The International Academic Forum is proud to announce the Third Asian Conference on Asian Studies to be held from May 24-26 2013 at the Ramada Osaka, Osaka, Japan.

Conference Theme: Intersecting Belongings: Cultural Conviviality and Cosmopolitan Futures

Contemporary contexts of the local, regional, national and global raise urgent questions about culutral conviviality and cosmopolitan futures across Asia. 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. 

The Conference Theme and organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives, including the following streams:

Indian and South Asian Studies South-East Asian Studies Central Asian Studies Chinese Studies Japaneses Studies Korean Studies Middle Eastern Studies Islamic Studies Hebrew and Judaic Studies Comparative Studies of Asian and East Asian Studies