[ecrea] 6th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2016: “Cultural Struggle and Praxis: Negotiating Power and the Everyday”

*The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2016*
*ACCS2016*
*Art Center of Kobe, Kobe, Japan*
*Thursday, June 2 - Sunday, June 5, 2016*
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*Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2016*
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*ACCS2016 Conference Theme: “Cultural Struggle and Praxis: Negotiating
Power and the Everyday”*
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In this conference participants are invited to explore and question the
ways in which cultural struggle characterises our present times. Given
that culture is the fabric of meaning making, understanding its
relationship to politics and society is crucial. Cultural struggle, for
instance, alerts us to the political dynamics of how meaning making is
controlled, contested and communicated through the core institutions of
society such as media, education, law, medicine, government, the family,
religion, the market and so on – all of which impact upon and influence
everyday life.

Nowhere is the cultural struggle more evident than in questions of
belonging, identity and mobility; refuge, exile and community. In the
convergence of culture and narrative, the contemporary and historical
story of the human condition is particularly marked by how power and the
everyday are negotiated through the experience of displacement and
dispossession or privilege and status. Culture, expressed, articulated
and represented through sites and locales, practices, actions and
values, identities and forms, histories and memories, myths and
traditions, is a pivotal lens through which we are able to understand
and interpret the way society works, and to see how power and the
everyday intersect.

*Conference Co-Chairs:*
Professor Baden Offord, Curtin University
Professor Donald Hall, Lehigh University
Professor Emerita Sue Ballyn, The University of Barcelona
Professor Koichi Iwabuchi, Monash University
*Website: **http://iafor.org/conferences/accs2016/*

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*Professor Baden Offord*
*Director** | Chair of Cultural Studies and Human Rights*
*Centre for Human Rights Education | Faculty of Humanities
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*Curtin University
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http://humanities.curtin.edu.au/about/humstaff/research.cfm/Baden.Offord
**CRICOS Provider Code 00301J (WA).

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