The International Academic Forum, in conjunction with its global partners, is pleased to announce The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2016, to be held from Thursday, June 2 - Sunday, June 5, 2016, at the Art Center of Kobe, Kobe, Japan.

http://iafor.org/conferences/acas2016/

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Conference Theme: "Cultural Struggle and Praxis: Negotiating Power and the Everyday"

The conference theme for ACAS2016 is "Cultural Struggle and Praxis: Negotiating Power and the Everyday", and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives.

Abstracts should address one or more of the streams below, identifying a relevant sub-theme:

Sub-Themes:

refuge
mobility
social praxis
disability
education and/or pedagogy
the city
the nation
human rights
social justice
minor cultures
activism
technology
terrorism
identity
internet
media
law
popular culture
the family
gender, queer and/or sexuality
religion
curation/the archive
sport
place
creative arts
the ecological
the transnational/global
the economy

Submissions are organized in to the following thematic streams:

Indian and South Asian Studies
South-East Asian Studies (including Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos)
Central Asian Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Korean Studies
Middle Eastern Studies (including Assyria, Iran, Egypt, Turkey)
Islamic Studies
Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Comparative Studies of Asian and East Asian Studies


Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by April 1, 2016.