Building on its longstanding engagement with journalism theory and practice, the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) launches its sixth international conference, devoted to the study of categories, generalizations and clichés in journalistic language and journalism practice.
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to circulate the Second Call for Papers for the 9th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL9), which will take place at the University of Valencia (Spain), 9–11 September 2026.
The conference Digital Humanities: (In)convenient Practices, Limits, and Perspectives aims to explore the potential, challenges, and implications of digital technologies in various fields of the arts, linguistics, literature, and education. The initiative aims to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue and promote new connections between PhD students from different research backgrounds, in a manner fully consistent with the vocation of Digital Humanities.
Critical Policy Discourse Analysis – International Conference 2026 is a three‑day international gathering dedicated to the critical study of policy texts, talk, and wider discursive practices. Hosted at The Mowbray, Kelham Island (Sheffield, UK), the conference brings together scholars who work on policy text and discourse from a critical perspective, with a particular focus on Critical Policy Discourse Analysis (CPDA).
Invitation to send in abstracts for the panel "Tranformations of political discourse", organised by Johannes Angermuller.
The DN34 International Conference on Discourse, Identity and Polarisation will be held 10–12 November 2026 at Vilnius University and online. The call for papers and panel proposals is open until 15 May 2026. This hybrid conference provides an interdisciplinary space for examining how individual and group identities are discursively constructed in today’s increasingly polarised societies, and how discourse both reflects and shapes emerging social divisions.
Disinformation is commonly discussed through a set of dominant narratives, such as the claim that we live in a post-factual era, that we are witnessing an unprecedented boom of disinformation and conspiracy theories, that disinformation is the main driver of societal polarization, or that language itself is losing its meanings. Regardless of the empirical validity of these narratives, disinformation and conspiracy theories have become a central topic across many scientific disciplines.
The International conference “Humanities – Challenges & Prospects” organized by the Faculty of Humanities to mark the 55th anniversary of
Communicating (with) Non-Humans. Animals and Machines as Interlocutors
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Decades after formal decolonisation, anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism have remained a wellspring of inspiration and contestation. Studies about anticolonial thought, the 1955 Bandung Conference, and transcontinental solidarity movements have proliferated in academia and activist networks, providing the basis of theories and practices of resistance in contemporary times. Nevertheless, the ideas and the movements they inspired did not perish with the epoch that produced them.