Conference

Since its beginnings in the late 19th century, the Blues has been more than a music style with a seminal impact on 20th century popular music. As a medium of social expression, it articulated the tribulations of an entire black culture, male and female. Discourses about race were as much an integral part of the evolution of the blues as were those of class, when young white kids - in America and European countries, especially the UK - adopted the music for their political and social ends.

The Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Malaya is pleased to announce the second University of Malaya Conference on Discourse and Society (UMDS 2010).

UMDS 2010: 'Interdiscplinary Approaches to Discourse' aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines to exchange ideas as well as offer new and critical perspectives and directions in research on discourse and society.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Ruth Wodak (University of Lancaster)
Prof Theo Van Leuwen (University of Technology Sydney).

An ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE to celebrate

25 years of the Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG)
10 years of the Culture and Media Analysis Research Group (CAMARG)

Plenary speakers include:

Charles Antaki
Michael Billig
David Buckingham
David Deacon
Teun A. Van Dijk
Paul Drew
Derek Edwards
Peter Golding
Jim McGuigan
Angela McRobbie
Graham Murdock
Mike Pickering
Jonathan Potter
Elizabeth Stokoe
Liesbet Van Zoonen

We welcome abstract submissions to the following thematic panel at the Sociolinguistic Symposium 19 at Freie Universität Berlin from August 22 to 24, 2012. Please use SS19 submission tool to submit abstracts to us. http://www.sociolinguistics-symposium-2012.de/

Deadline August 15

Sponsored by the Communication History Division of the International Communication Association
Date: May 22, 2014
Time: 8:30 AM – 5 PM

The question of materiality has emerged as a central topic in studies concerned with the body, affect, sexuality, bio-politics and digital culture in recent years. Under the umbrella term “new materialism”, this interdisciplinary and multifaceted academic debate seems to have revived a Marxist vocabulary. Yet, the question of why “materiality” matters in times of crisis capitalism is rather absent in this debate.

European integration goes back over 62 years including the European Coal and Steel Community. For a long time it remained closed to popular concern, and was mainly a matter for the political class and a few professions directly affected such as civil servants, financial and industrial elites and exporters, and specialist lawyers. Everything changed when the political and economic elites decided to transform the common market, with its famous common agricultural policy, into an Economic and Monetary Union.

[UN] Möglich!
Verkörperte und bewegte Heterotopien als Orte der Bildung
Tagung am Fachbereich 21 Erziehungswissenschaften veranstaltet vom
Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft und Institut für Sportwissenschaft und Motologie
3. – 5. März 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS
Die Tagung lädt ein, das Spannungsfeld Körperlichkeit, Bildung und sich darin bewegende Praktiken zu thematisieren – im Sinne eines kritischen Dialogs, im Modus der Empörung, aber auch als ein Feld der Exploration von Möglichkeiten.

Jornada de acceso libre y gratuito, abierta a todo público, organizada por el Proyecto de Reconocimiento Institucional “Construcción de hegemonía discursiva e identidades políticas” y por Semiótica de los Medios II – Cátedra G. Varela.