Marcos Centeno-Martin is associate professor at the University of Valencia specialised in Film and Japanese Studies. Previously, Centeno worked as lecturer in Japanese Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, where served as the Japanese Studies Programme director. Before that, Centeno had also been lecturer for the Department of Japan and Korea at SOAS, University of London where he coordinated the MA Global Cinemas and the Transcultural.  He has recently been research associate at the Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies, the University of Oxford, on a grant funded by the Spansih Ministry of Sciences, Council on East Asian Studies grant holder at Yale University and guest lecturer at the Centre for Japanese Studies, Nanzan University. His main research interests revolve around Japanese documentary film, transculturality, memory and visual representation of the Ainu people. Centeno has coordinated projects on Japanese documentary film, female director Haneda Sumiko and Japanese Transnational Cinema which have been funded by British, Japanese and Spanish institutions such as Sasakawa, Daiwa, Japan Foundation, Japanese Ministry of Education and Spanish Ministry of Sciences. Centeno is board member for the AEJE (Asociación de Estudios Japoneses en España), editorial board member for Mirai. Revista Estudios Japoneses, and was convenor for the EAJS (the European Association for Japanese Studies) Visual Arts section (2019-2023). He has been jury member for prizes such as ICAS/SEPHIS prize for the best books on Asian Studies in Spanish and Portuguese, Ivan Morris Memorial Prize on Japanese Studies (awarded by the British Association for Japanese Studies) and Cambridge Watersprite Film Fesitval.

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Kirk A. Denton is professor emeritus at The Ohio State University. He specializes in the literature of Republican China and in issues of historical memory and exhibitionary culture in Greater China. He has published two books on the politics of museums: Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China (University of Hawaii Press, 2014) and The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post-Martial Law Taiwan (Hong Kong University Press, 2021). He is also the author of The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling (Stanford, 1998), editor of Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945 (Stanford, 1996), and co-editor of Jottings under Lamplight: Lu Xun (Harvard, 2017) and Literary Societies of Republican China (Lexington, 2008). He was a member of the Advisory Board for Globalized Memorial Museums: Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals, a project funded by the European Research Council and led by Ljiljana Radonić. He also manages the online MCLC Resource Center and moderates its blog.

Maria Ferrer holds a Ph.D. in Translation and is an audiovisual translator and editor. She graduated in Translation and Interpretation in 1998 from Universitat Jaume I. After being awarded the Monbusho research scholarship to develop a project at Tokyo Daigaku (Japan), she began translating manga and entered the world of audiovisual translation with the Japanese to Spanish subtitling of the Mikio Naruse retrospective for the San Sebastian Festival that same year, including titles such as «Magokoro,» «Tanoshikikana Jinsei,» and «Yottsu no koi no monogatari.» Her anime repertoire includes series like «Fushigi Yuugi,» «Karekano,» «Evangelion,» and «Captain Tsubasa,» as well as animated films such as the home video edition of «Akira» and live-action films like «Onmyouji» and «Otogirisou.» In 2010, she founded the online training platform Translator Training Lab, and in 2012, she established Taketombo Books, an editorial label focused on the transcultural order of the world, receiving an award for collaboration in the promotion of Japanese culture from the Embassy of Japan in 2014. In 2016, she embarked on a full-time academic career, balancing teaching with translation, editing, and voiceover work. Following her tenure position at UJI and Universitat de València, she joined the Universidad Europea de Valencia (UEV) in 2018, where she teaches Audiovisual Translation, directs the Master’s in Audiovisual Translation, and coordinates the research group GETRA, which explores translation in the digital society from a gender perspective.

Dr Irene González-López is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research spans Japanese creative industries, with a special focus on postwar cinema and issues related to gender and sexuality, both in front and behind the camera. Her publications explore topics of representation, female authorship, memory, adaptation and remakes, and reception. In 2018 she co-edited the first academic book on actress and director Tanaka Kinuyo (Tanaka Kinuyo: Nation, Stardom and Female Subjectivity; Edinburgh University Press). She is currently working on a monograph on the representation of sex work in Japanese cinema (Michigan University Press, 2025), and on an edited volume on documentary director Haneda Sumiko (Routledge, 2025). Other recent publications include ‘How to sell a remake: The Gate of Flesh media franchise” (2023); ‘Red-Light Bases (1953), a Cross-temporal Contact Zone’ (2022); and “‘Female Director’: Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Japan” (co-authored with Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández, 2022). Besides academia, Irene often collaborates with film festivals like Open City Doc, film distributors like Arrow Films, and institutions like the British Film Institute, Filmoteca de Catalunya, and Japan Foundation.

Bruce Grant is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. A specialist on cultural politics in the former Soviet Union, he has done fieldwork in both Siberia and the Caucasus. He is author of In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas (Princeton 1995), a study of the Sovietization of an indigenous people on the Russian Pacific coast, and winner of the Prize for Best First Book from the American Ethnological Society; as well as The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus (Cornell 2009), on the making of the Caucasus in the Russian popular imagination. He is a recent past president of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, interdisciplinary wing of the American Anthropological Association; and ASEEES, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. His most recent essay is “North of East Asia: History, Memory, Indigeneity” for the proposed volume with Brill, Handbook of Memory Studies in East Asia.” 

Suzy Kim is a historian and author of two books, Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press 2023) and Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 (Cornell University Press 2013). The latter received the 2015 James Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, and the Korean translation published in 2023 was among the 2024 Outstanding Academic Books designated by the National Academy of Sciences in South Korea. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Chicago, and teaches at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick (USA) in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Her research interests include transnational feminisms, comparative revolutions and social movements, visual cultures, and environmental humanities. She is senior editor of positions: asia critique, and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Korean Studies and Yŏsŏng kwa yŏksa [Women and History], the journal of the Korean Association of Women’s History. As a public scholar, she has been an advocate for social justice with several advocacy organizations, including Amnesty International, the Truth Foundation, and Women Cross DMZ.

Hyun Kyung Lee is an Assistant Professor at Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University in South Korea. Her research interests include difficult heritage (colonial/Cold War heritage) in East Asia, transnational heritage networking, heritage ethics, and peace-building at UNESCO. She is the author of Difficult Heritage in Nation Building: South Korea and Post-conflict Japanese Colonial Occupation Architecture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Her co-authored book is Heritage, Memory, and Punishment: Remembering Colonial Prisons in East Asia written in collaboration with her Taiwanese colleague Shu-Mei Huang (Routledge, 2019).  Her most recent collaboration with colleagues Shu-Mei Huang and Edward Vickers, an edited volume titled Frontiers of Memory: Difficult Heritage and Cross-border Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism is published with Hong Kong University Press (2022). As a heritage professional, as a heritage professional, she is a Member of the Korean Committee for UNESCO Memory of the World, Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea. She focuses not only on analysing transnational memory politics of difficult heritage, but also on examining practical ways of reconciliation and resolving memory conflicts. 

Hyunseon Lee, Ph.D. habil., is a London based Film, Media and Cultural Studies Scholar. She is currently a Professorial Research Associate at Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at SOAS, University of London, and a Privat-Dozent teaching in German and Media Studies at the University of Siegen. She is also a member of the Institute of Humanities at Yonsei University in Seoul. 

She studied German language and literature at Yonsei University in Seoul, Bochum, at the Free University of Berlin and completed her doctorate at the University of Dortmund with a dissertation on the forced confessions and East German literature. Beginning with doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships at the Graduate School Intermeidality at the University of Siegen, she habilitated with Metamorphosen der Madame Butterfly. Intercultural Liaisons between Literature, Opera and Film (2020), which examines both the intercultural relations between Japan/East Asia and Europe and the intermediality between literature, film and opera.  
She has lectured internationally and taught in the fields of German Studies, Media and East Asian Studies/Korean Studies and has held various fellowships and scholarships, including at Columbia University in New York City, the School of Advanced Study/University of London, Seoul National University and Chuo University in Tokyo.
Website: https://hyunseonlee.com

Norimasa Morita obtained his BA and MA degrees at Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University, majoring in English literature and earned his Ph. D. in English in 1990 at University of Kent. His speciality is literary theory, film theory and cultural theory. Morita joined Waseda in 1986 and became Professor in English in 1997.  Since 2004 he has been teaching in School of International Liberal Studies (SILS) and since 2013 at Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies (GSICCS). He served as Dean of SILS between 2010 and 2014 and as Vice-President for International Affairs between 2014 and 2018. 

He teaches film studies at SILS and GSICCS and literary theory at the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences.  His publications include monographs such as Marginalia: Hiding Literature and Hidden Literature and World Literature/Japanese Literature, anthologies of articles edited with Marcos Centeno Martin, Japan beyond Its Borders and Japanese Transnational Cinema and articles on Japanese colonialist films, Japanese PoW films, Imamura Shohei and post-war trauma. He also translated major works by Terry Eagleton’s Illusion of Postmodernism and Sweet Violence, Ziegmunt Bauman’s  Liquid Modernity and Modernity and the Holocaust and Richard Sennett’s The Culture of New Capitalism.   

María Amparo Montaner Montava is a professor in the area of ​​General Linguistics at the University of Valencia and coordinator of the East Asian Studies area at this same University. She directed and coordinated the area in the first ten years of its existence. She has collaborated with several universities and participated in numerous conferences, both in the area of ​​Linguistics and in the area of ​​East Asian Studies, with special dedication to issues of Spanish-Japanese contrastive Linguistics. In addition, she has received scholarships from national and foreign organizations and has carried out research and teaching stays at various universities in Europe, Asia and America, such as Salamanca (Center for Spanish-Japanese Studies), University of California in Berkeley, Santa Barbara or UVA (USA), Mainz and Leipzig (Germany), Aarhus (Denmark), Waseda (Japan), Guadalajara (Mexico), etc. She has published four books and dozens of articles and chapters on theoretical linguistics and on Japanese-Spanish contrastive Linguistics and the linguistic typology of East Asian languages ​​and the Japanese language. In this last field, she has published two monographs and numerous articles and book chapters in publishers such as Tirant lo Blanch (2017, 2019) or Dickynson (2022), among others, or magazines, such as Rilce (2014), Pragmalingüística (2022), Hikma (2022), LynX (2022), etc.

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I'm researching hispanic memory in Philipines after World War II thank to the TRAMEVIC project. The previous period of independence, the Commonwealth (1935-1941), the inside conflict between hispanic inhabitants during the Civil War, USA's change of mind in front of the Spanish legacy at the start of World War (1939-1941) and the Japanese occupation (1941-1945) brought a radical change on a hispanic legacy after four decades, leading many to belive that the Philipines should have a hispanic future. During the aftermath of the World War, the hispanic period turned into a feudal past with the international isolation and profit of Franco's regime.

Jordi Serrano-Muñoz is a MSCA fellow at Ghent University focusing on comparative literature and climate crisis representation. His current research project explores disasters as a narrative device for representing the climate crisis in contemporary Japanese, Latin-American, and Australian literary productions. He has also worked on the literary representation of post-war Japanese trauma, particularly from Okinawa. He also teaches at the Open University of Catalonia and the University of Granada and is a member of the research groups GREGAL-UAB, INDOVIG-UOC, and STAND-UGR. He was lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at El Colegio de México (2020-2021) and has been a Japan Foundation Fellow at Waseda University (2021-2022). He co-edits Asiademica: Open Journal of East Asian Studies.

Edward Vickers holds the UNESCO Chair in Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship at Kyushu University, Japan, and is currently President of the Comparative Education Society of Asia. He researches the history and politics of education in contemporary Asia, especially in Chinese societies (the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan). He also researches the politics of conflict-related heritage in Asia. His books include Education and Society in Post-Mao China (2017; with Zeng Xiaodong), Constructing Modern Asian Citizenship (2015; with Krishna Kumar), and Remembering Asia's World War Two (2019; with Mark Frost and Daniel Schumacher). Prof. Vickers also co-authored the 2017 UNESCO report Rethinking Schooling for the 21st Century: the State of Education for Peace, Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in Asia. He is currently working with Mark Frost and Hasini Haputhanthri on an edited volume provisionally entitled Violent Heritage in Modern Sri Lanka: Past Conflict as Public HIstory. Vickers is currently researching the history and politics of education in contemporary Asia, with a particular focus on Chinese societies, politics of public history and memory in Asia, and have been involved since 2014 in the War Memoryscapes in Asia Partnership led by Mark Frost of UCL. 

Alba Montoya Rubio holds a PhD in History and Theory of the Arts from Universitat de Barcelona (2017), focusing on the use of music in Disney films. She earned a degree in Audiovisual Communication from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2009) and a Master’s degree in Music as an Interdisciplinary Art (UB-URV-ESMUC). Her research interests include music in video games and animated films, as well as the use of audiovisual media and transmedia in education. She currently works for the Valencian television channel À Punt as a social media and communication expert. Additionally, she collaborates with Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in the Communication degree program and serves as a substitute professor in the Audiovisual Communication degree program at Universitat de València. She is a member of SEDEM (Sociedad Española de Etnomusicología), where she is part of the Music and Audiovisual Languages Commission, as well as the Ludomusicology working group of SIBE (Sociedad de Etnomusicología). She has participated as a speaker in several conferences, including La Creación Musical en la Banda Sonora, as well as in international conferences held in Lisbon by NECS, the Symposion für Filmmusikforschung in Berlin and Kiel, and the SAS (Society for Animation Studies) Congress. She has also published articles in scientific journals and contributed book chapters specializing in animation and music for visual media. She is currently working on melodic repetition as a unifying element in Japanese, Korean and Chinese tv series.

Antonio Blat's research interests revolve around cultural interaction between Europe and East Asia. He developed this topic throughout his one-year scholarship at Waseda University, his master's degree on late modern and contemporary China nad Japan (UOC) and as a member of the research group GEINTEA (group fo study: Europe-Asia interactions) at the UCM. He has published several articles about Spanish diplomacy and became a member of the historian committee for the celebrations of the 400 years of Japan-Spain relations by the Japanese Embassy in Madrid. For his PHD thesis on late modern history (UV), he embraced a transnational perspective, linking  the study of diplomatic  and cultural interactions to global biographies. Blat undertook this approach during his fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Tokyo University), his participation in a research project about the narration of the self and the coordination of a panel about Asia and the global perspective. He has teaching experience at Universitat de València (UV), Universidad de Salamanca (USAL), Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) and Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

Syada completed her PhD at Birkbeck, University of London on the South Asian of Representations in Japanese Animation and has a continuing interest in the field, talking at a number of conferences including an International Symposium on Teaching Comics and publishing a chapter on how India is idealised in depictions of World War 2 by history revisionists and glorify the Japanese Empire. She has also taught several undergraduate modules at Birkbeck including Manga and Anime and currently has a YouTube Channel called Everything Eastenders which discusses the long-running British Soap through an intersectional (and fan) perspective. 

Chuan Li, PhD in Territorial Development, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and a member of the Research Unit in Cultural Economics and Tourism (Econcult) at the University of Valencia, Spain. He also serves as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Cultural Industry and Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His research focuses on the intersection of culture, creativity, and innovation, with expertise spanning transnational cultural ecosystems, museum innovation, design-driven development, and cultural policy analysis. He is the author of the book Collaborating for Museum Innovation: Technological, Cultural, and Organizational Innovation in Spanish Museums (Routledge), which highlights his pioneering work in connecting scholarly inquiry and institutional practice. He has led and contributed to high-impact international projects, including the ASEF-funded project Eurasian Creaspace Networking (Creative Spaces in Asia and Europe) and European Union-funded initiatives such as Artcast4D (immersive technologies in cultural heritage), Designscapes (design-enabled urban innovation), and openDOORS (sustainable cultural ecosystems). His work fosters collaboration between academia, industry, and policymakers to advance creative economies. Prior to academia, he worked as an educator and curator at the China Art Museum (Shanghai), and as an editor of the museum’s journal.

Sonia Dueñas Mohedas holds a PhD in Media Research and is a research staff in the Department of Communication at the University Carlos III of Madrid. She is a member of the research group “Television-Cinema: Memory, Representation and Industry” (TECMERIN) and of the projects “Solving key aspects in the cybersecurity of personal IoT systems on which people's lives depend (VITAL-IoT)”, "Institutional documentary and colonial amateur cinema: Analysis and uses“ (PID2021-123567NB-I00) and ”Cinema and television in Spain in the digital era (2008-2022): new agents and exchange spaces in the audiovisual landscape" (PID2022-140102NB-I00). He obtained the Korea Foundation Field Research Fellowship for a stay at the Korea National University of Arts. She is a doctoral laureate and her dissertation, “Planet Hallyuwood: South Korea's Film Industry in the Age of Globalization”, with international mention, was awarded the highest grade. She is secretary general and founding member of the Association of Korean Studies and Culture in Spain (ADECCE).

My research and teaching focus is on Japanese film and media. In my dissertation,which was later published as the monograph, Illusion of Realism: History of Soviet-Japanese Cinematic Interactions, 1925-1955 (Tokyo: Shinwasha, 2018), I present the concept of realism as a recurrent concern and the chief motivating force behind the interactions between Soviet and Japanese filmmakers, critics, and audiences. At Hakubi, I plan to extend my work on the 1950s, highlighting the decade as a transitional yet crucial moment in Japanese history, wherein different visions of the country’s future emerged and were negotiated by and through media. Issues of democracy (minshu-shugi) were among the ones most frequently discussed during this period. Film as a mass medium was manufactured and consumed “collectively,” and served as a space in which the role of the “common people” in the reconstruction of post-war Japan was debated. In my project, I hope to reach a more profound understanding of Japan’s complicated relationship with the concept and practice of “democracy” (i.e., people’s rule) through the study of independent “message films” and comedies that exhibit the early Cold War’s ideologies and politics.

Tian Li is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Film and Media Studies, Yale University. She is the recipients of Korea Foundation Dissertation and Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, as well as ACLS Yvette and William Kirby Centennial Award in Chinese studies. She taught topics of Korean cinema at Harvard University and themes on politics of East Asian screen culture at Stanford University. She also engaged in academic translations, such as China Learns from Soviet Union,1949-1956 and Voices of the Korean Comfort Women: History Rewritten from Memories. She specializes in Korean and Chinese film, media, and cultural studies. Her academic writings appear in such journals as Telos, China Perspectives, The Journal of Asian Studies, and Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. In this project, she examines the audiovisual narratives of "comfort women"—sexual slaves of the Japanese military—to explore the politics and ethics of historical trauma, how the past is remembered, and what ethics, if any, is required to heal that trauma while transcending masculinist nationalist patriarchy.

Raúl Fortes-Guerrero received his BA in Audiovisual Communication, his BA in History of Art with Special Distinction, and his PhD Cum Laude and International Doctor Mention in History of Art from the Universitat de València (University of Valencia), where he has developed most of his career as a lecturer and researcher. He was granted up to four fellowships, thanks to which he could stay at Waseda University (Tokyo), Birkbeck College – University of London, and the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). He is a member of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) and the Japanese poetry society Chikuhaku-kai, in whose renowned literary magazine Kokoro no Hana he gets his tanka poems published monthly. Besides his literary works (poems awarded at international contests and published in collaborative books as well as in Spanish and foreign poetry anthologies), he is the author of many scientific articles, book chapters, and books, including a monograph on Hayao Miyazaki (Hayao Miyazaki, Akal, 2019) and a film guide for his movie Spirited Away (“El viaje de Chihiro”. Hayao Miyazaki (2001), Nau Llibres/Octaedro, 2011). In fact, the oeuvre of Hayao Miyazaki is one of his two main fields of specialization together with the influence of Japanese performing arts on Japanese cinema, as shown not only by his publications, but also by his more than forty papers in national and international scientific conferences and symposiums organized by academic institutions such as Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Warsaw, and Salford University. Currently, he combines his job as a teacher of Japanese language and culture at the Universitat de València with his task as coordinator of the Asia and Oceania Committees at the International Observatory of Intangible Culture and Global Village of this academic institution. To this can be added his work as a member of scientific committees for congresses and scientific journals.

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Marie Sevela (PhD) is an independent historian of Russia and Japan, and a translator based in France. She holds a PhD in History from Kokushikan University (Tokyo). Born in Moscow and having studied and taught in the UK, Japan and France, she is particularly interested in cross-cultural and transnational interactions in territories known for their “moving borders”. Along with written sources, she draws on oral history, film and photography in her research. Sevela has worked extensively on the pre-, during and post-war memories and identities among the many former Japanese, Korean and Ainu Karafuto (Sakhalin) residents for her thesis “Held in transition: Japanese nationals under Soviet rule on the Island of Karafuto/Sakhalin (1945-1949). Words, Objects, Images”. /  樺太とサハリンの狭間で:  ソ連統治への移行期における日本人住民 <1945~1949> 言葉 • 物 •画像 ).

Jordi Tordera is a distinguished linguist, translator, and educator with a career that spans continents and languages.Jordi earned his B.A. in English in 1999 at the University of Valencia and completed an M.A. in Japanese Linguistics in 2008 at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies in Japan. In 2010, he achieved his Ph.D.at the University of Valencia, with a dissertation comparing Eastern and Western literary styles across English, Japanese, and Spanish. Tordera held at positions at the University of Valencia, Florida Universitaria, and the Valencian International University and at Japanese universities such as Kansai Gaidai and Himeji Dokkyo. Beyond academia, Jordi was part of Lladró Japan’s Tokyo branch, Coordinator for International Relations with the JET Programme, an interpreter, notably for the Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe and translator of Japanese literary classics, such as Vida de un idiota y otras confesiones by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and La vida de Budori Gusko by Kenji Miyazawa. His research delves into language teaching, translation studies, and cross-cultural communication, with numerous publications and presentations at international conferences.  

Marketa Bajgerova Verly is a Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, conducting a project relating to the memory politics of Shanghai Jewish Refugees in Xi Jinping’s China. In 2024 she obtained her PhD from the University of Vienna focusing on the research of WWII museums in contemporary China, while simultaneously working as a China expert in the Globalized Memorial Museums ERC project at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Previously she obtained an MA degree in China Studies (Politics and International Relations) from Peking University. In China she led a Dean’s Grant project mapping 30 museums across different Chinese provinces devoted to the memory of the War of Resistance against Japan and its memory politics. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Glasgow in Politics and History. 

Berto Garcia is a Film and Media Studies student at the University of Valencia and associate to tramevic on a Collaboration Grant funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación, Formación Profesional y Deportes. García is currently developging a research project on war-related memories in Japanese animation.

Ryan Choi is a PhD candidate in Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where his thesis, Collaborationism in Wartime Hong Kong: The Cultural Production of Hanjian (Traitors) under Japanese Occupation, 1941–1945, explores the cultural and literary history of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong. His research specifically focuses on marginalised cultural figures labelled as hanjian (漢奸), or traitors to the Han Chinese, in the post-war period. As a cultural historian, Ryan Choi engages with a diverse range of literature and archival documents from Japanese-occupied regions in East Asia, including Hong Kong, Manchukuo, and Shanghai during World War II, as well as colonial Taiwan. 

In 2024, Ryan Choi served as a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong History Centre at the University of Bristol. He previously earned an MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, in 2021, and a BA in Chinese from the University of Hong Kong in 2019.

Terushi Morimoto is a PhD student in Communication and Inter-culturality at the Universitat de València. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Japanese Intellectual History from the Tohoku University in 2016. During his doctoral studies at Tohoku University, he studied as an international student at the University of Salamanca (2019-2020) and taught one of the Japanese language classes. His main area of interest is the thout of Yokoi Shōnan (a Confusian scholar in the period of Bakumatsu), the Ethos of noble military classes especially in the Edo era, Intercultural understanding from the Edo to Meiji eras, and “Japan” in the Meiji era as seen by the Spanish.

Alberto Porta-Pérez is a PhD student at the Jaume I University, where he works as a teacher in Audiovisual Communication and Video Game Design and Development Degree Programmes. He is a member of the ITACA-UJI research group, coordinator at L’Atalante Revista de Estudios Cinematográficos and member of DiGRA Spain, Digital Games Research Association, and LudoSpain, a working group attached to the SIBE Ethnomusicology Society. He is interested in Game Studies, specifically narrative design, ethical dilemmas and ludomusicology. He studied a Degree in Audiovisual Communication (Extraordinary Award, 2013/2014), a Master in New Trends and Innovation Processes in Communication (Extraordinary Award, 2019/2020) and a postgraduate degree in Japanese Studies at the University of Valencia. During his doctoral studies he stayed at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, as a visiting researcher at the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies. He is currently researching the representation of Japanese childhood in video games.

Humanist passionate about the differences between cultures and the so-called “otherness”, especially in Asia, and Japan in particular. She began studying Japanese at the age of 15 at the EOI, reaching level B1, in addition to obtaining other language diplomas such as B2 English and C1 Valencian. Graduated in high school with honors, she simultaneously studied two degrees, History and Art History at the UV, specializing in the critique of Eurocentrism, the visibility of minorities and the art of the grotesque.  She has also completed the master's degree in political philosophy “Ethics and Democracy” of the UV, focusing her research on global inequalities, development cooperation and intercultural education, as well as the postgraduate course in “Japanese Studies” of the Faculty of Philology (UV), for which she was able to collaborate in the series of conferences “Transculturaliy and Diversity in East Asia”. 

Finally, she is currently studying for a Master's degree in Secondary School Teacher Training, at the same time as she begins her doctoral studies in the area of intercultural communication.