Presentation Schedule

Time Zone: Asia/Tokyo

Monday


Room A (Live Stream)

16:55 – From “Normal” to the “New Normal” Through to the “Abnormal”: Where Do We Place the Elderly on this Scale?
Dr Sue Ballyn is the Founder and Honorary Director of the Centre for Australian and Transnational Studies Centre at the University of Barcelona from where she graduated with a BA in 1982.
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Room B (Live Stream)
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Room C (Live Stream)
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Session 1

Room A (Live Stream)
Japanese Studies
Session Chair: Marina Sholkova

11:35 – The Implications of “Harimao” in the History of Modern Japan-Asia Relations (70778)
Dr. Mizuno Norihito is a professor in the GS program at Akita International University in Akita, Japan. His area of expertise is the history of relations between Japan and other East Asian countries and regions in the early modern and modern periods.
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12:00 – Discourses on New Medieval Era in the Postwar Japan (70842)
Dr noriaki hoshino is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University in Hong Kong
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12:25 – Honoring the Legacy of a Young Life: Okinawan Women’s Groups’ Response to the 1995 Tragedy (70733)
Li Yuansheng is a Ph.D. student at the Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University. His research mainly focuses on the post-Cold War history of Japan's society and its relationship with America.
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12:50 – Japan’s Foreign Policy in the Settlement of Territorial Disputes (70649)
Ms. Sholkova Marina is a postgraduate student of the Diplomatic Academy. She was working as a diplomat in the Russian Embassy in Kazakhstan and the Russian Consulate General in Osaka, Japan. Ms.Sholkova is interested in Japanese policy of security.
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Room B (Live Stream)
Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Sanaa Benmessaoud

11:35 – OTT and Participatory Cultures- The Case of Netflix’s Wednesday (70718)
Ms Nikita Chowdhary is a University Postgraduate Student at FLAME University in India
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12:00 – Scoping Popular Music Heritage of South Korea: Its Cultural Policy and Practice (70530)
Dr Sumi Kim is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South Korea
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12:25 – Silenced Voices: Alienation and Victimization of Women Depicted in Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian’ and Kyung-Sook’s ‘Shin Violets’ (70311)
Ms Keziah Priyanka is currently a doctoral student at Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India. Her specialization areas include Feminism and Trauma studies in African literature and East Asian Literature.
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12:50 – ‘Tyranny of Silence’: The Uses of the Erotic in Audre Lorde’s Poetry (70514)
Ms Swarnika Ahuja is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies in India
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Room C (Live Stream)
Asian Studies/Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Alexandre Avdulov

11:35 – Moon Through the Gate: Reflecting on Time/Space in Japanese Aesthetics (67015)
Dr Alexandre Avdulov is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at Saint Mary's University in Canada
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12:00 – Window Balusters of the Khmer Architecture (70777)
Mr Shinya OKAZAKI is a University Doctoral Student at Nippon Institute of Technology in Japan
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12:25 – Tracing the Evolution of Malaysian Architecture Through Architecture Biennales (70751)
Dr LIYANA HASNAN is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at Universiti Malaya in Malaysia
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12:50 – A Study on the Dragon King Belief, Ritual Activities and Public Spaces of Yangjia Village in Gaochun District, Nanjing, China (70713)
Shuyong Chao is a PhD student affiliated with the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University. His academic interests focus on Chinese architectural history, urban history and architectural heritage.
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Session 2

Room A (Live Stream)
Chinese Studies
Session Chair: Yun Xiong

13:30 – Rethinking “China Threat” or “Peaceful Rise of China” in China’s Foreign Policy Towards Myanmar (68213)
Ms. Yingying Yang is a research master’s student in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland. Her research interests are public policy, China’s foreign policy, and relations between China and Southeast Asia.
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13:55 – Making Laborers Disposable: Dismissals and Compromises in the Staff Outsourcing System (70616)
Yun Xiong is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Peking University and a visiting fellow at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. Yun's doctoral project is focused on IT staff outsourcing in China.
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14:20 – Treaty Rights or Commercial Laws? Chinese Trademark Legislation and Foreign Trademark Protection in the Late Qing and Early Republican China (69060)
Ms QING CHEN is a University Doctoral Student at University of Warwick in United Kingdom
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Room B (Live Stream)
Multilingualism, Multiculturalism, & Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Robert Hamilton

13:30 – Nowhere in Her Homeland: On the Cultural Back-Translation of Assia Djebar’s Francophone Texts (69535)
Sanaa Benmessaoud has a PhD in Translation Studies and is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Sharjah, in the UAE
Dr Nawar Al-Hassan Golley is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at American University of Nottingham in United Arab Emirates
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13:55 – Rearing the Other: A Critical Approach to Multiculturalism in South Korea, 2023 (70807)
Dr Robert Hamilton is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South Korea
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14:20 – Multilingualism in Zuberoa (Northern Basque Country) at the End of the XIX Century: Uses of the Languages (68180)
Ms Elorri Arcocha is a University Doctoral Student at Public University of Navarre in Spain
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Room C (Live Stream)
Cultural Studies/Chinese Studies
Session Chair: Meng Li

13:30 – Semiotic Analysis of the Auspicious Images of Jade Objects from the Han Dynasty, China (70827)
Su Miao is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Architecture and Design, Universiti Putra Malaysia. She specializes in the fields of culture and design. Her research focuses on exploring the cultural expressions of Chinese arts and crafts.
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13:55 – The Identity of the Artist, the Acceptance of External Requirements, and the Artistic Creation in Ming and Qing China (68579)
Ms Yuqing Sun is a University Doctoral Student at Charles University in Czech Republic
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14:20 – Chinese Calligraphy Image Symbolism: The Meaning Behind Longmen Twenty Statues Inscriptions (69462)
Dr Velu Perumal is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA in Malaysia
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Session 3

Room A (Live Stream)
Japanese Studies
Session Chair: Zhouyan Wu

15:00 – Developing Students’ Intercultural Competence in the EFL Classroom Through Reading English-Language Haiku (68539)
Originally from Ukraine, Anna Shershnova, a professor of English, is currently a visiting scholar at Kyoto University of Advanced Science. Her research interests include English-language haiku, cognitive stylistics, and intercultural competence.
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15:25 – A Not So Exotic Ideal: Wenceslau de Moraes’s Discourse on Religion in Japan (68563)
Dr Antonio Eduardo Hawthorne Barrento is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon in Portugal
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15:50 – Masculinities in Doraemon: A Critical Discourse Analysis (67955)
Dr zhaoxun song is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong
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16:15 – Constructing Self-conscious in Media: A Textual Study of Media Coverage of Kaoru Mitoma (69898)
Mr Chi Hang Cho is a University Doctoral Student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong
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Room B (Live Stream)
Interdisciplinary Asian Studies
Session Chair: Michael Lake

15:00 – Deoli Days: The Internment of the Ethnic Chinese of India, the Overseas Chinese Identity and Nation-Building in South and Southeast Asia (68377)
Joita Das is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Asian Studies Program, National University of Singapore. Her research examines the connected histories of South and Southeast Asia as engendered by Chinese migrants to the regions in the 20th century.
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15:25 – Battling Injustice in India’s Genderscape: Unpacking the Discursive Struggle to Criminalize Marital Rape in India (69527)
Salwa Mansuri is a graduate candidate at the London School of Economics. She formerly completed her Bachelors Degree in Politics & International Relations from the University College London.
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15:50 – A Resource Dependence Theory Perspective on the Expansion of ASEAN-EU Security Cooperation (68390)
Cristina de Esperanza Picardo is a PhD candidate at King’s College London and the National University of Singapore.
Her research interests include EU-ASEAN relations, as well as the evolution of the EU’s foreign policy towards East Asia.
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16:15 – The Taiki, the Bear, the Dragon, and the Eagle: How Mongolia and the US Normalized Relations (69541)
Michael Allen Lake is an independent scholar focused on diplomatic relations between the United States and Mongolia. His published work includes articles and a chapter in the book Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia published by Routledge in 2021.
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Room C (Live Stream)
Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
Session Chair: Kaochen Liao

15:00 – Alternative Resistance of “Kali”: Voices of Satis Beyond “Heroines” and “Victims” (68534)
Xin Liu is a Ph.D. candidate at School of Foreign Studies, University of Science and Technology Beijing, specializing in contemporary Indian English novels.
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15:25 – A Murder in the West: Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West (68187)
Dr Yi-chin Shih is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at National Changhua University of Education in Taiwan
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15:50 – Ageing and Gender in Mom Don’t Do That (67583)
Kaochen Liao is current the associate professor of department of Foreign Languages and Cultures in Fo Guang University in Taiwan. Liao’s research focus is on drama, contemporary British literature, late capitalism, gender, and transgender studies.
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16:15 – A Women Leader and Kyrgyz Nomadic Society: Ethnographic Re-consideration of Life of Kurmanjan-Datka in the 19th-century Silk Road (70637)
Professor Takuya SOMA is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at Kyoto University in Japan
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