Call for Papers! Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2025! Geo-Social Connection: The Continuing Journey of Critical Inquiry !
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies’s vocation to reconnect political and cultural societies in Asia must be understood as an active resistance to the powers that sever the ties between them. Such powers may take forms of colonial expropriation, capitalist dispossession, or Cold War partitioning. This year’s IACS Conference theme, “Geo-Social Connection: The Continuing Journey of Critical Inquiry,” reiterates interconnectedness as an Inter-Asian key concept while highlighting the importance of geography and society as material sites of knowledge production at a continental level. We intentionally experiment with a neologism “geo-social” in this CfP as a conceptual heuristic that may encapsulate Inter-Asian connections defined by, yet being forged beyond, the “geopolitical.”
We promote these subthemes because they reflect the interests of the organizers and IACS Society members. The Program Committee indeed welcomes every critical inquiry related to Asia from all (inter)disciplines, especially sessions that creatively and innovatively advance knowledge production from/about Asia. We particularly encourage proposals that engage with Inter-Asian and cultural studies frameworks .
We are pleased to invite colleagues to submit proposals for Organized Clusters (3-hour workshop session of 6-10 participants), Organized Panels (90-minute session of 3-4 panelists), Roundtables (90-minute session of 3-6 contributors), and Individual Papers . We strongly encourage organized sessions rather than individual submissions.
The deadline for application is November 1, 2024 .
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