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Announcement on Cultural Typhoon 2017 Call for papers
The Association for Cultural Typhoon (Japan) invites proposals for panels and individual papers for the 2017 annual conference to be held at Waseda University, Tokyo, from 24 to 25 June 2017.
Individual presentations should be 25 minutes in length with five minutes for questions and discussion. Group presentations should be 90 minutes in length, including questions and discussion.
＜Application＞
To submit your proposal, please download the forms from below and email it to
apply.cultural.typhoon@gmail.com an attachment file.
The First deadline for 20 December, 2016.
＜Conference Aim＞
How should cultural studies respond to the rapid changes of contemporary society? While on the one hand globalisation and neo-liberalism have become rampant, as is the evident from the Brexit referendum result, there are strong pockets of resistance to the effect of these forces. The exchange and movement of information has dramatically developed in complexity. In fields that range from interpersonal relationships to commercial enterprise connections can now be made with the speed of light leading to a society that is interconnected as never before. In this context, what changes occurs in actual ‘culture’ and in the notion of ‘culture’? How do we interpret the power to construct such a society? Given the nature of recent social changes, how should cultural studies update itself in order to continue to have meaning? The aim of the 2017 Cultural Typhoon is to provide a forum in which participants can devise a new cultural studies paradigm that is relevant to contemporary society.
＜For Non-members of the Association for Cultural Typhoon＞
All individual paper participants and panel representatives should pay a ‘Paper Presentation Registration Fee’ after receiving an acceptance of your proposal.
Paper Presentation Registration Fee (Pay after receiving acceptance of proposal)
- Employed (full-time) 5000 yen
- Other 3000 yen
2017 Conference Registration Fee (Pay after receiving acceptance of proposal)
- Employed (full-time) 3000 yen
- Other 1000 yen
*If you would like to register as an ACT member, you need not pay Paper Presentation Registration Fee.
＜Association for Cultural Typhoon Members＞
If you are currently a member of the Association for Cultural Typhoon, you do not need to pay a Paper Presentation Registration Fee.
If you are a representative of your panel, you can invite non-ACT members as panelists. These panelists will not need to pay a Presentation Registration Fee.
Association for Cultural Typhoon Annual Membership Fee (from 2017 fiscal year)
- Employed (full-time) 10000 yen
- Employed（part-time) 6000 yen
- Student 4000 yen
2017 Conference Registration Fee (Pay after receiving acceptance of proposal)
- Employed (full-time) 3000 yen
- Other 1000 yen
＜Enquiry＞
If you wish to enquire about paper presentation, please email to info.ct2017@gmail.com
If you wish to enquire about your current membership status, please email Dr. Hiroki INOUE , the Treasurer, ACT association.ct.secretary@gmail.jp.
Announcement on Cultural Typhoon 2017
Place: Waseda University
Date: 24th, 25th June 2017
Cultural Typhoon 2017 will be held at Waseda University on 24-25 June 2017. For the first time ever, the Cultural Typhoon conference will be held in Tokyo in consecutive years. Our reason for holding the conference again in Tokyo is not at all to privilege a particular place, but to improve the organization of Cultural Typhoon.
There is no doubt that Cultural Typhoon has become a popular and important cultural studies event that attracts many participants, from within Japan and abroad, because it is a site where not only scholars but also activists and ordinary citizens can gather and communicate with each other. However, Cultural Typhoon has struggled as an academic association of cultural studies (Association for Cultural Typhoon) since its establishment 4 years ago, and now is actively seeking to increase its membership and regain financial health. We should remember that the Association for Cultural Typhoon is a community with shared problems and purposes, and that each member’s vigorous commitment is crucial to keep this community active and growing.
At the 2016 annual general meeting of the Association, the current state of Cultural Typhoon forced us to make the decision to raise the membership fee and limit the presentations of papers at Cultural Typhoon to members of the Association. We need to continue to reconstruct the organization of the Association to revitalize it and refashion Cultural Typhoon. For these reasons, at the committee meeting, we decided to hold this year’s conference in Tokyo. We selected Waseda University as the venue for Cultural Typhoon 2017, and members of the organizing committee will be able to coordinate closely.
Waseda University is the place to hold the first Cultural Typhoon in 2003. Now the second tour of Cultural Typhoon starts!
Call for Paper for The Annual Review of Cultural Studies (vol.5)
Dear Friends,
The Annual Review of Cultural Studies, the journal of Association for Cultural Typhoon, is now eagerly calling for your paper for the fifth issue. Especially we expect that all the presentation papers of Cultural Typhoon 2016 will be refined and sent to us, the Editorial Board.
Every member of Association for Cultural Typhoon is entitled to contribute.
Please read “Notes for Contributors” on the web page and we hope you would take full advantage of this new publication as a site of your free and ambitious endeavor. The deadline of submission is 30th November 2016, and you can send your article only through the web to :
contribution_act@cultural-typhoon.sakura.ne.jp
We are looking forward to reading your work of great effort.
The Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Cultural Studies
Dear members of Association for Cultural Typhoon (ACT)
We are pleased to be able to deliver the third issue of Annual Review of Cultural Studies at the annual conference of Cultural Typhoon. It includes, in addition to the special feature of <Capital>, reviewed contributions from young members and remarkably rich contents of book and film reviews. We would like to thank all ACT members who have submitted manuscripts for this issue and kindly and professionally reviewed them.
We have already started taking the submission of papers for the fifth issue. We very much look forward to having many manuscripts from the members, young researchers and graduate students in particular, so please be encouraged. Please see our website for more details（http://cultural-typhoon.com/act/jp/contribution/）.
Once again, many thanks for your active participation and support for ACT. We sincerely ask for your continuous cooperation!
Shunya Yoshimi
The Chair of ACT