Contemporary challenges and contexts of the local\, regional\, national \;and global raise urgent questions about cultural conviviality and \;cosmopolitan futures across the world. These are times when \;trans-cultural\, trans-national and multicultural belonging are \;particularly being tested through environmental catastrophe\, economic \;volatility\, parochialism\, fundamentalism\, notions of cosmopolitan and \;multicultural exhaustion\, and war. A key challenge lies in the \;paradox of culture\, in which belonging has become a fundamental \;question of preservation\, atavism\, tradition and survival as well as \;hybridity\, transgression\, possibility and transformation. The aim of \;this conference theme is to respond to this paradoxical challenge by \;opening up discussion\, critical reflection and analysis about \;emerging social and cultural identities that are formed at the \;intersection of multiple and multi-sited belongings.
\nWe welcome papers that focus on (but not limited to):
\nThe submission of other topics for consideration is also welcome and \;we encourage sessions within and across a variety of related \;disciplines and fields. Please note that you are asked to submit only \;ONE proposal of any kind to the ACCS 2013 conference.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by February \;1\, 2013. 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\, 2013.
All accepted authors may have their full paper published in the \;online conference proceedings. Full text submission is due by July 1\, \;2013. The deadline for full conference payment for all presenters is \;May 1\, 2013.
We hope that the conference theme will encourage academic and \;personal encounters and exchanges across national\, religious\, \;cultural and disciplinary divides.