As the country that gave the world the novel one thousand years ago, and subsequently haiku and manga, Japan's long and rich literary history make it an ideal place to bring together academics, writers, and librarians to celebrate, debate, and explore their common passion. The aim of this International Conference is to encourage academics, scholars and practitioners representing a exciting diversity of countries, cultures, and religions to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue.

LibrAsia 2013 is not only an academic conference, but will again this year offer a number of talks, workshops, and readings of original works, in the context of an exciting long weekend of interdisciplinary and intercultural discussion. The Land of the Rising Sun offers an amazing juxtaposition of cultures, of east and west, of religiousand secular, and of course the conference theme of "Connectedness, Identity and Alienation" in Literature.

Submissions will be organized into the following streams:

Literature

Literature: African Literature
Literature: Ancient & Classical Literature
Literature: Anglo-American Literature
Literature: Arabic/Middle Eastern Literature
Literature: Asian Literature
Literature: Children's and Young Adult Literature
Literature: Comparative Literature
Literature: European Literature
Literature: Folktales, Myths and Legends
Literature: Historical and Political Literature
Literature: Indigenous People's/Ethnic Literatures & Minority Discourses
Literature: Latin American Literature
Literature: Literary Criticism and Theory
Literature: Literary Practice
Literature: Literary Translation and Translatology
Literature: Literature and Film
Literature: Literature, Language and Identity
Literature: Literature and Religion
Literature: Poetry
Literature: Manuscriptology, Textual and Genetic Criticism
Literature: Memoir and Autobiography
Literature: Teaching Literature
Literature: Travel Writing
Literature: Theatre and Drama

Librarianship

Librarianship: Cataloging and Classification
Librarianship: Censorship, Ownership and Intellectual Property
Librarianship: Library Research and Development
Librarianship: Protecting and Preserving Librarianship: 21st Century Problems and Solutions