Conference

Panel Title: Artificial Others: Bridges or Barriers? Discursive Perspectives on Robots in Polarised Societies

20th International Pragmatics Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland

Conference dates: 27 June-2 July 2027

Abstract submission by 15 September 2026 to: artificialothers@proton.me

Panel organisers: Emma Lupano, Bettina Mottura, Natalia Riva

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Panel description: 

Positioned within contemporary struggles over public meaning, social affiliation and political legitimacy, digital religion is articulated through mediated practices in which claims about faith, community, authority and truth become resources for negotiating belonging, morality, identity and power.

Since 2013—with a break due to the pandemic—the conference “The Discursive Construction of Reality” has been held every two years at the University of Augsburg. It brings together interdisciplinary contributions to the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) and related perspectives in discourse and dispositive research. The conference thus explicitly aims to foster interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary discussions and reflections on ongoing and completed research, as well as questions of theory, methodology, and methods.

We are pleased to announce that ICAME48 will take place in Helsinki (Finland) on 18–22 May 2027. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) is an annual international conference and one of the longest-standing organisations of linguists and data scientists working with English language corpora. The conference theme is The Times They Are A-Changin’, honouring the University of Helsinki English Unit’s longstanding tradition of studying language change with corpus-based methods.

IV. International Symposium on Clothing Culture in Social Sciences btw. 21.–23.10.2026 at the Marmara University, Istanbul (Hybrid)

During DN35, we want to reflect on (neo)authoritarianism today, its role in public discourse, and its impact on contemporary politics. We want to map the discursive construction of the (neo)authoritarian appeal across the Global North and South, and the ways in which they can be counteracted. We welcome a wide range of methodologies and approaches to researching these issues, including critical political, psychological, and post-structuralist discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and rhetorical analysis.

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