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<div style="text-align:center"><strong>The Fifth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015</strong></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><strong>in conjunction with the Fitfth​ Asian Conference on Asian Studies</strong></div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><strong style="color:rgb(0,111,201)"><span style="color:rgb(0,111,201)">Thursday, May 28 - Sunday, May 31, 2015</span></strong></div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><strong style="color:rgb(0,111,201)"><span style="color:rgb(0,111,201)">Abstract Submission Deadline: April 1, 2015</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><strong style="color:rgb(0,111,201)"><span style="color:rgb(0,111,201)">Registration Deadline for Presenters: May 15, 2015</span></strong></div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><strong style="color:rgb(0,111,201)"><span style="color:rgb(0,111,201)">Conference Theme: “Human Rights, Justice, Media and Culture”</span></strong></div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><strong>Featured Speakers include:</strong></div>
<div style="text-align:center">Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney)<br>
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<div style="text-align:center">John Erni (Baptist University of Hong Kong)</div>
<div style="text-align:center">Angela Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong)<br>
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<div style="text-align:center">Amanda Third (University of Western Sydney)</div>
<div style="text-align:center">Donald Hall (Lehigh University)</div>
<div style="text-align:center">Baden Offord (Curtin University)</div>
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<div style="text-align:center">Cultural studies as a discipline is specifically attuned to studying questions of human rights and justice. </div>
<div style="text-align:center">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.</div>
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<div style="text-align:center">As a consequence, cultural studies researchers investigate ideas of justice and agency in compelling and innovative ways. <span style="font-size:12pt">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.’</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:center">A central aim of this conference is to examine ideas of ‘justice’ and ‘human rightsą 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.</div>
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<div style="text-align:center">Hosted by the International Academic Forum partnered with the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia. </div>
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<div style="text-align:center">International. Intercultural. Interdisciplinary. <br>
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