Location: Japan

Special Theme: “Connectedness, Identity and Alienation in the Arts and Humanities”

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. For more details about submitting an abstract, please scroll down the page.

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

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

Deadline for submission of abstracts (250 words): February 1 2013 Results of abstract reviews returned to authors: Usually within two weeks of submission Deadline for submission of full papers: May 1 2013 Deadline for full conference registration payment for all presenters: March 1 2013

Melissa Choi
Email: acah@iafor.org
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