The 16th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS2026)

Event Dates

May 09, 2026 - May 13, 2026

Location

Tokyo

Submission Deadline

Nov 27, 2025

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Welcome to The 16th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS2026)

Held in partnership with the IAFOR Research Centre at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, this international conference encourages academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum stimulating respectful dialogue. This event will afford an exceptional opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, networking, and facilitating partnerships across national and disciplinary borders.

Submissions are organised into the following streams:

*STREAMS*

Area Studies

Architecture and Urban Studies/Design

Cultural Studies

Education / Pedagogy

Environmental Studies

Disability Studies

Feminism / Black Feminism

Gender Studies / Feminist Theory

Geography

Gerontology/ Ageing Studies

Geology/Earth Sciences/Social Geography

History

Indigenous Studies – world wide

Journalism

Legal Studies

Linguistics, Language and Cultural Studies

Literary Studies / All genres/ Theory

Media Studies

Medical Studies / Nursing / Health and Well-being

Musicology

NGO policies and practice

Politics/ political Studies/ Political Sciences

Postcolonial Studies

Orientalism

Political Philosophy

Political Theory

Race Theory

The World Refugee Crisis

Queer Theory

Sciences

Social Criticism

Sociology

Psychology

Psychiatry

United Nations

Visual Culture

Women’s Studies