Conference

In photography, the lens of a camera can be tilted and shifted to create new perspectives. Using discourse analysis as a lens enables us to gain new perspectives on the social world and generate new insights into influences and changes in a range of social phenomena. Discourse analysis encompasses a diverse range of analytical techniques and draws on a variety of theoretical and epistemological perspectives. Through an examination of talk, text and associated social practices, issues of identity, agency, structure, representation, power and practice can be addressed.

ADVANCING CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

The 7th Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) will be held at the University of Adelaide on Monday 18th - Wednesday 20th April, 2011.

A series of workshops for postgraduate students and emerging researchers will be held on Sunday 17th April, 2011.

We are delighted to include Professor Raewyn Connell and Associate Professor Pat Dudgeon as keynote speakers. More keynote speakers will be announced soon!

About the conference

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Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31, 2011

IGALA 7 (7th International Gender and Language Association Conference)
invites submissions for oral presentations, posters, organized round tables
(aka panels), and workshops on all scientific approaches and disciplines to
analyzing and interpreting the relationships among language, gender and
sexuality.

The special theme of this edition is:

Narrative pragmatics: Culture, cognition, context.

But as always, the conference is open to ALL OTHER PRAGMATICS-RELATED TOPICS as well (where pragmatics is conceived broadly as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication).

Keynote Speakers:

Ernesto Laclau

Paula Biglieri (University of Buenos Aires)

Oliver Marchart (Universität Luzern)

Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Jelica Šumič Riha (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

Deadline for the receipt of abstracts: 31 January 2014

The politics of remembering and forgetting are important social and cultural issues. The authority, power and resources with which to create hegemonic versions of the past – to give authoritative accounts that are available in the public domain – are largely the property of institutions. Questions of power, voice, representation and identity are central to Cultural and Collective Memory.

Conference Keynote: Lisa Blackman, Professor in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths

Supported by the Centre for Feminist Research, Department of Media and Communications, and the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths.

Proposals are due by Friday 14 February 2014

Narratives are present in all societies. They are present in myths, legends, news, rumors, in historical and artistic texts, in politics, in everyday conversation. Stories are able to construct reality. As Roland Barthes suggested (1966) the most important issue is to describe the code by which the narrator and the reader are signified in a narrative. In this sense, an author is not the one who invents a narrative but the one who possesses best the code used by the participants.

Institution: Humber College / International Festival of Authors, Location: Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada

Judaism's long religious and cultural tradition has been subject to many and manifold transformations. Understanding the reasons behind and the dynamics of these transformations requires a theoretical approach to the nature and function of traditions in general and a methodological approach suitable to analyze specific shifts in the continuous development of traditions.