Accepted Presentations

One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity. As of October 26, 2026, IICAH2027 has received over 330 submissions from 48 countries and territories - including: the United States, Japan, South Africa, Philippines, Canada, Taiwan, and Malaysia.

The following submissions have been accepted for presentation at IICAH2027.

Arts - Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy

- Organizational Culture and Innovation in Project Management
- Framing the Future of Creativity After ChatGPT: AI Narratives in Global Art and Design Education
- Improvising and Endowing Equity: A. B. Spellman’s Innovative Strategy in the NEA’s Expansion Arts Program

Arts - Arts Theory and Criticism

- Self-Names, Scroll Inscriptions and Symbolic Identity Construction of Chinese Female Literati Artists from the Song to Qing Dynasties
- The Flamenco Is Dead. Long Live Flamenco

Arts - Literary Arts Practices

- Blending Genres to Explore Social Realities: Activism in Post-Memory Construction in Nigerian Film and Literary Texts
- Dialect Narrative and the Poetics of “Locality” in the Bashan Writers’ Group

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

- Multiversal Futurisms: Afrofuturism, Immersive Animation, and Transnational World-Building
- Fragments of the Unfolding: Reimagining Crisis Through the Senses in !heard, !seen, !done
- Unfolding: Extending Analogue Painting Through AI-Assisted Image Generation and Mixed Reality
- Early Social Media Exposure and Adult Creative Development: Challenges and Opportunities Among Emerging Video Editors
- Decolonizing the Airwaves: Rural Citizen Journalists and the Epistemic Struggle for Narrative Sovereignty in SABC’s Coverage of Limpopo Province

Arts - Other Arts

- Wearing Identity: The Psychology of Fashion and Self-Expression in Ghana’s Cultural Landscape
- Digital Echoes of the Village Gong: A Study of the Hybrid Information System Using Town Criers and WhatsApp in Rural Development Communication

Arts - Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music

- Movement Organization Under Physical and Imagery-Based Constraints in Dance Improvisation
- Creative Dance Projects for Inter-cultural Understanding
- Analysis of Fashion Shows from the Past Decade as Performance Art: Interviews Regarding the Influence of AI on Fashion Creativity
- Deepening the Approach: Using Singing Exercises to Repair and Retrain the Voice After Illness or Injury
- The Impact of Indian Classical Dance on Human Life
- Dancing Liberatory Pedagogies
- Rethinking African Indigenous Musical Instruments for Higher Education: Towards Professionalization, Innovation, and Pedagogical Integration

Arts - Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts

- Un-spelling the Gaze: Sustainable Artistic Practices and Circular Economy as Tools for Cultural Resistance
- Cézanne as Representative of Merleau-Ponty
- Desgualichar La Mirada: Corazonar and Arts-Based Research for Collective Knowledge Production
- Madkhalīsm and the Palestinian Struggle: Political Obedience, Religious Dimensions, and Social Media Influence
- Theater on the Geographic Periphery: The Model of “Theatrikos Periplous” in Rethymno as a Paradigm for Decentralized Cultural Development in the Greek Province
- Plate It Forward: A Transformative Framework for Campus Food Rescue, Stigma Reduction, and Student Equity
- Transforming Social Narratives Through Photographic Expression: A Methodology for Empowerment and Intercultural Dialogue

Arts - Teaching and Learning the Arts

- Arts Integration as Embodied Learning: Cultivating Cognitive, Affective, and Somatic Engagement in Diverse Contexts
- Between Self and Others: Orchestrating Solo and Collaborative Work in Design Education
- Showcasing Asian Visual Arts to Students in Rural America: How to Implement Lessons Into Your Classroom
- Redefining the Role of Art Educators in the Age of Generative AI: Toward an Integrated Conceptual Framework
- Decolonising Ghanaian Music Education: Indigenous Knowledge, Teacher Agency, and Curriculum Leadership for Global Citizenship
- The Critical Eye: Reframing Foundation Pedagogy Through the Bauhaus Vorkurs in the Age of AI
- Rooted in Resilience: Reimagining Possibilities for HBCU Educators of Visual and Performing Arts
- Reading Across Boundaries: Global Humanities, Literature, and Human Connection in a Prison Classroom
- Rigor and Accessibility Are Not Opposites: Removing Unnecessary Barriers in Commercial Music Education
- Beyond Ethics: Redefining the Arts Within the AI Boom

Arts - Visual Arts Practices

- The Application of Figure Design from the Song-Dynasty Mirror Depicting Emperor Tang’s Visit to the Moon Palace
- Museum Cultural and Creative Product Design Grounded in Regional Cultural Integration and Interactive Experience Innovation

Humanities - Science, Environment and the Humanities

- Nurturing Tomorrow’s Biologists: The Need to Engage with Youth About Early Career Exploration
- The Impact of Risk Perception and Media-related Factors on Precautionary Behavior: A Study on Dengue Fever
- Corporate Philanthropy as Cultural Meaning-Making: Ethical Signaling and Investor Perception in Japan
- The Effects of a Prenatal Educational Program Using the Artificial Intelligence Chatbot “ChatMom” on Environmental Health Behavior: A Non-Randomized Study
- Astronomy Literacy as Knowledge Literacy: An African Information Science Perspective on Community Empowerment

Humanities - Language/Linguistics

- When AI Speaks Mongolian: Evaluating Neural Machine Translation Quality Across Social Media Registers in a Low-Resource Language Context
- Error Patterns in EFL Student Writing: A Corpus-Based Study Supported by Large Language Models
- Language Equity in Crisis: Combating Disaster Linguicism Through Multilingual Emergency Planning and Language Policy Innovation
- Proverbs as a Cultural Carrier: A Linguistic Analysis
- Transforming Literal Translation: Applying Skopos Theory to Subtitle Translation for Improved Clarity, Cultural Relevance, and Emotional Impact
- The Verbal Sources of UAE Children’s Political Cognition During the Regional Conflict of 2026
- Reclaiming Ishigaki Yaeyaman – Safe Space Creation and Master-apprentice Language Learning
- Acoustic Analysis of Request Speech in Najdi Arabic
- Strengthening Teacher Efficacy in PreK–2 General Education Classrooms Through Translanguaging-Focused Professional Learning

Humanities - Aesthetics/Design

- The Aesthetic Realization of Space from Chinese Painting in Guzheng Musical Expression
- Authenticity of Narratives in Interactive Museums
- Brush Traces as Signs: Xin’an Lineage in Xia Mingyuan’s Landscapes Under Peircean Semiotics
- Decoding Architectural Language: The Mappi Method as a Tool for Spatial Identity in Contemporary Design
- Designing Responsible Futures: A Participatory Workshop on AI, Fashion and Sustainability

Humanities - Ethnicity/Difference/Identity

- What We Carry, What We Heal: Diaspora, Ritual, and Grief as Cultural Practice in AAPI Communities
- Racialized Privilege in Motion: Black American Migration and Belonging in Mérida, Mexico
- Multicultural Coexistence as Lived Experience: A Phenomenological Study of Parents of Japanese Heritage Children in the U.S. South
- From Margins to Mattering: International Student Experience in Building a Sense of Belonging During Their Higher Education Journey
- Cross-cultural Journeys of Indigenous Alaskan Women in HBOMax’s “Night Country”: From Traditionally Rooted to Reclaiming Heritage
- Mixed Families as Everyday Spaces of Diversity: Negotiating Identity, Belonging, and Social Cohesion in Post-Conflict Borderlands
- Traversing Two Cultures: Exploring Multiculturalism Through the Eyes of Filipino-Korean Students in Busan, South Korea
- Measuring Parenting Across Languages: Arabic Translation and Validation of the Multidimensional Assessment of Parenting Scale
- When Teachers Become Visible: Rethinking Professional Self-Presentation in Social Media Spaces
- Decentering Whiteness from the Spanish Heritage Curriculum in Higher Education
- Social Inequality, Youth Participation and Access to Opportunities: Examining the Social Determinants of Inclusive Development in Ghana
- Historical Trauma in Collective Memory: A Comparative Study of History Education of the Colonial Past in South Korea and Lithuania

Humanities - Other Humanities

- Psychological Capital and Communication Apprehension in English Among Thai Undergraduate Students Majoring in the Hospitality Industry
- What Works to Reduce Crime in Criminal and Juvenile Justice?
- Who Pays for Urban Sprawl? Travel Behavior, Time Valuation, and Congestion Burden in Yaoundé’s Satellite Corridors
- Religious Participation and Household Wealth: Panel Evidence on Attendance, Denomination, and Post-COVID Disengagement
- The Metaphors We Lead By: Deep Listening, Human Intelligence and Problem Setting in Higher Education
- Identity Development in Multicultural Experiences: The Role of Ethnic Relations and Cultural Awareness
- Promoting Safer Communities Through Volunteerism: Motivation, Resilience, Educational Outreach, and Social Impact Among Road Safety Volunteers
- Career Self-Efficacy as a Link Between Student Leadership and Perceived Employability Skills

Humanities - Literature/Literary Studies*

- Othering Morocco in the American Travelogues
- Rewriting Heroism: Ideology and Poetics in English Translations of the Tale of the Heike
- Animating Belonging: Intermedial Meaning and Sensory Transformation in Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing
- Educating for Peace Through the Ninth Art, the Case of “Barefoot Gen” By Keiji Nakazawa
- Between American and Oceanic Space: Kristiana Kahakauwila’s Wanle and Thirty-Nine Rules for Making a Hawaiian Funeral Into a Drinking Game
- Embodying Posthuman Bodies: Understanding Embodied Cognition in Nnedi Okorafor’s Noor and Death of the Author: A Novel
- Follow the Cat: Generative AI and an Analog Way into Louise Erdrich’s Recursive Fiction
- Visualizing Japanese Classical Literature in the Age of Generative AI: Between Text and Imagination
- The Heterogeneous Swarm: Techno-Orientalism, and the ‘Yellow Peril’ in Spanish Speculative Fiction: ‘El Dragón De Fuego’ (Fidel Prado Duque, 1944)
- “Not All at Once Upon a Time”: The Relationship Between Oral History and Te Tōrino in the Novel Potiki
- Living Literature: Bridging Text, Cultural Memory, and Community Through Reading and Writing
- Examining Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running Against the Contemporary Latino Experience

Literature/Literary Studies

- Writing Peace from the Margins: Diaspora, Identity, and Global Citizenship in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Fiction

Humanities - Globalisation

- Do Intercultural Interventions Matter? A Longitudinal Comparison of Japanese University Students’ Intercultural Behavioral Intent
- International Student Belonging, Communication, and Participation in Japanese Higher Education
- Learning for Real: Using Powerful Tools in the Classroom and Sending Students to Practice Skills in Africa
- Identifying the Emotional Labor in Cross-Cultural Translation Among INGOs: A Cultural Distance Perspective from Cultural Brokers

Humanities - Political Science/Politics

- The Aesthetic of “Aloha” in Hawaii Supreme Court Jurisprudence

Humanities - Media/Film Studies/Theatre/Communication

- (Still) Grabbing Hegemonic Masculinity by the P**sy: the Gender Regression of Trump’s Presidential Campaign Rhetoric
- Language, Victimhood, and Child Abuse: a Discourse-Pragmatic Analysis of Nigerian Movies
- Understanding Digital Engagement Patterns of Indian Diaspora Schools on Instagram in Kuwait
- Metamorphic Becoming: Menarche, Memory, and the Grotesque Female Body in Contemporary Cinema
- Visual Counterpublic: Exploring the Non-deficit Representation of Informal Settlements on a South African YouTube Comedy Series
- Climate Change Communication in Ghana’s Market: A Study on Market Women’s Understanding, Perceptions and Engagements

Humanities - Sexuality/Gender/Families

- Sorry for Being Happy: A Complex Psychological Landscape of Korean Adoptees in Hanna Lee’s The Ones Who Misbehave
- Challenging the Stigma: Evidence that Adult Use of Sleeping Dolls Enhances Sleep Quality and Sociability
- Genealogical Discoveries and Digital Storytelling: Reconstructing Selves and Family Imaginaries
- Nutritional Security and Women’s Empowerment in Medina Sabakh: A Model of Resilience Through Diversified Market Gardening and Agro-processing
- Exploring Career Advancement Strategies Among Women in Leadership Positions at a South African University
- Governing Intervention and Accountability: Tracing Authority, Participation, and Structural Inequity Through Child Welfare Policy Texts in Alberta, Canada
- Negotiating Over-Functioning: A Qualitative Inquiry into Stressors Among Midlife Women

Humanities - History/Historiography

- The Fugate Example: Leadership and a Forgotten Legacy in Siquijor
- Dynamics and Collaboration: An Overview of Christianity and the Development of Social Services in Hong Kong, 1841–1997
- From Talos to Transformers: Artificial Intelligence and the Classical Imagination
- Reassessing U.S. Topical Folk Songs in the Post-Revival Era

Humanities - Knowledge

- AI, Archives, and Indigenous Knowledge: Rethinking Interpretation in Digital Contexts
- Daoist Identity in Postwar Taiwan: An Examination Centered on Daoxue Zazhi
- Knowledge and Action Through Co-innovation with Community Organizations Serving Older Adults

Humanities - Immigration/Refugees/Race/Nation

- Labor, Dependency, and Collapse: Filipino Migrant Workers and the CNMI Garment Industry, 1980-2008
- Motherhood, Ruins, and Return: Gendered Narratives of Syrian Women’s Displacement in U.S. News
- Migration as Culture: The Case of Hadiya People in Ethiopia

Humanities - Philosophy/Ethics/Consciousness

- Consciousness in Action: Cultural Worldviews Revealed Through the Temporal and Spatial Structure of Drawing
- The Hard Problem as Category Mistake: How Non-Dual Vedānta Exposes the Grammatical Illusion of the Explanatory Gap
- The Architecture of the Fractured Mind: Psychoanalytic Repression, Paranoia, and Guilt in Macbeth, Frankenstein, and Crime and Punishment
- Mental Health or Gun Reform? The Role of Morality and Political Ideology in Shaping Social Media Behavior
- When Does Regulatory Focus Enhance Self-Regulation? The Roles of Goal Strength and Evaluation Mode
- Mythological Interpretation in the Middle Period of Coomaraswamy: Tradition and Archetypes in Yaksas

Humanities - Cyberspace/Technology

- Algorithmic Borderlands: AI, TikTok, Instagram, and the Reinvention of Transnational Identities
- Generative AI and Solo Travel Experiences: Using ChatGPT as an Example
- Learning Multiple Programming Languages with Computational Thinking and Generative AI
- The Right to Remain Un-computable: Sacred Knowledge After Artificial Intelligence
- When ‘Friendly’ Feels Manipulative: Hyper-Personalization, Conversational Tone, and Ad Opt-Out Intention
- When the AI Agent Smiles at the Wrong Moment: The Effect of Facial Expression on Service Failure Type

Humanities - Teaching and Learning

- Artificial Intelligence, Educational Inequality, and Local Contexts in Eastern Indonesia
- Using Virtual Laboratory Affordances to Teach States of Matter in Grade 6: A Self-Study
- Distributed Leadership as a Driver of Organizational Efficiency and Innovation in Educational Institutions
- Labelled and Left Behind: The Academic, Social, and Emotional Impact of Informal Labelling on Secondary School Students in Nigeria
- Cultivating Discernment: a Curriculum of Somatic Autobiographical Inquiry for Self-Leadership in Graduate Education
- Development and Evaluation of Contextualized Activity Sheets in Teaching Climate Change
- Academic “Intelligence” Or: Intelligence Has Always Been Artificial
- Unfolding the Struggles of Multigrade Teachers
- Mediating Effect of Academic Support to the Relationship Between Student Learning Engagement and Performance in Mathematics
- Bridging Skill Gaps in Digital and AI-Driven Controlling: Evidence from a Quantitative Future Skills Study
- An Analysis of Cross-Disciplinary Students’ Coursework Performance in a Foundational Design Course: A Case Study of a Color Theory Course
- Beyond Compliance: Changing the Transition Discourse in Higher Education and Employment to Facilitate the Success of Autistic or Neurodivergent Adults
- Technology and Girls’ Education in Pashtun Communities: A Qualitative Review
- Learning to Question AI: Epistemic Monitoring for Critical Evaluation of Generative AI Outputs in Student-Centered Learning
- Fostering Impactful Student Outcomes: An International, Community-Based Learning Travel Study Program
- Impact of AI Sports Coaching Apps on Taekwondo Poomsae Performance
- When Everyone Supports but No One Coordinates: A Mixed-Methods Triadic Study of Formal and Natural Supports for Young Men with Mild Intellectual Disability in Saudi Arabia
- Content Alignment Between Ghana’s Basic 4 Mathematics Standards-Based Curriculum and National Standardized Tests
- Fruit Leadership: Discover Your Leadership Style and Strengthen Your Team
- Diversity Among Asian International Students
- Designing for Durable Learning: AI and the UDL Design Cycle
- Writing Assessment Literacy and Feedback Uptake Among Undergraduate Students
- Teaching Practice as a Transformative Space for Developing Pre-Service Teachers’ Professional Identity and Self-Efficacy
- COVID-19: Amidst the Havoc, an Inadvertent Boon to South African Higher Education
- Designing for Belonging: Emotional Wayfinding Through Intercultural Design Education
- The Anatomy of a Double-Fail: How Language-of-Instruction Transition Pitfalls Disrupt Key Stage Literacy and Student Learning
- Maintaining Humanity and Building Empathy in AI-Assisted Writing
- The Impact of Coaching-Oriented Pedagogy on Student Learning in International Business Education
- Artificial Intelligence and Teacher Support in Academic Writing: Students’ Preferences, Experiences, and Ethical Perceptions
- Beyond the Digital Divide: Service-Learning to Foster Human Connection and Emotional Intelligence
- Gamify Your Course: Engagement Strategies in Higher Education
- From Access to Use: Addressing Digital Discrimination Through Equitable Participation
- Global Goals Across Classrooms: Empowering Faculty to Integrate Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) Through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)
- Designing and Evaluating an Adaptive AI-Enabled Smart Learning Environment: Evidence from a 12-Week Quasi-Experiment in Higher Education
- Development and Validation of the Intelligent Problem-Solving Learning Scale for University Students
- Negotiating Race-Conscious Pedagogies into Teacher Education Courses: Exploring the Practices of Literacy Teacher Educators
- Still, We Breathe: Teaching Culturally Rooted Approaches to Black Men’s Grief in Social Work Education