Guide

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Friday at a Glance
March 31, 201708:15-09:00-

Conference Registration (Open Studio)
Announcements andelcome Address Prokofiev

P enar Pane Pro ofie
History, Story, Narrative – Constructing History
Brian ictoria, ford entre for Buddhist Studies, U
Georges epeyrot, French ational enter for Scientific esearch, France
Myles Chilton, Nihon University, Japana i ir
10:30-11:00

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Coffee BreakP enar Pane Pro ofie
Art and Narrative in the Public Sphere
Yukata Mino, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, JapanTan Tarn How, National University of Singapore, Singapore
12:15-13:45

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ocumentary Photography Award

Lunch Breakeat reor s oUtilising Technology to Unlock the Past
Ruth Farrar, Bath Spa University, UK
Barney Heywood, Stand + Stare, UK
14:45-15:00

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Coffee Break

Piano or s o Pro ofie
Marusya Nainggolan, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
I Ketut Budiyasa, Percussionist
16:15-16:25

Coffee Break

16:25-17:25

Poster Session (Room 504)

aior s o Pro ofie
Emiko Miyashita, Haiku International Association, Japan
Hana Fujimoto, Haiku International Association, Japan

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Saturday at a Glance
April 01, 2017

09:00-10:30

Parallel Sessions & Poster Session

Presentation cannStories Surpass History to Influence Individual and Social Identities
Monty P. Satiadarma, Tarumanagara University, Indonesia
10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-12:15

Parallel Sessions & Poster Session

12:15-13:15
Lunch Break
Sado (Tea Ceremony) Demonstration (Room 504)
13:15-14:45

Parallel Sessions

14:45-15:00

Break

15:00-16:30

Parallel Sessions

16:30-17:00

Breakot i t ession oo
Ambiguous Japan: A Study on Four Lectures of Nobel Prize Winner Kenzaburo Ōe
Michele Eduarda Brasil de Sá, University of Brasília, Brazil

Sunday at a Glance
April 02, 2017

09:00-10:30

Parallel Sessions

10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-12:15

Parallel Sessions

12:35-13:15

Lunch Break

13:15-14:45

Parallel Sessions

14:45-15:00

Break
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Conference Guide
Information and Registration
If you have already paid the registration fee, you will be able to pick up your registration pack and name card at the Conference Registration
and Information Desk. The Conference Registration and Information Desk will be located in the following places during the conference:
Thursday, March 30
Friday, March 31
Saturday, April 01
Sunday, April 02

17:00-18:00
08:00-16:00
16:00-19:00
08:30-18:30
08:30-15:30

Room 504
Open Studio
Room 504
Room 504
Room 504

If you have any questions or concerns, IAFOR staff and local volunteers will happily assist you in any way they can.
Internet Accesshere will be a free iFi internet connection on the fifth oor of Art enter obe. However, this can be unreliable and we would strongly
suggest that you do not rely on a live connection for your presentation.
WiFi Connection Name: kobe-art
Password: art12345
What to Wear & Bring
Attendees generally wear business casual attire. You may wish to bring a light jacket or sweater as meeting rooms are air conditioned. Tour
attendees are encouraged to wear comfortable shoes and bring an umbrella or waterproof in case of rain.
Smoking
Smoking is not permitted in the Art enter obe. Please smoke outside of the building in designated smoking areas.
Printing
For your convenience, there will be an iMac computer with Microsoft ffice installed and a printer at the conference egistration esk.
e are able to offer a complimentary printing service of up to ten A sheets should you need this. Please be advised that printing may not
be available at peak times.
Business Centre
he rowne Pla a operates a business centre for copying, printing and scanning.
17:00 daily.

his business centre is staffed and open between

andBadgesWhen you check in, you will receive a registration pack, which includes your name badge. Wearing your badge is required for entrance
to the sessions. You must wear your badge at all times during the conference. There are four colours of badges indicating the type ofconference participant:
Red: Presenters and General Audience
Yellow: eynote and Featured Speakers
Blue: onference E hibitors and Affiliates
Black: IAFOR Staff & Board Members
Photo/Recording Waiver
There may be photography, audio and video recording at the conference. By entering the event premises you give consent to the use of yourphotograph, likeness or video or audio recording in whole or in part without restriction or limitation for any educational, promotional, orother purpose for distribution.
Eating & Drinking
Food and drink e cluding water are not allowed in the presentation rooms. Also, please refrain from consuming food and drink in andaround the 2F entrance area.
Refreshment Breaks
omplimentary coffee, tea and water will be available during the scheduled coffee breaks at the Plenary Session on Friday morning on the F
and in oom
F during the rest of the conference. ight snacks will also be provided.
ficia Con erence inner
he official onference inner is a ticketed optional event ,JP . Please remember to bring your name tag to the onference
onference inner attendees should meet in the Art enter obe F obby aton Friday, March ,. From here, AF
will lead the 15-minute walk to the restaurant.
Restaurant name: Hatagoya
Restaurant address: umoidori - - , huo
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Conference Guide
Conference Abstracts
All conference abstracts are available online. Please visit papers.iafor.org for a searchable database of abstracts.
Oral Presentations & Workshop Presentations
Oral Presentation Sessions will run from 09:00 on Saturday and Sunday morning. They are generally organised into parallel sessions bystreams. Oral Presentations are normally scheduled in sessions comprising three presentations, lasting 90 minutes in total. In sessions with
two Oral Presentations, the session will last 60 minutes, and in the case of four Oral Presentations, an extended session lasting 120 minutes
will be scheduled.
Presentation Length
The time in the sessions is to be divided equally between presentations. We recommend that an Oral Presentation should last 15-20 minutes
to include time for question and answers, but should last no longer than 25 minutes. Any remaining session time may be used for additional
discussion.
Presentations & Equipment
All rooms will be equipped with a MacBook computer pre-installed with PowerPoint and Keynote and connected to a LCD projector. If you
wish, you may directly link your own P laptop, although we advise you to use the computer provided by plugging in your USB ash drive.
We recommend that you bring two copies of your presentation in case one fails, and suggest sending yourself the presentation by email as athird and final precaution.
Session Chairs
Session hairs are encouraged to introduce themselves and other speakers brie y using the provided printouts of speaker bios, hand out
the provided presentation certificates at the end of the session, ensure that the session begins and ends on time, and that the time is divided
fairly between the presentations. Each presenter should have no more than 25 minutes in which to present his or her paper and respond to
any questions. Please follow the order in the programme, and if for any reason a presenter fails to show up, please keep to the original timeslots as delegates use the programme to plan their attendance.
The Session Chair is asked to assume this timekeeping role, and to this end yellow and red timekeeping cards are used as a visual cue forpresenters, letting them know when they have five minutes remaining, and when they must stop.
Presentation Certificates
Poster Presenters can pick up a certificate of presentation from the egistration esk. All other presenters will receive a certificate ofpresentation from their Session Chair or a member of staff at the end of their session.
A Polite Request to All ParticipantsParticipants are requested to arrive in a timely fashion for all presentations, whether to their own or to those of other presenters. Presenters
are reminded that the time slots should be divided fairly and equally between the number of presentations, and that presentations should not
overrun. Please refrain from discussion until after presentations have ended and ensure that mobile phones are switched off or set to silent
mode during presentations.
Poster Sessions
Poster Sessions areminutes in length and will be held in oom

F.

Poster Requirements
The poster display boards are 1800 mm high x 900 mm wide and pins and tape will be provided for putting posters up. Please be aware that
there are no on-site facilities for printing posters.
Conference Proceedings
he onference Proceedings are published on the AF
website papers.iafor.org , and can be freely accessed as part of AFs researcharchive. All authors may have their full paper published in the online onference Proceedings. Full te t submission is due before May ,through the online system. he proceedings will be published on June ,. Authors will have P F copies of their offprints emailed tothem by July ,.

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Conference Guide
Getting to the Conference Venue
he Art enter obe is conveniently located just a five-minute walk from Shin- obe Station.
From Kansai International Airport
Board the obe-bound Airport imousine Bus from bus stop number
Sannomiya Station see below .

on the first oor ofansai nternational Airport. Get off at

By Bullet Train (Shinkansen)
he Art enter obe is a five-minute walk from the first- oor e it of Shin- obe Station. here are regular bullet train Shinkansen services
from saka
minutes , yoto
minutes okyo hours minutes and Hiroshima hour minutes .
From Sannomiya Station (Kobe Downtown Area)
he bustling downtown center of Sannomiya, with a huge range of restaurants, bars, cafes and shops, is a -minute walk, or a short direct
subway ride away. he e press train from saka Station to Sannomiya takes minutes. here are three options
ake the subway to Shin- obe Station Seishin- amate ine
ake a ta i to the Art enter obe about five minutes and appro imately
alk to the Art enter obe about minutes

JP

Information and Registrationou will be able to pick up your registration pack and name card at the onference egistration esk. he onference egistration esk andPublications esk will be situated in the following locations during the conference
hursday, March
Friday, March
Saturday, April
Sunday, April-f you have any uestions or concerns, AF

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Conference Guide
Lunch
Lunch on Friday, Saturday and Sunday is included in the conference registration fee. Your IAFOR lunch voucher can be exchanged for lunch
at Mame no Hatake located in the A A rowne Pla a, a five-minute walk away from the conference venue. Please collect your lunch voucher
from the IAFOR staff member situated outside the restaurants at the ANA Crowne Plaza during the lunch period (lunch times below). Please
remember to bring your conference name badge as you will need to show this in order to claim your voucher. Please show your voucher torestaurant staff as you enter. Please see the map below for directions.
Mame no Hatake (), ANA Crowne Plaza 2F
his Japanese buffet-style restaurant has great variety of Japanese dishes available, including vegetarian and vegan options. he restaurant
specialises in tofu-based and traditional Japanese vegetable dishes. unch service includes an unlimited drinks bar, coffee station and dessert table.

Lunch times
Friday, March
Saturday, April
Sunday, April-

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Other Lunch and Dinner Options
Bistrot afe de Paris French uisine www.cafe-de-paris.jp
amamoto-dori - - , huo- u, obe ity
ineya Udon
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) ANA Crowne Plaza 3FSpecialises in serving Japanese style wheat- our udon and buckwheat soba noodle dishes. Seating is limited.
Please see the registration desk for recommendations, coupons and special offers.

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The Art Center Kobe

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Announcing IAFOR
Grant & Scholarship Recipientse are delighted to announce the first recipients of financial support as part of the AF
programme, newly launched for 2017.

grants and scholarships

Our warmest congratulations go to Ismahan Wayah, recipient of the Stuart D. B. Picken Grant & Scholarship, andJames Kin-Pong Au, Isabelle Coy-Dibley and Ashley Harbers, recipients of IAFOR Scholarships, who have been
selected by the conference rganising ommittees to receive financial support to present their research at he
Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2017 and The Asian Conference on Literature 2017.
AFs grants and scholarships programme provides financial support to Ph students and early career
academics, with the aim of helping them pursue research excellence and achieve their academic goals throughinterdisciplinary study and interaction. Awards are based on the appropriateness of the educational opportunity
in relation to the applicant s field of study, financial need, and contributions to their community and to AFsmission of interdisciplinarity. Scholarships are awarded based on availability of funds from IAFOR and vary witheach conference.
The Organising Committee of the relevant IAFOR conference awards scholarships to eligible applicants who
have submitted exceptional abstracts that have passed the blind peer review process and have been accepted forpresentation at the conference.
Find out more about IAFOR grants and scholarships: ia or or

financia sort

Stuart D. B. Picken
Grant & Scholarship Recipient
Ismahan Wayah, University of Münster, Germany
Ismahan Wayah graduated with a master’s degree in English, history and philosophy from the University of Mainz, Germany, and the Universityof Leeds, UK. She is currently doing her PhD with the Graduate School Practices of Literature and the Department of English, Postcolonial
and Media Studies in Münster, Germany. In her doctoral thesis, "Muslim Narratives in Diaspora: Unity, Difference, and Dissidence", sheanalyses contemporary diasporic American and British Muslim fiction by drawing on postcolonial, postsecular and intersectional approaches.
In 2016 she has been a visiting scholar in the Ethnic Studies department of the University of California, Berkeley, USA. In 2015, she served
as a PhD student representative at the Graduate School Practices of Literature. Furthermore, she has been actively engaged in social justiceprojects in black and/or Muslim communities.
35445"We Are All Moors": A Black Muslim Slave Narrative
Ismahan Wayah, University of Münster, Germany

Laila Lalami’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel, The Moor’s Account (2015), is a dense historical novel that provides a counter-narrative to Álvar
e abe a de aca s a elaci n, a historical first-person account of the doomed
arvae e pedition, which only three
Spaniards and “Estevanico, an Arab Negro” survived. In The Moor’s Account, the Moroccan-American author Laila Lalami gives voice to thestory of Estevanico/Mustafa, who has been enslaved, omitted and forgotten from dominant history.
This paper illustrates that writing “history from below” is an intricate and complicated endeavour, in particular when analysing the narrative ofa Black Muslim enslaved by Spanish colonisers and captured by Native Americans. Adopting an Afropessimist, postcolonial and postsecularreading, I argue that the main protagonist, Estevanico/Mustafa, renders the colonisation of the Americas from the perspective of the Moor
as Europe s religious, racial and civilisational ultimate ther. Such an approach discloses that the figure of the Moor blurs the lines between
victor/victim, freedom/captivity, guilt/innocence on the level of the narrative and the lines between the colonial captivity narrative and slave
narrative on the level of form. The Moor’s Account not only offers an alternative reading to the mapping of New Spain on the Americas,
but also emphasises the grey areas of history/(ies). In turning to the Early American period, Layla Lalami reminds us of the longstanding
presence of Black Muslim subjects in the Americas.

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IAFOR
Scholarship Recipients
James Kin-Pong Au, University of Tokyo, Japan
James Au is a postgraduate student at the University of Tokyo, Japan. Prior to that he studied Japanese literature at SOAS, University of
London, UK. He completed his MA degree in comparative and literary studies in Hong Kong Baptist University in May 2014. Before
that he obtained a bachelor’s degree in translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also spent four years learning foreign
languages including Japanese, French and German, and developing his strong interest in comparative literature between East and West.
His current research is to study how nihilism incorporated in the works of both Chinese and Japanese writers from the 1910s to themid 1920s. His professional career outside academia includes compiling English teaching materials and teaching English courses invarious local colleges, high schools and tutorial centres. Aside from professional interests, he travels widely, reads, writes and watches
movies with his family and friends.
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Reception of Arthur Rimbaud on Dai Wang Shu and Nakahara Cyûya's Poetry and the Construction of Their Poetic Decadent WorldJames Kin-Pong Au, University of Tokyo, Japan

This article argues that both Dai Wang-shu (戴望舒) (1905–1950) and Nakahara Cyûya (中原中也) (1907–1937), as translators of thepoetry of French symbolist Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), adopted similar decadent elements as three of them were trapped in thetimes of turbulence – Rimbaud experienced the decline of the Second Empire and its collapse after Franco-Prussian War in 1870, while
Nakahara was situated in a revolutionary age at which politics and cultural rapid change were putting most Japanese people in a crisis ofidentity. ikewise, ai s literary life ourished during the period of world wars in which hina was being invaded by Japanese armies.
While western scholars such as Gregory Lee and Donald Keene have hitherto respectively considered the biographical accounts ofDai’s poetry and hastened to label him as “Japanese Rimbaud”, and Asian scholars claimed the uniqueness of the two poets in unison,few have addressed the issue of how one s poetry will be in uenced through translation of others works. hrough close readings ofsome of their poetry, mainly Dai’s “Written on a Prison Wall” (獄中題壁) and “With My Injured Hand” (我用殘缺的手掌) (1941),
written during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, and Nakahara’s Collection of Goat Songs (山羊の歌), written in the 1920s. I
further argue that the reason they had to narrate and confess their sentiment in such a French symbolic way is closely related to thecrisis – including crisis of humanity, culture, war and identity.

Ashley Harbers, Yonsei University, South Korea
Ashley Harbers is currently a doctoral student in the department of English Literature at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. She
graduated with a Master of Arts in English from the University of Dallas and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Classical Studies fromthe University of Texas at Arlington, USA. She has taught high-school and college literature and composition as well as English as a
Second Language, and her research interests include industrial and social problem novels of nineteenth-century England, the historicalnovel, and protest literatures.
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Bending Time: History, Narrative, and Anachronism in Chang-Rae Lee's The Surrendered
Ashley Harbers, Yonsei University, South Korea

What is perhaps most remarkable about Chang-Rae Lee’s fourth novel is the manner in which he anchors the bodily and the divine in thepresence of two other texts in the novel, intertexts around which Lee “bends” a linear, historical sense of time. This paper aims to assess
the effect of the con uence of the visceral and the spiritual and the historical and the mythical in a novel that through its very narrative
structure argues for the continued relevance of the Lukácsian historical novel. The Surrendered articulates the relationship between trauma
and memory-as-history through a memory-spliced narrative. he violence in icted on bodies in the novel, which both causes and resultsfrom different traumas, is intricately connected with its treatment of history. Historical time in a linear sense collapses around the threemain characters as the story slides back and forth along a spectrum of thirty years, lending a literal sense of anachronism, a going backward
through time, to the novel. This movement through history is both a natural function of memory as well as another means by which tosubvert notions of historical objectivity, especially for an audience either unaware of the history or, worse, reading under a certain statesponsored narrative. The power of the historical novel, especially with regard to silenced historical events, like the Korean War, is thecreation of a multiplicity of voices, voices that can challenge the dominant, or especially, the state-sponsored narrative voice.

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Scholarship Recipients
Isabelle Coy-Dibley, University of Westminster, UKsabelle oy- ibley is currently a Ph student at the University of estminster, U . n, she gained a first class honours in her BA
English Literature degree from the University of Westminster, UK. Following this, she completed an MA in English: 1850–Present at
King's College London, UK, in 2013 and an MA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, in 2014. Her
predominant research interests are within contemporary women’s experimental literature with an interdisciplinary theoretical approach,presently exploring concepts of female corporeal memory, bodily semantics and methods of inscription upon the female body. She haspresented at multiple conferences both in the UK and internationally.
35184Anaïs Nin's Diaries: Revising Identity and Sexual Histories in Literary Narratives
Isabelle Coy-Dibley, University of Westminster, UKAnaïs Nin meticulously documented her life in diary entries from the age of 11. However, this narrative of self was not only a private
undertaking, but a form of writing she chose to make public when these diaries were edited and published later in her life as well as
posthumously. Subsequently, this paper intends to question how authors revise and edit their personal narratives, the effect of an
intended audience upon this process, and how Nin's sexual identity and forms of embodiment within her diaries were affected bycensorship, defamation and invasion of privacy laws that become problematic for non-fiction narratives.
I examine how language is altered through the editing process and restrictions placed on literary narratives, particularly narratives ofa sexual nature, which in turn moulds identity in differing ways – depending on how one decides to revise one’s narrative and whether
this narrative is being altered for personal reasons or to meet specific criteria for society or publishing policies. Ultimately, this paperuestions how identity becomes censored in non-fiction narratives when these narratives do not conform to acceptable modes of
behaviour or forms of sexual embodiment, and how this sequentially impacts the way in which the female body, sexual identities andforms of sexual expression may be narrated.

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French National Center for Scientific Research, France

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Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan

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Haiku International Association, Japan

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D. T. Suzuki: How Did Scholars
Get It So Wrong?
Featured Panel Presentation: Brian Victoria
Friday, March 31 | 09:15-10:15 | Room: Prokofiev (2F)
D. T. Suzuki is best known for having introduced the Zen school of Buddhism to the West. His long life (1870–
1966) has been praised by many scholarly and non-scholarly admirers alike as exemplifying the ideal “Zen life,” a life
dedicated to peace and compassion. et, as early as his first book in, Su uki called on young Japanese soldiers to“regard their own lives as being as light as goose feathers.” During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5, Suzuki exhorted
Japanese Buddhists to carry the banner of harma over the dead and dying until they gain final victory.” And as lateas JuneSu uki informed mperial Army officers t isn t easy to ac uire the mental state in which one is prepared
to die. I think the best shortcut to acquire this frame of mind is none other than Zen.” This presentation asks how wasit possible for Suzuki to garner such admiration in the West ever as he encouraged the Japanese people to die in warsof conquest. More importantly, it seeks to identify “lessons to be learned” for scholars, especially historians, as they
research both individuals and the events surrounding them.
This presentation will form part of the Featured Panel listed on the opposite page.

***

Dr Brian Victoria is a native of Omaha, Nebraska and a 1961 graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University in
Lincoln, Nebraska. He holds a MA in Buddhist Studies from Sōtō en sect-affiliated oma awa University in okyo,
and a PhD from the Department of Religious Studies at Temple University.
In addition to a second, enlarged edition of Zen At War owman
ittlefield,, Brian s major writings
include Zen War Stories (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003); an autobiographical work in Japanese entitled Gaijin de ari, Zen bozu
de ari (As a Foreigner, As a Zen Priest), published by San-ichi Shobo in 1971; Zen Master Dōgen, coauthored withProfessor Yokoi Yūhō of Aichi-gakuin University (Weatherhill, 1976); and a translation of The Zen Life by Sato Koji
(Weatherhill, 1972). In addition, Brian has published numerous journal articles, focusing on the relationship of not
only Buddhism but religion in general, to violence and warfare.
From 2005 to 2013 Brian was a Professor of Japanese Studies and director of the AEA “Japan and Its Buddhist
raditions Program” at Antioch University in ellow Springs, H, USA. Fromtohe was a isiting
Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan where he is writing abook tentatively entitled: Zen Terror in 1930s Japan. Brian currently continues his research as a Fellow of the Oxford
Center for Buddhist Studies and is a fully ordained Buddhist priest in the Sōtō Zen sect.

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History, Story, Narrative– Constructing History
Featured Panel: Brian Victoria, Georges Depeyrot & Myles Chilton
Friday, March 31 | 09:15-10:15 | Room: Prokofiev (2F)
his interdisciplinary history and literature panel will look at how histories are created and propagated and the difficulties
involved in the inherently political act of writing of history. How does the “truth” act as heuristic and guide, and how is
the concept abused to sti e dissent and impose order his panel will draw on contemporary controversies and invite
participation from delegates from around the world to address questions that include the following: How importantis the construction of national history in the creation of personal and national identity? How does history shape ourpolitical decisions today? How do we go about building, revising and deconstructing history?
This panel will feature both historians and literary scholars and will explore the relations and tensions between
fictional and historical narrative that are in many ways vital to definitions of literature, raising uestions as to the“truth” of the history registered in literary texts as opposed to that of historical texts. The panel will also examine
literature as alternative history, whether Fredric Jameson’s call to “always historicize!” is still relevant, the aliterary
subversions of official” history, the historicity of fiction, and, of course, the fiction of historicity.

***

Dr Myles Chilton (BA University of Toronto; MA and PhD University of Chicago) is a Professor in the Departmentof English Language and Literature at Nihon University. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Chilton has been in
Japan for over twenty years, writing about relationships between contemporary world literature and global cities in
Literary Cartographies: Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), and in journal articles suchas Comparative Critical Studies, The Journal of Narrative Theory, and Studies in the Literary Imagination. He also focuses on
global English and literary studies in such books as the monograph English Studies Beyond the ‘Center’: Teaching Literatureand the Future of Global English (Routledge 2016); and in chapters in the books The Future of English in Asia: Perspectives
on Language and Literature (Routledge 2015), Deterritorializing Practices in Literary Studies (Contornos 2014), and World
Literature and the Politics of the Minority (Rawat 2013). Chilton has also presented papers on these and other topics atuniversities around the world. He is also on the editorial board of the IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship.
Professor Georges Depeyrot is a monetary historian at the French ational enter for Scientific esearch
S inParis. He began his scientific career in thes studying coin finds and joined the
S in. After some years hejoined the Center for Historical Research in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and is now
a professor at the École Normale Supérieure. After his habilitation (1992), he specialised in international cooperative
programs that aim to reconsider monetary history in a global approach. He has directed many cooperative programs
linking several European countries, including those situated at the continent’s outer borders (Georgia, Armenia, Russia,
and Morocco). Professor Depeyrot is the author or co-author of more than one hundred volumes, and is the founding
director of the Moneta publishing house, the most important collection of books on the topic of money. Professor
epeyrot is a member of the board of trustees of the entre ational de echerche Scientifi ue.
r Brian ictoria s biography is provided on the opposite page.

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Art and Narrativein the Public Sphere
Featured Panel Presentation: Yukata Mino & Tan Tarn How
Friday, March 31 | 11:00-12:00 | Room: Prokofiev (2F)
Drawing on the conference theme of “History, Story, Narrative”, this panel will examine art as a medium for telling stories and creating narrative,
and how curation can be used to contextualise and situate works of art. In a comparative analysis encompassing divergent cultural perspectives,
the panellists will discuss the politics and role of art, drawing on examples from both Singapore and Japan, and comparing and contrasting withother countries. The panel will focus on the importance and continued relevance of art in the public sphere, addressing questions of how public
art and public spaces can create stories and narratives, and how these narratives can assist in the construction and structuring of a national identity,
including the following: How can art create a public dialogue? How can this dialogue be harnessed for the good of the community? And what is
the role played by curation in contributing to the development of a local, regional and national community and economy?
Image | The Tower of the Sun (located in Osaka Prefecture) by Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto***

Dr Yutaka Mino was born in Kanazawa, Japan, in 1941, and has received his PhD in Art History at Harvard University in 1977. He wasappointed as the associate curator in charge of Asiatic Department at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1976, the curator of the Oriental
Art Department at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1977, and the curator of the Asian Department at the Art Institute of Chicago in
1985. After Returning to Japan, he was appointed as the director of Osaka Municipal Museum of Art in 1996, and as the founding directorof the st entury Museum of ontemporary Art, ana awa in. n, he assumed the ice hairman, Sotheby s orth America,
the Chief Executive Director, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and the Honorary Director, Osaka Municipal
Museum of Art. In April 2010, he was appointed as the director of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, in 2012, the director of Yokoo
Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, in 2013, the Honorary Director, Abeno Harukas Museum of Art. Yutaka Mino has organized many
exhibitions, and also published individual books and catalogs such as Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz’uchou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D. in 1980 and Hakuji (White Ware), vol.5 in the Chugoku Togi (Chinese Ceramics) series in 1998.
Tan Tarn How is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National Universityof Singapore. He graduated from Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, in 1982 with Bachelor of Arts Honours, Natural Sciences
Tripos. He then obtained a Diploma in Education from the Institute of Education, Singapore, in 1984, and later was also a recipient of athree-month Fulbright Scholarship to Boston University in 1993. In the earlier part of his career Tan worked as a teacher, then as a journalist
for The Straits Times, Singapore’s main local newspaper, including postings as a foreign correspondent and senior political correspondent basedin Beijing and Hong Kong. Later Tan became the Head Scriptwriter for Drama Production at the Singapore Television Corporation and
Associate Artistic Director of the drama company TheatreWorks, where led workshops for budding playwrights.
An arts activist and playwright, Tan Tarn How has written on the development of the arts in Singapore, in particular fostering partnerships
between the people, private and public sectors; the creative industries in Singapore, China and Korea; cultural policy in Singapore; and arts
censorship. His research interests also include arts education and the role of education in cultural and human development. He has also
carried out research on the management and regulation of media in Singapore; the impact of the Internet and social media on society; therole of new and old media in the 2008 Malaysian election and the 2006 and 2011 Singapore elections; and the way in which the Internet andsocial media has in uenced the development of civil society and democratic development.
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Utilising Technology
to Unlock the Past
Featured Workshop: Ruth Farrar & Barney Heywood
Friday, March 31 | 13:45-14:45 | Room: Prokofiev (2F)The aim of the workshop is to explore how digital technologies can be shaped to change our perceptions of the past.
adio fre uency identification F
technology and image recognition technology will be discussed to demonstrate
innovative new platforms available to storytellers, historians and media makers.
The workshop is led by collaborative partners Dr Ruth Farrar, Creative Media and Enterprise Senior Lecturer at BathSpa University, and Barney Heywood from Stand + Stare, who specialises in immersive theatre and interactive design.
They will collectively draw upon their portfolios illustrating successful international case studies, which fuse academic
research with industry demands to help share stories from the past with new audiences.
Case studies covered in the workshop include: sharing immigrant stories for a sound art commission for the Austrian
Cultural Forum in New York; an interactive storytelling app to commemorate Carnegie Hall’s 125th anniversary in
New York; and an exhibition at the Barbican for the Royal Shakespeare Company bringing theatrical props to life
in London. During a practical exercise, workshop participants will also get an opportunity to interact with image
recognition technology by attaching a story to an object to create a unique oral history experience. Ultimately, workshop
participants will learn how to innovatively mediate digital technologies to create new modes of understanding history.

***

Dr Ruth Farrar is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Media and Enterprise and Director of Artswork Media at BathSpa University, UK. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin (BA Film Studies & English Literature) and Universityof Bristol MA Filmelevision Production , r uth Farrar is an active filmmaker, sound artist and researcher.
She recently completed an AHRC-funded PhD by practice at the University of Exeter on the theoretical, creative
and technological applications of binaural technology usage. Her binaural research has resulted in interactive
sound art exhibitions, commissions such as apps like “Dear Carnegie Hall” for Carnegie Hall, New York, andaward-winning sound design screened at film festivals in ublin, annes and ew ork. Her current public
engagement research has led to the creation of the world s first film festival for women in e treme sports andadventure: Shextreme Film Festival.
Barney Heywood is Co-Director of Stand + Stare, a design studio creating interactive installations, exhibitions
and apps. Their automated experiences are often based on historical material and memory, which has led them towork with museums, libraries, universities and a variety of organisations seeking innovative ways in which to open
up their archives and to tell stories in new and exciting ways. Their work is characterised by a sense of warmth andnostalgia, with tech elements largely hidden, to allow people to focus on tangible objects and physical experiences.
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Piano Workshop
with Marusya Nainggolan
Friday, March 31 | 15:00-16:15 | Room: Prokofiev (2F)
Marusya Nainggolan learned to play the piano from her father, Sutan Kalimuda Nainggolan, and continued
her music education at the Music Education Foundation under the supervision of Rudi Laban. She graduatedin 1980 from the Jakarta Institute of Arts, Indonesia, and obtained scholarships from the Australian Foreign
Affairs to study at the Sydney Conservatory, New South Wales, Australia (1980–1984) to obtain a Bachelor ofMusic under the supervision of Mme Sonya Hanke (piano) and Dr Graham Heir (composition). From 1987 to
1989 she obtained Fulbright scholarships and completed her Master of Music Art in Boston University, USA,
under the supervision of Professor Theodore Antonious, Dr M. Marryman and Professor Bernard Rands. She
was the General Secretary for the Indonesian Copyright Society (1995–2002), Chair of the Indonesian Composer
Society, Secretary of the Jakarta Art Council and Head of the Jakarta Art Institute (2004–2010). She is now
teaching European studies at the University of Indonesia, and performs music nationally and internationally,
besides participating as a music counsellor for studies on music and health in the National Health Department.
Marusya Nainggolan is currently enrolled in the doctoral programme at the Faculty of Humanities, University ofIndonesia, and is a senior lecturer at the Jakarta Arts Institute.
Percussionist I Ketut Budiyasa was born in Karang Asem, Bali, and grew up with Balinese gamelan music. He
participates in art festivals in Indonesia as well as internationally, including performances in America, Brazil, South
Korea and Europe. He collaborates with Marusya Bainggolan and other musicians.

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Haiku Workshop with
Emiko Miyashita & Hana Fujimoto
Friday, March 31 | 17:30-18:30 | Room: Prokofiev (2F)This annual workshop gives a background and history to haiku, the Japanese form of poetry that has become
popular the world over. It will include readings of some of the most famous examples, and will invite participants
to write their own poems, under the guidance of one of Japan’s most prominent haiku poets.

***

Emiko Miyashita is a prominent and widely published haiku poet, as well as an award-winning translator who
has given invited lectures and workshops around the world. She serves as a councillor for the Haiku International
Association, as well as secretary of the Haiku Poets Association International Department in Tokyo. She is a dojin(leading member) of Ten’i (Providence) haiku group lead by Dr Akito Arima, and also a dojin of the Shin (MorningSun), haiku group lead by Dr Akira Omine.
Hana Fujimoto is a Councilor of the Haiku International Association, a member of the Japan Traditional Haiku
Association, and a writer for the haiku magazine Tamamo.

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Stories Surpass History to Influence
Individual and Social Identities
IAAB Presentation: Monty P. Satiadarma
Saturday, April 1 | 10:00-10:30 | Room: Schumann (2F)
Storytelling is a way of transforming knowledge from one generation to another. While histories are based on facts andhistorical data, stories may not be based. Mythologies and folktales are not history, they are stories, yet people believe inthem; often they believe more in stories than in histories. People care more about stories than histories, for stories tend
to give an immediate answer to curiosity without extending to research and exploration. Symbolism and metaphor tend
to satisfyingly give answers to people’s curiosity, for, as Cassirer says, man is an animal symbolicum. While facts and data
are based on rational findings, symbols and metaphors may be based on emotional attachment, and some tend to be
irrational for e ample, the figure of angels as humans with wings. hese symbols in uence the identity of persons andeven nations. There are countries that use the symbols of eagles or lions, although these are either rare or nonexistentin their land. However, the stories of the brave and powerful eagles and lions are introjected within the people overcenturies; they are not thought of within the course of history. This presentation discusses how stories surpass history
in in uencing people to carry on their belief system, thus in uencing them from the individual to national identity.

***

Dr Monty P. Satiadarma is a clinical psychologist who has been teaching psychology at Tarumanagara University
since 1994. He was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at Tarumanagara, as well as the Dean of
Psychology, ice ector and ector of the university. He graduated with a degree in psychology from the Universityof Indonesia, art therapy from Emporia State, Kansas, family counselling from Notre Dame de Namur, California, andclinical hypnotherapy from Irvine, California. He has nationally published a number of books with a particular interestin educational psychology, and in music and art therapy – methods with which he treated survivors of the Indonesiantsunami on behalf of the International Red Cross and the United Nations. He is a board member and area chair of theInternational Council of Psychology, and a founder and board member of the Asian Psychology Association.

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Ambiguous Japan: A Study on Four Lecturesof Nobel Prize Winner Kenzaburō Ōe
Spotlight Presentation: Dr Michele Eduarda Brasil de Sá
Saturday, April 1 | 17:00-17:30 | Room: 501 (5F)In 1994, Kenzaburō Ōe, the second Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, entitled his Nobel Lecture“Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself ”, dialoguing with his predecessor, Yasunari Kawabata, whose Nobel Lecture
was entitled “Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself ”. Confessing his quest for “ways to be of some use in the cure andreconciliation of mankind”, Ōe proposes a re ection about Japans role in the world by that time, having ascended by its
technology, but not by its literature or philosophy. His Nobel Lecture aligns with other three lectures in different places
and contexts: “Speaking on Japanese Culture before a Scandinavian Audience” (1992), “On Modern and Contemporary
Japanese Literature” (San Francisco, 1990) and “Japan’s Dual Identity: A Writer’s Dilemma” (1986). This paper attempts
to re ect on the writer s perspectives e pressed in his lectures, focusing on the following subjects Japanese culture andidentity, Japan between past and future and the contributions of literature in the achievement of peace.

***

Dr Michele Eduarda Brasil de Sá is currently a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
temporarily working for University of Brasília, Brazil (since 2013). Born in Rio de Janeiro, Dr Brasil de Sá graduatedwith a Bachelor s degree in Portuguese, atin and Japanese languages and literature. She finished her Master s anddoctoral research in the Latin language at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She temporarily worked at the Federal
University of Ama onas
, where she was the first coordinator and professor for the recently created(2011) undergraduate course of Japanese Language and Literature. Dr Brasil de Sá's research (since 2008) has
embraced Japanese immigration to the State of Amazonas in documents but she is currently researching Japanese
language learning and translation.

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Submit your research to the
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review process• No submission or
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• Editorially independent• Freely available online to a
global academic audience

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for Volume 4 Issue 2
Submission deadline: July 31
Target publication date: October 31
For details of how to submit yourpaper, view the Author Guidelines
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The IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities is an internationally reviewed and editorially independentinterdisciplinary journal associated with IAFOR’s international conferences on the arts and humanities.
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All papers are reviewed equally according to standard peer review processes, regardless ofwhether or not the authors have attended a related IAFOR conference.
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Introducing IAFOR’s Academic
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Friday Plenary Day

09:00-18:30 | Rooms: Prokofiev (2F) & 504 (5F)
08:15-09:00-

Conference Registration (Open Studio)
Announcements andelcome Address Prokofiev

P enar Pane Pro ofie
History, Story, Narrative – Constructing History
Brian ictoria, ford entre for Buddhist Studies, U
Georges epeyrot, French ational enter for Scientific esearch, France
Myles Chilton, Nihon University, Japana i ir
10:30-11:00

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Pro ofie

Coffee BreakP enar Pane Pro ofie
Art and Narrative in the Public Sphere
Yukata Mino, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, JapanTan Tarn How, National University of Singapore, Singapore
12:15-13:45

AF

ocumentary Photography Award

Lunch Breakeat reor s oUtilising Technology to Unlock the Past
Ruth Farrar, Bath Spa University, UK
Barney Heywood, Stand + Stare, UK
14:45-15:00

onference Photograph Prokofiev

Pro ofie

Coffee Break

Piano or s o Pro ofie
Marusya Nainggolan, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
16:15-16:25

Coffee Break

16:25-17:25

Poster Session (Room 504)

aior s o Pro ofie
Emiko Miyashita, Haiku International Association, Japan
Hana Fujimoto, Haiku International Association, Japan

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Friday Poster Session
16:30-17:30 | Room: 504 (5F)

Friday Poster Session: 16:30-17:30
ooConference Poster SessionooThought of Shin in Ikebana: Between Nature and Human Beings
Osamu Inoue, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japankebana, one of Japan s traditional arts, is a composite art of natural owers and artificial techni ue, and thus a mutual creation between
nature and human beings. This relationship, however, cannot be a simple dualism, for human beings are also a natural being. Ikebana has
always held that the natural shape of the ower is paramount, this natural shape being known as shussho, and this concept of shussho has
been a cardinal doctrine throughout the history of ower arranging in Japan. At the same time, however, kebana artists have also reshaped
owers and thus diverged from the concept of shussho. hese artificial shapes are known as hanagane, and can be considered as a kind ofmold or cast. The relationship between nature and human beings can be restated as one between shussho and hanagane. At the same time,
however, shussho and hanagane also cannot be regarded as a simple dualism. The philosophy of Ikebana lies in this delicate relationshipbetween shussho and hanagane, or nature and human being. This poster presentation reexamines historical development of this relationship,
investigating old paintings of ikebana and explanations that pre-modern ikebana thinkers elaborated. And this reveals that the concept of Shinhas worked across all styles of ikebana to link nature with human beings.
ooInoue Hisashi and the Tokyo Trials Trilogy

Masahito Takayashiki, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan
Inoue Hisashi (1934–2010) is a highly acclaimed contemporary Japanese playwright, novelist and screenwriter in post-war Japan. Inoue wrote
more thanworks, including plays, novels,and radio scripts, essays and so forth. his paper e amines the manner in which nouereconciles his harsh experiences of World War II as a shōkokumin (a little country man; the wartime name for children). Inoue attributes his
wartime childhood experiences as the impetus and inspiration for his playwriting. One of the ways in which he sought reconciliation with hischildhood war experiences was by writing three plays in which he dealt with Tokyo Trials (IMTFE: International Military Tribunal for the Far
East). These plays are known as Tokyo Saiban Sanbusaku (“Tokyo Trials Trilogy”): Yume no Sakeme (“A Crack of Dream”, 2001), Yume no
Namida (“Tears of the Dream”, 2003) and Yume no Kasabuta (“Scab of the Dream”, 2006). In this trilogy, Inoue tries to clarify whether or
not Japanese people had fulfilled their responsibilities for the Sino-Japanese ar and the Pacific ar. noue says that this is his mission as acontemporary playwright who survived the air raids on Tokyo. In this paper, we concentrate on Inoue’s fundamental perspective on the Tokyo
Trials Trilogy at the time that he wrote them. Inoue’s longing for world peace and his antiwar campaign continue to live on in the productionsof many directors, artists and writers today.
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The Footprints on the Farm – The Green and Smart Farm Finds Its Way into Curriculum Development: Delicacy and Promotion-Fan o, he Affiliated Senior High School of ational hi- an University, aiwan
heng- en hang, he Affiliated Senior High School of ational hi- an University, aiwan
Hsien- Peng, ational aotun ommercial
ndustrial ocational Senior High School, aiwan

Mainly, it takes inquiry-based learning, project-based learning and problem-based learning as the method of the practice and the curriculum
development to the traction of farm with green science. In the spirit of maker movement, the research puts creative development into
practice. It combines green energy, waste reduction, modern agriculture, intellectual mechanics and some other emerging technologies with theeducational resource of multiple communities in the friendly learning environment. Blending into construction of school based curriculum,
the research further develops the course modules of science project and creative invention. ia micro classroom participant observation, it
takes the understanding of teaching practice. The observation uses the evaluation of students’ achievement to analyze students’ performanceand conducts the in-depth interview toward teachers and students. t attempts to understand the in uence factors of green science farm
tracing course blending into the based teaching material from the three perspectives: the construction of school based curriculum, theadvance of teacher’s profession, students’ attitudes and performances of learning technology. According to the process, it can give feedback
as the reference to sub-project’s curriculum practice. First, it blends the innovate materials into the based curriculum. Second, it establishes
sharing interaction of emerging technology course resource and implements application platform. Third, through physical activity, it offers
emerging technology course research and development, evaluation, sharing and the opportunity of promotion to partner schools. Fourth, ittakes advantage of physical curriculum design and teaching shaping to partner schools to form the learning organization.

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Friday Poster Session
16:30-17:30 | Room: 504 (5F)ooMaking Human Network Visible through Costume Making and Scaffolding: A Fieldwork Study of Cosplay Culture
Rie Matsuura, Keio University, Japan

This paper analyzes the relationship between agencies and artifacts represented in ethnographic case studies of ten female informants aged
20–25 participating in the cosplay community. Cosplay is a female-dominated niche subculture of extreme fans and mavens, who are devoted
to dressing up as characters from manga, games, and anime. “Cosplayers” are highly conscious of quality standards for costumes, makeup,
and accessories. Cosplay events and dedicated SNSs for cosplayers are a valuable venue for exchanging information about costume making.
Professor Mizuko Ito studies the possibilities of learning with friends and peers in fan culture in the United States. However, there are still
not enough studies about fun culture learning in Japan. First, I share an overview of cosplay culture in Japan and our methodologies basedon interviews and fieldwork. group our findings in two different categories
cosplayers agencies and relationships with others mediatedby usage of particular artifacts
cosplayers agencies visuali ed through socio-artificial scaffolding and collective achievement. conclude
that cosplayers are producing and standardizing available artifacts for their cosplay objects, and in doing so, they are designing their agencies.
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Learning and Teaching Through Social Fabrication: From an Ethnographic Study in "Fablab Kamakura"
Daisuke Okabe, Tokyo City University, Japan

This paper analyzes the relationship between participation and learning represented in ethnographic case studies of ten informants aged 23–59
participating in a common-based peer production site, the FabLab Kamakura community. Digital-based personal fabrication is a new wave culture ofmavens, who are devoted to alternatives to mass production, and are on a mission “to make (almost) anything”. FabLab Kamakura is a valuable venue
for exchanging information about, for example, digital tools, Arduino, crafts, textiles, and so on. First we frame this work as an effort to think about
their participation and learning using the concept of wildfire activity theory” Engestr m,
and legitimate peripheral participation PP ”
from Lave and Wenger (1991). Then we argue an overview of FabLab culture in Japan and at FabLab Kamakura. Using SCAT methodology (Otani,, we group our findings in two different categories learning through participation in Fab ab amakura the visuali ation of weak ties andmobility through participation in wildfire activities. e conclude that participants at Fab ab amakura are producing and designing available artifacts
for their lives and works, and in doing so, what they are designing is the physical manifestation of their very thoughts.
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The Art of Caring – Helping Patients and Their Family to Make a Better Decision at the End of Life

Tsuey-Yuan Huang, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology & Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Nursing care is directed toward meeting the comprehensive needs of patients and their families across the continuum of care and is particularly
crucial in the end of life to make an appropriate decision about signing a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) document. To understand characteristics
between groups of signing do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders or not in heart failure (HF) patients who died in an acute care hospital is important.
DNR orders and clinical characteristics were collected using chart reviewing from those patients who died because of HF from a medical center
hospital in the northern Taiwan. To compare the change of parameters in the patients with and without DNR before death, we conducted
generalized estimating equation (GEE) analysis in which the sixth day prior to death was set as the reference category. One hundred patients were
included. Patients in thegroup had a longer length of stay .
. , . vs. . . , . , p .
, higher levels ofEF .
.
vs. 35.6[18.8,] p=0.029), and more likely to be without spouses (47.7% vs. 21.4%, p=0.004) than those in the non-DNR group. Among the
17 symptoms, the incidence of fatigue, gaseous distention, and edema was higher in the DNR group than in the non-DNR group during the
hospitalization. Compared to those in the non-DNR group, patients respiratory rate became slower at the 1st and 2nd day prior to the day ofdeath in the DNR group. The conclusion is useful in helping HF patients make a proper decision towards the end of their life.
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Exploring the Education Effectiveness of a 4-Year Baccalaureate Nursing Program on Students' Core Competencies, Employers
Satisfaction and Retention Rate
Lee Fen Ni, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Nursing students' core competence is the most important component for assessing education quality. The purpose of this study was toinvestigate the development of the nursing core competencies and the association between core competence, employers satisfaction andretention rate. We collected data from baccalaureate nursing students and their employers of a north university by purposive sampling. The
valid return rate was. Principal components analysis with arima otation revealed eight factors of core competencies. hese factors
e plained .
of total variance. he ompetency nventory of ursing Students
S earned acceptable fit indices by onfirmatory
factor analysis. The results show improvement of eight core competencies including ethics and caring, nursing knowledge and clinical skills,
accountability, lifelong learning, global view of nursing, communication and teamwork capability, basic biomedical science, critical thinking
and reasoning during the following year. But the nursing knowledge and clinical skills, accountability, lifelong learning, global view of nursing,communication and teamwork capability, were decreased during the following year between the graduated students. Employers satisfaction
was higher than self-rating scores of the graduated students in nursing knowledge and clinical skills, accountability, lifelong learning, global
view of nursing, communication and teamwork capability. There was no association between core competence, employers’ satisfaction andretention rate. This result can be a reference to design curriculum and tutor new staff.
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Immersive Virtual Simulations in Health Care Education: A Competency-Based Learning of E-Materials Design
Li Fen Chao, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

ately, use of technologically-mediated materials to bolster teaching for the new generation is a significant aspect. And simulations play
an efficient role in health care education especially in clinical competency. nline nursing-care education presents a new era challenge forfaculty to convert real to virtual setting, and simulation software has become a vital tool in substituting the reality. This project is to explore
the evolution of virtual joyful simulation program developed, as a potential educational strategy for nursing education, is a good way toanalyze the main contributions and characteristics of multimedia design for learning environments. A competency-based learning virtual
simulation e-material program for medical-surgical nursing course was developed, implemented, and evaluated. All nursing students of aclass participated in a case analysis using standardized patient and an immersive computer-based scenario. The performance, satisfactionin learning, and judgment accuracy of students’ response were analyzed. The simulation experience created a chance for nursing student toobtain interest and speed clinical judgment in learning. Moreover, we will discuss the main barriers to the use of virtual multimedia materials
for health care training. Other potential uses and regards for the elaboration of virtual reality learning programs will be discussed.
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The Nursing Students Perceptions for Objective Structured Clinical Examination
Yu Hsin Wang, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

ursing is a professional field focused on human care. he objective structured clinical e amination S E can measure nursing students
in three domains, which include knowledge, skills and attitude. Few studies were explored nursing students perceptions through OSCE.
The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of fourth-year nursing students regarding OSCE. A survey method was applied,
using quantitative and qualitative data to approach the fourth-year nursing students perspective after taking the OSCE. 167 nursing
students participated from a university of science and technology in the northern part of Taiwan. The students received 8 eight-minutestations, and wrote the questionnaire and their perceptions on sheets of paper immediately after the OSCE anonymously in an adjacentroom. The results showed that 90%, 89%, 82%, 75% of the students very much agreed or agreed about Reminder was proper and clear,
Contents of the stations were relevant to the curriculum, Smooth and orderly in process and Materials acquired conveniently. 21% of
the students very much disagreed or disagreed about Time was enough for each station and Examiners attitude don't disrupt my exam.
Content analysis of text in emergence of following: OSCE was stressful, exhausted, enhance practical skills and feel I am already a nurse.
This study revealed that reforms such as developing the reliability and validity and consider the time factor of OSCE exam; training thefaculty in conduct of OSCE would help improve this evaluation.
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Citizen Science of Astronomy in High School

Bing-Syun Wu, Taichung Municipal Hui-Wen High School, Taiwan
Ying-Ying Yang, Taichung Municipal Hui-Wen High School, Taiwan
Chien-Fang Chen, Taichung Municipal Hui-Wen High School, Taiwan
Wei-Fan Chen, Taichung Municipal Hui-Wen High School, Taiwan
Chin-Nan Chen, Taichung Municipal Hui-Wen High School, Taiwan
iti en science refers to the general public engagement in scientific research activities. hese citi ens are amateur scientists, enthusiasts,
and volunteers. They usually contribute to science very much with their effort and perseverance. Astronomy, biology and modern technology
works are the main fields of citi en sciences. Astronomy is an important topic of earth-sciences course in high school. Besides the knowledgeof the textbooks, we also wish our students can touch real research and have experiments with themselves. "Zooniverse" is a very interesting
website. It provides many science projects and education resources. We can use them in our class easily and students can do more by theirown. "Galaxy Zoo" and "Planet Hunters" are the two most popular projects, even Galaxy Zoo has a traditional Chinese language version.
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How to Setup Remote Observatory for Teaching Astronomy
Kuan-Fu Huang, Chia-Yi Senior High School, Taiwan

For high school students, doing research in astronomy has a lot of limits. For instance, security issues when doing observations at night-time,
settlements and adjustments for equipment, and they still have to go to school at daytime. All these reasons make it hard for normal highschool students to do research during semesters. Thanks to modern technology, all those obstacles could be overcome. But the astronomical
observatory being set in the mountains where there is no light pollution and with greater views would be the most ideal circumstances.
Considering the reality issues, after analysis we decided to set up a remote-controlled astronomical observatory that doesn’t need anyone tolook after it in our school to solve the above mentioned obstacles letting students focus on the astronomy researches without worrying thoseissues, sharing the resources to those who are interested in astronomy and to promote interactions among education of astronomy.

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Friday Poster Session
16:30-17:30 | Room: 504 (5F)oo

A Study on the Core Concepts of Environmental Aesthetics Curriculum
Ya-Ting Lee, National Pingtung University, Taiwan

Background/Objectives and Goals: Environmental aesthetics is one of the newly emerging aesthetics concepts of the twentieth century;it originated as a reaction to Kant’s “disinterested” aesthetics judgment as well as classical arts, pursuing instead the study of the aesthetic
appreciation of natural and human environments. n a broad sense, by e ploring the meaning of environmental aesthetics, redefining
environment, and expanding aesthetic concepts in general, it offers a new way of thinking for schools in Taiwan to develop students’aesthetics literacy. The purpose of this study, thus, is to develop the core concepts of environmental aesthetics curriculum. Methods: This
study adopts a literature review and Delphi retrospective questionnaire to investigate the knowledge and intuition of experts to effectively
handle an event or an issue, rather than only one investigation conducted in most traditional questionnaires. Expected Results/Conclusion/
Contribution: Under the “conceptual framework of core concepts of the environmental aesthetics curriculum” there are two dimensions,“aesthetics judgment” and “aesthetics contents” of environment, followed by two respective sub-dimensions that include three categories andeight sub-categories of “aesthetics judgment” as well as three themes and seven sub-themes of “aesthetics contents”.
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A Forgotten History of Chinese Contemporary Art: The Relationship between Romania and Zhejiang Art Academy
Kayin Chen, University of Tokyo, Japan

Modern art in China has been used as an instrument for cultural manipulation and political propaganda since the beginning of the communist
era, on the model of Soviet social realism art. Chinese contemporary art is generally considered to have started its production during thereform era, the period following the death of Mao in 1976 and China’s subsequent turn to a market economy and Western culture. Althoughcurrent studies of Chinese contemporary art tend to describe it as an event culturally isolated from neighboring countries, in order toexplain the dynamics and complexity of cultural politics in China, we have to focus on the interaction of China with other countries and therelationship between central and peripheral part of China, especially during the time of political and cultural transformation of the state. In
this paper, we argue that the so-called “New Wave” of Chinese contemporary art in 1980s (opening reform era) is derived from a series ofgroundwork in 1960s (early Maoist era) which is the 2-year interaction of a Romanian artist Eugen Popa with 14 Chinese young artists ofZhejiang Art Academy, a cultural and geographical periphery of central government. By analyzing the text of notebooks and articles writtenby the hinese young artists in thes s, we found that although hina- omania s interaction in art world officially disappeared during
the ultural evolution, its in uence on later progress of cultural ew ave cannot be ignored in terms of ideology and methodology of art.
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Understanding Individuals Who Live in Transnational Life-World: A Visual Ethnographic Study in Japan
Kana Ohashi, Keio University, Japan

Cross-border migration is accompanied with burdens and changes on various aspects, such as procedural, psychological, economical, culturaland social ones. Nevertheless, the number of those who migrate abroad has been increasing around the world. Consequently many of thecross-border migrators form and maintain their “family”, which can never be kept within one country. They live in a “transnational life-world”,
in which they continue cross-border interaction among their family members in their home country or other countries. Cross-border migration
itself has long existed in history so it is not a new phenomenon. However, recent new technologies have made it easy to transfer people, things,
capital, information and images, which enabled continuous interaction even after migration and created a new phenomenon, the “transnational
life-world”. It is pointed out in the previous studies on cross-border migration that the “transnational life-world” has not been well understood.
In light of this background, the authors have been practicing a visual ethnographic method to understand experiences and thoughts of those wholive in the “transnational life-world”. This presentation provides a visual ethnographic study of the “transnational life-world” in Japan.
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SCIgirls: Encourage Girls to Learn Science
Shu Wen Liu, University of Taipei, Taiwan

The program aims to establish gender equality concept among students by various camps, workshops and seminars integrating science withgender issues in order to build up the easy-learning environment for both students and teaching professionals. The program includes different
programs for different target audiences. There will be seminars for elementary school and junior high school teachers, and science workshops forfemale students. e will provide seminars for elementary teachers on combining gender issues into curriculum design of all fields. Seminars will
begin with exploring gender concepts in textbooks and materials, and speakers will share their teaching experience with participants and also guidethe participants to more well-rounded means of integration of gender issues and teaching method during discussions. Lectures on education
integration will be given by e perienced elementary school teachers in the field of science which inspires and enables the participants to develop
gender education curriculum design skills. Science workshops for elementary female students: the subject centers on science, leading students
to have a deeper look into gender awareness through web designing and hands-on science experiments. Besides, we will assist students withstrengths recognition and career plan development without being confined by gender stereotypes. o break gender stereotypes in workplaces,
participants will learn important contributions made by female scientists from interactive activities, posters, readings and animations. The program
also aids the students in exploring interests and career choice, and encourages females to participate science/technology jobs or activities. Most
importantly, the program inspires and motivates females to pursue their passions and achieve their goals without boundaries.
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16:30-17:30 | Room: 504 (5F)oo

The Spatial Narration of Drawing Media and Its Transition of Cultural Representation
Ching-Pin Tseng, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Drawing and representational media are means for artists, designers and architects to convey ideas or narratives happened in places. In thearchitectural field, architects utilise drawing media to represent physical architectural spaces or to demonstrate their viewpoints on spatialconfiguration. Since the invention of perspective in enaissance, architectural spaces presented through perspectival drawings could havebeen regarded as essential means for constituting narratives and religious stories in specific spaces.
n the other hand, the traditional
Chinese landscape painting is created by non-perspective way and which suggests imaginative or poetic manners of representation due
to different cultural and philosophical background. his paper thus firstly intends to discuss the difference of cultural representation of
spatial configuration in the pictorial composition between the two drawing media. As varied drawing medium implies different viewpointof composing the scenes and stories presented in pictorial images, this paper argues that the difference of spatial representation in drawing
media may also suggest different approaches of spatial narration and the unfolding of events in the scenes. Following the development ofcontemporary moving images and digital media, dynamic and multiple ways of presenting spatial configurations or narratives have been
generated. he paper would finally ask what the cultural transition of spatial narration could be forged by the development of modern
drawing media. ould specific cultural identity of traditional drawing media be transformed into modern presentation when the artist and theviewer’s viewpoint is fully dominated by digital tools?

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Saturday Session I
09:00-10:30 | Room: 501 (5F)

Saturday Session I: 09:00-10:30
ooArts: Social, Political & Community Agendas in the Arts
Session Chair: Anna-Maria Wiljanen
ooKofi Kayiga – The Construction of an Identity

Courtney A. Hogarth, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Born to a uban mother and a Jamaican father in, in ingston, Jamaica, ofi ayiga the former icardo ilkins has traversed
several spaces, both external (geographic) and internal (ideological). Having studied at the Jamaica School of Art, The Royal College ofArt, London, and Makerere University, Uganda, where he also taught, Kayiga has been at the forefront of that movement, begun in thelates, for the affirmation of that seminal place of an African cosmology in the creation of his art as a ew orld individual. History
accounts that this ew orld” arose from the meeting of Europe and Africa on alien soil. his significant undertaking was to in uence a
generation of Jamaican artists from the 1970s through the 1990s. Escaping possible harm at the hands of Idi Amin’s soldiers, Kayiga returnedto the Caribbean to head the Department of Painting at the then Jamaica School of Art in Kingston. He now holds a professorship at theMassachusetts ollege of Art
esign in Boston. his paper takes as its core the locating of ofi ayiga within that broad construct ofdentity, e amining those selfsame indices that are the foundation upon which his work ourishes. his it will do from an ideological, religious,
social and political perspective, employing that rich tapestry which is Kayiga’s oeuvre.
ooAnthropophagic Psychiatry: An Art Business

Daniele Zullino, Service d’Addictologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Switzerland
Rodolphe Soulignac, Service d’Addictologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Switzerland
Benedetto Saraceno, Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health, University Nova Lisbon, Portugal
Gabriel Thorens, Service d’Addictologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Switzerland
Gerard Calzada, Service d’Addictologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Switzerland
Rita Manghi, Service d’Addictologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Switzerland
Stéphane Rothen, Service d’Addictologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Switzerland
In Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss juxtaposes so-called anthropophagic and anthropoemic societies. Anthropoemia describes therejection of particular undesirable individuals “from the body public by isolating them for a time, or forever, denying them all contact withhumanity, in establishments devised for that express purpose”. In contrast, anthropophagia aims to “neutralize people who are the repositories
of certain redoubtable powers, and even to turn them to one’s own advantage, ... to absorb them into one’s own body”. Thus, three possible
attitudes of a society can thus be conceptualized: 1) Anthropoemia, referring to rejection outside of society; 2) Encapsulating anthropophagia,
whereby a society incorporates deviant forces and neutralizes them; and 3) Assimilating anthropophagia, in which society harnesses thesefrightful powers, incorporating them into its own, in order to employ them in society s striving for success. he first phase of psychiatrichistory – the asylum phase – may be considered to be in line with the anthropoemic attitude. From the second half of the twentieth century
onward, psychiatry had (at least partially) to reorient itself toward an alternative solution, adopting an encapsulating anthropophagic approach.
Assimilating anthropophagic psychiatry, finally, will acknowledge the place of deviants and their particular role within society. t presumes thatany deviation from a norm may potentially yield an opportunity for development. It is thus aimed to create interactions between society andthe mentally ill that are comparable to the interactions between artists and society.
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Rewriting the History of the European Artists' Colonies: The Effect of the Artists' Mobility, Place-Myth and the Multifaceted Social Networks
Anna-Maria Wiljanen, University of Helsinki / UPM-Kymmene Cultural Foundation, Finland

My presentation focuses on how the history of the artists’ colonies in nineteenth-century Europe should be rewritten based on the effect ofthe place-myth, the artists’ mobility and the multifaceted networks between the artists. These aspects give a new, interdisciplinary approachto the research of the artists’ colonies. I will use Scandinavian and French artists’ colonies as case studies. I begin by shortly presenting thephenomenon of artists colonies. hey formed a significant, but still uite un-researched phenomenon in nineteenth-century art history. heartists’ colonies were established to rural villages where the artists lived and worked for a certain period of time. They could be seen as aprotest against industrialization, whereas the artists’ felt obligated to capture an unspoiled nature to canvas before it would vanish forever. Rob
Shields defines in his publication Places on the Margin. Alternative geographies of modernity that a place-myth as a skein of expectations, hopes,
stereotypes and associations that are attached to a place. The place-myth keeps the image of a place alive in people’s minds even after theimage has changed. The most important aspect in the rewriting of the history of the artists’ colonies are the multifaceted although somewhat
complex networks. They affected the place-myth, the mobility, the spread of different art trends and even the hierarchy within the colonies. I
will validate my arguments by presenting several sociogrammes. They are visualized by using Gephi, an open-source interactive visualizationand exploration platform for networks.

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Saturday Session I
09:00-10:30 | Room: 503 (5F)

Saturday Session I: 09:00-10:30
ooHumanities: Cyberspace, Technology
Session Chair: Ana Clara Oliveira Santos Garneroo

Exploring the Relationships among Innovation Diffusion Roles, Brand Communities Engagement Effect on Virtual Brand Communities
I-Ping Chiang, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Shou-En Tu, National Taipei University, Taiwann recent years, the number of people using online communities has continued to rise. he study found that more and more consumers findand evaluate desired goods through social media networks, as marketers also continue to improve their marketing skill, not only to promote
brand recognition, but more importantly, to increase user participation. However, the link between the brand community and the social media
has become the focus of the marketing staff and the public. But the academic research of the brand community and the social media in
the past focused on the research of brand loyalty. There are fewer reports on innovation diffusion and brand community. Thus, this study
aims to exploring the relationships among innovation diffusion roles and social media engagement on virtual brand communities. This study
will use a web survey from customers from Insightxplorer’s CyberPanel who intend to adopt a social network service. Factor analysis will
be conducted to confirm the induced factors from literature review. Furthermore, will be also analysis of variance analysis to determine thevariation between the role of innovation diffusion roles and social media engagement. Finally, based on the findings, in-depth discussions andconclusions will be provided to further researches and practices.
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New Methods of Interaction in Virtual Reality for the Study of Archaeological Data
Niccolò Albertini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Jacopo Baldini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Emanuele Taccola, Università di Pisa, Italy
incen o Barone, Scuola ormale Superiore, taly

One of the biggest challenges that the analysis of archaeological data in virtual reality presents is the interaction. Within the project ofreconstruction of Kaulonia archaeological site in Monasterace (Italy), developers had to deal with the need to implement an interface system
inside the application without using external devices, in order to facilitate archaeologists in the data consultation . A study on a system of
movement and interaction with objects in the environment was conducted to create an interface for interaction based on look. Subsequently
a method of interaction was developed by eliminating the problem of performing gestures and removing the entire "Learning Step" by users,
so that it is possible to select and deselect elements, move around in and rotate the view directly with the movement of the head. As forthe selection of the various elements within the application, a “cursor” specially implemented allows users to interact with the interactive
elements: whenever users set a hotspot (point of interest) a pull switch is activated. Within the application you have a general overview ofthe excavation seen from above and you can view the 3D models in the same spot where they were originally found: together with them you
can see a brief historical description that contextualizes the object. A continuous progress of the study is allowing to explore new frontiersof digital data analysis in archaeology.
ooStories We Tell Our Selfies

Ana Clara Oliveira Santos Garner, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Selfies have become a common social practice for a significant number of people throughout the world. hile some criticise selfies asattention seeking or narcissistic, others have argued that they are a form of visual diary and a way for an individual to tell their own story. This
would make them a kind of autobiography that, facilitated by the characteristics of new technologies, has its own internal logic and modeof speaking. According to ayar
, in a society in which people are constantly the object of public ga e through omnipresents,selfies allow a person to be not only the object of a story, but also its subject. hey can be seen as a form of counter surveillance, enabling aperson to inscribe the story they want the world to see, through the use of selfies, emojis, te ts, and tags. hen people curate the information
they want to show, and decide on how it’s presented, they are revealing their notions on what is important and worth sharing. So, by analysing
selfies as autobiographies, we can also learn about cultural values. e must also consider how collaboration with other people, through likes
and comments, affects the narration of these stories. Modern technology also allows selfie takers to manipulate their image by appropriating
techniques that were once only utilized by the media and by leaders of the power hierarchy. Which prompts the question, has this changed
people’s perceptions of the construction of discourses and of how history itself is told?

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09:00-10:30 | Room: 505 (5F)

Saturday Session I: 09:30-10:30
ooHumanities: History, Historiography
Session Chair: Ljiljana MarkovicooHistorical Notes on Japanese Bunkers in General Santos City, The Philippines
Rebino Batoto, Mindanao State University-General Santos City, The Philippines
Allan Castino, Mindanao State University-General Santos City, The Philippines

This is a qualitative study employing historical-descriptive methods of research. Key informant interview, ocular investigation, anddocumentary analysis were used to gather pertinent data. Significantly, this paper is an attempt to revisit the socio-cultural and economic
situations in General Santos City, southern Philippines, during the Japanese occupation only by interpreting stories and narratives revolving
around the construction of the Japanese bunkers. This study found that there was a viable relationship between the Japanese and the
Gensanon during the occupation period. Japanese army’s de facto authority directed local manpower in the area to build up war defenses
especially bunkers in anticipation of American troops’ landing in southern Philippines. However, the Japanese contact with the Gensanon
created multifaceted socio-economic, intellectual and cultural interactions thereby depicting a different picture of war. Oral accounts tell that
Gensanon bunker-workers were compensated in a contractual basis. Likewise, their local materials utilized to supplement imported materials
for bunker construction were purchased by the Japanese at certain value. During construction activities, the Gensanon learned from theJapanese the value of hard work and dedication to produce quality crafts. They were also exposed to Japanese sophisticated architecturaldesigns and engineering methods to produce durable structures especially bunkers. The Japanese, on the other hand, familiarized local
materials and indigenous methods integrated into their own process of bunker construction. Eventually, both groups had learned, in someways or another, each other’s languages and cultural upbringing especially the cuisines they used to eat and share during recess at work.
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The Story of the Silk Road and Nara's Shosoin Treasure Repository of the Emperor
Ljiljana Markovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Aleksandra ranes, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Milica Jelic Mariokov, University of Belgrade, Serbia

he story of the Silk oad is, inter alia, the most fascinating narrative of mutual cultural, linguistic, literary, artistic and religious in uences that
occurred among the nations and tribes that existed along the Silk Road. The Silk Road trade included various types of goods, from those that
had certain economic value, such as silk, jade, spices and the like, to those that are nowadays highly esteemed in cultural and artistic terms andprotected by the organi ations that advocate for the preservation of cultural heritage, such as he United ations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization (UNESCO). As a country that was located at the eastern end of the Silk Road, Japan has actively participated in tradeof goods that took place along the Silk Road. Of all the goods that were exchanged between Japan and other Silk Road countries, the mostprecious ones are certainly those that help us reconstruct or verify the facts related to the history of the Silk Road. Nara’s Shosoin Treasure
Repository of the Emperor contains the largest collection of 8th-century Silk Road artifacts. The aim of this paper is to analyze a number of
items preserved in the mentioned repository, thus conveying the story of permeation of diverse cultures, religions, languages, literature andarts that changed and shaped the identity of Silk Road countries forever.

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09:00-10:30 | Room: 506 (5F)

Saturday Session I: 09:00-10:30
ooLiterature/Literary Studies
Session Chair: Kantaphong ChitklaooRe(-)Membering the Dismembered in Chang-Rae Lee's The Surrendered
Mojca Penca, Yonsei University, South Korea

In its most prosaic moment, The Surrendered is best described as a battered body of memory abraded by the corrosive traumas of war. Graphic
descriptions of dismemberment and death convey the pervasive nature of loss that characterizes all wars. The narrative itself is severed into
traumatic memories, and we witness a textual dismembering of history. The characters’ pasts are presented in fragments that only make sensewhen we bind them into the morbid unity of a war narrative. After the narrative dissection of personal and world histories, the symbolic
work of re(-)membering this tragic past is achieved through the thematic coherence of war memories. The act of re(-)membering implies
attempts at reconstruction, but essentially complete restoration is impossible. The paper will show how along with attempts at reconstruction,
alternative histories emerge. The novel plays with facts and authenticity. Its unreliable narrators underscore the frail nature of memory
and illustrate the role of imagined truth during the processes of recollection. War cannot be processed objectively. As a result, history isremembered differently. Characters have their own approaches to remembering and to history. The text vacillates between real and invented
memories, causing for history itself to become effaced. By using Derrida’s notion of “under erasure”, this paper will argue that the novel
recognizes both real and imagined memories as valid traces of history. In addition, by establishing the continuity of war in modern history,
we will demonstrate how wars continue to be the sites of living memory, and not merely historical sites.
ooKings in Laud Literature of Ayutthaya Era in Siam (Thailand) Through the Prism of French Missionary Documents
Kantaphong Chitkla, INALCO, France

he laud literature evidently re ects the Siamese monarchical ideology, developed from, in the Ayutthaya period, and still remains inpresent-day Thailand. The king is seen as a God-King and a Buddha-King and his legitimacy is based on his parami, personal and eminent
ualities of monarchs. ur research must therefore first analy e the Siamese monarchical ideology of this period, based on Hindu andBuddhist beliefs. When the French missionaries of the “Missions Etrangères de Paris” arrived in Siam at the beginning of the reign of King
Narai, they found themselves facing a monarchy they did not know and their approach has of course been based on what was then theabsolute monarchy of ing ouis
. t is therefore necessary to try, in a second stage of our analysis, to understand the nature of Frenchmonarchical ideology, theory of the two bodies of the ing”. According to us, two points seem to be underlined. he first one is that these
French missionaries used the royal vocabulary to speak of God in their translations: this shows that they were aware of the Divine characterof the Siamese monarchy. The second one is that they understand that the Siamese king is "different" from his subjects, as is French Kingbut they judge him to be a barrier to the spread of the "true faith". In fact, they did not understand that the King of Siam is God while theKing of France is the representative of God.
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Shaping a Non-Exilic Consciousness in the Formative Years of the State of Israel
Mordechai Zalkin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

The Zionist attempt to shape a new collective Jewish character, deliberately detached from what the Zionist phrase as a Jewish "exilic
character", began already as early as the late nineteenth century. Nonetheless, most researchers that dealt with this question assumed thatthe establishment of the State of Israel marked the total completion of this process. The problem is, however, that what was considered
as “exilic” character has not miraculously disappeared, especially among new immigrants as well as holocaust survivors. For many of them,
the “past” with all it meant, served both as a vital tool to overcome the trauma of displacement and migration, as well as a refuge from thedifficulties accompanied the life in a new reality. hus, the most common solution for this dilemma was life in two different minds, an e ilic”
and "non-exilic", simultaneously existed. The Zionist-Israeli establishment was well aware of this reality and made considerable efforts tocomplete the process of negation of the diasporic character by using various means. One of the most common means was the attempt
to design a new historical narrative, based on the idea of a total negation of the legitimacy of Jewish life outside the land of Israel. In mypresentation, I will analyze this attempt by examining the way in which the "Shtetl", one of the most prominent symbols of the life in exile,
is discussed in the new Israeli Zionist discourse and in the narrative that derived from it.

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09:00-10:30 | Room: Prokofiev (2F)
Saturday Session I: 09:00-10:30
oo Pro ofie
Literature
Session Chair: Xiaofan Amy Lioo

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Annette Von Droste-Huelshoff and the Biedermeier Narrative
Anne-Kathrin Wielgosz, Walsh University, USA"Annette von Droste-Huelshoff and the Biedermeier Narrative" relates the aesthetics of the German Biedermeier period (1815–1848) to thelife story of writer Annette von Droste-Huelshoff (1797–1848) and to her texts "Ledwina" (fragment/1820), "The Marl-Pit" (poem/1841),"The Jew's Beech" (novella/1842) and "The Spiritual Year" (poetry/1851). Before all else, the Biedermeier cultivated the inner self throughdomesticity and its associated spaces and enclosures; for Droste, they were her ancestral home Huelshoff Castle, with its memories ofgenerations past, and her mother's widow-seat Rueschhaus, with its collections of stones and fossils, in themselves a form of compressed
memory. Moreover, the Biedermeier also cultivated letter writing as part of its emphasis on introspection and closeness, and Droste told stories
of her daily life (which included reading, writing, walking, and collecting) in the correspondence with her mother Therese von Haxthausen,
her sister Jenny von Lassberg, her uncle Carl von Haxthausen, and her friends Elise Ruediger and Levin Schuecking. Some of Droste's letters
may well lay claim to being literary accomplishments themselves, but especially in her poetry Droste masterfully manages a jerky syntax and adense barrage of words in a rigid grid of rhyme and meter. Regardless of the narrative, however, be it that of the Biedermeier itself, Droste'slife story as conveyed in her letters, or her literary works, stones appear throughout: in the shape of tomb stones in "Ledwina", as minerals in"The Marl-Pit", as a quarry in "The Jew's Beech", and as boulders in "The Spiritual Year". They bind the narratives together.
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Two Ways to Conjure Up the Ghost: History Versus Fiction
Mengxing Fu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Thomas Carlyle once announced history as the true fountain of “all knowledge” as it encompasses all human experience, however such aninvestment in history suppresses other areas of the past — the hegemonic regulations of state ideology, the obscurity of some historicalsubjects, and the limited or biased viewing points of the historians all determine that some people may be filtered out from official history. nthese cases, the ghost, an entity that refuses to be buried and returns to haunt the present, becomes a perfect metaphor for people shadowed
by official history. t is with this understanding of history and its shadows that many ghost story writers in hina and Britain invoke theirghosts. In this sense they are self-fashioned “chroniclers of ghosts”, conjuring up a past that stands diametrically opposed to the orthodox
history sanctified by various authorities. However, there is more to ghost stories than a contradiction” to history, for in borrowing thehistorian’s authority, ghost narratives also establish themselves as a “para-history”, prioritizing the ghost narrator’s perspective and exalting
the concept of history” in another garb. ontrastingly, to write the ghost s story as pure fiction a fantasy instead of a history offers analternative way to construct the past without the authority of the historian. In this paper I discuss the entangled relationship between ghost
and history, as well as the implied gendered position of the ghost chronicler in ghost stories by nineteenth-century Chinese writers Wang Tao
and uan ing, and British writer ernon ee.
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Storytelling and Playing with History: The Ludic in French and Chinese Fiction
Xiaofan Amy Li, University of Kent, United Kingdom

his paper e plores how the device of storytelling can be used in fiction to construct a specifically ludic i.e. playful and gamelike literature.
compare two novels as a case-study: the twentieth-century French writer Georges Perec's La Vie, Mode d'Emploi (“Life: a User's Manual”) andthe nineteenth-century Chinese scholar Li Ruzhen's fantasy novel Flowers in the Mirror (Jing Hua Yuan). Both novels are modelled on the notionof game, and both use stories as fragmented episodes that piece together the whole narrative like a huge puzzle – the jigsaw in Perec's case,the palindrome in i u hen s. n this comparison, address specific uestions arising from the relation between storytelling and ludic writing,namely, how can storytelling become a device for creating a ludic style? Does playing with narrative structure entail re-arranging chronology
and playing with history? Why do both French and Chinese novels suggest a rewriting and dissolution of history, for instance when Perec's
protagonist Bartlebooth attempts to finally destroy all evidence of his paintings and the stories they carry, and when i u hen refers to apurely subjective view of history and to writing historical fiction as a literary game at the end of Flowers in the Mirror. Through discussing thesequestions, I aim to trace conceptual connections between the two French and Chinese novels, and clarify the nature of ludic writing and what
implications it has for the narrative structure of fiction.

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09:00-10:30 | Room: Schumann (2F)
Saturday Session I: 09:00-10:30
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Literature: Folktales, Myths & Legends
Session Chair: Monty P. Satiadarma
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Building a Bridge to the People: Folk Literature Collecting Activities at Beijing University
Jie (Selina) Gao, Murray State University, USA

China was in crisis in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries due to internal decline and imperialist aggression. Nationalism becamea major force for change in Chinese society. A new generation of intellectuals, with both domestic and foreign academic training, graduallyrealized that the ordinary people were of fundamental importance to modern nations and that there could be no national salvation without
enlightening the oppressed commoners. For these modern Chinese intellectuals, “traditional culture”, or the presence of the past, in particularfolk culture, was useful in nationalist discourse as a means to reach through to the masses or as a response to the cultural dilemmas ofWesternized intellectuals. Under these circumstances, a group of professors at National Beijing University, including Zhou Zuoren, Liu
Fu, and Gu Jiegang, started to look for vernacular works in folk culture. As in other nations, the initial stage of modern Chinese folklore
research began with the collection and survey of folk literature. This paper examines the origins of the Chinese Folklore Movement at Beijing
University and how the scope of folklore studies expanded from folk songs to folk customs and other forms of folk literature. It focuses on
early folklorists' activities, folklore organizations, and primary publications at Beijing University. From early 1918 to 1926, Beijing University
made an exceptional contribution to folklore studies and laid a foundation for the Modern Folklore Movement in China. Under the university's
in uence, folklore studies appeared in various newspapers and other research institutions in Beijing and Shanghai in rapid succession.
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Folktales, Myths and Legends on Sculptors of South India
Balakrishna BM Hosangadi, Kannur University, India

History speaks on sculptures and is silent on sculptors; whereas folktales take contradictory position towards this phenomenon. The folktales,
myths and legends on sculptors of south India narrate the dark shades of the life of sculptors. The present paper is intended to explore thetales from south India and hypothetically propose the four processes occurring in the narration of these stories: 1) demonisation; 2) suppression;3) marginalisation: 4) devaluation. So far, intensive studies have been carried out on the south Indian sculptures in scholarly texts. The major
works have concentrated on the aesthetic elements of the sculptures rather than sculptors. So, finding the colossal void, present paper would
discuss the narration. he paper is confined to the mythology of hvastr- ishwaroopa in Sanskrit and legends of Jakkana ankana in annada,shambhu Kalkuda–Beera Kalkuda in Tulu, Raman Perunthacchan–Kannan Perunthacchan in Malayalam. These are the major mythological andlegendary characters. The paper would use folktales, myths and legends as primary sources and history works as secondary sources and it also
would examine the adaptations of the folktales into theatrical, performing art form and cinematic works. A fraction between the history and thelegend is observed: historians have started questioning the very existence of these legendary sculptors and at the same time, folklorists are placing
the counter points. eading the re ections over each other would provide the multiple layers of meanings.
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Stories Surpass History to Influence Individual and Social Identities
Monty P. Satiadarma, Tarumanagara University, Indonesia

Storytelling is a way of transforming knowledge from one generation to another. While histories are based on facts and historical data, stories
may not be based. Mythologies and folktales are not history, they are stories, yet people believe in them; often they believe more in stories
than in histories. People care more about stories than histories, for stories tend to give an immediate answer to curiosity without extending
to research and exploration. Symbolism and metaphor tend to satisfyingly give answers to people’s curiosity, for, as Cassirer says, man is an
animal symbolicum. hile facts and data are based on rational findings, symbols and metaphors may be based on emotional attachment, andsome tend to be irrational for e ample, the figure of angels as humans with wings. hese symbols in uence the identity of persons and evennations. There are countries that use the symbols of eagles or lions, although these are either rare or nonexistent in their land. However, thestories of the brave and powerful eagles and lions are introjected within the people over centuries; they are not thought of within the courseof history. his presentation discusses how stories surpass history in in uencing people to carry on their belief system, thus in uencing themfrom the individual to national identity.

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Saturday Session II
10:45-12:45 | Room: 501 (5F)

Saturday Session II: 10:45-12:45
ooArts: Arts Theory & Criticism
Session Chair: Philip Flavinoo

Nostalgia in the Contemporary Taiwanese Theatre: Take Anping, Our Town as an Example
Shin-Yi Lee, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

ostalgia in theatre has always had a strong emotional appeal to the aiwanese audience. ostalgia by its literary definition means“homecoming” and “pain”, usually associated with an interest in the past or certain period of time, especially “those good old days”. In the
fast-changing society of Taiwan, the theatre provides a venue for all to recollect the passing time and days. Apart from the original creative
plays, the work that has been often adapted is Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (1938). Instead of setting a timeless and placeless stage like
Wilder’s, the adapted Our Town in aiwan has been given a geographical name referring to a specific aiwanese township. ake Anping, Our
Town as an example: the setting is Anping, Tainan City, in the 1970s. These pieces of exact information prepare the audience for what toexpect before they enter the theatre house. Yet, while rendering nostalgic feelings onstage, these representations of the past associate Taiwan
as a whole as a warm and friendly township despite the strong censorship and political control at that time. It becomes clear that the town
life onstage is not the representation of truth but people’s memories which might have been shaded or even distorted as time goes by. This
paper will discuss how nostalgia has been a selling point in the contemporary Taiwanese theatre, and why though knowing the fact that thetheatre gives illusions, audiences still seek memories or representations of the past onstage, and gaining consolation through play-watching.
ooAndrew Chinn and Fay Chong: Asian Masters of American Art
James . Ellis, Hong ong Baptist University, Academy ofisual Arts, Hong ong

My study focuses on the largely-forgotten contributions of two important Asian-American artists, Andrew Chinn and Fay Chong. Their families
were part of the early twentieth century mass migration from Guangdong, China, to the United States. In the 1930s, while attending secondary
school in Seattle, Washington, Chinn and Chong formed a close bond, based on their shared passion for traditional Chinese aesthetics and artistic
methods. But they questioned their self-identities and struggled with cultural assimilation. Working in close collaboration, they invented a newwatercolor style: portraying distinctly Western bucolic subjects with Eastern ink painting techniques and evocative calligraphic poetry. Althoughoverlooked today, these innovative artworks were a unique contribution to West Coast Regionalism. Chinn and Chong also founded the Chinese Arts
Club, where they gave instruction on Chinese practices to Morris Graves, Guy Anderson and Kenneth Callahan, each of whom later became a wellknown figure in the Abstract E pressionist movement, painting Asian-inspired abstractions. hus, Andrew hinn and Fay hong were major figuresin the two most important movements in American art between 1900 and 1950 (Regionalism and Abstract Expressionism). But today they are largely
unknown, completely eclipsed by their friends and contemporaries. To help explain why they were forgotten, my study looks into often-disturbingsocial contexts and examines how the Western artistic canon is determined. This multidisciplinary project repositions Chinn and Chong into theirrightful places in twentieth century visual culture, and, in so doing, revises Asian, Asian-American and modern American art histories.
ooMimesis and Metaxis in Plato’s Republic

Raphael Foshay, Athabasca University, CanadaThis paper will carry forward several of my recent essays and conference presentations on the interpretation of mimesis in Plato and Aristotle,
with emphasis on current Plato scholarship and the response to Plato in the work of Derrida and Heidegger, in particular. In two recent
papers, I focused on issues in Plato's construction of mimesis as an aesthetic category and on peculiarities of Socrates' handling of mimesis in
the Republic. In addition, I explored Derrida's reading of the notion of pharmakon in Plato's Phaedrus and his discussions of the dynamics ofmimesis and pharmakon in two long essays from the 1970s, "Plato's Pharmacy" and "The Double Session", in which Derrida lays out both hisoverall reading of Plato and his prioritizing of the notions of mimesis and pharmakon in that reading. In the paper proposed here, I would liketo e tend the findings of those papers through a primary discussion of several key nuances in Plato s argument in the Republic, as well as the lightpotentially shed on these by the work of the contemporary philosopher William Desmond (currently Professor of Philosophy at Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven). Desmond’s reading of Plato plays a foundational role in the development of his own philosophical approach, which heterms metaxology, drawing on the notion of between-ness in Plato (Gk. metaxis). I will explore the ways in which Desmond's approach to Plato
can bring new perspectives to the issues surrounding Plato's construction of mimesis in the Republic, and elsewhere in his work.
ooAnthems, Marches, and National Myth: Music for the Koto and Pre-War Nationalism in Japan
Philip Flavin, Osaka University of Economics and Law, Japan

Perception and understanding of music for the koto was reshaped after the war to conform to westernized concepts of music as art: the generalassumption of the contemporary listener is that this music is imbued with formal aspects worthy of contemplation and re ection for their own
sake. The modern audience has been led to believe that this music is capable of transporting them to realms of profound emotional experience. The
composers were also “artists” drawing upon divine inspiration to create works that transcend contemporary political reality. They were innocent ofengaging in any pro-war activity or contributing to the nationalist colonialist pro-war project. his belief, however, re ects the new mentality of the
post-war period, during which time the nation made every attempt to erase the taint of militarism and nationalism as they reconstructed Japan’s image.
During the pre-war period, however, the koto musicians contributed to the creation of a nationalist ethos through a forgotten collection of politicised
works. Of great interest is that despite the Japanese images drawn upon for these works, the musical language was westernised. This paper seeks tounderstand the synthesis of Japanese nationalism with the modernist westernised musical medium and argue for the aesthetic choices the musicians
made in creating this repertoire. The ideology underlying these choices and its derivation from ideas promoted by the state shall also be explored, butwith the explicit aim of arguing that the musicians were far from naïve in making the choices they did in creating these works.
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10:45-12:45 | Room: 503 (5F)

Saturday Session II: 10:45-12:45
ooHumanities: Aesthetics, Design
Session Chair: Stephen Weberoo

A Study of the Fanpage Creators of Text/Illustration in Taiwan, in Particular with Their Working Process
Li-Chiou Chen, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Hong Chang, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan

With the popularity of high-speed internet, the number of using mobile phones has been increased in this generation, also known as the high-tech
generation. Nowadays, using mobile phones has become an irreplaceable part of our daily life. By using mobile phones, long description of sentences
or words are difficult for understanding the meaning immediately. However, presented with a simple picture or image, reader can understand easily.
Therefore, the rise of creators by using text and illustration to present their opinions in funny or satirical ways has much increased in recent years. The
illustrators who use facebook fanpages to present their works will be called “fanpage creator of text/illustration” in the study. The works created bythose illustrators mainly draw an image and add text to the image. The image usually created by free hand drawing showing a careless style, giving a
sense of humor to express feelings. This study will apply qualitative method to gain an insight of those popular creators, to understand the working
processes, analyzing the working process from concept, sketch to drawing and thoughts while create an illustration.
ooComparative Study on Music Chosen by Students with High and Low GPA Scores
Yohana Theresia, Tarumanagara University, Indonesia
Monty P. Satiadarma, Tarumanagara University, Indonesia

ssues relating to music and personality have been parts of social and scientific interests in recent decades. Music industries have published various
music for a number of purposes, one being for studying. However, no consistent research has reported the impact of any particular music to increase
academic achievement. Music is in uenced by cultures and familiarity of the people to listen. et it contains consistent characteristics such as tempo
and timbre, major and minor, as well as performances in solo or in band orchestral fashion. A number of students in Indonesia choose to use music
while they are studying. This research explores the type of music being chosen by students with a high GPA (3.50 and above) scores and with a low
GPA (2.90 and below) scores. Results indicate that those who have a higher GPA tend to choose more well organized music (consistent pattern
notated music), whereas those who have a lower GPA tend to choose music with rather inconsistent patterns of music notations.
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Seeking the Reality: Japanese Avant-Garde During the 1920s/30s and the Collage Technique
Olga Isaeva, University Bonn, Germany

With the invention of the so-called “montage” technique, the avant-garde movements at the beginning of the twentieth century not only
revolutioni ed art but also changed the reception of art works. n the course of the fifteenth century a traditional way of representationand storytelling was established in European paintings by using a central perspective and a uniform conception of space. This 500-year-old
tradition was crushed by the Avant-Garde artists who intended to create works which did not pursue the illusionistic depiction of space but
embodied reality as real as it is. For example, in his early cubistic collages Picasso added everyday objects as fragments of reality in his paintingsand by doing so he destroyed the unity in the painting as something created by the subjectivity of the artists and only by him. Something
very similar is happening in the automatic te ts and films by the Surrealists where, instead of a clear story line, se uences after se uences
follow without any narrative connection. In my presentation I would like to talk about the early Avant-Garde movements in Japan during
the 1920s/30s who were inspired by the European Avant-Garde. Artists such as Murayama Tomoyoshi (and the Avant-Garde group Mavo),
Masahisa Kawabe, Hajime Ishimaru, Ei-Q and others explore the “montage” and “collage” technique in their works. Do they also destroy theillusionistic depiction of space and change the narrative unity?
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The Synergy and Significance of Narrative and the Sublime

Stephen Weber, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, USA
Much has been written regarding the sublime from a philosophical and aesthetic perspective, mostly focusing on defining what it is and its
relationship to aesthetic experience, beauty, and natural and artistic encounters and phenomena. Additional studies have looked extensively at
narrative, its forms, elements, and roles in organization of ideas. This paper will consider the potential symbiotic relationship between narrative
and the sublime, guises of narrative in sublime phenomena and experiences, and the role of the sublime and narrative in the life of the individualand for society as a whole. Using resources from research in literature, music, art, aesthetics, history, culture, sociology, and psychology, this paper
will examine the relationship between narrative and the sublime from various perspectives. First, it will explore latent or inherent narratives within
the perceived object or stimulus itself and how those impact the observer or audience. Second, the paper will discuss the personal narrative theobserver brings to objects or circumstances of the sublime and how that impacts the experience. Finally, the paper will explore the metanarrativeof the sublime and what it has historically brought to the human experience. In the end, the paper will posit that various elements and iterationsof narrative play a significant role in the e periences of the sublime and to human e perience more broadly.
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10:45-12:45 | Room: 505 (5F)

Saturday Session II: 10:45-12:45
ooHumanities: Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication
Session Chair: Hsiao-Chen You
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Effects of Playing Video Games: A Study on Grand heft Auto
Raja Putri Nadiah Raja Ahmad, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Mokhtar Muhammad, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Nur Aziemah Mohd Azman, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Aeyneda Zairyn Abdul Jalil, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Haliza Hassan, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Towards Malaysian Playstation 4 Gamers

The Alaska school massacre that occurred a decade ago turned people to look seriously against the effects of playing video games. Evan
Ramsey, the shooter, was only 16 years old when he sneaked a 12-gauge shotgun into his Alaska high school and killed two peoples andwounded two others. Since then, several other mass killers described how playing video games had warped their sense of reality. Even though,the aggressive behavior stems from playing video game, a number of violent games still got high ratings from the gamers and received highdemand all around the world. Despite a majority of negative comments about playing video games, Professor Art Markman proved that there
is growing evidence that this type of game could increase the speed of thinking and responding at the same time. Therefore the reason for thisresearch is to review previous studies of the effects of violent video games on aggressiveness and to examine the evidence that playing violent
video games plays a role in in uencing behaviors. participants will be selected regardless of which area they were living in. hey are male
16-to-35-year-olds who play the game Grand Theft Auto V. he findings of this study will investigate the cause-effect relationships of playing
violent video games, and the results will help Malaysians to be more knowledgeable and aware about the effect of media on psychologicalbehavior and help the authorities to overlook and take proper action to those who responsible for this effect.
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Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Consumer Brand Engagement: A Study on Malaysian Youth
Jalilah Jaafar Sidek, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
ictor eck Hua gu, Mongolia nternational University, Mongolia
Nurul Hanani Omar, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

A growing area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) research is the CSR-consumer relationship. Today, organizations across all industries arefacing increasing pressure to both sustain profitability and act in socially responsible manner. onsumers are becoming more demanding andappear concerned about patronizing brands engaged in CSR. Yet, not many researchers have looked into how consumers perceive and react to
CSR. The purpose of this study is to examine consumer attitudes towards companies’ engagement and communication about CSR, as well as its
impact on Malaysian youth’s behavioral intentions. It also analyzes whether they take into consideration a brand’s CSR initiatives prior to making
purchasing decisions. ndeed, youth represent a si able citi en group with the possibility for creating an in uential collective force in society
for socially responsible behaviors. arroll s definition of S is adopted in this study, deliberating on organi ations economic, legal, ethicaland philanthropic responsibilities. This study employs a consumer survey using an online questionnaire to uncover the underlying attitudes andbehavioral intentions guiding youth s brand engagement. he findings obtained in this study is instrumental to e plain the changing landscape of
consumerism in Malaysia to organizations, media practitioners and future researchers on how to better engage youth in their communications.
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The Effects of Product Placement in Malaysian Movies and Its Influence on Consumer Behavior
Nurul Hanani Omar, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Jalilah Jaafar Sidek, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Nur Widad Roslan, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Product placement has been widely used through the international film industry, but has seldom been used in Malaysian films. he purposeof this study is to investigate the use of product placement in Malaysian movies as a catalyst for product purchasing behavior. The methods
used for this study is textual and content analysis to study the main messages of using the product placement in movies as well as in-depth
interview to get a more in-depth opinion of society towards the effectiveness of product placement in movies. he findings of the study arethen divided thematically based on the content analysis and in-depth interview. It was found that Malaysians are aware of product placementin Malaysia and that product placement impacts the consumer decision making.
ooComparing Robot Embodiments for Social Human-Robot Interaction of a Health Coach Service
Hsiao-Chen You, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Yi-Shin Deng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Yu-Cheng Yang, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

As robotics technologies are advancing at an ever increasing rate, various types of service robots have emerged in the market and focused on
assisting people through social interaction. This study aims to investigate the effects of robotic platforms on users’ perception of a sociallyassistive robot. A three-condition experiment was constructed, by using a commercially available robot as a health coach to see if participants
respond differently to the physical robotic health coach versus its digital representation on screen. The three conditions were: a physicalrobot, its full si e,animated agent displayed on a -inch , and a much smaller animated agent on a mobile device.
participants
were recruited (46 female, 35 male, age range: 19–32 years). The results show that participants’ responses to the physical robotic coach differ
from their responses to its digital agents; the display device for an agent also affects participants’ subjective and behavioral responses to it. To
conclude the study, suggestions for future cross-platform or cross-device human robot interactions are provided.
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Saturday Session II: 10:45-12:45
ooLiterature: Historical & Political Literature
Session Chair: Wei H. KaoooSame Origins, A Different National Narrative: the French Canadian Memory in Ontario and Quebec
Jean-Philippe Croteau, Sichuan University, China

For nearly one hundred and fifty years, French anadians, the main linguistic minority in anada, have defined themselves as a community ofmemory, history and culture throughout the country. After the 1960s, French speakers living in Quebec adopted a new identity based on a newsense of belonging with the culture and the territory of Quebec forcing French speakers in other provinces to rebuild an identity associatedwith own their province. Today, the historical memory that the French Canadians have forged over the last two centuries is different between
French speakers of Quebec, the province with a French-speaking majority, and French speakers of Ontario, the neighboring province, witha French speaking minority. What remains of this common identity? How do French speakers in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario telltheir own history? Do they still have a common historical heritage? During the current year, we asked to 635 students from fourteen Frenchschools in uebec and ntario to write a te t about the French anadian history. he te ts confirm that the students chose a story describinga historical e perience characteri ed by con icts and struggles to ensure the cultural and linguistic survival of the French anadians. However,
the events, places and characters selected vary in this historical narrative on whether the students live in Ontario or Quebec. This survey showsthat the French speakers in Canada are linked to a common past which one is structured differently according to the space and the society.
ooWhat is the Good: On Prince John's Policy in Henry IV
Xiaowei Tong, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

The two parts of Henry IV, the most applauded Shakespearean history plays, provide for us an intense experiences of politics. Although they
have been studied by careful scholars from a wide range of perspectives, some issues remain insufficiently addressed and are worthy of further
consideration. For instance, how do we judge the policy of Prince John of Lancaster who arrests his enemies in disregard for his honor? Critics haveunanimously condemned his Machiavellian subtlety except Paul Jorgensen, who views John in a better light, contending that his act in the Gaultree
Forest could be e cused in that it might be a re ection of the real political situation between reland and England in thes, the time Henry IV waswritten. Even so Jorgensen balks a little at the end and seems eager to clarify that he appreciates only Prince John’s victory, but not his act. This is thepoint want to argue about. shall justify Prince Johns policy as a good act. o this end, shall first compare Henry IV with The Merchant of Venice, inwhich Lady Portia resembles Prince John in terms of her tricks, especially the one played in the tribunal scene, and then apply to Prince John Portia’s
later defense of her use of tricks, which, despite the arbitrariness of it, might be revealing. he connection bring out, simple yet difficult to observe,
will, I believe, make us better understand the character of Prince John and Shakespeare’s insight into politics.
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Can Minorities Speak in Brendan Behan's The Hostage (1958)?
Wei H. Kao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

This paper aims to examine Brendan Behan’s controversial play The Hostage (1958), which portrays the ambiguous responses of socially and politicallymarginalized characters to militant Irish republicanism and hardline unionism. Their voices, untimely in political terms yet potentially challenging,from both sides of the divide, suggest an alternative approach to reshaping the nationalist and unionist historiographies of Ireland. The dramatizationof these politically invisible figures, including an Anglo- rish house owner, prostitutes, a homose ual navy man and his black boyfriend, a skivvy,
a ussian sailor, and a British hostage being guarded by an A officer, illustrates an unpleasant rish reality that disgraces the puritanical fa ade
maintained painstakingly by the Catholic nationalist government during the mid-twentieth century. The characters survive as individuals on the social
margin yet are put under a collective spotlight by the playwright who left the Irish Republic Army to which he once pledged loyalty. The Hostage
presents Ireland as an “anomalous state”, as described by David Lloyd, while its inclusion of underrepresented characters could be seen as paving
the way for a post-nationalistic imagination of reland after the
Easter ising. More significantly, through the occasional Brechtian distancing
effects on stage and dramatic ironies employed in the play, it might be regarded as counteracting the assumption that Gayatri C. Spivak expressed inher “Can the Subaltern Speak?” This paper will therefore examine how Behan, from a working-class background, intended to rebuild fragmented
Irish experiences in a theatrical context, and whether this problem play contains a “history from below” – without imperialist structures but effectively
reversing the nationalistic power relation in which minority groups are still subordinated and oppressed.
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Alternative Historical Narrative of Jonathan Safran Foer's Fiction
Chi-Min Chang, University of Taipei, Taiwan

Jonathan Safran Foer s first two novels referring to the Jewish past in orld ar reveal a distinct historical narrative. Blending the historicalfacts with distinct narrative devices, Foer shows significant humanistic concerns about how the victims and even the following generations
survive the historical tragedy. On the one hand, Foer's stories are featured by the protagonists' confrontation with the wounded past andpersistent pursuit of a way out. n the other hand, the narrative starting from the present to the re ection or revisit of the past are
dissolved into divergent stories or episodes. More intriguingly, the self-re ective and performative historical narrative is marked by not merely
fictionality but visuality and materiality the images of concrete objects and pictoriali ed words con ating the visual and the verbal. For the
first two novels, Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), Foer reveals how the historical trauma inscribedin memory and life over generations is transformed into the essential material to revision and construct the present. History does not end but
survives in a way acutely felt and embodied. Along the protagonists' journey into the past, the temporal and spatial interpenetration between
here and there, now and then, preserves the historical effect in diverse perceptions and connections. Foer explores different possibilities ofhistorical writing in the proliferating and performative narrative device while maintaining the humanistic concern.
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Saturday Session II: 10:45-12:45
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Literature: Anglo-American Literature
Session Chair: Jittima Pruttipurkoo

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Forster's Hidden Homosexual Reverie: Resistance and Non-Differentiation in His Narrative of A Passage to India
Kyoko Matsui, Rikkyo University, Japan

From the 1990s onwards, E. M. Forster's established reputation as a liberal humanist writer became unstable, following the publication ofsome essays on Orientalism in A Passage to India. Some critics claim that Forster regards ndia as strange and unidentifiable”, thus concludingthat the text is associated with imperialism and otherness. Certainly, Forster's narrative often denies closure: the echoes in the Marabar Caves,
a silent native punkah wallah, the unknowable incident of Adela's supposed rape, and Godbole's Hindu praying all remain elusive. This
paper shows that contrary to the above negative interpretations, the elusiveness linked with India has a constructive meaning in the context
of Forster's resistance against the British establishment and his philosophy of non-differentiation. His homosexual reverie is integral tothe above elusiveness. We explore, with the help of Foucault's view on sexual discourse, the absence of language in the echoes aspiring todestroy the centre of the heteronormative society which sustains an intolerant social system. Moreover, we show why Adela, in uenced by theechoes, becomes an outsider, alongside the homosexuals who are also outsiders. We also indicate how Godbole's chant “come” is relevant tohomosexual love by observing Walt Whitman and Edward Carpenter's usage of the term “come” in their poems. We consider that the new
findings about Forster s support of an embryonic homose ual liberation movement in
s in the biography of Forster by endy Moffat
will give new hints for understanding the elusiveness in the text.
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The Angel in the Gaming House: A Georgian Gaming Woman Re-Imagined in Georgette Heyer's Faro's Daughter
Po-Yu Wei, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

This essay examines the modern representation of a Georgian England female gamer. While eighteenth-century gaming permeates all social
layers and reaches its peak in the Regency period, it gives women a controversial reputation. These gaming women are called Faro Ladies andgiven an image of self-indulgence, wantonness, and luxury. However, the Regency Queen Georgette Heyer in her 1941 historical romance
Faro’s Daughter characterizes a female gamer who embodies female virtue and has enough courage to challenge male ideology and social
hierarchy. This essay compares Heyer’s heroine Deborah Grantham to eighteenth-century Faro Ladies in real history and literature, suggestingthat Deborah is inspired by one of the notorious female gamers Lady Albinia Hobart but reformed. It argues that Deborah not only puts
eighteenth-century feminism like Mary ollstonecraft and Hannah Moore s into practice but also re ects the first wave feminist thinking in
Heyer s time. his essay finds that Heyer s historical romance echoes both eighteenth-century and twentieth-century feminism but revises
them at the same time. By not making the heroine a victimi ed figure and by emphasi ing the importance of women s career, Heyer s historicalromance liberates women and addresses contemporary women’s issues such as the importance of economic independence, the need of a job,
the freedom of marriage, and the expression of female desire to the reading public.
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Huckleberry Finn, Satirical Narrative and the Transatlantic Literary Tension
Jui-Ping Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

This paper will address the tension between European tradition and American search for cultural independence in Mark Twain’s 1884 novel
Huckleberry Finn. ritics like ictor A. oyno, Sydney J. rause, Amy M. Green and obert eisbuch have shown how Huckleberry Finn, as
an iconic novel in nineteenth-century America, incorporates references to stories written by famous European writers such as Shakespeare,
Walter Scott, Alexander Dumas and Cervantes to satirize the American popular consumption of European literature. Scholars such as Leo
Marx, Mr. Thrilling, T. S. Eliot, and Sacvan Bercovitch further examine the controversial ending of this novel, in which the slave Jim, alreadyfreed by then, was held in imprisonment again due to om s insufficient rescuing plan. n the end, om serves as a Europeani ed role, whose
heavy reading on European tragedies and historical novels leads his American followers Huck and Jim to nowhere. Building upon previous
critical discussions, my paper argues that the cultural assertion for American independence, which Huck and the river embody, is unsettled
in wain s satirical allusions to these European works. wain s criticism on European monarchy in the novel defines, but at the same time
problematizes, his representation of American freedom in the book with the farcical ending. Hence, the adventure Huck and Jim embark onin their search for liberty is dramatically destabilized by the openness of its ending.
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Repurposing Rhetorical History: Commemoration as Critique in Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Revisions of the Founding Document
Jittima Pruttipurk, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

This paper explores how Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton simultaneously commemorate and contest the national myth in “TheDeclaration of Independence” in “The Declaration of Sentiments” (1848) and “What to the Slave is the 4th of July” (1852). Both writers
repurpose the Declaration to expose how the notion of natural rights and freedom that the American Forefathers laid claim to is a formof rhetoric rather than a reality. Drawing upon Giorgio Agamben's notion of “bare life”, my paper contends that the Declaration implicitly
sets up a notion of national identity and a membership based on exclusionary difference when the document fails to recognize certain
groups as “injured parties” While Douglass exposes how the Declaration excludes African slaves, Stanton shows that women also belong tosuch neglected groups. I contend that although being critical, both writers commemorate the integrity of America's founding document byimplicitly proposing a reconsideration of African Americans and women in terms of population” in which diversity is embraced as beneficial
difference rather than “people”, where one group, to borrow Michel Foucault's terms, “must be defended” against another. Doing so, I
conclude that both writers not only cast doubt on the integrity of America's grand narrative and its supposed timelessness, but also see theconcept of independence and freedom as a work in progress to which the nation should aspire.
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10:45-12:45 | Room: Schumann (2F)
Saturday Session II: 10:45-12:45
oocann
Literature
Session Chair: Yiru Limoocann
Stuart D. B. Picken Grant & Scholarship Recipient“We Are All Moors”: A Black Muslim Slave Narrative
Ismahan Wayah, University of Muenster, Germany

Laila Lalami’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel, The Moor’s Account (2015), is a dense historical novel that provides a counter-narrative to Álvar Núñez
abe a de aca s La Relación, a historical first-person account of the doomed
arvae e pedition, which only three Spaniards and“Estevanico, an Arab Negro” survived. In The Moor’s Account, the Moroccan-American author Laila Lalami gives voice to the story of Estevanico/Mustafa, who has been enslaved, omitted and forgotten from dominant history. This paper illustrates that writing “history from below” is an
intricate and complicated endeavour, in particular when analysing the narrative of a Black Muslim enslaved by Spanish colonisers and captured
by Native Americans. Adopting an Afropessimist, postcolonial and postsecular reading, I argue that the main protagonist, Estevanico/Mustafa,
renders the colonisation of the Americas from the perspective of the Moor as Europe’s religious, racial and civilisational ultimate Other. Suchan approach discloses that the figure of the Moor blurs the lines between victor victim, freedom captivity, guilt innocence on the level of thenarrative and the lines between the colonial captivity narrative and slave narrative on the level of form. The Moor’s Account not only offers analternative reading to the mapping of New Spain on the Americas, but also emphasises the grey areas of history/(ies). In turning to the Early
American period, Layla Lalami reminds us of the longstanding presence of Black Muslim subjects in the Americas.
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Foreign Policy and Identity Politics: Trump and Brexit through Putnam's Too Level Games
Kenneth Houston, Webster University, Thailand
Jason Briggs, Webster University, Thailand

In 2016, two major advanced democracies held consequential plebiscites that will impact the conduct of their respective future foreign policies.
Putnam observed that foreign policy decisions are invariably affected by the pressures placed on the political executive’s international imperatives
as a result of domestic agenda concerns. Since the communitarian challenge to liberal philosophy emerged from the 1970s onward, the preeminence of identity politics has been well established in academia and partly re ected in the public policies of advanced democracies withrespect to minorities and immigrants. However, the logic of identity politics has been transposed beyond application to minorities and migrant
populations and has now facilitated the emergence of occidental nativism. We undertake a comparative analysis of the implications of Donald
Trump’s presidential victory and the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU. We contend that both events indicate the adaption of identity
politics discourse into the political consciousness of indigenous populations of nations hosting inward migration. Both cases illustrate thatemergent nativist reactions to decades of multicultural policies will impact the executive branch’s capacity to negotiate and conclude international
agreements. he study throws into relief the tension between two competing objectives the imperative to conclude beneficial agreementswith other states while simultaneously maintaining political electability in the face of increasing domestic nativism. The paper concludes with a
discussion of these domestic constraints on US and UK foreign policy and the emergent crisis in normative identity politics exposed by them.
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George Orwell and The Origins of Totalitarianism

Firas Al-Jubouri, American University of Sharjah, UAE
The themes of politics and totalitarianism are pervasive in Orwell’s most prominent work. He used contemporary historical events to narrate stories ordebate ideas in both his fiction and non-fiction. He was a writer infatuated with the power politics of his time and its effect on the culture, history andliterature. He had no particular political philosophy yet championed a democratic form of socialism. This paper will examine the origins of Orwell’s
understanding of totalitarianism with special reference to his first and last fiction, Burmese Days (1934) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and interpret theorigins of his anti-totalitarian tendency. He e perienced colonialism in Burma, revolution in civil war Spain at first hand and wrote about the ensuing
corruption and repression of political infanticide, and he e perienced the power of propaganda at the BB and yet the significance of the colonial
experience in contemplating a dystopian future has not been fully explored. Using Hannah Arendt’s ideological premises in The Origins of Totalitarianism,
this paper examines the commonalities between Burmese Days and Nineteen Eighty-Four in relation to Arendt’s interpretation of totalitarian politics. I argue,
with particular reference to the similarities between Burmese Days and Nineteen Eighty-Four, that despite Orwell’s statements, which were made in 1944,
as to the geneses, motifs and intentions for the dystopian world of Oceania, the origins for his predictions date further back to his early experience ofauthoritarian power politics represented by British imperialism in the mid 1920s and which conform to Arendt’s interpretation of totalitarianism.
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The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye: A Portrait of the Invisible Artist
Yiru Lim, SIM University, Singapore

Sonny Liew’s The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2015) is a meditation on how narratives are generated and the interplay of power between stories. The
fictionality of the many portraits and the variety of artistic styles incorporated into the narrative bring together e isting and would-be narratives toconsider the possibility of entertaining meanings that have been previously foreclosed. Utilising the concept of the “invisible artist”, this paper seeks
to examine these issues and understand truth as an unstable entity that needs to be (re-)examined rather than simply imbibed. The concept of theinvisible artist can be understood in two ways as an imposed condition, and as a condition of choice. As counterpoint to Singapores official narrative,
Charlie Chan’s life/narrative can be understood primarily as an effacement – unrealised dreams and potential, an unheard voice, an imposed absence.
The invisibility of Charlie’s art/voice becomes a symbol of all the other unrealised narratives that could have been (including Sonny Liew’s in this text).
n contrast, other characters that represent the state, the artists of Singapores officially sanctioned story, practise a voluntary invisibility by projecting
narratives of Singapore as objective realities – implying an absence of authorial subjectivity – that need no evaluation because they are “facts”. The
recovery of stories and the recognition of plurality in meaning lie in understanding the relationship between these two groups of artists; it is through thenuanced portrayal and understanding of the existing narratives upon which history and identity are based that one begins to author the future.
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Saturday Session III: 13:30-14:30
ooArts: Social, Political & Community Agendas in the Arts
Session Chair: Martie Geiger-HoooRewriting History Visions of the New Utopian Works of Art
Marek Wasilewski, University of Arts, Poland

In what way can visual artists be storytellers? How contemporary art create a form of narration that takes an active part in history? In my
paper, I focus on works of art that challenge the dominant political order by engaging the viewer in a new kind of narration by rewriting
and uestioning the history of con icts and religious movements. would like to present e amples of two different utopian projects
Krzysztof Wodiczko’s “World Institute for the Abolition of War”, in which the artist creates a project for turning the Arc De Triomphe inParis into an institution that will educate society on the need to end the horror of military con ict Ale andros omba is hurch of heHoly Trinity in Fatima, the recipient in 2009 of the Outstanding Structure Award from the International Association for Bridge and StructuralEngineering, which aims at recognizing the most remarkable, innovative, creative or otherwise stimulating structures completed in the last few
years. I would like to interpret this structure not as a church, but as a possibility for creating an empty public space without signs of cultural
domination that has the potential to bring together people of different views. f possible would also like to present a short film that is an
unorthodox interpretation of this building.) The aim of this paper is to present the possibility of creating art that can play an important rolein our divided societies; this role is to create platforms for understanding and collaboration.
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Bowing to the Creative Industry: Making Art a Useful Commodity
Martie Geiger-Ho, University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei

A survey of globally diverse art school models, including those that already exist, along with those still on the theoretical drawing table, showsthat while no perfect institution exists, there is at least one issue that proffers itself over and over again within the university art education
domain. Surprisingly, this issue is not about good art versus bad art, or whether this or that is even art at all. Today the most pressing issue
seems to be one that has begun to mandate that all outgoing manner of objects produced by students be immediately commodifiable. hepressure to compete for price collecting prestige may be a contributing factor for changes in art institutions, especially those associated with
universities, which may account for a decline in deep critical debates about art concepts. This paper examines the concerns faced by faculty
and art students over the ever-stronger desires of university stakeholders and others for degree programs that are capable of producing
student products that are market-ready for immediate induction into the art consumer world.

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13:30-15:00 | Room: 503 (5F)

Saturday Session III: 13:30-15:00
ooHumanities: Ethnicity, Difference, Identity
Session Chair: Sumittra SrivibooneooCommunal Harmony in Goa: Assessing Attitudes and Devising Strategies for Promotion
Padmaja Kamat, PES' Ravi S. Naik College of Arts and Science, India
Mallika Kamat, Goa University, India

Communal harmony is a word that became immensely loaded with political implications for India after the Babri Masjid demolition thattook place in 1992. The shock waves resulting from that game changer were felt nationwide. However Goa, the smallest state of India, wasconsiderably undisturbed because it had a long tradition of peaceful coexistence that was strongly ingrained in the popular psyche. The
Goans had endured troubled times during the Muslim invasions and the Portuguese colonial hegemony. Today Goa boasts a healthy bond
between Hindus, Catholics and other religious minorities. Goa’s vibrant economy has also attracted tens of thousands of migrants, seeking
asylum from famine and scarcity struck states of India. Having been a world famous tourist destination for decades, Goa now aspires to be
a commercial IT hub, having received the grant of the Smart City project for Panaji, the capital of the state, from the central government.
With a healthy literacy rate of 88.65% and an impressive enrollment rate in the institutions of higher education, a sizeable number of Goan
youths are vying for jobs in the industrial and commercial sectors that currently employ a large number of non-Goans. With these changing
demographic dynamics as a backdrop, this paper is an effort to analyze why Goa is able to absorb and adapt to its burgeoning diversity andhow new strategies can be devised to change the current narrative of the Emerging Economy of India.
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Performance of New-Immigrant Students – Evidence from Meta Analysis and Large Scale Assessment
Mingchuan Hsieh, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan

The population rate of new immigrant students has been increasing quite quickly and steadily in Taiwan. Many researchers have paid attention
to their learning performance, family construction, peer relationship, and accommodation issues. In this study, the investigator will analyse
the relevant issues of new immigrant students. Data from both meta analysis and large-scale assessment will be used. The investigator willconduct meta analysis, studies based on experimental design, single case design and qualitative design will be included. The topic included
the issues of academic achievement (mathematics, language) for new immigrant children. In order to obtain the validity evidence of meta
analysis results, the investigators will compare results of meta analysis and the Taiwan Assessment of Student Achievement (TASA), which
is a standardized, national achievement test measures students' academic progress in grades four, six, eight and eleven. The related coding
information from the meta analysis will also be provided on an open website as references for other scholars.
ooValue Orientation and Quality of Halal Certification in Cosmetics Business
Sumittra Sriviboone, Bangkok University, Thailand
Rosechongporn Komolsevin, Bangkok University, Thailand

At present, the accreditation of halal certification has been e tending from the food and beverage industry to cover a wide variety of products
and services, e.g. pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, perfumeries, and tourism. hai entrepreneurs started to be more aware of halal certification, but
not many of them have been applying for halal certificate. ne of the obstacles inhibiting the applying process of halal certification stems
basically from the lack of knowledge among the entrepreneurs themselves. This research, therefore, aims particularly to explore the values ofhalal certification as perceived by the cosmetics entrepreneurs. n-depth interviews were conducted in September,with Muslim andnon-Muslim SME entrepreneurs in cosmetics business. Some of them have got the halal certificate, while others are in the applying process
or stated their intention not to obtain the certificate. he interviewed entrepreneurs unanimously agreed that halal certificate is significant
in generating product acceptance among the Muslim consumers, with increasing opportunities for exportation to the Muslim countries. In
addition, the halal certificate signified the value of religious-ethnical uality and product safety for the Muslim consumers, while, for the nonMuslims, symbolically representing the positive image of the product as being reliable and caring for both the consumers and the society,since chemically toxic ingredients are strictly prohibited. Hence, halal label is presently perceived as the symbol of quality, health, hygiene, andethical practices of all parties concerned.

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Saturday Session III: 13:30-15:00
ooHumanities: Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication
Session Chair: Areerut Jaipaduboo

A Historical Review of Media Coverage on the Southernmost Unrest of Thailand
Pataraporn Sangkapreecha, Bangkok University, Thailandn a general manner, journalists rely upon con ict as a conventional method of framing news reporting. Be faced with the pressure of strained
resources and their perception that media audiences prefer this reportorial style, journalists resort to con ict-based reporting. he approach often
e acerbates the con ict by the very nature of the reportage. Using unrest in the southernmost part of hailand as a case study, this historical
study aims to uncover the past, define the present, and suggest the future alternative approach of reporting con icts for media. A systematic
review method was employed to identify, appraise and synthesise all the empirical evidences. This examination relied upon qualitative analysisof documentation from 1998 to 2006 of the news media agency and academic literature. The results reveal that media reports deliberately
represented the insurgency in Thailand’s restive South as Islamic in nature and portrayed attacks as revenge against the Buddhists. The media
coverage revealed characteristic patterns of War Journalism. The general public, therefore, comes to expresses dissatisfaction with these media
practices. This study thus proposes an alternative concept underpinning the Peace Journalism procedure for consideration.
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The Communication Approach for Conservation Palm Leaves Text of Sungmen Temple, Thailand, by Buddhism Dharma
Raksina Puanglam, Chiang Mai Rajabhat University, Thailand

The purpose of this article is to explain the communication approach for conservation of the palm leaves texts of Sungmen Temple,
Thailand, by Buddhism dharma. The methodology for this study includes in-depth interviews with opinion leaders such as monks and local
wisdom, Participant and Non-participant Observation and related literature reviews. It was found that in the community communication
process for the preservation of manuscripts is involved 5 elements of Buddhism teaching, as follows: 1) Faith – created people preservation
awareness by well-known people
Morality proficient organi ation management
oncentration using only one uni ue tradition
named Takdhamma to encourage people attended temple activities; 4) Wisdom – construct learning center and museum including
Memorandum of Understanding in term of research with universities and cultural offices
Friendliness knowledge transfer activities topublic such as training, press releases and change temple position to tourist attraction. After the adaptation of these 5 elements for community
communication to preservation ancient Buddhism documentaries, Sungmen Temple has successful cooperation from internal and external
communities including involved government units and private institutions. As above mentioned nowadays Sungmen Temple is the role modelfor encouraging the community to conserve palm leaves text.
ooDocumentary Storytelling: Methods and Styles
Areerut Jaipadub, Bangkok University, Thailand

his article e plores the significance of storytelling and seeks to choose modes of filmmaking to transmit reality” or to tell a true”
story. However, the storyteller’s intention, perspective, values, and aesthetic style are integral parts of the story. Therefore, documentary
storytelling does not refer only, or even primarily, to films that are narrated. Methods and styles are also story-driven. n some cases
storytelling can re ect who you really are. he article shows the storytelling methods that storytellers can choose in e pressing them tothe viewers. he essential key of the component is the aspect of the story, which approaches a story in a different way. he definitionof the term storytelling methods” will be discussed in the first part of the chapter emphasi ing the fact and the method of storytelling.
In this study, it will be analyzed how storytelling can be used as a tool to expand the storyteller’s point of view and how they choose
the storytelling methods. The samples of case studies are The Look of Silence (2014), Citizenfour (2014), Tsukiji Wonderland (2016), By theRiver (2013) and The Songs of Rice (2014). The paper concludes that storytelling is a powerful tool to represents the reality which choices
about subject matter, the forms of e pression, the point of view, and so on. he future trend of storytelling in documentary film mayalter because storytellers have wider opportunities to select "the story" to tell. It causes the variety of forms and styles to choose. In themeantime, hybrid documentaries and transmedia will take a big role in documentary storytelling.

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Saturday Session III: 13:30-14:30
ooLiterature: Japanese History
Session Chair: Ching-Chih Wangoo

National Language Between Languages: Who Should Translate Japanese Literature?
Samuel Malissa, Yale University, USAn the first half of the twentieth century a significant portion of English translations of Japanese literature were by Japanese people that is,native speakers of the source language translating into a non-native target language, as opposed to the more familiar trajectory of translators
rendering a foreign text into their native language. While there were various motivations for Japanese people to translate from Japanese,
including profit and burnishing one s credentials as a Japanese scholar of English, it was also a form of cultural diplomacy, a means for the
young nation of Japan to demonstrate its literary worth to the industrialized nations of the world. One particular current of thought thatdeveloped in the '20s and '30s ran that Japanese literature should only be translated into English by Japanese people because non-Japanese
could not properly understand the language. This suggested that the Japanese language contains something essentially and irreducibly Japanesethat is in danger of being lost in translation, and the best chance of recuperating that loss is if the translator is Japanese. At a more basic
level, it represented a bid for control of Japanese narratives in English, highlighting an early understanding of the power relations inherent
in translation. Looking at two cases, the work of the translator Asataro Miyamori and the 1940 government-sponsored translation of thepoetry anthology the Manyoshu, I argue that the intercultural and interlingual nature of a translation can work against nationalist agendas thatthe translation was intended to support.
ooLegacy of Japanese Imperialism in Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists
Ching-Chih Wang, National Taipei University, Taiwan

The paper considers the relationship between memory, war and trauma through a representation of an imaginary Japan and the Japaneseimperialism created by Tan Twan Eng in his The Garden of Evening Mists. In his story of the Japanese occupation in Malaya and its aftermath,Tan borrows from the techniques of building a Japanese garden to demonstrate the psychological symptoms of anxiety and depression shownon the female protagonist, Teoh Yun Ling. Detained in a secret Japanese prison camp to act as the “Guests of the Emperor”, Yun Ling andher sister distance themselves from the wartime ordeals by dreaming to plant a Japanese garden with mesmerizing allure. Learning to create
the perfect Japanese garden after the Japanese Occupation becomes imperative because it is the only way to honor her older sister who died in
the camp. Through Tan's The Garden of Evening Mists, I argue that if we wish to understand war trauma and its pertaining sense of deception,a narrative of war in conjunction with the study of memory and trauma theory would help those who were once or are still distraught withthe traumatic memories become wiser, more tolerant, and more caring than they were exposed in the mists/midst of sufferings. When Yun
Ling comes to realize that a garden is not a garden but trauma in disguise and legacy of Japanese imperialism, it will not take her long to see
beyond deceptions.
ooAugmenting the Historian's Role: Survivor Memory in Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists
Hannah Ming Yit Ho, University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam“Gardens like Yugiri’s are deceptive. They’re false. Everything here has been thought out and shaped and built. We’re sitting in one of the mostartificial places you can find” an, . hat is striking in this pronouncement is the issue of reality s representation and the uestioning of
its authenticity. Much like the simulated construction of a garden, the narratives that make the cut into a history book are determined by thewriter, not so much an experiential participant but one accorded privilege in the revelation and concealment of the truth. The precise andimmaculate nature of history-writing that gives primacy to facts, or snippets of information validated by the powerful speaker, runs counterto the inherent workings of memory used to recollect and record past experiences. Memory, after Sigmund Freud and Cathy Caruth, isnaturally fragile, non-linear and fragmented, whose “stutters and breaks into the past” (Caruth, 2000) are complicated by age, which runs therisk of memory loss and a tendency to tap into the imagination. Tan’s protagonist is a judge and former deputy public prosecutor who relies
strongly on uncovering, whilst giving precedence to, factual evidence to deliver a verdict. Significantly, she also bears witness to the atrocitiesof the Japanese occupation in Malaysia. Possessing personal and collective memory of a historical event, Yun Ling puts into force the taskof the survivor-cum-historian as a “creator of public spaces for dialogue about the past” (Glassberg 1996). This paper, thus, navigates theoverlapping terrain between memory and history.

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Literature: Identity
Session Chair: Sasinee Khuankaewoo

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Identity and Social Conditioning in the Narratives of Gumer RafananRaphael Dean Polinar, University of San Carlos, The Philippines

This paper looks into how social interaction and the individual affect each other in the narratives of the author Gumer Rafanan. Identity isdeveloped with the social interactions we experience and not experience. These interactions and society have played a role in the developmentof individual, social, and national identity. This is evident in literature and how the characters relate with each other. Literature, as a productof their time, shows how society in uences the actions of individuals. he social conditioning in the stories of Gumer afanan presents
how a Cebuano (a Filipino, an individual) struggles with society, religion, and culture. This creates an identity which, in turn, creates society.
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Pro ofieFemininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First-Century Thai Romantic Fictions
Sasinee Khuankaew, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

The main purpose of this study is to examine the modes of subjectivity and discourses of femininity and masculinity found in Thai romantic
novels published in the twenty-first century. First, will discuss generic conventions in hai romance. Additionally, will seek to locate it
within the socio-cultural conte ts of hai society, which in uence the constitution of hai gender relations and the transformation ofgender norms. Finally, I will compare changes within narrative discourses on ideologies concerning gender operating in Thai romantic
fictions written in the last century. his study suggests that hai romance incorporate universal aspects of romance and specifically hai
conventions of romance. Apparently, hai gender relations are complicated because there are various culturally specific aspects that in uence
the construction of femininity and masculinity. Transformations of gender values and norms have been discovered when compared toromantic fictions written in the twenty-first century, particularly in female se uality. hus, the representation of gendered subjectivity in hai
romantic fictions after
indicates changes in the construction of male and female subjectivity.
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Pro ofieResonance of Spirituality in K. B. Vaid's Diaries
Chaitanya Prakash Yogi, Osaka University, Japanrishna Baldev aid is US based Hindi fiction writer and Playwright. He has publishednovels,short-story collections, plays andiaries. . B. aid s iaries are a socio-personal account of the author of psychologically condensed fictions. hese iaries often talkabout the dreams, imaginations, perceptions, prejudices, reactions, adamancies, weaknesses and strengths of the Author. . B. aid s iaries
also speak about the internal journey of author during the process of writing or creating. The proposed paper is purposive to listen to theresonance of spiritual being of . B. aid in the self-revealing voices of him in these four iaries. aid s writing has established him as amodern writer who can be considered as an atheist or a non-believer. This paper will try to observe the author as a person whose deeper sideis seeking peace and serenity within through the non-religious kind of spirituality. he proposed paper will also try to understand . B. aid s
iaries references in which aid himself feels connected with renowned authors and scholars by uoting them.

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Resistance in Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories
Kulsiri Worakul, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Supaporn Yimwilai, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand

oss of identity is one of the major problems of all time. People who believe that domination destroys their true colors find resistanceagainst the dominant as a result to maintain their identity. Literature is one of ways that best present voices and actions of people. This paper
aims to analyze resistance against the domination and resistance strategies in Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories. The text is analyzed within atheoretical framework based on Karl Polanyi’s Theory of Countermovements, Antonio Gramsci’s Theory of Counterhegemony, and James
C. Scott’s Theory of Infrapolitics. The study shows that Zitkala-Sa uses her pen as the weapon to resist domination by using disguised andnon-disguised strategies. The study demonstrates that domination and resistance coexist together. Resistance can occur at any time and spacein any form. Whenever there is an attempt to dominate, there will be resistance.
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IAFOR Scholarship RecipientannAnas Nin's Diaries: Revising Identity and Sexual Histories in Literary Narratives
Isabelle Coy-Dibley, University of Westminster, UKAnaïs Nin meticulously documented her life in diary entries from the age of 11. However, this narrative of self was not only a private
undertaking, but a form of writing she chose to make public when these diaries were edited and published later in her life as well as
posthumously. Subsequently, this paper intends to question how authors revise and edit their personal narratives, the effect of an intended
audience upon this process, and how Nin's sexual identity and forms of embodiment within her diaries were affected by censorship, defamationand invasion of privacy laws that become problematic for non-fiction narratives. e amine how language is altered through the editing
process and restrictions placed on literary narratives, particularly narratives of a sexual nature, which in turn moulds identity in differing ways
depending on how one decides to revise one s narrative and whether this narrative is being altered for personal reasons or to meet specificcriteria for society or publishing policies. Ultimately, this paper uestions how identity becomes censored in non-fiction narratives when thesenarratives do not conform to acceptable modes of behaviour or forms of sexual embodiment, and how this sequentially impacts the way inwhich the female body, sexual identities and forms of sexual expression may be narrated.
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Living by Nuances: The Survival Strategy in Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man
Hsiao-Hsuan Chang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

A Single Man is considered the most subtle novel Christopher Isherwood has ever written. It depicts how a man called George spends acertain day of his life. While he wakes up troubled by the shadow of Jim, his deceased partner, George has to brighten himself up because
he is expected to be the guide of other people’s lives. As the day passes, he becomes aware that he cannot side with either darkness orlight if he wants to live on. hat awareness in uences not only his perspective on his own life but also his interaction with other people.
In George’s thinking and behavior there is a sense of the Neutral, a term Roland Barthes attempts to clarify in his Collège de France
lectures. Barthes proposes that the eutral suspends meaning yet not altogether it refuses to be defined yet still wants to establish itself.
Such characteristic, if it is in a person, will lead that person to stay aloof from social norms; on the other hand, it will prompt that person
to seek a way of living suitable for himself/herself. Independent as the pursuit seems, Barthes acknowledges the need for it to maintainthe least connection with norms lest it should miss its establishment. Only in the state of the Neutral can George endure Jim’s death, livewith other people, and outlive all at the end of the day.

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ooArts: Media Arts Practices – Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online & Other New Media
Session Chair: Law Alsobrookoo

Vision and Memory: A Film History of the Royal Factories of Rural Thailand

Sumate Tanchareon, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
Sirikoy Chutataweesawas, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
Nuttanon Homvichian, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
King Rama IX initially established four Royal Factories in 1972 to enhance the quality of life of rural marginalized minorities, including
Hmong, Chinese, and Yao, in the Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Sakon Nakorn and Burirum provinces of Thailand. The purpose of this project is toju tapose the vision of ing ama with the memories and feelings of people involved in the oyal factories to create a history in film. hefilmmaker brings his personal e perience as a key facilitator barefoot engineer in the development of these factories. Ethnographic researchmethodology helped insure that the data from the interviews, including narratives from nearby villagers, current and retired employees, andboard members of the oyal factories, controlled the final script and storyboard of the film. A collection of archival photos and current
films, especially from the time of mourning, help create a historical conte t for the lessons learned from the ing s initial vision of sustainable
development in the context of poverty, opium plantation and border security issues to subsequent factory development. These elements areintegrated into a structure of three important components: the development of the Royal Factories over four decades, the current situationof villagers and the factories, and the future vision of collaboration between communities and factories. he creative components of the final
product, including editing ju taposition, visual symbols, and ethnic music and compositions of the ing, help enhance the film s purpose toportray the King's vision and perseverance and the memories and feelings of the people.
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The Whispering City

Yueh-Tuan Li, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Modern cities have witnessed enormous spectacular expansions visually as gigantic buildings towering one after one, while silencing
other forms of perceiving the cityscape. anadian artist Janet ardiff, as in her e emplary work he Missing oice ase Study B ” ineast ondon, pushes forward participating site-specific artworks, mapping out the information routes of mediated city landscape. heMissing oice” interweaves oral narratives regarding the city from history, myths, news, street talks and personal memories with a hideand-seek story and engages participants into the walking journey. Critics raise questions about the subjectivity of participants under theguide of Cardiff's voice, and also about the ability to illustrate a complete picture of the location by fragmentary narratives. This article
argues, however, for ardiff s significant strategy in using small fractural stories. he reasons are, first of all, that the pieces of small
stories usually contain traces and threads that are otherwise impossible in grand narratives, so as to unsettle participants along the walk;and, secondly, that the artist as a monologue narrator incarnates herself as detective, sleepwalker and ghosts, with an aim to unveiling thehidden paths and spaces in the city. This article concludes that with listening and walking in Cardiff's artwork the fragmented narratives
open up ways city dwellers may interact with physical surroundings they inhabit, not just by visual media, but more by sensory immersion
in all kinds of voices, noise and rumors that the city whispers all the time.
ooAsemic Writing and the Absence of Meaningaw Alsobrook, irginia ommonwealth University in

atar,

atar

Asemic writing is defined as a wordless form of te tual communication, with semantically open content left to the reader s interpretation.
By contrast, graphic designers are taught to conceive of text as image, in order to compound meaning through graphic representation andtypographic nuance. Graphic designers consider the linguistic container beyond its semantic substance, in effect, attempting to expand thesematic load of language with visual modulation. Analogously, in Empire of Signs, Roland Barthes contemplates Japanese culture as a series ofsigns that e ist in relative atara ia with their signifying instance, where the alliance of sign and signification mingle as meditative components
in a relative yin-yang balance as e emplified by the society within which they e it as philosophical constants. For Barthes, this notion confronts
a Western temperament wherein a Platonic ideal seems to foment a continual search for the existence of pre-eminent signs that function as
pinnacles of signification. However, when signs are devoid of intentional meaning, what can we glean from the mechanics of sign operations
that attempt to establish and create, especially with regards to visual narrative and the heterotopic and temporal devices used by writers, artists
and designers, a sense of “otherness?” This paper examines the heterotopic relationship of asemic writing as a mediated agent of narrativein our post-literate society.

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ooArts: Literary Arts Practices
Session Chair: Andrew WilsonooWriting My Own Story: Memoir, Fictional Truth and Memory
Bruce Gatenby, American University of Sharjah, UAE

What does it mean to write your own story, from a literary and philosophical perspective? Writing a 100,000-word memoir covering ten yearsof my life
also forced me to consider the relationship between ruth capital , art as fictional truth according to the historyof literature, a “higher” truth than mere Truth) and memory as a combination of the two. Memoir as narrative truth contains both facts andfiction, the real and the made up, the was and the might have been, or perhaps even the never was but should have been. riting your own
story as memoir is a way of controlling truth as narrative truth, setting boundaries, settling scores, remembering and altering memory in orderto solidify a truth about your own life; in other words, becoming both the creator and the theoretical critic of what truths your experiences
represent to the world. he larger uestion to consider is that as both creator and critic are we even aware of what is fact and what is fiction,
what is real and what is made up And is there really such a thing as a higher fictional truth, as promoted by writers from Henry James toErnest Hemingway, to Henry Miller, Joan Didion and Doris Lessing?
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Reviving Haiga: Interpreting and Painting the Haiku of Matsuo Bashō

Norman Ralph Isla, Mindanao State University, The Philippines

Haiku is a poem that embodies qualities of Japanese art: precision, economy and delicacy; and, Matsuo Bashō fathers this literary art byshowing his superb poetic skills made him Japan s significant contribution in world literature. his study aimed to interpret haiku, to revive theuse of haiga as a creative method of interpreting a haiku and to justify its use as visual interpretation as congruent with the oral interpretation.
he researcher analy ed and painted fifteen haiku of Bashō, translated by Akmakjian and Barnhill, by employing haiga (a haiku combinedwith a painting) – a technique going back to the old poetic style of presenting a haiku. Alongside with the haiga, the study used formalism of
poetry and structure of haiku (kigo and kireji and the specific uses of the imagery. he visual interpretation and the formalist interpretation
were used to formulate theme and apparently the recurring. The oral interpretation is found related to the visual interpretation; thus, the oral
harmonizes with the visual and vice-versa. Indeed, the imagery helped to paint the haiku – as it gives life to the words. The recurring themes
found in the haiku of Bashō dealt with reality: seven haiku belonged to the theme “solitude makes man sensitive”; four haiku in “resiliency
enables man to survive”; and four haiku in “nothing is permanent”. Here, the study instilled that a work of literature is always a work of art;
thus a haiga is a creative and effective method of interpreting haiku and poems.
ooMurakami and the Celebration of the Japanese Family
Andrew Wilson, William Rainey Harper College, USA

In An Account of My Hut, a thirteenth-century classic of Japanese literature, Kamo no Chomei honors the Buddhist practice of non-attachment,of stripping down to the basics and releasing one's illusions that physical goods, perhaps especially a large home with servants and multiple
rooms, will bring permanent happiness. Whirlwinds and earthquakes remind Chomei of the fragility of the world, and in beautiful prose
he tells of his retreat from the planet's material lures. At last, at the age of 60, he leaves virtually everything and everyone behind to build a
simple mountainside hut, a human “cocoon”, a place where he is less afraid to face unpredictable natural disasters and constant evaporation.
He asks for nothing, he says, and he wants for nothing, too. Centuries later, another great Japanese author, Haruki Murakami, also offers
counsel to a nation in the wake of disaster, the earthquake that struck the city of Kobe in 1995, killing over 6000 human beings. Though it is
fiction, Murakami s After the Quake is as well an attempt to provide real-life Japanese with a way forward, though his argument seems contrary
to Chomei's sense that since nothing beneath our feet is solid, all must be forsaken. In fact, Murakami worries that Japan has lived for far too
long in the Chomei-like spirit of distrust (however understandable) and isolation; he counsels a new beginning, one steeped in the hope ofcommunity and in the beauty of family.

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ooHumanities: Teaching & Learning
Session Chair: Yueh Chun Huangoo

Teaching German History in Malaysia: A Historical Feature Film Project at University Putra Malaysia
Torsten Schaar, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Historical feature films as authentic and entertaining art products which visuali e e traordinary historical events, introduce new ideas,
engage the issues and arguments of the ongoing discourse of history and which offer a unique interpretation of “historical truth” and a
depiction of the “Zeitgeist” – undoubtedly have the ability to decisively shape ideas and the common understanding of the past as well as
in uence the culture of remembrance. Historical films in the form of documentaries, docu-dramas or feature films have proven to be themost successful medium in conveying history to large audiences and have even replaced classical historiography. he twenty-first-century
classroom needs to take the dramatic advances in digital technologies and the resulting globalized social shifts into consideration and develop awide-ranging set of understandings, skills and above all media competency which is necessary to evaluate media representations and messages
critically (and in the case of our project also historically). As an integral part of the Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages (German) programat University Putra Malaysia, a historical feature film project which focused on important aspects of orld ar in Europe and actively
involved the students in the film selection process was conducted during the course Survey of the History of Germany”. he feature film
project will be introduced, and five selected international feature films will be chosen to discuss the pedagogical approach to develop the fivecore competencies of historical understanding.
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A Comparative Study of Principal Professional Standards Between the UK and Australia
Ru-Jer Wang, National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan

Research background: Due to lack of principal standards in Taiwan, it is important to review and understand those countries where the principal
standards have been well-established, so as to enhance professionalization of principals in Taiwan. Research purpose: The purpose of this study
is to examine and compare principal standards between the UK and Australia. Documentary analysis and comparative study was employed
for the purpose of the study. Research question: The questions to be answered in this study are the following: 1) What is the current state ofprincipal standard and factors behind it in the UK? 2) What is the current state of principal standard and factors behind it in Australia? 3) Are
there any differences of principal standards between the UK and Australia? 4) Are there any similarities of principal standards between the UK
and Australia? 5) What are lessons from the comparison of the UK and Australia for Taiwan? 6) What are implications from the comparison the
U and Australia for aiwan onclusion Based on the comparison, three conclusions are made in the final part of this presentation.
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A Comparative Study of Principal Professional Standards Between the UK and Australia
Yueh Chun Huang, National Chiayi University, Taiwan

Student competencies have been highlighted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and European Union. In the
USA the Partnership for 21st Century Learning has provided competencies in the Framework for 21st Century Learning, and Australia hasoffered 7 general capabilities in the Melbourne Declaration. Teachers have played an important role for developing student competencies. Inline with the above developments, teacher professional standards have been established in the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada, Australia
and New Zealand. This study is to make a comparison of teacher professional standards established in the United Kingdom, the USA,
Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The purposes of this study are: 1) to look at conceptual contents of teacher professional standards; 2)
to analyze the current state of teacher standards among in the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; 3) to compare
differences and similarities of teacher standards among the above five countries. ocumentary analysis and comparative study were used forthis study. The differences and similarities of teacher standards among the above countries are provided for the Government in Taiwan as avaluable reference on the one hand, and evidence for leading and improving teacher quality, and suggestions for teacher education reforms
are offered for the Government in Taiwan on the other.

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ooHumanities: Aesthetics, Design
Session Chair: Rubén García RubioooRoman Histories by Louis Kahn

Rubén García Rubio, Al Ghurair University, UAE
Tiziano Rinella Aglieri, Al Ghurair University, UAE
he architecture of ouis . ahn changed radically in thes. Such was the transformation that it is difficult to find its unmistakable tracks
in works so different like the miesian Parasol House (1944) or the palladian Fleisher House (1959). All these differences have been widely
recognized by leading architectural critics, and some of them even venture to place that process of change while he was at the American
Academy in Rome (1950–51). They are absolutely right in terms of time and place. But the real question arises when it comes to establishing
the reasons for such a radical change in his short stay in ome. he answer, however, is more difficult. he three months that ahn spentin Rome as a Resident Architect were really intense. Contrarily to what one might think, he was more a college friend than a professor. His
job allowed him to travel and also encouraged him to do so, so Kahn used to do it a lot. Some of these trips were nearby, but he also madea far journey that got him to Egypt and Greece. This Mediterranean journey is also widely known because of the great drawings he made.
Some architectural critics even point out that this trip may have had a potential in uence on his late work. But no one has dwelt upon it sofar. herefore, the present paper will try to find the roman histories in ouis . ahn s late work.
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The Identification of Contemporary Indian Architecture: Reading Between the Lines of the 1984 Mimar Publication on Charles Correa
Shaji Panicker, School of Design and Architecture, Manipal University, Dubai, UAE

Contemporary Indian architects and their architecture were the focus of an unprecedented wave of publications – academic, professional,
and popular – in the 1980s. Contributing to the prevalent hegemonic discourses of modernism and post-modernism in architecture, thediscourses concerned with Indian architecture during the latter half of the 1980s, have had a more universal appeal, at least in terms ofcirculation in libraries and architectural institutions worldwide. The point of departure of this paper is the claim that this published discourse
and its production have conspicuously shaped and limited perception of late-twentieth-century architectural production in India. As a case inpoint, through a critical reading of the 1984 Mimar publication on Charles Correa, I investigate dynamics and complexities in the formation
and reproduction of a dominant consensus on the identification of contemporary ndian architecture during thes. nvolving Pierre
Bourdieu’s theory of practice, as I posit in the current paper, objective categories which were produced through a complex social universeand certain events in it, were reproduced by several sites of discourse their identification was carried out not only with respect to certain
architects and their architecture, but also with respect to certain regions of architectural production in India – constructing, contradicting
or reproducing legitimate views of contemporary Indian architecture. This paper is part of a larger study that examines such narratives thathave contributed in positing a certain perception of “Indian” architecture and have guaranteed their own reproduction in historiography. A
rigorous study of such narratives is still pending.
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The Recognition of Regionality and Monuments of Urban Parks
Seungkoo Jo, Tongmyong University, South Korea

The notion of placeness is acquired through experience where people perceive and recognize their environment and generate a feelingand image of it which reveal an appropriate meaning from the place or space. This can be a way to experience place in a city. According toHannah Arendt, discussion of public parks in a city is related to concepts of between, space, and public interest. Arendt argues that meaning
community can only exist within a diverse set of perspectives. Place is not something that can be existed with segregated from the physicalcondition of the community, but a pace in city where many events occur regularly or irregularly. Place is the field of meaning and e istence.
How can a city whose character is described as enigmatic and contradictory create monuments which celebrate its common life? A city which
is both monumental and regional seems at first to be odds with itself, for monumentality re ects that aspect of urban structure which is called
universal and timeless, while regionality re ects the factor of urban structure referred to as local and time-specific. his study focused onunderstanding the place experience, based upon urban parks in Busan, South Korea, where the perception of placeness is obtained throughinteraction of a physical spatial subject(park) with human activity. Finally, the paper argues that the urban park can be recognized by people
living in a city as both monumental and regional, despite the improbable relationship that exists between these two qualities.

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Literature
Session Chair: Supaporn Yimwilaioo

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History and the Novel Form: Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey
Eli Park Sorensen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

This paper discusses the relationship between history and the novel form in Rohinton Mistry’s 1991 work Such a Long Journey. In 2010,
Mumbai University officially decided to remove Such a ong Journey from all course syllabuses. Aditya hackeray, whose grandfather was Bal
Thackeray (the founder of the party Shiv Sena), had made a complaint to the university administration regarding the book’s allegedly offensive
comments about Shiv Sena. The university’s radical decision subsequently led to a hot-tempered debate among critics and scholars, while
Mistry himself expressed disappointment over the decision preventing students of Mumbai University from reading and discussing his book.
Through a discussion of Such a Long Journey, this paper seeks to explore literature’s relationship to notions of freedom of expression within agiven political-historical conte t, as well as the uestion of referentiality and the relation between fiction and history.
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Pro ofie“It Was As Silly As All Women’s Stories”: Female’s Marginalisation and the Duality of Gender in the 20th Century West African Novel
Zohra Mehellou, Lancaster University, UK

When the simple act of talking is considered "silly", or worst "madness", here we should stop and look back at such a situation. This was
my reaction when first came across African novels. ovels, such as hinua Achebe s Things Fall Apart (1958) and Gabriel Okara’s The Voice(1964), both have a limited number of female characters, whom their roles are limited to serving males. The stories of Okonkwo’s motherin Things Fall Apart is re ected on as But it was as silly as all women s stories Achebe,, while uere in The Voice is considered awitch and casted outside the village, only because she opposed to the elders (males) by speaking her mind. These two characters (females),and despite their limited words, are always looming in the background, casting a source of protection and reminder of the past throughtheir folktales and night stories. In the Ghanaian novel, Obeng’s Eighteenpence (1943), however, Konaduwa is a female character who turns
the village upside down by her harsh words and continuous talking. Basing the analysis on Carl Jung’s image of the female and on the
duality of gender (male/female) in the African mythology, the work investigates how these marginalised female characters, through their
inclusion e clusion, are able to in uence, in one way or another, the fate of male protagonists. n so doing, the paper studies the idea of
resistance using these secondary characters females and through their silence voice using Signification as a speech act , in uence thedevelopment of the novels’ events.
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Pro ofie“Only When the Whole World Becomes One Family”: The Ideal Vision of a EurasianSupaporn Yimwilai, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand

My paper benefits from isa owe s idea of heterogeneity and multiplicity, Foucault s notion of power, and Gramsci s concept of hegemony.
My ultimate aim is to challenge the binary axis of power by examining how Sui Sin Far, a pioneer of Asian American writers, enunciates toresist the mechanism of power which attempted to dominate and to exclude the Asians. In Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of a Eurasian, Sui
Sin Far not only maps the difficulty of growing up as a Eurasian but also articulates her ideal vision, a racially harmonious world. n Pat andPan”, she attempts to imagine a more perfect social state, and illustrates how it is destroyed.

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Helping People to Feel Safer Regarding Urban Drug Scene and Associated Violence Through Artistic Interventions
Gabriel Thorens, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Daniele Zullino, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Caroline Momo, Independent Artist, Switzerland

Introduction: The feeling of being safe regarding the urban drug scene is often subjective and is not correlated to the actual violence
encountered. These insecurity feelings are sometimes spread by media, political idea, or by a feeling of discomfort in certain area ofthe city but not by real threats. Method: An online open questionnaire was submitted to artists and health professionals with one open
question: if you could help to alleviate the insecurity feeling in Geneva, Switzerland what would you do, regardless of the price and actual
feasibility of the project. Results: 134 respondents started the questionnaire, and 32 (23.8%) made a proposition with a detailed descriptionof their projects. The mean age was 43, and 60% were health professionals, 16% artists, 24% other professions. The projects wereclassified as follow artistic e hibitions or performances .
public debates .
urban developments .
concerts or festivals
12.5%; humorous interventions 12.5%; legal interventions 6.3%. Conclusion: 32 projects were proposed, the most interesting one (i.e.
a provocative art piece proposing a shelter for drug dealers, making people think on who is really safe on the street) are submitted forfundings and actual realization. Hopes with those projects are a better comprehension of real dangers related to the drug street scenes andmore artistic interventions than law enforcement or legal interventions.
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The Healthy Clash Between Caregivers and Artists – Or How to Reintroduce Heuristic Approaches Into Addiction Medicine
Daniele Zullino, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Rita Manghi, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Gabriel Thorens, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Stéphane Rothen, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Francisco Gonzalez Casanova, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Michèle Lechevalier, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza, Geneva School of Art and Design, Switzerland

On a clinical level, addiction could be considered as a form of loss of creativity: addictive behavior becomes problematic because it shifts
from a multiform way of life management towards a habit-driven, ritualized, automatized, narrow-viewed functioning. Thus, one of theprincipal therapeutic objectives becomes the widening of the cognitive and behavioral repertoire. Also, clinical practice has lately progressively
been organized along algorithmic logics, which consist in following: 1) a set of established instructions; 2) down a single pathway; 3) towards
one conclusion. This is a method adapted to routine work, which aims at (re)-producing stadardized products. Treating chronic diseases like
addiction, however, aims at developing new life projects, which are not given a priori. The therapy of addictions is mainly to be conceptualized
as a heuristic task, where no algorithm exists. It consists in experimenting new possibilities and devising new solutions, in creating something
the world didn t know it was missing. he definition of a heuristic enterprise in this sense could be applied literally on artistic endeavor. Here
we present an experiment during which students of the Geneva School of Art and Design were engaged to create their master projects within
an outpatient and day hospital facility for addictive disorders. The objective was a reciprocal questioning of therapy and art, of artists andtherapists, and of their role within the societal fabric. As the cohabitation resulted in multiple quarrels regarding “the right treatment” and“the rights of art”, the experiment was considered a full success.

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Saturday Spotlight Session
17:00-17:30 | Room: 501 (5F)

Ambiguous Japan: A Study on Four Lectures of Nobel Prize Winner Kenzaburo Ōe
Michele Eduarda Brasil de Sá, University of Brasília, Brazil

In 1994, Kenzaburō Ōe, the second Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, entitled his Nobel Lecture “Japan, the Ambiguous,and Myself ”, dialoguing with his predecessor, Yasunari Kawabata, whose Nobel Lecture was entitled “Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself ”.
Confessing his quest for “ways to be of some use in the cure and reconciliation of mankind”, Ōe proposes a re ection about Japan s role in theworld by that time, having ascended by its technology, but not by its literature or philosophy. His Nobel Lecture aligns with other three lecturesin different places and contexts: “Speaking on Japanese Culture before a Scandinavian Audience” (1992), “On Modern and Contemporary
Japanese iterature” San Francisco,and Japan s ual dentity A riter s ilemma”. his paper attempts to re ect on thewriter’s perspectives expressed in his lectures, focusing on the following subjects: Japanese culture and identity, Japan between past and future
and the contributions of literature in the achievement of peace.

Workshop Presentation
17:45-18:45 | Room: 501 (5F)ooWriting Our Lives Through Dreams: Taemong as Oral History and Personal Mythology
Loren Goodman, Yonsei University/Underwood International College, South Korea

The term taemong refers to Korean conception dreams that forecast not only the births and genders of children, but their personalities andcareer paths as well. n orea s not-so-distant past, it was thought that in order for a child to be born, he or she must first be dreamt. n thisrespect, taemong might be considered a form of history written in reverse – that is, in projection of an as yet unfolded life. By the same token,
birth dreams comprise not just the personal histories of those who are dreamt, but their rich collective oral histories the binding, defining
stories and narrative phenotypes of the individuals who make up families, communities, regions, and the entire nation. While taemong remainpart of a vibrant culture of dreaming in Korea, some suggest that the tradition is diminishing in importance. This workshop draws from four
years of ethnographic research (collecting taemong) and practice (interview, transcription, illumination, analysis) in the university classroom.
Primarily in uenced by the theories advanced and data presented in Fred Jeremy Seligson s Oriental Birth Dreams (1989), Eileen Stukane’s The
Dream Worlds of Pregnancy (1994), and Mark Brazeal’s Full Moon in a Jar (2011), this workshop is designed to 1) demonstrate and describe thefundamental characteristics of taemong; 2) stimulate discussion on ways to preserve and reinvigorate the tradition of taemong in Korea andintroduce the practice of taemong outside Korea; 3) inspire those who have taemong to inscribe them, and those who do not, to conceiveof and compose their own.

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09:00-10:30 | Room: 501 (5F)
Sunday Session I: 09:00-10:30
ooArts: Performing Arts Practices – Theater, Dance, Music
Session Chair: Piet Defraeyeoo

The Abstract of Brief Chronicles of the Times: A Case Study on Ming Hua Yuan Arts & Cultural Group's San Xi
Jui-Sun Chen, MingDao University, Taiwan
Yi-Ping Lai, MingDao University, Taiwan
Jui-Lung Hsieh, MingDao University, Taiwan

In the springtime of 2016, Ming Hua Yuan Arts & Cultural Group invited Huang Zhi-Kai (黃志凱), a young Taiwanese theatre director,
to adapt Hong Xing-Fu’s (洪醒夫short fiction, San Xi
isband the roupe” , into a stage play. n the fictional, Hong takes
advantage of a fictional aiwanese pera troupe, the u Shan pera roupe, to depict the difficulties the troupe encountered during
the 1950s and 1960s in Taiwan. In its theatrical adaptation, Huang employs the performing techniques of metadrama and tries to stagea traditional Taiwanese Opera troupe which was forced to disband in the mid-twentieth century. The way Huang uses the performing
techni ues of metadrama is to e plore two problems the decline of traditional aiwanese pera in aiwan, and the difficulties that thetheatrical artists face in aiwan. n order to unearth these issues, we discuss the problems embedded in the fiction and its theatrical adaptationin three aspects: 1) to understand how traditional Taiwanese Opera developed during the 1950s and 1960s in Taiwan; 2) to discuss the message
that the novelist and the playwright/director want to deliver to the audience via their works; and 3) to see how the techniques of metadrama
are manipulated by the director and how Taiwanese audience respond to the play. Hopefully, we expect to show that Ming Hua Yuan’s San Xi
is “the abstract and brief chronicles of the times” of Taiwanese theatre; that is, the brief history of Taiwanese Opera.
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The Analysis of History, Story and Narrative: A Case Study of Contemporary Performing Arts, Jao Jan Phom Hom: Nirat
Mutjarin Ittiphong, Silpakorn University, Thailand

Jao Jan Phom Hom: Nirat Phrathat In Khwaen by Mala Khamchan (Mr Charoen Malaroj), is a famous work of Thai literature awarded The
Southeast Asian Writers Award in 1991. The literature imagined the portrait about sentimentality and emotion of an unfamiliar princess in an
antecedent, which has never been found or recorded in history. The story is an elegiac poetry, which is a mixture of folk tales from northernand central hailand, on a pilgrimage to the Golden ock in Burma. he researcher has adapted and presented the magnificent literature
through the vision and forms of contemporary performing arts creature. The theme of the performance narrate by the main character,
Princess Jan, as a solo performance. t also emphasi es the insignificance of life related to the belief in Buddhism. his creative research is
the literature development to the contemporary performance, which retains on the history background and narrates through the story of
the princess. The analysis of history, story and narrative will lead to the integration of the knowledge to create a contemporary performance.
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The Performance of Patrice Lumumba

Piet Defraeye, University of Alberta, Canada
he first Prime Minister of the ongo, Patrice umumba
has ac uired a mythological fame as a key liberationist figure in theprocess of de-coloni ation in ongo, Africa and beyond. t is no surprise then, that the figure of Patrice umumba has drawn strong interest
from historians, activists, and artists alike. ne particular field of umumba discourse focuses on performance and theatre, and we can see
this resulting in a number of plays and performance interventions in a variety of languages and a wide variety of platforms. Performers likeUSA-based Robinson Frank Adu adopt a biographical approach in their rendition of Lumumba’s own writing on the stage. Other African
performers like Cameroon-based Samuel Fosso present a detailed impersonation of Lumumba in his practice. More prominent is the workof Aimé Césaire, Une Saison au Congo (1969), a play that is produced regularly in various languages. Lesser known plays include a numberof African stage responses, mostly from Nigeria, but also North American plays such as Adrienne Kennedy, Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964), andIreland’s Conor Cruise O’Brien with Murderous Angels (1969–70). The Belgian stage has also produced a few theatre responses, notably with
Anita an Belle s Errances (1998) and Philippe Beheydt and Stéphanie Mangez’s De Mémoire de Papillon. The production history of these plays
offers a rich field of cultural commentary on the figure of umumba. My presentation will focus on problems of iconographic representation,
including set design, location, and casting.

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09:00-10:30 | Room: 503 (5F)
Sunday Session I: 09:00-10:30
ooHumanities: Language, Linguistics
Session Chair: Chiuhui Wu
ooProfiling the Academic Word List in Research Project of EFL University Students
Anchalee eerachaisantikul, ajamangala University of echnology san, hailand
Boonchai Srisassawatkul, Rajamangala University of Technology Isan, Thailand

The current study is a corpus-based lexical study that purposes to question the use of words in Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List (AWL)
in research in the field of linguistics and applied linguistics. e compiled and investigatedresearch projects of EF university students
comprising 1,071,558 words, called the Research Project Corpus (RP). Our analysis acknowledged that, of 570 word families in the AWL, 287
appeared fre uently in the corpus and the coverage accounted for .
of the token in this corpus. Furthermore, this study identified nonacademic words that appeared more than 50 times and examined high-frequency content words in the RP Corpus. The non-academic words
are mostly nouns and adjectives that related to language education.
ooMeaning in Terms: A Monosemic Approach to the Lexical Semantics of English and Japanese Terms Taken from Narrative Contexts
Andreas Pichler, Aix-Marseille University, France

his presentation aims to look at a possible monosemy of English and Japanese terms taken from narratives by atsume Soseki and irginia
Woolf. Monosemy, the univocal relationship between a term and its meaning, appears to be a rare phenomenon. Contemporary critics haveso far focused on the polysemic nature of terms (Lyons, 1977; Cruse, 1999), others have simply taken the monosemy of terms for granted(Wüster, 1979; Paltridge 2014). Recent communicative approaches have even ignored the existence of monosemy (Cabré, 1998). However,the possession of one meaning appears to be an inherent property of terms from speciali ed languages in specific conte ts. n recent
years, linguistics have applied the study of sense possessions to scientific, economic, legal and academic terms. Few have shed light on themonosemic potential of geographical terms. My presentation aims to make up for this deficit and pursues a double objective. First, shallanalyze the sense boundaries of proper names (London, Tower Bridge; 東京, 京都) and of words from the general language (fog, city; 霧, 朝霧) taking into account morpholexical, semiotic and terminological aspects. Then, I try to put these terms into context using Natsume Soseki’s
The Tower of London and irginia oolf s The London Scene as narrative examples. In line with the conference theme, the narrative context ofthese stories might allow for some insight into the variability or in e ibility of word meaning helping to establish a possible monosemic natureof geographical terms from a diachronic as well as synchronic perspective.
ooBorder Talk: Exploring Taiwanese Undergraduate Students Experiences Studying in Southeast Asia
Chiuhui Wu, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages , Taiwan

This study attempts to broaden university students' horizons and intercultural awareness by relating the dominant Anglo culture to nonmainstream Southeast Asian culture in the conte t of English-language education programs. Specifically, this study, as part of a larger
integrated research project, aims to examine the spiritual aspects of culture as related to the experiences of Taiwanese undergraduate students
who have studied abroad in Southeast Asian countries. The study will examine how Taiwanese undergraduate students narrate their experiencesof studying in Southeast Asian countries in the contexts of exchange programs, internships or other short-term programs. The results of thestudy will strengthen the foundations of internationalization in Taiwanese universities and provide cross-cultural learning opportunities forEnglish majors and English professionals. Finally, the overseas e periences and resulting cultural insights of aiwanese students will benefit
our understanding of both our own and Southeast Asian culture.

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Sunday Session I

09:00-10:30 | Room: 505 (5F)
Sunday Session I: 09:00-10:30
ooLiterature: Historical Literature
Session Chair: Anchalee Seangthongoo

Justice: A New Historic Intertextual Study of Markus Zusaks' The Book Thief
Mahru Najam, COMSATS, Pakistan

The study will closely analyze how intertextuality is being used within the novel to give us an insight to the Jewish perspective in turn callingfor a reassessment of the Holocaust. The novel is an allegorical counter narrative of resilience and resistance by the marginalized Jews.
Reconstruction of the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective brings forth questions of whether justice has been served to the victims. Whether
the plight of Jews has been transmitted. The study will investigate how White's (2002) model of Intertextuality can be employed to dissect
multiple texts and voices that have been incorporated into the novel. The qualitative study will see, from a New Historical perspective, howintertextuality has been employed to unveil the cultural dynamics of the Holocaust and World War II era. The study will use White’s modelof intertextuality to decode the meaning embedded within the text. White (2002) talks about intra-vocalization, which in this novel refer toeath who in turn is the omniscient narrator and to other books that the protagonist steals which are re ective of her anguish and confusion.
Extra-vocalisation refers to Hitler's Mein Kampf. hese voices surface as being symbolic on multiple levels literally and figuratively . The Book
Thief maps an interplay of both traditional and subversive in contemporary culture. The research shows that the novel is an allegorical counter
narrative of resilience and resistance; revoking questions of justice. The research also points towards how in present day scenario similar
narratives of hope and justice are being penned in face of wars and genocides.
ooPrisms of History: Edward Said's Humanism
Simranpal Singh, Independent Scholar, India

The winding history of the Israeli-Arab dispute along with divergent historical, geopolitical and theological interpretations should becomplicated for one to make definite moral judgment. However, the cross-cultural dynamics between the sraeli Jew and the Palestinian
Arab and between the West and the East in general provide a historical and political context in which the genesis and genealogy of Edward
Said’s entire critical practice should be understood. Said emphasizes the critical practice of secular humanism which comprehends the humanworld from a secular historical perspective. Said’s secular humanism arises from a critical and political reaction to and resistance against
the rhetorical, ideological and strategic appeal to religious authority by Israel and the USA. The Israeli Zionist movement derives from thebiblical source to justify its reclamation of the “Promised Land” and its creation of the modern Jewish identity and nationality as membersof the “Chosen People”. Religious references and narratives appear to be indispensable in the formation of people and nation. It is partly asa reaction towards the Third World decolonization movement and domestic multiculturalist movement for the rights of cultural and social
minorities. By deploying the justifications of European colonialism, ionism effectively adopted the racial concepts of European culture.
ionism, therefore, has inevitably marked both Jews and Palestinians. For the latter, it is significant to recogni e that despite a concerted effort
to subsume them within the various parts of the Middle East, they have persisted, retaining their culture, their politics and their uniqueness.
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Forced Departures and Fragmented Realities in Palestinian Memoirs
Anchalee Seangthong, Panjab University, India

The Arabic word nakba means “catastrophe”. The Palestinians use this word to refer to the events that took place in Palestine before,
during and after 1948. These events terminated both in the establishment of the state of Israel and the loss of Palestine. In the decades
after 1948, the narratives of identity, exile and dispossession become the self-representation of survival. Palestinian memoir-writing, anamalgam of the personal and the political, well represents the ideas of self-representation, exile, displacement and collective memory
which I seek to explore in contemporary Palestinian memoirs. This paper attempts to argue through a study of memoirs that there
exists a shared national identity and collective memory within Palestine since al-nakba. The project includes the study of the history ofPalestinian- sraeli con ict and the significance of the genre of the memoir. Although a memoir is by definition a personal genre, writers
under scrutiny navigate between narrating their own story and illustrating a broader collective Palestinian history. In order to address
the relationship between memory and history, as well as that between personal memory and the continuation of collective memory, theresearcher considers the genre of memoir appropriate as it is suited to view it as nuanced portraits of the historical and contemporarysocio-political landscape of Palestine from the perspective of victims.

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09:00-10:30 | Room: 506 (5F)
Sunday Session I: 09:00-10:30
ooLiterature: Children’s & Young Adult Literature
Session Chair: Andrew Starkoo

The Presentation of Rape in Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak
Kamonwan Chummee, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Supaporn Yimwilai, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand

With the raising number of reported rape cases, rape becomes one of the crucial social problems in worldwide. Mostly, women and girls are
the main target of this violent crime. The violation on women’s body is an issue which has been discussed in many ways. Children’s literature
is one of the powerful tools used for raising awareness of sexual assault in readers. This paper focuses on the presentation of rape in Laurie
Halse Anderson's Speak. It also discusses the effects of rape culture on a rape victim and how the victim copes with the problems in theaftermath of rape. The study shows that rape myth acceptance considerably impacts people’s attitudes toward rape, rape victim and rapist.
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The Traumatic Power of Voice within the Chaos Walking Trilogy
Ashley O'Donnell, Central Michigan University, USA

I plan to examine how individual and historical traumas affect the forces of power and the use of voice within the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick
Ness in order to discover who(m) gets to narrate history and why. I want to explore issues of power and voice through the lenses of trauma
theory and post-colonialism. This paper, by necessity, will include similar events within American history to those within the novels in order todiscuss the issue of narrative power. Over the course of the trilogy three narrators emerge. This gives the reader varying perspectives on theevents at hand. However, is this also true within American history? For the most part, it is not. Many students are only provided narration of theevent by the supposed winners which, in most cases, was the dominant white society. By examining this trilogy it will become possible to discover
who, exactly, has power and voice within the scheme of the overall narrative. Who does the reader sympathize with? Whose voice affects them the
most? How do the different narrations, or voices, play into the discussion of the narration of history and what is the purpose of the expanding
narrative voice? Who has the right, within a traumatic environment, to narrate history? These are a few questions that I plan to explore, in depth,
in order to discover how trauma affects the narrator, narrative, and the power of voice within the trilogy.
ooHumans and Animals in the Graphic Novel The Call of the Wild from the Perspective of Ecocriticism Reading
Siraprapha Ratanaruamkarn, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Supaporn Yimwilai, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand

Nowadays, environmental crisis is one of the most important problems. Many people are affected by this crisis. Graphic novels can beused as a powerful tool to raise environmental awareness and urge people to protect the natural world. This paper aims to analyze therelationship between humans and animals in the graphic novel version of The Call of the Wild and examine the artistic techniques employed
to show the relationship. The graphic novel is analyzed through frameworks of ecocriticism and artistic techniques. The study showsthat humans’ treatments have major impacts on animals’ behavior. In addition, the study demonstrates that the graphic novel uses texts,
illustrations, and colors as the keys to present the relationship between humans and animals. This graphic novel can encourage readers tohave appreciation and concern for animals.

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09:00-10:30 | Room: Prokofiev (2F)
Sunday Session I: 09:00-10:30
oo Pro ofie
Literature: Asian Literature
Session Chair: Robert Onooo

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History in Fiction or Fiction in History: Enchi Fumiko’s Namamiko Monogatari as a Historical Novel
Ka Yan Lam, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

While Hayden White asserts that historical discourses mirror literary writing, he also recognizes the value of narrativity in historicalrepresentations of reality. Many authors of historical discourses interpret and report their materials in narrative form, in the process of which
the representation is governed by certain criteria of truth but also some degree of imagination. White’s theorizations relevantly underlie thereason why Enchi Fumiko’s novel Namamiko Monogatari (“A Tale of False Fortunes”) has been regarded by some critics as a historical novel.
Since the novel concerns the con ation of historically authentic elements and fictitiously created te ts, the difficulty in distinguishing fictitious
accounts from e isting historical documents not only constructs an e uivocal narrator but also reveals that narrative history and fiction are
rhetorically intertwined. Different from existing literary criticisms, I contend that from a metanarrative perspective, the novel metanarratively
e poses the conventions of historical novels and discloses the fictionality of the literary work. he metafictional effects are achieved by thenarrator-figure through her narrative strategies of recounting the embedded story, thereby establishing her authority but simultaneously
highlighting her status of unreliability. The second technique is the intertextual references to authoritative sources of a chronicle, classic texts,
and other historical works. argue that the prologue-narrator should be perceived as a fictional character who resembles the historical author
for metanarrative effects, and the narrator plays a pivotal role in her way of recounting the purportedly ancient manuscript which is rendered
as “true” history after her interpretation.
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Research of Chinese Literature Narrative under the Mass Media Age
Siqi Zhang, Jilin University, China

The establishment, generation and nee change of the Chinese literary narrative form system has an inherent relation with the main body ofcommunication media. Apart from constituting the special form of literary narration, the catering to, alienation and exclusion between literary
narrative form and transmission medium has infiltrated at the same time a certain historical stage distinct conte t, cultural atmosphere andsocial demands of the era as well. n the Mass Media Age, under the calling of in uiries of literary media medium fission, narrative character,narrative perspective, narrative voice, narrative frequency, narrative language, and many other factors are all facing the transformation. A
general sense of literature narrative system and production process “reality – artist – work C appreciator” has also presented displacement
and evolution in structure, identity and process.
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Circle Within Walls: A Comparative Study on Poets of Leprosariums
Robert Ono, Japan College of Social Work, Japan

Many forms of literature are nurtured in circles, or salon-like environment where participants with mutual interests serve interchangingly as
creators, readers, and critics. This was especially true with waka during the Heian period, a poetic form with 31 syllables that had immense
impact on the making of Japanese literature. Since the modernization of Japan, it seems that literary circle took a much more sophisticatedand universal form as a literary syndicate, or bundan. However, it must not be overlooked that many writers were active outside suchmainstream currents. Literary circles within leprosariums (leper colonies), which I am going to pay special attention to in this presentation,
would be a good example. A dozen or so leprosariums were homes to tens of thousands of leprosy patients, who were forced to leave theirreal homes and families. In such facilities many sought refuge to literature; they would express themselves freely on intramural magazines ofpoems and fiction, and even organi e nation-wide maga ines where patients from all over Japan could contribute. ircles within leprosariums
strived to enrich the culture of their very own “leprosy literature”. Using magazines such as Kikuchino, Kaede, and Aisei as primary sources, thispresentation aims to clarify the structure of, and values shared within these circles. Were there any particular theme or style that was dominant?
What kind of authorities did they rely on to evaluate their creation? What was their ultimate goal?

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09:00-10:30 | Room: Schumann (2F)
Sunday Session I: 09:00-10:00
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Session Chair: Jeremy Ekberg
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The Aesthetics of Medieval Scottish History: Justin Kurzel's Film Macbeth (2015)
Elyssa Cheng, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Setting his scenes in the bleak, barren Scottish highlands, Australian director Justin Kurzel (1974–) presents William Shakespeare’s tragedy ofMacbeth from the perspective of war trauma by portraying Macbeth as a sufferer of post-traumatic stress disorder and Lady Macbeth as a wife
who desperately hopes to retrieve her long-lost husband. Kurzel reads/interprets wars and its associating trauma using a range of aesthetic
devices that create an engrossing allegory for modern audiences, who are led to ponder warfare’s primitive brutality and psychologicalconsequences. This paper examines how Kurzel reads and interprets Shakespeare’s Macbeth through war trauma, exploring the aesthetic
contrasts between Macbeth’s brutal warrior world and Lady Macbeth’s noble, domestic world. It probes into the representation of pain andpathos that the couple, especially Lady Macbeth, undergo when they try to recoup their marital relationship. Kurzel depicts a weary husband’s
return from wars and the complications that their raw ambition and the regicide of King Duncan bring to their relationship. And in doingso, he brings a new perspective to the emotional void at the loss of a child in Shakespeare’s characterization of Lady Macbeth and to thealienation her husband experiences as he hopes to wrest the throne of Scotland from other contenders. Kurzel’s contemporary reading ofMacbeth thus brings new insight into the psychological motivations and suffering of Shakespeare s medieval Scottish historical figures.
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Ionesco's Forgotten Plays: Meaning and Performatives in The Niece-Wife and Bedlam Galore
Jeremy Ekberg, Hong Kong Nang Yan College, Hong Kong

The characters of Eugene Ionesco’s lesser-known short plays struggle to make sense of their bizarre, absurd, and often nightmarish worlds
through speech acts which take the form of erroneous syllogism and misinformed legalese. espite its aws, their speech is incredibly
powerful in their subjective worlds because in these absurd plays, reality shifts more rapidly and more ephemerally than in other fictional
worlds. Given how J. L. Austin theorizes speech as acts, it is clear how the words uttered by Ionesco’s characters empower them to make senseout of nonsense. For example, in Ionesco’s worlds, every speech is a speech act because each character builds a world of subjective sense forhimself even if that world makes no sense to other characters or the audience/reader. Set during a war and peaceful prosperity respectively,
Bedlam Galore and The Niece-Wife feature characters who struggle to make sense in a senseless world rife with irrationality, confusion, andperil. Because Ionesco’s worlds are linguistic and psycho-physical spaces in which characters die and come back to life and rely on internaland external chaos for any modicum of meaning-making, the language they use to do so is especially crucial to their world-making. Becausecharacters in many of Ionesco’s plays break Austin’s rules and ironically spout nonsense which often becomes true, the meanings of words
themselves and the logic and illogic they transmit are suspect and ephemeral though very powerful, always shifting at the whims of thecharacters themselves. Though they are surrounded by nonsense, Ionesco’s characters use the chaos to make meaning and thereby empowerthemselves through their speech acts.

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10:45-12:45 | Room: 501 (5F)
Sunday Session II: 10:45-12:45
ooHumanities: History, Historiography
Session Chair: Eiko Kawagoeoo

The History of Tuna Fishing in Tambler, General Santos City, The Philippines

Rebino Batoto, Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology, The Philippines
Cecilia B. Tangian, Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology, The Philippines
his study presents the historical evolution of tuna fishing in ambler, General Santos ity, with emphasis on the fishing methods. hepaper focuses only on the tuna offshore fishing sub-industries activities like fish marketing, smoking, canning, e porting and value-added
processing would be discussed if deemed necessary but considered beyond the study. As a qualitative research, key informant interview, focus
group discussion, site observation and documentary analysis were utili ed to gather and triangulate data. Study findings showed that the tunafishing in ambler was once done in indigenous manner but across time, due to various factors, become highly industriali ed. n Sarangani
Bay, the B laan used to fish in the estuarine area using bamboo and abaca net-traps especially by moonlight while the Maguindanaon paddled
boats with no outriggers to fish nearshore using abaca line and a hook made from a sharpened fishbone. However, with the arrival of the
migrant fishers from isayas and u on in the lates, better fishing techni ues, e.g. beach seine, drift gillnet, and ring seine, and the useof outriggered boats and bamboo payao fish aggregating device had been introduced, hence depleting the tuna resources in the bay. his
depletion and thes demand for sashimi-grade tuna by the Japanese market pushed the local fishers and investors to fish in the Moro
Gulf and Sulu Sea with the use of bigger fishing vessels unay with onboard refrigeration. oday, helicopters, sonar, powerblocks, modified
payao made of metals, and modern fishing boats have been utili ed for purse-seining in the high seas.
ooNarratives of Verdicts and Marginal Groups: Maritime Societies of Fujian in the Late Ming Dynasty
Yat Law Al, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

It is widely held by historians that pirates and merchants of the Ming Dynasty are two sides of the same coin. When the market is open and trade isallowed, the pirates transform themselves into merchants. When the market is closed and trade is forbidden, the merchants change into pirates. Whenrelating the academic research regarding the maritime history of the late imperial China, this discourse refers to the traditional notion of “merchantpirates” and is still commonly taken by present academics. he verdicts filed in several judicial casebooks, nonetheless, reveal the other side of themaritime societies whose activities took place in Chinese waters. To examine this seemingly contradictory phenomenon, this research looks into Fujian – aprovince creating some pivotal conjunctures in the maritime history of imperial China – and to study the situations and phenomena occurring along thecoastal regions. Two newly published court cases reports entitled “Puyang Yandu” (莆陽讞牘) and “Xinqi Santi Wenfa Shenyu” (新奇散體文法審語),
rarely explored by scholars, are the main sources adopted in this research. Although research on some particular pirates and prominent merchants is notuncommon, few have put the judicial casebooks under careful scrutiny, thus the interrelationship of some marginal social groups – that is, the seafarers
and trivial merchants has received insufficient attention. he marginal groups perceptions and the use of judicial casebooks will offer a bottom-up
perspective on and thus enrich our understanding of the maritime and socioeconomic history of the late imperial China.
ooCultivating Honesty: Salary and Corruption in the Yuan Through the Eyes of Officials and Scholars
Yiming Ha, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

The establishment of Chinese-style, centralized bureaucracy by Kublai beginning in 1260 was mirrored by the development of a payment
structure for officials, a process which took almost two decades to complete. For the first time since the birth of the Mongol Empire in,
officials formally began receiving salaries from the government for their work. n the surface, this structure was not dissimilar to that ofearlier hinese dynasties after all, the concept of payment for officials itself was borrowed from the Han hinese and indeed, ublai sought
to emulate the previous dynasties for legitimacy. However, the salary system was the subject of many complaints from officials and scholars
alike. his paper will study the salaries of uan officials and its impact on official corruption through the private writings and memorialsof uan officials and scholars. n particular, will focus on three individuals Hu iyu and heng Jufu, who were both major officials in
the court of Kublai and his successor, and Zheng Jiefu, who was writing from the perspective of a private individual. Though all agree thatthe salaries are low, the three individuals had different opinions on the problems and solutions. I will demonstrate that these differences are
regional – those in Northern China and those in Southern China had different concerns. Furthermore, I will show that the writings of private
individuals concerning the salaries are not completely accurate, which should be taken into consideration when used as a primary source.
ooEnchanting History of Kobe

Eiko Kawagoe, Kobe College, Japan
Kobe is well known as a “stylish city” worldwide. The purpose of the study is to research the secret to the style and uniqueness of thetown. Its enchanting history can tell the secret. Kobe developed along with the opening of the Port of Kobe in 1868. Before its opening,
Japan was in the Edo period, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate. The period was characterized by strictsocial order and isolationist foreign policies. Because of such isolationist policies, the Japanese had few chances to know anything about
foreign countries, people in other countries, and foreign cultures. But after the opening of the port, many people from all around the worldcame to Kobe. As the Japanese and foreign people lived in the neighborhood, there was a cultural fusion between foreign and Japanesecultures. This fusion of cultures has created the unique style of Kobe and made the city stylish. In addition to the cultural changes, Kobe
experienced drastic changes in religion and education. During the Edo period, Christianity was almost completely eradicated, but after
the opening of the port, American missionaries were sent to Kobe and women’s education began to change thanks to their efforts. They
educated Japanese girls based on liberal arts education and Christian education, and they began to have progressive spirits and live stylish
lives, while the purpose of Japanese women’s education at that time was to raise a dutiful wife and devoted mother.
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Sunday Session II

10:45-12:45 | Room: 503 (5F)
Sunday Session II: 10:45-12:15
ooHumanities: Language, Linguistics
Session Chair: Yi-Ping Lai
ooHigh Frequency Key Words in Tourism English in Newspapers: A Corpus-Based Approach
Chattraporn Junnak, Rajamangala University of Technology Isan, Thailand
Ladawan Juajamsai, Rajamangala University of Technology Isan, Thailand

ourism English is a new approach in the field of English for Specific Purposes ESP and it has its own linguistics style. he aim of thecurrent study is to analyze the most frequent and important vocabulary in the area of tourism. The data are extracted from a small corpus
amounting of 246,601 words, compiled from newspapers online in the tourism section of Thailand and the program “WordSmith Tool”
was used to analy e this corpus. n the analysis, the vocabularies were analy ed and identified the keywords that were most likely to occur
in tourism terms. he findings revealed that the most fre uently used in the corpus are more nouns and the most five fre uent tourism
keywords were “tourism”, “million”, “travel”, “government”, and “hotel”. It is hoped that this study could enhance the study of tourism
English and support learning of tourism English.
ooEveryone Has a Story to Tell: Learning English Through Narratives
Reena Mittal, MJP Rohilkhand University, India

The present study is about the use of narratives in the classroom of English, especially where English is taught and learned as second
language. In India, the tradition of narratives is really ancient. Fables used to give moral values amongst children. But their use for learning asecond language makes it more interesting productive and the outcome is beyond expectation. ELT always strives for innovative practices inclassroom to make it more result oriented. arratives, that too from first language or from present situation make atmosphere interdisciplinary
but bring productive results. My aim is to present my views on the development of narrative skills in teaching English. Storytelling has
tremendous benefits for classroom learning have noticed and e perienced this lately e perimenting with my undergraduate students. histime, want to e plore those benefits, in particular how storytelling inspires students to learn English. he motivation for this comes frommy recent experience of teaching to a heterogeneous group, 80% of which are students learning English as a second language. The outcomeof the paper showed that narratives play a significant role in the E teacher s effectiveness. As the M helped in teaching second language
in classrooms, similarly, narratives also play a dominant role.
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A Historical Overview of English Education in Taiwan
Yi-Ping Lai, MingDao University, Taiwan
Jui-Sung Chen, MingDao University, Taiwan
Chen-Yin Lee, MingDao University, Taiwan
Juilung Hsieh, MingDao University, Taiwan

For non-native speakers, English has been used as a tool for international and communication Brown,. English is the official
language in 37 countries, and more than a hundred countries consider it a key second or foreign language (Tai, 2000). Learning English
has become a trend since the British Empire and the United States historically wielded extensive military and commercial power
throughout the world (Edge, 1996). It follows, as noted by Hung (1998), that English education is important to Taiwanese people inorder for them to survive as global citi ens in a world community. However, specific factors affect English education in aiwan. A
discussion is needed of why and how English is important, and a description is needed of the way in which English is taught in Taiwan.
A view of the development of English education is provided here, and it is divided into four parts, which are cultural factors, social
factors, economic factors, and political factors.
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The Effects of School Performance and Teachers “Teaching on Students” Adaptive Learning in Taiwan
Ming-Hsueh Tsai, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan

Twelve years of national basic education development aims to help students adaptable and pluralistic development. In this study, the impactof senior high school education on the performance of senior high school and teachers “activation teaching on students” adaptive learning
is studied. The structural models of this study are analyzed with different grade and school categories as adjustment variables. This study
adopted a questionnaire survey, the survey object for the 104 school year high school students. The results show that: the performance ofsenior high school, teacher activation teaching, student adaptive learning is positively related to the three, teacher activation teaching positive
impact on student learning, and teacher activation teaching intermediary effect is established, so the structural equation model was validated.
The results show that the year level does not affect the identity of the structural equation model. However, the structural equation model isaffected by the different school classifications.
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Sunday Session II

10:45-12:15 | Room: 505 (5F)
Sunday Session II: 10:45-12:15
ooHumanities: Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication
Session Chair: Jose Mauricio Saldanha-Alvarezoo

The Issues of Space, War, and Genre in the Films of Chung Chang-Wha
Hyung-Sook Lee, Ewha Womans University, South Korea

his paper studies the films of hung hang- ha, one of the leading orean directors from thes to thes. He later moved to the
Shaw Brothers and worked as one of the elite directors in the Hong ong film industry. he study especially focuses on hung s orean
films such as Sunset on the Sarbin River (1965) and Fighters on a Wide Plain, etc., and suggests that the foreign locales of the films and the
hybrid genre become the complex indicators of the artist's cosmopolitan and liberal aspiration, the suppressive political reality of the nation,and the limitations and possibilities of the film industry. hung was one of the most prominent filmmakers during the post-war period.
evertheless, his films have hardly been researched in orea. His migration to Hong ong in the earlys eventually made him forgotten
by orean audience, and therefore his orean films are hardly accessible to contemporary viewers. Most of his films illustrate uite impressive
transnational imagination fors films, in many cases with an emphasis on the wartime e periences. ronically however, this period strictly
regulated overseas travel for filmmakers as well as other orean citi ens. By looking at hung s films, therefore, this paper tries to investigate
the unique way the traumatic experiences of the occupation, the war, and the military regime of the 1960s affect in forming and culturally
recreating transnational imagination in post-war orean films.
ooSeeking for New Values: Failure and Crisis of Models in Tsukamoto's and Kurosawa's Tokyo Films
Maxime Boyer-Degoul, Université Libre de Bruxelles, France

Postwar Japan was subject to deep identity mutations as a result from the defeat and the social reforms often dictated by the American
occupant. Only in 1951, after the end of the occupation the postwar “Japanese miracle” of the 1950s and the 1960s emphasized by new
economic prosperity and international reputation. And yet, starting from the 1960s, this feeling of defeat still endures as the contemporary
Japan remains haunted by the consequences of social mutations resulted from the postwar period at the cost of tradition. Such a mutationthat Mishima Yukio criticized in the 1960s through the fall of patriarchal authority and loss of old values. From Gilles Deleuze’s point of view,
cinema as a re ection of modernity and society also emphasi ed that crisis of individual by e posing the loss of the link between the man
and the world. n thes, many Japanese filmmakers such as akamatsu oji or eshigahara Hiroshi already shared their concerns about
this loss. Through this presentation, it will be demonstrated that this loss already observed in the 1960s still endures in contemporary Japan.
hat s why it will especially focus on two movies from present filmmakers Tokyo Fist (1995) by Tsukamoto Shinya and Tokyo Sonata (2008) by
Kurosawa Kiyoshi. Both of these movies highlight this still fallen masculine authority resulting in a crisis of obsolete models. In that case,
how is this figure depicted and in what way does that portrayal establish a present observation resulted from an unresolved postwar failureoo

A History, Several Stories and a Narrative L'Honneur D'un Capitaine: A Film by Pierre Schoendoerffer.
Jose Mauricio Saldanha-Alvarez, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

This paper seeks to discover how the colonial wars waged by France in Indochina (1945–1954) and Algeria (1954–1961) produced a history
polluted by memories of its colonial army considered accursed. he purpose of this article is to demonstrate how in a film, the director
highlights the history of colonial war the individual stories that are rooted in the weakness of memory, creating a personal narrative in theform of a pharmakon. n the film, a French captain, aron, who died in the campaign, is charged during a televised debate of being a torturer
and murderer of Algerian militants. His wife, Patricia, on behalf of his son, takes the accuser to the court of law, starting a process that, for
Foucault, is the way by which political power determines the truth. The review of events through the records of history and the interlacing ofcollective memory in Halbwachs, shows the fraying of the boundaries between the lie and the truth. Using the theoretical and historiographicalsupport coming from irilio, Arendt and errida, we demonstrate how the author makes the film a catharsis for the protagonists, accusing the
epublic of shirk responsibility by blaming the lost soldiers”, victims of history, because protagonists of a military defeat.

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Sunday Session II

10:45-11:45 | Room: 506 (5F)
Sunday Session II: 10:45-11:45
ooLiterature: Children’s & Young Adult Literature
Session Chair: Andrew Starkoo

Locking and Unlocking: Graphic Keys to Growing Up
Yan-Hao Huang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Graphic novels have become a newly risen literary format to convey pleasure and knowledge simultaneously. As for children’s literature,graphic novels contain more words than visual texts and yet remain visual stimulations. With the aid of the illustrations, the comprehensionof the literary texts will be extended. Neil Gaiman’s novels for children and young adults are intriguing and full of protagonists’ various
psychological states en route to their maturity. In this essay, I choose the adapted graphic novels by P. Craig Russell, Coraline: The Graphic Noveland The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel: Volumes 1 & 2, as my primary works in order to probe into the elucidatory portraits and analyze howthese graphic panels demonstrate literary elements. As Hutcheon explains in “A Theory of Adaptation”, adaptation is “an act of appropriatingor salvaging, and this is always a double process of interpreting and then creating something new” (20). I focus on the illustrations of keys
and doors to examine how Nodelman’s theory of the “home-away-home” pattern features in the graphic novels as the young protagonist's
path to growing up via those obstacles.
ooGraphic Novels: Revealing an Other History
Andrew Stark, The Southport School, Australia

The potency and educative value of visual literacy, through graphic novels and picture books, is well researched and supported in classrooms
around the world. As a literary genre, the graphic novel can deliver to readers a powerful narrative that often reveals the true social condition;
intentionally encouraging the reader to become a voyeur of personal history and intimate experience. While history may well be writtenby the victors the graphic novel often provides an antithesis; it reveals an other history, a narrative of the underclass by focusing on the
disadvantaged, the alienated, the conquered and the mute. If history, as presented through visual literacy, is not being constructed andarticulated by the powerful, then their power and authority is being transferred into the hands of graphic novelists and their publishers. We
live in an age of the spontaneous and immediate; where the twenty-four-hour news cycle quickly moves from one issue to the next, oftenwith perfunctory compassion and a lack of authoritative resolution. The graphic novel, however, with its imagery, storytelling and social voice
remains a constant, particularly for young readers. his presentation will re ect upon the mounting importance and value of visual literacy
in pedagogy and consider the in uence graphic novels can have on an audience s understanding of its social, environmental and economical
demarcations. Specific focus will be given to several Australian graphic novel publications that have successfully challenged audiences toreview and re-evaluate their understanding of and empathy towards important social issues.

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Sunday Session II

10:45-12:45 | Room: Prokofiev (2F)
Sunday Session II: 10:45-12:45
oo Pro ofie
Literature
Session Chair: Kien Trung Dooo

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How to Use Cultural Production to Drive and Guide Cultural Consumption
Jingyu Li, Jilin University, China

Regarding cultural consumption, the famous French sociologist, ideologist, and cultural theory critic Pierre Bourdieu put forward a theoreticalframework saying: “structure results habitus, habitus determines practice, and practice regenerates structure”. The theory mainly reviewed
the interactive relationship between cultural consumption behavior and social structure, it is believed that from the perspective of consumer's
subjective dynamic practice, different class had a different cultural consumption habitus, and formed a unique cultural consumption behavior
and grade. Cultural consumption levels and a country's political, economic and cultural levels are inseparable.With the rapid developmentof global economy, cultural consumption gradually turned to a cultural production level. Cultural consumption and cultural production
are mutually promoted and restricted. Cultural consumption determines cultural production and cultural production reacts to cultural
consumption, and also determines the trend of cultural consumption development. The paper analyzed the diverse cultural consumption
concept formed among different classes, genders, and races, and put forward how to use cultural production to drive and guide cultural
consumption, and gradually transform the passive cultural consumption to an active cultural production.
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Kai-Lan Huang, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan

Globalization has lead to an increased focus on the local, even if “global” and “local” have become increasingly intertwined and can no longer
be easily disentangled. While exhibition narratives employed by local museums increasingly focus on local characteristics, these characteristics
are at risk of being washed away. This raises the question of whether the “local” as it is expressed in exhibition narratives represents the “realsituation” or an unattainable utopia. The Lanyang Museum is a publicly funded local museum in Yilan, Taiwan, which was established by thegovernment after local demand and has acted as precursor and model for other local museums in Taiwan. In this paper, I will analyze the narrative
text of the Lanyang Museum using concepts proposed by Lefebvre in his The Production of Space (1974). My goal is to focus on the role of theconcept of space in the narrative structures of local museums in times of globalization and investigate how local museums resist or adapt to theseforces. In this paper, I will argue that even if the exhibition narrative of the Lanyang museum emphasizes locality and aims at preserving local
characteristics, as a government museum, it has no way of escaping the government's desire for local development and demands to attract mass
tourism in both its exhibition narrative and in its exhibitions. As a result, there is a big difference between home as it exhibited and as it is lived.
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The Sacred and the Sublime

Chitta Unni, Chaminade University of Honolulu, USA
David Coleman, Chaminade University of Honolulu, USA
Philosophy and literature always tried to connect what is in front of us with the beyond. That is how we stabilize the present. We are special kind of
bodies. An ape or a chimpan ee has no religion. But we do, and fight with others as to what it should be. Something about us that is not satisfied bywhat is in this world. What is in this world can be known through our senses, what is beyond it cannot. Yet we reach for it, we create it. How do we
do it and why? The immemorial way in which we did it is by speaking of this world to evoke what is not in this world. That is what having a language
does for us. Our universities presume to teach us to grasp what is there. But for grasping what is not there we turn to humanities. And the place ofhumanities lives in the margins these days. Why is this so, for what is true is only that within what is meaningful and humanities create the latter. In
our paper we will discuss humanities that lead us to a place where the things refuse to be no more and therefore are for evermore.
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The Contingency of the Self's Language: How We Create Our Stories by Using Language
Kien Trung Do, Kobe University, JapanThe most important part that creates the Self as “the knowing subject” or active entity with the proactive, purposeful and selective receptionof the materials from reality, not merely a machine moved by external interactions is cognitive elements or consciousness framework. When
we understand the cognition is a thinking process, the consciousness is the result that is formed by this process. A cognitive person does not
only re ect on materials from reality but also re-creates the image of reality in his mind. e can call it is the subjective image of the objective
world”, or “the self-creation”. Consciousness itself has no meaning without being related to language. The unbreakable connection between
consciousness and language is a guarantee of the existence and value of both concepts. To understand the Self ’s consciousness, we must
investigate it in its direct expression – language. It is a purely subjective system that human use to describe the reality and give it meaning. We canrealize that the Self has been formed by the constantly changing elements of the consciousness; therefore, its immediate reality – language – must
be placed within the adaptation in a specific conte t. My article will focus on the contingency of using language which is analy ed in the way wecreate the intermediate objects alongside their meaning firstly, the way we describe a real event in different meanings secondly, the way we create“the intermediate objects” carrying the meaning; thirdly, the way we re-create the intermediate objects by reconstructing the historical objects.
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10:45-12:45 | Room: Schumann (2F)
Sunday Session II: 10:45-12:45
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Literature: Literature, Language & Identity
Session Chair: Ashley Harbers
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Wordsworth, Identity, and the French Revolution

Chia-Jung Lee, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
My study mainly argues that William Wordsworth’s decision to write about his experience of the French Revolution turns The Prelude into a lifelong
work and destabili es its language. he retrospective view of this nightmarish political event intensifies ordsworth s doubts about his vocation as
nature’s poet and haunts his writing of the poem almost to the end. Stephen Gill thinks The Prelude is “a landmark in European literature because it
records the coming into being of an individual consciousness at exactly the moment when European society was being tortured into extreme selfconsciousness through the convulsion of the French Revolution...” It is my purpose here to look into the way Wordsworth shapes his “individual
consciousness” when he represents such a moment of political upheaval in the poem. In doing this, I will also engage with the large body of New
Historicist criticism on Wordsworth’s attitude to the Revolution. Looking into the poet’s use of language, which articulates his feeling of being“wearied out with contraries” (X. 899), my study will investigate how he creates a sanctuary from the writing of his “History” to establish a continuityof experience across the Revolution. However, here the challenge of being a poet emerges in his writing of personal life with a social scope. This
leads into the argument that it is precisely such recognition of contradictions and multiplicities in his act of self-identification that keeps ordsworth s
writing evolving into an epic engagement with, and exploration of, but no solution to, the problem of identity-formation.
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The Chaos of History' in Kamila Shamsie's A God in Every Stone
Chun Fu, National I-lan University, Taiwan

Kamila Shamsie’s latest work A God in Every Stone, dealing with the archaeology in Caspatyrus (now Peshawar, Pakistan), has a vast sweepof history spanning from 500 BCE to the 1930s and perhaps rightly leaves readers with a grave sense of inevitable decline of empires past,present and future. In her writing Shamsie blends well history with story as to compel readers to mull over how we use the past to build thefuture, as one critic cogently notes, “history is not actually something solely from the past, it is also something from the future because weare building it every second, every minute and indeed as we think our future actions through.” This paper dissects the meaning of loyalty andhonor traditionally upheld as the ultimate values for the glory of empire and contends that one s awareness of who he is fighting for serves
to be the prete t to the con icts and contradictions within empire eventually leading to its decline.
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A Study on Societal Conflict of the Selected Short Stories of Antonio Reyes Enriquez
Bhyto-in Cempron, Capitol University, The Philippines
Geldolin Inte, Capitol University, The Philippines

Philippine iterature shows how the Filipino differs from others. ichard . roghan, S. J. The Development of Philippine Literature in English). This study
presents the different societal con icts in the Philippines. a here are three con icts depicted in the selected short stories. hese are Man vs. Man,Man vs. Society, 3) Man vs. Himself. b) there are also Filipino values projected in the short stories. These are 1) Obedience, 2) Hard work, 3) Honesty,
Guilefulness,esponsibility,
espect, Bravery. Moreover, war con ict is the heaviest con ict among the e amined con ict theories which
result to total devastation. There were also Filipino values which were projected in the story such that: obedience, hard work, honesty, responsible, respectand bravery. So, these Filipino alues contribute to the sense of being, that should be emanate from each individual. Generally, we can say that the study
is relevant up to the present not only in the Philippines but also in the world for now nowadays everyone in the world is pushing through world peace
for the unity of all. hus, our sense of patriotism will be justified. Studying literary composition among the youth had lessened due to the technologicaltransformation advancements, they may also learn to appreciate their people’s history and culture. In addition, literature teachers should utilize local
literature in the classroom instruction, so students could relate to and be proud of their own culture’s past.
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Bending Time: History, Narrative, and Anachronism in Chang-Rae Lee's The Surrendered
Ashley Harbers, Yonsei University, South Korea

What is perhaps most remarkable about Chang-Rae Lee’s fourth novel is the manner in which he anchors the bodily and the divine in thepresence of two other texts in the novel, intertexts around which Lee “bends” a linear, historical sense of time. This paper aims to assess theeffect of the con uence of the visceral and the spiritual and the historical and the mythical in a novel that through its very narrative structure
argues for the continued relevance of the Lukácsian historical novel. The Surrendered articulates the relationship between trauma and memoryas-history through a memory-spliced narrative. he violence in icted on bodies in the novel, which both causes and results from different
traumas, is intricately connected with its treatment of history. Historical time in a linear sense collapses around the three main characters as
the story slides back and forth along a spectrum of thirty years, lending a literal sense of anachronism, a going backward through time, tothe novel. This movement through history is both a natural function of memory as well as another means by which to subvert notions ofhistorical objectivity, especially for an audience either unaware of the history, or worse, reading under a certain state-sponsored narrative.
The power of the historical novel, especially with regard to silenced historical events, like the Korean War, is the creation of a multiplicity ofvoices, voices that can challenge the dominant, or especially, the state-sponsored narrative voice.

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Sunday Session III
13:30-15:30 | Room: 501 (5F)

Sunday Session III: 13:30-15:30
ooArts: Visual Arts Practices
Session Chair: Kong HoooTextile Practices as Media for Narrating Local Story

Shu-Fang Huang, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
In this study, mainly the living materials of my hometown and its spatial imaginations will be explored through textile practices, and be transformed
into the subject matters of designs. Some humane images in local places will be investigated, in expectation to review the connection between
the designer and the places where he/she live, in order to contribute to the revelation of the deepest longing of human demand for home andfor collective memory of places. arratives of ainan alleys will be specified in this research to manifest in te tiles practices relating to creative
design. How to give those humble alleys a contemporary vision is an important goal of this study. Through experimenting with textile materials,
textile artists transform their environmental perceptions and experiences, and convey special intersection between individual inner (memory) andouter environment . By confirming intellectual energy of self introspection through perceptual e pression of te tile creations, additional valuesof the materials are generated. This study explores the importance of contemporary textiles that further can be developed into creative designs
concerning memories of local places. The research purposes include: 1) By studying the cases of textile practices, to review the meaning and valueof traditional industrial innovation in Taiwan; 2) Through textile practices to explore how design can be connected with designers living places; 3)
In exploring the development of textile creation, local elements of living places in Tainan can be applied to the design process.
ooTransition of Environmental Art: In Search of the Strategies for Sustainability
Shoso (Kuninori) Shimbo, RMIT University, Australia

The range of work referred as Environmental Art encompasses a wide variety of post-war art making and has been given a number of labels such as
and Art, Earthworks, Eco-Art etc. hile its definition is constantly changing, its development largely re ects the evolution of eco-thought. n thes numerous artists conceived Environmental Art chie y to oppose the commodification of the art market. However, environmental concerns
were not necessarily the core issues, despite the fact that environmentalism was born at that time. Actually the practice of American Land Artists
complements the ideas of conquest and exploration that characterised the industrial era, remaining loyal to anthropocentric perspectives, whichinterpret reality in terms of human values and experiences. During the 1980s and 1990s the term installation art replaced Environmental Art todescribe works of art that privilege an immersive e perience over medium-specificity. onse uently in subse uent years the term has been associatedwith artists who pursue environmental and conservationist agendas. ne of the defining features of Environmental Art is the ecocentric perspective,
which regards humans as components of interconnected systems. onsidering its increasing popularity and significance in the current age of climatechange and enhanced global warming, it is important to clarify its position as a potential crucial art movement. This study focuses on how selectedartists have responded to the issues of environment – specifying their approaches and strategies that could be useful for further investigation.
ooChinese Dolls: The Spiritual Pain of Chino-Thai Women

Sirikoy Chutataweesawas, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Kamol Phaosavasdi, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
The Chinese tradition is mainly rooted in patriarchal kinship, which regulates the role and status of Chinese women within familial and social
aspects of their culture. The objective of this paper is to explain the process of connecting and transferring the feelings, memories, and experiencesof Chinese migrant women in Chino-Thai culture by combining the form of portraiture painting with the form of a Chinese doll. The Chinese
traditional motifs symbols were investigated and classified according to the meaning of each hinese art element which can represent male andfemale symbols. This creative research presents the Chinese porcelain doll with a recreated traditional motif crafted through the researcher's
imagination. It narrates the meaning of the repression of women under the male-dominated culture. The researcher integrates her own Teochew(Chinese ethnicity) experiences in this culture (self-narrative), and includes Chino-Thai literature (novels, soap operas) as well as ethnographic
research methodology, which includes interviews of eochew women from three generations first generation hinese migrants over age ,Chino-Thais (age 69–50), and Thais (under age 49). They were asked to narrate their own aspects and experiences of their upbringing andgrowing up under Chinese patriarchal culture. The researcher uses the semiotic analysis and interpretation of the interview data to inform thecreative language of a series paintings that conveys the feelings, memories, and experiences of Teochew women.
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A Stroke in Time: An Artist's Memoir

Kong Ho, University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
As a teaching artist for almost three decades, Professor Kong Ho recalls his art experience in the form of a memoir. This paper explores his
retrospective study into his transcendental paintings and why he chose to write a personal memoir. This paper is divided into two parts. In thefirst part, Ho presents the reasons behind writing a narrative memoir derived from his art making story and nostalgic feelings. he second halfof this paper discusses the in uence of a aoist-Buddhist perspective on his art as well as the tracing of his art awakening e periences. Ho sinsights into his spiritual art and the meaning of writing a personal memoir are unique because he presents them as academic artistic research.
The aim of this artistic research is meant to highlight the value and impact of a personal memoir on an individual is artistic endeavours.
An artist’s memoir should be a true story written by a practicing artist. Like an artist’s statement which elaborates the intent or content of
individual artist’s work. The memoir presents the inner thoughts and aims of the artist. The narrative aspect of memoir is drawn directlyfrom the memory of individual. This paper will also examine how individuals constantly reconstruct their memories when writing a memoir.
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13:30-15:30 | Room: 501 (5F)

Sunday Session III: 13:30-15:30
ooHumanities: Teaching & Learning
Session Chair: Kanokwan Klaewharn
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The Effect of Literary and Non-Literary Texts on EFL Students' Critical Reading
Sirikarn Hiwanupong, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Supaporn Yimwilai, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand

Critical reading skills are important for all students around the world. Teaching these skills enables students to be critical readers and helps
them to survive in the real world. However, it was found that many EFL students lack critical reading skills. The objective was to enhance EFL
students’ critical reading skills. It focused on comparing between literary and non-literary texts in developing critical reading. The participantsconsisted of seventy eleventh-grade students studying in an EFL classroom. They were divided into two groups: an experimental group anda control group. Literary texts were used to teach the experimental group, whereas non-literary texts were taught to the control group. The
research instruments used in this study included: a critical reading test, lesson plans, and a set of questionnaires on students’ attitudes towards
using literary and non-literary texts. Mean scores, standard deviations, and t-test analyses were used to analyze the data. The results revealed
that using literary and non-literary texts had a positive effect on students’ critical reading skills. That is, critical reading skills of students in boththe e perimental and the control groups after the e periment were significantly higher than before the e periment. However, the scores ofstudents in the control group were significantly higher than those of the e perimental group. n addition, the result from the uestionnaires
showed that students in both groups thought that using literary and non-literary texts helped them develop critical reading skills. This study
confirmed the potential in applying literary and non-literary te ts in an EF classroom.
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The Importance of Pragmatics in English Language Teaching

Nadir Ali Mugheri, University of Sindh, Pakistan
Shahnila Anwar, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan
Conveying something to others with the help of exchanging of information by speaking is actually a method of pragmatics. The sense we
get from the communication contains verbal and non-verbal essentials which show a discrepancy in line with the perspective to the rapport
anked by speakers as well as to a number of other societal aspects. ts vibrant e pansion formulates English a global tongue language
which fastens nations everywhere in the world. Consequently, English can be looked upon as the general spotlight of every English speaking
man and woman that does not carve up either a linguistic or a civilization. In fact, people speak English in different situations & elevationsof correspondence or intercommunication. Thus English speaking people ought to know several pragmatic basics as to keep ones awayfrom misapprehensions at the time of communication. However, the ma imum usage of English has need of a pragmatic proficiency thatwould assist all those aspirants who learn or speak this language as L2 (second language). Thomas explained pragmatic ability like this as “thecompetence to examine language within a cognizant mode” (cited in Holmes 7 Brown, 2007, p. 524). Pragmatic competence passes on to
the capability to understand and assemble expressions that are correct as well as suitable to the societal, as well as civilizing state of affairs,
exchanging of information by speaking takes place. Pragmatics competence ought to be a foremost target for those people who are ESL(English as Second language) teachers, which at the same time characterize an exigent task also.
ooChallenges in Teaching French Literature in Iraqi Schools
Motea Ali, Al-Mustansiriya University, Iraq

Teaching literature of the world aims at the exploration of communities that produced it, their traditions and social phenomenon whether
positive or negative in the humane scale. In teaching literature, we cannot skip part of the literature. teaching literary text partially will result on adepreciation of the aesthetic value of the text. In Iraq, French literature is taught in the departments of French in three universities: University of
Baghdad, University of Al-Mustansiriya, the University of Mosul. ISIS prohibited teaching French poetry, novel and drama before they closed thedepartment of French totally. Putting this termination aside, there are ongoing debates on these universities over teaching French literature that
contains among its pages intimacy and sexuality. These academic institutions collide with the religious and social values that pays no importanceto the promotion of student’s critical thinking. In this paper, I will investigate these debates which sprang up to the surface after 2003, and I willsituate them in the social and cultural pretexts. I will also suggest some solutions to avoid such claims and debates in the departments of French.
ooEnhancing Vocabulary Learning by Using the Story-based Instruction
Kanokwan Klaewharn, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Supaporn Yimwilai, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand

ocabulary has been long believed to be one of the important elements in English learning. f students lack of vocabulary, their language
skills will suffer. However, it was found that many students in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms had problems in mastering
vocabularies. This study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of the story-based instruction in enhancing vocabulary learning. The
participants were eighty sixth- grade students in EFL classrooms. They were divided into two groups: an experimental and a control group.
The experimental group was taught vocabulary using the story-based instruction while the control group was taught by using school-based
instruction. The research instruments used in this study included an English vocabulary test, lesson plans based on English vocabulary
teaching through the story-based instruction. Mean scores, standard deviations, and t-test analyses were used to analyze the data. The results
revealed that using the story-based instruction had a positive effect on students' vocabulary learning. The English vocabulary learning of thestudents in the e perimental group taught by the story-based instruction was significantly higher than the control group taught by schoolbased instruction. his study confirmed the potential in applying story-based instruction in an EF classroom.
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13:30-15:30 | Room: 505 (5F)

Sunday Session III: 13:30-15:30
ooHumanities: Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication
Session Chair: Tristan Jacobs
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The Pain as Ikigai in the Filmography of Hirokazu Koreeda

lia Maki omimatsu, Pontifical atholic University of S o Paulo PU -SP , Bra il

Hiroka u oreeda is a Japanese film director and screenwriter who became famous, in the last decade, both in Japan and in the est. His
filmography has a special uality related to the Japanese concept of ikigai. It is not easy to translate ikigai. It seems to be a feeling related to
the reason to live”. he aim of this paper is to demonstrate how oreeda s filmography communicates internationally through this humanfeeling to e press different singularities of family affections. e will analy e three films The Light of Illusion (1995), Distance (1999) and Still
Walking (2008). All of them have presented questions about life and death based on family memories. Silence, melancholy and resilience ofwounds and pains are attached to past experiences that express ikigai as a reason for living. Through Koreeda’s images, ikigai can also be
intimately connected to the dark side of human behavior. herefore, in his filmography, the reason to live is not necessarily happiness, butalso a complex ambivalence between life and death, sadness and happiness.
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The Importance of the Western Literature in the Japanese Animation of the 1970s and 1980s
incen oe Masi,ew ork nstitute of echnology, USA

Animation is one of the most successful creative industries in the audiovisual sector. Over the years the Japanese animation has gained a great
popularity from fans all over the world. To reach this audience in the 1960s and 1970s Japanese studios tried to “invade” the Western market
with their products, using different strategies. One of these strategies was using stories and tales of Western origin. In this way Japanese
animation did not cause any cultural impact with Western populations and hence it could somehow open the European and American market
for new kinds of animations with Japanese typical features and canons. Through thorough research this paper will try to explain the historicaland creative reasons that led Japanese animation to be so popular in the est in the eighties, creating the so called first invasion” which will
be considered the opening of Japanese anime in Western society.
ooFans, Memes and Alternative Worlds: Writing History with Popular Culture
Joel Gn, SIM University, Singapore

Concerning the relationship between a historical text and its counterpart in popular culture, it is assumed that the latter is subordinate to theapparent integrity of the historical narrative, given that the “popular” is dictated by human fancy and error. However, one should also bear inmind that history involves an interpretation of actual events that is always authored via the lenses of subjectivity. Furthermore, the current
proliferation of perspectives enabled by ubiquitous media platforms has brought about a participatory culture that challenges – or displaces – theintegrity of any te t recognised as history. f the field of historical in uiry was once the e clusive domain of a highly literate class of consultants
who claimed to rationalise events at a distance, it is now a heterogeneous space that is primarily driven by impulses as expressed in opinion-basedjournalism, advertising, memes, and fan-produced works; as well as the viral mechanisms of the networks that support their transmission. This
space has led to an in ation of history s screen-value, in which the narrative is to a large e tent, constructed by a hyper-mediated immediacythat effectively determines the significance of an event. n view of these comple ities, this paper e plores the use of popular culture as a
medium for communicating, rather than distorting history. Using examples from fan-produced and online content, it argues that these alternative,
democratised te ts are derived from an agency that is both important and problematic for history s political efficacy in our postmodern milieu.
ooMono No Aware and the Tragedy of Clown: Considering Clownesque Characters and Their Performative-Writing in theWorks of Studio Ghibli
Tristan Jacobs, AFDA, South Africa

As a trained actor and professional dramaturg, often associated with the label of clown-writer, I approach the thematic concerns of history, story
and narrative through the following research. his paper introduces an interdisciplinary analysis of anime-film, from the perspective of theatricalperformativity and through the lens of the clown; in an attempt to locate the status of personal history in the performative “writing” of the mostchallenging theatrical style. I refer to the intricate performance technique (and study) of the clown-actor; a role driven by connection, mostly toan audience, that relies on ow and counter- ow to maintain authenticity. By looking at Hayao Miya aki s characters in performance”, proposethat they exemplify a clown attitude to the world, a clownesque behavioural engagement with their environment. From this understanding, I
suggest that certain characters in the animated films directed by Miya aki shape their narrative, tell their story, much the same way that Miya aki
writes makes the films themselves. His process, for one, does not include following a script but essentially making it up as he goes along. his
improvisatory aesthetic is incredibly clownesque. I will elaborate on two more points within this analytical trifecta, which includes a considerationof the con ict of ephemerality between clown-state and animated footage as archive. Hence, the title of this paper is in reference to the Japaneseterm for the “bitter-sweet awareness of the transience of beauty, life and love” (McDonald, 2004, p. 1), mono no aware.
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Sunday Session III: 13:30-15:30
ooHumanities: Literature/Literary Studies
Session Chair: Zhihui Lin
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The Fusion of Horizons in Cebuano Nature Poetry
Hope Yu, University of San Carlos, The Philippines

There are many possible approaches to questions regarding environmental identity and what shapes this character for a poet. In thispaper, will e amine these uestions with a focus on nature writing in ebuano literature. argue for such writing as identification-ascommonality using Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutic theories. Through nature writing, the Cebuano poet can cometo see the natural world in a different way.
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Reception of Arthur Rimbaud on Dai Wang Shu and Nakahara Cyûya's Poetry and the Construction of Their Poetic Decadent WorldJames Kin-Pong Au, University of Tokyo, Japan

This article argues that both Dai Wang-shu (戴望舒) (1905–1950) and Nakahara Cyûya (中原中也) (1907–1937), as translators of thepoetry of French symbolist Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), adopted similar decadent elements as three of them were trapped in the times ofturbulence – Rimbaud experienced the decline of the Second Empire and its collapse after Franco-Prussian War in 1870, while Nakahara wassituated in a revolutionary age at which politics and cultural rapid change were putting most Japanese people in a crisis of identity. Likewise,
ai s literary life ourished during the period of world wars in which hina was being invaded by Japanese armies. hile western scholars
such as Gregory Lee and Donald Keene have hitherto respectively considered the biographical accounts of Dai’s poetry and hastened to label
him as “Japanese Rimbaud”, and Asian scholars claimed the uniqueness of the two poets in unison, few have addressed the issue of how one’s
poetry will be in uenced through translation of others works. hrough close readings of some of their poetry, mainly ai s
ritten on a
Prison Wall” (獄中題壁) and “With My Injured Hand” (我用殘缺的手掌) (1941), written during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong,
and Nakahara’s Collection of Goat Songs (山羊の歌), written in the 1920s. I further argue that the reason they had to narrate and confess their
sentiment in such a French symbolic way is closely related to the crisis – including crisis of humanity, culture, war and identity.
oo(Re) Writing One's Own “History”: Why Not an Autobiography Proper?
Boutheina Khaldi, American University of Sharjah, UAE

In 1930 the Egyptian woman writer, educator, and poet Nabawiyyah Musa (d. 1951) wrote an autobiography entitled Tarikhi bi Qalami (“My Selfnscribed History” at a time when writing was a male preserve. Although Egyptian women were deprived of education, abawiyyah Musa defied
her family and society and sat for the secondary-school certificate and passed it to become the first Egyptian woman to earn a secondary school
degree in 1907. In her autobiography Nabawiyyah Musa presents her life as a struggle with many setbacks and successes. Although she anticipatedthe discussion about the overlap between narrative and history in Hayden White and Gérard Genette’s writings, Nabawiyyah Musa brought tothe discussion a new element: by writing herself/history, Nabawiyyah Musa’s autobiography becomes a feminist act of assertion in the face ofindigenous and colonial patriarchal oppression. Nabawiyyah Musa’s insistence on writing her own history points to the fact that men wrote
history with their own biases and perspectives, a history that marginalized or erased women and relegated them to the background. It is the intent
of this paper to e amine womens autobiography in general, and abawiyyah Musa s autobiography specifically, as a way of re-writing history.
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Looking in the Mirror: The Establishment of Women's Self-Perception and Its Narration in Ming-Qing China
Zhihui Lin, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

As forcefully pointed out by Grace Fong (2004) that “to approach women's subjectivity from the critical perspective of the everyday
could disclose modes of experience and agency otherwise obscured”. Everyday life is an important issue in gender study about lateimperial hina, but unfortunately, it has received insufficient scholarly attention comparing to fruitful researches on women s power andliterary achievement. This research places Ming-Qing women's activities concerning mirrors back to the context of everyday life, andexamines how a simple practice of everyday functioned in shaping and shaking women's self-perception and subjectivity. The research
will use women’s poetry as main source, because it tells us in women's own voice about their self-perception and domestic life. Serving
the pragmatic function of re ecting images, mirrors became a location in which women reali ed their beauty, sickness and senility, which
cultivated strong senses of self-appreciation, self-pity and self-sympathy. On the other hand, looking at the mirror also inspired womento question the perception of “self ”, creating the separation of “present self ” and “passed self ”, “true self ” and “other self ”. Images
in the mirror were not the only focus of looking. By depicting the shape and decoration of mirrors, women have creatively transformed
an everyday material into a carrier of emotional and intellectual expression. This paper explores how women established self-perception
through everyday practice, with an interesting discussion on how mirrors were sometimes used as the media through which women
externalized their perception of the “self ” in the classic theme of self-depiction.
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13:30-15:00 | Room: Prokofiev (2F)
Sunday Session III: 13:30-15:00
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Literature
Session Chair: Ljiljana Markovicoo

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Analyzing the History of Interracial Relationship in the US by Reading Brenda Aoki's Uncle Gunjiro's Girlfriend
Kaori Mori Want, Konan Women's University, Japan

Critical mixed race theorists have pointed out that the discussion of intermarried couples in the US mainly dealt with the issues of Black andWhite couples, and Asian and non-Asian couples were dismissed. It has historical importance to know what kind of experiences intermarried
Asian and non-Asian couple. Brenda Aoki’s play, Uncle Gunjiro’s Girlfriend, which is based on a true story, eloquently tells us the experience ofHelen Emery, an Irish American woman and Gunjiro Aoki, a Japanese man, who married in the early twentieth century. This paper will examine
the history of how American society had discriminated against and mistreated Helen and Gunjiro while incorporating critical mixed race theory,and the history of intermarriage in the United States. Helen and Gunjiro married in 1909 when the anti-miscegenation acts were practiced in the
United States. Because of their marriage they lost family and friends. Their children were exposed to prejudice. Asians at the time were regarded
as yellow peril and thought as economical, racial, and sexual threat by Whites. White women marrying Asian men were considered to be traitors.
Gunjiro and Helen ended up in divorce but their determination to be with a racially different partner could be understood as a historical testimony
in the time of racial intolerance that some Asians and non-Asians were courage enough to challenge the social mores.
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Problematizing the Memoir: Ahdaf Soueif's Cairo: My City, Our Revolution and Mona Prince's Revolution Is My Name
Farah Geninah, American University in Cairo, Egypt

This paper discusses Ahdaf Soueif ’s Cairo: My City, Our Revolution and Mona Prince’s Revolution Is My Name. Both are memoirs of theEgyptian 2011 revolution written by Egyptian women writers. Soueif and Prince illustrate their daily experiences in Tahrir Square during theeighteen days of the revolution. I explore how both writers utilize the memoir genre and how it serves their purposes. The memoir form allows
Soueif and Prince to provide a personalized account of their history as Egyptian women in the 2011 revolution. I apply Helen Buss’ idea ofthe memoir form being used by women to repossess history in a narrative where history has left them out. Soueif and Prince, therefore, use
the memoir form to mark their presence and reclaim their stories as women in the revolution. Soueif who has, for years, been living in the
United Kingdom. feels estranged from Cairo, and uses her memoir as a way of strengthening her connection to her hometown. Prince feels
distant as a member of the privileged class. She does not consider herself part of the group who need the revolution the most. However, hermemoir cements her participation and solidarity nonetheless. I explore their experience of gender discrimination in Tahrir Square, and how
the memoir form aids them in expressing them. I also look at the shortcomings and unreliability of the memoir genre, as pertaining to both
memoirs, and the issue with them being considered as representative of Egyptian female revolutionaries’ experience in general.
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Pro ofie“Indian Girls Are Not Supposed to Play Football”: Gender in Gurinder Chadha's Bend it Like Beckham
Ljiljana Markovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Biljana Djoric Francuski, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Throughout history, but even in the postmodern era, ridden with racial, ethnicity and nationalistic problems all over the world, anothercontroversial issue still persists in many cultures as a bone of contention, despite enormous efforts from all sides to close that chapter. The
problem in question is, simply phrased: gender inequality, and it is an inexhaustible source of creativity in all artistic areas, including literature,music and film, among other media. t goes without saying that female artists are much more susceptible and sensitive than men to portraying
women in subordinated situations. Therefore, gender issues are culturally constructed and represented in media primarily by women… andfor women, above all. Among these courageous people, an important place is occupied by a British Asian woman director, journalist andscriptwriter Gurinder hadha. All her films uite understandably highlight the problems related to race, ethnicity, gender and hybridity themore so as they depict the life of “women of colour” in the world in which they are marginalised and oppressed in the face of the dominant
men on the one hand and of the privileged white people on the other. his paper will focus on hadha s most successful film, Bend t ike
Beckham, in which she demonstrates how racial, cultural and gender con icts can be peacefully resolved by cherishing family andfriendship within the framework of the multicultural world.

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13:30-15:30 | Room: Schumann (2F)
Sunday Session III: 13:30-15:30
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Humanities: History, Historiography
Session Chair: Jeff Johnson
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The Kalevala Mythology Shaping Idioms of Art, Cultural Identity and Narratives Earlier and Today
Riitta Ojanperä, Finnish National Gallery, Finland

The Kalevala is a collection of old Finno-Ugric mythology that was published in the mid-nineteenth century. It formed a cornerstone of Finnish
cultural identity in the Grand Duchy of Russia during the struggle for national independence. It has attracted the attention of numerous artists,
authors and musicians from the time it was published up to present times. The impact of these mythological narratives and literary heroes has
been exceptional in Finland’s cultural history. On the other hand, the epic has spread throughout the world in translations to 57 languages. The
Kalevala was a lifelong inspiration for the artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela, whose career culminated in the construction of a national artistic identity
at the turn of the nineteenth century. Among his most well-known paintings is Kullervo Cursing (1899). This poor, half-naked, raging man in
the middle of a forest was interpreted as no less than a metaphor for his Nordic nation. The Kalevala’s stories were not only read as fiction but
also considered as manifesting actual historical past. My paper focuses on artistic and art-historical interpretations of The Kalevala’s stories, e.g. byGallen-Kallela, the most popular of which has been the tragic fate of the young man Kullervo, whose life was marked by abandonment, revenge,
incest and suicide. The narrative is active during national celebrations such as Finland’s centenary of independence in 2017.
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Refining Modern Beauties: Chinese Women in Cigarette Cards
Jie (Selina) Gao, Murray State University, USA

igarette cards were first introduced to hina in Shanghai by uke obacco ompany at the end of the nineteenth century in order to open
up its market in Asia. As the tobacco war involving foreign companies grew more intense, manufacturers increasingly used female beauties
as a popular element in their cigarette picture chips to boost sales and lure Chinese smokers. Soon, Chinese tobacco companies also joinedin on the competition. Numerous series of beauties cards were included in cigarette packages as a form of collectible advertisement. The
women featured here included renowned beauties of the late Qing dynasty, as well as republican socialites, celebrities, escort girls, movie stars,
famous singers, and athletes. hese cigarette cards mostly portrayed refined modern beauties sporting new hair styles along with awe-inspiring
dresses and accessories. For e ample, they showed women with curly hair, short haircuts, new fitting heongsams, swim suits and sportswear,
setting fashion trends that were embraced by the female population. The artistic styles of these images transformed along with the changes
in Chinese politics, the economy, social fashions, and ethnic values. This paper traces the evolution of female images in these cigarette cards
over the first half of the twentieth century. n doing so it addresses the relationship between these changes and women s liberation, illustratingsocial transformation over the course of different historical periods. It uses visual references to focus on the western impact on public imagesof Chinese women, women's roles during the Chinese enlightenment movement, and women's self-liberation and national salvation.
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Forging History: (Un)Authorised Biographies of Mythical Belgian Comic Authors
Geraldine Annick Pellegrin, University of Mauritius, Mauritius

The estate of Hergé (the Belgian artist best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin) is managed by Moulinsart. This company has acquireda reputation amongst intin scholars and fans as one that is difficult to deal with and e tremely protective of intin s and Herg s image.
The historical rival of Tintin, Spirou, is, apparently, the opposite of Tintin as the series is an ongoing one that has had numerous creators
throughout the years whereas Tintin remains the work of a single author. However, in 2011/2012, the heirs to some of the most famous
authors from the Spirou faction claimed a right of reply to the comic “Gringos Locos” and for some time it seemed that the book would
not be released. Although it was eventually released, the promised se uel, ra y Belgians”, remains unpublished to this day. his unfinishedwork is a biography of Jij , Fran uin and Morris, three mythical authors of the Spirou faction. Although it is not the first time that ann finds
himself caught up in scandal because of his work, I argue that the "Gringos Locos" affair should not be dismissed as just another provocationon the part of ann it is an opportunity to seek to understand the processes of mythification of comic book authors. ndeed, it is clear thatvery deliberate choices were made by the authors or their heirs and that some aspects of the authors’ lives and personalities have been or are
being kept out of official history.
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“The High Priestess of Anarchy”: Emma Goldman in the American West
Jeff Johnson, Providence College, USA

This presentation will focus on some ongoing research on Emma Goldman’s visits (and controversies) in Montana and the American Westfrom 1908 to 1914. The noted anarchist had a number of speaking engagements during those years. Typical of broader speaking tours of theperiod by prominent and some less so radicals in the est, these stops in Montana and fights in locales like Spokane, ashington, represent
the Progressive Era’s on the ground activism and radicalism. Goldman delivered lectures in Montana on trade unionism, anarchism, the prison
system, free speech/the press, and more. The stops in Montana (often, though not always, to address working class communities in Butte)
were received in a myriad of ways, depending on audience (Butte’s socialist mayor Lewis Duncan was welcoming, for example.) Yet during
one of her visits to Helena a scheduled debate with noted Montana socialist da rouch-Ha lett local officials denied her the right to speak,deeming her “un-American”. I hope to tell this and other stories employing sources, in addition to Goldman’s papers and letters, such asMontana newspaper accounts from the Montana News, Anaconda Standard, and Butte Miner.
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Writing the History of Humanimals: Illustrated with the Poetics of Documentaries
Sum Sheung Samson Tang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Animals play a starring role in human history; their presence is ever so ubiquitous that it would be remiss of – and is impossible for –historians to brush animals completely aside should they write about humans. This study concerns itself with writing the history of humananimal relations, pointing out that the fact of animals being “the inarticulate” has propelled us to explore an alternative model for writing thehistory of animals. To write the history of animals, I propound, is not only to acquire new knowledge about humans through examining theways in which animals are in close contact with us, but also to challenge from a posthumanist perspective the very status of “the human”,
something we have taken for granted but is constructed in opposition to – and is meaningful only in relation to – “the animal”. To achieve this,
this study focuses on some prominent documentaries about animals and about human-animal interactions produced from the 1970s onward,
a period commonly termed postmodernity, under which humans and animals have further become inextricably intertwined. Documentariesof this ilk should garner academic attention not only because more and more historians have actively engaged in documentary film-making,but also because their narrative resources and historical sources compensate for the shortcomings in historical documents. For those whowish to detail the dynamics of human-animal interactions, they have no option but to take documentaries into serious account in order tobridge the crevasse in the writing of the history of animals.
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The Apocalyptic Conscience As Experimentum Mundi
Lucia Gerbino, Roma 3 University, Italy

The idea is simple and it is that of the historical paradox, meta-theatrical, of Western drama on the Apocalypse: the tragic metaphor for thelife of an Everyman, whose scene is that of the “Theatrum Mundi” of medieval inspiration, with a stage necessarily bare, only four “mansion”
or ports, that is, mere representations of the Earth, Purgatory, Heaven and Hell and a e destruens. here the personified isdom, sisSophia, can relive with humans to begin the ne t era of civili ation, on the ground oor, only then that same ntelligence- isdom can beexperienced in the hearts of men, in the knowledge of the Love, when the era of our destructive and sinister materialism will say darkened,
the post-Nietzschean dawn of a new science of Life will illuminate the human (too human) apocalyptic earthly Night.
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Asian-Woman Mutedness in the Memoirs of Maxine Hong Kingston and Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Rosalina Rara Sarabosing, Holy Name University, The Philippines

The study analyses how woman muteness is revealed as self-portrait of the Asian-woman in the literary memoirs of Maxine Hong Kingston's
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of Girlhood among Ghosts, and Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian- American Memoir ofHomelands. The meta-textualities of Woman-roles and Woman-lingo of Muteness are synthesized as Self-Portrait of the Asian Woman. Asianwoman muteness presents her role as daughter and daughter-in-law, wife, female peranakan sibling, mother and aunt in her Chinese family –where she experiences inequalities in Asian patriarchal hegemony. These female-roles depict the sad plight of the Asian-woman as: unnamed,ostracised, abandoned, and institutionalised; bullied yet feared. Woman-lingo of muteness includes the peranakan: manek-manek (a gossipy
female whose chatter is heard and given attention only within the women’s circle). Lingo of muteness manifests the Asian-woman sense ofalienation, abandonment, loss, and loneliness which all display the low regard and position of the woman in Asian society. Muteness in her
roles and lingo are synthesised into a Self-Portrait of the Asian-Woman proves the Muted Group theory (Ardennes and Ardennes, 1969, 1974;
ramarae,all in Griffin,
in the Human ommunication Model.
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Ned Kelly: The Multiple Truths of Australia's Most Famous Bushranger
Rachel Franks, The University of Sydney, Australia

In a line-up of all the Australian criminals, who sparked fear in the community and generated business for the law and justice systems in thecolonial era, no individual stands taller than Edward ed” elly of ictoria. f all the bushrangers it is elly, and his Gang, who maintains
a prominent place within Australian history as a cultural and popular icon. This situates Kelly alongside many other bushrangers – men whorobbed, raped and murdered their way across the Australian outback in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – who are now the heroesof folklore. Men who have been celebrated in a wide variety of histories: in illustrations and paintings, in articles and books, in newspaper
reportage as well as in traditional songs. he practice of celebrating elly across a range of creative outputs including art, crime fiction, true
crime and song, is not, however, undertaken without some criticism. There are certainly some who consider Kelly to be a hero, a young man
rebelling against unwarranted police persecution and profiling. et many others position elly as a villain, one who did not hesitate to engage
in, and to lead others in, a diverse range of criminal activities from the stealing of livestock to the murdering of policemen. This research
looks brie y at Edward elly s story, not as a neat narrative but as a collo uium of voices, a suite of contested truths that surround Australia s
most famous bushranger.

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The Structure of Narrative Design. A Case Study: Interior Design Proposal of Thread of Life Gallery in Bali
July Hidayat, University of Pelita Harapan, Indonesia
Nadia Houdioni, University of Pelita Harapan, Indonesia

When an exhibition is designed with object-oriented approach that merely focuses on conservation, display and object information, visitors often
don’t understand the object. The design function as a medium of visual communication is failed. The exhibition design should be user-centeredand the goals are communicating objects and their context to visitors in order to make them understand, dive in the context and appreciate theobjects. In gallery exhibition, designing with story-telling approach or narrative design may even increase the sale value. In narrative exhibition,
the gallery doesn’t merely display objects but also spatially presents its production context, its relation with people and place. A narrative design
structure consists of abstract, orientation, con ict, evaluation, resolution and coda that relate one to another. arration developed in the designof Thread of Life gallery is the history of struggle of traditional textile craft women life from the downturn due to be less competitive withmodern textiles into becoming a valuable commodity. The textiles are produced manually using traditional instruments but beside retain theirtraditional pattern, the design is also adapted into modern clothes while maintaining the eco-friendly process. Implementing the strategy ofsimulation as traditional textile makers using interactive medias and multi-sensory design, visitors are given the opportunity to experience thedifficulties of manual production and actively involved in constructing the meaning of using the green te tile. he process of interpretation andre ection becomes personal, lasts longer in visitors memory and naturally be retold. etelling is the power of narration approach.
35548

The "Anti-Hungry, Anti-Civil War" Movement at Yenching University
Meng Jin, Peking University, China

In May 1947, there was a student protest called the “Anti-Hungry, Anti-Civil War” Movement, which played a key role in overthrowing theKuomintang government, and instigating students to support the Chinese Communist Party(CCP). During the protest, Yenching University,
as a Christian university, took full use of its advantages to participate in the protest unexpectedly. Yenching was once considered as a productof Western civilization, and a tool of invading China. But during the movement, Yenching became a main force of the protest and a helperof the CCP. 1) Why did it happen? Firstly, Yenching was no longer worthy of the fame of “Noble College” during the Civil War. Secondly,
Yenching’s motive to be more Chinese, and the Yenching Spirit had shaped more patriotic students. Thirdly, America-backed Yenching had
more free environment to fight with the local government. Fourthly, the underground
P was very strong in enching.
hat is theprocess of the movement in Yenching? It underwent 4 steps to promote the protest. 3) What is the attitudes towards the movement among
different forces? The local KMT government did not suppress Yenching students’ protests in public. The US Ambassador John Leighton
Stuart, who was the first principal of enching, reacted parado ically. he college officials and professors tried their best to protect students,
and wisely communicated with the government and the Board of Trustees in New York. Most of the students supported the movement, but
kept neutral in political standing.
35482

Resistance to Power in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland
Joshua Getz, National Taitung University, Taiwan

Lahiri’s novel encompasses the personal and the political as well as the nuclear family and the body politic. The Lowland tells the story of
Shubash and his younger brother Udayan who grow up in Calcutta after Indian independence. While Shubash is the more careful anddeferential of authority, Udayan is transgressive and uestions social norms. esponding to widespread starvation and corruption, firebrandUdayan joins the insurgent Naxalite movement in Calcutta in the 1960s. Whereas ideological concerns outweigh familial ones for Udayan,
Shubash’s approach to life is reversed. Shubash becomes a graduate student in the United States and later an academic, while Udayan,
concerned with social justice, also rejects familial authority and norms of arranged marriage when he marries Gauri who studies philosophy
and is politically engaged. His passion, disdain of authority and transgression are alien to his migrant brother. Gauri keeps track of apoliceman Udayan eventually kills as class enemy. Eventually Udayan is killed by the police. In prioritizing his radical political commitments
over familial ones, Udayan betrays Gauri’s trust. Shubash’s commitments, however, never move to anything beyond the familial. Returning tomourn Udayan, Shubash opts not to take care of his parents as family responsibility would dictate. Instead, he marries Udayan’s widow, Gauri,and becomes the father of his daughter, Bella, bringing both to the United States. As a young adult, Bella becomes an organic agriculture
activist. Rejecting middle-class life as an itinerant, dependent on odd jobs, Bela unwittingly carries forward Udayan’s political activism.

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35662

Beyond “Sex and the Family”: Revisionist Historiography in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman
Dina ElDakhakhny, Yonsei University, South Korea

Until the early nineties and for various reasons, the experiences of (Korean) comfort women were edited out of Korean and Japanese
historical narratives, highlighting how power dynamics and different agendas lead to the sanitization and censoring of historical records.
In her novel Comfort Woman (1997), Nora Okja Keller positions Akiko, a survivor of Japanese sexual slavery, and her daughter Beccah asrevisionist historiographers who capture these untold and forgotten histories for future generations. Forced to remain silent, Akiko produces
innovative counter-narratives which she manages to document for her daughter and future generations by leaving a box full of clippings ofboth an official and a personal nature. By combining the two, Akiko introduces a more comprehensive view of history which includes private
as well as national sacrifices, particularly those of women. Beccah, too, with her work as an obituarist performs a new brand of revisionist
historiography. bituaries serve as a sort of personal history, and faced with her mother s death, Beccah reali es that a formulaic official”
obituary is non-comprehensive. Throughout the narrative, particularly by posing as revisionist historiographers, the women in Keller’s novel
challenge traditional views of history and record the forgotten and neglected experiences of women.
34048“Then the Tragedy Begins”: Performing and Presenting the Personal History and Private Memory in Milo Rau's Die Europa Trilogie
Lily Maeve Climenhaga, University of Alberta, Canada & Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany

This examination investigates how the performance of personal history and private narrative in Swiss director Milo Rau’s Die Europa Trilogie
presents spectators with a counter-narrative to existing macro-analyses of European current events. Rau’s trilogy stages personal narrative
within the scope of recent European history: the Second World War, Yugoslavian Civil War, and Syrian Civil War. The plays present audienceswith the unique opportunity to reanalyze the recent past through a new lens. Exploring the changing socio-political landscape of Europe
and how these charges are precipitated by international and or internal con ict, The Civil Wars (2014), The Dark Ages (2015), and Empire(2016) retell recent history from the perspective of the individual (actor witnesses), highlighting the intersection of experience between theactor-participants. hereas larger histories tend to situate these con icts in a larger global conte t, au presents a series of performative
microhistories. This examination looks at how Rau employs theatre to reframe existing narratives by refocusing on the individual, juxtaposing
these microhistories with the grand narratives of classic plays from Chekhov (in The Civil Wars), Shakespeare (in The Dark Ages), and Euripides(in Empire). Building on the theoretical groundwork laid out by Carlo Ginzburg, this inquiry begins by examining Rau’s performance texts
through the lens of microhistory. It continues into the performative and presentational aspect of the trilogy in a comparative analysis of thetrilogy’s intimate mise-en-scène (the overarching aesthetic) in conjunction with its challenge to existing public historical narratives on war,migration, and the European consciousness.
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Content Analysis of English Itineraries about Iran Translated into Persian, Existing in the Libraries
Zohreh Mirhosseini, Islamic Azad University North Tehran Branch, Iran
Azadeh Heidari, Parliament Library librarian, Iran

A travel log has nice and sad stories inside by narrator to show historical facts. So this study investigates English Itineraries about Iran which
are translated into Persian and exist in the libraries to help historians and researchers. On the whole 60 translated itineraries from 64 travelers
were found since the sixteenth to twentieth centuries in libraries such as National, Parliament, Astan-e-Ghods, Contemporary History Library,
Iranology Foundation, Foreign Affairs Ministry, Tehran University, Cultural Heritage Institution. The content analysis is used to understandthe history of the country within the sharp views of the English travelers. Data is gathered by taking notes in detail and grouping the subjects
found in the books. For subject area also the library of congress subject heading is used. The results showed that most of the travelers were
English politicians (70%) and were interested in the geographical situation of Iran. The majority of English travelers have come to thecountry during the period 1900–1950 (51.56%) and the nineteenth century (40.62%). The aims of the travelers were multipurpose (62.5%),
political purposes (21.87%), tourism (4.7%), business (3.12%), military (3.12%), archeology, medicine, and geography (each 1.56%). Tehran,Isfahan and Qazvin are the most visited cities. Behavioral descriptions of the people, like wedding ceremonies, funerals, dressing, proverbs,
social relations and deficiencies, are mentioned in these books. he history of cities and rural areas like historical monuments were mentioned
too. These historical evidences which have sometimes positive approaches (37.5%), sometimes negative (12.5%) and neutral (50%) help toknow more about the past facts and the present situation.

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Conference
Highlights:
The Past 12
MonthsSince 2009, IAFOR has welcomed
university presidents, faculty deans, awardwinning journalists, national politicians,
government ministers, diplomats, charity
leaders, think tank directors, documentarymakers, movie directors, members of thearmed forces, lawyers, doctors, jurists,
artists, poets, writers, clergy, scientists,
philosophers...
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Top left: Did news coverage create the man or did the man create the news coverage? Professor Gary Swanson discusses the rise of Donald
Trump at at The Asian Conference on Media & Mass Communication 2016 (MediAsia2016). Professor Swanson is the former Hansen Endowed
Chair in Journalism and Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence at the University of Northern Colorado. He has received more than 75 awards forbroadcast excellence including three EMMYs. Top right: Internationally recognised specialist in human rights, sexuality and culture Professor
Baden Offord chairs a Featured Panel on Social Movements and Critical Pedagogy at The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS2016).
Above left: Grand Prize Winner of the IAFOR Documentary Film Award 2016, PLACEBO: ALT. RUSSIA – a documentary which explores thealternative cultures that are present within Russia’s major cities, directed by Charlie Targett-Adams and announced at The Asian Conference on Film
& Documentary 2016 in Kobe, Japan. Above right: Speaking on contemporary issues in journalism, Professor Richard Roth of Northwestern
University, USA, delivers his Keynote Presentation at The Asian Conference on Media & Mass Communication 2016 (MediAsia2016).
Below left: Silent film pianist Mie Yanashita prepares to perform an improvisational soundtrack to the film What Made Her Do It? after presenting
on the same topic at The Asian Conference on Media & Mass Communication 2016 (MediAsia2016) in Kobe, Japan. She has accompanied morethan 600 silent film screenings in Japan and throughout the world, and has played in the UK, Germany, Italy, Thailand, Korea, and Malaysia.
Below right: The One String Suma Goto Preservation Society perform. The history of the single string version of the suma goto dates back to
the 11th century. Played during the Sake Tasting Workshop at The Asian Conference on Language Learning 2016 (ACLL2016).

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Above: IAFOR places great value on the local community and aims to ensure our delegates can experience Japan’s culture through a packed
and exciting programme of events. IAFOR conferences offer delegates a diverse, informative and thought-provoking range of activities andexperiences, such as taiko drumming.
Below left: An image from the series Life After Injury by Ukrainian photojournalist Alexey Furman, Grand Prize Winner of the 2016
IAFOR Documentary Photography Award. “With this project I would like to raise awareness on a growing number of war veteransin Ukraine.” Winners were announced at The European Conference on Media, Communication & Film (EuroMedia2016) in Brighton,
England. The award’s theme corresponds to the theme of the conference, which in 2016 was “justice”. Below right: Traditional Awa
Odori dance performance. The International Academic Forum is proud to be based in Japan, and we organise a number of events
throughout the year that showcase the best of Japanese culture, ranging from the raw power of the taiko drums to the understated beautyof the tea ceremony, from martial arts demonstrations by world class masters to hands-on calligraphy workshops by university clubs andhaiku workshops by leading poets.

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Above left: At The IAFOR International Conference on the City (City2016), renowned critic and theorist Professor Bill Ashcroftof the University of New South Wales, Australia, gives a Keynote Presentation on the concept of the Transnation. Above centre:
Alonso Carnicer, a news reporter at TV3, the Catalan Television channel, and Keynote Speaker at City2016, discusses his Catalan
Television documentary, “Shanty towns, the forgotten city”, which tells the story of impoverished settlements in Barcelona. Aboveright: Novelist, playwright and poet Gloria Montero, Global2016 Featured Speaker, delivers a talk entitled “Filling in the Lonely,
Empty Places” at The IAFOR International Conference on Global Studies (Global2016).
Below left: Speaking on the dialectics of communication, Professor Svetlana Ter-Minasova of Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Russia, presents during the Plenary Session at The European Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences (ECP2016). Belowright: Dr Eddie Bruce-Jones of Birkbeck College School of Law, University of London, UK, explores the tensions and possibilities
inherent in interdisciplinary work at the junction of the legal, the social-scientific and the literary, in his Keynote Presentation at The
European Conference on the Social Sciences (ECSS2016).
Bottom left: Dr Amy Azano, Keynote Speaker at The European Conference on Education (ECE2016), gives an animated presentation
entitled “Leveraging Place and Moving Toward Glocalized Learning”. Bottom right: At The European Conference on Language
Learning (ECLL2016), Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele, Keynote Speaker, argues that these non-linguistic benefits of language learning
are illustrations of multicompetence.

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Above left: Professor Sanja Bahun of the University of Essex, UK, addresses the part played by the arts, and literary art in particular,
in transitional societies, in a Keynote Presentation at The European Conference on Literature & Librarianship (LibEuro2016). Aboveright: In her role as ECAH2016 Keynote Speaker, Professor Anne Boddington of the College of Arts and Humanities, Universityof Brighton, UK, explores the idea of the “stained glass ceiling”, by examining the challenge of achieving effective intersectionality
through gender and ethnic inequalities.
Below left: Toshihiko Sakaguchi, EBMC2016 Keynote Speaker and Director-General of JETRO London, gives a talk entitled“Japanese Economy and Business Opportunities” during the Plenary Session of The European Business & Management Conference(EBMC2016). Below right: At The European Conference on Politics, Economics & Law (ECPEL2016), Professor Michael Clarke,
Keynote Speaker and Former Director General of the Royal United Services Institute, discusses the way in which the essential rules ofinternational politics were formed and those states and societies that shaped them.
Bottom left: In a Keynote Presentation on reducing fear, increasing confidence and reaching the students who think that learning is anordeal, Ken Wilson, a teacher trainer, and published author of a large amount of ELT materials, outlines how some simple group andgame activities can serve as confidence builders for students at The European Conference on Language Learning (ECLL2016). Bottom
right: Jared Baxter, ECAH2016 Keynote Speaker and Vincent van Gogh researcher, presents on “Vincent van Gogh’s Symbolist Art”
at The European Conference on Arts & Humanities (ECAH2016).

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Above left: Yukio Satoh gives his Keynote Presentation entitled “Shifting Strategic Balance and Asian Security” at The Asia-Pacific Conference on
Security and International Relations 2016 (APSec2016). Former Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations and former ambassadorof Japan to Australia and the Netherlands, Yukio Satoh is now based at the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Japan. Above right: Current
President of the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA) Professor Brendan Howe welcomes delegates to the The Asia-PacificConference on Security and International Relations 2016 (APSec2016), held jointly with APISA’s tenth annual congress in Osaka, Japan.
Below left: In a Keynote Presentation at The Asia-Pacific Conference on Security and International Relations 2016 (APSec2016), Professor Jun
Arima, based at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo, Japan, speaks on Asia’s energy outlook. Professor Arima was Director
General of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), London, UK, and Special Advisor on Global Environmental Affairs for the Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan from 2011 to 2015. Below right: Keynote Speaker Xingzui Wang, Executive Vice President of the
China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, addresses delegates at the Plenary Session of The Asia-Pacific Conference on Security and International
Relations 2016 (APSec2016) on fighting poverty in China.
Bottom left: Michael Alfant, President Emeritus of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan and Group President and CEO of Fusions
Systems Group, headquartered in Tokyo, listens attentively during the Plenary Session of the The Asian Business & Management Conference 2016
(ABMC2016) in Kobe, Japan.
Bottom right: At IAFOR’s Kansai-based conferences the arts and culture of Japan are frequently showcased as part of the programme. Conference
attendees at The Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom 2016 (ACTC2016) had the opportunity to gain knowledge and practicalexperience in the art of the Japanese green tea ceremony, with an informative demonstration and workshop given by local artisans.

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Above left: Addressing delegates at The Asian Conference on Education 2016 (ACE2016), Dr Peter McCagg gives a Keynote Presentation
entitled “International Liberal Arts: Meeting Japan’s Higher Education Needs in the Global and Digital Era”. In his talk he identified
dimensions of the university experience in Japan that can and need to be strengthened in order to create coherence and integrity instudents’ intellectual experiences. Dr McCagg is the Vice President for Academic Affairs of Akita International University, Japan.
Above right: In her Keynote Presentation, Professor Insung Jung of the International Christian University, Japan, examines the ways
MOOCs are being used by individual learners and university systems, and their impact on access, quality and cost in higher education, at
The Asian Conference on Society, Education and Technology 2016 (ACSET2016).
Below: Professor Grant Black (below top left), Vice-President of The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), chairs a Featured
Symposium entitled “The Globalisation Process for University Education in Japan” at The Asian Conference on Education 2016
(ACE2016) in Kobe, Japan. The symposium aimed to integrate education theory and research with the context of long-term social
processes in order to address policy reform and structural change in Japanese universities, and contributors included Dr Fumiko Kurihara
of Chuo University (below top middle), Dr Maria Gabriela Schmidt of the University of Tsukuba (below top right), Dr Yasuo Nakataniof Hosei University (below bottom left), Dr Yukiko Mishina of the University of Tokyo, Japan (below center middle) and Dr Reiko
Yamada of Doshisha University (below bottom right), all based in Japan.

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Top left: John Nguyet Erni, Chair Professor in Humanities and Head of the Department of Humanities & Creative Writing at Hong Kong
Baptist University, poses questions about new sovereignty, human rights and humanitarian discourse in a Keynote Presentation at The
Asian Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS2016) entitled “Negotiating ‘Refuge’: Humanitarianism for the ‘Included-outs’”. Professor Erni
has published widely on international and Asia-based cultural studies, human rights legal criticism, Chinese consumption of transnational
culture, gender and sexuality in media culture, youth popular consumption in Hong Kong and Asia, and critical public health.
Top centre: At The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS2016), Professor Koichi Iwabuchi chairs a Keynote Panel on social
movements and critical pedagogy. Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Director of the Monash Asia
Institute in Monash University, Australia, and his main research interests are media and cultural globalisation, multicultural questions,
mixed race and cultural citizenship in East Asian contexts.
Top right: Dr Amy Szarkowski delivers an interesting Featured Panel Presentation on disability and disability issues in Japan at The
Asian Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS2016). Dr Szarkowski is a psychologist in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program at BostonChildren’s Hospital and an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, USA.
Below left: Dr James McNally of the University of Michigan, USA, is Director of the NACDA Program on Aging, a data archive
containing over 1,500 studies related to health and the aging lifecourse. As AGen2016 Featured Speaker & Conference Co-Chair, hedelivers a Featured Presentation on the individual and societal benefits for caregivers to elderly family members. Professor McNally is

is Vice-President of The International Academic Forum (IAFOR).
Below centre: Professor Jun Arima, of the Graduate School of Public Policies, University of Tokyo, Japan, gives a Keynote Presentationon the significance of the Paris Agreement in the history of climate negotiation, its major points and Japan’s action, at The Asian
Conference on Sustainability, Energy and the Environment (ACSEE2016).
Below right: As Keynote Speaker at The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology (AGen2016), Professor Hiroshi Ishida discusses
social survey data sets and data-archiving activities in Japan and introduces the Social Science Japan Data Archive (SSJDA).

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The IAFOR Dubai Conference Series was held in February 2017 at the The InterContinental Festival City Event Centre in Dubai, UAE, as
an interdisciplinary event on the themes of “Educating for Change” and “East Meets West: Innovation and Discovery”.
Top left: Professor Donald E. Hall, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University, USA, gives a compelling Keynote
Presentation at IICEDubai2017 on “Interdisciplinary Education for Innovation and Change”. Professor Hall is Vice-President of IAFOR.
Top right: IICEDubai2017 Keynote Speaker Professor Christina Gitsaki of Zayed University, UAE, addresses delegates on the topic of“Education: A Supertanker in an Ocean of Change and Innovation”, discussing change in education from a number of different perspectives.
Below left: In a Featured Presentation at IICEDubai2017, Dr Fadi Aloul speaks on bringing education to schools and universities tohelp create future innovators. Dr Aloul is Professor and Department Head of Computer Science and Engineering, as well as Directorof the HP Institute at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. Below right: As a Featured Speaker at IICEDubai2017, Dr Sufian
Abu-Rmaileh of UAE University, UAE, presents on “Leadership Skills & Styles for Successful Administrators”. Dr Abu-Rmaileh is
President of TA Toastmasters and former President of TESOL Arabia.
Bottom left: In a lively Featured Presentation at IICSSDubai2017, Dr Virginia Bodolica, American University of Sharjah, UAE,
discusses “Managing for Innovation and Sustainability: Lessons from the Gulf Region”, illustrating the recent accomplishments ofseveral Gulf-based nations in espousing the principles of the knowledge-based economy and delineating strategic priorities for attaining
sustainable development goals. Bottom right: Dr Christine Coombe of Dubai Men’s College, UAE, gives a Featured Presentation aspart of IICEDubai2017 on educators’ productivity, sharing the results of a research project investigating how the most productive
TESOLers “fit it all in” and attain the ever-elusive work-life balance.

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In January 2017, The IAFOR Hawaii Conference Series 2017 was held at The Hawai‘i Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, as
two consecutive events on the themes of “East Meets West: Innovation and Discovery” and “Educating for Change”.
Top left: Professor William G. Staples of the University of Kansas, USA, speaks on “Everyday Surveillance: A Case Study of Student
Information Systems” at IICSSHawaii2017. Professor Staples is well known internationally for his work in the areas of social control
and surveillance. Top right: In her Keynote Presentation at IICSEEHawaii2017, Dr Jaimey Hamilton Faris of the University of Hawaii
at Manoa, USA, introduces the audience to the concept of “liquid archives”. Her academic writing focuses on issues of global trade
networks and systems, environmentalism and sustainability in contemporary art, especially in the Asia-Pacific context.
Below left: Featured Presenter Donna McIntire-Byrd discusses eco-diplomacy and water conservation at IICSEEHawaii2017. Donna
McIntire-Byrd serves as Chief of the Energy & Sustainable Design Unit for the US Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings
Operations. Below right: In a Keynote Presentation, Dr Linda Furuto of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, addresses theaudience at IICEHawaii2017 on the topic of “Pacific Ethnomathematics: Navigating Ancient Wisdom and Modern Connections”.
Bottom left: Professor Curtis Ho of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, sits on a Featured Panel that explored how we educate
for positive change, striking a balance between the need to challenge while also respect and preserve local and indigenous cultures andtheir languages, at IICEHawaii2017. Bottom right: In a Featured Presentation at IICTCHawaii2017, Dr Kristin Palmer discusses theuse of open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Dr Kristin Palmer is the Director of Online
Learning Programs at the University of Virginia, USA.

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Above: Aunty Kehaulani Lum and Uncle Bruce Keaulani of the Living Life Source Foundation, Hawaii, demonstrate a traditional
Hawaiian greeting at IICEHawaii2017.
Below left: Distinguished psychologist Professor Michael B. Salzman of the University of Hawaii at Manoa speaks as part of a
Featured Panel on “Aloha as a Way of Being: Hawaiian Perspectives on Learning” at IICEHawaii2017. Below right: Dr Xu Di, alsoof the University of Hawaii at Manoa, addresses the audience as part of the same IICEHawaii2017 Featured Panel. Dr Di’s recent
publications focus on bridging Eastern and Western philosophy for educational practices.
Bottom left: Professor Ken Urano, Featured Speaker at IICLLHawaii2017, presents on the topic of “Developing and Implementing
an English for Specific Purposes Syllabus for Business Majors in Japan”. Professor Urano is a member of the Faculty of Business
Administration, Hokkai-Gakuen University, in Sapporo, Japan, where he mainly teaches English to business students.
Bottom right: In a Featured Presentation on statistics in the cognitive/risk era, award-winning research scientist and innovator Dr
Nathaniel Newlands of the University of Victoria, Canada, discusses the increasingly critical role statistics plays in unravelling thecomplexity of our world at IICSSHawaii2017.

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A-Z Index of Presenters
Al-Jubouri, Firas
51
American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
AL, Yat Law
72
Hong Kong Baptist University , Hong Kong
Albertini, Niccolò
41
Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Ali, Motea
79
Al-Mustansiriya University, Iraq
Ali, Nadir
79
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro,
Pakistan
Alsobrook, Law
58
irginia ommonwealth University in atar, atar
Alvarez, Jose Maurício Saldanha
74
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Au, Kin Pong James
81
Tokyo University, Japan
Baldini, Jacopo
41
Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Bangra Manjeshwar, Balakrishna
45
Government College, Kasaragod, Kerala , India
Batoto, Rebino42, 72
Mindanao State University - General Santos City, The Philippines
Boyer-Degoul, Maxime
74
Université Libre de Bruxelles, France
Brasil De Sá, Michele Eduarda
64
University of Brasília, Brazil
Briggs, Jason
51
Webster University (Thailand Campus), Thailand
Castino, Allan
42
Mindanao State University - General Santos City, The Philippines
Cempron, Bhyto-In
77
Capitol University, The Philippines
Chang, Chi-Min
49
University of Taipei, Taiwan
Chang, Hsiao-Hsuan
57
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Chao, Li-Fen
36
Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Chen, Haiyin
37
University of Tokyo, Japan
Chen, Jui-Ping
50
National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Chen, Jui-Sung
66
MingDao University, Taiwan
Chen, Li-Chiou
47
Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Cheng, Elyssa Y.
71
National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Chiang, I-Ping
41
National Taipei University, Taiwan
Chitkla, Kantaphong
43
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France
Chummee, Kamonwan
69
Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Chutataweesawas, Sirikoy 78
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Climenhaga, Lily Maeve
88
University of Alberta, Canada
Coy-Dibley, Isabelle
57
University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Croteau, Jean-Philippe
49
Sichuan University, China
De Masi, Vincenzo
80
New York Institute of Technology, United States
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Defraeye, Piet
66
University of Alberta, Canada
Djoric Francuski, Biljana 82
University of Belgrade, Serbia
Do, Kien Trung
76
Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University, Japan
Ekberg, Jerem
71
Hong Kong Nang Yan College, Hong Kong
El Dakhakhny, Dina
88
Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Ellis, James
46
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Farrar, Ruth
33
Bath Spa University, United Kingdom
Flavin, Philip
46
Osaka University of Economics and Law, Japan
Foshay, Raphael
46
Athabasca University, CanadaFranks, Rachel
86State Library of New South Wales, Australia
Fu, Chun
77
Nnational I-lan University, Taiwan
Fu, Mengxing
44
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Gao, Jie/Selina
45, 83
Murray State University, United States
Garcia Rubio, Ruben
61
Al Ghurair University, United Arab Emirates
Gatenby, Bruce
59
American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Geiger-Ho, Martie
52
University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam
Geninah, Farah
82
American University in Cairo, Egypt
Gerbino, Lucia
86
Univeristy Roma 3, Italy
Getz, Joshua
87
National Taitung University, Taiwan
Gn, Joel80
SIM University, Singapore
Goodman, Loren
64
Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Ha, Yiming
72
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Harbers, Ashley
77
Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Hidayat, July
87
University of Pelita Harapan, Indonesia
Hiwanupong, Sirikarn
79
Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Ho, Hannah Ming Yit
55
University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam
Ho, Kong
78
University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam
Hogarth, Courtney A.
40
The University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Hsieh, Mingchuan
53
National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan
Huang, Kai-Lan
76
Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
Huang, Shu-Fang
78
National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Huang, Tsuey-Yuan
35
Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

A-Z Index of Presenters
Huang, Yan-Hao
75
National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Huang, Yueh-Chun
60
National Chiayi University, Taiwan
Inoue, Osamu
34
Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan
Isaeva, Olga
47
University Bonn, Germany
Isla, Norman Ralph
59
Mindanao State University, The Philippines
Ittiphong, Mutjarin
66
Silpakorn University, Thailand
Jaafar Sidek, Jalilah
48
Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Jacobs, Tristan
80
AFDA, South Africa
Jaipadub, Areerut
54
Bangkok University, Thailand
Jin, Meng
87
Peking University, China
Jo, Seungkoo
61
Tongmyong University, Republic of Korea
Johnson, Jeff
83
Providence College, United States
Junnak, Chattraporn
73
Rajamangala University of Technology Isan, Thailand
Kamat, Padmaja
53
PES Shri Ravi Sitaram Naik College of Arts & Science, India
Kao, Wei H.
49
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Kawagoe, Eiko72
Kobe College, Japan
Khaldi, Boutheina
81
American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Khuankaew, Sasinee
56
Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Klaewharn, Kanokwan
79
Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Komolsevin, Rosechongporn
53
Bangkok University, Thailand
Kuanfu, Huang
36
Chia-Yi Senior High School, Taiwan
Lai, Yi-Ping
73
MingDao University, Taiwan
Lam, Ka Yan
70
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Lee, Chia-Jung
77
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Lee, Hyung-Sook
74
Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea
Lee, Shin-Yi
46
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Lee, Ya-Ting
37
National Pingtung University, Taiwan
Li, Jingyu
76College of Arts and Literature, China
Li, Xiaofan Amy
44
University of Kent, United Kingdom
Li, Yueh-Tuan
58
Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Lim, Yiru
51
UniSIM College, Singapore
Lin, Zhihui
81
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Lo, I-Fan34
he Affiliated Senior High School of ational hi- an University,
TaiwanMalissa, Samuel
55
Yale University, United States
Markovic, Ljiljana
82
University of Belgrade, Serbia
Matsui, Kyoko
50
Rikkyo University, Japan
Matsuura, Rie
35
Keio University, Japan
Mehellou, Zohra
62
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Mirhosseini, Zohreh
88Islamic Azad Univerity-Tehran North Branch, Iran
Mittal, Reena
73
Dak Degree College, India
Mori Want, Kaori
82
Konan Women's University, Japan
Najam, Mahru
68
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad,
PakistanNi, Lee-Fen
35
Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
O'Donnell, Ashley
69
Japan Exchange and Teaching Program , Japan
Ohashi, Kana
37
Keio University, Japan
Ojanpera, Riitta
83
Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Okabe, Daisuke
35
Tokyo City University, Japan
Oliveira Santos Garner, Ana Clara
41
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Omar, Nurul Hanani
48
Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia, Malaysia
Ono, Robert
70
Japan College of Social Work, Japan
Panicker, Shaji
61
Manipal University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Pellegrin, Geraldine Annick 83
University of Mauritius, Mauritius
Penca, Mojca
43
Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Pichler, Andreas
67
Aix-Marseille University, France
Polinar, Raphael Dean
56
University of San Carlos, The Philippines
Pruttipurk, Jittima
50
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Puanglam, Raksina
54
Chiang Mai Rajabhat University, Thailand
Raja Ahmad, Raja Putri Nadiah48
Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Ratanaruamkarn, Siraprapha69
Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Sangkapreecha, Pataraporn 54
Bangkok University, Thailand
Sarabosing, Rosalina Rara 86
Holy Name University, The Philippines
Satiadarma, Monty P.
45
Tarumanagara University, Indonesia
Schaar, Torsten 1
60
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
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A-Z Index of Presenters
Seangthong, Anchalee
68
Panjab University, Indiai oosoninoriRMIT University, Australia
Shu Wen, Liu
37
University of Taipei, Taiwan
Singh, Simranpal
68
Independent Scholar, India
Sorensen, Eli
62
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sriviboone, Sumittra
53
Bangkok University, Thailand
Stark, Andrew
75
The Southport School, Australia
Takayashiki, Masahito
34
Kansai Gaidai University, Japan
Tanchareon, Sumate
58
King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
Tang, Sum Sheung Samson 86
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Theresia, Yohana
47
Tarumanagara University, Indonesia
Thorens, Gabriel
63
University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Tomimatsu, Célia Maki
80
Pontifical atholic University of S o Paulo, Bra il
Tong, Xiaowei
49
National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Tsai, Ming-Hsueh
73
National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan
Tseng, Ching-Pin
38
College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan,
TaiwanUnni, Chitta
76
Chaminade University, United States
Veerachaisantikul, Anchalee 67
Rajamangala University of Technology Isan, Thailand
Vranes, Aleksandra
42
University of Belgrade, Serbia
Wang, Ching-Chih55
National Taipei University, Taiwan
Wang, Rujer
60
National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan
Wang, Yu Hsin
36
Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Wasilewski, Marek
52
University of Arts, Poznan, Poland
Wayah, Ismahan
51
WWU Münster, Germany
Weber, Stephen
47
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, United States
Wei, Po-Yu
50
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Wielgosz, Anne-Kathrin
44
Walsh University, United States
Wijanen, Anna-Maria40
UPM-Kymmene Cultural Foundation, FinlandWilson, Andrew
59
William Rainey Harper College, United States
Worakul, Kulsiri
57
Srinakharinwirot University , Thailand
Wu, Bing Syun
36
Taichung Municipal Hui-Wen High School, Taiwan
Wu, Chiu-Hui
67
Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Taiwan
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Yimwilai, Supaporn
62
Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Yogi, Chaitanya Prakash
56
Osaka University, Japan
You, Hsiao-Chen
48
National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Yu, Hope
81
University of San Carlos , The Philippines
Zalkin, Motti
43
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Zhang, Siqi
70
Jilin University, China
Zullino, Daniele
40, 63
University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland

ACAH/LibrAsia2017 Review Committee
Dr Anton Sutandio
Maranatha Christian University, Indonesia
Dr Changsong Wang
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Professor Gülsüm BaydarYaşar University, Turkey
Professor Joseph Sorensen
University of California at Davis, USA
Dr Kirstin Ellsworth
California State University Dominguez Hills, USA
Dr Kristian Pérez Zurutuza
EHU-UPU E , Spain
Dr Lateef Onireti Ibraheem
University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Dr Raad Abd-Aun
College of Education, University of Babylon, Iraq

Dr Reena Mittal
Dak Degree College, India
Dr Trisnowati Tanto
Maranatha Christian University, Indonesia
Dr Tuğ aac
Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
Dr Yi-Chin ShihTamkang University, Taiwan
Dr Zahra Al-Zadjali
Sultan Qaboos University, OmanDr Zeynep Gunay
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Professor Zohreh Mirhosseini
Islamic Azad University-Tehran North Branch, Iran

ACAH2017 Senior Reviewers
Dr Aditya Angiras
Panjab University, India
Rev Amarachi Nnachi Ukoma
Ebonyi State University, Nigeria
Dr Andreas Pichler
Aix-Marseille University, France
Dr Anna Hamling
UNB, Canada
Dr Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr Cedric van Eenoo
University of Technology, USA
Professor Daniele Zullino
University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Dr Diana Po Lan ShamHong Kong Chinese Institute of Engineers, Hong Kong
Professor Edgar Eslit
St. Michael's College, The Philippines
Dr Firas Al-Jubouri
American University of Sharjah, UAE
Dr Geneviève Gamache
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Dr Halia Koo
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Professor Haluk Yüksel
Anadolu University, Turkey
Dr Hannah Ming Yit Ho
University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam
Dr Haydee Cabasan
Mater Dei College, The Philippines
Professor Hope Yu
University of San Carlos, The Philippines
Dr Hyung-Sook Lee
Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea
Professor Jie/Selina Gao
Murray State University, USA
Dr Joel Gn
SIM University, Singapore

Professor Kong Ho
University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam
Professor Loren Goodman
Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Professor Marek Wasilewski
University of Arts, Poznań, Poland
Dr Martie Geiger-Ho
University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam
Professor Mohsen Negm
Cairo University, Egypt
Professor Motti Zalkin
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Mutjarin Ittiphong
Silpakorn University, Thailand
Dr Padmaja Kamat
PES Shri Ravi Sitaram Naik College of Arts & Science, India
Dr Rosalina Rara Sarabosing
Holy Name University, The Philippines
Dr Shaji Panicker
Manipal University, Dubai, UAE
Dr Siqi Zhang
Jilin University, China
Dr Suranti Trisnawati
Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Dr Torsten Schaar
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr Tsuey-Yuan Huang
Chang Gung University of Science & Technology, Taiwan
Professor Vincenzo De Masi
New York Institute of Technology, USA
Dr Wen-Shu Lai
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Dr Yiru Lim
UniSIM College, Singapore
Dr Yu Yi-Ming
National Defense University, Taiwan
Yu-Che Huang
Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan

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ACAH2017 Reviewers
Professor Angeliki Monnier
University of Lorraine, France
Dr Birut Zemits
Charles Darwin University, Australia
Dr Bruce Gatenby
American University of Sharjah, UAE
Mr Carlito Cerbo, Jr
Philippine Science High School- estern isayas ampus, hePhilippines
Dr Ching-pin Tseng
College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Professor Chiu-Hui Wu
Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Taiwan
Dr Courtney A. Hogarth
The University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Dr Florence Itegi
Kenyatta University, Kenya
Professor Georges Depeyrot
French ational enter for Scientific esearch, France
Dr Halia Koo
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Professor Holger Briel
Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China
Dr Hou Yen-Ju
Shu Zen Junior College of Medicine and Management, Taiwan
Dr James Ellis
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Dr Jingyu Li
College of Arts and Literature, China
Dr Jittima Pruttipurk
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Dr Lee-Fen Ni
Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

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Dr Li-Chiou Chen
Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Professor Marek Wasilewski
University of Arts, Poznań, Poland
Professor Margarida Gaspar de Matos
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Dr Rachel FranksState Library of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Raphael Foshay
Athabasca University, Canada
Dr Richard Donovan
Kansai University, JapanDr Rolando Libutaque
Philippine Science High School
estern isayas, hePhilippines
Dr Samue Maina
University of Nairobi, Kenya
Dr Sheena Eagan Chamberlin
Brocher Foundation, Switzerland
Dr Shu-fang Huang
National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Professor Sophia Ogwude
University of Abuja, Nigeria
Dr Stephen Weber
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, USA
Dr Supaporn Yimwilai
Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Professor Wei H. Kao
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Dr Yen-ju Hou
Shu Zen Junior College of Medicine and Management, Taiwan
Yi-Ping Lai
MingDao University, Taiwan

LibrAsia2017 Senior Reviewers
Dr Anna Hamling
UNB, Canada
Dr Duan Jing
Changsha University of Science and Technology, China
Dr Hannah Ming Yit Ho
University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam
Professor Jie/Selina Gao
Murray State University, USA
Dr Jittima Pruttipurk
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Dr Kyoko Matsui
Rikkyo University, JapanDr Myles Chilton
Nihon University, JapanDr Rachel FranksState Library of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Siverlyn CamposanoSouthern Philippines Agri-Business and Marine and Aquatic
School of Technology, The Philippines
Professor Sophia Ogwude
University of Abuja, Nigeria
Dr Supaporn Yimwilai
Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Professor Wei H. Kao
National Taiwan University, Taiwan

LibrAsia2017 Reviewers
Dr Abid Vali
The American University of Kuwait, Kuwait
Dr Anne-Kathrin Wielgosz
Walsh University, USA
Dr Boutheina Khaldi
American University of Sharjah, UAE
Dr Kaori Mori Want
Konan Women's University, Japan
Professor Nadezda Bratchikova
Moscow State University and Moscow State Linguistic University,
Russian Federation
Dr Po-Yu Wei
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Dr Richard Donovan
Kansai University, JapanDr Robert Ono
Japan College of Social Work, JapanDr Sasinee Khuankaew
Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Professor Vincenzo De Masi
New York Institute of Technology, USA
Dr Xiaofan Amy Li
University of Kent, United Kingdom

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