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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Cultural Struggle and Praxis: Negotiating Power and the Everyday"</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">KEYNOTE SPEAKER</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Professor John Nguyet Erni, Hong Kong Baptist University</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Negotiating 'Refuge': Humanitarianism for the 'Included-outs'</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FEATURED PLENARY PANELS</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Chair: Koichi Iwabuchi, Monash University</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Social movements and critical pedagogy"</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">* Noriko Manabe, Princeton University</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">* David H. Slater, Sophia University</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Discussant: Baden Offord, Curtin University</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Public pedagogy and social praxis"</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">* Megumi Yuki, Gunma University</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">* Gon Matsunaka, NPO?"Good Aging Yells"</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">* Shigeaki Iwai, Immigration Museum, Tokyo</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">CALL FOR PAPERS:</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Abstracts submission: February 1, 2016</font></p>
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