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<p>Dear Fellow CSAAers,</p>
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<p>I would like to invite you to consider participating at the next Asian Conference on Cultural Studies. </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Great location and always an interesting and thought provoking conference with a very international and interdisciplinary focus.</span><br>
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<p>best wishes,</p>
<p>Baden Offord</p>
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<p><b>Asian Conference on Cultural Studies</b></p>
<p><b>Art Center of Kobe, Kobe, Japan</b></p>
<p><b>Thursday, June 2 - Sunday, June 5, 2016</b></p>
<p><b>"Cultural Struggle and Praxis: Negotiating Power and the Everyday"</b></p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p><b>KEYNOTE SPEAKER</b></p>
<p>Professor John Nguyet Erni, Hong Kong Baptist University</p>
<p><b>"Negotiating 'Refuge': Humanitarianism for the 'Included-outs'"</b></p>
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<p><b>FEATURED PLENARY PANELS</b></p>
<p>Chair: Koichi Iwabuchi, Monash University</p>
<p>Discussant: Baden Offord, Curtin University</p>
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<p><b>"Social movements and critical pedagogy"</b></p>
<p>* Noriko Manabe, Princeton University</p>
<p>* David H. Slater, Sophia University</p>
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<p><b>"Public pedagogy and social praxis"</b></p>
<p>* Megumi Yuki, Gunma University</p>
<p>* Gon Matsunaka, NPO?"Good Aging Yells"</p>
<p>* Shigeaki Iwai, Immigration Museum, Tokyo</p>
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<p><b>CALL FOR PAPERS:</b></p>
<p>Abstracts submission: 1 April 2016</p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt">VISIT WEBSITE: <a href="http://iafor.org/conferences/accs2016/" id="LPlnk573773">
http://iafor.org/conferences/accs2016/</a></span><br>
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