The conference organisers of the first Perspectives on Conflict Conference, to be held on Friday 6th June 2014 at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, invite submissions from academics working on the theme of conflict in the areas of law, economics, education and social sciences more generally.
Call for papers
Text and discourse in confrontation in the European context: towards an epistemological and heuristic renewal Metz, Lorraine University
15-18 September 2015
Centre de recherche sur les médiations
Driss Ablali, CREM-University of Lorraine
Guy Achard-Bayle, CREM-University of Lorraine
Laurent Perrin, Ceditec-University Paris Est Créteil Paris 12
Sandrine Reboul-Touré, Clesthia-University Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Malika Temmar, University of Amiens/Ceditec-University Paris Est Créteil Paris 12
Call for Papers
ESTIDIA (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue)
3rd ESTIDIA Conference
Dialogue as Global Action:
Interacting Voices and Visions across Cultures
Conference Theme
In the wake of the international symposia at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in 1997, 2002 and 2008, and so many other important events organized by several Brazilian and foreign research teams which consolidate Discourse Analysis as a discipline, the IV International Symposium on Discourse Analysis, an initiative of the Discourse Analysis Nucleus (NAD) of the Faculty of Language and Literature of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, intends once more to be a space for debates and discussions between Brazilian and foreign professors, researchers, undergraduate and post-graduate
CFP: International conference,
University of Helsinki, Finland
31 August-1st September 2017
Criticality in Education (Research):
Definitions, Discourses and Controversies
“I and my public understand each other very well: It does not hear what I say, and I don’t say what it wants to hear.” (Karl Kraus)
“A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
(Confucius, The Analects, Ch. 14)
Since the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the rise of Trump, Orbán and Le Pen, to name but a few, ‘populism’ has re-emerged as a common keyword in international news coverage. This term has become highly contested, often used to stigmatise political opponents. The current conflation of new right-wing politics with ‘populism’ backgrounds leftist mass movements such as Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain, despite a rich history of left wing populism.
The Postgraduate Winter School Language for Communication: Research Perspective is a three to-five-day event for individuals or groups organised by the University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia) in cooperation with the Field Committee of Linguistics of Discourse of International Committee of Slavists (Belarusian & Polish branch of the Field Committee), and international academic project D-ART (Germany).
Nikita Dhawan (Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial
Studies [FRCPS], Excellence Cluster "Formation of Normative Orders"
Goethe-University Frankfurt), Antke Engel (Institute for Queer Theory,
Berlin/Hamburg), Christoph Holzhey (ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural
Inquiry), Volker Woltersdorff (SFB "Cultures of the Performative", FU
Berlin), Berlin
Confirmed Speakers: Lisa Duggan, Kevin Floyd, Josephine Ho, Ratna Kapur,
Desiree Lewis, Anne McClintock, Donald Morton
Few studies have been conducted on the topic of media in minority context. However, in
today’s plurilingual and multicultural societies, their role in the functioning of democracy
and in the construction of minorities’ cultural identities is crucial. These media are both
channels of communication and gathering places or common areas for communities. By
connecting individuals who share the same language, these media reinforce solidarity
within minority groups as well as their cultural identity, both at the local and global levels.
That there is a relationship between publicness and democracy has often been taken for granted. However, at this time of widespread instability, political upheaval and experimentation, when publics are increasingly being called upon to act, it is sometimes in the name of democracy, but not always. By exploring how ideas and practices of publicness and democracy are being constituted, enacted, related and reconfigured in different settings, this workshop aims to investigate the modes of public action and democracy being invoked, imagined and struggled over around the world.