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June 18, 2008

The First International Conference on Popular Culture and Education in Asia

December 11 through 13, 2008

Dear Educators and Scholars,

We are pleased to inform you that The First International Conference on Popular Culture and Education in Asia is to be held at the Hong Kong Institute of Education from 11 to 13 December 2008. This conference will bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines to focus on the implications of intra-regional flows of popular culture in East and Southeast Asia for educational practices and youth development.

This conference welcomes researchers and scholars from the fields of Sociology, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Anthropology, Language and Literacy, Music, Visual Studies, Asian Studies, Education and other disciplines that popular culture seriously. It also welcomes papers that elucidate changing patterns in Asian popular culture as well as papers that explore implications and applications of youth engagement with popular culture inside and outside the classroom. Submission deadline of paper proposals is 31 August 2008.

For further details, please refer to the attached poster or visit the conference website at http://home.ied.edu.hk/~hkpop/conference.html. If you have any query, please feel free to contact the Conference Secretariat as follows:

Miss Dani Wong
English Department,
Hong Kong Institute of Education,
10 Lo Ping
Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong.
TEL: (852) 2948 8292
FAX: (852) 2948 7270 [write "attention: Ms Dani Wong" at head of fax]
E-MAIL: hkpop@ied.edu.hk

Thank you for your kind attention.

Best Regards,

Centre for Institutional Research and Development

The Hong Kong Institute of Education

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