20th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS 2026)

The 20th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS 2026) explores Asian languages, cultures, histories, and societies through the lens of absence, exclusion, and negative space, addressing interdisciplinary perspectives on marginalization, disappearance, and cultural transformation across Asia and its diasporas.

Key Topics

• Marginalization and exclusion in Asian societies
• Language attrition, loss and cultural erasure
• Exile, displacement and stateless populations
• Censorship, self-censorship and silenced narratives
• Death, disappearance and cultural amnesia
• Nostalgia, utopias and non-places in Asia
• Biodiversity loss and environmental degradation
• The unspoken, incomplete and redacted in culture
• Negation, refusal and ellipsis in language use

Who should attend

• Anthropologists and sociologists
• Historians and political scientists
• Linguists and literary scholars
• Researchers in international relations and philosophy
• Humanities and social sciences academics
• Visual arts and cultural studies researchers