The digital age transformed the traditional forms of violence but also caused new ones. The hopes to overcome the negative sides of the human community in the age of Internet and social networks have come true only to a certain degree. New 'weaker' and more democratic communication modes reproduce the system of control and overall oppressing structure of victimization, but in an even more inclusive sense.
The legitimacy of "Europe" and "the West" as identifiable territorial and imagined entities is in crisis. The awareness has grown of a world becoming more polycentric. At the same time, the field of Discourse Studies is growing at a dazzling rate across the globe. Discourse Studies is known for theoretical orientations and methodological tools that account for meaning production as a social practice mobilizing languages, media and technologies.
Discourse Studies cover a growing field of interdisciplinary research on meaning making practices, communicative activities and symbolic representations. Cultural studies, linguistics, media analysis, geography, and history, among others, highlight the role of texts, pictures and language in the constitution of truth and reality. Actor-oriented disciplines such as political science, sociology, pedagogy or economics and management studies are interested in the formation of subjectivities,
Discourse can be addressed as a vehicle for power, a positioning practice which enlightens the role and the relationship among the speakers. Power is a way of defying and measure relationships and interactions between individuals. These relations and interactions lead one part to affirm its will against another part, no matter on what bases this will is grounded (Weber, 1974).
Friday 11th September 2009, Aston University
This one-day conference will explore the possibilities and problems of employing ethnographically sensitive approaches to language and communication research across a wide range of disciplines and topics (including health, education, social and political processes, culture and identity).
Plenary speakers are Professor Jan Blommaert (Department of Languages, University of Jyvaskyla) and Professor Martyn Hammersley (The Open University).
Dear all,
Perhaps someone is interested in proposing a panel/paper for the section „Developments of and in International Organisations – From Interstate Cooperation to Global Order?“ I am organizing together with a colleague for the ECPR 2011 in Reykjavik (25-27 August). I attached a description of the section but you can also find it at http://www.ecprnet.eu//conferences/general_conference/Reykjavik/propose… (section 82).
Deadline for submissions is 1 September 2010.
6th Lodz Symposium
New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics (NDLP2012)
University of Łódź, Poland
Chair of Pragmatics
Łódź, 26-28 May 2012
http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/ndlp2012
1. CALL FOR PAPERS
Part of the Research Program on: Aesthetic Lives, Artistic Selves
International Network for Alternative Academia
(Extends a general invitation to participate)
The Centre for Archive and Information Studies (CAIS) at the University of Dundee invites proposals for the fourth inter-disciplinary conference in the ‘Investigating the Archive: Memory & Identity’ programme, being held on 24-25 April 2014.
Language: English
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2014
Organisers:
• Center for World Music (CWM), University of Hildesheim (Germany)
• Department of Music & Dance, University of Cape Coast (Ghana)
• Department of Education, University of Maiduguri (Nigeria)
• African Music Archives (AMA), Department of Anthropology and African
Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany)