ACAS 2013 - The Third Asian Conference on Asian Studies 24th to 26th May 2013 Osaka, Japan Enquiries: [email protected] Web address: http://acas.iafor.org/index.html Hear the latest research, publish before a global audience, present in a supportive environment, network, engage in new relationships, experience Japan, explore Osaka and Kyoto, join a global academic community... Organized by the International Academic Forum (IAFOR) in partnership with its global affiliates, including The Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Auburn University College of Arts and Sciences (USA), Birkbeck, University of London (UK), Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong (HKSAR), University of Lincoln (UK), The National Institute of Education (Singapore), The National University of Tainan (Taiwan), Waseda University (Japan), and Zagreb University (Croatia). Conference Theme: "Intersecting Belongings: Cultural Conviviality and Cosmopolitan Futures" CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN - DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 1, 2013 Dear Colleagues, Contemporary contexts of the local, regional, national and global raise urgent questions about cultural conviviality and cosmopolitan futures across Asia. These are times when trans-cultural, trans-national and multicultural belonging are particularly being tested through environmental catastrophe, economic volatility, parochialism, fundamentalism, notions of cosmopolitan and multicultural exhaustion, and war. Belonging has become a fundamental dynamic of preservation, atavism, tradition and survival as well as hybridity, possibility, change and transformation. The aim of this conference theme is to open up discussion, exploration and analysis in Asian Studies about emerging social, economic, political and cultural trends formed at the intersection of multiple and multi-sited belongings. The aim of this International Conference on Asian studies is to encourage academics, scholars and practitioners representing a exciting diversity of countries, cultures, and religions to meet and exchange research, ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue. ACAS 2013 will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education and beyond. We hope that the conference theme will again encourage academic and personal encounters and exchanges across national, religious, cultural and disciplinary divides. We look forward to seeing you (again) in Osaka in 2013! Dr Baden Offord Southern Cross University, Australia Vice President - International, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia ACAS/ACCS Conference Chair The Reverend Professor Stuart D. B Picken Order of the Sacred Treasure, B.D., Ph.D., F.R.A.S. Chairman, Japan Society of Scotland, Chairman of the IAFOR International Advisory Board Publishing Opportunities: Authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity of publishing their associated paper in the official conference proceedings, and a selection of papers will be considered for inclusion in the internationally reviewed IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, edited by Professor Elvira Sanatullova-Allison, Chair of the Education Department, St Lawrence University, USA. For more information about the IJCS and IAFOR journals, go to the conference website. CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN - DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 1, 2013 The conference theme is "Intersecting Belongings: Cultural Conviviality and Cosmopolitan Futures" and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Asian Studies, including the following streams: Indian and South Asian Studies South-East Asian Studies (including Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) Central Asian Studies Chinese Studies Japanese Studies Korean Studies Middle Eastern Studies (including Assyria, Iran, Egypt, Turkey) Islamic Studies Hebrew and Judaic Studies Comparative Studies of Asian and East Asian Studies Please submit through the conference website (details below). Enquiries: [email protected] Web address: http://acas.iafor.org/index.html Sponsored by: IAFOR - The International Academic Forum |