Keynote Speakers

China: Shuxian Ye, University Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
President of Chinese Comparative Literature Association (CCLA)

"Resurrecting the Mythological History of Zhurong: Reconstructing the Fourteen-Generation Genealogy of the Chu State in High Antiquity through the Quadruple-Evidence Method"

France: Anne Tomiche, Professor of Comparative Literature, Paris-Sorbonne University
Vice-President of the International Association of Comparative Literature (ICLA);

"Gender Studies and Comparative Literature"

Germany: Christof Schöch, Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Trier
President of the Constituent Organization Board (COB) of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO);

"Towards Computational Comparative Literary Studies: Adressing the Challenges of Multilingualism"

Japan: Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, Associate Professor of Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University
Executive Council Member of International Association of Comparative Literature (ICLA);

"How to Do With Literature/Music Produced by AI: A Challenge for Comparativists in the 21st Century"

Korea: Youngmin Kim, Professor Emeritus, Dongguk University, Seoul / Visiting Professor of Linnaeus University, Sweden.
Executive Council Member of International Association of Comparative Literature (ICLA); Editor-in-Chief of Korean Journal of East-West Comparative Literature

"Aesthetics of New Technological Humanities"

USA: Michael Allan, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, Editor of Comparative Literature;

"Infrastructures of World Literature, or How Language Became Data"