Accepted Presentations
One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity.
As of April 1, 2025, PCAH2025 has received over 430 submissions from 76 countries and territories - including: Philippines, United States, China, Türkiye, Germany, India, Thailand, Portugal, and Canada
The following submissions have been accepted for presentation at PCAH2025.
Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication
- Avant–Garde Narratives on Screen: The Cinematic Autofiction of Select Twentieth-Century Artists
- Theatre in Education (TIE) for Teaching Thai Language and Culture: The Case Study of the Contemporary Performing Arts "Pooyai Lee Kab Nang Ma"
- Labiche’s La Cagnotte (The Kitty) or the Parody of the Congress of Vienna (1815)
- How Did Social Evolution of Order Observation Evolve Through Time?
- Why Wartime Screwball Comedies Are "Nothing to Be Sneezed At"
- Women on the Cutting Edge: Editing in Yugoslav Film
- Visual Music Programmes at the Turn of Digital Media
- Asexual Nationalism and Indian Cinema: Vernacular Archiving of Nationalistic Narrations
- When Machines Speak for Us: AI, Authenticity, and Cultural Preservation in International Cinema
- Translating Paradise: Francophone Influences, Global Citizenship, and Philanthropy in American Storytelling by Jimmy Buffett
- The Direct and Indirect Effects of Positive and Negative Social Interactions on Well-Being: Examining the Mediating Role of Subjective Health
- The Use of Augmented Reality for Stroke Education
- Campaigning Open and Distance Learning on Social Media: The Role of Message Strategies in the Decision to Continue Study
Language, Linguistics
- Discourse Analysis on English Article Translation in Mongolian Language
- Anglicisms in Financial Italian: A Corpus-driven Analysis of Italian Press from 2008 to 2020
- Language Barriers Encountered by Georgian Students While Studying Abroad
- Montenegrin Speakers’ Attitudes Towards Anglicisms in Montenegro
- Cross-linguistic Onomatopoeia in the English and Georgian Languages
- Tri-Lingual Aesthetics: Leveraging Generative AI for Multilingual Education and Cross-Cultural Expression in the Arts and Humanities
- Signs of Power and Resistance: Exploring Cameroon’s Linguistic Landscape
- ‘Brofolisation’ and the Future of Ghanaian Languages: The Case of Junior High School Learners in Ghana
- Discourse Analysis in Action: A Hands on Approach Using a Variety of Tools
- GenAI – What Does It Mean for Graded Assessments
- Machine Versus Human: A Study of the Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence in the English Translation of Nigerian Indigenous Languages
- Incorporating Saudi Culture in English Language Teaching: A Case Study of Faculty’s Perspectives
- Investigating the Effects of ChatGPT on Reading Among Chinese L2 Learners: Insights into Anxiety, and Self-Efficacy
Aesthetics, Design
- Reinterpreting Craft: The Aesthetic Evolution of Kintsugi and Crazing in the Digital Age
- Design Conceptual and Analysis of Traditional Pattern Indonesia Use in Product Interior Case Study of Interior Product Design with Traditional Houses
- Threads of Tradition, Patterns of Innovation: The AI-Powered Revitalization of Bedouin Weaving Art in Oman
- Arabic Calligraphy as an Innovative Approach to Designing Contemporary Fashion Utilizing of Laser Technology and Artificial Intelligence
- Innovating Sustainable Fashion Identity: A Circular Economy Approach with Nondyed Materials.
- Innovative Approaches in Sustainable Knitwear: A Zero-Waste Design Study
- Art Curators as Neuroscientists: Enhancing Dialogues Between Artists, Artwork and Audiences
- Designing with Stories: Exploring the Role of Narrative in Spatial and Experiential Learning
- Urban Evolution Through Cityscape Paintings: A Study of European Cities with a Focus on Britain
- Research on the Urban Design Based on Urban Phenomenology: Taking Three Main Cities Among the Mini Three Links as Examples
Science, Environment and the Humanities
- Halaman Festival in Guiguinto, Bulacan, Philippines: A Platform for Ecological Education Toward Sustainable Development
- Fostering Digital Literacy in Post-Conflict Education: A Humanitarian and Technological Perspective on Sierra Leone
- Warm Heart, Green Earth: The Role of Trait Emotional Intelligence in Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Action
- Empowering Ageing Populations: The Role of Gender and Cultural Dynamics in a Rural Thai Village
- Genetic Testing, Family Secrets and Stories About Who We Are
- AI vs Human News Sources: Framing Effects on Climate Change Policy Support
- Gendered Experience of Trauma and the Role of Nature in the Island of Missing Trees
- Circulation of Magical Realism in the Literary World System: Agency, Environment, and Re-Enchantment in the Work of Ben Okri
Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness
- Addressing End-of-Life Issues in Filipino Families: A Bioethical Analysis of Cultural and Religious Factors
- Mortality, Faith, and the Meaning of Life in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun
- Being an Educated Public in the Post-Truth Era Within the Filipino Society Through Alasdair MacIntyre’s Critique on Modernity
- A Neo-Pragmatist Account of Harmony Between the Private Sphere and Public Purpose: Dialogue Between Richard Rorty and Charles Taylor
- The Dilution of the Subject for a New Formulation of Consciousness: Existing with Other Beings in Care, Not Enslavement
- An Analysis of the Catholic Church’s New Evangelization Through Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Das Sprachspiel
- Analyzing Digitization: Examining Thomas Fuchs’ Position and Paul Stephan’s Utopian Perspective on Technology
- The Relationship Between Religion and Philosophy in Indonesia: A Study of the State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta
- General Will, Simplification and State Control: Jean-jacques Rousseau, James C. Scott and the Challenges of Modern Governance
Political Science, Politics
- A Pro-Democracy Research, Education, and Application Initiative
- Strategic Leadership in Times of Conflict: Lessons from Imam Ali’s Wisdom
- Exploring Social Media as a Tool for Political Campaigns in Polokwane Municipality
- From Kant to Wilson: A Critical Reassessment of Liberal Internationalism and the Limits of Idealist Peace Theory
- Imam Ali’s Strategic Leadership: Navigating Conflict with Justice and Integrity
- The Hourglass Shape of Written Constitutions: A Symphony of Words
- Design-in-Government: A Proposed Public Sector Capability Model
Religion, Spirituality
- The Symbolic of Kneeling: Upholding Heritage Toward Integral Ecology
- "My Buddha Has Arrived": Sacred Landscape and Envisioning the Enigma of Relics: An Ethnoarchaeological Case Study of Relics
- Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Purdah, and the ‘Woman Question’
- Overcoming the "East vs. West" : Reflections on Leo Tolstoy’s Christian Ethics from the Perspective of C.S. Lewis’s Christian Apologetics
- Revisiting Acts 14:15 from the Perspective of the African Christian Responses to Science and Nature
- The Concept of Hope in Islamic Traditional Ideology: A Discussion on Imam Al-Ghazali’s Thoughts
Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
- African Democracy and the Poverty of Hope
Sexuality, Gender, Families
- Empowering Kicks and Rhythms: Exploring the Role of Music in Self-Esteem and Performance Among Female Taekwondo Athletes in Nigerian Universities
- Who Uses Land? Who Owns Land?: Gender-based Violence in Land Ownership and Its Implications for Sustainable Development in Cameroon
- "You Will Be Nearer to Heaven Through Football Than Through the Study of the Gita": Vivekananda, Masculinity, and Sports Culture
- How Families Navigate Social and Political Difference: Lessons from Research with Generationally and Sexually Diverse U.S. Families
- Can Salvation Be Physical? Androgynous Body and the Construction of Sexuality
- “I Would Be Happy as a Dolphin Too. or a Cat”: Substituting the Heteronormative Animal in Bishakh Som’s Spellbound
- Reshaping the Mythical Narrative: Unveiling the Unheard Voices of Hidimba in Namita Gokhale's Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha and the Master of Illusions
- Queer Heterotopias: Mapping Spatiality and Identity in Sachin Kundalkar’s Film Cobalt Blue
- Bakla-yoncé: Intersections of Western Popular Culture and Filipino Queer Identity
Cyberspace, Technology
- Reader Interpretation of Same Information in Different Languages: What Natural Language Processing Tells Us About How Readers View the World
- The Cybercultural Characteristics Present in the Digital Story the Boat (2015)
- XR Modalities in Museum Experiences: Institutions’ Challenges and Advantages on Contemporary Implementation
- Multimedia Digital Content Creation for Multilingual Learning and Cross-Cultural Communication: Leveraging Canva and ChatGPT
- Posthuman Perspectives: Female Cyborg Representation in Global and South Asian Science Fiction Films
- The Queer Algorithm
First Nations and Indigenous Peoples
- Customary Laws and Cultural Resilience: The Manuvu Judicial System
- Exploring the Tangibilities of Phusaha: an Examination of Subanen Material Culture in Malongon, Zamboanga Sibugay
Globalisation
- Small and Light Weapons Proliferation in West Africa: Implications for Nigeria 1999 to 2015
- Global Citizens and Returnees: Stories of Korean Migrant Workers Returning from Germany Through Their Memorabilia
- Discussion on the Development of China’s Civil Aviation Transport Enterprises Under the Background of Globalization
- Influence of K-Pop Dramas on Pakistani Youth: A Case Study on Netflix’s Role in Cultural Transformation
Knowledge
- Heterotopia, Ritual, Egregor: The Occult Formula of Media Mass Manipulation Revealed
Other Humanities
- Social Constructions of Disasters Among Informal Settlers in Manila, Philippines
- The Relationship Between EFL Learners’ Internal Locus of Control and Motivation in the Technological Era: A Pilot Study
- Adaptive Leadership: School Improvement During NPM Reforms and COVID-19
- Commitment to Display Rules and Emotional Labor to Predict Organizational Outcomes: The Moderating Effects of Job Autonomy and Organizational Identification
- Bangladesh to the World: Student and Intellectual Voices in Media as a Microcosm of Emancipation
- The Utility of the Useless in Times of Social and Life Crises
- The Yoga Paradigm: Bridging Intelligence and Quality of Life in Modern Times
- Community-based Tourism: Does it Bring Sustainability and Prosperity to Local Communities in Kampung Caping, Indonesia?
- Transformation Through the Eye of the Needle: A Missed or Diverted Opportunity in Higher Education Institutions in Postcolonial South Africa
- Challenges in Court Interpreting: A Comparative Literature Review with a Focus on Japan
- Academic Advising as Servant Leadership to Bridge Gaps for Stronger Student Support
- Pathways Between Engagement Level Within Student Organizations and Well-Being in Cirebon, Indonesia: The Mediating Role of Leadership Vitality
- Age Patterns of Alcohol and Cannabis Initiation: A Comparison Between Biracial and Monoracial U.S. Adolescents
Teaching and Learning
- Teachers Fostering Family, Care, and Support for LGBT+ Visually Impaired Learners
- E-Learning Methods for French as a Foreign Language in Nigeria
- Silent Day Implementation Project by Middle School Students in Tourism Areas as an Implementation of Tri Hita Karana
- The Relationship Between Leadership Styles and Organizational Conflict Management
- Challenges Faced by Siblings with and Without a Mild Intellectual Disability in Terms of Support and Inclusion as Experienced in the Family and at School
- A Mixed Method Approach to the Understanding of the Impact of Stress, Gender, Acting or Confirmed Appointment Status on Burnout
- Evaluating the Role of Portfolios and Competency-Based Evaluation in Modern Classrooms
- Informing Quebec’s Childcare Policy: A Comparative Study of Paris's System and Its Implications for Immigrant Families
- Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Support for Students with Learning Disabilities in STEM Higher Education and Workforce Transition
- Leadership Uncut: Making Money Moves Through Empowerment and Coaching
- Student and Lecturer Perspectives on Online Learning's Effectiveness as an Alternative to Traditional Classrooms
- Evolving Critical Core Skills Needs in Singaporean Workforce
- Bridging Academia and Industry: Creating Industry-Ready PR and Communication Professionals
- Reinforcing Students’ Evaluative Judgment Using Exemplar-Based Instruction in College Physical Education
- Leadership for Learning: the School District Superintendents Role in Improving Middle School Mathematics Instruction
- Exploring Barriers to Neurodivergent Support in University Learning and Teaching: a Focus on Leaders and Management Experience
- Nurturing Positive Intercultural and Interpersonal Relationships Through an Empathy Map
- Determinants of Job-hopping Behavior in Generation Y and Implications for Human Resource Management and Career Education
Architecture and Urban Studies/Design
- Ambiguity of the Boundaries of Physical Landscape and Discovery of New Boundary: Mental Landscape
Ethnicity, Difference, Identity
- Anti-Zionist and Jew: A Sartrean Analysis of the Authenticity of ‘Being’ Jewish in Contemporary France
- Qualified Permanence Beyond Borders: The Challenges and Conditions of Student Permanence in Brazil and Portugal
- A Visual History of the Favelas: The Civic Pacts of Photography and Rio’s Urban Imaginary
- Nowhere to Belong: Marginalization and the Rising Notion of Independence in Manipur
- Postcolonialism and Identity in Africa
Arts - Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy
- Cultural Hybridization in Contemporary European Art: A Reflection of Societal Changes
- Measuring Transformational Impact: Data-Driven Tools in Arts Management
- Assessing the Guidelines in the Implementation of Free Prior Informed Consent for Culture and Arts Activities: Basis for Policy Enhancement
Arts - Arts Theory and Criticism
- Aesthetic Dissent: The Political Body in Contemporary Chinese Art
- Can the Sub-Altern Be Seen: Representation of the Subaltern Across Mediums of Creative Expression in India
- Surrealism and Realities: An Exploration of the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary in Surrealist Art
- Speed, Humanity, and the Machine: Futurist Art’s Technological Utopia and Its Modern Reflections
- Gender, Politics, and Art in Contemporary Afghanistan: Rethinking Western Feminist Narratives and the Agency of Women
- Shaping Art Criticism in India- Seminal Role of European Art Critics on the Development of Art Criticism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Arts - Literary Arts Practices
- Reclaiming Existence: A Neuro Existential Reading to Janna Leyde’s He Never Liked Cake
- Insecurity in Nigeria: Insurgency, Activism and Security Advocacy in Nigerian Literature
- Hyperobjects and Weird Essentialism: Intersecting Ecologies in the Speculative Fiction of Butler and Jemisin
- The Tragedy of Unrealized Female Physicality Through the Lenses of Finnish and Ukrainian Romanticisms
Arts - Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media
- Makeup and More: Conceptualizing Modern Women in a Global, Feminist and Queer Convergence
- Game Essay as an Artistic Method: Exploring Corporate Labor, AI, and the Art Market Through the Video Game TATLY
- Exploring the Effect and Contests of an Artificial Intelligence Technology on Higher Institution of Learning: A Case of South Africa
- Adinkra in the Digital Age: Exploring Tradition and Modernity Through Symbolic Expression
- The Impact of AI on Design and Creativity
Arts - Other Arts
- Performance and the City: An Autoethnography of a Diasporic Being
- Developing a Communication Framework to Advance Climate Change Mitigation and Adoption in Zimbabwe (Bocha in Manicaland Province)
- Citizen School: Cultural-Artistic Mediation as a Contribution to Citizenship Through the Arts in Schools and Communities
Arts - Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music
- The Transformation of Succession in Ningyō Jōruri – a Traditional Japanese Performing Art
- Transforming Lives of Under Resourced Adolescents in Mumbai: Stories of Dreaming Big and Building Life Skills Through Arts
Arts - Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
- Thallumaala, Muslim Hip Hop and ‘Mappila Cool’ in Kerala, South India
- Hacking the Urban Space: The Disruptive Exhibition of Rickshaw Art of Bangladesh
- Community-Driven Preservation of Oral Traditions at Local Shrines (Pakistan): A Social and Political Agenda for Cultural Identity in Urban Settings
- Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Arts Education, Sexuality, and Societal Normativity
- Sining Saysay a Philippine History in Art: Political Ideologies Contained in the Paintings During the Spanish Period
- Visual Artistic Expressions in the Public Sphere as an Expression of the Colonial Contradictions in Palestine
- People with a Mobile Phone Camera: The Effects of Proliferation of Mobile Phones on the Visibility of Arising Humanitarian Issues
- Modern Paintings on the Doors of Tehran Houses
- Investigating the Impact of Religious Differences in Spatial Organization of the Dwellings of the Hot and Dry Climate of Iran
Arts - Teaching and Learning the Arts
- Reflections on a Cross-Cultural Exchange: Using Dance to Explore Perspectives on the Significance of Water in Japan and Canada
- Vowel Preferences in the Passaggio: A Tool for Vocal Classification and Stylistic Alignment
- Hip Hop Education and Listening Beyond Borders
- On the Localization of Campus Drama Creation and Performance: A Case Study of Minnan Normal University’s Dragon River Tetralog
- Curating, Art Education and Collective Turn
Arts - Visual Arts Practices
- The Multifaceted Influence of Sculptures on Human Experience
- Rural Landscape in Contemporary Artistic Production
- Individualism, Freedom, and Transcendence: On Mr. Yiqiang Wu’s Artistic Creation
- Narrative Film Practice as Research and Knowledge Exchange: A Case Study of ‘The Building’ (20-Minute Short Drama)
- Durga Puja in Kolkata: An Open Exhibition of Visual Art Practices Promoting International Tourism
- Street Art Photography: Archiving Urban Narratives and Memory
- Community Contexts: the Countryside as a Tool to Activate a New “Institutional Critique”
- Sonic Immersions of the Visual in Tracey Rose: Shooting Down Babylon
- Illuminating Tradition: the Fusion of Calligraphy, Digital Painting, and 3D Light Technology in Contemporary Art
- Nous Sommes Eveline
History/Historiography
- Out of Darkness and into the Light: A Brief Survey of the Nazi Occupation of Paris (1940-1944)
- The Influence of Japan’s Unique Anti-Semitism During the World War II
- Hacking the Newspaper Exchange Network: How a Nineteenth-Century Farmer Used His Pen-Printed Newspaper to Spread His Abolitionist, Atheist, Anti-Temperance Message
- A Path to Peace: Exploring Alabay Concept in Historicizing Philippines to Promote Global Citizenship Education
- Lost in Transliteration: Seeking the Remnants of Australian Occupied Hiroshima
- Following in the Footsteps of Mérimée and Gautier: Francoist Spain Through the Eyes of French Travelers
- "Jou Woord Is Jou Bond': Krion Investors, Social Networks, and Trust
- Imagining Sacred Water Spaces: Projecting River Karatoyā
- Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Heritage Redevelopment: Community Values and Engagement in Geelong's Historic Wool Stores
- Constructing a "Forest": State, Coffee, and Space-Making in Late Nineteenth-Century Cochin
- Preserving Tradition in the Digital Age: Virtual Reality as an Interactive Tour of "Keris' Museum in Indonesia
Literature/Literary Studies
- Sports as Sites of Resistance in the Poetry of Sherman Alexie
- Suppressed Love Poems of Hara Saihin: Her Love Affair in Edo
- Exploring AI Principles of Machine Learning and Animatronic Potentials in Yorùbá Indigenous Innovations – IfÁ, Ọ̀sanyÌn, SÌgìdÌ, Ère-ÌbejÌ, and Ère-eegun
- The Effect of National Trauma on Individuals, Families, and Society in “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan S. Foer
- Power, Resistance and Knowledge in Efren R. Abueg’s Mga Kaluluwa Sa Kumunoy
- Eating up the Coast? “The Great Derangement” of Water Bodies in Select Indian Sea and River Narratives
- Deconstructing Reconstructed History: The Formation of Israel’s and Turkey’s National Historical Narrative and the Denialism of Genocidal Remembrance
- The Po-ethics of Horror: Georges Perec's "W, or the Memory of Childhood' and Danilo Kiš’s "A Tomb for Boris Davidovich'
- Duality in Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Comparative Study
- Walking the City: Urban Flânerie, Addiction, and Existential Struggle in Irvine Welsh’s "Trainspotting' Through Gros’s "A Philosophy of Walking'
- Exploring the Distinction Between Al-Generated Stories and Human-Crafted Narratives: A Comparative Study
- Diane Ackerman’s Cosmopoetics of Consilience in the Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral
- Understanding the Caste-Gender Dichotomy, Suffering and ‘Rhetoric of Violence’ Through Manju Bala’s "Ups and Downs" and "The Conflict"
- The Subsistence of the Aging Voice: Krystyna Miłobędzka’s Encapsulation of Present-Time
- The Influence of Persian on English Literature: A Critical Overview
- Shanghai and Guangzhou: Reconnecting the World in the 1980s
- Literature and Artificial Intelligence: How Young Readers in the Periphery of Capitalism Experience Big Data and Digital Learning
- Sowing Seeds of Resistance: Black Women Activists and the Civil Rights Movement
- Interrogating the Stigmatised Body: Narrativising the (Dis)abled Child in Indian Picturebooks
- Technologies of Death: (Post)Colonial Borders and Memories of War in the Work of Nina Bouroaui
- Cultural Syncretism and Hybrid Identities: Indo-Caribbean and Sino-Caribbean Narratives of Resistance and Transformation
- Moderation as a Method of Self-Preservation: Zhou Zuoren, Correlative Thinking, and Chinese Modernity
- "The Light We Lost" by Jill Santopolo: A Critical Discourse Analysis
- Black Frankenstein: Exploring Race and Trauma in Victor LaValle’s Graphic Fiction ‘Destroyer’
- Tanizaki Junichiro's Sojourn to Shanghai and the Reception of Chinese Writers to His Works
- Anne Lister in Paris: Literary Self Construction and the Galignani
Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation
- Disrupting Walls of Silence Through the Use of Critical Artistic Self-Expression Productions: The Case of U.S.-Born Children of Mexican Immigrants