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EAST – WEST EUROPEAN FORUM ON DISCOURSE: Talking ‘discourse’ in European linguistics: past, present and future

The organizers of this conference invite scholars working in various realms of discourse research, ranging from textology and linguistics of discourse, through discourse analysis to (interdisciplinary) critical discourse studies. Our key purpose is to explore the various ways of doing discourse analysis, historically and presently.

The main topics include:

GlobE 2015: EAST – WEST EUROPEAN FORUM ON DISCOURSE – Talking ‘discourse’ in European linguistics: past, present and future

The organizers of this conference invite scholars working in various realms of discourse research, ranging from textology and linguistics of discourse, through discourse analysis to (interdisciplinary) critical discourse studies. Our key purpose is to explore the various ways of doing discourse analysis, historically and presently.

The main topics include:

Media, War and Conflict Journal 10th Anniversary Conference - Spaces of War, War of Spaces

Keynote:
Professor Andrew Hoskins: MWC Founding Editor and Interdisciplinary Research Professor, University of Glasgow

Film Screening:
‘The Faces We Lost’ Film Screening with Q&A with Director and Scholar Piotr Cieplak, University of Sussex

International Gender And Language Association conference (IGALA 6)

Proposals for paper presentations (individual and panel), posters and workshop sessions are invited on any aspects of gender and language analysis from a variety of fields, including bilingualism, communication studies, conversation analysis, cultural studies, discourse analysis, language acquisition, linguistic anthropology, media studies, multicultural studies, multilingualism, queer studies, second language teaching, sociolinguistics, and other related fields and disciplines.

11th Essex Conference in Critical Political Theory: Global challenges - New imaginaries. Image, Voice, and Radical Democracy

Few doubt, today, that we face a series of connected global challenges: the dangers of climate change and environmental degradation; a crisis of international finance and global capitalism; an ever-increasing logic of minoritization, which threatens to fragment communities and societies; greater social and economic inequalities, both nationally and globally; the intensification of various forms of religious belief, including fundamentalism, alongside a growing secularization of communities and societies; securitization of society, and a palpable disillusionment with politics and politicians

II International Conference on Communication, Cognition and Media: Political and economic discourse

Call deadline: March 31, 2012

Plenary speakers

Mats Alvesson (Lund University, Sweden)
Patrick Charaudeau (Universite Paris 13, CNRS, France)
Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of the West of England, UK)
Veronika Koller (Lancaster University, UK)
Joao Cesar das Neves (Catholic University of Portugal)
Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University, UK)