Accepted Presentations

One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity. As of June 17, 2026, BAMC2026 has received over 180 submissions from 61 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
- The Paradox of AI Hyper-Personalization: Privacy Concern, Algorithm Concealment, and Purchase Intention
- When Personalization Backfires: Organizational Context and Consumer Responses to Algorithmic Personalization

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

Arts Practices

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

Aesthetics and Design

- From Aura to Semi-Aura: Reframing Authenticity in AI-Generated Art Through Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry

Literature, Literary Studies and Theory

- Male Homosexual Emotions and Masculinities in Late Ming Novels
- Atmosphere Without Authors: Posthuman Form and Internet Culture
- “She Has a Lovely Face”: Posthumous Aestheticisation and the Violence of Praise in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- A Comparative Study on García Lorca’s Drama Yerma and Gunasena Galappaththi’s Sri Lankan Drama Mūdu Puththu
- Jenny Wren as Entrepreneur: Disability, Independence, and Alternative Womanhood in Our Mutual Friend

Climate Change and Arts, Media, Culture

- A Climate-Literacy Maturity Model for School Information Specialists in Oman

Difference/Identity/Ethnicity

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

Digital Humanities

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

Ageing Studies

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

Gender, Sexuality and Culture

- Beyond the Scroll: Queer Mental Health and the Politics of Representation on Engage Men’s Instagram
- Teaching Gender and Sexuality in Conservative Cultural Contexts: Pedagogical Tensions and Inclusive Pathways in Nigeria
- The Ideal Woman in Population Policies: Female Reproductive Rights and the Cultural Construction of Womanhood in Vietnam
- Impact of Boys’ Love Genre on LGBTQIA+ Representation

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

- 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
- Journalism in Exile: Boundary Work and the Transformation of Journalism in Hybrid Media Systems
- Navigating the Green Narrative: Examining Media Framing of PLN’s Sustainability Footprint on Mass Media
- Asymmetric Sensemaking and Lateral Knowledge Expansion: Reframing Human-AI Relations in Digital Media and Cultural Production
- Antiquity Remixed: the Politics of Classical Reception in Contemporary Media and Popular Culture
- Beyond the Mainstream: Mapping Non-Institutional Radio Art and Community-Based Sound Practices in Poland from the Last Six Years

Visual Culture

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

Communication

- Reproducing Gender Hierarchies in Queer Form: A Conversation Analysis of Seme-Uke Positioning in Filipino Boys’ Love Series
- Military Communication in the Age of Social Media: Strategy, Identity, and Public Engagement
- Discourse Analysis of PUP-COC Student Council’s Representation of Socio-Political Issues on Social Media

Film Studies

- Tensions of Artistic Expression Under Film Censorship: A Comparative Study of Spain and China
- Somatic Choreography: Editing, Embodied Simulation, and the Spectator’s Body
- “A Lot of What Happens Isn’t Right”: Dystopian Television, Immigration, and the Screen as Political Mirror

Cultural Studies

- Housing Precarity and Its Representation in Digital Lifestyle Media: The Case of the Tiny House Movement
- Kadhavastram: Encoding Kerala Mural Storytelling into Laser-Etched Modular Textiles
- Ayurvastram as First Skin: Herbal Textiles, Plant-Based Color, and Sustainable Fashion
- Creative and Cultural Participation Among Chinese Diaspora Youth in Barcelona
- When the Copy Becomes the Heritage: Authenticity, Surrogacy, and the Digitisation of Monumental Painting in Bulgaria and China
- The Tedak Siten Resilience Model: Indigenous Human Intelligence and the Cultivation of Ontological Security
- “There Is a Storyteller Inside the Wood!”: Interpreting Indigenous Naga Woodcarving as Human-Arboreal Collaborative Narrativity
- Media and Obscurity: Representing Violence in Nigeria

History/Historiography

- British Annexation, Disruption of Land Tenure of Buddhist Monasteries and Its Impact on Monastic Education in 17th Century, Sri Lanka

Sociology

- Tracing the Genealogy of Affective-Spatial Place Attachment in Digital Nostalgia: A Grounded Theory Study of Social Media Texts

Other

- Philosophy Beyond Borders: Rethinking Cross-Cultural Dialogue

Linguistics, Language and Cultural Studies

- The Art of Sarcasm: a Multimodal Textual Stylistic Analysis of Information Priorities in Political Cartoons
- The Untranslatable Heart: Navigating Korean Nuance in Han Kang’s Human Acts and the Role of AI in Literary Mediation
- “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

Education / Pedagogy

- Holistic Teacher Formation in the AI Era: Preparing Human-Centered Educators for AI-Mediated Classrooms
- AI for Science Education: The Impact of LAURITA on Intrinsic Motivation and Scientific Skill Development in Public High School
- Adopting Entrepreneurial Curriculum Design in Media Studies Modules to Turn Online Media Losses to Gains by Promoting Youth Productivity
- Designing Professional Pathways: Cross-Unit Collaboration as a Catalyst for Career-Ready Fashion Education
- Implementation of the Classroom-Agora Model to Foster Critical Thinking, Democratic Values and Peaceful Conflict Resolution Among Year 10 Students
- Collaborating with the Local Community when Teaching SiSwati as a First Language in Senior Secondary Schools of the Lubombo Region, Eswatini
- Digitalised EFL Teaching and Educational Inequality in Morocco: Implications for Learners’ Hybrid Learning Identities
- Girls Heroines Respect Women Heroines: A Qualitative Study of the Dualistic Factors of Service Learning for Female Volunteers in Taiwan and Japan
- Global Citizenship from the South in Rethinking Higher Education for Peace and Human Intelligence