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"Global Realities: Precarious Survival and Belonging"
June 1–4, 2017 | Art Center Kobe, Kobe, Japan
The theme for The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2014 in Osaka was “Borderlands of becoming, belonging and sharing”. In his presentation, Conference Co-Chair Professor Baden Offord wrote “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.”
Now we revisit that territory under the title “Global Realities: Precarious Survival and Belonging”. While retaining the ideas expressed by Professor Offord in 2014, this conference will turn its focus on to the precariousness of life across the world, life being understood in all its amplitude. Since 2014 we have witnessed the horror of the refugee crisis in Europe and how borders which should have been crossed have been blocked off by barbed wire fences. The whole context of borders, belonging and survival has shifted resulting in an increase in racism, radical nationalisms, terrorism, infringements of human rights, and rising poverty levels, to mention only a few of the globalised problems confronting our world. The result of such precarity, even of the planet itself, has led to a generalised sense of communal and individual vulnerability.
Raimond Gaita recently noted, “It is striking how often people now speak of ‘a common humanity’ in ethically inflected registers, or ethically resonant tones that express a fellowship of all the peoples of the earth, or sometimes the hope for such a fellowship.” Hopefully, this conference will discuss the ways and means by which a “common humanity” may be aspired to by future generations.
Programme
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Precarious Futures, Precarious Pasts: Migritude and PlanetarityKeynote Presentation: Professor Gaurav Desai
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The Challenges of Doing Cultural Studies TodayFeatured Panel Presentation: Professor Donald E. Hall, Professor Emerita Sue Ballyn & Professor Yasue Arimitsu
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Buddhist Terrorism?Featured Presentation: Dr Brian Victoria
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Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Studies in Today’s University SystemsFeatured Presentation: Professor Emeritus Yasue Arimitsu
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“(…) For those in peril on the sea”: The Important Role of Surgeons on Convict TransportsSpotlight Presentation: Professor Sue Ballyn
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Not Just Your Average Cartoon – “Mainzelmännchen” As Agents of Conservative TV PropagandaSpotlight Presentation: Dr Holger Briel
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Cross-Cultural Engagement and Media Integration in Japan and East AsiaSpotlight Presentation: Dr Seiko Yasumoto
Speakers
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Professor Gaurav DesaiUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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Dr Brian VictoriaOxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, UK
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Professor Emeritus Yasue ArimitsuDoshisha University, Japan
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Professor Emerita Sue BallynBarcelona University, Spain
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Professor Donald E. HallLehigh University, USA
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Dr Seiko Yasumoto
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Professor Holger BrielXi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Organising Committee
The Organising Committee of The International Conference on Japan & Japan Studies (IICJ) is composed of distinguished academics who are experts in their fields. Organising Committee members may also be members of IAFOR's International Academic Advisory Board. The Organising Committee is responsible for nominating and vetting Keynote and Featured Speakers; developing the conference programme, including special workshops, panels, targeted sessions, and so forth; event outreach and promotion; recommending and attracting future Organising Committee members; working with IAFOR to select PhD students and early career academics for IAFOR-funded grants and scholarships; and overseeing the reviewing of abstracts submitted to the conference.
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Professor Emerita Sue BallynBarcelona University, Spain
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Professor Donald E. HallLehigh University, USA
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Dr Seiko Yasumoto
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Professor Baden OffordCentre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University, Australia & Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
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Professor Holger BrielXi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
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Dr Joseph HaldaneThe International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan
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Dr Richard DonovanKansai University, Japan
Review Committee
- Dr Cecilia Fe Sta Maria-Abalos, University of the Philippines Baguio, The Philippines
- Dr Eun Joo Kim, New York University-Shanghai, China
- Dr Lourdes Nieva, Central Bicol State University of Agriculture-Sipocot, The Philippines
- Dr Padmaja Kamat, Pes Shri Ravi Sitaram Naik College of Arts & Science, India
- Dr Shulin Chiang, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan
- Professor Teresa Chen, California State University-Long Beach, United States
- Dr Elena Kolesova, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand
- Dr Felix Tan, Singapore Institute of Management, Global Education, Singapore
- Dr Ma. Junithesmer Rosales, Polytechnic University of The Philippines, The Philippines
IAFOR's peer review process, which involves both reciprocal review and the use of Review Committees, is overseen by conference Organising Committee members under the guidance of the Academic Governing Board. Review Committee members are established academics who hold PhDs or other terminal degrees in their fields and who have previous peer review experience.
If you would like to apply to serve on the IICJ2019 Review Committee, please visit our application page.