organized by
Adachi Nobuko (Illinois State University)
Peter Bernardi (Düsseldorf University)
Niko Besnier (keynote) (University of Amsterdam)
Shibata Yoshiko (Kôbe University)
Fujita Yuiko (Meiji University)
Ruth Martin (Oxford Brookes University)
Andreas Niehaus (Ghent University)
Okunishi Takashi (Kôbe University)
Christian Tagsold (Düsseldorf University)
Dimitri Vanoverbeke (Catholic University Leuven)
Tine Walravens (Ghent University)