Accepted Presentations

One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity. As of June 1, 2026, BAMC2026 has received over 168 submissions from 59 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

Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music

- Reimagining Theatre Etiquette: Sensory-Friendly Performances as an Inclusive Model for Neurodivergent Audiences
- The Somatic Ritual of Truth: An Autoethnography of Nudity, Human Intelligence, and the Decolonial Body in Philippine Theater

Arts Practices

- The Choice of Textile Materials in the Work of Artists from the Balkan Region
- The Impact of Art on Students’ Emotional Well-being at SMK College of Applied Science

Aesthetics and Design

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

Literature, Literary Studies and Theory

- Atmosphere Without Authors: Posthuman Form and Internet Culture
- Male Homosexual Emotions and Masculinities in Late Ming Novels

Climate Change and Arts, Media, Culture

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

Difference/Identity/Ethnicity

- Corralled Dysphoria: Autoethnography of Facial Difference and Fetishism in Visual Culture

Digital Humanities

- Forbidden Activism: Feminist Art Activism and State Control
- The Social Media Paradox: Effects on Young Adults’ Academic Performance and Communication Skills
- Visualizing Gendered Clothing Networks in Early Modern Chinese Narrative Culture: Dress, Embodiment, and Social Identity

Ageing Studies

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

Gender, Sexuality and Culture

- Teaching Gender and Sexuality in Conservative Cultural Contexts: Pedagogical Tensions and Inclusive Pathways in Nigeria
- 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

Media Studies

- 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
- 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

Visual Culture

- Drifting Archives: Barrel Poetics and Caribbean Mobilities

Communication

- Discourse Analysis of PUP-COC Student Council’s Representation of Socio-Political Issues on Social Media
- Reproducing Gender Hierarchies in Queer Form: A Conversation Analysis of Seme-Uke Positioning in Filipino Boys’ Love Series

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

Cultural Studies

- Housing Precarity and Its Representation in Digital Lifestyle Media: The Case of the Tiny House Movement
- “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

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

Linguistics, Language and Cultural Studies

- “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
- The Art of Sarcasm: a Multimodal Textual Stylistic Analysis of Information Priorities in Political Cartoons

Education / Pedagogy

- Holistic Teacher Formation in the AI Era: Preparing Human-Centered Educators for AI-Mediated Classrooms
- Global Citizenship from the South in Rethinking Higher Education for Peace and Human Intelligence
- Implementation of the Classroom-Agora Model to Foster Critical Thinking, Democratic Values and Peaceful Conflict Resolution Among Year 10 Students
- Adopting Entrepreneurial Curriculum Design in Media Studies Modules to Turn Online Media Losses to Gains by Promoting Youth Productivity
- 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