LibrAsia 2013 - The Third Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 4th to 7th April 2013 Osaka, Japan LibrAsia 2013 - The Third Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship is an international and interdisciplinary conference organized by IAFOR and its global university affiliates, including 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), Zagreb University (Croatia) CFP Deadline December 1, 2012 (Held with ACAH 2013) Dear Colleagues, As the country that gave the world the novel one thousand years ago, and subsequently haiku and manga, Japan's long and rich literary history make it an ideal place to bring together academics, writers, and librarians to celebrate, debate, and explore their common passion. The aim of this International Conference is to encourage academics, scholars and practitioners representing a exciting diversity of countries, cultures, and religions to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue. LibrAsia 2013 is not only an academic conference, but will again this year offer a number of talks, workshops, and readings of original works, in the context of an exciting long weekend of interdisciplinary and intercultural discussion. The Land of the Rising Sun offers an amazing juxtaposition of cultures, of east and west, of religious and secular, and of course the conference theme of "Connectedness, Identity and Alienation" in Literature. We hope you can join us in Osaka in 2013! The Reverend Professor Stuart D. B Picken LibrAsia/ACAH 2013 Conference Chair 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 peer-reviewed IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship, edited by Dr Melissa Kennedy (University of Vienna, Austria) and Dr Tom French (Ritsumeikan University, Japan). CALL FOR PAPERS: The 2013 conference theme is "Connectedness, Identity and Alienation" in literature, and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this unifying subject 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 interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. For more details about submitting an abstract, please go to the website. Submissions will be organized into the following streams: - Literature Literature: African Literature Literature: Ancient and Classical Literature Literature: Anglo-American Literature Literature: Arabic/Middle Eastern Literature Literature: Asian Literature Literature: Children's and Young Adult Literature Literature: Comparative Literature Literature: European Literature Literature: Folktales, Myths and Legends Literature: Historical and Political Literature Literature: Indigenous People's/Ethnic Literatures and Minority Discourses Literature: Latin American Literature Literature: Literary Criticism and Theory Literature: Literary Practice Literature: Literary Translation and Translatology Literature: Literature and Film Literature: Literature, Language and Identity Literature: Literature and Religion Literature: Poetry Literature: Manuscriptology, Textual and Genetic Criticism Literature: Memoir and Autobiography Literature: Teaching Literature Literature: Travel Writing Literature: Theatre and Drama - Librarianship Librarianship: Cataloging and Classification Librarianship: Censorship, Ownership and Intellectual Property Librarianship: Library Research and Development Librarianship: Protecting and Preserving Librarianship: 21st Century Problems and Solutions Enquiries: [email protected] Web address: http://librasia.iafor.org Sponsored by: The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), in partnership with its global university affiliates |