Conference

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

[With apologies for cross-posting]

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:

- Nicholas Johnson, former FCC Commissioner and Visiting Faculty, University of Iowa College of Law
- Des Freedman, Reader in Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London

The Carsey-Wolf Center’s Media Industries Project [MIP] announces a call for participants in the Dirty, Sexy Policy Conference at UC Santa Barbara.

The goal of the joint conference is to promote both theoretical and
applied research in pragmatics, and bring together scholars who are
interested in different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical,
linguistic, cognitive, social, intercultural, interlanguage, etc.).
Three main topics of the conference are as follows:

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.

Keynote speakers: Jacques Guilhaumou (ENS Lyon); Gianni Silei (University of Siena); Ruth Wodak (University of Lancaster).