Conference

Few studies have been conducted on the topic of media in minority context. However, in
today’s plurilingual and multicultural societies, their role in the functioning of democracy
and in the construction of minorities’ cultural identities is crucial. These media are both
channels of communication and gathering places or common areas for communities. By
connecting individuals who share the same language, these media reinforce solidarity
within minority groups as well as their cultural identity, both at the local and global levels.

That there is a relationship between publicness and democracy has often been taken for granted. However, at this time of widespread instability, political upheaval and experimentation, when publics are increasingly being called upon to act, it is sometimes in the name of democracy, but not always. By exploring how ideas and practices of publicness and democracy are being constituted, enacted, related and reconfigured in different settings, this workshop aims to investigate the modes of public action and democracy being invoked, imagined and struggled over around the world.

4th New Zealand Discourse Conference
02.12.13-04.12.13
AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand

2-4 December 2013
Deadline for abstracts: 26 July 2013

AUT University, Auckland
New Zealand

Confirmed keynote speakers

Professor Cindy Gallois
Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland.

Professor Adam Jaworski
Professor of Language and Communication, The University of Hong Kong.

This is a call for papers from the section LANGUAGE & MEDIA of the German Association for Semiotic Studies (DGS)

Call for Papers: “Discourse and Delineation / Discourse on the Border: Constructing and Breaking Taboos” at the 14th International Congress of the German Association for Semiotic Studies (DGS) Tübingen, Germany

Heads of the section: Ellen Fricke (TU Chemnitz, Germany), Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich (University of Bern, Switzerland), Roland Posner (TU Berlin, Germany), Daniel Rellstab (University of Vaasa, Finland)

The 7th Knowledge Cities World Summit (KCWS-2014) will be held in Tallinn, Estonia, which has been awarded as one among Top 7 Intelligent Communities in 2013. Estonia is often called "e-Estonia" to describe Estonia's emergence as one of the most advanced e-societies in the world and Estonians have the privilege to enjoy a large range of e-solutions and services. Since Estonia is willing to be the example for others who wish to follow the same path, the theme of "knowledge-based services" is selected as the overall theme of KCWS-2014.

i-mean 4@ Warwick: Language and Impact

09.04.2015-11.04.2015

Abstract Submission Deadline: 31st JAN

University of Warwick

Content
The i-mean 4 conference will address the relationship between language and impact:

The session will discuss empirical research on discourses and regimes of power/knowledge in different social areas, using the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD). This perspective on discourses and their analysis draws on Foucault, Berger and Luckmann and the interpretative paradigm of sociology including symbolic interactionism and "communicative constructivism". In comparison to the Foucauldian tradition, SKAD focuses more on social actors and societal arenas of discursive disputes.

La Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, a través del Cuerpo Académico de Análisis del Discurso y Semiótica de la Cultura, en coordinación con la Facultad de Psicología de la UNAM con el Proyecto Emergencia e Interculturalidad (PAPIIT -IT300116) invita a las XII Jornadas Antropológicas de Literatura y Semiótica.
A llevarse a cabo el 5, 7 y 9 de SEPTIEMBRE en la ENAH
y el 6 y 8 en la Fac. de Psicología. UNAM

Sedes: PSICOLOGÍA UNAM y ENAH

The organising committee of the 2nd International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics (UPCEL) are pleased to invite predoctoral students in English Linguistics programmes, including both PhD and Master's degree students, to participate in our second instantiation, which will be held on September 20, 21 and 22, 2017 at the Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. This conference is organised by the PhD Programme in English Linguistics of UCM, which has consistently maintained an Excellence Distinction by the Spanish Ministry of Education since 2004.

In today’s world, shaken by the effects of globalization, the aftermath of the financial crisis and widespread political corruption, people in many countries are reaching out for radical political solutions. In many parts of Europe, experts have perceived a growing mistrust of conventional politics: as the perceived gap between citizens and their representatives has widened, new political formations have arisen that promise to shake up the status quo and give more concrete expression to people’s real needs and desires.