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Cutting Edges Research: Competing Discourses

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A conference for those researching in the fields of applied linguistics, TESOL, modern languages, intercultural communication and education

Friday 6th July 2012

Department of English and Language Studies
Canterbury Christ Church University
Canterbury, England

Invited Speakers:

Ben Rampton, King’s College, London
Adrian Holliday, Canterbury Christ Church University

Irony: Framing (post)modernity. 4th Graduate Conference in Culture Studies

Irony, either as a paradigmatic strategy of inquiry and critique or as a trait of character and existential perspective, has deeply informed Western culture and its philosophical and political tradition. The contemporary presence of irony in arts and everyday life – in the use of quotation, appropriation, pastiche, parody, kitsch, etc. – while questioning authenticity and authority, often conceals a lack of commitment that might be seen as a revival of the Jena romantics’ epistemological view, in some cases taken to a solipsistic extreme.

Communication, Postcoloniality, and Social Justice: Decolonizing Imaginations

Keynote Speakers:
Arjun Appadurai (New York University, USA),
Inderpal Grewal (Yale University, USA), and
Ravi Sundaram (Center for the Study of Developing Societies, India)

Plenary Speakers: Ramesh Srinivasan (USA); Mohan J. Dutta (Singapore); Shanti Kumar (USA), Ramaswamy Harindranath (Australia); Nitin Govil (USA); John Erni (Hong Kong); Aniko Imre (USA); Radhika Parameswaran (USA); Soyini Madison (USA); Raka Shome (USA); Boulou Ebanda De B’Beri (Canada) (These are confirmed so far; we are awaiting confirmation from other speakers.)

The analysis of political discourse: confronting approaches (Section, ECPR General Conference)

The Standing Group on Political Methodology of the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) organises a section on "The analysis of political discourse: confronting approaches" at the next ECPR General Conference in Montreal, Canada, 26-29 August 2015.

The section welcomes paper or panel proposals on any issue related to the analysis of political discourse, and working with a variety of methodological approaches, from quantitative text analysis to various strands of discourse analysis. Proposals from disciplines other than political science are very welcome.

Discourses of European identity at times of ‘Brexit’- CfP - Panel Proposal for the Conference on “Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders”, Athens, 23-25 Sep. 2016

Submissions are invited for the panel proposal ‘Discourses of European identity at times of ‘Brexit’’ organised by Franco Zappettini, Royal Holloway, University of London, to be presented at the 1st International Conference on “Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders”, Athens, Greece, September 23-25th 2016

ECA Fribourg 2017 2nd European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Inference

The European Conference on Argumentation (ECA) is a pan-European biennial initiative aiming to consolidate and advance various strands of research on argumentation and reasoning by gathering scholars from a range of disciplines. After a successful 1st edition held in Lisbon in 2015, ECA will be hosted in 2017 by the Department of English at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. While based in Europe, ECA involves and encourages participation from argumentation scholars all over the world.

Discourses of the Ukrainian Conflict: Linguistic Creativity in the Time of Crisis

We invite submission of abstracts for a panel entitled “Discourses of the Ukrainian Conflict: Linguistic Creativity in the Time of Crisis”, to be proposed as a part of The Seventh International Conference on Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD 2018), which will take place 4-6 July 2018 and will be hosted by Aalborg University, Denmark.