N.B.: The conference languages are French, Portuguese, Spanish and English, without giving priority to any of them.
Across the globe, the higher education and research sector is changing rapidly. As it continues to expand along the elite-mass-universal trajectory described by Martin Trow, it is subject to unprecedented structural reforms and transformations. These changes are often captured in a framework variously labelled ‘academic capitalism’, ‘marketization’ or ‘entrepreneurialism’, with the common denominator that the market is the new central principle of academic practice.
First International Scientific Conference “Language in the Coordinates of the Mass Media”
SEPTEMBER 6-9, 2016 VARNA, BULGARIA
Since its beginnings in the late 19th century, the Blues has been more than a music style with a seminal impact on 20th century popular music. As a medium of social expression, it articulated the tribulations of an entire black culture, male and female. Discourses about race were as much an integral part of the evolution of the blues as were those of class, when young white kids - in America and European countries, especially the UK - adopted the music for their political and social ends.
The Chair of Pragmatics at the University of Łódź, Poland is starting a new conference series: Cognition, Conduct & Communication. CCC2011 is the first international conference devoted to a complex yet integrated and consistent study of cognitive approaches to pragmatics and discourse analysis, language learning and use, and language disorders.
Ethnography of Communication: The Ways Forward June 10-14, 2012 Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska Proposal Deadline: December 17, 2011
The summer of 2012 will mark the 50th anniversary of Dell Hymes’ 1962 landmark publication of “The Ethnography of Speaking,” and the 25th anniversary of Gerry Philipsen’s 1987 influential theoretical work, “The Prospect for Cultural Communication.” These milestones in the Ethnography of Communication (EC) come at a time when EC scholarship is developing intensively as it is being applied to practical concerns and social problems worldwide.
Cutting Edges Research Conference
Is it appropriate to talk of “our culture” and “their culture”?
Interrogating common perceptions of culture in language education
A conference for those researching in the fields of applied linguistics, TESOL, modern languages, intercultural communication and education
Friday, 5th July, 2012
Department of English and Language Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK
Invited Speaker:
Professor Cathie Wallace, Institute of Education, London
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook
June 5-7, 2014
The Center for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the How Class Works - 2014 Conference, to be held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, June 5-7, 2014. Proposals for papers, presentations, and sessions are welcome until December 11, 2013 according to the guidelines below. For more information, visit our Web site at http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass.