CALL FOR PAPERS | Early Bird Submission Deadline: January 7, 2020

May 27-30, 2020 | Toshi Center Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

Submit your abstract by January 7, 2020 in order to be considered for Grants & Scholarships

Held in partnership with the IAFOR Research Centre at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, this international conference encourages academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum stimulating respectful dialogue. This event will afford an exceptional opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, networking, and facilitating partnerships across national and disciplinary borders.

Since its founding in 2009, IAFOR has brought people and ideas together in a variety of events and platforms to promote and celebrate interdisciplinary study, and underline its importance. Over the past year we have engaged in many cross-sectoral projects, including those with universities (the University of Barcelona, Hofstra University, UCL, University of Belgrade and Moscow State University), a think tank (the East-West Center), as well as collaborative projects with the United Nations in New York, and here, with the Government of Japan through the Prime Minister’s office.

With the IAFOR Research Centre, we have engaged in a number of interdisciplinary initiatives we believe will have an important impact on domestic and international public policy conversations. It is through conferences like these that we expand our network and partners, and we have no doubt that ACCS2020 will offer a remarkable opportunity for the sharing of research and best practice, and for the meeting of people and ideas.

The 10th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS2020) will be held alongside The 10th Asian Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS2020). Registration for either conference will allow delegates to attend sessions in the other.

We look forward to seeing you in Tokyo.

The ACCS Organising Committee welcomes submissions from a wide variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives.

Submissions are organised into the following streams:

*STREAMS*
Area Studies
Architecture and Urban Studies/Design
Cultural Studies
Education / Pedagogy
Environmental Studies
Disability Studies
Feminism / Black Feminism
Gender Studies / Feminist Theory
Geography
Gerontology/ Ageing Studies
Geology/Earth Sciences/Social Geography
History
Indigenous Studies – world wide
Journalism
Legal Studies
Linguistics, Language and Cultural Studies
Literary Studies / All genres/ Theory
Media Studies
Medical Studies / Nursing / Health and Well-being
Musicology
NGO policies and practice
Politics/ political Studies/ Political Sciences
Postcolonial Studies
Orientalism
Political Philosophy
Political Theory
Race Theory
The World Refugee Crisis
Queer Theory
Sciences
Social Criticism
Sociology
Psychology
Psychiatry
United Nations
Visual Culture
Women’s Studies

*SUB THEMES*
Activism
Agriculture
Animal welfare
Auto/biography
Belonging
Borders/boundaries/no-man’s land/walls/fences
Bullying
Creative arts
Climatology
Curation/museumology/the archive
Disability
Discrimmination
Displacement
Drug abuse
Education and/or pedagogy
Gender, queer, LGBTQ/sexuality
Human rights
Identity
Judiciary
Law
Media
Minority cultures
Mobility
Music, musicology, practice of, music therapy
Phobias – all areas of
Place
Popular culture
Poverty
Racism
Refugees/refuge
Religion
Social justice
Social praxis
Sport
Space
Suicide
The Anthropocene
The city and the suburb
The ecological
The economy
The family
The local
The nation/nationalisms
The self/selfhood
The transnational/global
Technology – all areas of
Terrorism
War

Publishing opportunities: https://accs.iafor.org/publishing-opportunities/
For enquiries: accs@iafor.org
Submit your abstract via: https://accs.iafor.org/call-for-papers/