July 30 (Tues.)

S1: 9:00-10:30 R. BENEDITO, Ferr?o/ RAJIV, Sudhi/ REN, yuan/ ROY, Arjab/ SAHA, Saswait/ WANG, Yuexin

10 Mins/ Pax, 30 Mins/ Q&A

Chair: Richmond-Garza, Elizabeth M (University of Texas)

1 R. BENEDITO, Ferr?o（The College of William and Mary）

Words and Worlds: The Case of Multiple Goan Literatures

2 RAJIV, Sudhi（Manipal University Jaipur）

In Ink: Identity and Selfhood in the Autobiographical Narratives of Dalit and African American Women

3 REN, yuan（Zhejiang Normal University）

Western Theories of Fiction and Fictionality in Dream of the Red Chamber

4 ROY, Arjab（K.L. University，Hyderabad）

Dialogic Violence: The Significance of Urban Naxalite Politics in India during the Seventies

5 SAHA, Saswait（Sikkim University）

Pursuing the Self from a Pluralist Perspective: Interrogating the Self/Other Binary through Travel Narratives in the Nineteenth Century

6 WANG, Yuexin（Beijing International Studies University）

The Sincere Search for Human Destiny-On the Motif of "Search" in Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author

July 30 (Tues.)

S2: 11:00-12:30  Richmond-Garza, Elizabeth M / SON, Juyeon/ STACY, Ivan/ SU, Chen/ SUNG, Zexuan/ VISAGIE, Andries

10 Mins/ Pax, 30 Mins/ Q&A

Chair: R. BENEDITO, Ferr?o The College of William and Mary）

1 Richmond-Garza, Elizabeth M (University of Texas)

Space and Other Queer Oddities:  Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine and Un-Covering Wilde

2 SON , Juyeon（Korea University (Republic of Korea)）

A Study on Modernism Novels in Korea and China in the 1930s

3 STACY, Ivan（Zhejiang University）

Masked Violence: the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Bhutanese Film

4 SU, Chen（Zhejiang University）

Being Virtuous through Ethical Selections: Comparative Study of Iris Murdoch’s Fictional Mentors and Wang Yangming’s Sage

5 SUNG, Zexuan（University of Otago）

Writing Histories of Better Worlds in New Zealand: A Comparative Study of James K. Baxter and Gu Cheng

6 VISAGIE, Andries（Stellenbosch University）

South East Asia and the beginnings of postcolonial literature: Jan Rabie and Harry Mulisch

July 30 (Tues.)

S4: 16:00-17:30  MORI WANT, Kaori/ NAGARALE, Vrushali/ NAIRANJANA CHAKMA, Nairanjana Chakma/ PARK, Soojung/ MARUSHIAKOVA-POPOVA, Elena|POPOV, Veselin / HAGBERG, Garry L.

10 Mins/ Pax, 20 Mins/ Q&A

Chair: SINGH, Jayshree（Bhupal Nobles' University）

1 MORI WANT, Kaori（Konan Women's University）

Conversations over the Wall: Okinawan Women’s Counter-Colonial Acts in Love Suicide at Kamaara

2 NAGARALE, Vrushali（S.N.D.T. College of Home Science Karve Road Pune）

Conversations Across Differences in Indian Autobiographies: A case study of Marathi Women’s autobiographers

3 NAIRANJANA CHAKMA, Nairanjana Chakma（Jahangirnagar University）

Resistance Sought from within Using Cultural Myths in Select Texts: Poetry Written in English by Caribbean Poets vis-à-vis Poetry Written in Bangla by Chakma Poets.

4 PARK, Soojung（Osaka University）

Acceptance of Stendhal in Mishima Yukio: Focusing on the Sexuality Issues

5 MARUSHIAKOVA-POPOVA, Elena|POPOV, Veselin（University of St Andrews）

How Literature Originates in the Non-Literate Peoples: The Case of Roma Literature

6 HAGBERG, Garry L. (Philosophy Faculty, Bard College)

Narratives of the Mind: Henry James’s “The Private Life”, Wittgenstein’s Privacy, and the Emergence of a Modernist Language of Mental Life

July 31 (Wed.)

S1: 9:00-10:30  WU, You/ XIE, Guixia / YANG, Lixin / YIN, Suzhen / YU, Wanting / QIN, Yiran

10 Mins/ Pax, 30 Mins/ Q&A

Chair: ZHUANG, Peina (Sichuan University)

1 WU, You (Hokkaido University)

William Faulkner’s Fictions and Rhapsody in Blue—Some Relationships

2 XIE, Guixia (Sun Yat-sen University)

To Go "Into" My Dialect: a comparative analysis of the Mandarin and Cantonese Translations of King Lear

3 YANG, Lixin (Nanjing Normal University)

From “Chinoiserie” to “Oriental Renaissance”: Periodical Evolution of Western Reception on Chinese Arts

4 YIN, Suzhen (Zaozhuang University)

The Image of China from the Western Perspective

5 YU, Wanting (Sichuan University)

Rudolf Arnheim’s “T’ai-chi tu”：Chinese Images in Gestalt Art Psychology

6 QIN, Yiran（Beijing Foreign Studies University）

Pilgrimage through space and time

July 31 (Wed.)

S2: 11:00-12:30  ZHUANG, Peina / ZHANG, Jing/ ZHANG, Luka Lei/ ZHANG, Ranran/ ZHU, Zhixuan

12 Mins/ Pax, 30 Mins/ Q&A

Chair: WU, You (Hokkaido University)

1 ZHUANG, Peina (Sichuan University)

Universality, Heterogeneity, and Worlding: Meanings of Comparison in Chinese Comparative Literature

2 ZHANG, Jing (Shanghai Normal University)

A Romantic Poet’s Halo Effect：The Discussion and Emulation of Shelley’s Romance by Modern Chinese Poets in the 1920s and 1930s

3 ZHANG, Luka Lei (Nanyang Techonological University)

Mo and Coates on Historical Macau: Forgotten Conversations

4 ZHANG, Ranran (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Woman under Social Transformation: Desire and Madness in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire and Cao Yu’s Lei Yu

5 ZHU, Zhixuan(Beijing Foreign Studies University)

The Desire that Burns Down the Gender Dichotomy: A Comparative Analysis of Salomé and The Eyes of Kunala

July 31 (Wed.)

S3: 14:00-15:30  HEAD, Gretchen/ DHAHIR, Sanna/ SRYFI, Mbarek/ ODIMINTAH, Philomina

15 Mins/ Pax, 30 Mins/ Q&A

Global Narratives of Slavery (2 sessions)

Chair: BOER, Nienke (Yale-NUS College)

HEAD, Gretchen (Yale-NUS College)

Adapting Abolitionist Discourse to Local Frameworks in North Africa

DHAHIR, Sanna (Effat University)

Slavery and Racial Discrimination in Saudi Women’s Fiction

ODI MINTAH, Philomina (Central University)

Silence, Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Ghanaian novel

SRYFI, Mbarek  (University of Pennsylvania)

Slavery, a Silenced Topic in Morocco:My Seddik Rabbaj’s Le Lutteur (The Warrior, 2015)

July 31 (Wed.)

S4: 16:00-17:30  BOER, Nienke/ PAUL, Vinil/ OLALEYE, Banjo/ DIBABA, Assefa

15 Mins/ Pax, 30 Mins/ Q&A

Global Narratives of Slavery (2 sessions)

Chair: HEAD, Gretchen (Yale-NUS College)

BOER, Nienke (Yale-NUS College)

‘I shall eat her heart’: Sentimental Speech in the Court Records of the Cabo de Goede Hoop, 1700-1795

PAUL, Vinil (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

‘You May Sell or Kill:’ The History of ‘Slavery’ in EIC Plantation in Colonial ‘Kerala,’ c. 1798-820

OLALEYE, Banjo (University of Saskatchewan)

Recasting Africanness: Ignatius Sancho and the Question of Identity

DIBABA, Assefa  (Addis Ababa University)

The Ethnographic History of Oromo Folklore Study

Aug. 1 (Thurs.)

S3: 14:00-15:30  KATAOKA, Mai/ LEI, Jie/ LIU, Yuanhang/ LU, Jingyang/ MOBARAK, Tanzia / MONDAL, Md Arif Uddin

10 Mins/ Pax, 30 Mins/ Q&A

Chair: PARK, Soojung（Osaka University）

1 KATAOKA, Mai（The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)）

Absorbing Differences through Translations:  Angus Wilson and His Discovery of Modern Japanese “novel/ shōsetsu”                                   

2 LEI, Jie（Shenzhen University）

The Lost Wholeness Regained through Lily Briscoe’ s Chinese Eyes

3 LIU, Yuanhang（Curtin University）

Reifungsromane or Social Novels about Older Women: A Comparative Study on Ageing Female Fiction in Contemporary Australian and Chinese literature

4 LU, Jingyang (Ritsumeikan University)

Comparison Research on the Mo’s Mischief and Best of Totto-chan:The Little Gril at the Window---From the Child· Family·School and Society

5 MOBARAK, Tanzia （Jahangirnagar University）

Wording Images: A Variation Approach to the Comparative Study of 'Chitra- Kāvya' ('??????????'), 'Ekphrasis' ('?κφρασι?'), and 'Wa?f' ('???')

6 MONDAL, Md Arif Uddin（University of Calcutta| University of Calcutta）

Comparing the terms of existence in literature and in life through Kafka on the shore and The Waste Land