One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity. As of June 17, 2026, VCAH2026 has received over 286 submissions from 64 countries and territories - including: the United States, Canada, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, Australia, Thailand, Philippines, and Taiwan.
The following submissions have been accepted for presentation at VCAH2026.
Religion, Spirituality
- Liminal Space and the Openness to the Other in Theo Angelopoulos’ Eternity and a Day: A Theological Reading
Language/Linguistics
- Multilingualism, Motivation, and Performance: Rethinking Language Learning in Africa
Arts - Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy
- Why the Arts Remain Underfunded: A Classification Failure in Cultural Governance
Arts - Arts Theory and Criticism
- Eideticism’ and ‘Hyper-phantasia’ in Sciltian’s Oeuvre
- Internationalism and Identity in Soviet Art: Valentin Podpomogov and the Aesthetics of Tragic Symbolism
- Educating the Postmodern Hero: Narrative, Kalayaan, and Global Citizenship in an Age of Conflict
- Re-Reading Jesus Christ as a Counter-Hegemonic Figure: A Marxist Analysis of Power, Ideology, and Social Justice
- Balloon Time Model
- Surrealism in the Seventies: Ti Parks and Antipodean Avant-gardes
- Unresolved and Unruly: Breast Milk as Artistic Medium and Mess as Method
Arts - Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media
- Compensatory Imagination: the Green Screen, Pleasure and Self-Censorship in Video Games
Arts - Other Arts
- Curatorial Strategies for Integrating Indian Cultural Identity into Fashion Forecasts: An Exploratory Approach
- Exploring the Artistic Beauty of Fractals Through Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Arts - Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music
- Embodying Knowledge Across Spaces: Human Intelligence and Pedagogical Practice in Indian Classical Dance
- The Crossfire as Creative Condition: Verbatim Theatre, Artistic Survival, and Theatre Ecosystems in Successive Conflict Zones
- Artistic Freedom and Cultural Regulation: a Legal Analysis of Performance Arts in Sri Lanka
- The Revival of Thai Classical Music After the Constitutional Revolution of Thailand
Arts - Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
- Disability Arts and Cultural Representation in Ethiopia: Historical Continuity, Inclusion, and Social Transformation
- Cartographer of Feelings: Mapping the Unexpected Resonance of Cantopop in Northeast China
- Developing a Sustainable UAE Cinema Ecosystem: A UAE–India Initiative Supported by the Zayed Education Foundation
- Oral Traditions and Environmental Crisis: Reimagining Eco-Anxiety Through Folk Performance
- Negotiating Aspirations and Realities: The Role of Artist Management in Vernacular Folk Music Industries
Arts - Teaching and Learning the Arts
- Visual Creativity Techniques for Learning and Motivation in Kindergarten and School: A Norwegian Case-study
- The UBuciko BamaZulu aKwaZulu Exhibition as a Pedagogical Platform for Curatorial Learning
- Creating an Aesthetic and Music Learning Environment in a Preschool Through the Use of Trees in Public Spaces
- Art Education as Metaliteracy in the Era of Generative AI
Arts - Visual Arts Practices
- The Politics of Veiling and Unveiling in the Self-Portraiture of Muslim Women Artists
Humanities - Science, Environment and the Humanities
- Education-based Oral Health Promotion Interventions During Pregnancy: A Systematic Review
Humanities - Language/Linguistics
- Teaching Vocabulary Through Lexical Chunks: Implications for Retention
- Effects of AI-Avatar Speaking Practice in Low-Immersion VR and Study Abroad on Japanese EFL Learners’ Speaking Development
- The Effects of Different Types of Feedback on Student Writing
- Hate Speech Acts in Social Media Communication: A Pragmatic Analysisthis Study Examines the Forms and Functions of Hate Speech on British Social Media
Humanities - Aesthetics/Design
- Landscapes Generated by Landscape Paintings: A Case Study of Japanese Landscape Prints in the Edo Period
Humanities - Other Humanities
- Evaluation of the Accuracy of Human Development Index Using Additional Economic, Education and Health Indicators
- Designing Emotionally Adaptive Interfaces for Users with Autism Spectrum and Sensory Sensitivities
- Autism Bubble: An Anthropological Dive into Social and Digital Discourse on Autism
- Machines as Religious Entities: Towards an AI-theological Speculation
- Empowering Learners Through a Community-University Digital Media Literacy Intervention Project
- Attending the Ritual: Gloria Anzaldúa and Aby Warburg on Sacred Ground
- Approachable Parasocial Relationship: The New Form of Parasocial Relationship that Developed Under the Facilitation of Social Media
- Pious Bureaucrats: Negotiating Glass Ceilings and Islamic Maternalism in Indonesian Higher Education
Humanities - Literature/Literary Studies*
- Itinerant Kanshi Poet Hara Saihin in Edo Japan – Confucianism and Expression of a Woman in a Male Dominated Literary
- Gender Stereotyping: the Metamorphosis of Female Roles in Cantonese Opera Plays
- Queer Ecologies in South Asian Speculative Fiction: Exploring Phytomorphosis in Tasha Suri’s The Jasmine Throne
- The Wave-Function of Language: Quantum Linguistic Relativity and the Collapse of Colonial Binaries in Speculative Fiction
- The Duality of Silver Vision: Monetary Value and Political Perception in the Kingdom of Silver Eyes
- The Museum of Provincial Life: Cultural Memory, Space, and Microhistory in Goran Tribuson’s Autobiographical Prose
- Defending What Remains: Bioregionalism, Inhabitation, and Postcolonial Ecology in Contemporary Malayalam Fiction
- Remembering Revolution Through Literature: Representation, Memory, and Afterlives of the Cultural Revolution in Chinese Fiction
- Between Two Authors: Translation as Preservation in Paul Bowles’ Literary Collaboration with Larbi Layachi
- Dalit Ecologies of Care: Caste, Memory, and Urban Life in Ahmedabad, Western India
- Beyond Human Borders: Animal Lives and the Anthropocene in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
- Codes of Combat: Studying the Chainarol Korbek of Manipur as an Ethical Code of Duels
- Walking the Anthropocene: Travel Writing and Ecological Imagination in the Environmental Humanities
- Reimagining Gender in Contemporary Indian Children’s Literature
- Sino-Japanese Literary Exchanges in 1920s Shanghai: A Case Study of Maedakawa Hiroichirō’s Travels in Shanghai and His Reception in China
- Science and Women of the Ashrama Community: A Re-reading of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Laboratory”
Humanities - Globalisation
- Beyond Borders and Bias: A Critical Approach to Education for Peace and Inclusive Global Citizenship
- Decolonizing Interdisciplinary Knowledge Production in African Education Systems: Toward an Epistemic Paradigm Shift
Humanities - Political Science/Politics
- A Cultural Representation of Street Vendors in Senegal
- Beyond Power Politics: Metadiplomacy as a Values-Based Diplomatic Paradigm for a Fragmented Global Order
- Cultural Diplomacy as a Vector of European Integration: The Case of Romanian Cultural Diplomacy Within the European Union
- Retracing the Narratives of Victimhood in the Universe of Forgotten Colombian Truth Commissions: A “Critical Approach”
Humanities - Media/Film Studies/Theatre/Communication
- Peak Experiences and Flow States in Slow and Meditative Screendance Filmmaking
- From Awareness to Acceptance: Reframing Disability and My Work on an Emmy-Nominated Children’s TV Show
- Quitting Comedy: Analyzing the Autistic Aesthetics in Hannah Gadsby’s Stand-up Performances
- Media and Public Relations in a Polarized Media Landscape: Morocco, Algeria, and Spain as Case Studies
- Cultural Dynamics of Instagram Self-Presentation Among Omani Youth
- Participatory Health Communication in Digital Spaces: A Literature Review of HPV Vaccination Narratives Among Young Thai Women
- Media Framing of Sustainable Food Consumption in British and American News Discourse
- The Affective Performance of Neutrality: Framing the Iran-Israel-USA Conflict on Indian Prime-Time Television
- Top Spenders and Hierarchies in the Thai Boys’ Love (BL) Drama Fandom: Inclusion, Exclusion, and the Politics of Visibility
Humanities - Sexuality/Gender/Families
- From Silence to Subversion: Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Indian Narratives
- Bare Life, Traumatic Memory, and a Reclaimed Identity: Re-thinking Holocaust Second-Generation Otherness in Louise Kehoe’s In This Dark House
- Gender Roles and Responsibilities in Contemporary Papua New Guinea Families: Cultural and Biblical Perspectives
- Inclusive Development and Challenges of LGBTIQ+ Inclusion in Clinical Setting
- “We Have Always Been Relational!”: Tracing Prefigurative Affinities Between Indigenous Meitei Fluid Gender Configurations and Western Hydrofeminist Discourse
- Teen Motherhood in African Societies: Family Reintegration, Stigma, and Preventive Approaches
Humanities - History/Historiography
- Painting Between Blocs: Reportage Art, the Korean War, and Japan’s Forgotten Socialist Avant-Garde
- Graphic Arts and Cultural Transfer: A Brazilian Perspective on the Vienna World’s Fair of 1873
- A Historical Overview of Slave Trade Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean (Thirteenth Century)
- The Impact of Modern Urbanism on the Historic City Concept of Kandy, Sri Lanka
- Capiztahan as Living Historiography: Theatrical Performance and the Creation of History in Capiz
Humanities - Knowledge
- Momentum: Collective Storytelling for Social Change – Centering Community Voices, Mindfulness, and Equity in Higher Education
- Centering Indigenous Models of Service-Learning on the African Philosophy of Ubuntu in Teaching & Learning: A Dialogical Communication Framework
- Pedagogical Methods of Knowledge Transmission: A Comparison Between the Buddhist Bhāṇaka Tradition and the Greek Rhapsōidoi Tradition
- Beyond Data: Revelation and Intuition as Modes of Intelligence Among the Pentecostals in Nigeria
Humanities - Immigration/Refugees/Race/Nation
- Empathy-Led Voice Support for Migration During COVID-19: Addressing Issues and Restoring Confidence
- Social Integration and Multiculturalism in Superdiverse Societies: A Case Study of South Asian Immigrants in Canada
- The Living Classroom: Iligan’s Chinese Diaspora Community and the Question of AI-Augmented Global Citizenship Education
- Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Cyberspace: Building a Global Legal Shield for Migrant and Refugee Children
- Perseverance: the Gold Key to Opening the Doors of National Integration Beyond Racial Boundaries
- White Identity and the Criminalisation of Migration at Poland’s Eastern Border: Social and Institutional Mechanisms of the Normalisation of Violence
Humanities - Philosophy/Ethics/Consciousness
- Against Transhumanism: Embodiment and the Vulnerability of the Human Being
- Bhakti as Aesthetic Epistemology: Rasa Theory and the Philosophical Study of Devotion in the Siva Purana
- Beyond Replacement: the Infallibility of the Human Mind Aided by AI as Artistic Prosthesis
- Co-design Approach as Medium for Accessibility of Modern Heritage Places
- The Middle Way: A Path of Wisdom, Balance, and Global Peace in Contemporary Society
Humanities - Cyberspace/Technology
- Taste, Automated: Listening in the Age of AI
- Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence and Community Health Systems: Ethical and Social Dimensions of Digital Monitoring in HIV Programmes in India
Humanities - Teaching and Learning
- Professional Ethics in Education
- Accent Stigma in Peer Feedback: How Students Evaluate Classmates Based on Spoken English Variety
- Teacher Mediation in Competency-Based Curriculum for Vocational Education
- Culture as Curriculum, Assessment as Leadership: Indigenous Women Reimagining Education
- Linking Adjunct Faculty Development to Student Success in Online Writing Instruction
- Empowering the Next Generation: Development of the Interactive Learning Digital (ILeD) Model for Early Childhood Entrepreneurship Education
- The Relationship Between Internal Locus of Control, Motivation, and Technology: A Pilot Study
- Short-term Study Abroad Programs, Lasting Impact: Lessons from Two Universities
- Scenario-Driven Theoretical Synthesis (SDTS): A Doctoral Pedagogical Framework for Epistemic Development
- Human Rights in Motion Through Speech and Silence: A Day in the Life of a University Human Rights Practitioner
- International Students in Canada: A Literature Review
- Role of Technology in the Teaching and Learning Process of Private Universities of Bangladesh
- Writing in the Age of AI: L2 Writers’ Experiences at a Canadian University