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Call for Papers Theme: Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing Type: 4th Asian Conference on Asian Studies Institution: International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Location: Osaka (Japan) Date: 29.5.–1.6.2014 Deadline: 1.2.2014 __________________________________________________ The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global partners, is proud to announce the Fourth Asian Conference on Asian Studies to be held from May 29-June 1 2014, at the Rihga Royal Hotel and the adjoining Osaka Internationcal Conference Center, Osaka, Japan. 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 hope that the conference theme will again encourage academic and personal encounters and exchanges across national, religious, cultural and disciplinary divides. Submissions The organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a range of inter/disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Asian Studies. The conference theme of "Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing" may be explored in any way, but the following sub-themes have been suggested by the conference chairs, and may provide some inspiration, as well as offer some direction to researchers: * 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 The deadline for submissions is February 1 2014. Conference website: http://acas.iafor.org __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
