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ACCS 2013 - The Third Asian Conference on Cultural Studies

ACCS 2013 - The Third Asian Conference on Cultural Studies
24th to 26th May 2013
Osaka, Japan

IAFOR in conjunction with its global partners, 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) is proud to announce the 3rd ACCS 2013.

Dear Colleagues

Contemporary challenges and contexts of the local, regional, national and global raise urgent questions about cultural conviviality and cosmopolitan futures across the world. 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. A key challenge lies in the paradox of culture, in which belonging has become a fundamental question of preservation, atavism, tradition and survival as well as hybridity, transgression, possibility and transformation. The aim of this conference theme is to respond to this paradoxical challenge by opening up discussion, critical reflection and analysis about emerging social and cultural identities that are formed at the intersection of multiple and multi-sited belongings.

The Third Asian Conference on Cultural Studies will offer a rich diversity of academic and cultural activity in the fantastically stimulating context of Japan, and in one of the world's great cities. Come and join us in Osaka for what promises to be a culturally stimulating, challenging and exciting event.

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
Vice President-International, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
ACCS/ACAS 2013 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

CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN - DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1, 2013

We welcome papers that focus on (but not limited to):

- Seeking refuge
- Unruly belonging(s)
- Intersections of gender, race, religion, sexuality
- Transforming cultures
- Trans-cultural displacement/belonging
- New imaginings/formations of home
- Citizenship beyond borders
- Communication, new technologies and belonging
- Cultural narratives of belonging/not belonging
- Cultural politics of survival/transgression
- Cosmopolitan exhaustion/renewal
- Belonging in the Anthropocene
- Construction of identities
- Multiple and complex belongings
- Intersecting narratives and identity
- Re-locating culture across borders

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, please see the conference website.

Enquiries: [email protected]
Web address: http://www.accs.iafor.org/
Sponsored by: IAFOR - The International Academic Forum

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