Keynote speaker:
Ernesto Laclau
University of Essex/Northwestern University
8-10 September 2008
Roskilde University, Denmark
Organizing Committee
Torben Dyrberg & Allan Dreyer Hansen (Roskilde University)
Jason Glynos, David Howarth & Aletta Norval (University of Essex)
Over the course of the last 25 years, the Essex School in Ideology and Discourse Analysis has established itself as an important and distinctive
alternative to mainstream social science approaches. Established in 1982 by Professor Ernesto Laclau, the intellectual programme in Ideology and Discourse
Analysis draws on a wide range of traditions and disciplines to develop a novel set of conceptual tools intended to enhance theoretical, empirical, and
normative research.
Taking an anti-essentialist conception of discourse as a central theoretical category, the IDA programme draws on and engages with post-marxism,
post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, post-Heideggerian phenomenology and hermeneutics, post-analytical philosophy, among others. Discourse theory, as
deployed by the IDA research programme has thus come to be associated with a series of proper names, such as Marx, Gramsci, Althusser, Saussure, Barthes,
Laclau and Mouffe, Lacan, Zizek, Derrida, Wittgenstein, and Foucault.
It is in the context of its now quarter-century history that we are pleased to announce the inaugural IDA world conference, held at Roskilde University,
Denmark. This conference aims to support the continuing development of the IDA approach and to establish dialogues with related approaches. The conference
is thus designed to offer opportunities for discussion and debate on a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive topics of analysis.
Panel topics might include:
Political theory
Post-marxism
Discourse Analysis
Identity
Ideology
Ethics
Critique
Psychoanalysis
Rhetoric
Democracy
Critical Management Studies
Critical Policy Analysis
Policy Networks
Political Economy
Methodology
Multiculturalism
Islamism
New world orders
Environmentalism
We welcome paper and/or panel proposals from all scholars with an interest in ideology and discourse analysis. We also welcome paper proposals from
doctoral students.
Paper proposals should include name and affiliation of presenter, title of paper, and abstract (max 200 words). Please send to adh@ruc.dk
Panel proposals should include name and affiliation of panel convenor, as well as panel title and short panel description. In addition, panel proposals
should include name and affiliation of panel chair and three presenters, of which one may be a discussant. Include name and affiliation, title, and
abstract for each panel paper. Please
send panel proposals to adh@ruc.dk.
Deadline for panel and paper proposals: 21 May 2008
The conference is organized by the World Network in Ideology and Discourse Analysis (IDA World) in association with Department of Society and
Globalisation, Roskilde University. Additional supporters of the conference comprise the Centre for Theoretical Studies in the Humanities and Social
Sciences and the Department of Government, both of the University of Essex.