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DIGITAL POLIS City facing digital: Stakes of a project conjugated in the future

DIGITAL POLIS
City facing digital : stakes of a project conjugated in the future

Two main axis will be developed during the colloquium : on the first day, this scientific event will attempt to draw an archaeology of the concepts that are at the basis of the so called Smart City, the second day will focus on social dynamics and processes of public participation within the city when facing digital. A concluding round table including members of the scientific committee will be attended.

18th International Warwick Postgraduate Conference in Applied Linguistics

The Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick is pleased to announce its 18th Postgraduate Conference from Tuesday, 23rd to Thursday, 25th June 2015. The postgraduate conference covers a wide range of topics including language teaching, intercultural communication, and academic or political discourse. The aim of the conference is to provide postgraduate students with the opportunity to present their research, to attend experts’ keynote presentations, to meet peers who engage in similar research activities and to get valuable feedback on their research.

Change and Innovation in the MENA Teaching/Learning Settings: Resistance or Receptivity

Call for Papers
Annual Conference of the Faculty of Humanities at Tunis in partnership with TESOL Arabia

Conference Theme:
Change and Innovation in the MENA Teaching/Learning Settings: Resistance or Receptivity

Dates and venue: 29-30 April 2016, Faculty of Humanities, Tunis, Tunisia

Violence, Space and the Political

In this multi-disciplinary conference we wish to think through the imbrications of violence, space, and the political. Given that our present conjuncture is one constituted by innumerable sites of apartheid, exclusion, oppression, and indeed, resistance(s), such an interrogation is both crucial and potentially productive in re-thinking questions of power and radical politics.

“Did anyone say Power?”: Rethinking Domination and Hegemony in Translation

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
• Professor Christina Schäffner (Aston University, Birmingham, UK)
• Dr Karen Bennett (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES), Portugal)
• Professor Luc van Doorslaer (University of Leuven, Centre for Translation Studies (CETRA), Belgium)
• Professor José Lambert (University of Leuven, Centre for Translation Studies (CETRA), Belgium)