Call for Papers; The 2013 Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (conference host: Japan)

18 August 2012
Call for Papers; The 2013 Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (conference host: Japan)
Deadline: 1 December 2012

The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2013
Connectedness, Identity and Alienation in the Arts and Humanities
April 4-7 2013, at the Ramada Hotel, Osaka, Japan

The conference offers the suggestion of an optional themes to concentrate the mind; “Connectedness, Identity and Alienation in the Arts and Humanities”, and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this themes 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 inter/disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.

Submissions are organized into the following thematic streams:

ARTS
  • Teaching and Learning the Arts
  • Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy
  • Arts Theory and Criticism
  • Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
  • Visual Arts Practices
  • Performing Arts Practices: Theatre, Dance, Music
  • Literary Arts Practices
  • Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media
  • Other Arts
HUMANITIES
  • Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication
  • Aesthetics, Design
  • Language, Linguistics
  • Knowledge
  • Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness
  • History, Historiography
  • Literature/Literary Studies*
  • Political Science, Politics
  • Teaching and Learning
  • Globalisation
  • Ethnicity, Difference, Identity
  • Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation
  • First Nations and Indigenous Peoples
  • Sexuality, Gender, Families
  • Religion, Spirituality
  • Cyberspace, Technology
  • Science, Environment and the Humanities
  • Other Humanities
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by the deadline. 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 December 1 deadline will receive confirmation of acceptance or rejection by December 15 2012.

All accepted authors may have their full paper published in the online conference proceedings. Full text submission is due by May 1 2013. The deadline for full conference payment for all presenters is March 15 2013.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries: acah@iafor.org

For submissions: via the online submission system

Website: http://acah.iafor.org/
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