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The Fourth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (29 May-1 June 2014)Call for paperThe International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global partners, including the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, is proud to announce the Fourth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, to be held from May 29-June 1, at the Rihga Royal Hotel and the adjoining Osaka International Conference Center.Conference Theme: Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and SharingLocal, 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/belongingBelonging and the intersections of gender, race, religion, sexuality-Seeking refuge, unruly belonging(s) and border politicsTrauma and joy of becoming and belongingCommunication, new technologies and belongingCultural narratives of belonging/not belongingCultural politics of survival/transgressionNew imaginings/formations of homeCitizenship beyond bordersMulticultural exhaustion/renewalBelonging in the AnthropoceneMultiple and complex belongingsRe-locating culture across bordersConvivial cultures and the imagined communitiesCreation of shared space(s) of multiple belongingsSubmission Procedure General InformationAbstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by February 1 2014. All abstracts will be blind reviewed by a voluntary team, and authors will usually be notified of the decision of the reviewers within two weeks of submission. Those who submit near the February deadline will receive confirmation of acceptance or rejection by February 15 2014.All accepted authors may have their full paper published in the online conference proceedings. Full text submission is due by July 1 2014.The deadline for full conference payment for all presenters is May 1 2014.For the detail, please visit: http://accs.iafor.org/Submissions.htmlWe 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 (again) in Osaka!Professor Baden OffordProfessor of Cultural Studies &#38; Human Rights, Southern Cross University, AustraliaACCS/ACAS 2014 Conference ChairProfessor Koichi IwabuchiProfessor of Media and Cultural Studies, Monash University, AustraliaDirector of the Monash University Asia InstituteACCS/ACAS 2014 Conference Co-Chair