[csaa-forum] 5th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, Kobe, Japan, 2015

[Baden Offord]

The Fifth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015
in conjunction with the Fitfth? Asian Conference on Asian Studies
Art Center of Kobe, Kobe, Japan

Thursday, May 28 - Sunday, May 31, 2015

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 1, 2015
Registration Deadline for Presenters: May 15, 2015

http://iafor.org/conferences/accs2015/?

Conference Theme: "Human Rights, Justice, Media and Culture"

Featured Speakers include:
Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney)
John Erni (Baptist University of Hong Kong)
Angela Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Amanda Third (University of Western Sydney)
Donald Hall (Lehigh University)
Baden Offord (Curtin University)

Cultural studies as a discipline is specifically attuned to studying questions of human rights and justice.
As a field it is connected to human rights discourse and praxis through its ethical foundations and 'activating knowledge' as Stuart Hall once put it. One of the essential motivations of cultural studies scholars is to focus on the struggles evident in structures and institutions of power, representation, identity and subjectivity. This is undertaken with specific attention to power and its manifestation and negotiation in the cultural arena of everyday life.

As a consequence, cultural studies researchers investigate ideas of justice and agency in compelling and innovative ways. They see agency, for example, as being implicated in the formation of moral, legal, political and ethical frameworks that are experienced in everyday lives, and which can be seen explicitly in the media. As cultural studies/human rights scholar John Erni notes, 'cultural studies has long been attentive to the complex interpenetrations of power, agency, and the social imaginary.'

A central aim of this conference is to examine ideas of 'justice' and 'human rights¹ in relation to media and cultural production. The hope is to enable useful exchange, connection and dialogue around the praxis of human rights and to clarify the implications of how cultural transformation and the media are closely connected to social and political change in the everyday life of individuals, communities and nations.

Hosted by the International Academic Forum partnered with the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia.

International. Intercultural. Interdisciplinary.
http://iafor.org/conferences/accs2015/



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Dr Baden Offord
Director | Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights
Centre for Human Rights Education | Faculty of Humanities

Curtin University
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E: | baden.offord at curtin.edu.au
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