The discourse seminar: truth, power, critique

Are you interested in the study of discourse? This online seminar is open for graduate students and early-career researchers who want to deepen their theoretical understanding of discourse and to develop their discourse research project. We started in fall 2024 and our discussions centred on the question of truth and critique.

In this new cycle, we will build on these achievements and broaden our insights. The core group consists of Irene Ktori, Michael Schmidlehner, Thiago Augusto Pereira, Adel Tayebi, Johannes Angermuller. Members of the group work on ideas such as the discursive construction of technology (Adel), family policies (Irene) truth and post-truth discourse (Johannes), environment and psychoanalysis (Michael), right-wing book publishers (Thiago).

In order to participate, you will fulfil the following four conditions:

1) You are a motivated early-career researcher working on a topic relevant to this area.
2) You want to  commit to preparing and attending a bi-weekly seminar of around two hours. This will mean regular involvement, reading some texts and also presenting your own work.
3) You will be available to meet for the kick-off meeting on Friday, September 19 and 26 2-4pm (London time). The seminar will then take place every two weeks until December and the programme will be posted here.
4) You will give an idea of your background (possibly with a CV), your research ideas (a proposal if available) and how you might relate/contribute to the event.

If you are interested, please contact us through the group webpage (https://discourseanalysis.net/discourseseminar) and sign up as soon as you can. In the first step, you will need to create a user account on the platform (http://www.discourseanalysis.net) and in the second you go to the group webpage and click on join. You need to to send your expression of interest to Johannes Angermuller (johannes.angermuller@open.ac.uk).

The number of places is limited to around ten people. Once the group is established, regular attendance will be key to the success of this group. You are invited to join the group on the webpage. All participants agree to being recorded.

We'll be happy to hear from you.

Johannes Angermuller (Open University, UK and DiscourseNet) together with Irene Ktori, Michael Schmidlehner, Thiago Augusto Pereira, Adel Tayebi.