LibrAsia 2013

The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global partners is proud to announce the Third Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship, to be held from April 4-7 2013, at the Ramada Osaka, Osaka, Japan.

Special Theme: "Connectedness, Identity and Alienation"

The 2013 conference theme is "Connectedness, Identity and Alienation" in literature, and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this unifying subject from a variety of perspectives.

However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of inter/disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. For more details about submitting an abstract, please scroll down the page.

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

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by the deadline of December 1 2012. All abstracts will be blind reviewed by a voluntary team, and authors will usually be notified of the decision of the reviewers within two weeks of submission. Those who submit near the December 1 deadline will receive confirmation of acceptance or rejection by December 15 2012. All accepted authors may have their full paper published in the online conference proceedings. Full text submission is due by May 1 2013. The deadline for full conference payment for all presenters is March 15 2013.