www.iafor.org/about/partners

IAFOR Global Partners

University of Belgrade

IAFOR has entered into a number of strategic partnerships with universities across the world to form
the IAFOR Global Partnership Programme. These academic partnerships support and nurture IAFOR’s
goals of educational cooperation without borders, connecting the organisation with institutions thathave an international and internationalising profile, and a commitment to interdisciplinary research.
The IAFOR Global Partnership Programme provides mutual recognition and scope for Global Partner
institutions and organisations to showcase their research strengths, as well as engage in thedevelopment of projects and programmes with IAFOR.
Programme Design by Thaddeus Pope, IAFOR Media/iaforjapan@iafor.official@iafor (#iafor)
ecah.iafor.org / euromedia.iafor.org

Conference Theme:"Reclaiming the Future"
We live in a period characterised by rises in regionalism, nationalism and authoritarianism; a timeof great global uncertainty and anxiety, as well as inequality and iniquity which both reflects anddrives political divide, and undermines international systems of cooperation. Clashes of identities,
beliefs and ideologies are evident in academia, media and the arts, contributing to a feeling thathumanity is spiralling out of control; that our relationships with each other, as well as with the earth
and environment, have never been worse.
Yet, as humans, we are not conditioned by fear alone, but instead by a remarkable ingenuity, and acapacity for hope, self-reflection, activism and action. This agency to improve our own lives, andthose of others, is the theme of this international conference, inviting us to consider the ways inwhich we contextualise and process the past, reimagining ourselves, our relationships, and ourenvironments; driving positive change and reclaiming the future as a time we look towards withhope, and even optimism.
This conference is organised by IAFOR in association with the IAFOR Research Centre at the Osaka
School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) in Osaka University, Japan.

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Anne Boddington

Bruce Brown

Matthew CoatsJoseph Haldane

Donald E. Hall

Gary E. Swanson

Kingston University, UK

IAFOR, Japan

Royal College of Art, UK

University of Rochester, USA

University of Brighton, UK

University of Northern Colorado, USA (fmr.)

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Letter of Welcome
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to The International Academic Forum’s 7th European
Conference series in the UK, a sequence of four events in Brightonand London over which some 600 people from more than 50
different countries will come together to share ideas, and search
for the personal, professional and research synergies that drive
new relationships, partnerships, ideas, and knowledge.
The first three smaller events will take place in the diverse,
artistic and cultural hub of Brighton, nestled between the everchanging colours of the sea and the green hills of the South
Downs, and our final and largest event will see IAFOR in thegreat city of London for the first time.
In the global political context, we are witnessing increasing authoritarianism and nationalism,
where othering, dehumanising, and policies of exclusion abound in countries which have until
recently served as more positive models of inclusion. As individual nations struggle to provide
safety and security to their own citizens, identity-based politics thrive, and the internationalrules-based system and supranational organisations such as the UN and EU are facing crisesof legitimacy, and the United Kingdom, with its ongoing Brexit saga has rarely looked so divided.
These conferences offer a timely coming together, underlining the extent to which we are lessindependent than we might sometimes think; whether individuals, communities or nations, we arereliant on those that also share our planet.
For the past ten years, IAFOR has brought people and ideas together in a variety of events andplatforms to promote and celebrate interdisciplinary study, and underline its importance. In the past
twelve months, we have engaged in many cross-sectoral projects, including those with universities(the University of Barcelona, Hofstra University, UCL, University of Belgrade and Moscow State
University), think tanks (the East-West Center, and the Asia Pacific Higher Education ResearchPartnership), as well as projects with the United Nations in New York, and most recently with
the Government of Japan through the Prime Minister’s office. With the IAFOR Research Centre
at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University in Japan, we haveengaged in a number of interdisciplinary initiatives we believe will have an important impact on
domestic and international public policy conversations.
It is through our conferences that we expand our network and partnerships, and I have no doubtthat this venue will offer a remarkable opportunity for the sharing of research and best practices,
for the meeting of people and ideas. I would like to thank our global partners, and particularly
those in the UK (Sussex, Birkbeck, UCL and Lincoln universities), the Organising Committees, fortheir work in the development of the programme, the Featured and Keynote Speakers who will be
sharing their unique insights with us, and each and every one of you, for taking the decision tocome (back) to an IAFOR event.
We have so much to learn from each other, and I expect the resultant professional and personalcollaborations to endure for many years.
I look forward to meeting you all.
Dr Joseph Haldane
Chairman and CEO, IAFOR
P.S. For those of you that are active on social media, please feel free to share your conference
photos and join the conversation on Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #IAFOR.

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Mayor's Welcome Letter
Dear Delegates,
Welcome to the city of Brighton & Hove, a vibrant and diverse
centre of Arts and Culture.
Ever since the Prince Regent first visited in 1783, Brighton &Hove has been England's most exciting seaside city, and today
it's as vibrant, eccentric and cosmopolitan as ever. Our city has abohemian and artistic atmosphere that can't be found anywhere
else in the UK. We combine the modern with the traditional andthe outlandish with the everyday; tempting and treating visitors
and residents alike with a unique cultural experience.
If you've never visited I urge you to get out and about and make the most of the rich cultural mix –Regency architecture, pleasure pier, specialist shops, pavement cafés, lively arts and of course theexotic Royal Pavilion. Everything's in walking distance, so take time to explore and enjoy what thecity has to offer.
Our City-by-the-sea has a passion for creativity, a desire to look at things differently, and a friendlinessthat attracts visitors from all over the world.
Whether it’s the sea air that changes your perspective or the lively North Laine that buzzes day andnight, I am sure that Brighton & Hove has got that special something that will inspire.
I wish you every success with your conference and hope you have a long and enjoyable stay.
Councillor Alexandra Phillips
Mayor of the City of Brighton & Hove

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Conference
Guide
Directions & Access
Floor Guide
Conference at a Glance
IAFOR Membership
Room Schedule
General Information
Presentation Guide
Lunch & DinnerProfessor Stuart D. B. Picken (1942–2016)
IAFOR Academic Grant & Scholarship Recipients
IAFOR Publications

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Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront, Kings Road, Brighton, BN1 2GS

Directions & Access
By Rail from London

London is the hub of the UK’s rail network and it is easy to travel by train to Brighton from the major
London stations. The fastest direct travelling times from London to Brighton are:•••London Victoria – 56 minutes (direct)
London Bridge – 1 hour 3 minutes (direct)
London St Pancras – 1 hour 33 minutes (direct)

Rail services in the UK are operated by a number of private train operators. The main operators to
Brighton are Southern and First Capital Connect and all trains arrive into Brighton mainline station on
Queens Road. Regular rail connections also serve Hove, which is just a few minutes from Brighton byrail. Central Brighton and Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront are an easy 20-minute walk from Brighton
Station, but, if required, buses and taxis are both available at the front of the station.
If you are travelling from Europe, the Eurostar train arrives at London St Pancras, where there are
direct train connections to Brighton.

By Rail from Gatwick Airport
Trains from Gatwick to Brighton take approximately 30 minutes direct and run regularly. The Gatwick
South rail station is directly linked to Gatwick’s South Terminal and just a few minutes away from
North Terminal via a transit train link.

By Rail from Heathrow Airport
Take the London Underground to London Victoria and then a mainline train to Brighton. Alternatively,
take the Heathrow Express to Paddington and then the London Underground to Victoria and then amainline train to Brighton.

By Coach from Heathrow Airport
National Express is the major coach operator serving Brighton. Most international flights arrive at
Terminal 4 and 5 where a coach departs every hour. Brighton Coach Station is located next to Brighton
Palace Pier and is a two-minute walk from Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront. Further information isavailable on the National Express website (www.nationalexpress.com).
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Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront

Floor Guide

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July 12, 2019

Friday Morning at a Glance
08:15-09:00		

Conference Registration & Morning Coffee | Renaissance Foyer

09:00-09:15
			
			
			

Announcements & Welcome Address | Renaissance Hall
Brian Aycock, IAFOR, Japan
Joseph Haldane, IAFOR, Japan
Recognition of IAFOR Scholarship Winners | Renaissance Hall

09:15-10:00
Keynote Presentation | Renaissance Hall			The Impact of Geography and History on Moulding the National
			Character and Identity: A View from Russia
			Svetlana Ter-Minasova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
10:00-10:45
						

Keynote Presentation | Renaissance Hall
Resisting the Cynical Turn: Projections of a Desirably Queer Future
Donald E. Hall, University of Rochester, USA

10:45-11:15		

Coffee Break

11:15-12:00
			
			
			
			

Keynote Presentation | Renaissance Hall
Haute Couture in Occupied Paris and Beyond, in World War Two:
Issues of Nazi Cultural and Economic Control and the Diffusion
and Consumption of Luxury Paris Fashion in War Time
Lou Taylor, University of Brighton, UK

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July 12, 2019

Friday Afternoon at a Glance
12:00-12:30
Plenary Panel | Renaissance Hall
			Reimagining the Future			Anne Boddington, Kingston University, UK			Bruce Brown, Royal College of Art, UK			Matthew Coats, University of Brighton, UK			Donald E. Hall, University of Rochester, USA
12:30-12:45		

Conference Photograph | Renaissance Hall

12:45-13:45		

Lunch Break | 2F Restaurant

13:45-15:00

Parallel Session I

15:00-15:15		

Coffee Break | Library Terrace

15:15-16:30

Parallel Session II

16:30-16:45

IAFOR Documentary Photography Award | Renaissance Hall

16:45-17:30
						

Keynote Presentation | Renaissance Hall
Van Gogh’s Last Supper: Striking New Evidence
Jared Baxter, Independent Researcher, USA

17:30-18:45

Conference Welcome Reception | Library Terrace

19:30-21:30
Official Conference Dinner (optional extra)			Meet at the Hotel Lobby near the Bartholomew Square (back) 		
			entrance at 19:00
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July 13, 2019

Saturday at a Glance
09:00-10:40

Parallel Session I

10:40-10:55		

Coffee Break

10:55-12:35

Parallel Session II

12:35-13:35		

Lunch Break

13:35-14:25

Parallel Session III

14:25-14:40		

Coffee Break

14:40-16:20

Parallel Session IV

16:30-17:00
Featured Presentation | Tennyson Room			The Demise of Homo Sapiens: Thought and Perception in the 					Kingdom of Technology			Alfonso J. García-Osuna, Hofstra University, USA
17:00-17:15

Conference Closing Session

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IAFOR provides an excellent personal and professional environment for academics and scholarsof all ages and backgrounds to come together and exchange the latest ideas, and inform eachother’s perspectives through their own cultural and disciplinary background and experiences.
We are able to do this thanks to the exceptional network of individuals and institutions aroundthe world who support our work and help shape our exceptional events globally. We emphasise
the nurturing and supporting of young academics from different backgrounds, providing mutualadvice and guidance, and offer more senior academics the chance to forge working relationships
outside of their traditional networks.
In a world where division and strife are underlined and played up in national and local contexts,
and political posturing frequently seeks to ostracise and demonise, IAFOR is committed to working
across cultural and national borders, and to work to bring people together. We believe that mature
human interaction and academic and cultural exchange are essential to offering positive versions of
the future, where cooperation happens with individuals and institutions who share a commitment tobridge divides, to being good global citizens, and to making the world a better place.
By becoming a member, you will become a stakeholder in the IAFOR mission of facilitatinginternational exchange, encouraging intercultural awareness, and promoting interdisciplinary
discussion in the hope and expectation of generating and sharing new knowledge. Join us now
in this growing global organisation, and help make a difference today.
To learn more about IAFOR membership, please visit:www.iafor.org/membership

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Journalism

Plenary Session II–

15:15-16:30

16:30-17:30

17:30-18:45

15:00-15:15––

Technology& Social Media

Technology––

Education

CoffeeLanguage

Film Theory–

Shelley

13:45-15:00–

Tennyson

Lunch

Plenary Session I

Renaissance

12:45-13:45

09:00-12:45

ECAH/EuroMedia2019––

Identity

Politics–

Wordsworth

Welcome Reception

–

–

–

–

Library Terrace

July 12, 2019

Friday Schedule

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Justice & Sustainability–

Featured Presentation

Closing Session

14:40-16:20

16:30-17:00

17:00-17:15

–

–

Break

14:25-14:40

Business

Workshop

13:35-14:25

Literature & History

Break

Education

Break

GenderRace & Culture

Shelley

12:35-13:35

10:55-12:35

10:40-10:55

09:00-10:40

Tennyson––Community & Memory

HealthHuman Experience

Self-AwarenessWordsworth

July 13, 2019

Saturday Schedule

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General Information
Registration
You will be able to pick up your registration pack and name card at the Conference Registration
Desk. The Conference Registration Desk and Publications Desk will be situated at the following
locations during the conference:
Friday			08:15-12:45		Renaissance Foyer
Friday			12:45-16:30		Library Terrace
Saturday		09:00-17:00		Library Terrace
If you have any questions or concerns, IAFOR staff and volunteers will happily assist you in any way
they can.

Name Badges
When 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.

Internet Access
There is free Wi-Fi internet connection at the conference venue. However, this can be unreliable so
we would strongly suggest that you do not rely on a live connection for your presentation.
Instructions on how to connect to the Wi-Fi will be available at the registration desk.

Refreshment Breaks
Complimentary coffee, tea and water will be available during the scheduled coffee breaks at the
Plenary Session on Friday morning and on the Library Terrace during the rest of the conference.
Light snacks will be provided once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

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Printing
For your convenience, we are able to offer a complimentary printing service of up to ten A4 sheets
should you need this. Please ask for assistance with printing and be advised that printing may not
be available at peak times.

Smoking
Smoking is not permitted in the Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront. Please smoke outside of the building
in designated smoking areas.

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 and sometimes cool.

Photo/Recording Waiver
Human interaction through networking and dissemination of this knowledge is at the core of what
IAFOR does as an academic research organisation, conference organiser and publisher. As part of
the archiving of the conference event, IAFOR takes photos in and around the conference venue,
and uses the photos to document the event. This also includes the filming of certain sessions.
We consider this documentation important and it provides evidence of our activities to members,
partners and stakeholders all over the world, as well as to current and potential attendees like you.
Some of these photos will therefore appear online and in print, including on social media. The above
are the legitimate interests of the organisation that we assert under the new European Union law on
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Under this legislation, you have an absolute right to opt
out of any photo. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Read our full privacy
policy – www.iafor.org/about/privacy-policy

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Presentation Guide
Oral & Workshop Presentations
Oral Presentations are normally scheduled in sessions comprising three presentations, lasting 75
minutes in total. In sessions with two Oral Presentations, the session will last 50 minutes, and in thecase of four Oral Presentations, an extended session lasting 100 minutes will be scheduled.
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.

Equipment
All rooms will be equipped with a MacBook computer pre-installed with PowerPoint and Keynote
and connected to a LCD projector or LCD screen. If you wish, you may directly link your own PC
laptop, although we advise you to use the computer provided by plugging in your USB flash drive. We
recommend that you bring two copies of your presentation in case one fails, and suggest sending
yourself the presentation by email as a third and final precaution.

Session Chairs
Session Chairs are asked to introduce themselves and other speakers (briefly) 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 thepresentations. Each presenter should have no more than 25 minutes in which to present his or her
paper and respond to any questions. 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 for presenters, letting
them know when they have five minutes remaining, and when they must stop.
Please follow the order in the programme, and if for any reason a presenter fails to show up, pleasekeep to the original time slots as delegates use the programme to plan their attendance.

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Presentation Certificates
Presenters will receive a certificate of presentation from their Session Chair or a member of staff at
the end of their session.

Conference Proceedings
The Conference Proceedings are published on the IAFOR website (papers.iafor.org), and can be
freely accessed as part of IAFOR’s research archive. All authors may have their full paper publishedin the online Conference Proceedings.
Full text submission is due by August 13, 2019 through the online system. The proceedings will be
published on September 13, 2019. Authors will have PDF copies of their offprints emailed to themby October 13, 2019.

A Polite Request to All ParticipantsParticipants are requested to arrive in a timely fashion for all presentations, whether to their own orto those of other presenters. Presenters are reminded that the time slots should be divided fairly andequally between the number of presentations, and that presentations should not overrun.
Participants should refrain from talking amongst themselves and ensure that mobile phones are
switched off or set to silent mode during presentations.

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Lunch & DinnerIf you registered for the conference lunch, lunch will be provided in the Atrium Restaurant at Jurys Inn
Brighton Waterfront. Situated on the Promenade, with unrivalled views of the famous Brighton Palace
Pier and the sea, the restaurant serves a range of modern British and European dishes prepared bya talented team of chefs. Lunch service includes an unlimited drinks bar (non-alcoholic), coffee
station and dessert table.
Please remember to bring your name badge with you, as this will act as your lunch ticket.

Lunch Times
Lunch is available between the following times:
Friday			12:45-13:45 		
Saturday		 12:35-13:35 		

Atrium Restaurant, Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront
Atrium Restaurant, Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront

Conference Dinner
The official Conference Dinner is a ticketed optional event (35 GBP). Please remember to bring yourname tag to the Conference Dinner. Conference Dinner attendees should meet at the Hotel Lobby
near the Bartholomew Square (back) entrance at 18:50 on Friday, July 12. The group leaves for therestaurant at 19:00. It takes approximately 10 minutes to walk to the restaurant.
Restaurant name: Donatello
Restaurant address: 1-3, Brighton Place, Brighton, BN1 1HJ

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The Reverend Professor
Stuart D. B. Picken (1942–2016)
The late Reverend Professor Stuart D. B. Picken began his distinguished career in academia asa Rotary Scholar on a research trip to Japan. A native of Scotland who had dedicated himself toreligious studies, he immediately became fascinated by Japanese culture and the practice of Shinto.
He was particularly drawn to the parallels and differences he saw in Western pedagogy comparedto that of the East and began a lifelong mission to bridge the communication and knowledge gap
between the two worlds.
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 a time when the country was emerging from the shadows of theSecond 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 influenced the rehabilitation of the religion at a time
when it was dismissed in the West as pagan and primitive, or unjustly caricatured for its wartime
associations.
Whether in his research or teaching, Picken devoted much of his life to increasing understanding
between his adopted country of Japan 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 Japan and the United Kingdom.
He also served as the International Adviser to the High Priest of the Tsubaki Grand Shrine, one ofJapan’s largest 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 awareness and understanding.
Stuart D. B. Picken was a cherished friend and an inspiration to IAFOR and its community of
supporters. In honour of Professor Picken and his dedication to academia, the ideals of intercultural
understanding and the principles of interdisciplinary study, IAFOR has created the Stuart D. B. Picken
Grant and Scholarship, an award supported by the Stuart D. B. Picken Memorial Fund. Awards are
made to PhD students and early career academics who are in need of funding to complete theirresearch, and whose work demonstrates excellence in the core values of academic rigour, intercultural
sensitivity and interdisciplinarity.
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IAFOR Academic Grant& Scholarship Recipients
Our warmest congratulations go to Chien Yang Erdem, Ewa Sułek, Cesar Portillo, who have been
selected by the conference Organising Committee to receive grants and scholarships to present
their research at ECAH/EuroMedia2019.
IAFOR's grants and scholarships programme provides financial support to PhD students and early
career academics, with the aim of helping them pursue research excellence and achieve their academic
goals through interdisciplinary study and interaction. Awards are based on the appropriateness of theeducational opportunity in relation to the applicant's field of study, financial need, and contributions
to their community and to IAFOR's mission of interdisciplinarity. Scholarships are awarded based on
availability of funds from IAFOR and vary with each conference.
Find out more about IAFOR grants and scholarships: www.iafor.org/financial-support

Chien Yang Erdem | Stuart D. B. Picken Grant and Scholarship Recipient
51593 (EuroMedia)
Performance of Right-wing Populist Masculinity on Screen and Formation of Gendered People on Street
Chien Yang Erdem, Istinye University, Turkey
Chien Yang Erdem is currently an Assistant Professor of the New Media Department at Istinye
University, Istanbul, Turkey. She received her PhD in Media and Visual Studies from Bilkent University,
Ankara, Turkey in 2017. Her research interests include cultural, media, film, and Turkish studies. Her
recent work focuses on culture and governmentality in the age of neoliberalism and neoconservatismin contemporary Turkey.

Ewa Sułek | IAFOR Scholarship Recipient
51051 (ECAH)
The Past Living in the Future: Ukrainian Politics of Memory in Visual Arts After the Maidan Revolution
Ewa Sułek, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
Ewa Sulek is an art historian, researcher, independent curator and writer, based in Warsaw, Poland.
She studied art history at the University of Cambridge, UK, and University of Warsaw. Currently a PhD
student of Interdisciplinary Doctoral School “Academia Copernicana” at the Nicolaus Copernicus
University in Toruń. She is author of a book about contemporary Ukrainian art Chłopak z pianinem. O
sztuce i wojnie na Ukrainie (The Boy With The Piano. On Art and War in Ukraine, PWN, Warsaw 2018).
She is also director of the art centre and experimental exhibition space “Lescer” in Zalesie Górne.
Her interests include contemporary Ukrainian art and art and politics.

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51328 (ECAH)
Hearing the Future: Impacting the Future of Audio Description for Visually Impaired Audiences
Cesar Portillo, University of West London, United Kingdom
Cesar Portillo is an audio engineer and sound artist with a background in post-production. After
graduating from Middlesex University, with a degree in sound engineering, Cesar is now innovating andimplementing 3D immersive sound features through international, award-winning film productions.
Sound not only feeds our hearing and imagination but, through Cesar’s innovations in sound design,
also provides the option for blind and visually impaired audiences to fully immerse themselves in visualstories; transcending the current limitations of basic audio description. Cesar is a strong believer thataudio-visual mediums should be accessible to all audiences and his recent work embraces inclusive
sound design approaches using sound spatialisation, auditory perception and the use of sound cues
as a language to make visual stories accessible and experiential for all audiences.

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www.iafor.org/publications

IAFOR Publications

Introduction
IAFOR’s publications provide a constructive environment for the facilitation of dialogue
between academics at the intersections of nation, culture and discipline. Since 2009, when theorganisation was established, over 20,000 academics have presented their research at IAFOR
conferences – a wealth of ideas have been generated and partnerships formed. Our various
publications, from Conference Proceedings, to peer-reviewed journals, to our online magazine,
provide a permanent record of and a global online platform for this valuable research. All of ourpublications are Open Access, freely available online and free of publishing fees of any kind.
By publishing work with IAFOR, authors enter into an exclusive License Agreement, where they
have copyright but license exclusive rights in their article to IAFOR as the publisher.

Conference Proceedings
As a presenter at an IAFOR conference you are encouraged to submit a final paper to ourConference Proceedings. These online publications are Open Access research repositories, which
act as a permanent record of the research generated at IAFOR conferences. All of our Conference
Proceedings are freely available to read online. Papers should be uploaded through the submission
system before the Final Paper Submission Deadline, which is one month after the end of theconference.

IAFOR Journals
IAFOR publishes several editorially independent, Open Access journals across a variety of disciplines.
They conform to the highest academic standards of international peer review, and are published inaccordance with IAFOR’s commitment to make all of our published materials available online.

How are papers submitted?
Submissions should be original, previously unpublished papers which are not under consideration
for publication in any other journal. All articles are submitted through the submission portal on thejournal website and must conform to the journal submission guidelines.

How does IAFOR ensure academic integrity?
Once appointed by IAFOR’s Publications Committee, the Journal Editor is free to appoint his or her
own editorial team and advisory members, who help to rework and revise papers as appropriate,according to internationally accepted standards. All papers published in the journal have been
subjected to the rigorous and accepted processes of academic peer review. Neither editors nor
members of the editorial team are remunerated for their work.

Where are the journals indexed?
IAFOR Journals are indexed in Scopus, DOAJ, ERIC, MIAR, TROVE, CiteFactor and EBSCO, SHERPA/ROMEO and Google Scholar. DOIs are assigned to each published issue and article via Crossref.
Please note that indexing varies from journal to journal. (continued on the following page).
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What’s the reach?
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Keynote Presentation: Svetlana Ter-Minasova

The Impact of Geography and History on
Moulding the National Character and Identity:
A View from Russia
Friday, July 12 | 09:15-10:00 | Renaissance Hall

The fact that Geography has a considerable impact on a people's History and together they determine
a people's way of life has been known since very old days: Herodotus, the famous "Father of History",stated it very clearly and convincingly in Ancient Greece in the 5th century BC. Indeed, the habitat ofpeople determines their means of survival depending on their food supply and production, habits,
traditions, national anthropological cultures, arts, etc.
Language as the main means of communication and both – a mirror and a tool of culture – reflects
and at the same time moulds the national identity and the national character.
These statements are illustrated by examples from the Russian and English languages and cultures
as the output of the geography and history of the nations speaking these languages.

Svetlana Ter-Minasova
Professor Svetlana Ter-Minasova is President of the Faculty ofForeign Languages and Area Studies at Lomonosov Moscow
State University, Russia, and Distinguished Professor in the
University. She holds a Doctorate of Philology from the University,
has published more than 200 books and papers on Foreign
Language Teaching, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, and has
lectured widely throughout the world.
She is Chair of the Russian Ministry of Education’s Foreign
Language Research and Methodology Council, President
and founder of both the National Association of Teachers of English in Russia, and the National
Association of Applied Linguistics. She holds the Lomonosov Award, Fulbright’s 50th Anniversary
Award, and was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Birmingham, in the UK, theState University of New York, in the USA, and the Russian-Armenian University, in Armenia. She is
Yunshan Professor of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China, and Honorary Member ofthe Academy of Sciences, in Georgia. She is also Visiting Professor at P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State
University and National Research Tomsk State University, in Russia.

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Keynote Presentation: Donald E. Hall

Resisting the Cynical Turn:
Projections of a Desirably Queer Future
Friday, July 12 | 10:00-10:45 | Renaissance Hall

While the current political moment certainly invites a sense of defeatism among those of us in arts, humanities,
and cultural studies – and makes a retreat into cynicism and political apathy an attractive option – the times
call for a renewed sense of commitment and a much more assertive response. We on the cultural left –especially in higher education – have a base level responsibility to lead the way out of our climate of reactionary
nationalism and anti-intellectualism. We are the ones best able to imagine a different future and articulate its
desirability. Practitioners in the arts, humanities, and cultural studies are best positioned to provide the utopic
thinking that has the power to motivate. In returning to some of the core tenets of activist-based queer theory,and melding those with the tentative and probing dialogics offered by the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer,
we have tools to rally those who feel oppressed and defeated by current political rhetoric. A calculated,cautious, but deliberately vocal optimism serves the interests of our students, our profession, and our fellow
citizens. The cultural right asks us to withdraw, to be silent, to give up hope – our best response is to do the
opposite. By imagining and articulating a more egalitarian, cosmopolitan, and desirably queer future, we candirect attention to the true cynics – those who believe that top-down power will be accepted without question
and that sexism/racism/homophobia can be normalized in order to divide, scare, and manipulate the masses.
We – artists, writers, philosophers, and theorists – have the creativity and mental nimbleness to challenge andchange the world, if we accept our responsibility as educators and re-commit ourselves to doing so.

Donald E. Hall
Donald E. Hall is Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
at the University of Rochester, USA. Prior to moving to Rochester, he
was Dean of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University, USA. Dean Hall
has published widely in the fields of British studies, gender theory,
cultural studies, and professional studies. Over the course of his
career, he served as Jackson Distinguished Professor of English
and Chair of the Department of English (and previously Chair of the
Department of Foreign Languages) at West Virginia University, USA.
Before that, he was Professor of English and Chair of the Departmentof English at California State University, Northridge, USA, where hetaught for 13 years. He is a recipient of the University Distinguished
Teaching Award at CSUN, was a visiting professor at the National
University of Rwanda, was Lansdowne Distinguished Visiting Scholar
at the University of Victoria, Canada, was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Studies at Karl Franzens
University in Graz, Austria, and was Fulbright Specialist at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has alsotaught in Sweden, Romania, Hungary, and China. He served on numerous panels and committees for
the Modern Language Association (MLA), including the Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure
and Promotion, and the Convention Program Committee. In 2012, he served as national President of the
Association of Departments of English. From 2013 to 2017, he served on the Executive Council of the MLA.
His current and forthcoming work examines issues such as professional responsibility and academic
community-building, the dialogics of social change and activist intellectualism, and the Victorian (andour continuing) interest in the deployment of instrumental agency over our social, vocational, and sexual
selves. Among his many books and editions are the influential faculty development guides, The Academic
Self and The Academic Community, both published by Ohio State University Press. Subjectivities andReading Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies were both published by
Routledge Press. Most recently he and Annamarie Jagose, of the University of Auckland, USA, co-edited a
volume titled The Routledge Queer Studies Reader. Though he is a full-time administrator, he continues tolecture worldwide on the value of a liberal arts education and the need for nurturing global competencies
in students and interdisciplinary dialogue in and beyond the classroom.
Professor Donald E. Hall is a Vice-President of IAFOR. He is Chair of the Arts, Humanities, Media & Culture
division of the International Academic Advisory Board.
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Keynote Presentation: Lou Taylor

Haute Couture in Occupied Paris and Beyond, inWorld War Two: Issues of Nazi Cultural and Economic
Control and the Diffusion and Consumption of
Luxury Paris Fashion in War Time
Friday, July 12 | 11:15-12:00 | Renaissance Hall

The themes of this conference propose discussion on ‘the ways in which we contextualise andprocess the past and issues inequality and iniquity and today’s rise in nationalism.’ All of theseissues arise inevitably when we examine the history of Paris couture in WW2. In the midst of
traumatic upheavals of World War Two, a text with such a focus - still a contentious issue - mightseem perverse and my long commitment to examining this topic will be explained.
French couture fashion leading up to WW2 was an unrivalled, lucrative, international business, thejewel the crown of French culture. Once Paris was occupied from June 1940 and France divided, Otto
Abbetz, the ‘German Ambassador’ in Paris, a keen Nazi, immediately activated Goebells’ PropagandaStaffel policies for the establishment of Franco-German ‘cultural collaboration’. This was based on
the premise that an active continuation of French intellectual life, re-aligned on a Nazi axis, would
enhance the illusion that a ‘normal life’ was continuing in Paris -despite the deportation of Jews, thetorturing of Resistants in the cellars of the Hotel de Ville, the looting of art collections and forced
labour schemes. Hence the luxury high society life of the Tout Paris collaborating circles. Hence too
the continuation of the work of Paris couture which can now be seen as a highly successful exampleof Nazi ‘cultural collaboration,’ despite the wishes of most of the couturiers. The trade could havebeen shut down in an instant but with their ‘ruthless sense of national and personal entitlement toown everything in their path‘ (Kershaw 1999:240) the Nazi authorities permitted its continuation.
This presentation will examine style development and making under conditions of extreme shortages,
the consumers and resistors at home and in Allied and Occupied countries and the fate of Jewish
fashion industry professionals in France, and all over Europe.

Lou Taylor
Lou Taylor is a dress historian who has played a vital
developmental role in establishing the discipline and has beenwith the University of Brighton for many decades. She is theauthor of Mourning Dress: A Costume and Social History, Allenand Unwin, 1983; The Study of Dress History and Establishing
Dress History, Manchester University Press, 2002 and 2004;
She has co-written with Amy de la Haye and Eleanor Thompson,
Fancy and Fancy Dress: The Messel Dress Collection, 18702005, Philip Wilson and the Museum of Brighton, 2005; and coedited with Marie Mcloughlin, the forthcoming, Paris Fashion
and World War Two: Global Diffusion and Nazi Control, Bloomsbury Press, 2019.

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Reimagining the Future

Friday, July 12 | 12:00-12:30 | Renaissance Hall

Members of the Conference Organizing Committee will discuss the conference theme of“Reimagining the Future” with reference to both the current regional and global political contexts,
and taking inspiration from the morning’s speakers, set the scene for the hopes and expectationsof the rest of the conference.

Anne Boddington
Anne Boddington is Professor of Design Innovation, Pro Vice
Chancellor for Research, Business and Innovation at Kingston
University, UK, and recently appointed as the Sub Panel Chair for
Art & Design: History, Practice & Theory for the UK’s Research
Excellence Framework (REF) 2021. Professor Boddington
has extensive experience of the leadership, management andevaluation of art and design education and art and design researchin higher education across the UK and internationally. She is anexperienced chair and has held trustee and governance roles
across the creative and cultural sector including as trustee of the
Design Council, an independent Governor, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), an affiliate memberof the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), a member of the executive of the Council for Higher
Education in Art & Design (CHEAD) and a member of the advisory board of the Arts & Humanities
Research Council. She has an international reputation in creative education and research and has beena partner, a collaborator, a reviewer and evaluator for a wide range of international projects and reviews
across different nations in Europe, the Middle East, Southern and east Asia and North America.

Bruce Brown
Bruce Brown was educated at the Royal College of Art in London
where he is currently Visiting Professor. Until 2016, Bruce was
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor of Design at the
University of Brighton. For twenty years previously he was Deanof the university’s Faculty of Arts & Architecture. In 2018 Bruce
was appointed by the University Grants Committee of the Hong
Kong Specialist Administrative Region of the People’s Republicof China to Chair the assessment panels for Visual Arts, Design,
Creative Media in the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise
2020. Prior to this he was appointed by the UK Funding Councils
to Chair Main Panel D in the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework. Prior to this he chaired Main
Panel O in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Bruce served as a member of the Advisory
Board of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and has advised international organisations
including the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation and the Qatar National Research Fund.
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(Continued from the previous page).
Bruce chaired the Portuguese Government’s Fundação para a Ciência ea Tecnologia Research
Grants Panel [Arts] and was one of four people invited by the Portuguese Government to conduct aninternational review entitled Reforming Arts and Culture Higher Education in Portugal. He has served
as Trustee and Governor of organisations such as the Art’s Council for England’s South East Arts
Board, the Ditchling Museum and Shenkar College of Design and Engineering, Tel Aviv. Bruce is an
Editor of Design Issues Research Journal (MIT), an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art anda Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Matthew Coats
Matthew Coats was educated at the London College of Fashion
and, until 2017, was a fabric designer at Chanel in Paris, working
for Karl Lagerfeld. After spending several years working as a
fashion designer for both luxury and high-street brands, he is
now lecturing in Fashion at the University of Brighton, having
previously lectured in Creative Direction at Birmingham City
University. Alongside his work in education, he also runs his own
fashion-led interior textiles business. As a designer, his work is
focused on combining modern technology with traditional fabricweaving, and is executed in a vibrant, colourful style. Having also
worked as an agent at one of London’s leading model agencies, Storm, Matthew is familiar withthe many sides of the fashion industry. He feels passionately about the cultural significance of theindustry and the continuing importance of high-quality fashion education.
Professor Donald E. Hall's biography is available on page 29.

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Keynote Presentation: Jared Baxter

Van Gogh’s Last Supper:
Striking New Evidence
Friday, July 12 | 10:00-10:45 | Renaissance Hall

Having demonstrated, in academic journals and the media at-large, the likelihood that Vincent van
Gogh painted a Symbolist depiction of the Last Supper, I revisit the subject, Cafe Terrace at Night(1888), by offering new evidence, a deeper understanding of the painter’s ethos and progress while
he conceived it, and finally a call, a plea, to certain individuals, in the search to recover specificpieces of physical evidence.
New evidence includes: settling the case Cafe Terrace at Night should be considered Symbolist,
van Gogh’s exposure to Frederick von Uhde’s depiction of the Last Supper from the 1887 Paris
Salon, a robust evaluation of Paul Gauguin’s Vision After the Sermon (1888) as a response piece
to Cafe Terrace, French art critic and Symbolist champion G. Albert Aurier’s original ownership andadmiration of the painting, and the profound effects of two articles from the July, 1888 Revue desDeux Mondes that inspired Vincent to contrive for a brotherhood of twelve artist-monks who would
forge a 'Southern Renaissance' that was distinctly Symbolist.

Jared Baxter
Jared Baxter is an independent researcher living in Washougal,
Washington, USA. Over the last six years, his research has
focused on Vincent van Gogh, in particular, how Vincent's
enduring embrace of Christianity manifested itself in his later
life and artwork. His research has been published in the January,
2014 Art History Supplement, and the July, 2014 Anistoriton
Journal of History, Archaeology and Art History. Numerous
mainstream outlets have also commented on his work including
The Huffington Post, ArtNet News, The Siouxland Observer, andThe Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown.
Mr Baxter has participated in several previous IAFOR conferences, including as a Featured Speakerat the 2015 Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities (ACAH) and as the Keynote Speaker at the2016 European Conference on Arts & Humanities (ECAH). He has also accepted invitations to otheracademic conferences, including the 2015 Dutch Association of Aesthetics and the 2016 International
Conference on The Arts in Society.

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Featured Presentation: Alfonso J. García-Osuna

The Demise of Homo Sapiens: Thought andPerception in the Kingdom of Technology
Saturday, July 13 | 16:30-17:00 | Tennyson Room

The currency of the public discussion converging on issues such as fake news, shamtestimonials, manipulation of images and political swindles signals the need for a vigorous,
comprehensive debate regarding the state of our culture. Much is being said regarding thisissue, with arguments aligning behind the general assumption that there is something amissin the way in which we interact, create social capital and fashion political associations. This
unease has animated this paper's attempt to isolate what circumstances might be historicallyspecific to the current cultural malaise. Social critics, in their desire to find evidence of the fraud,
duplicity and general immorality that is at the heart of our ailments, never tire of pointing to thepolitical establishment as the foremost cause and offender. While not defending politicians
under any circumstances, I will argue that the muddle and disarray that characterise current
politics are incidental to a much more pernicious threat. What is commonly overlooked,
especially by media analysts and observers, is the distinctive contribution of technology to
the degradation of culture.

Alfonso J. García Osuna
Alfonso J. García Osuna has taught at Hofstra University in
New York, USA, for over thirty years. He specialises in medieval
and early modern literature, receiving his PhD (1989) fromthe Graduate School of the City University of New York, USA.
He has completed post-doctoral work at the University ofValladolid, Spain, has published six books, and is a frequent
contributor to specialised journals. Alfonso received primaryand secondary education in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands,
the place where his family originated and where he grew up.
An avid cyclist, he has completed the Road to Santiago, an
867-kilometre route through northern Spain, six times.

The IAFOR
Documentary
PhotographyAward 2018
Join us as we celebrate the winners of this year's IAFOR Documentary Photography Award – aninternational photography competition that seeks to promote and assist in the professional
development of emerging documentary photographers and photojournalists.

www.iaforphotoaward.org

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Friday, July 12 | 16:30-16:45 | Renaissance Hall

IAFOR Documentary Photography Award 2018
Award Winners Screening

The IAFOR Documentary Photography Award was launched by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
in 2015 as an international photography award that seeks to promote and assist in the professional
development of emerging documentary photographers and photojournalists. Another important
objective of this contest is to help bridge the divide between the world of practicing photojournalists/
documentary photographers and the world of academic scholars, and create an accessible and exciting
ground for dialogue and discussion at our conference events, and beyond. The award has benefitted
since the outset from the expertise of an outstanding panel of internationally renowned photographers,
including Dr Paul Lowe as the Founding Judge, and Ed Kashi, Simon Roberts, Simon Norfolk, Emma
Bowkett, Monica Allende, Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Maria Teresa Salvati and Ziyah Gafić as Guest Judges.
As an organisation, IAFOR’s mission is to promote international exchange, facilitate interculturalawareness, encourage interdisciplinary discussion, and generate and share new knowledge.
In keeping with this mission, and in appreciation of the great value of photography as a mediumthat can be shared across borders of language, culture and nation, and to influence and inform
our academic work and programmes, the IAFOR Documentary Photography Award was launched
as a competition that would help underline the importance of the organisation’s aims, and would
promote and recognise best practices and excellence. In support of up-and-coming talent, the
IAFOR Documentary Photography Award is free to enter.
Now in its fifth year, the award has already been widely recognised by those in the industry and has
been supported by World Press Photo, British Journal of Photography, Metro Imaging, MediaStorm,
Think Tank Photo, University of the Arts London and RMIT University, among others.
The work of last year's winners will be screened at ECAH/EuroMedia2019.
Image by Ezra Acayan | 2018 Grand Prize Winner

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Paul Lowe | Founding Judge
Our Founding Judge, Dr Paul Lowe is a Reader in Documentary
Photography and the Course Leader of the Masters program in
Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London
College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK.
Paul is an award-winning photographer who has been published
in TIME, Newsweek, Life, The Sunday Times Magazine, The
Observer, and The Independent, amongst others. He has covered
breaking news the world over, including the fall of the Berlin Wall,
Nelson Mandela’s release, famine in Africa, the conflict in theformer Yugoslavia, and the destruction of Grozny.
His book, Bosnians, documenting 10 years of the war and post-war situation in Bosnia, was publishedin April 2005 by Saqi books. His research interest focuses on the photography of conflict, and hehas contributed chapters to the books Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis (Reaktion, 2012)
and Photography and Conflict. His most recent books include Photography Masterclass publishedby Thames and Hudson, and Understanding Photojournalism, co-authored with Dr Jenny Good,published by Bloomsbury Academic Press. Paul is an Emeritus Member of VII Photo Agency.

Maria Teresa Salvati | Guest Judge
Maria Teresa is Founder and editor-in-chief at Slideluck Editorial,
which exhibits a selection of the best photographic works andmultimedia presented during Slideluck events worldwide, as well
as works from guest artists.
Maria Teresa conceived and curated the project Born the Same,a selection of ten different works exploring sub-cultures andmicro-stories working as reminders that we are all born the same,
despite cultural, emotional and political conditions. The project
was first presented at Les Rencontres De La Photographie Arles
2017, during La Nuit de l’Année, and is now travelling globally.
She co-edited and co-curated Hungry Still, an exhibition and publication produced and designed bySlideluck London, FORMAT Festival and QUAD, and printed by AKINA Factory. The collective project
showcases twenty-four of the best works that have contributed to the English platform, since its
inception, with a selection of images combined with personal anecdotes and recipes.
Maria Teresa is also a personal branding consultant. She helps photographers find their “spot of
beauty” and vision, advises them on how to build their identity, and helps them communicate via themost appropriate channels (i.e. social media). Now she teaches in Bari, Italy at F.Project School of
Photography and Cinematography, in Rome at Officine Fotografiche, and as a guest lecturer at the
London College of Communication (LCC).

Ziyah Gafić | Guest Judge
Ziyah Gafić is an award winning photojournalist with 19 yearsof experience, focusing on societies in conflict and Muslim
communities across the globe. He covered major news stories
in over 50 countries. His work has appeared in TIME, Le Monde,
The New York Times, GEO, The Sunday Times Magazine, La
Repubblica, The Telegraph Magazine, The New Yorker, among
others. He authored five books including Troubled Islam, Quest
for Identity, and Heartland. His work won a plethora of awards,
including multiple awards at World Press Photo, Visa pourl’image, Arles Rencontres de la photographie and grants from
Magnum Foundation, Getty Images and Prince Claus Fund.
Ziyah is member of VII Photo Agency and a TED Speaker.
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Supporters
The IAFOR Documentary Photography Award is supported by a number of leading institutions, organisations
and publications around the world in its aim to promote and recognise best practice and excellence indocumentary photography and photojournalism. These partnerships are a testament to the high regard inwhich the award is held within the photography industry.
The IAFOR Documentary Photography Award would like to thank the following organisations for their support:

Sponsorship Opportunities
As a key organisation involved with the IAFOR Documentary Photography Award, you will add to theexperience of these emerging professionals while showcasing the authenticity and responsibility of yourbrand. Through social media, product integration, logo placement, potential press coverage, promotion at
the award ceremony and subsequent exhibitions in Japan, Spain, USA and UK, you have the opportunity tohelp bring attention to the work of highly talented photographers.
For information on sponsorship opportunities or becoming a supporter of the IAFOR Documentary
Photography Award, please contact Thaddeus Pope, Creative Director, IAFOR Documentary PhotographyAward (tpope@iafor.org).

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July 12
Parallel Sessions
Abstracts appear as originally submitted by the author.
Any spelling, grammatical, or typographical errors arethose of the author.

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13:45-15:00 | Renaissance (2F)

Friday Session I

Film Theory
Session Chair: Norberto Mínguez
50890

13:45-14:10 | Renaissance (2F)

The Discussion of Still Frames and Motions on Timing Value: A Case Study of Some Awards Best Animated Shorts
I-Chun Liu, Shih Chien University, Taiwan

The sense of accomplishment is seeing these still images come alive in the linear spatial reality in which we live, the restored conceptof time reenacted amid stop-motion frames brings about the static consecution and dynamic reconstruction of moving images. Amid
stop-motion frames where time can either pause or move forward, we are given a chance to rethink the definition of the recurrence oftemporal consciousness. Therefore, in addition to the physical definition of time, the sense of time reshaped in space and the spaceconstructed in time mark the instant when animated life is created. Within linear time structure, animated life and actual noumenon often
form multiple overlapping senses of present space-time amid the spatiotemporal cycle of reconstructing and retracing past time andmemorized moments aroused by the subconsciousness. This research essay focuses on exploring and expounding on the observation of
temporal flow and spatial sense through frame by frame, as well as the observation of infinite from memory and memory points throughlife. The illusions created still images and frames and existing in space and time, and by discussion the subject of time-space and ponder
the extension of image structures to satisfy viewers at a spiritual level. In addition, an echo can be aroused in viewers with the universal
value of human activities, so that the viewers can gain an insight into this subject matter.
51590

14:10-14:35 | Renaissance (2F)The Spectator Facing the Cut: A Neurocinematics Review
Javier Sanz, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Juan José Caballero, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Carlos Aguilar, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Lydia Sánchez, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

The cut, conceptualized as articulator of the filmic fact and as a sense-generating agent, constitutes the nuclear occupation of themost incipient film theory. From the texts and experiences of Eisenstein, Vertov or Kuleshov, to the theoretical debate focused on theconstruction of the film discourse and its structuring through the cut in the work of theorists such as Burch, Mitry, Oudart, Miller or
Deleuze, the attempts to unravel the cut have always been either speculative, aesthetic or strictly technical proposals. Today, thanks tothe contributions of neurocinematics, we have a new methodological access to the analysis of the cut. This presentation is based onelectroencephalographic records collected over the course of a four-month fieldwork at the University of Aalborg’s Cognition Lab with asample of 21 participants. The neuronal activity of spectators experiencing the cut was subjected to in-depth analysis through the studyof the Event-Related Desynchronization/Synchronization of the EEG rhythms. What is presented here is the conjunction of the results
obtained in the laboratory with the analytical tradition that is the foundation of the nuclear concepts of the cinematographic theoretical
corpus such as the interval, découpage or suture.
51654

14:35-15:00 | Renaissance (2F)The Essayistic Form in Contemporary Spanish Film
Norberto Mínguez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

The essay film is a cinema of thought in which the ideas coming up from sounds and images are produced together with the linguistic
framework that articulates them. Film essays do not borrow pre-established discourse structures, but rather invent for the occasion
their own communicative strategy. Thus the interest is not only in the ideas but also on how they are constructed. The purpose of thispresentation is twofold: a) to characterize contemporary Spanish essay film through the results of a research project that identifies
and catalogues a body of works and authors that draws the map of the Spanish contemporary audiovisual essay. b) to analyze three
Spanish non-fiction films in light of the essayistic feature that they share: Mercado de Futuros (Mercedes Álvarez, 2011), Holy Thriller(María Cañas, 2011) and Mapa (Elías León Siminiani, 2012). I conclude that in these films images are used not just to document or
represent reality but to establish a critical and subjective discourse on that reality. They consider themselves as exploratory works withno restrictions to renew film aesthetics or to try innovative approaches to social or political matters. They represent different formal
and thematic approaches to the essayistic as established in the first part of my paper: the subjective observational essay in Mercado
de Futuros; a critical an ironic look at popular culture through replaying the archive in Holy Thriller; the intimacy of the filmed diary as an
essentially auto reflexive form in Mapa.

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13:45-15:00 | Tennyson (2F)

Friday Session I
Technology
Session Chair: Rafe Clayton
50046

13:45-14:10 | Tennyson (2F)

Digital Motherhood in the Australian Home: The Role of Mediatisation in Contemporary Mothering
Fae Heaselgrave, University of South Australia, Australia

The presence of communication technologies in the home is shaping the way women with children interact with digital media and how
they perform their motherhood role. Mothers not only manage their own direct interactions with technologies for entertainment, sociality,
work and digital domestic duties, they also engage in vicarious interactions with technology through their facilitation and supervision ofchildren’s digital consumption. These dual points of digital interaction signal changes to the way women mother as they navigate theirrole around their children’s growing use of devices, often establishing rules about when and for how long they can be used, whilst also
managing their own use of digital media. Extant communication and media research explore the strategies parents deploy to mediate
and manage children’s access to media content. Far fewer studies focus solely on the mother’s role as digital gatekeeper or consider
contextual factors that influence their digital interactions in the home. This paper reports empirical findings from a qualitative study withmothers living in South Australia. In depth interviews were conducted in participants’ homes and data were analysed to explore how
mediatisation processes are contributing to digital motherhood. Participants revealed mostly positive attitudes about digital technology
when speaking of their own use and the opportunities for mobile media to extend their mothering role beyond the home. Conversely,
mothers were ambivalent about technology use by children and spoke of the impact that device use for leisure and homework are havingon their role, thus indicating a mediatisation of motherhood in Australia.
52192

14:10-14:35 | Tennyson (2F)

Design Fictions: Imaging Sustainable Futures as Design PracticeMarc Miller, Penn State, United States

Design practices like Architecture and Landscape Architecture rely heavily on images to demonstrate agency through the recontextualization of spaces, the transformation of environments, and hybridization of ecologies. Unlike earlier design agendas, sustainable
practices face the challenge of quantifying proposals using scientific models (performance) in addition to qualifying them with culturalconventions (image). Given that these are proposals for the future, older modes of representation like drawing and painting are not as
effective. These images are referential, referencing the past to communicate. Photo collage and digital rendering also rely upon historicalprecedent. These images are constrained by historic perceptions and do not inform the audience of the future. Given this, the author
intends to establish a case for television production as a speculative practice, or design fiction. Unlike static imagery, design fictions will
enable the audience to experience in the story and environment. In contrast to film, television allows the for a long story arc of ecology andculture to evolve with complexity and nuance. In short, design fictions reveal future environments and model possible behaviors withinthese futures. Referencing worldbuilding and existing television series the author will describe a framework for television as a popular
design media capable of revealing the agency of landscape architecture. The outcome will be an explanation as to how design fiction is apractice that involves the making of clients and patrons in response to future concerns and needs.
52556

14:35-15:00 | Tennyson (2F)

Filmmaking Theory for Vertical Video Production
Rafe Clayton, University of Bolton, United Kingdom

Smartphones have changed the world and now mobile users are consuming more vertical video than ever before (Richards 2017). In
particular, vertical video is gaining popularity amongst content makers for social media since the aspect ratio typically suits how mobile
phone users hold their phones and therefore how they are now watching video content (ScientiaMobile 2019). In recent years the 9:16
aspect ratio has established itself as an emerging requirement within the professional video market since companies of all sizes, small,medium and large have realised the commercial value of creating video vertically for mobile consumption (Neal and Ross 2018). In
order to stand out, brands, marketers and creators are being encouraged to broadcast content that is better quality than that which theiraudience is capable of creating themselves (Social Chain 2018). However, the film industry has spent over a hundred years of development
specializing in the production of horizontal videography and there is a distinct absence of literature which can help support verticalfilmmakers. As the distinction between amateur and corporate vertical video content continues to blur (Neal and Ross 2018), scholastic
work helping to identify some of the techniques, equipment, approaches and methods by which professionals can separate themselvesfrom non-professionals is useful. This paper will reflect on the current literature (or lack of it) that surrounds the practical nature of vertical
video production and attempt to bring together the scattered and often inconsistent pieces of advice and inspiration that have been
published in print and online.

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13:45-15:00 | Shelley (2F)

Friday Session I

Language
Session Chair: Christiana Hammond
52449

13:45-14:10 | Shelley (2F)

Oral Profiling and Foreign Language Use in the Classroom: Comparison With Language Performance Levels,
Within the Context of Language Policies
Joana Grant, Cooplem Idiomas, Brazil

This article is a sample extract from my Master's dissertation presented as a requirement for the Master's Degree in Applied Linguistics
in Foreign Language Teaching, at the University of Brasilia UnB), in Brazil, within Teaching and Learning of Foreign Language área.The
completion of this work was on the investigative basis of non-native English-speaking teachers’ oral skills, by mapping their working
practices within elementary and secondary schools, in the public and private sectors, and a language teaching cooperative school, in
Brasília, the capital of Brazil, Cooplem Idiomas. In the literature, I present comparative tables between the performance bands from thereferential performance languages levels (RENIDE Project) and the oral profile of the participants who took part in the research, within thecontext of language teaching policies (POELIN). I try to understand the phenomena of oral circulation in the classroom, using appropriate
tools and resources such as questionnaires, classroom observations and semi-structured interviews, using qualitative method in order toanswer two questions in light of the current literature that deals with personal dispositions, values in the tradition of teaching and learningin schools, in Brazil, taking into consideration the schools and teachers who participated in the research. By adopting the case study, I
point out the findings reflecting the oral profiles found.
52163

14:10-14:35 | Shelley (2F)The Use of English on Social Media: Deviation or Variation?

Cecilia Folasade Ojetunde, Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, Nigeria
This study examined the use of English on social media with a view to assessing the extent to which the language of social media
conforms to the standard English usage. The theoretical framework adopted for this study is constructed homophony. The data for the
study were drawn from selected messages and posts on Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram. Thirty (30) texts were randomly selectedfrom the data gathered and analysised textually within the framework of constructed homophony. The study revealed that the nonconforming social media use of English appears at the grammatical level; sentences, phrases and words are condensed to series ofletters, figures and signs that somehow correlate with English orthography and structural patterns. Orthographically, some words are
misspelt probably to speed up the rate of communication and lexically, there is reappropriation of existing words; new words are literally
created and new meaning given to existing words. The study concluded that since the rules and conventions of word and sentence
patterns in English are not complied with by social media users, then there is deviation. Thus, since the description and codification ofsocial media linguistic features and the provision of conducive linguistic, educational and political environments for its popularity anduse have not been established, it could not be regarded as a variety of English. Hence, users of social media should always be consciousof not transferring the linguistic features of social media language to the formal use of English to preserve the standard of the language.
50061

14:35-15:00 | Shelley (2F)My Language My Identity: Exploring Identity Construction Processes of Ghanaian Language Users in a Multicultural Higher Educational Institution
Christiana Hammond, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana

The concept of language as identity has received sustained attention and has been examined through diverse lenses within the remit ofnationality, race, gender, and sexual orientation among others. Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in recent times are heterogeneousand highly multi-cultural and have thus become potential sites for culture stereotypes and all forms of ethno-centrism albeit the advocacy
for intercultural learning. This study examines identity construction processes adopted by users of Ghanaian languages in the multicultural setting of the University of Education, Winneba - Ghana. Situated in Michael Hecht and Eura Choi’s Communication Theory of
Identity, and from a Phenomenological perspective, the data for this study was elicited through interviews and focus group discussions
from 12 purposively selected participants. The findings explicate that speakers of diverse Ghanaian languages in the HEI construct theiridentities through processes such as proximity to culture, local presence, de-ethnicisation, cyber-socialisation, and identity negotiation
for affinity. The study thus, affirms both the essentialist and non-essentialist perspectives on identity construction from diverse strands.
Two kinds of identities emerge from these processes: real and ideal identities. The study contributes to literature on identity studies andprocesses of accommodation and concludes that identities are constructed between and among users of languages differently in context.
It recommends efforts at minimizing stereotypical behaviours that promotes ethno-centrism in place of cross-cultural communicationand ethno-relativism in HEIs in an era of cross-cultural learning.

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13:45-15:00 | Wordsworth (2F)

Friday Session I
Politics
Session Chair: Ho Man Tang
52665

13:45-14:10 | Wordsworth (2F)

Monological Multivocalism and the Dissolution of the Umbrella Movement
Ho Man Tang, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

In 2014, Hong Kong protesters occupied the C.B.D. for 79 days in the Umbrella Movement, protesting against the Chinese government's
decision of 'universal suffrage' of the Chief Executive with only candidates selected by a committee controlled by the Beijing. In line withthe arguments of connective action (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012), most studies of the Umbrella Movement stressed on the contributionof social media in successfully shaping a massive yet decentralized, self-organizing movement. However, few studies work on the realitythat the movement actually failed in the fight for democratization, and resulted in a breakdown of collaboration among protesters in thefollowing years. Through survey and fieldwork, this study explores the roles and limitations of multiple forms of communication practices
in the occupying area to explain the conflicts, lack of consensus, and eventually the dissolution of the movement. Among the occupiers,
usage of social media failed to create consensus and coherence in movement understanding and direction. In form of the new media
cultural logic of mass self-communication (Castells, 2009), the movement celebrated individual expression of diverse opinion to constructa sense of inclusiveness and solidarity, but undermined reciprocal deliberation between opposing opinion. Such cultural ideology ofmonological multivocalism became a core ethic in the movement and limited the actual opportunities of collective decision making.
Decentralized form of mobilization, disagreements on movement direction, and the lack of open and equal deliberation led to internal
conflicts that limited the synchronization of movement direction and the formation of collective action frame.
52415

14:10-14:35 | Wordsworth (2F)Media Usage Patterns for Building Political Popularity of the Mayor of Songkhla Municipality, Songkhla Province
Wittayatorn Tokeaw, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand

This research studied the media usage patterns for building political popularity of the mayor of Songkhla municipality in terms of 1) media
usage patterns 2) traditional media strategies 3) new media strategies 4) approaches to develop media usage strategies. This study
was a qualitative research using participatory observation and in-depth interviews. The 8 key informants were the mayor and membersof public relation office who were involved with building the popularity of the mayor for at least 4 years. Data were analyzed throughdescriptive analysis. The results showed that 1) media usage patterns consisted of (a) building the mayor’s profile; (b) showing his vision;(c) demonstrating work results and (d) describing ways to solve the problems. 2) traditional media strategies were (a) door-to-door visits
and coffee forum meet-ups to understand problems, generating familiarity and spreading word-of-mouth communication; (b) newspapers
for pass-along communication; (c) radio via popular programs and (d) activities to provide added value for citizen participation. 3) new
media strategies were (a) a website for formal communication; (b) Facebook for informal communication; (c) Youtube for audio visualpresentation; and (d) Line for fast and friendly communication. 4) Approaches to develop media usage strategies are (a) creating a strong
stakeholders participation; (b) providing useful contents and (c) promoting lifelong learning and build democratic political culture.
50111

14:35-15:00 | Wordsworth (2F)

Advance Surveillance and Security in the Social Media Regime: An Analysis of the Role of Information andCommunication Technologies (ICTs)
Joseph Wogu, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria

The use of the information superhighway, which is enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has helped to strengthen
and extend security surveillance and information sharing across the entire continents of the world. The potential of the Internet and its
associated social media tools as an open communication system to create an alert on impending security problem and provide first-handinformation/evidence when crimes are committed is high. It provides valuable opportunities for individuals, groups, and organisations toestablish their own spaces and sites and report such cases. However, its net benefit depends strictly on certain factors such as the natureand number of ICTs installations among others. This paper, therefore, examines the level of social media activities in Nigeria; evaluates
its impact on the efforts of security agencies to contain crimes, insurgencies, and terrorism; and explores its limitations or challenges.
Archival research, which generates data from books, journals, workshop and conference papers, newspapers and magazines, governmentand civil society publications, and content analysis are adopted as research methods. The results of the study reveal high-level social
media activities among Nigerians with no significant relationship with the efforts of security agencies to contain the current security
challenges facing the country. It further shows the absence of synergy between the public and security agencies. The paper, therefore,
recommends security sensitisation programmes for the public, the development of pro-masses security surveillance scheme, and the
procurement and/or installation of security software and instrument that are accessible to the public via social media.

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15:15-16:30 | Renaissance (2F)

Friday Session II

Journalism
Session Chair: Marwa Al Mut'afy
51321

15:15-15:40 | Renaissance (2F)

Journalism Ethics in the Digital Era

Bibi Ayesha Mall, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
Social media have become the public spheres of the 21st century and legacy media have long since recognised their utilitarian potential
for journalism. These sites have become loci of contestation on a variety of topical issues; they advance the democratisation agenda byfacilitating robust engagement about religion, politics, culture, music and a range of other issues. Consequently, such social media sites
are potential sources of information for journalists. It is contended in this paper that usage of such new media technological development
by journalists has given rise to numerous concomitant ethical considerations with particular reference to veracity and sensationalism.
The key theories that inform this paper are the Habermasian concept of public sphere, the two-step flow theory and the agenda-setting
theory. The basis of this research is in keeping with the qualitative approach. The study is located within the South African context. The
primary data sources are South African journalists on their use of social media as sources of information and story ideation. Secondary
data has been derived from content analysis of Facebook and Twitter and of a selection of South African newspapers. Articles that includecomments and other information accessed from these sites and, stories based on debates and discussions on these sites have beenstudied to ascertain ethical considerations or lack thereof. It will be contended in the paper that to ensure the credibility of journalism as
an institution and as a primary purveyor of information, journalism ethics, values and principles must continue to be heeded.
52215

15:40-16:05 | Renaissance (2F)

Citizen Journalism Adoption in Arab News Media : A Case Study of “I See” News App
Aiman Alsaeedi, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

The combination of new technology and Web 2.0 features created a chance for ordinary citizens to become involved in the news-gathering
process. Smart phones and digital cameras are used worldwide by citizens to report live news, capture videos and photos and sharing
them through social media platforms. Many major news added citizen journalism as a valuable source through social media or by creating
specific apps for this purpose such as iReport app from CNN or BBC social media hub. Although citizen journalism in mainstream media
is considered to be a form of audience empowerment, it raises many concerns within the news organisations regarding the journalism
standards of accuracy and objectivity (Harrison, 2010). The paper examines the work of “I see” project in Al-Arabiya news channel from2011 to 2018. Al-Arabiya offered the audience the chance to capture and upload user generated contents using an interactive app as
and displaying these contents on a website, twitter account and special TV news segment. The initiative has faced ups and downs
witnessing important events such as Arab Spring as well as Syrian and Yemen wars. The research demonstrates different topic suchas: citizen journalist risk, verification, fake news and editorial decisions. Qualitative approach was chosen in this research to gain a
deep understanding of the case study using semi-structured interviews along participant observation. The interviews include the project
founder, journalists, editors and head management in Al-Arabiya who worked closely with the project.
51651

16:05-16:30 | Renaissance (2F)Media Literacy: An Essential Skill?

Marwa Al Mut'afy, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Media literacy has become an essential skill in the world we live in. The overflow of media from various sources overloaded with multiple
political and social agendas make it very difficult for a person to identify and understand what and how the media messages are affecting
their lives and their choices. The media environment in Egypt has been labeled as a transitional one by scholar William Rugh in his book
“Arab Media History”. Ever since that book was published, it’s easy to say that Egypt still qualifies as a transitional media system. Many
scholars and practitioners believe that freedom of expression, even for private media, is controlled by financial and political gains. With thepolarization of the traditional media outlets, many were optimistic about social media. But that has not solved the problem as it appearedthat social media platforms were used as a source for spreading fake news and/or rumors. In this paper, the researcher aims to explore
the importance of media literacy in this complex media environment in Egypt, especially with its demographic distribution of citizens. The
research is based on a survey distributed among a sample of media college students in different universities in an attempt to understandthe areas that needs more work to help younger generations avoid being manipulated by media messages. The sample studied included
Cairo University media students who actually have to study a course on Media Literacy and students from other universities who are notdirectly taught about the topic.

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15:15-16:30 | Tennyson (2F)

Friday Session II
Technology & Social Media
Session Chair: Iryna Morozova
52371

15:15-15:40 | Tennyson (2F)

Before it’s too Late: Environmental Political Activism in Istanbul and Social Media Messaging
Doga Ulas Eralp, American University, United States

This paper explores how an ad-hoc environmentalist group in Istanbul, a mega city sprawling across the European and Asia continents,
employed social media platforms to hold the national government for accountability and call for transparency on the true ecological cost of
three contested urban mega projects, an intercontinental Bridge, the new Istanbul Airport and a new maritime Channel that will irreversibly
impact Istanbul’s future as a sustainable urban space in the 21st century. These three mega projects have been digitally branded on
mainstream media as showcases for prosperity and development while dismissing the data on environmental and demographic costs.
As a response, the advocacy group called the Alliance for the Defense of the Northern Forests of Istanbul launched a very assertive
public awareness campaign on social media using data as narrative calling for inclusivity in the environmental governance of Istanbul.
Employing a narrative analysis methodology this paper looks into the structure of the eco-activists messaging and explores the extent
to which the content works with the social media platforms they instrumentalized. The paper discusses the effectiveness of the ecoactivists’ challenge to the official discourse on social media by categorically laying out how different types of messaging led to different
expressions of non-violent real world activism on the ground that faced varying degrees of violent and non-violent reactions from theTurkish Government. The discussion concludes with an assessment of whether eco-activists messaging posed a political challenge todevelopment based politics of the Erdogan government in Turkey.
50990

15:40-16:05 | Tennyson (2F)

Civility and the Democratic Potential of the Internet
Elizabeth Coleman, Monash University, Australia

This paper explores the relationship between regulation and social norms. Recent scandals in relation to privacy, fake news, hate speech,
and cyber violence towards women and girls have seen calls for greater accountability by Facebook and Google, and demands forregulation. Models for regulation include those that concern public utilities in relation to truth and public safety, but also, increasingly, calls
for civility in public debate. Critics of such regulation have argued that such demands amount to censorship that undermines freedom ofspeech. This paper explores the nature of norms, and the way flaming and trolling may be understood as forms of regulation. The media
and communication literature suggest that these behaviours are means of ‘policing’ communities and the behaviour of participants inonline forums. If the research into such norms are correct, then it cannot be claimed that the introduction of regulation to manage hatespeech, fake news and cyberattacks reflects the imposition of regulation into an unregulated space. Rather, it is the development ofregulation on a principled basis. Yet, one of concerns of such regulation rightly involves distrust of government. I consider models of
devolved regulation that have the potential to increase participation, and to promote civil discussion.
52328

16:05-16:30 | Tennyson (2F)

Books vs Video Games: A Gestalt Approach to the Future Narrative
Iryna Morozova, Odesa Mechnikov National University, Ukraine
Olena Pozharytska, Odesa Mechnikov National University, Ukraine

The present investigation is dedicated to the problem of representing the original literary text created by the author through thecommunicative means of a video game. Understanding the communication process as a totality of different ways of information andenergy exchange, we inevitably face the question of how “human-to-human talk through the machine” is carried out. In this paper, we
restrict our investigation, made within the framework of “man − computer quasi-communication”, to the intellectual “quest” genre ofvideo games. A video game gives a player a multi-dimensional perspective and presupposes gradual progress. This fact permits treating
a literary work behind the gameplay based on it as a motivated interactive process, more or less predictable in its analytic capabilities.
The author’s narration and characters’ literary dialogue give birth to the ludonarrative, i.e. a combination of game and story. On the other
hand, the presented paper shows the appliance of Gestalt theory to language empirical research and develops George Lakoff’s ideas as
to the striking potential of Gestalt analysis for linguistics (1977). Having compared the verbal Gestalts of the characters’ parties and their
non-verbal input into the quest, we have made conclusions about the player’s (and the characters’) more active communicative and social
roles in the video game narrative and disclosed a number of regularities in the supposedly “free” choice made by the players. There being
opportunities to take different pathways through the ludonarrative, the stories in the book and the game follow a common algorithm.

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15:15-16:30 | Shelley (2F)

Friday Session II
Education
Session Chair: Cláudia Lima51999

15:15-15:40 | Shelley (2F)

Pathways to Professions (P2P): Digital Badges for Civic Engagement and Career Readiness
Yi Huang, Coppin State University, United States

The Pathways to Professions (P2P) initiatives aim to build capacities for inclusive excellence through competency-based e-credentialing
for career advancement. P2P Digital Badges for Career Readiness are issued by Coppin State University and validated by a consortium ofagencies within the University System of Maryland (USM), USA. Integrating evidence-based pedagogies, high-impact field experiences,and performance-based assessments, P2P Digital Badges for Career Readiness are designed to encourage civic engagement in highneeds communities. P2P Digital Badges are directly aligned to career readiness competencies as issued by the National Association ofColleges and Employers (NACE, 2016 & 2019). Participants are expected to demonstrate competencies and achievements as knowledge
generators in classrooms and change makers in their professions and our communities. The principal investigator will share insights
on theoretical foundations for model development, implementation and improvement processes, and will discuss early results andimplications of the P2P initiatives funded by state, federal, and private agencies.
50954

15:40-16:05 | Shelley (2F)

Adapting Modern Technology Into the Public Relations Classroom: An Analysis of Pedagogy in the Classroom
Jessica Vierra, California State University, San Bernardino, United States
Jessica Block Nerren, California State University, San Bernardino, United States

This study further assesses instructional pedagogies utilizing public relations technology in classrooms and how it heightens student
success. Habitually, a healthy learning environment with independently successful students does not always come from a serious solemn
classroom, but that is what our society leads us to believe. Instruction can be humorous, fun, or advanced in technology, which can lighten
the classroom climate, empower students, increase comfort and should be tools that every instructor has at their disposal. Predominantly,
this study dives into defining research associated with use of consumer grade and professional grade technology in the classroom andthe types of different resources (i.e. live polling, animated video presentations, socials, youtube tutorials, etc.) a person may want to apply
in the classroom that is significant not only to public relations as a practice but also as pedagogical tool, accomplishing two goals at
once for students. Particularly, this study connects learning in the classroom with Arousal Theory and Expectancy Violation Theory. The
literature review shows many benefits come from utilizing technology and fun in the classroom, however, this study will be among the firstto analyze the benefit of PR technology in the public relations classroom, through primary and secondary research by two PR practitioners
and instructors. Technology used in the field of PR used as learning tools can persuade students to be more interested and participate
more in content, which creates a healthy collectivistic classroom climate.
51522

16:05-16:30 | Shelley (2F)

Contributions of Knowledge From Past Generations in Current Contexts of Arts Education
Cláudia Lima, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
Heitor Alvelos, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Susana Barreto, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Eliana Penedos, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

This article stems from the analysis of the professional life and work of Portuguese scholars, researchers and artists, graduated at theSuperior School of Fine Arts of Porto, during the 1960s and 1970s. It is considered that the testimonies of these generations are an asset
for current educational contexts in these areas, but often there seems to be a lack of a framework that can accommodate and enhance
this knowledge and experience. Research in art and design has only recently been validated as a scientific discipline; we can argue thatthe available scientific heritage precedes the formalisation of these disciplines, residing in an older generation of scholars, researchers
and artists. Given the fundamentally empirical nature of this experience and knowledge, we believe this heritage has remained largely
outside the validated work content in current higher education and research on art and design. Therefore, this generation of scholars,
researchers and artists is often confronted with the lack of a framework that welcomes and enhances their professional experienceand testimonies beyond curricular requirements and project solicitation. In the present article, developed within the framework of the
project Wisdom Transfer: towards the scientific inscription of individual legacies in contexts of retirement from art and design higher
education and research, we aim at devising possible ways of framing these experiences and knowledge of an older generation of scholars,
researchers and artists within current learning contexts.

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15:15-16:30 | Wordsworth (2F)

Friday Session II
Identity
Session Chair: Sherzad Barzani
51111

15:15-15:40 | Wordsworth (2F)

Fantastical Creatures as the “Other” in “The Shape of Water” by Director Guillermo Del Toro
Alexis Romero Walker, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, United States

This research examines how the film The Shape of Water directed by Guillermo Del Toro uses monsters to symbolically represent thequeer and racial "other." Through an interpretive, textual analysis various clips from the film were examined and analyzed to showcasethat through the monster's depiction of the "other" the monster exemplified qualities of the queer other (through gender fluidity) and the
racial other (through visual difference). This analysis concludes that the film used the monster to instead foster empathy rather thanfear to allow audiences to also gain empathy for the monster, allowing for the monster to develop as being more human, and the humanantagonist to become more monstrous. Through the empathy audiences feel toward the monster, Del Toro creates an environment whereaudiences develop empathy not just toward the fictional creature, but to humans that are also seen as the queer or racial other. Therefore,
Del Toro's film acts as a beautiful fantastical narrative that also elicits empathy toward real life queer and racial "others."
52588

15:40-16:05 | Wordsworth (2F)

Romantic Nostalgia for Home in Mudik Tradition: The Indonesian-Australian Muslim Youth Case
Ninda Ratnasari, The University of Sydney, Australia

In the last four decades, Muslims have been one of the fastest growing communities in Australia and fulfil their roles in the diversity ofAustralian society. Muslims have emigrated to Australia from several Muslim-majority countries, including Indonesia. While IndonesianMuslims were eager to obtain a higher standard of living, moving to Australia which is considered a Western country is not without its
consequences. This study focuses on the second-generation of Indonesian-Muslim youth who were Australian-born living in Sydney
whom experiencing the lack of a sense of belonging and the rising bewilderment between ‘Indonesian’ and ‘Australian’ identities,
not to mention the social dynamics within the fellow Muslim immigrants from other countries such as Lebanese, Turkish, and Arabs.
While transferring Islamic values, as well as Indonesian cultural norms, are major concerns for Indonesian Muslim parents in Sydney,
their children engage with the broader community of Australia which may have different attitudes and values. As a response, mudik,
the annual homecoming tradition performed by Indonesian Muslims during the Islamic feast day of ‘Eid al-Fitr, could be a solution
for these youth to retrieve their disconnected identity. Mudik constructs a romantic nostalgia for the losing home, which provides
an opportunity to do silaturahim, a practice in Islam to strengthening the relationships with relatives, friends, and all of the people
in sequence. Moreover, this paper attempts to examine how bicultural individuals’ Muslim identity is identified and experienced bysecond-generation Indonesian-Australian Muslim youth.
51016

16:05-16:30 | Wordsworth (2F)

Kurdish Poetry of Identity and Alienation in 1980s
Sherzad Barzani, University of Salahaddin, Iraq

This research tackles with the Kurdish poetry of alienation and their long struggle for identity. The poems have been chosen carefully
from two contemporary poets Mueyed Tayyb (1957) and Abdullah Pashew (1946). These two poets belong to two different main
Kurdish dialects Kurmanji and Sorani to cover a large area of the Kurdish speaking territories. The selected poets have both lived under
the Saddam regime and have composed their major and most popular poems during that hard times of estrangement and alienation.
The alienation that the poets faced under the tyrannical regime was the strict censorship imposed on freedom of speech and Kurdish
Freedom Movements whatsoever. The research is limited to the poems written in 1980s the distinguished decay of twentieth century
when the most inhuman atrocities have been practiced against the Kurdish minority. At the beginning of their career as the Kurdish
poets they tried to publish their works under self-censor through a metaphorical and symbolic language. Later on they could not
publish even a word in Kurdish and for this reason Pashew left Kurdistan and migrated to former Soviet Union in 1979 and Tayyb went
to Sweden in 1983. Almost all the poems in their first collection deal with the deep feeling of alienation and the struggle for identity toregain their lost Paradise. As samples the following poems can be mentioned: A Sip of Wind and The Shoe Shining Boy by Tayyb, andPashew’s poem the Unknown Soldier.

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Friday, July 12 | 17:30-18:45 | Library Terrace

Conference Welcome Reception
Join fellow delegates for a drink or two at the Conference Welcome Reception. This
event provides a great opportunity for delegates to network and get to know each other.
All registered presenters and audience members are welcome to attend. Admission is
included in the conference registration fee.

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July 13
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09:00-10:40 | Tennyson (2F)

Saturday Session I
Race & Culture
Session Chair: Novotny Lawrence
51174

09:00-09:25 | Tennyson (2F)Media Representation of the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake “Wardrobe Malfunction”
Rebecca Lind, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

During the halftime musical performance of the 2004 Super Bowl (a major televised sporting event in the US), something happened. But
what? “Janet Jackson exposed her breast.” “Justin Timberlake ripped off Jackson’s costume.” “It was a ‘wardrobe malfunction’.” The present
study is a content analysis of media coverage of the event and the extent to which coverage challenged or perpetuated stereotypical gendernorms. Holland (2009) found that media coverage of the event invoked themes of racial and gender stereotypes, hegemonic masculinity, andhyper-sexualization. The present study investigates US national newspapers both in the month immediately following the event and in theyear leading up to its 15th anniversary in February 2019. The sample was generated searching the Nexus Uni database for the terms “Janet
Jackson,” “Justin Timberlake,” and “wardrobe malfunction.” Articles are coded for 49 variables to reveal how the media portrayed the actions
and actors (what happened, who bore responsibility, the ramifications of the event, etc.), and whether themes evident in 2004 remain in
2019. The coding process allows both for quantitative examination of the sample as a whole and qualitative thematic analysis. The analysis,
which is ongoing, provides an extension of prior research because it is more fine-grained than that undertaken in prior work and looks at the
implications of the coverage over time. It also allows us to understand how the term “wardrobe malfunction” has been incorporated into ourcultural discourse, and to what extent (and how) it remains linked to Jackson and/or Timberlake.
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09:25-09:50 | Tennyson (2F)

To Be or Not to Be: An Analysis of Conflict in Mexican American and European American Relationships
Jessica Vierra, California State University, San Bernardino, United States

Intercultural romantic relationships have increasingly become more common in the United States, between Mexican American andEuropean American males and females. Predominantly, this study is going to investigate how Mexican Americans and European
Americans in intercultural romantic relationships visualize conflict in their relationship. By utilizing semi-structured interviews andthematic analysis (i.e. qualitative methods) this research will answer the research question: what are the cultural communicationdifferences in romantic relationships between Mexican Americans and European Americans? Research findings support culturaldifferences being related to power, gender normality’s, language barriers, child care, and religion. Although there is a vast amount ofresearch focused on intercultural relationships, it seems there are few studies done to investigate what cultural differences emerge inthe communication process between these couples, research, like this, is vital to help support this growing community. Participantsin this study indicated cultural differences strongly connected to conflict. Themes identified by participants from the data collected
include childcare, power, gender normality’s, religion, uncertainty avoidance, and family influences. By utilizing personal testimonies
this research reports on lived experiences these individuals encountered and how they overcame cultural tensions.
52683

09:50-10:15 | Tennyson (2F)

Idealization Back to Realism: Specialist Dialogues on the Rise of Trendy Drama in the East Asia and Its Implications
Hsin-Pey Peng, Zhaoqing University, China

Trendy drama is an arising TV drama genre popularized in East Asia in the recent decade. Its role has been legitimised by the socialand popular culture phenomenon based on its specific features in local TV productions. The previous study shows that the genre hasa significant position in the development of East-Asian regionalistion, that has been increased by the new popular cultural formation.
The aim of this paper is to review the features of trendy drama that transform with the time and its implications on society. For it,
this paper utilises the in-depth interview combined with the literature, highlighting the practical perspectives of TV specialists on
this investigation. This paper argues that trendy drama has been reinforced drawing on extra appealing features for TV marketing
according to different local popular cultures such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea. However, the contemporary trendy drama
production highlights the most feature of this genre, zeitgeist. The findings of this paper foreground that this new genre, in comparison
with the conventional TV drama productions, signifies the current trend of East Asian social atmosphere, and which is bringing thisnew genre back to its spirit. Importantly, the media text conveyed in the genre represents a tendency towards collective self-reflectionin terms of social situation and media ethnics. This meanwhile refers to the TV industry has symbolic power to express bottom-up
force of popular culture through media in East Asia.
50972

10:15-10:40 | Tennyson (2F)White Mansions, Black Bodies: Get Out and the New Age Slave Plantation
Novotny Lawrence, Iowa State University, United States

Jordan Peele’s Get Out functions as an important commentary about racial politics during the Trump presidency; however, in an interview
on Fresh Air the director explained that he originally conceived of the film in 2008. In particular, Peele wanted to challenge the post-racial
fallacy, (the notion that there was no longer racism in the U.S.), that became pervasive after the election of former President Barak Obama.
Indeed, in recounting the story of Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), a young African American man, who finds himself in a perilous situation after
his white girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), takes him to visit her “liberal” parents at their country home, Peele infuses the horror/thriller
genre with poignant explorations of overt and covert racism. While Get Out’s examination of contemporary racial politics is much-needed
and relevant, I contend that the film also functions as a powerful commentary on the predominant ways that Hollywood and indie films
have historically depicted slave plantations. This paper discusses Hollywood films inspired by The Lost Cause Tradition before examining
indie cinema’s much more harrowing depictions of slavery and plantation life. The paper then demonstrates how Get Out embodies both
cinematic constructions and how Peele ultimately presents a novel and frightening rendition of the filmic slave plantation and its very real
existence in contemporary society. By doing so he uses the cinema as a tool for social activism, working to help create a future in whichcitizens will potentially be more informed about, attuned to, and concerned with fighting against systemic racism.

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09:00-10:40 | Shelley (2F)

Saturday Session I

Education
Session Chair: Abosede Adebola Otemuyiwa
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09:00-09:25 | Shelley (2F)

Another Country – Another Culture: The experiences of Vietnamese postgraduate students in New Zealand
Hau Trung Ho, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Stephanie Doyle, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Joanna Kidman, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandInternational students’ experience is a major concern of educational researchers and host universities. Globally, Vietnam is one of thebiggest sources for international students. In New Zealand, it is among the fastest growing Southeast Asia markets, and the second-largest
ASEAN source country for international students. Despite this, few studies have focused on the experiences of Vietnamese students in New
Zealand. My PhD project aims to fill this gap by exploring the experiences of Vietnamese Master’s students at a New Zealand university.
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) (Smith, Flowers, & Larkin, 2009) was utilized. I conducted a series of semi-structured indepth interviews with ten volunteer participants who were purposefully selected. The collected data were analysed based on IPA analyticalprocedures. This presentation reports on the living experiences of five participants. Preliminary analysis identified three themes: language
challenges, flatting with people of various backgrounds, and personal concerns. The study offers new insights into the experiences ofinternational students. The findings are useful for those who are interested in aspects of international students’ experiences.
52506

09:25-09:50 | Shelley (2F)

Mantle of the Expert: the Versatility of Dorothy Heathcote’s Dramatic-inquiry Approach to Teaching and Learning
Bob Selderslaghs, Royal Conservatoire (AP University College) & University of Antwerp, Belgium

In the 1980s, Prof. Dorothy Heathcote MBE (1926-2011) developed the 'Mantle of the Expert' approach (MoE) during her work at the Universityof Newcastle. The basic concept of MoE is that children study the school curriculum as if they were a group of experts: they can be scientists
in a laboratory, archaeologists digging out a tomb, a rescue team during a natural disaster, and so on. Together with the teacher they createa fictional world in which they are cast as a team of experts working for an (imaginary) client who gives them a commission. In addition toa strong sense of ownership and intrinsic motivation, Bob Selderslaghs proved during research at the Royal Conservatoire (AP University
College) in Antwerp, that MoE also develops artistic competencies in children. During a PhD project, he is currently investigating how MoE
can be used not only as a drama-in-education tool, but also as an education-in-drama method, in order to create a healthier balance
between process and product in Arts Education. Selderslaghs also participates in the research project ART4DEM in which MoE is used inprimary and secondary schools to educate citizenship. Because of the different points of view in MoE, and because of Heathcote's ingenious
system in which every action can be brought back to the value system of the person involved, there are strong indications that MoE can not
only develop knowledge and skills, but also important attitudes children so desperately need now in order to be able to reclaim their future.
52140

09:50-10:15 | Shelley (2F)A Comparison of Vietnam-Educated and New Zealand-Educated Postgraduate Students’ Perceptions of Plagiarism
Minh Tran, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Stephen Marshall, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Linda Hogg, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Managing plagiarism is a major challenge facing Western universities in the context of internationalization of education. The literaturereflects an ongoing examination of the extent to which plagiarism is a problem particular to international students. This study investigatedperceptions of plagiarism among 207 Vietnam-educated and New Zealand-educated postgraduate students in a New Zealand university
focusing on their prior educational experiences. The study aimed to identify and explain factors impacting upon their perceptions. Data
was collected using an online questionnaire comprising three sections: demographic questions, questions about educational background,and a Plagiarism Perception Scale with five sub-scales. Results revealed significant differences in perceptions between these two student
groups in three out of five sub-scales. Vietnam-educated postgraduate students tended to agree more strongly than New Zealandeducated postgraduate students that plagiarism was academically justifiable and were more likely to agree that plagiarism resulted
from academic weaknesses and assessment factors. Both groups agreed that plagiarism resulted from academic pressure and that it
damaged the integrity of learning. Differences in relation to demographic characteristics such as age, gender, and teaching experienceswere found as well. Insight into influences of student perceptions will help to better respond to student needs and expectations. The
findings, therefore, will inform university faculty in their development of appropriate interventions to help both international and domestic
postgraduate students to be more aware of scholarly writing conventions and to avoid plagiarism in their writing.
51251

10:15-10:40 | Shelley (2F)

Reclaiming the Future of Undergraduates from the Challenges of Social Media: Elizade University, Ilara Mokin in Analysis
Abosede Adebola Otemuyiwa, Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Nigeria

Functions such as stating, questioning, requesting, and exclaiming can be performed by languages especially, English language. Social
Media had done a lot of evil than good globally. This has in a great way affected the future of the youths. Many youths spend a lot oftime chatting, posting, pinging, following, just to mention but a few. Hence, precious time was wasted doing unfruitful ventures. The study
investigates how the future of our undergraduates could be reclaimed from destruction by Social Media and the relationship between
language structures and socially constructed message coding in WhatsApp conversations among undergraduates in Elizade University.
Six WhatsApp messages were forwarded from six respondents to the researcher’s phone after their consents have been given. Halliday’s
theoretical framework (experiential function) revealed the actions that represent happenings outside the world (reality). On the other hand,
the logical function of language revealed connectivity and relationship between clauses and clause types. Smileys and emoji functions
were also revealed. This study recommends that: introverted students can discuss on WhatsApp with their lecturers. Lecturers should
discourage the use of short-forms in note-making but encourage it in note-taking. Assignments and quizzes can be given to undergraduates
on WhatsApp platform. Time wastage by undergraduates on social media is minimized if educational purposes/usages are fulfilled.

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09:00-10:40 | Wordsworth (2F)

Saturday Session I

Self-AwarenessSession Chair: Ceren Selmanpakoğlu
50100

09:00-09:25 | Wordsworth (2F)The Reclamation of Personhood: Agentic Journey from Inner to Outer
Kirsty Annable, London School of Theology, United Kingdom
Nikolaos Souvlakis, London School of Theology, United Kingdom

The paper focuses on the importance of the individuals’ inner journey in order to reclaim personhood. It observes how the negotiation
between present and projected future self requires engagement with a negotiated self. Based on the REMA theoretical understandingof personhood this paper asserts that in order to reclaim the future, individuals should first reclaim themselves. Drawing from
dialogues between psychotherapeutic, social theological theories and supported by empirical data gathered via qualitative method,it creates an argument for an inward journey in order to understand ones personhood. From a REMA perspective, the journey towards
future hope for humanity requires certain elements or foci. As an acronym, REMA offers four: relationship, embodiment, meaning andagency. The development of all four focuses enables the individual to create a narrative with what makes them human. REMA theory/
approach/model describes the shape of a human life to include an invitation to journey into the unknown, to creatively investigate whatis the meaning of self within the world and how this affects mental health and sense of well-being. This includes the presence loss ofrelationship, death, destruction, meaninglessness and petrification of self. Central to the REMA model is the journey into these parts ofthe self, described as ‘voids’ Using the language of ‘voids’ each foci of REMA expresses what has been lost in the internal and external
world. It highlights the need for developing relationship to loss and its accompanying symptoms of disconnect from self, the other,ecology and the transcendent. The outcome of entering of the meaninglessness, relating to the loss and creatively exploring voids isthat something new will emerge. Using REMA this paper concludes that part of what makes us human is the invitation to build ongoingengagement with internal void(s), out of which both the individual and future of humanity might positively develop evolve.
51114

09:25-09:50 | Wordsworth (2F)Time, Body, and Narrative in Bhanu Kapil’s Work
Flore Chevaillier, Texas State University, United States

Bhanu Kapil’s work is concerned with the ways in which time and corporeality influence narratives. For her, the initial steps of writing, akin toa performance, shape the content and form of her stories. An obvious example is Schizophrene (2011), a book whose draft was sealed in a
Ziploc bag and thrown outdoors in the Colorado winter. Reframing the drafting process, Kapil documents “the high incidence of schizophrenia
in diasporic Indian and Pakistani communities” (i). The decaying process of the book allowed the creation of a time both “empty” and “full”
that echoes the time of schizophrenia. Incubation: A Space for Monsters (2006) provides another example of Kapil’s experimentation withtime, body, and text. The narrative focuses on the experience of a British girl of Indian descent in the US, along a poetic theory of cyborgs andmonsters. Here too, the shape of the text itself—its multiple frames and its physical disjunctions and associations—calls attention to different
kinds of times through the exploration of the theme of “Continuance.” What these two examples make obvious is that the embodied practices ofwriting provoke a shift in the role of time in storytelling, thereby generating new forms of expression that appear as positive spaces for creation.
Thus, my paper will ponder the following questions: What conceptualizations of time originate from experimentation with storytelling and thebodily realm? How do these conceptualizations drive the positive change of recovery and of re-membering forgotten or oppressed voices?
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09:50-10:15 | Wordsworth (2F)

‘Mind the Gap, Between the Train and the Platform’ – London Tube
Audrey Emery, University of South Australia, Australia

This paper while acknowledging the sense of global, political and environmental uncertainty, focuses on considering ways ofreimagining and reclaiming the future which focuses on the empowerment of the individual. The paper will discuss practical processes
which enable humans to deal with fear and uncertainty and enhance their capacity for survival by developing their ability for selfreflection, insight, hope and action, even and especially, in times of difficulty. The research is based on over 35 years as a community
artist and examines, the nexus between creativity, meditation and reflection, through the framework of a visual art practice whichreferences Buddhism and Mysticism. The paper investigates the conscious pursuit of self-awareness through the process of focused,disciplined and sustained creative meditation. In particular the potential, inherent in meditative processes, to experience a sense ofmental space or a gap between thoughts. A space in which reflection and insight can occur. Crucially from reflection and insight isthe potential for reflexive agency. The action and activism imperative for our individual, societal and environmental survival. Also
within the ‘space between thoughts’ can occur the uplifting experience of the sublime or mystical, described as containing qualities ofwonderment, empathy, interconnectedness and hope. Qualities that generate optimism for reclaiming a positive future.
51623

10:15-10:40 | Wordsworth (2F)The Emergence of Change Through Embracing Freedom: Agent Art
Ceren Selmanpakoğlu, Hacettepe University, Turkey

Contemporary art may not be formulated as one thing, however, instead of generating new propositions, its reproduction andaestheticization of social reality and identities can be spotted. Conversely, aspiring for positive change, the aim of this paper is to propose
an alternative way of existence and conception of social reality through the approach of Agent Art. Sartre explains that even if we try torefuse to take the responsibility of our choices "we are condemned to be free." However, since our freedom designates our responsibility
in our choices, we resist accepting being free and the changeability of our identities and social reality, even though we know that they
are our constructions. With this notion, Agent Art aims to reveal and depict spectators’ resistance to change and to their freedom.
Since spectators know that the social reality and identities are their constructions and they are the ones responsible of pursuing them,
Agent Art abolishes the hierarchic patronising position of the artist over spectator in the sense that presenting something that is notknown. This statement indicates the equality between the artist and the spectator in knowing. Consequently, equality, just like freedom, iscomprehended as here and now, rather than an object of desire that will come in the future, hence, will never come. Accordingly, Agent Art
abolishes the constructed hierarchic dualities between the artist and the spectator, such as educator-learner, demonstrator-spectator,
talented-untalented and so on. This comprehension arises the potency of change, thus, the future becomes now.

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10:55-12:35 | Tennyson (2F)

Saturday Session II
GenderSession Chair: Chien Yang Erdem
51171

10:55-11:20 | Tennyson (2F)

Women and Spirituality: The Case of Yoruba Indigenous Oro Cult and Pentecostalism
Sunday Funmilola Babalola, Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Nigeria

This paper is a comparative investigation of the Oro cult and the Ikoyi Pentecostal prayer mountain, both in Southwest Nigeria. Amongthe indigenous Yoruba of Southwest Nigeria, women are not allowed to be part of Oro cult and the attendant rituals. Women are notalso allowed access to partake of the spiritual activities in Ikoyi prayer mountain in southwest Nigeria. This striking semblance ofpractice between the two traditions motivates a comparative study of the two traditions. The paper, therefore, investigates spirituality
and its disruption in the two traditions. It investigates the practice of alienating women from revered roles in the religious practicesof the two traditions. The significance of gender to spirituality in the religious practices of the two traditions was interrogated. The
study adopts both comparative and phenomenological methods of investigation, hence scholarly works on Yoruba indigenous religion
and Pentecostalism were consulted; the paper makes use of archival materials on the indigenous Yoruba Oro cult and the origin andpractice of Pentecostalism in Nigeria; quantitative data were used, in this context fifty people responded to questionnaire and twenty
people responded to interview. The study was carried out in four stages: planning and desk work; base line survey; writing; revision ofdraft and demonstration. The findings, presented through simple descriptive method of data analysis, shows an amazing similarity inthe believe of the two traditions on spirituality. Both believe in alienating women from revered roles in religious practices.
51177

11:20-11:45 | Tennyson (2F)

Ruby Chisti’s “Free Hugs”: Claiming Spaces Through Utopian Feminist Futures
Kanwal Syed, Concordia University, Canada

My conference paper examines the works of Rubi Chisti (b.1964), a Pakistani born diasporic artist settled in New York since 2001.
Specifically, this paper focuses on Chisti's artwork entitled Free Hugs (2007), a three-dimensional installation consisting of ten half lifesize female fabric sculptures holding each other in what seems like an empathetic embrace. Using textile residues and discards to shapethe bodies, this installation creates a unified female experience of unknown futures, grief, loss, and love. Exhibited on the shores of the
Hudson River in a public space, these soft sculptures are extremely multivalent. The large sized women of various color not only evoke
a transnational feminist experience but also creates a surreal ambiance using the reflection of New York’s state of the art skyline in thewaters of the Hudson River. The reflection creates a background against which these austere figures made of rags and discarded textile
material emphasize the need for claiming spaces through a transnational feminist alliance, respecting nuanced-complexity of female
existence against various forms of patriarchal imperialism, capitalism, and neo-colonialism. Extending Spivak’s concept of effaced
itinerary of third world- female subaltern subject in “Can a Subaltern Speak” (1986), this paper argues that Ruby Chisti’s work “free hugs”
binds women within a universal but nuanced experience of being silenced within the patriarchal socio-cultural spectrum and calls for atransnational feminist empathy based on respect and equality, and acceptance of cultural, religious and racial differences.
52221

11:45-12:10 | Tennyson (2F)The Humanity and Feminism of Roberts in Sci-fi Movies —Take Alita: Battle Angel as an Example
Qingyue Peng, Ajou University, South Korea

The birth of the film began with the development of science and technology. As a new technology, a new medium, it began to be used
for human creation and recorded human traces. As one of the types of movies, science fiction movies record the development ofscience and technology in the course of human history. It also show the psychological state of people in the development of society atthat time. Throughout the history of science fiction movies under the influence of computer technology, although the first electronic
computer in human history was born in 1946, robots appeared in the movie Metropolis as early as 1927, followed by The Day The Earth
Stood Still (1951), The Invisible Boy (1957), Westworld (1973), Blade Runner (1982), Universal Soldier (1992), Artificial Intelligence:
AI (2001), Chappie (2013), etc., it is not difficult to see the changes in the psychological process of people's treatment of computer
technology. The new film Alita: Battle Angel, which was released in 2019, is about a deactivated female cyborg who is revived, butcannot remember anything of her past life and goes on a quest to find out who she is. From the movie, in addition to the developmentof electronic computers and post-software technology, what we can see more is the sparkling humanity of this female robot Alita. Overthe past hundred years, human philosophical attitudes towards machines have gradually changed.
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Performance of Right-wing Populist Masculinity on Screen and Formation of Gendered People on Street
Chien Yang Erdem, Istinye University, Turkey

This study analyzes the performance of masculinity in the recent cycle of Turkish war films and examines their role in the rightwing populist construction of “the people” in Turkey. The rise of right-wing populism in the first two decades of the 21st century has
drawn increasing attention from scholars in media, communication, and gender studies raising questions concerning the media’srole in mediating conservative values and gender politics. Although the media’s constitutive role in shaping the notions of genderand masculinity is not a new subject in the mentioned academic disciplines, its relationship with rightwing populism is relatively
under explored. Drawing on scholarships on populism and the media (Albertazzi & McDonnell, 2007; Higgins, 2017; Norocel, 2015),
Turkish political masculinity (Akyüz, 2018), and performativity (Butler, 1988), this study aims to identify particular acts of masculinitythat are essential to Turkey’s conservative nationalist discourse. Through a critical analysis of the performances of the protagonists
in Turkey’s renewed war genre in the 2010s, this study contends that the films can be understood as a medium through which theright-wing populist view of a gendered people is scripted, played out, and popularized. The performance of masculinity in the films
in question reveals not only a gendered process of forming the people, but also a homogeneous male subject whose ethno-religious
differences are neutralized in their acts of heroism.

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10:55-12:35 | Shelley (2F)

Saturday Session II
Literature & History
Session Chair: Jeri Kroll
51363

10:55-11:20 | Shelley (2F)

Evil and the English Civil War: Reclaiming Our Past, Present and Future
Catherine Harrison, Bangor University, United Kingdom

Through a close study of key seventeenth century texts, Evil and the English Civil War: reclaiming our past, present and future
explores the regionalism, nationalism, authoritarianism, international uncertainty and anxiety, as well as inequality and iniquity,of the brutal English Civil War. Three radically different writers – the primly puritanical bourgeois widow, Lucy Hutchinson; lawyer
turned revolutionary, Gerrard Winstanley; and from the bosom of the establishment, the king’s advisor, Edward Hyde–each provide aperspective on those evils which galvanised whole communities into mortal combat against each other. They wrote about clashes ofidentities, beliefs and ideologies, and offered phenomenological and sociological insights into what this paper argues are the threemost explosive factors of the Civil War era. First, that spectre haunting Europe, the Catholic/Protestant polemic, had reduced swathesof the European landscape, notably Germany, to wasteland, and neighbourly relationships throughout the continent had never been
worse. Second, outrageous social injustice was unravelling society. And, third was the corrupt, greedy monarchy, “the successor of
the Norman Conqueror, under whose oppressing power England was enslaved.” This paper suggests that the principal evils facing
seventeenth century English society are precisely those threatening our own “Common Treasury,” today; that in Hutchinson, Hyde andWinstanley, we encounter the remarkable ingenuity, capacity for hope, self-reflection, activism and action that are needed to tackle
religious fundamentalism, social injustice and corporate corruption/greed, and thereby reclaim our future.
50044

11:20-11:45 | Shelley (2F)

“God, where art Thou?” – In the Literary Works of Auschwitz Survivors Case Study: Eli Wiesel, Ka-Tsetnik
and Primo Levi
Lily Zamir, David Yellin College, IsraelThis paper focuses on the search for God in Auschwitz in the literary works of three Auschwitz surviving writers: Eli Wiesel, KaTsetnik and Primo Levi. These world famous writers have survived the inferno, but came back to it again and again in their post
Auschwitz writings. In their works they described their personal experience in the concentration camp, the prisoners' lives; theirfamilies and friends, who have been murdered in the gas chambers. On this background, they tried to understand the underpinningsource of absolute human evil in Auschwitz. Although they came from different Jewish religious communities, they have raised thesame protesting question: where was God in Auschwitz? A preliminary reading of their writings reveals their personal attitude to God
in Auschwitz. Wiesel relates to God as "the God of Bread", Ka Tsetnik relates to him as "the God of Soup", whereas Primo Levi, saw God
as a chemist in the Auschwitz laboratory, which is a "gigantic biological and social experiment of the human animal, where the struggle
for life was conducted". Yet, each in his in own way asked: where was God in Auschwitz?
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11:45-12:10 | Shelley (2F)

Restorative Human Bonding in Dystopian Futures: The Maddaddam Trilogy of Margaret Atwood
Minu Varghese, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia

Speculative visions of a dystopian future, based on the advancements in science and technology, form the fictional space of Margaret
Atwood’s The MaddAddam Trilogy. It took Atwood a decade to bring out the trilogy, which consists of Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the
Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013). The post-apocalyptic parallel worlds of the first two novels converge in the third, bringing together acommunity of survivors and a pristine race of gene spliced variety of human beings. The apocalypse is masterminded by Glenn alias Crake,a genius disillusioned with the vagaries in human nature. Prior to the devastation, Crake had created 'Crakers', his ideal substitutes forhuman beings, with special traits of other species incorporated into their DNA, in an effort to eliminate complexities like rivalry, jealousy anddisappointment. The Crakers and the scanty survivors of the “waterless flood” occupy the ruined world that forms the milieu of the trilogy. As
in many other apocalyptic works, the realization that the resetting of the balance in the cosmos is ironically essential to its further existenceleads to the significant chain of events here. The commitment of the few remaining people, striving to reestablish the rhythm that was upset
by the mindless exploitation of resources, forms the central concern in the trilogy. The paper attempts to explore how Atwood reveals thedetails of the interlinking traits of ‘human’ nature that could serve as a panacea for the looming, dreadful future.
50101

12:10-12:35 | Shelley (2F)

Riding the Centaur Metaphor from Antiquity into the Future: Myth, Constellation and Non-gendered Hybrid
Jeri Kroll, Flinders University, Australia

Tracking the Centaur metaphor through cultural history to the twenty-first century reveals how humanity has begun to reconceive animalhuman relations. Originating in a myth about Grecian horse breeders and associated with the astronomical constellation Centaurus, theCentaur metaphor at first was gendered. The hybrid embodied a range of human and equine qualities, both negative and positive (the bestial
nature of the classical Centaur and the powerful, suprahuman nature of the Spanish conquistador, for example). As the metaphor developed,
it was associated with reciprocity between species and the harmonious partnership inherent in teamwork. Natural horsemanship proponents,
such as Monty Roberts, focus on non-gendered interspecies communication mediated through gestural language. Sociologist Keri Brandt
theorises the significance of non-verbal methods that promote what she calls ‘kinaesthetic empathy,’ favoured by women riders. Animalassisted therapy and Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy both reflect this emphasis on the healing power of respectful interaction with nonhuman species, which can promote psychic and physical well-being, encouraging individuals to discover aspects of their personalities andbodies that they have overlooked. This paper explores selected nonfiction and fictional texts (Steinbeck’s The Red Pony and Roberts’ The Man
Who Listens to Horses, among others) within the context of a tradition of Centaur metaphors and those deployed in AAT and EFT research. This
comparison points to a willingness to enhance future relations between humans and non-human species by not only accepting the validity of
their alternative communication strategies but also acknowledging their diverse needs in sharing the environment with us.

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10:55-12:10 | Wordsworth (2F)

Saturday Session II
Human Experience
Session Chair: Amy Eisenberg
52676

10:55-11:20 | Wordsworth (2F)

Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Humanity in Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’Jose Varghese, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia

Ian McEwan’s recent novels like Saturday (2003), On Chesil Beach (2007), Solar (2010), and Nutshell (2016), seem to deal with the basic
conflicts of human desire and ambition. In his latest novel, Machines Like Us (2019), McEwan takes a step further to explore the role ofartificial intelligence that can play a pivotal role in the moral and intellectual decisions we take. The novel is set in 1982, but draws in eventsand elements from the past, present and a possible future, to provide the large canvas of an enchanting sociocultural milieu where thecoexistence of humans and robots form the raw material for pertinent philosophical debates. The plot revolves around the curious power
relations among the humans Charlie and Miranda, and Adam, a robot that Charlie purchases. Adam is the “first truly viable manufactured
human with plausible intelligence and looks, believable motion and shifts of expression”. Although he is capable of superior analyticalpowers and swifter decision taking, the real test relates to the possibility of a true ‘human’ nature. Even as Adam claims to be able to fall inlove or to indulge in passionate literary and philosophical engagements, Charlie and Miranda dismiss him as a mere machine. The novel also
demands a self-critique of the human claims of compassion and love in situations where they are morally tested. The paper is an attempt
to explore the role of artificial intelligence in redefining humanity in a future where humans and ‘machines with a mind’ will have to coexist.
52203

11:20-11:45 | Wordsworth (2F)Engaging With (Renewable) Technologies – Roadblocks and Triggers
Hamilton Viorel Niculescu, Dublin City University, Ireland

Engaging with (Renewable) Technologies - Roadblocks and Triggers research aims at developing of new insights in relation to how
existing familiar technologies influence peoples' engagement with, and adoption of renewable technologies. The goal is to inform on
potential ways of changing peoples' behaviour and attitude towards adopting more sustainable practices in terms of producing energy
and food, while improving their wellbeing. For the purpose of the study, six automated enclosures were built across different locations in
Dublin, Ireland. Air temperature, humidity, and soil moisture sensors, all connected to an Arduino controller board, are probing conditions
inside each enclosure. Automation features were added – windows, fans, irrigation – in order to try and keep the climate within optimalvalues for growing vegetables. The electricity is provided by photovoltaic solar panels. A custom mobile phone app was developed, sothat participants can remotely monitor and interact with the enclosures, via the internet. The study observes grounded theory guidelines,
and in order to produce high-quality, reliable results pending data analysis, employs a constructivist approach by resorting on inductive
and reflexive methods, as well as on concepts such as "data and methodological triangulation" (Denzin), adoption and diffusion of
innovations theory (Everett). The paper presents initial findings from data gathered throughout the first half of the study duration. The
qualitative data was collected via focus groups and in-depth interviews, while the quantitative data was produced following participants'
interactions with the enclosures via the mobile app. Additional information can be found at http://eyeduinoproject.online/
52007

11:45-12:10 | Wordsworth (2F)

Substance Use and Abuse Through the Lens of Musical Theater: An 80-Year, Decade by Decade Analysis
Amy Eisenberg, Atlantic Health System, United States
Barry Eisenberg, SUNY Empire State College, United States

All art forms, including literature, film, television, visual art, plays, and music, give us a window into how society makes sense of the world
and processes the landscape of human experience. In the past century, societal thinking about substance use -- alcohol and drugs -has changed. While all art forms have addressed this theme, one has been overlooked with respect to helping us to understand shifts in
attitude and moral orientation related to mind-altering substances: musical theater. A decade-by-decade examination of iconic works
over the past eighty years provides valuable insights into our understanding of the role and influence of mind-altering substances. The
groundbreaking Oklahoma in the 1940s reveals a profound dependence on a presumed opioid to achieve clarity in a personal dilemma.
As musical theater evolved through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, with works such as Fiddler on the Roof and Les Misérables, the impactof alcohol/drugs is less personally transformational, but still positive; for example, alcohol functions as a social lubricant or, minimally,is viewed casually, with the user the target of jokes (e.g., Annie). Beginning in the 1990s, a shift toward a negative view of substances
emerges, casting them as harmful. The depiction of drug/alcohol use in musicals over the past eighty years mirrors evolving cultural
norms regarding these substances. By understanding their use in this art form, we gain insight into not only our attitudinal trajectory
toward substances, but also to the very messages that encourage or discourage abusive behavior in the future.

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13:35-14:25 | Tennyson (2F)

Saturday Session III
Workshop Presentation
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13:35-14:25 | Tennyson (2F)

Reconsidering the Christian View of the Jews in the Reality of the Holocaust
Rachel Brenner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

Zofia Kossak Szczucka and Stanisław Rembek – notable prewar Polish writers – did not hide their antisemitic views. In their prewar
novels, articles, and diaries, they openly expressed their negative feelings about Jews. Their anti-Jewish sentiments drew upon theinherently Catholic character of Polish nationalism, which saw the Jews not only as “the accursed,” Grace-deprived people, but also
as a major obstacle in Poland’s economic and cultural progress. Thus, in the reality of the Holocaust when the Polish mainstream
acquiesced with the Jewish extermination, Kossak and Rembek’s differing responses to the Jewish mass murder are of particularinterest. While Kossak is best known as a founder of the underground Provisional Committee to Aid Jews (Żegota), her wartime
publications reveal a reevaluation of her Catholic identification. The decreed murder of the Jews determined saving Jewish lives
as an unequivocal Christian priority, making participation in the Jewish annihilation unworthy of Polish Catholics. Now the Savior’s
injunction of love for the suffering should be extended to the suffering Jews. A similar theme governs the 1947 Rembek’s novel, The
Sentence of Franciszek Kłos, which denounces the merciless hunting for hiding Jews by the Polish population. A church sermon
reminds the Catholic congregation that the Savior, who was a Jew, preached love for enemies, and warns that the persecuting Jews
would amount to damnation. Kossak and Rembek’s responses to the Holocaust teach a lesson that should not be forgotten.

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Saturday Session III
Business
Session Chair: Barry Eisenberg
52653

13:35-14:00 | Shelley (2F)

Analyzing the Success Factors of Chinese Film Remaking in the Global Period in Foreign Countries
Na Zhang, Ajou University, South Korea
Woo-jin Chang, Ajou University, South Korea

In recent years, remake movies have received worldwide attention. A global film remake can solve some of the problems of lack of
creativity, while at the same time guaranteeing more of movie revenues. There are reasons why a remake movie has a desire to reproduce
an existing movie and supplement the original with new technology, but most importantly, a remake movie has characteristics of low
investment and high output. There is much more assurance to buy and adapt movie rights that have already been on the market thanto create original works that have invested a lot of time and capital and the results are inconclusive. The remake continues to grow andbecome more numerous. There seems to be a need to explore how to remake movies can succeed according to the current situationof the remake movies. In global times, remake movies are another challenge. Most of the remake movies are not well received except
for a few successful ones. It is important to break with the barriers of the original by crossing into the culture. Although it is necessary
to make a remake differently in a different time, it seems that the remake of the same culture (the same country) has more attention
than the remake of the same culture. This article will analyze the success factors of the remake movies focusing on Eyes in the Sky
and Cold Eyes.
51198

14:00-14:25 | Shelley (2F)The Netflix Phenomenon: Leveraging Culture, Technology, and Opportunity
Barry Eisenberg, State University of New York Empire State College, United States
Margaret Tally, State University of New York Empire State College, United States

Netflix has emerged as a television and film industry giant, establishing a powerful base in a broad, societal shift involving how
audiences engage with media. By capitalizing on the convergence of recent business, technology, and cultural trends, it has played aleading role in creating the “streaming” phenomenon, recasting programming themes and individualizing how consumers select andreceive content. Netflix has an ambitious growth agenda, seeking global expansion of its content delivery platforms while significantly
extending its role in film and television financing and production. Netflix is not alone; current competitors include HBO, Showtime,
Hulu, Amazon, and now Apple, and market opportunities are attracting many new competitors. Based on economic theory, it ispredicted that the most dominant industry players will move to consolidate their leading positions through merger and acquisition andby preventing new entrants from gaining market access. An analysis based on Dean, Kroeger, and Zeisel’s consolidation curve model
suggests that the industry has matured through initial start-up stages to scaling-up by the most powerful companies. In subsequent
stages of “mega” deal-making and alliance-building, the business strategy is forecast to shift from market development to market
protection. In this context, projected to materialize shortly, regulation tends to increase, the number of companies decreases, andindustry dominance centralizes around a few corporate titans. As companies seek to increasingly tailor programming content toaudiences, social media companies are expected to play a larger role in television and film production and content delivery, undoubtedly
introducing new concerns about privacy.

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13:35-14:25 | Wordsworth (2F)

Saturday Session III
HealthSession Chair: Cesar Portillo
52651

13:35-14:00 | Wordsworth (2F)

Questioning the Sustainability of Arts-based Health Interventions for Older Adults
Leah Burns, Aalto University, Finland
Dohee Lee, Aalto University, Finland

As the global population of older people grows rapidly, questions regarding how local communities, regional and federal governments
will support their health and well-being has become a priority within a wide range of public/private sectors and research disciplines.
Older age is often associated with increased need for health support and a decrease in mobility, financial security, and social
connectedness. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines healthy aging as developing and maintaining the functional ability
to “meet basic needs; learn, grow and make decisions; be mobile; build and maintain relationships; and contribute to society”. In thefields of applied health and gerontology a trend favouring the use of art and design activities to engage older adults in various healthinterventions has gained momentum in the past decade. This paper analyses research conducted by the Aalto Visual Communication
Design group (AVCD) on art and design interventions to support healthy aging in South Korea, Canada, and Finland. Using a comparative
case study approach, data gathered by AVCD on a series of art and design interventions in each country is examined to identify thepossibilities and limitations of each case for supporting the well-being of older people according to WHO healthy aging principles aswell as factors that are common across contexts. Our findings indicate art and design interventions demonstrate great potential in
supporting healthy aging but are often short-term and lacking systematic evaluation. The paper describes how evaluation and local/
international knowledge development and exchange may improve the sustainability of arts for healthy aging.
51328

14:00-14:25 | Wordsworth (2F)

Listening to the Future: Impacting the Future of Audio Description for Visually Impaired Audiences
Cesar Portillo, University of West London, United Kingdom

Audio description is an established feature for live and audio-visual productions, in which visual information is translated for blind andvisually impaired audiences. However, despite being the only method for blind and partially sighted audiences to enjoy visual mediums,
current UK laws only require broadcasting companies to make 20% of their content accessible with audio description. This means thatthe remaining 80% of un-described content, results in visually impaired audiences being segregated from the entertainment thatfully sighted individuals can enjoy. Correspondingly, one question arises: should inclusive entertainment interpose a barrier or build
a bridge towards equality and the future of accessibility? Using the opinion of 15 visually impaired participants, "Listening to the
Future" explores the diversification of accessibility through audio description in films. This research delves into how one experimental
approach, comprising of immersive audio, 3D sound spatialisation and sound design features, allows blind and visually impaired
audiences to not only perceive but experience an accurate interpretation of the optical elements that are presented within visuallycomplex audio-visual mediums. These features were evaluated by undertaking a listening test among experienced audio description
users from the Royal National Institute of Blind People (UK), Haringey Phoenix Group (UK) and Noisy Vision (Germany). Moreover,
the results demonstrated the efficiency of social engagement and how experimental approaches to accessibility in films created an
audio-only experience that could transcend the absence of visual perception.

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14:40-15:55 | Shelley (2F)

Saturday Session IV
Justice & Sustainability
Session Chair: Sarah Kirkham
51127

14:40-15:05 | Shelley (2F)The Toil of Art-crafting Hands: When Art Faces the Real-world Hegemony in Snuff Bottles and The Preliminary DanceI Chung Julien Chang, Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai Campus, China

This paper digs up the core issue of creating arts in difficult times in two East Asian novels: Deng Youmei's Snuff Bottles (1985)
and Miyao Tomiko's The Preliminary Dance (1983) respectively. In dealing with the question of how the 19th-century society
imposes the pressure on the artists and how they react to such pressure, Gérard Genette’s theory of métalepse will be used for the
textual analysis and the interpretation which mainly surrounds the two protagonists’ use of their art to combat with hegemonythe Japanese Colonists and their Chinese affiliates in the first novel and the patriarchal artists’ circle in 19th-century Japan in thesecond. In a words, articrafts bring forth metaphorical meanings: the pressure from the hegemony will not undermine the spriritsof the artists; but conversely, the painfulness of crafting arts in difficult environment is preserved in the artworks, often expressedin mutated and condensed forms by the hands of the artists. The paper concludes with the implication of the two novels that realarts do not metaphorize for the sake of love or peace, but rather from pain and hardship. This further explains that the art spirits cantransform and elevate the pain into an exuberant existence, which may not bring their artists material affluence but their essential
ways of true living. Arts, therefore, are not simply an expression of aesthetics, but also a metaphor that records the survival throughpain, loneliness and the vindication from the scorners.
51665

15:05-15:30 | Shelley (2F) )Blended Value: Art as Social Enterprise

Carmen Moreira, SQx Dance Company, Canada
Josephine Craig Penner, SQx Dance Company, Canada
Context: A case study through presentation of SQx Dance Company. Mission: Use contemporary dance to promote kinship,collaboration, and teamwork. Five qualities setting us apart from other art and culture organizations: 1. Vision 2. Target Populationsof Underrepresented: At-Risk, Indigenous, Multi-Barriered Communities, Remote, Rural 3. Rural Location 4. Youth Programming:
Interactive Dance Awareness Program and associated sub-programs: – Anti-Bullying Movement Program: Designed to address
systemic bullying, peer pressure, and intolerance – Active Inclusion Program: Designed to address systemic racism, and discrimination
5. Use of Choreology: Study of dance science based on methodologies of Rudolf Laban to promote positive social change while,simultaneously, increasing engagement in art and culture in underrepresented populations.
51290

15:30-15:55 | Shelley (2F)

Dance and the Future: Sustainable Contemporary Practices for the 21st Century
Sarah Kirkham, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Arts and cultural organisations today need to have relevance in order for participants and audiences to survive economic,
environmental, social and technological changes (Kaiser, 2015, p. 36). Sustainability is an important consideration for all futurebusinesses in the context of contemporary disruptive trends and has been become increasingly integral to doing business in any
industry (Bertels, Papania, & Papania, 2010, p. 8). As an interdisciplinary art form (Brannigan, 2010, p. 2) underpinned by co-creative
processes that value ‘reciprocity, inclusion and collaboration’ (Fitzgerald, 2017, p. 1) for creators, participants and audiences, danceis well positioned to drive substantial change in 21st Century thinking and practices. Many disciplines utilise dance theories andpractices to explore movement and social connections (Biehl-Missal & Springborg, 2015, p. 3), however challenges continue to beobserved regarding cohesiveness, legitimacy and stability for the long-term sustainability of the arts organisation (Brannigan,
2010, p. 6). This research project explores how and to what effect the term ‘sustainability’ is currently being used in arts practiceand organisations' business models. Three themes including sustainability, community arts and socially engaged practice, andcultural entrepreneurship underpin the research methodology which utilises a grounded theory and reflective practice approachthrough the lens of sustainability’s three pillars model: social, economic, and environmental (Throsby, 2017, p. 135). The project isfocused on discovering new ways to embed sustainability into arts practice and business models, which seek to elevate a danceorganisation's resilience to internal and external changes (Clancy, 2014, p. 180).

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14:40-16:20 | Wordsworth (2F)

Saturday Session IV
Community & Memory
Session Chair: Heitor Alvelos
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14:40-15:05 | Wordsworth (2F)

Resisting Precariousness, Reclaiming Community: Contemporary Art, ‘Unitary Urbanism’ and Urban Futures
Amy Melia, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom

This paper will examine instances of contemporary art that have responded to the social urgencies of capitalist-urbanism, which force
urban communities into precarious positions such as, exclusionary development, gentrification, housing struggles and the displacementof vulnerable groups. Such works have demonstrated art’s potential to be a tool for assisting communities in acquiring agency over urban
futures; they represent the macro-level discourse of city development being taken from private, economic interest and handed over tostruggling urban publics. The aim of this paper, however, is not simply to examine this practice, but to argue that we may repurpose theSituationist's theory of ‘unitary urbanism’ in order to highlight its key thematics. Arguably, the debates of ‘public art’, ‘new genre publicart’, ‘street art’ and ‘site-specific art’, have failed to establish a specialised framework for examining contemporary art’s responses tothe precarious positions communities are subjected to by the displacing, expropriating forces of capitalist-urbanism. Unitary urbanism,however, the Situationist’s distinctive critique of official urbanism, could arguably function as a qualified, provisional framework. The
Situationists were a predominantly European organisation of artists and social activists, who had aimed to critique advanced capitalism
and transform the city – two integrated objectives, as they had recognised the capitalist-urbanism nexus. In opposition to urbanism’s
existing position as a spatial extension of capitalism’s inherent problematics, unitary urbanism had proposed principles (participation,unity, use-value and détournement), which could assist communities in reclaiming the future of the city from a ground-level perspective.
51051

15:05-15:30 | Wordsworth (2F)The Past Living in the Future: Ukrainian Politics of Memory in Visual Arts After the Maidan Revolution
Ewa Sułek, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland

This paper examines the works of Ukrainian artists who comment on the current politics of memory in Ukraine, with the main focus on theartistic work of Nikita Kadan and David Chichkan, and the phenomenon of "Leninopad" - the demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in
Ukraine. Since the Maidan uprising in 2013/2014 and the subsequent attacks on the sovereignty and territory of Ukraine by Russia and the socalled “pro-Russian separatists”, there has been intense debate on how to interpret not only Ukraine’s dramatic present, but also its complex
and difficult past. In attempts to separate itself from Russian influence and settle strongly in the West European society, Ukraine is looking
for itself anew, although these searches are not always obvious - they circulate from a controversial program of decommunization, to theglorification of the nationalist history of the country. The mechanism of forgetting about the Soviet past turned out to be particularly strong
in Ukraine - forgetting by destroying, erasing, removing all physical remnants of the former system. The war for memory is taking place todaywith the destruction of Soviet monuments and other remnants of the soviet history. The practice of ideological correctness is continued
through the amputation of "unwanted" elements. It is not possible to have a private memory of the history of the nation, it is always a memory
imposed and constructed by people who have power. In Ukraine the future is to be built on the certain image of the past.
52496

15:30-15:55 | Wordsworth (2F)

Wild and Worldly: Redefining the ‘Forest’ in Thai Independent Cinema from Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s
Blissfully Yours to Anucha Boonyawattana’s Malila
Sopawan Boonnimitra, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Peerachai Kerdsint, Bangkok University, Thailand

The forest is a familiar symbol in Buddhist and Thai folktales. It also appears in various art forms, especially in recent Thai independent
cinema. Since Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Blissfully Yours (2002) and Tropical Malady (2004), the forest in Thai cinema has changed
its meaning. It was often portrayed as either a fragile space that needed to be protected or a mythical space filled with ghostly
spirits and fierce creatures. In Blissfully Yours and Tropical Malady, the forest became a space where desire could be explicitly andfreely expressed with no constraints. Since then, the space of the forest has often been explored in Thai independent cinema as analternative, reimagined space where the marginal can emerge and be liberated. However, in recent Thai independent films the spaceof the forest has been redefined. Instead of being a space free from constraints, it has been culturally coded, from a dense and wild
forest to a cultivated one. In this paper, I would like to take a closer look at two recent films: Anocha Suwichakornpong’s By the Time it
Gets Dark (2016) and Anucha Boonyawattna’s Malila: The Farewell Flower (2017), where the forest plays an important part, symbolising
conflict and turmoil both in the human mind and in the current political situation of the country.
51653

15:55-16:20 | Wordsworth (2F)

Anti-amnesia: The Viability of Millenary Weaving in a World of Acceleration
Heitor Alvelos, University of Porto, Portugal
Susana Barreto, University of Porto, Portugal
Pedro Carvalho de Almeida, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Abhishek Chatterjee, University of Porto, Portugal
António João Gomes, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

This paper presents a design research mediation process towards the sustenance of ancient weaving techniques in the Portuguese
region of Almalaguês. It focuses on identity, traditions, knowledge and economic viability; actions comprise ethnography, archiving,
design practices, and media and business strategies. The project subscribes to the need to “consider the ways in which we contextualise
and process the past” (ECAH 2019), a duty to re-inscribe and re-purpose material, narrative and processual heritage in a World often
geared towards dictated obsolescence. The case study at hand, Almalaguês, is a unique form of handweaving dating back close to amillennium. It embodies deep-rooted historical significance within deceptively modest aesthetics. Greco-roman and flora/fauna motifs
have been made into exceptionally durable tapestry and bedding material, often passed down through generations as heirlooms, mirroring
a continuity of knowledge systems as well as material, human and social narratives defining the cultural landscape. However, thisancient craft faces an uncertain future beyond its current generation of aging practitioners: for decades now, it has seen a steady declineof markets and practice base, as artisans are ill-equipped to cope with the commercial realities of modern business. As a consequence,a wealth of traditional know-how is at risk of permanent loss. The project is thus working in ongoing close contact with Almalaguês
practitioners in order to consensually explore and develop ways to calibrate the above ecosystem into viable and beneficial cultural,narrative and business stands. Furthermore, a model will be drafted for testing and implementation in further contexts.

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Saturday Session IV
Postcolonialism
Session Chair: Basirat Oyalowo
50706

14:40-15:05 | Tennyson (2F)

Rethinking Future: Dream and Nonhumans as Active Futuristic Agents in Pumzi
Weeraya Donsomsakulkij, Assumption University, Thailand

Past, Present and Future are not merely spacetime that happened, happens and will happen. They are equipped with cultural
meanings and materiality, (re)moulding and (re)moulded by several multi-species agents. The material-discursive entanglement
among several different agencies cannot avoid being involved in power constellation, and thus, the histories that they produce arecomposed of silencing and silenced. The notion of silence is critically engaged in postcolonial studies as a category of analysis thatperpetuates the oppression of those classified as the other and thus sustains the hegemony of those who are not. This problematic
practice is not limited within the human encounter among themselves, white versus people of colour, men versus women, but its
ideology and practice are also extended to the ways in which humans mistreat and disrespect other species entities, who sharethe current spacetime with us. Drawing from this, this paper attempts to enhance a postcolonial reading with some insights ofposthumanism that affirm the decentralization of the supposed ‘centers’, and instead, repositioning them within a larger web ofinterconnectedness. With this reading approach, the paper examines the ways in which Wanuri Kahiu’s "Pumzi" (2009) represents
a possibility of rethinking a new futuristic interrelationship as a way to counter environmental degradation, sustained by humantechno dictatorship in an Eastern African territory.
51631

15:05-15:30 | Tennyson (2F)

The Changing Residential Districts of Lagos: How the past has created the present and what can be done about it
Basirat Oyalowo, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Timothy Nubi, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Bose Okuntola, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Olufemi Saibu, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Oluwaseun Muraina, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Olanrewaju Bakinson, University of Lagos, Nigeria

The position of Lagos as Nigeria’s economic centre was entrenched in its colonial past. This legacy continues to influence its
residential areas today. The research work provides an analysis of the complexity surrounding low-income residential areas of Lagos
since 1960, based on the work of Professor Akin Mabogunje, who had surveyed 605 properties in 21 communities across Lagos. Basedon existing housing amenities, he had classified them as high grade, medium grade, lower grade and low grade residential areas. This
research asks: In terms of quality of neighborhood amenities, to what extent has the character of these neighborhoods changed fromtheir 1960 low grade classification? This research is necessary because these communities represent the inner slums of Lagos, andin order to proffer solutions to inherent problems so associated, it is important to understand the role of the colonial origin of thesecommunities in their current circumstances. Lessons for the future can then become clearer. The study is based on a mixed methods
approach suitable for multidisciplinary inquires. Quantitative data is gathered through a survey of the communities; but by including
findings from historical records and in-depth interviews with residents, a richer contextual grounding of how colonial policies on
residential land use has influenced the present is to be provided. In addition, these narratives will help in capturing how the futureof these communities can be shaped for the benefit of the people. This is an ongoing research, results are currently being analysed,
findings would be presented at the conference.

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October 31 – November 3, 2019 | Toshi Center Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

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52499

Digital Drivers of Russian Advertising Market: Problems of Management
Galina Deryabina, RUDN, Russia
Nina Trubnikova, RUDN, Russia

The purpose of this study is to analyse the one of the most rapidly growing segments of the media-industry: the digital market and the driversof its growth, as well as to identify the best ways of its management. The authors use the example of Russia: the country with the dynamicallygrowing advertising market. The analysis of the relevant content-based Internet advertising classifications constitute the methodologicalimportance of this work. The research includes the study of relations among the key market players (advertisers, media-companies,
communication agencies and research companies), accompanying the changes happening at the advertising market as the evidence of
their transforming impact. The authors find out that recent transformations intensify the development of the Internet communications byspanning all the traditional segments of the communication industry - television, radio, print press and outdoor communications. However, theabsence of the clear control systems in Internet communications might lead to the downturn of interest to Internet advertising among the key
advertisers. Only the coordinated actions of all the interested market participants will allow achieving the transparency of new communication
formats. Thus, the consensus becomes an important goal of the modern Russian communications’ management. This analysis is importantby clarification of the transforming impact of the digital drivers under the influence of the social and economic factors. The efficient digitalcommunication requires the complex managerial action that was deeply analysed in this study.
51918

Designing the Stereoscopic 3D Media Soundscape: An Exploration of the Perceptual Effects of Auditory Cues
Alteration on Stereoscopic 3D Presentations
Christos Manolas, Rose Bruford College, United Kingdom
Sandra Pauletto, University of York, United Kingdom

Assisted by the technological advances of the past decades, stereoscopic 3D media are currently making another attempt to be established as
mainstream forms of entertainment. Arguably, the main focus of this effort is placed on the creation of immersive 3D visual worlds. However,with few exceptions, little attention has been given so far to the potential effect of the soundtrack on such environments. The potentialof sound both as a means to enhance the impact of the 3D visual information and to expand the 3D world beyond the boundaries of thevisuals is large. In this context, we highlight some of the challenges 3D content producers face. Then, we propose a number of ways in which
the soundtrack can be used to complement 3D media productions. These propositions are based on the unique spatial characteristics ofstereoscopic 3D media and cover considerations on the spatial orientation of the soundtrack, the use of audio cues to direct visual attention,
to support camera and 3D object movements as well as 3D material editing. Finally, we report on the results of a series of experiments we ran
exploring the effectiveness of specific auditory cues in 3D audiovisual presentations. Results, although not conclusive, indicate that some ofthe studied auditory cues can influence the audience judgement of depth and immersion in 3D animation scenes, sometimes in unexpected
ways. We conclude that 3D media content creation can benefit from further studies on the effectiveness of specific sound design techniques
to enhance space perception and immersion.
52629

Modified Customer Approach for Publishers Under the Influence of the Internet of Things
Valerie Thiele, University of Siegen, Germany

The Internet of Things (IoT) establishes a link between the virtual and the physical world by adding the "material" dimension to access to
information via the internet - through intelligent everyday objects. Recently, the IoT has gained enormously in importance in various industries- whether warehouse transport robots, agricultural vehicles with extensive sensor technology and data processing, or intelligent everyday
objects. The latter especially leads to changes in customer usage behaviour and thus in the different groups of buyers. One area that has
not yet concentrated on the IoT is the publishing industry. However, publishers already have the essential component of their potential IoTproduct: High-quality content. Publishers, however, first need a strategy for addressing the different groups of buyers. The article analyses
how publishers can convince the various buyer groups of their new potential content channel - intelligent everyday objects - within the IoT. For
the analysis an analytically ideal scientific research method is used, more exactly, the “diffusion model” after Rogers. In conjunction with thistheory, this paper divides the publishers' buyers into different groups and develops recommendations for publishers for addressing customers
in the IoT. In this context, it becomes clear that the "diffusion model" for publishers in the IoT needs an adjustment. According to Rogers'"diffusion model", it is important to address the different groups of buyers differently and during the various product launch phases. The aim ofaddressing the customer groups is to create or strengthen customer confidence and thus establish a stable, long-term customer relationship.
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Global Cinema as Environmental Ambassador
Mario Trono, Mount Royal University, CanadaThis argument connects several international cinematic shooting locations to ecological states of affairs that reside there in order to imagine
how viewing audiences worldwide might better connect to environmental issues through film. Drawing on theories of agency that inform theenvironmental humanities, I suggest that the material particulars of life in the biosphere have a second-order existence inside the omnipresent,
global medium of film and that eco-critique can mobilize viewers to see in entertainment the industrial, conservational, and consumerist
dynamics that are always on view if one looks closely enough. Since shooting locations provide resonant inspiration and cine-textual signmaterials for cinema’s worlding activities—and since they carry their own environmental histories while functioning as extractive use zones forfilm production industries—they are ideal material-discursive sites for examining human beings and their intra-active edge effect encounterswith ecologies. Aspects of The Revenant (shot in Western Canada), Gomorrah (shot in Italy), Suzhou (shot in China) and Taste of Cherry (shotin Iran) will be imagined here as a kind of eco-tourism the apprehension of which can transform into activism. A case will be made for an
increase in citizen-initiated visual production activities (designed to ecologize film texts) that can be distributed online as assemblages ofimages, sounds, criticism, activism, art, and entertainment. The agentic connection between such activity and a reclaimed futurity arrives in
the recognition of cinema’s status as a ready ambassador for eco-political dialogue, a conversation now at the center of this 21st century.

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who contribute in a variety of ways to our shared mission of promoting international exchange,
facilitating intercultural awareness, encouraging interdisciplinary discussion and generating andsharing new knowledge. Our academic events would not be what they are without a commitment
to ensuring that international norms of peer review are observed for our presentation abstracts.
With thousands of abstracts submitted each year for presentation at our conferences, IAFOR relieson academics around the world to ensure a fair and timely peer review process in keeping withestablished international norms of double-blind peer review.
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Professor Natacha Muriel López Gallucci
Federal Universiti of Cariri, Brazil
Dr Lily Zamir
Davis Yellin College, Israel
Professor Majed S. Al-Lehaibi
Jazan University, Saudi Arabia
Professor Xiaofan Gong
Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, China

Dr Alexander Klemm
Webster University of Thailand, Thailand
Dr Zainor Izat Zainal
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Professor Santosa Soewarlan
Indonesia Institute of The Arts, Indonesia
Professor Zohreh Mirhosseini
Islamic Azad Univerity-Tehran North Branch, IranECAH2019

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Dr Audrey Cypress
Virginia State University, United States
Dr Amy Eisenberg
Atlantic Health System, United States
Dr Maria Theresa Gonzales
Centro Escolar University, Philippines
Dr Christiana Hammond
University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
Professor Gregory Hampton
Howard University, United States

Professor Cláudia Lima
Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
Dr Abosede Adebola Otemuyiwa
Joseph Ayo Babalola University,
Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, Nigeria
Professor Ceren Selmanpakoglu
Hacettepe University, Turkey
Professor Dawn Spring
American Public University, United States

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Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia
Dr Nurul Ayn Ahmad Sayuti
Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia
Dr Bernardo Attias
California State University, Northridge,
United States
Dr Sunday Funmilola Babalola
Joseph Ayo Babalola University,
Ikeji-Arakeji, Nigeria
Dr Sherzad Barzani
University of salahaddin, Iraq
Dr Flore Chevaillier
Texas State University, United States
Dr Saman Dizayi
Erbil Polytechnic University, Iraq
Dr Weeraya Donsomsakulkij
Assumption University, Thailand
Professor Abdulgawad Elnady
University of Tanta, Egypt

Dr Sadia KamranInstitute for Art & Culture, Pakistan
Professor Chia-Chen Kuo
Tamkang University, Taiwan
Ms Razieh Mahdieh Najafabadi
Alzahra University, IranDr Pheliwe Mbatyoti
University of Fort Hare, South Africa
Professor Erin McCoy
University of South Carolina Beaufort,
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Dr Maria H. Mousinho Magalhães
Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil
Dr Basirat Oyalowo
University of Lagos, Nigeria
Dr Anner Raffin
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr Swetasree Roy
BML Munjal University, India

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Webster University of Thailand, Thailand
Professor Xenia Negrea
University of Craiova, Romania
Dr César Viana Teixeira
Pontifical University of Goiás, Brazil
Dr I Chung Chang
Beijing Institute of Technology,
Zhuhai Campus, China

Ms Azalia Muchransyah
University at Buffalo, State University of New
York, United States
Professor Rebecca Lind
University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Dr Anna Karin Jytte Holmqvist
Monash University, Australia

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Dr Galina Deryabina
RUDN, Russia

Dr Hsin-Pey Peng
Zhaoqing University, China

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Universtity of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Dr Elizabeth Coleman
Monash University, Australia
Dr Dylan Davis
Swinburne University, Australia
Dr Barry Eisenberg
State University of New York Empire State
College, United States
Professor Doga Ulas Eralp
American University, United States
Dr Barbara Gabriel
Carleton University, Canada
Professor Jeri Kroll
Flinders University, Australia

Dr Novotny Lawrence
Iowa State University, United States
Dr Zhuying Li
Independent Scholar, China
Dr Christos Manolas
Rose Bruford College, United Kingdom
Professor Norberto Mínguez
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Dr Marwa Shafei
American University in Cairo (Adjunct), Egypt
Dr Joseph Wogu
University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria
Dr Chien Yang Erdem
Istinye University, Turkey

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A-Z Index of Presenters
Al-Mut'Afy, Marwa				p. 44
The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Alsaeedi, Aiman				p. 44
University of Sheffield, UK
Alvelos, Heitor				p. 60
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Annable, Kirsty				p. 52
London School of Theology, UK
Babalola, Sunday Funmilola			p. 53
Joseph Ayo Babalola University,
Ikeji-Arakeji, Nigeria
Barreto, Susana				p. 60
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Barzani, Sherzad				p. 47
Salahaddin University, Iraq
Boonnimitra, Sopawan			p. 60
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Brenner, Rachel F.				
p. 56
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Caballero Molina, Juan José			p. 40
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Chang, I Chung				
p. 59
Beijing Institute of Technology,
Zhuhai Campus, China
Chevaillier, Flore				p. 52
Texas State University, USA
Clayton, Rafe				p. 41
University of Bolton, UK
Coleman, Elizabeth				p. 45
Monash University, Australia
Deryabina, Galina				p. 64
RUDN, Russia
Donsomsakulkij, Weeraya			p. 61
Assumption University, Thailand
Eisenberg, Amy				p. 55
Atlantic Health System, USA
Eisenberg, Barry				p. 57
State University of New York
Empire State College, USA
Emery, Audrey				p. 52
University of South Australia, Australia
Eralp, Doga Ulas				p. 45
American University, USA
Grant, Joana				p. 42
Cooplem Idiomas, Brazil
Hammond, Christiana			p. 42
University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
Harrison, Catherine				p. 54
Bangor University, UK
Heaselgrave, Fae				p. 41
University of South Australia, Australia
Ho, Hau					p. 51
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Huang, Yi					p. 46
Coppin State University, USA
Kirkham, Sarah				p. 59
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Kroll, Jeri					p. 54
Flinders University, Australia
Lawrence, Novotny				p. 50
Iowa State University, USA
Lee, Dohee				p. 58
Aalto University, Finland
Lima, Cláudia				p. 46
Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
Lind, Rebecca				p. 50
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Liu, I-Chun				p. 40
Shih Chien University, Taiwan
Mall, Bibi Ayesha				p. 44
Durban University of Technology, South Africa
Manolas, Christos				p. 64
Rose Bruford College, UK

Melia, Amy				p. 60
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Miller, Marc				p. 41
The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Mínguez, Norberto				p. 40
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Moreira, Carmen				p. 59
SQx Dance Company, Canada
Morozova, Iryna				p. 45
Odesa Mechnikov National University, Ukraine
Nerren, Jessica				p. 50
California State University, San Bernardino, USA
Niculescu, Hamilton			p. 55
Dublin City University, Ireland
Ojetunde, Cecilia Folasade			p. 42Michael Otedola College
of Primary Education, Nigeria
Otemuyiwa, Abosede Adebola		p. 51
Joseph Ayo Babalola University,
Ikeji-Arakeji, Nigeria
Oyalowo, Basirat				p. 61
University of Lagos, Nigeria
Penedos, Eliana				p. 46
Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
Peng, Hsin-Pey				p. 50
Zhaoqing University, China
Peng, Qingyue				p. 53
Ajou University, South Korea
Portillo, Cesar				p. 58
University of West London, UK
Pozharytska, Olena				p. 45
Odesa Mechnikov National University, Ukraine
Ratnasari, Ninda Arum Rizky			p. 47
The University of Sydney, Australia
Sanz, Javier				p. 40
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Selderslaghs, Bob				p. 51
Royal Conservatoire, AP University College
Antwerp & University of Antwerp, Belgium
Selmanpakoglu, Ceren			p. 52
Hacettepe University, Turkey
Sułek, Ewa				p. 60
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,PolandSyed, Kanwal				p. 53
Concordia University, CanadaTang, Ho Man				p. 43
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Thiele, Valerie				p. 64
University of Siegen, Germany
Tokeaw, Wittayatorn			p. 43
Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University,
ThailandTran, Minh				p. 51
Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandTrono, Mario				p. 64
Mount Royal University, Canada
Varghese, Jose				p. 55
Jazan University, Saudi Arabia
Varghese, Minu				p. 54
Jazan University, Saudi Arabia
Vierra, Jessica				p. 46
California State University, San Bernardino, USA
Walker, Alexis				p. 47
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA
Wogu, Joseph				p. 43
University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria
Yang Erdem, Chien				p. 53
Istinye University, Turkey
Zamir, Lily				p. 54
David Yellin College, Israel
Zhang, Na				p. 57
Ajou University, South Korea

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