ECCS 2014 - The Inaugural European Conference on Cultural Studies

ECCS 2014 - The Inaugural European Conference on Cultural Studies 24th to 27th July 2014 Brighton, United Kingdom Abstract Submission Deadline Extended: June 1, 2014 2014 Conference Theme: Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing Enquiries: eccs@iafor.org Web address: http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/eccs2014/ Sponsored by: IAFOR - The International Academic Forum 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. Join us in Brighton this July for our European Conferences 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 and 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 and Institutional Alliance â �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. 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, please visit the journal page under the "Research" tab on the website. www.iafor.org 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 â �The Inaugural European Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences ECERP2014 â �The Inaugural European Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy