2026 International Postgraduate Comparative Literature Conference (IPCLC)

Care in
Cross-Cultural Perspectives

May 26 2026 | The University of Hong Kong

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2026 International Postgraduate Comparative Literature Conference (IPCLC)

Care in Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Conference Date: May 26 2026
Time: 9:00AM - 6:00PM
Venue: CPD Level-3, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

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Keynote

Teknalgia: On Caring About and for Children in a Digital World

Prof. Amanda Third

Co-Director of the Young and Resilient Research Centre
Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University

Date: May 26 2026 | Time: 9:15AM | Venue: CPD-3.04



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Schedule

Venue: CPD Level-3, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Panel 1

10:45-12:00 | CPD 3.01

Transcultural Empathy and Colonial Mediation

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Panel 2

10:45-12:00 | CPD 3.04

Power, Discourse, and Bodily Mediation

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Panel 3

10:45-12:00 | CPD 3.07

Postmodern Perspectives on Otherness

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Panel 4

13:30-14:45 | CPD 3.01

Ecological Care, Human Rights, and More-than-Human Worlds

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Panel 5

13:30AM-14:45 | CPD 3.04

Urban Lives, Memory, and Literary Urbanisms

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Panel 6

13:30-14:45 | CPD 3.07

Historical Trauma, Catastrophe, and Collective Memory

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Panel 7

15:00-16:15 | CPD 3.01

Visual Media, Materiality, and Literary Worlds

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Panel 8

15:00-16:15 | CPD 3.04

Trauma, Media, and Relational Care

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Panel 9

15:00-16:15 | CPD 3.07

Migration, Diaspora, and Exilic Communities

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Panel 10

16:30-17:45 | CPD 3.01

Embodied Subjectivities, Gender, and Rights

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Panel 11

16:30-17:45 | CPD 3.04

Bodies, Screens, and Communities in Motion

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Panel 12

16:30-17:45 | CPD 3.07

Objects, Machines, and Modernity’s Ethical Dilemmas

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Best Paper Award: WINNER

Circulating Care: Käthe Kollwitz’s Prints and the Transnational Aesthetics of Revolutionary Empathy in Interwar Shanghai

BY Qu, Fangyuan University of Münster Panel 7
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Award: Shortlisted

The Collector’s Care against Phantasmagoria in The Bookbinder of Jericho

BY Chen, Ping-Ju National Chengchi University Panel 12
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Award: Shortlisted

Remapping the Sensory Topography of Passivity: Body, Space, and Cross-Cultural Care in Hong Kong’s Post-SAR New Wave Cinema

BY Liu, Guanyu The University of Hong Kong Panel 11
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Award: Shortlisted

Caste-Conscious Care: Reframing Dalit Suffering as Embodied Praxis and Affective Attunement

BY Poonia, Rubal Panjab University Panel 10
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Award: Shortlisted

Feminized Migration: A Close Reading of “After a Long Time Away, a Foreign Land Becomes Home” by Labor Exchange Band of Taiwan, China

BY Ran, Jing Sichuan Conservatory of Music Panel 9
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Award: Shortlisted

Fragile Connections: Post-Traumatic Care and Relational Ethics in Contemporary Japanese Art Cinema

BY Xu, Weixu Chongching University Panel 8
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Award: Shortlisted

Spectral Presence in Kowloon Walled City: Negotiation of Meaning and Post-spatial Economic Mechanisms from a Historical Ethnographic Perspective

BY Yang, Jiahua Hong Kong Baptist University Panel 5
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