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.

Hear the latest research, publish before a global audience, present in a supportive environment, network, engage in new relationships, experience the UK, explore Brighton, London and the South-East of England, join a global academic community…

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
Professor of Cultural Studies & Human Rights, Southern Cross University, Australia
Vice President-International, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
Conference Co-Chair

Professor Stuart Picken
Chair, Japan Society of Scotland
Chair, IAFOR IAB
Conference Co-Chair

Professor Koichi Iwabuchi
Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Australia
Director of the Monash University Asia Institute
Conference Program Adviser

IAFOR Global University & Institutional Alliance – Working Together

IAFOR works with our university partners to nurture and encourage the best in international, intercultural and interdisciplinary research. We work with senior administrators and professors in our partner institutions to develop programs which are timely, thought-provoking and academically rigorous. The global partnership alliance means that our interdisciplinary conferences are backed by some of the world’s foremost institutions of learning. For a full list of university and institutional partners, click here.

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Journals

Publishing Opportunities: Authors of Accepted Abstracts will have the opportunity of publishing their associated paper in the official conference proceedings, and a selection of papers will be considered for inclusion in the internationally reviewed IAFOR journals associated with the conference. For more information about the IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies and other journals, click here.

International, Intercultural, Interdisciplinary

The European Conference on Cultural Studies is organized as part of a month long series of academic events in the UK organized by IAFOR. Those attending the ECCS will have the opportunity of attending the following conferences held in parallel for no extra charge:
ECP2014 – The Inaugural European Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences
ECERP2014 – The Inaugural European Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy

About the Event

Date/Time: Thursday, July 24, 2014 - Sunday, July 27, 2014 (All Day)
Venue: Thistle Brighton, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2014
Registration Deadline: June 15, 2014

Streams: Belonging and the intersections of gender / race / religion / sexuality,Belonging in the Anthropocene, border politics Trauma and joy of becoming and belonging, Citizenship beyond borders, Communication & new technologies and belonging Cultural narratives of belonging/not belonging, Convivial cultures and the imagined communities, Creation of shared space(s) of multiple belongings, Cultural politics of survival/transgression, Multicultural exhaustion/renewal, Multiple and complex belongings, New imaginings/formations of home, Re-locating culture across borders,Seeking refuge, Trans-cultural displacement/belonging, unruly belonging(s)