2nd edition
Fridays 17-20.30h
13th March – 19TH June 2026
Venue: S06, Facultat Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació, Universitat de València
Language: English and Spanish
Free course but registration needed in the following link: https://forms.gle/HoFzgn5W8HS8DiBR8 or QR: 
*Note: to obtain a certificate one must attend at least 80% of the sessions
PROGRAMME
13th March
Opening: José Antonio Calañas (Dean), Violeta Martínez (Vicedean of Research & Postgraduate Studies), Adolfo Carratalá (head of department), Marcos Centeno (Tradiasia coordinator)
Moderator: Raúl Fortes (UV)
Sho Konishi (University of Oxford). The History of Not: Symbiotic Modern in Japan after World War Zero.
27th March
Moderator: Chuan Li (UV)
Carles Prado (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). Translation and transnationality: memories of China's reform and opening up
Nong Ru Cheng Lee (University of Valencia). From Political Icon to Transcultural Sign: Mao Zedong in Global Visual Culture
17th April
Moderator: Loudres Dominguez (UV)
Olga Pirozhenko (University of Valencia). Sakhalin Island in the destiny of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov
24th April
Moderator: Marcos Centeno (UV)
Joon-kon Chung (Eurasia Foundation (From Asia))
8th May
Moderator: Jordi Tordera (UV)
Victoria Young (University of Cambridge). Decentering Japan: Approaches to and from Okinawan literature
Moderator: Gabriel Choi (UV)
Ester Torres (Autonomous University of Barcelona). Korean literary panorama, from webtoon to Nobel Prize
15th May March
Moderator: Vicente Sánchez-Biosca (UV)
Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University). Technology, Indexicality, Memory: Japanese and Korean War Film Lineages as Prehistories of Current Media Loops
Moderator: Ryan Choi (University of Edinburgh)
Marcos Centeno (University of Valencia). Transnational Memories in Documentary Film: Haneda Sumiko’s The Japanese Settlers
22nd May
Moderator: Ryan Choi (University of Edinburgh)
Owen Miller (SOAS, University of London) Reconfiguring a company town in late 1950s North Korea: the role of the Deutsche Arbeitsgruppe at Hŭngnam and the problems of social reproduction
Moderator: Carlos Mascarell (UV)
Rossella Ferrari (University of Viena). Performing Postsocialist Futurities: Chinese Theatre, Technology, and the Posthuman
29th May
Moderator: Gabriel Choi (UV)
Eunsook Yang (Complutense University of Madrid). Silk Road heritage in Korea
Moderator: Antonio Blat (UV)
Mario Esteban (Autonomous University of Madrid). China in the Current International Order
5th June
Moderator: María Ferrer Simó (UEV)
Ignacio López Sako (University of Granada). Is Japanese hard to learn? Some considerations about the relationship between language, culture and communication, and their acquisition as a foreign language
Moderator: Jordi Tordera (UV)
Amparo Montaner (University of Valencia) The Role of Linguistic Models in the Contrastive and Applied Study of Spanish and Japanese
12th June
Moderator Amparo Montaner (UV)
Elia dal Corso (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice). The Ainu language through the eyes of explorers and documenters
Moderator Antonio Loriguillo (UJI)
Blai Guarné (Autonomous University of Barcelona). Identity at stake: cultural reappropriation and Japanese social visibility in Spanish urban space
19th June
Moderator María Ferrer Simó (UEV)
Loli Kim (University of Oxford). Interpreting Korean Popular Culture: How to Perform Cross-Cultural Multimodal Analysis
Moderator Alberto Porta (UJI)
Sonia Dueñas (University Carlos III of Madrid) Transnational Connections in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
