[ecrea] CFP: IAFOR 6th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, Kobe 2016

*IAFOR 6th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies
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*Art Center of Kobe, Kobe, Japan*

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*Thursday, June 2 - Sunday, June 5, 2016*


*“Cultural Struggle and Praxis: Negotiating Power and the Everyday”*

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 (and un-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.


*KEYNOTE SPEAKER*

Professor John Nguyet Erni, Hong Kong Baptist University

Negotiating ‘Refuge’: Humanitarianism for the ‘Included-outs’


*FEATURED PLENARY PANELS*

Chair: Koichi Iwabuchi, Monash University

*"Social movements and critical pedagogy"*

* Noriko Manabe, Princeton University

* David H. Slater, Sophia University

Discussant: Baden Offord, Curtin University


*"Public pedagogy and social praxis"*

* Megumi Yuki, Gunma University

* Gon Matsunaka, NPO・"Good Aging Yells"

* Shigeaki Iwai, Immigration Museum, Tokyo


*Conference Chairs:*

Professor Baden Offord, Curtin University

Professor Koichi Iwabuchi, Monash University

Professor Emerita Susan Ballyn, University of Barcelona

Professor Donald E. Hall, Lehigh University


*CALL FOR PAPERS:*

*Abstracts submission: February 1, 2016*

Abstracts should address one or more of the streams below, identifying a
relevant sub-theme:


Sub-Themes:

refuge

mobility

social praxis

disability

education and/or pedagogy

the city

the nation

human rights

social justice

minor cultures

activism

technology

terrorism

identity

internet

media

law

popular culture

the family

gender, queer and/or sexuality

religion

curation/the archive

sport

place

creative arts

the ecological

the transnational/global

the economy


Submissions are organised into the following thematic streams:

Black Feminism

Critical Legal Studies

Critical Race Theory

Cultural Geography

Cultural History

Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies Pedagogy

Education

Gender studies / Feminist Theory

Justice Studies

Linguistics, Language and Cultural Studies

Media Studies

Orientalism

Political Philosophy

Political Theory

Queer Theory

Social Criticism

Sociology

Visual Culture


Abstracts submission: February 1, 2016
VISIT WEBSITE: http://iafor.org/conferences/accs2016/

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