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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>IAFOR 6th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Art Center of Kobe, Kobe, Japan</b></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Thursday, June 2 - Sunday, June 5, 2016</b></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>“Cultural Struggle and Praxis: Negotiating Power and the Everyday”</b></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>KEYNOTE SPEAKER</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Professor John Nguyet Erni, Hong Kong Baptist University<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Negotiating ‘Refuge’: Humanitarianism for the ‘Included-outs’</font></p>
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<b style="font-size: 12pt;">FEATURED PLENARY PANELS</b><br>
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Chair: Koichi Iwabuchi, Monash University</p>
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<b>"Social movements and critical pedagogy"</b></p>
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* Noriko Manabe, Princeton University </p>
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* David H. Slater, Sophia University</p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Discussant: Baden Offord, Curtin University</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>"Public pedagogy and social praxis"</b></span><br>
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* Megumi Yuki, Gunma University</p>
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* Gon Matsunaka, NPO・"Good Aging Yells"</p>
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* Shigeaki Iwai, Immigration Museum, Tokyo</p>
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<p><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Conference Chairs:</b><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Professor Baden Offord, Curtin University</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Professor Koichi Iwabuchi, Monash University</font><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Professor Emerita Susan Ballyn, University of Barcelona<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Professor Donald E. Hall, Lehigh University</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>CALL FOR PAPERS:</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Abstracts submission: February 1, 2016</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Abstracts should address one or more of the streams below, identifying a relevant sub-theme:</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sub-Themes:</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">refuge</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">mobility</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">social praxis</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">disability</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">education and/or pedagogy</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">the city</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">the nation</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">human rights</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">social justice</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">minor cultures</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">activism</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">technology</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">terrorism</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">identity</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">internet</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">media</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">law</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">popular culture</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">the family</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">gender, queer and/or sexuality</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">religion</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">curation/the archive</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">sport</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">place</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">creative arts</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">the ecological</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">the transnational/global</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">the economy</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Submissions are organised into the following thematic streams:</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Black Feminism</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Critical Legal Studies</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Critical Race Theory</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cultural Geography</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cultural History</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cultural Studies</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cultural Studies Pedagogy</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Education</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Gender studies / Feminist Theory</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Justice Studies</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Linguistics, Language and Cultural Studies</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Media Studies</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Orientalism</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Political Philosophy</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Political Theory</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Queer Theory</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Social Criticism</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sociology</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Visual Culture</font></p>
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<div>Abstracts submission: February 1, 2016<br>
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