Accepted Presentations

One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity.
As of February 18, 2026, PCAH2026 has received over 310 submissions from 61 countries and territories - including: Philippines, United States, China, Türkiye, Germany, India, Thailand, Portugal, and Canada.

The following submissions have been accepted for presentation at PCAH2026.

Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication

- Diffraction Dans L’eau: Multisensory Fragments of Communication
- Fact-Checking as Democratic Infrastructure: The Fact-Check Thailand 2026 Initiative in the Pre-Election Context
- Dramatic Arts and the Architecture of Human Communication and Connection
- From Scene to Screen — Mobilizing Film Locations Through Creative Industry Policy and the Limits of Soft Power in Thailand

History/Historiography

- Indian Aluminiumville: A Business History of Indian Aluminium Company Limited’s Formative Years, 1950-60
- The Myth of Democratization in East Asia Before Pearl Harbor
- Arms, Espionage, and the Collapse of the East Turkestan Islamic Republic, 1933–1934
- Mediating Colonial Medicine: Vietnamese Private Physicians and the Cultural Politics of Healing in French Indochina (1900–1945)

Literature/Literary Studies

- Names and Identities: Frantz Fanon's Double Consciousness and Identity Crisis in Jhumpa Lahiri’s the Namesake
- The Esthetics of Wrapped Discourse in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero and Nuruddin Farah’s From a Crooked Rib
- Yoruba Literature in Arabic and the Poetics of Post-colonialism in Africa
- Metamorphosing the Classroom: Teaching Literature with AI and Kafka
- Agency Through Illness: An Analysis of the Blue Castle (1926) by L.M. Montgomery
- Women's Lives in Jane Austen’s 'Mansfield Park' and 'Persuasion' and Sarah Waters' 'The Paying Guests'
- Frankenstein's Legacy Across Science, War, and Posthuman Identity
- On the Anatomy of Hygiene and the Technology of Monster in Xiao Hong’s Novels
- Activism and Decoloniality: Intersections Between Environmental Degradation and Colonial Legacies in How Beautiful We Were
- Glocal Politics of Respectability: Kathak, Courtesans, and the Feminist Reclamation of Women Performers
- The Linguistic Motion of Love: Cognitive Transformation in Mediterranean Poetics
- Diasporic Black Women's Writing as Social Denunciation in Françoise Ega’s Letters to a Black Woman
- Scenes of Posthuman Mexico City in Science Fiction by Andrea Chapela
- From Homo Ludens to Homo Errans: Some Theoretical Notes
- From Scroll to Page: Instagram Paratexts, Standpoint, and Poetic Personae in Contemporary Palestinian Poetry
- 'I Relate, Therefore I Dream': Re-interpreting Indigenous Naga Prophetic Dreaming as Posthumanist Relationality in Easterine Kire’s Spirit Nights
- The Complexities of Travel and Migration in Sri Lankan-Australian Diasporic Fiction
- 'Literary Greater Bay Area' — Literary Exchanges Between Guangdong and Hong Kong in the 1980s and Their Historical Significance
- 'Franken-' Medicine: Contemporary Physician Memoirs and the Rise of Technocratic Medicine
- Care Ethics and the Limits of the Pastoral Mode: Rereading James Herriot's Veterinary Memoirs
- Making Witches, Burning Witches: Epistemic Politics of Witchcraft Persecution in Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies
- 'Crevices of Unreason': Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of Reason in Benjamin Labatut’s The MANIAC
- The Young Guardians of Planetary Memory: A Study of 'The Little Rainmaker' and 'Ammini Against the Storm'

Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation

- Performing Humanness: Disability, Forced Migration, and the Coloniality of Inclusion
- War Brides and Immigration: Contrasting Experiences of European and Japanese Women After World War II

Science, Environment and the Humanities

- Research on the Impact of Climate Policy Uncertainty on Corporate Green Technology Innovation: An Empirical Study from China
- Research on the Impact of the Marketization Level of Capital Factors on the Sustainable Development Capability of Enterprises
- Decolonizing the Mind and Heart for a New Learning Paradigm in the Anthropocene

Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness

- Ethical Challenges in Financial Reporting: Evidence from Nigerian Deposit Money Banks
- The Myth of Eternal Return: Cyclical Time and Spiritual Evolution in the 'Devriye' Genre of Ottoman Sufi Poetry
- What Are the Relations Between Metaphysics and Science?
- Rational Consciousness, Civilizational Crisis, and Global Capitalism: A Philosophical Inquiry into Power, Ideology, and Human Emancipation

Political Science, Politics

- The Cost of Autonomy: A Cross-Level Analysis of South Korea's Strategic Dilemma
- Research on Political Ecology, Government Innovation Subsidies and Dual Innovation
- Energy Transition and Resource Nationalism: Critical Minerals, Supply Chains, and Sovereignty in African States
- Students as Hostages of Centralization – The Politics of Small School Consolidation in Post-Coup Thailand: A Case Study of Ubon Ratchathani

Religion, Spirituality

- Negotiating Faith in a Godless State: The Survival of the Armenian Church Under the Soviet Regime

Sexuality, Gender, Families

- Shifting Geographies of Young Masculinities in Punjab, India
- Escalating Violence: Institutional Discourse on Measurement and Omission in the Graphic Tool 'Violence Meter'
- Tourism as Empowerment: Women’s Economic Opportunities Emerging after Commencement of Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple Reconstruction in Ayodhya
- Examining the Factors Linking the Intention of Female Entrepreneurial Mindset in Uzbekistan
- Jesus Trouble: Gender and the Image of Christ in Right-Wing White American Evangelicalism

Cyberspace, Technology

- Analysing the Role of AI-Driven Security Strategies in Countering Cyber Terrorism in Kurdistan Region of Iraq
- Artificial Intelligence Use in Learning Arabic Among Malaysian Non-Native Speakers: Demographic Differences and Usage Patterns

Language/Linguistics

- Whose English Counts? Inclusivity and Ideology in Swedish Curricula, 1962–2025
- Beyond the Lexicon: Syntactic Iconicity in Mising
- Reduplication and Suffixation: A Study of Mising Adverbs
- Multilingualism, Motivation, and Performance: Rethinking Language Learning in Africa
- Responsibility in UK Eco-awareness Campaigns: An Ecocritical Discourse Analysis
- Monitored and Unmonitored Online Language Learning on Cambridge One
- Criticality in Global Englishes Language Teaching: Implications for French Studies
- Teaching in English: Language Requirements, Challenges and Support for EMI Faculty
- Leadership in Education: The Role of English Language Education in Global Leadership Development
- Transforming Heritage Language Skills into Teaching Power

Aesthetics and Design

- Wandering in Plain Sight: Transparency, Flâneur, and the Question of Emptiness in Architecture
- Kawaii Operation: Setouchi Archive

Literature, Literary Studies and Theory

- Nineteenth Century Transcendentalist Sensibilities and Twentieth Century Cityscapes: Comparative Analysis of Writings of Margaret Fuller, Archibald Lampman and Irwing Layton

First Nations and Indigenous Peoples

- From Absence to Presence: Fostering Identity in Original Peoples' Children Through Visual Semiotics

Knowledge

- Learning Communities Increase Graduation Rates

Other Humanities

- Invisible Labours in the Urban City: Lived Experiences of Women Gig Workers in Delhi’s Urban Company On-Demand Digital
- Psychomedical Viewpoint on Life Is What You Make It by Preethi Shenoy
- Faculty Commitment in Moroccan Higher Education Reforms: The Predictive Role of Trust
- Explaining Ethical Behaviors Among Arts Appreciators Through the Norm Activation Model
- Prioritizing Destination Attributes that Shape the Digital Detox Tourism Experience
- Between Law and Ethics: Judicial Intercession on Stray Dogs in India (2025) and Their Implications for Human-Animal Coexistence
- The Power of Society: How Social Media Contributes to Policy Making and Southeast Asian Solidarity During the Protests in Indonesia
- Follower’s Leap: How Do Emerging Market Firms Orchestrate Resources to Lead the GVCs?
- Human Intelligence in Practice: Cultural Stewardship Through Music and Careful Presence in Serious Illness
- From Roots to Renewal: the Power of Unearthing the Past by Working Through Trauma
- Bridging Nations Through Culture: a Comparative Study of Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy in Bangladesh and France

Teaching and Learning

- Dynamics Impacting the Use of E-Learning in the Teaching of Commercial Subjects in the Thabo Mofutsanyana District of Free State Province, South Africa
- Multiculturalism in Education: Creating Dialogue Between Arabs and Jews in Israel
- Shaping National Identity Through Civic Education: A Systematic Literature Review
- How Can Artificial Intelligence Transform Civic Education? A Systematic Literature Review
- Developing Scientific Process Skills of Pre-Service Science Teachers Through Science Tool Mini-Lab Activities
- The Impact of Music Education on Emotional Development in Children
- Development of a Training Curriculum to Enhance Phonics-Based English Pronunciation Instruction for Teachers in Thailand
- Integrative Projects and Generative Themes: Challenges and Possibilities in Teaching Practice
- Exploring the Role of Improvisation in the Implementation of the Standard-Based Curriculum in Teaching Science at Basic Schools in Ghana
- Libraries Lead: Artificial Intelligence Literacy for the Creative Writing and Humanities Classrooms
- Learning Through Making: Analog Processes as Pedagogical Tools in Graphic Design Education
- Socio-economic Impacts of the Barangay Management System on the Life of Its Residents: Inputs for Enhancing Extension Services
- Breaking the Silence: A Content Analysis on Bita and the Botflies Addressing Sexual Violence in Their Music
- Year Six Findings of a Pro-Democracy Research and Application Initiative
- Unstoppable: Resilience, Reform, and Reimagining Leadership in Changing Systems
- Self-confidence and Online Gambling Behaviour Among University Undergraduates in Osun State, Nigeria

Ethnicity, Difference, Identity

- The Race of the Dis-qualified: Literary Representations of the Intersection of Racial and Neurological Otherness
- Cultural Exchange with Ethnic 'Others': A Study of the Green Dragon Cave Temple Complex in Zhenyuan
- When AI Becomes 'Other': The Role of Identity Representation and the Uncanny Valley in Human-AI Relationships

Arts - Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy

- Return on Art™: A New Policy Framework for Measuring and Funding the Public Value of the Arts

Arts - Arts Theory and Criticism

- Crypto-Aesthetics: A New Materialist Theory of NFT Art
- Entropic Narratives and Modes of Perception in Contemporary Argentine Literature
- Eroticism and the Sacred Body in Indian Art: Aesthetic Experience as a Way of Meaning and Transcendence

Arts - Literary Arts Practices

- The Influence of Persian on Bengali Language and Literature: A Theoretical Exploration
- Verbal and Visual Self-Fashioning: Artistic Women, Life Writing, and Modernist Identity
- Ekphrastic Translation by Singaporean Artist Swie Hian Tan
- Polygyny and the Re-construction of Zulu Womanhood in Christina Sibiya’s Life Story

Arts - Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media

- Queer Visibility in the Digital Age: Navigating Human Rights and Technology in China
- Atmosphere as the Primary Cinematic Value in Cinematic Virtual Reality
- Scene-Anchored Analysis of Affective 'Stickiness' in Nordic Political-Thriller Television with LLMs
- Post-Heritage Paris: Algorithmic Aesthetics, Platform Capitalism, and the Cultural Politics of Emily in Paris
- Wavelength: A Research-Creation Study of Robotics, Ecology, and Digital Mediation
- Eat the Rich, but Make It Entertaining: How Dark Comedy Contains Class Critique in Streaming Television
- The Multifaceted Image of Teenhood: A Textual Analysis of Identity, Relationships, and Cultural Dynamics in the TV Series “Senior High”
- Examining the Impact of Cultural Differences on Graphic Design: A Comparative Example of Palestine and Turkey
- Examining the Relationship Between Graphic Design and Artificial Intelligence: A Workshop Study in Turkey

Arts - Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music

- What's in a Song? A Discourse Analysis of the Wits #FMF Movement’s Iyho Solomon Song
- Wake-ing Pan-African Feminist Futures
- Make Them Hear You: Using Musical Theatre to Facilitate Civil Discourse in a Divided Society
- Michael McGlynn’s Role in the Nationalist Choral Music of Ireland
- Fetching the Ghosts of Our Beloveds: Activating South African Feminist Poetry and Performance as Rituals of Time Travel Poetics
- Absurd Theatre as Contemporary Social Intervention: A Practice-Based Study of a Triple-Bill Production for Thai Audiences

Arts - Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts

- Promoting Leadership for Disabled Artists: How the Social Model of Disability Can Be Utilised to Enable Inclusivity in Creative Spaces
- Portraits of Courage: Reclaiming Civil Rights Surveillance Photographs Through Portrait Artistry and Visual Storytelling

Arts - Teaching and Learning the Arts

- Beyond Tools: Embedding Technology as Structure in Graphic Design Pedagogy
- The Colonial Impact on Indian Art Schools and Aesthetic Traditions
- Algorithms – Intentions: Teaching Poetic Forms in the Age of Gen AI
- The Use of Generative AI Tools and Technology in the Teaching of Arts Management at a Higher Education Institution

Arts - Visual Arts Practices

- Tragic Symbolism and Cultural Memory: Valentin Podpomogov and the Aesthetics of Soviet Armenian Art