Political discourse has long been the domain of critical linguists on the one hand, and political scientists on the other. Critical linguists understand political discourse primarily as language in the context of politics, while political science understands political discourses as ‘big D’ discourse (Gee 2005), as systems of knowledge and ideology.
The 17th DN conference on reflexivity and critique offers a venue for exploring the different ways in which reflexivity and critique can be deployed in order to shape (our understandings of) selves, discourses and societies in meaningful ways. To this end, this conference hopes to bring together researchers interested in (a) the role of reflexivity and critique in the study of discourse and/or in (b) the role of reflexivity and critique play in the social realities we investigate. Prof. Jan Blommaert, Prof. Johannes Angermüller, Prof. Marianne Winther-Jörgensen and Prof.
This call for papers is for a panel to be held at the 24th Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference (28-30 April 2017, Nottingham, UK). Apologies for any crossposting.
Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics in Language and Sexuality Studies
This call concerns a panel at the MANCEPT Workshops 2017 in Manchester, UK. The MANCEPT Workshops is an annual conference in political theory, organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory. This year’s conference will take place on Monday 11 September to Wednesday 13 September at the Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester. The conference offers academics an opportunity to come together in a series of workshops so as to develop specialised work and engage in lively philosophical discussion.
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)