Accepted Presentations

One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity. As of September 4, 2026, BAMC2026 has received over 250 submissions from 71 countries and territories - including: Brazil, Canada, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Nigeria, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, the UAE, the UK, and the United States.

The following submissions have been accepted for presentation at BAMC2026.

Advertising, Marketing, & Public Relations

- Beyond Beautiful: SADA, a Three Phase Speculative Model for Arabic Led Creative Conception
- When Personalization Backfires: Organizational Context and Consumer Responses to Algorithmic Personalization
- The Paradox of AI Hyper-Personalization: Privacy Concern, Algorithm Concealment, and Purchase Intention
- From Local Food Stories to Regional Brand Narrative: Co-creation and Visual Storytelling in the Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture Region
- Virtual Influencers as Emotional Bridges: How Psychological Distance and Social Cues Shape Brand-Consumer Connection

Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music

- The Somatic Ritual of Truth: An Autoethnography of Nudity, Human Intelligence, and the Decolonial Body in Philippine Theater
- Reimagining Theatre Etiquette: Sensory-Friendly Performances as an Inclusive Model for Neurodivergent Audiences
- The Aesthetics of Dissent
- Musical Nationalism and Cultural Identity in the Venezuelan Valses of Antonio Lauro
- Contemporary Art and Musical Theatre: Aesthetic Transformation, Interdisciplinary Practices, and New Cultural Narratives

Arts Practices

- Beyond the Page: Independent Publishing as a Bridge for Interdisciplinary Art and Research
- The Impact of Art on Students’ Emotional Well-being at SMK College of Applied Science
- The Choice of Textile Materials in the Work of Artists from the Balkan Region
- The Quadripartite Aura of Hybrid Art: Generative AI, Authorship and Cultural Value
- The Court of Miracles: Dialectics of Residue and Urban Drifts in 1990s Mexican Artistic Practices
- Radical Joy as Performance

Aesthetics and Design

- From Aura to Semi-Aura: Reframing Authenticity in AI-Generated Art Through Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry
- A Comparative Analysis of Visual Narrative Differences in Limited-Edition Beverage Imagery on Starbucks’ U.S. and Chinese Official Social Media
- Visual Similarities and Pattern Generation of Dunhuang Lotus Motifs and Alhambra Wheel Patterns: an Exploration of Cross-Cultural Design Approaches

Literature, Literary Studies and Theory

- Atmosphere Without Authors: Posthuman Form and Internet Culture
- Male Homosexual Emotions and Masculinities in Late Ming Novels
- “She Has a Lovely Face”: Posthumous Aestheticisation and the Violence of Praise in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Jenny Wren as Entrepreneur: Disability, Independence, and Alternative Womanhood in Our Mutual Friend
- A Comparative Study on García Lorca’s Drama Yerma and Gunasena Galappaththi’s Sri Lankan Drama Mūdu Puththu
- The Contemporary Dystopian Imagination: Style and Crisis in Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song
- From Empire to Partnership: Otherness, Nature, and Death in David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life
- Medieval Philosophy and Rumi’s Allegorical Imagination: A Relearning of Being

Climate Change and Arts, Media, Culture

- A Climate-Literacy Maturity Model for School Information Specialists in Oman
- Critical Sonic Ecologies: Examining Ethics in Environmental Sound Art Practices

Difference/Identity/Ethnicity

- Corralled Dysphoria: Autoethnography of Facial Difference and Fetishism in Visual Culture
- Entrepreneurship Education for Long-term Unemployed Young Mothers from Ethnic Minority Communities

Digital Humanities

- Visualizing Gendered Clothing Networks in Early Modern Chinese Narrative Culture: Dress, Embodiment, and Social Identity
- The Social Media Paradox: Effects on Young Adults’ Academic Performance and Communication Skills
- Forbidden Activism: Feminist Art Activism and State Control
- AI-Driven Cyber Twin Transformation of Industrial Heritage for Remote Cultural Immersion in Henan
- The Material and Digital Paratext: Re-imagining Indian Representation Through Cover Illustrations
- Algorithmic Witch Hunt in Higher Education: Communication Process or AI Detection Tools?
- Vibe Creating: Authorship and Expression in Human-AI Cultural Production

Politics and Philosophy

- The Politics of Uncertainty: Narrative Agency Under Conditions of Polycrisis
- A Unique Exploration of Simone Weil’s Perspective on Indian Philosophy

Ageing Studies

- Fragile Memories and Enduring Care: Understanding Cinematic Representation of Dementia Through the Movies ‘Three of Us’ and ‘Mayurakshi’

Gender, Sexuality and Culture

- Impact of Boys’ Love Genre on LGBTQIA+ Representation
- Teaching Gender and Sexuality in Conservative Cultural Contexts: Pedagogical Tensions and Inclusive Pathways in Nigeria
- Beyond the Scroll: Queer Mental Health and the Politics of Representation on Engage Men’s Instagram
- The Ideal Woman in Population Policies: Female Reproductive Rights and the Cultural Construction of Womanhood in Vietnam
- Haitian Women, Visibility, and the Construction of Citizenship Through Culture: Dialogues and Enunciations from the Global South

Architecture, Geography and Urban Studies

- Real Estate Advertising and the Production of Urban Imaginaries in Oran: Persuasive Communication Strategies
- Defining “Architectural Style” Ideologically
- Watery Memories Beneath the Shell: Mapping the Buried Waterscape and Lived Space of Bentderesi, Ankara

Media Studies

- Beyond the Mainstream: Mapping Non-Institutional Radio Art and Community-Based Sound Practices in Poland from the Last Six Years
- Antiquity Remixed: the Politics of Classical Reception in Contemporary Media and Popular Culture
- Asymmetric Sensemaking and Lateral Knowledge Expansion: Reframing Human-AI Relations in Digital Media and Cultural Production
- Journalism in Exile: Boundary Work and the Transformation of Journalism in Hybrid Media Systems
- AI in the Newsroom: TvOne.ai and the Reconfiguration of Human Expertise, Media Ethics, and Public Trust in Indonesian Journalism
- COVID-19 and Digital Transformation in the Omani Press Newsroom: Lessons Learned, and Implications from the Crisis
- Navigating the Green Narrative: Examining Media Framing of PLN’s Sustainability Footprint on Mass Media
- Reconfiguring Trust: AI as Epistemic Intermediary in Vietnamese Gen Z News Consumption
- Cybercrime Cinema, Digital Culture, and Youth Media Literacy: A Pilot Study of Young Audiences in Chennai
- Impression Management in Women’s Political Branding: A Comparative Analysis from Confucian History to Contemporary Digital Media Contexts
- Simulacrum of the Self: virginIA and Construction of Simulated Authenticity in Digital Influencers

Queer Theory

- Asylum Stories and the Pressure to Perform Queerness for European Border Officials

Visual Culture

- Drifting Archives: Barrel Poetics and Caribbean Mobilities
- From Fabric to Feminism: Kanga Textiles as Visual Narratives of Gender, Power, and Social Commentary in Tanzania

Communication

- Reproducing Gender Hierarchies in Queer Form: A Conversation Analysis of Seme-Uke Positioning in Filipino Boys’ Love Series
- Discourse Analysis of PUP-COC Student Council’s Representation of Socio-Political Issues on Social Media
- Military Communication in the Age of Social Media: Strategy, Identity, and Public Engagement
- From Attention to Interpretation: Visual Communication and Public Reception in the 2026 “Vamos Lixar O Lixo” Campaign

Film Studies

- Tensions of Artistic Expression Under Film Censorship: A Comparative Study of Spain and China
- “A Lot of What Happens Isn’t Right”: Dystopian Television, Immigration, and the Screen as Political Mirror
- Somatic Choreography: Editing, Embodied Simulation, and the Spectator’s Body
- Bending Time, Bending Norms: Science Fiction and Queer Temporality in the Thai Girls’ Love Film Uranus 2324

Cultural Studies

- Housing Precarity and Its Representation in Digital Lifestyle Media: The Case of the Tiny House Movement
- Media and Obscurity: Representing Violence in Nigeria
- Pop Music and Gender Representation – (How) Has It Changed?
- “There Is a Storyteller Inside the Wood!”: Interpreting Indigenous Naga Woodcarving as Human-Arboreal Collaborative Narrativity
- The Tedak Siten Resilience Model: Indigenous Human Intelligence and the Cultivation of Ontological Security
- When the Copy Becomes the Heritage: Authenticity, Surrogacy, and the Digitisation of Monumental Painting in Bulgaria and China
- Creative and Cultural Participation Among Chinese Diaspora Youth in Barcelona
- Ayurvastram as First Skin: Herbal Textiles, Plant-Based Color, and Sustainable Fashion
- Kadhavastram: Encoding Kerala Mural Storytelling into Laser-Etched Modular Textiles
- Afro-optimism in Afrobeats Music Videos: A Multimodal Content Analysis
- Story Retelling as Cultural Dialogue in Asia
- Libras at the Centre: Ten Years of Independent Audiovisual Production by Deaf and Hearing Creators in Brazil
- Imagining Home Across Cultures: Cultural Memory and Transnational Belonging in Djelloul Marbrook’s Far from Algiers

History/Historiography

- British Annexation, Disruption of Land Tenure of Buddhist Monasteries and Its Impact on Monastic Education in 19th Century, Sri Lanka

Sociology

- Tracing the Genealogy of Affective-Spatial Place Attachment in Digital Nostalgia: A Grounded Theory Study of Social Media Texts
- Sexting and Low Self-Control: Results Form a National Survey of Adolescents

Other

- Philosophy Beyond Borders: Rethinking Cross-Cultural Dialogue

Learning Experiences, Student Learning & Learner Diversity

- Ken’s Test Submission

Linguistics, Language and Cultural Studies

- The Art of Sarcasm: a Multimodal Textual Stylistic Analysis of Information Priorities in Political Cartoons
- “Honorific Language Employed to Avoid Trouble”: Japanese Youth and Their Awareness and Use of Contemporary Honorifics
- Using Talk for Writing to Develop Speaking and Writing Skills in Non-Native Arabic Learners
- Female Dorians and Identity Perception
- The Untranslatable Heart: Navigating Korean Nuance in Han Kang’s Human Acts and the Role of AI in Literary Mediation
- French Language Interference in English for Specific Purposes Use: Interlingual Errors Among Electronics and Automation Students
- Exploring the Impact of AI-Assisted Instruction on Noun Phrase Complexity, Lexical Complexity, and Raters’ Judgments
- Beyond the Technical Domain: Metaphorization and Determinologization of Construction Terminology in English and Albanian
- Expressive Language as a Bridge between Ideas and Emotions for Human Development

Education / Pedagogy

- Digitalised EFL Teaching and Educational Inequality in Morocco: Implications for Learners’ Hybrid Learning Identities
- Adopting Entrepreneurial Curriculum Design in Media Studies Modules to Turn Online Media Losses to Gains by Promoting Youth Productivity
- Holistic Teacher Formation in the AI Era: Preparing Human-Centered Educators for AI-Mediated Classrooms
- Implementation of the Classroom-Agora Model to Foster Critical Thinking, Democratic Values and Peaceful Conflict Resolution Among Year 10 Students
- Global Citizenship from the South in Rethinking Higher Education for Peace and Human Intelligence
- AI for Science Education: The Impact of LAURITA on Intrinsic Motivation and Scientific Skill Development in Public High School
- Designing Professional Pathways: Cross-Unit Collaboration as a Catalyst for Career-Ready Fashion Education
- Collaborating with the Local Community when Teaching SiSwati as a First Language in Senior Secondary Schools of the Lubombo Region, Eswatini
- Reimagining Black Boyhood Play: Critical (Re)broadcasting as a Methodological Tool
- The Role of Translanguaging Pedagogies in Enhancing Students’ Epistemic Access: The Case of a Historically Disadvantaged University in South Africa
- Reconceptualising Quality Assurance in Islamic Educational Institutions: An Integrated Framework for Madrasahs and Pesantren
- Enhancing Student Engagement Through Social Media Integration in Learning Management Systems: A South African Higher Education Perspective
- Teaching Beyond the Curriculum: Teacher Agency and the Communicative Mediation of Media and Information Literacy in Peri-Urban Southern Philippines
- Perceptions of Mother Tongue Education Among Santhali Youth in Jharkhand, India
- A Corpus-based Thematic & Genre Analysis of Business Microblogs
- Toward a Proactive Approach to AI Ethics Education: A Qualitative Study of Student, Parent, and Teacher Perspectives in Primary Schools