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6th International RCA Conference: "Communication in a Changing Society"

The Russian Communication Association (RCA) in collaboration with Eurasian Communication Association of North America (ECANA) and the Institute of Philology and Language Communication at Siberian Federal University are happy to announce the forthcoming 6th International RCA Conference: "Communication in a Changing Society".

NORDISCO 2012. Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction

The abstract submission to NORDISCO 2012 is now open! Due to technical problems with the registration system, we decided to extend the deadline for abstract submissions. The new deadline for abstract submissions is 30 March 2012.

Welcome to submit your abstract on our website: www.liu.se/ikk/nordisco

We hope to see you in Linköping!

The NORDISCO 2012 Organising Committee

8th ISSA CONFERENCE ON ARGUMENTATION

From July 1 to July 4, 2014, the 8th Conference of the International
Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) will be held at the
University of Amsterdam. The aim of the conference is to draw together
scholars from a variety of disciplines that are working in the field
of argumentation theory.

The keynote speakers are:

Frans H. van Eemeren (University of Amsterdam & ILIAS)
J. Anthony Blair (University of Windsor)
Jeanne Fahnestock (University of Maryland)

Language as a constitutive element of a gendered society. Developments, perspectives, and possibilities in the Slavic languages

After a somewhat restrained start, linguistic gender studies have evolved into a permanent part of the curriculum in Slavonic linguistics. They have been fueled by sociopolitical developments in post-socialist countries since the end of communism; they have been, and continue to be, influenced substantially by American and Western European gender studies to this date. The conference "Language as a constitutive element of a gendered society.