Fw: H-ASIA: CFP 3rd Asian Conf. on Asian Studies, Osaka, May 24-26 2013

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP 3rd Asian Conf. on Asian Studies, Osaka, May 24-26 2013


> H-ASIA
> December 16, 2012
>
> Third Asian Conference on Asian Studies: Conference Theme: Intersecting
> Belongings: Cultural Conviviality and Cosmopolitan Futures, Osaka, Japan,
> May 24-26, 2013
>
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> Ed note: The poster did not include specifics of venue or date of
> this conference; I have supplied them from the referenced website.
> FFC
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> Third Asian Conference on Asian Studies: Conference Theme: Intersecting
> Belongings: Cultural Conviviality and Cosmopolitan Futures
>
> Location: Japan
> Call for Papers Date: 2013-02-01
> Date Submitted: 2012-12-04
> Announcement ID: 199303
>
> 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 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
>
> Deadline for call for papers: 1 February 2013.
>
>
> Professor Baden Offord
> School of Arts and Social Sciences
> Southern Cross University
> PO Box 157 Lismore
> Phone: 61 2 66 203 162
> Email: baden.offord@scu.edu.au
> Visit the website at http://acas.iafor.org/
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