CFP: Intersecting Belongings: Cultural Conviviality and Cosmopolitan Futures

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.

We welcome papers that focus on (but not limited to):

• Seeking refuge
• Unruly belonging(s)
• Intersections of gender, race, religion, sexuality
• Transforming cultures
• Trans-cultural displacement/belonging
• New imaginings/formations of home
• Citizenship beyond borders
• Communication, new technologies and belonging
• Cultural narratives of belonging/not belonging
• Cultural politics of survival/transgression
• Cosmopolitan exhaustion/renewal
• Belonging in the Anthropocene
• Construction of identities
• Multiple and complex belongings
• Intersecting narratives and identity
• Re-locating culture across borders

The 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.