Conference

Organized by Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity and the Network on Globalization in the Margins

Following up on a very successful workshop in June 2012, Babylon organizes a sequel workshop addressing new forms of authenticity in an age of globalization and superdiversity. The central argument in the workshop is that forms of authenticity today need to be understood in terms of complexity rather than multiplicity, and thus demand a new and creative framework for addressing them.

Studies in language science and communication have shown that in any form of discourse there may be a gap between what is said and what is meant. It is the contents actually intended to be communicated – the meaning we can call implicit, unexpressed, figurative, or indirect – which has to be taken into account to get the speaker’s actual meaning. Fields of study such as pragmatics and rhetoric make it possible to define the various existing implicit forms and, above all, unveil the various strategies used in the production and understanding of this type of form.

Le réseau DITECO (Discours, Textes, Corpus qui réunit des enseignants-chercheurs des groupes de recherche de l’Université de Lorraine, la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, l’Université de Paris Est Créteil Paris 12, et l’Université Libre de Bruxelles) organise un colloque international de quatre jours à la rentrée 2015 sur les modèles européens élaborés et pratiqués dans les théories discursives et/ou textuelles aujourd’hui.

There is no teaching without media. But what do we know about decision-making processes on what is included in these media, how they are designed, and how they shape what future generations are to know about the world? Today’s schools are media-rich environments, from traditional paper textbooks to interactive digital textbooks and further media including open educational resources (OER). The increasing appearance of new educational technology in today’s classrooms makes it imperative to rethink classic questions about knowledge production in schools.

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I hope you are having a good year and would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the 2016 Critical Studies Research Group Conference on Resistance.

Resistance

13th-14th June 2016
Grand Parade, University of Brighton

Deadline for submission: 1st February 2016

BreMM17 is the third in a series of conferences dedicated to bringing together different disciplinary and methodological approaches to the study of multimodality in various academic contexts. More than ever, multimodality is one of the most influential semiotic theories for analyzing media artifacts, and it enjoys growing global popularity. However, this popularity does not imply universality: the conceptual anchoring of multimodality as well as its empirical applications often remain nationally and regionally grounded.

The Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus, in collaboration with the University of Cyprus, announce the 2nd International Scientific Conference on “Literacy and Contemporary Society”, titled:
Spaces, Discourses, Practices

The Conference will be held on 28-29 November 2017, at the “Filoxenia” Conference Center in Nicosia.

Deadline: 18 Dec 2009

The 9th conference in the ‘Discourse, Power, Resistance’ (DPR) series – whose official journal is Power and Education - will be held at the School of Education and Training, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom, between 30 March and 1 April, 2010.

The venue is part of a world heritage site laid out in the late 17th and early 18th Centuries by Sir Christopher Wren and his successors. The conference will use the King William Building and the Stephen Lawrence Building.

Call for Papers and Participation
THE SOCIETY FOR PEACE STUDIES AND PRACTICE
Holds its’
5th ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
In Collaboration
With
THE INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, IBADAN, NIGERIA
JUNE 27 - 29, 2011

Theme: Towards Sustainable Peace, Security and Development in Nigeria

Over the past decade, the rise of populist democracies in South America has taken place against a backdrop of growing corporate media opposition. The legitimacy of the governments of Bolivia, Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, and to a certain extent, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay has been questioned most harshly, not by elected oppositional political parties, but by media conglomerates acting as de facto powers.