ACCS 2013 - ACCS 2013 : The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2013

The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies invites academics and independent scholars from around the world to submit a proposal for presentation at the 2013 Conference in the form of an abstract.
ACCS 2013 encourages participants from a range of inter/disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, including but not limited to:
Cultural Studies
Sociology
Critical Race Theory
Social Criticism
Queer Theory
Gender studies / Feminist Theory
Black Feminism
Media Studies
Visual Culture
Cultural Geography
Cultural History
Political Theory
Orientalism
Critical Legal Studies
Education
Political Philosophy
Linguistics, Language and Cultural Studies
The conference theme is Intersecting Belongings: Cultural Conviviality and Cosmopolitan Futures and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. This theme can be explored in any way, but the following sub-themes have been suggested by the conference chair, and may provide some inspiration, as well as offer some direction to researchers.
Sub-themes: ACCS 2013 welcomes papers that focus on, but not limited to:
* Seeking refuge
* Unruly belonging(s)
* Intersections of gender, race, religion, sexuality
* Transforming cultures
* Trans-cultural displacement/belonging
* New imaginings/formations of home
* Citizenship beyond borders
* Communication, new technologies and belonging
* Cultural narratives of belonging/not belonging
* Cultural politics of survival/transgression
* Cosmopolitan exhaustion/renewal
* Belonging in the Anthropocene
* Construction of identities
* Multiple and complex belongings
* Intersecting narratives and identity
* Re-locating culture across borders
The submission of other topics for consideration is also welcome and we encourage sessions within and across a variety of related disciplines and fields.