Conference

*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)

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