ACCS 2014 - The Fourth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies - Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing

ACCS 2014 - The Fourth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies - Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing 29th May to 1st June 2014 Osaka, Japan 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... CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED - April 1, 2014 Enquiries: accs@iafor.org Web address: http://accs.iafor.org Sponsored by: The International Academic Forum and Global Affiliates, including the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global partners, including the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, is proud to announce the Fourth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, to be held from May 29-June 1, at the Rihga Royal Hotel and the adjoining Osaka International Conference Center. The Fourth 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. Conference Theme: Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing Local, national and global cultures have been transformed by an intensification of human migration, mobility and multi-culture with multiple and complex claims of home, identity and belonging. Gloria Anzaldua's idea of the borderland has become a critical conceptual rubric used by cultural researchers as a way of understanding, explaining and articulating the in-determined, vague, ambiguous nature of everyday life and the cultural politics of border-knowledge, border crossings, transgression, living in-between and multiple belongings. Borderlands is also about a social space where people of diverse backgrounds and identities meet and share a space in which the politics of co-presence and co-existence are experienced and enacted in mundane ways. This conference, which focuses on the borderlands of becoming, belonging and sharing, is therefore about examining how the culture of everyday life is regulated and contested across diverse political, economic and social contexts, and whether and how it creates spaces of belonging with others. The aim of this conference theme is to open up discussion, critical reflection and analysis about emerging social, political and cultural identities that are formed at the intersection of multiple and multi-sited belongings and their expression and about the possibility of making them shared across differences. We welcome papers that focus on (but not limited to): - Trans-cultural displacement/belonging - Belonging and the intersections of gender, race, religion, sexuality - Seeking refuge, unruly belonging(s) and border politics - Trauma and joy of becoming and belonging - Communication, new technologies and belonging - Cultural narratives of belonging/not belonging - Cultural politics of survival/transgression - New imaginings/formations of home - Citizenship beyond borders - Multicultural exhaustion/renewal - Belonging in the Anthropocene - Multiple and complex belongings - Re-locating culture across borders - Convivial cultures and the imagined communities - Creation of shared space(s) of multiple belongings We hope that the 2014 conference theme will encourage academic and personal encounters and exchanges across national, religious, cultural and disciplinary divides. We look forward to seeing you (again) in Osaka! Professor Baden Offord Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights, Southern Cross University, Australia Vice President-International, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia ACCS/ACAS 2014 Conference Chair Professor Koichi Iwabuchi Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Australia Director of the Monash University Asia Institute ACCS/ACAS 2014 Conference Co-Chair CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN: For more information about submitting an abstract, please go to the website. The abstract submission deadline is April 1 2014 IAFOR Global University and Institutional Alliance - Working Together IAFOR works with our university partners to nurture and encourage the best in international, intercultural and interdisciplinary research. We work with senior administrators and professors in our partner institutions to develop programs which are timely, thought-provoking and academically rigorous. The global partnership alliance means that our interdisciplinary conferences are backed by some of the world's foremost institutions of learning. For a full list of university and institutional partners, go to www.iafor.org 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. ACAS The Fourth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2014 will be held alongside the Fourth Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2014. Registration for either conference will allow attendees the option of attending sessions in the other. Enquiries: accs@iafor.org Web address: http://accs.iafor.org Sponsored by: The International Academic Forum and Global Affiliates, including the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Keynote and Featured Speakers Koichi Iwabuchi Professor of Media and Cultural Studies Director of the Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia ACCS/ACAS 2014 Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Director of the Monash Asia Institute in Monash University, Australia. His main research interests are media and cultural globalisation, multicultural questions, mixed race and cultural citizenship in East Asian contexts. His English publications include Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2002); East Asian Pop Culture: Approaching the Korean Wave (ed. with Chua Beng Huat, Hong Kong University Press, 2008); "Uses of media culture, usefulness of media culture studies: Beyond brand nationalism, into public dialogue (in Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies, M. Morris and M. Hjort (eds), Hong Kong University Press and Duke University Press, 2012); "De-westernisation, inter-Asian referencing and beyond" (European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2013). Together with Chris Berry, he is a co-editor of Hong Kong University Press book series, TransAsia: Screen Cultures. Baden Offord Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights and Co-Director of the Centre for Peace and Social Justice Southern Cross University, Australia ACCS/ACAS 2014 Featured Speaker and Conference Co-Chair Baden Offord is Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights in the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University, Australia. Globally recognized as a specialist in sexuality and human rights, in 2012 he was a sponsored speaker to the 14th EU-NGO Human Rights Forum in Brussels and conducted a three-week lecture tour of Japan sponsored by the Australian Prime Minister's Educational Assistance Funds post the Great Eastern Tohoku Earthquake in 2011. Baden's interdisciplinary research cuts across the fields of Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Creative Writing, Cultural Geography, Socio-legal Studies, Asian Studies, Australian Studies and Critical Pedagogy. In 2010-2011 he was Chair (Visiting Professor) in Australian Studies, Centre for Pacific Studies and American Studies, Institute for Advanced Global Studies, The University of Tokyo and has held several visiting professorships/fellowships in Spain, the United States, India, New Zealand and Japan. He is the Vice-President (International) of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia. Recent publications include the book Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices, Contexts (Ashgate, London: 2012) and articles in Asian Studies Review; The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies; Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies; and Critical Arts: A journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies. Donald E. Hall Herbert J. and Ann L. Siegel Dean Lehigh University, USA ACCS/ACAS 2014 Featured Speaker Donald E. Hall has published widely in the fields of British studies, gender theory, cultural studies, and professional studies. Prior to arriving at Lehigh in 2011, he served as Jackson Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English (and previously Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages) at West Virginia University (WVU). Before his tenure at WVU, he was Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), where he taught for thirteen years. He is a recipient of the University Distinguished Teaching Award at CSUN, was a visiting professor at the National University of Rwanda, was 2001 Lansdowne Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria (Canada), was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Studies at Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, for 2004-05, and was Fulbright Specialist at the University of Helsinki for 2006. He has taught also in Sweden, Romania, Hungary, and China. He has served on numerous panels and committees for the Modern Language Association (MLA), including the Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion and the Convention Program Committee. In 2012, he served as national President of the Association of Departments of English. In 2013, he was elected to and began serving on the Executive Council of the MLA. His current and forthcoming work examines issues such as professional responsibility and academic community-building, the dialogics of social change and ethical intellectualism, and the Victorian (and our continuing) interest in the deployment of instrumental agency over our social, vocational, and sexual selves. His book, The Academic Community: A Manual For Change, was published by Ohio State University Press in the fall of 2007. His tenth book, Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies, was published in the spring of 2009. In 2012, he and Annamarie Jagose, of the University of Auckland, collaborated on a volume titled The Routledge Queer Studies Reader, which was published in July of that year. He continues to lecture worldwide on the value of a liberal arts education and the need for nurturing global competencies in students and interdisciplinary dialogue in and beyond the classroom. Hsiao-Chuan Hsia Professor and Director at the Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies, Shih Hsin University, Taipei ACCS/ACAS 2014 Featured Speaker Hsiao-Chuan Hsia is Professor and Director at the Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies, Shih Hsin University, Taiwan. As the first scholar studying marriage migration issues in Taiwan, her first well-known book is titled "Drifting Shoal: the 'Foreign Brides' Phenomenon in Capitalist Globalization" (in Chinese and will be published in Japanese in 2014). Her other publications analyze issues of immigrants, migrant workers, citizenship, multiculturalism, empowerment and social movements. Hsia is also an activist striving for the empowerment of immigrant women and the making of im/migrant movement in Taiwan. She initiated the Chinese programs for marriage migrants in 1995, leading to the establishment of TransAsia Sisters Association, Taiwan (TASAT). She is also the co-founder of the Alliance for the Human Rights Legislation for Immigrants and Migrants and serves as the board member of Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants, member of the International Coordinating Body of the International Migrants Alliance, and member of the Regional Council of Asia Pacific Women, Law and Development and spokesperson of the Action Network for Marriage Migrants' Rights and Empowerment (AMMORE)

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