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6th International RCA Conference: "Communication in a Changing Society"

The Russian Communication Association (RCA) in collaboration with Eurasian Communication Association of North America (ECANA) and the Institute of Philology and Language Communication at Siberian Federal University are happy to announce the forthcoming 6th International RCA Conference: "Communication in a Changing Society".

4th New Zealand Discourse Conference

4th New Zealand Discourse Conference

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.

Professor Allan Bell
Director, Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication, Auckland University of Technology.

Analyzing the Black Political Community: People, Policy, Process, and Politics in an Era of Globalization

Just a reminder, the NCOBPS Submission deadline is only 4 weeks away. Please take a moment this week to put together a paper or panel proposal for the 2014 annual meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (www.ncobps.org). The 2014 meeting will be held in Wilmington, DE, March 12, 2014 at the Doubletree Hotel – Legal District.

Language as a constitutive element of a gendered society. Developments, perspectives, and possibilities in the Slavic languages

After a somewhat restrained start, linguistic gender studies have evolved into a permanent part of the curriculum in Slavonic linguistics. They have been fueled by sociopolitical developments in post-socialist countries since the end of communism; they have been, and continue to be, influenced substantially by American and Western European gender studies to this date. The conference "Language as a constitutive element of a gendered society.

14th International Pragmatics Conference

This is just to remind you that the first deadline for the 14th International Pragmatics Conference (Antwerp, Belgium, July 26-31 2015) is approaching:

- The deadline for panel proposals: 1 June 2014 (unlike on earlier occasions, there is no second round).

- Contributions to accepted panels, and individual submissions for posters and lectures must be sent in by 15 October 2014

BreMM15: Second International Symposium on the Theory and Practice of Multimodal Research. Interdisciplinary Conference at Bremen University, Germany, 21-22 September 2015.

Multimodality is one of the most influential semiotic theories for analyzing media artefacts nowadays, and it enjoys growing popularity globally. However, this popularity does not imply universality: the empirical application and even the conceptual anchoring of multimodality often remain nationally and regionally grounded. Definitions of modality and even mediality thus differ from each other in terms of their starting points. From a German national perspective, language remains the main point of description.

How to act together: From collective engagement to protest

3rd International conference of the Group for Social Engagement Studies
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

***How to act together: From collective engagement to protest***

Belgrade, November 19-21, 2015

Keynote speaker: Judith Butler

Description

The conference will explore the broad issue of action – in its various sociological and philosophical traditions – and the particular question of collective engagement in its contemporary forms of protest assemblies.