ECCS 2014 - The European Conference on Cultural Studies 2014

The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global university partners is proud to announce the Inaugural European Conference on Cultural Studies, to be held from July 24-27, 2014, at the Thistle Hotel Brighton, in the United Kingdom.
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2014 Conference Theme: “Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing”
Local, national and global cultures have been transformed by an intensification of human migration, mobility and multi-culture with multiple and complex claims of home, identity and belonging. Gloria Anzaldua’s idea of the borderland has become a critical conceptual rubric used by cultural researchers as a way of understanding, explaining and articulating the in-determined, vague, ambiguous nature of everyday life and the cultural politics of border-knowledge, border crossings, transgression, living in-between and multiple belongings. Borderlands is also about a social space where people of diverse backgrounds and identities meet and share a space in which the politics of co-presence and co-existence are experienced and enacted in mundane ways. This conference, which focuses on the borderlands of becoming, belonging and sharing, is therefore about examining how the culture of everyday life is regulated and contested across diverse political, economic and social contexts, and whether and how it creates spaces of belonging with others.
The aim of this conference theme is to open up discussion, critical reflection and analysis about emerging social, political and cultural identities that are formed at the intersection of multiple and multi-sited belongings and their expression and about the possibility of making them shared across differences.
We welcome papers that focus on (but not limited to):
Trans-cultural displacement/belonging
Belonging and the intersections of gender, race, religion, sexuality
Seeking refuge, unruly belonging(s) and border politics
Trauma and joy of becoming and belonging
Communication, new technologies and belonging
Cultural narratives of belonging/not belonging
Cultural politics of survival/transgression
New imaginings/formations of home
Citizenship beyond borders
Multicultural exhaustion/renewal
Belonging in the Anthropocene
Multiple and complex belongings
Re-locating culture across borders
Convivial cultures and the imagined communities
Creation of shared space(s) of multiple belongings
We hope that the 2014 conference theme will encourage academic and personal encounters and exchanges across national, religious, cultural and disciplinary divides. We look forward to seeing you in cosmopolitan, diverse and fun Brighton, the perfect European home for IAFOR’s latest Cultural Studies event!
Professor Baden Offord
ECCS Conference Co-Chair
Professor of Cultural Studies & Human Rights, Southern Cross University, Australia
Vice President-International, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
Professor Stuart Picken
ECCS Conference Co-Chair
Chair, Japan Society of Scotland
Chair, IAFOR IAB
Professor Koichi Iwabuchi
ECCS Conference Program Adviser
Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Australia
Director of the Monash University Asia Institute