One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity. As of September 28, 2026, the conference has received over 180 submissions from 47 countries and territories - including: the United States, Canada, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, Australia, Thailand, Philippines, and Taiwan.
Sexuality, Gender, Families
- Attitudes Toward Aging Among Middle-Aged Gay Men in Cebu City: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study
Arts - Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy
- Cultural Basic Consumption (CBC): A Behavioral Policy Framework for Sustainable Cultural Participation and Cultural Ecosystem Resilience
- Tracing Implicit Criticality: Arts Administration and Management as Actor-Network Across Hospitality, Conditions, and Urban Relations
Arts - Arts Theory and Criticism
- Ink Wash Landscape Paintings in the Japanese Muromachi Period: An Analysis of Time-Space Expression
Arts - Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media
- The Effect of Normative Conformity on the Perceived Credibility of Fake News: An Experimental Study Among Young Indian Adults
- Listening with Machines: AI-Assisted Soundscape Analysis for the Documentation of Sonic Heritage
- Rural-Agricultural Community and the Community Radio: Perceived Effectiveness, Listening Behavior, and Program Preferences
- Beyond Lip-Syncing: Online Multimodal Assemblages as Queer Action Among Taiwanese Drag Queens
Arts - Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music
- Choreographing Indigenous Queerness: FeiLiBing’s Drag Performance as Embodied Method
- Stylised Authority and Disciplined Excess: A Theoretical Reading of the Japanese Band Kinoko Hotel
- Discursive Vocal Under Autocratisation: Exploring Creative Resilience Strategies in Hong Kong Through Online Singer Sunny Lam
- Finding Affinity: Peace, Serenity and Performing Religious Worldviews in Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia
- Training Authentic Performance Through the Body in Thai Khon
Arts - Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
- Stitching the Island: Creative Heritage and Environmental Memory in Caohagan’s Quilting Tradition
- Two Tracks Community Art Interventions for People Suffering from Homelessness
Arts - Teaching and Learning the Arts
- Reviving Fresco Painting Through Art Education, Designing and Implementing an Eight Week Curriculum
- From Cultural Experience to Deeper Understanding: Exploring the Design of One-Off Cultural Workshops
Arts - Visual Arts Practices
- The Curious Case of a Kuan Cai Screen
- Reconstructing Tapajó Ceramics: Clay, Ancestry, and the Politics of Territory in the Brazilian Amazon
- Sediments: Sensing Water Materiality Through Rocks
Humanities - Science, Environment and the Humanities
- Youth Narratives of Climate-Sensitive Disease and Community Resilience in Post-Transition Myanmar
- Bridging Behavioral Economics and Social Capital: An Ethical Framework for Responsible Tourism in Heritage Sites
Humanities - Language/Linguistics
- The Reception of Al-Zamakhsharī in the Islamic West: Ibn Al-Bannāʾ Al-Marrākushī as a Case Study
- Navigating Multilingual Challenges: Exploring the Struggles of Non-Tagalog Speakers in Learning L2 Tagalog and English Simultaneously
- Selective Filipino Integration in Orthodox Worship: Usage Patterns, Code-Switching, and Liturgical Gaps in the Philippines
- Intercultural Reframing and the Reproduction of Knowledge: Edward Said in Arabic Translation
Humanities - Aesthetics/Design
- An Archinographic Inquiry into Adaptive Home Spatial Systems for a Child with Retinitis Pigmentosa: A Family-Based Phenomenological Study
- Unpacking the Rucksack: The Somatic Persistence of Guilt in Tim O’Brien’s the “Things They Carried”
Humanities - Ethnicity/Difference/Identity
- The Inclusion Paradox: Mapping the Effects of Disability Testimonials Across the Advertising Funnel
- “Crying Wolf”: Black Maternal Health Narratives and the Trauma of Disparity
- Emotional Expressions in the Spoken Narratives of Indian People Who Stutter
- Institutional Trust or Personal Obligation? Guanxi and Social Capital in Yokohama Chinatown
- Spiritual Identity Formation Among Apostolic Youth in the United Pentecostal Church in the Philippines
- A Review of Hindu-Muslim Relations and Transformation in Bali
- Multispecies of Peace-Making in Everyday Life: Panagkauli as Spiritual Relationalities and Cultural Reconciliation Among the Manobo-Pulangiyon
- Sparking Social Change: How Advertising Professionals Navigate DEI Initiatives
Humanities - Other Humanities
- Emerging Adult Identity Development in Multicultural Contexts: The DIEM Model
- Leadership as a Driver of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Viewed Through the Lived Experiences of Small and Medium Enterprise
- The Politics of Leadership and Employee Productivity: Rethinking Authority and Workplace Performance in Nigerian Organizations
- Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Metadata Management at the Cultural Museums in South Africa
- Tech-Based Ageism in the Workplace: Exploring Stereotypes of Mature Workers in Technology and AI Use
- Always-On in Corporate India: A Study of Perceived Right to Disconnect Issues and Psychological Well-Being
- The Relationship Between IQ and EQ: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis
Humanities - Literature/Literary Studies*
- Merit and Mortality: Cremation Volumes and the Art of Dying Well Among Siamese Elite
- Okakura Tenshin’s Views on Japanese Buddhism, as Seen in the Ideals of the East: A Counter-Narrative to Cultural Imperialism
- Does Dystopia Move Us to Act? The Impact of Anticipatory Fiction on Its Audiences
- Peripheral Vision: Brazilianness as Theoretical Method in Shane Bunnag’s The Twenty-Five Fifties
- Towards a Digital Ecosystem for Literary Studies: A Case Study in Italian Literature
- The Language of Naga Log-Drum: the Agency and Relationality of Tangible-Intangible Heritage
- Différance at Sea: Reading Moby-Dick as Literary Freedom Through Derrida’s Literature as a Liberal Institution
- Sovereign Power and the Baroque Nation in Wilfrido D. Nolledo’s But for the Lovers
- Memory in Matter: Dwelling and the Afterlives of the House in North-East Indian Fiction
- Unpacking the Rucksack: The Somatic Persistence of Guilt in Tim O’Brien’s the Things They Carried
Humanities - Political Science/Politics
- Making Accessibility Visible: Government Public Relations and Inclusive Transport in Indonesia
- Measuring the Immeasurable: Formula Manubulu, the Manubulu Capacity Index, and the Hybrid Legal Capacity Assessment Model (HYCAM)
- The Political Economy of State Capitalist Transformation in Vietnam: State Economic Restructuring, Equitization, and the Persistence of Party-State Control
Humanities - Media/Film Studies/Theatre/Communication
- Exploring Class Space and Collective Consciousness Through Film: Case Study of In The Face of Demolition (1953)
- From Taste to Waste: A Media Discourse Analysis of Urban Food Waste in Vietnam
Humanities - Sexuality/Gender/Families
- “Bakla, Bakla, Paano Ka Tumanda?”: A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Aging Filipino Gay Men
- Examining Rural Women’s Role in Agricultural Decision-making in Bangladesh: A Study from Barisal Division
- Understanding Basic Education Students’ Needs in Gender and Development
- The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTs) of Pototan Iloilo: Challenges and Aspirations
- From Survival to Self-Worth: Empowering Vulnerable Young Girls Through Life Skills Education at CAMELEON Passi Center, Iloilo, Philippines
Humanities - History/Historiography
- The Technology and Craft of Pyu Seal Rings
- From Europe to Japan: The Transformation of Death Mask Culture in Modern Japan
- Liberation Humanism: Origins, Development, and Significance
Humanities - Knowledge
- Reading for Ghosts: Spectral Methodology and Decolonial Museum Practice in Singapore
- Whose Knowledge Counts? Rethinking Knowledge Production from an African Indigenous Perspective
- From FAIR Data to Sustainable Digital Scholarship: Librarian Stewardship in Academic Knowledge Infrastructures
- The Role of School Management and Educational Programs in Promoting ‘Learning for Peace’ Values Within Educational Institutions in Yemen
- Knowledge in International Relations of Students in the University of Eastern Philippines System
Humanities - Philosophy/Ethics/Consciousness
- Exploring Quiet Quitting in the Organizational Context: A Systematic Literature Review and a Theoretical Framework
- Eschatological Hope, Identity Formation, and Socio-economic Resilience in African Christianity (1 Thessalonians 4:13–18)
- Insights from the Philosophy of Laozi’s Tao Te Ching for Contemporary Leadership
- Rethinking the Secular and Post-secular from a Non-Western Perspective: Search for a Heterogeneous Public Sphere in India
Humanities - Cyberspace/Technology
- Understanding Individual Donor Behavior Through Explainable AI and Big Data
Humanities - Teaching and Learning
- Academic Integrity in Generative AI – Mediated Learning: Ethical Ambiguity, Pressure, and Self-Regulation Among University Students
- From Policy to Participation: The Effects of Indigenous Peoples Education (IPEd) Implementation on Enrollment and Retention in Philippine Schools
- Analysis of Teachers’ Readiness to Integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Teaching and Learning in Under-Resourced Schools
- Developing an E-Book to Enhance University Students’ Vocabulary Comprehension and Use Based on CEFR
- Reconstructing Teacher Identity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Systematic Literature Review
Learning Experiences, Student Learning & Learner Diversity
- A Lorem Ipsum: Admin Test Submission