ACAH 2018 - The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2018

Our present historical moment compels us to think through the implications of these and other modes of recentering. The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2018 provides an opportunity for academics, artists, writers and students to explore the challenges of multi-faceted and interdisciplinary rethinkings of the ways we imagine, articulate and work with centres.
While we invite proposals that deal with any aspect of recentering, we offer the following list of possible areas of exploration. It is by no means final or exhaustive; rather, we offer it to stimulate and provoke considerations of how the humanities can engage with ideas of recentering and decentering.
The Concept of Centres
What is a centre? Do centres still exist in a globalised world?
What new definitions have emerged of power and centrality?
Can simultaneous networks of information be restricted to any specific location?
Does the concept of place retain any relevance in a globalised world?
Will space-time compression inevitably accelerate?