Conference

CRAL‐2009: Figurative Language Learning and Figurative Language Use: Theory and Applications. An International Conference in Honor of Professor Paul Meara (University of Swansea)
Call for Papers
Call Deadline: September 1, 2009
Acceptance notification: September 10
Registration deadline: October 15
Date: October, 29‐31, 2009

Conference Theme: Dialogue and Representation

We invite researchers to submit proposals that address the connections of representation and dialogue, which can be problematized in at least the three following ways:
1. Dialogue as representation,
2. Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues, and
3. Representations of dialogue.
The conference also welcomes any contribution addressing the question of dialogue.

*Keynote speakers:*
Luc Boltanski (France)
Kathrine Gibson (Australia)
Anne Balsamo (USA)
Campbell Jones (New Zealand).

Part of the Research Program on: Recognition, Agency and the Politics of Otherness

International Network for Alternative Academia
(Extends a general invitation to participate)

Call for Papers for the 7th international workshop on critical studies of project based work, project management and the projectification of society and life at large

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 7th Making Projects Critical workshop, to be held at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in central Stockholm on January 23th-24th2014.

Interpretive approaches to research and analysis—methodologies and methods concerned with situated meaning(s), historical context(s), and the importance of human subjectivity—are experiencing renewed interest and revitalisation in the social sciences broadly. They constitute the basic cornerstone of a critical approach to policy analysis which challenges the positivism and scientism that still characterize much policy analytic research.

DEADLINE: 1 July 2014

'Sites of Protest' is the third event organised by the MeCCSA Social Movements Network since its foundation in 2013. This conference, organised in conjunction with the Canterbury Media Discourse Group, will
be held in Canterbury on 29 October 2014.

Keynote Speakers

Katharine Ainger (Writer, editor and activist. Author of We Are Everywhere: the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism)

B.A.A.L / Cambridge University Press Applied Linguistics Seminar Programme 2014-2015:
The Language of Money and Debt: the view from the ground

7th – 8th September 2015.
University of Roehampton, Whitelands College

Call for Papers:

‘Critical approaches to sustainability’ Panel Proposal to be presented at the CADAAD 2016, University of Catania, 5-7 September 2016. Panel Organisers:
Barbara Loester, University of Winchester
Douglas Ponton, University of Catania
Franco Zappettini, Royal Holloway, University of London

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.