Call for Papers | Final Abstract Submission Deadline is February 12, 2026

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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