Conference

1st Global Conference: Deception

Deadline for abstracts: 14 Feb 2014

Call for Presentations

London Graduate School

Critical Spaces: Disorienting the Topological

A graduate conference in the critical humanities

Kingston University, London

Monday 5th January 2015

Keynote Speakers:

Claire Colebrook
Eyal Weizman
Eleni Ikoniadou
Fred Botting

Call for Papers:

Critical discourse analysts and theorists are not the only people involved in the articulation of critique in the public realm. Political debates typically consist of layers of meta-discourse. They are fundamentally discourse about discourse and could not exist without the reflexive features of articulatory practice. Many researchers in critical discourse studies focus on social and political debates related to issues such as class, migration, ecology, globalization, or economic crisis.

The Conference

Interpretive policy analysis engenders and embraces research which extends across the social sciences and is applied to a vast range of policy topics. The common intrest of interpretive approaches to policy analysis is the recognition of the importance of discourse, meaning making, interpretation and the performance of social practices both in devising and in enacting policy.

Due to the rise of the radical and populist right wing in the US and in Europe and due to pressures of globalization, immigration has become an important electoral and political topic. The immigrant, often metaphorically built as a problem or threat, has become the unwitting star of the political and cultural struggles for redefinition of national identities and liberal values such as tolerance, religious freedom, freedom of expression, or the political landscape itself, traditionally organized along the left/right axis.

La Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia a través del Cuerpo Académico de Análisis del Discurso y Semiótica de la Cultura y el Proyecto PAPIIT Emergencia e Interculturalidad (UNAM, Psicología) invita al:

Seminario

Dr. Johannes Angermuller (Universidad de Warwick, Reino Unido y École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Francia.
Análisis del discurso: problemáticas, tendencias, modelos analíticos

The language of citizenship has, in recent years, been mobilized by feminists
to articulate a wide range of claims and demands. The notions of economic,
political, social, cultural, sexual/ bodily, and intimate citizenship, for example,
have all been developed and explored in terms of their normative potential and
their actual realization. In Europe, in particular, there has been a strong steer
from research funders and policy makers towards research agendas which
address the question of citizenship in the context of increasingly diverse and

Please note the second call for papers for the interdisciplinary ‘Spectres of Class’ conference at the University of Chester, UK, on Friday 15- Saturday 16 July 2011 organised by the University of Chester English department in association with CADAAD (Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines).

We welcome abstracts of no more than 300 words by Friday 25 March 2011.

Submissions are now open for the next International Systemic Linguistics Conference to be held at The University of Technology Sydney (UTS), in Sydney, Australia, July 16th - 20th 2012. We are pleased to invite abstracts related to the conference themes which encompass language, society, semiotics, education, knowledge, learning, and multi-literacies.

Conference workshop:

(CRITICAL) DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND CORPUS LINGUISTICS: A METHODOLOGICAL SYNERGY FOR THE STUDY OF MODERN GREEK

Held in the context of the 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece (September 26-29, 2013, www.rhodes.aegean.gr/icgl11).