International conference : “Cultures in movement , 19th-21st centuries. The Stakes of Changing Cultures,Asia / the Americas and/or the Americas / Asia.” The10th and 11th of Octobre 2013, Faculté de Lettres,Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines (FLASH), Université de La Rochelle, France.This conference is part of a larger research project, focusing on societies, exchanges and power in theAmericas and the Asia / Pacific region, as well as questions of identity representation on an internationalscale. More precisely, it might be useful to re-think the very notion of culture by examining the experiences/ situations and the representations of those who chose – or were forced – to change cultures. The primarygoal is to study a cultural displacement within the geographical confines of the Americas / Asia Pacificregion, in which the CRHIA (Research center, international and Atlantic history) specializes. But beyond asimple study of migration, the secondary goal of this conference is to re-examine the very model ofintegration as it has sometimes been defined by historians, sociologists and anthropologists. (See, forexampleCommunalism and Globalisation in South Asia and its Diaspora by Deana Heath and ChandanaMathur, Routledge, 2010 andLe Monde romanesque chinois au XXe siècle. Modernités et identités byZhangYinde,Paris, Honoré Champion, 2003).Several approaches are possible, beyond the political and practical aspects of mobility. Broader definitionsof nationality, such as trans-nationality, multi-nationality and complex cultural identity could be proposed.For example, in his writings Du Weiming has shown that globalization has encouraged the emergence of a“Cultural China” which questions popular definitions of nationality and diaspora, and redefines theinteractions between center and periphery. Examinations of marginal cultures, whether cultural orlinguistic, are especially encouraged.Please send a short abstract (250 words) and a brief bio (including your name, professional affiliation and emailaddress), before 1 April 2013 to each of the following organizers:david.waterman[at]univ-lr.fr miceala.symington[at]univ-lr.fr martine.raibaud[at]univ-lr.frAccepted proposals will receive confirmation before 1 May 2013.  We plan to publish the conference proceedings in a peerreviewedvolume, but the editor insists on a strong engagement with the conference theme as a condition ofpublication.