Conference

Moving from adolescence to adulthood, the postsocialist world is
undergoing multi-directional transformations that would have seemed
unbelievable twenty years ago. Bustling economic development combines
with corruption, violence, and cynicism, which reign over the
postsocialist space. Three causal schemes compete to explain this
large-scale process. One derives the postsocialist present from the
legacies of the Soviet past. Another ascribes responsibility to the
global crisis of the traditional West. A third episteme draws on

All info and call for papers at http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE13&n=1438.

Note the deadlines:

- 15 June 2012 for early submission of panel proposals (allowing for revision if necessary)
- 15 September 2012, final deadline for panel proposals
- 1 November 2012, deadline for panel contributions, lectures, and posters

Please read the instructions in the ´Call for papers´ carefully well in advance of the deadlines.

Workshop of the ECREA TWG Mediatization

The mediatization of politics was the very beginning of mediatization research: In the 1990s and the years following, mediatization was mainly discussed as the adaptation of ‘media rules’ or ‘journalistic logics’ to the field of politics. Following this, most of the early theorising of mediatization was related to this kind of research. However, since then the field of mediatization research has opened widely. This makes it possible to rethink the mediatization of politics in a wider frame than previously possible.

“Basic and Applied Research”. Historical Semantics of a Key Distinction in 20th Century Science Policy

DIGITAL POLIS
City facing digital : stakes of a project conjugated in the future

Two main axis will be developed during the colloquium : on the first day, this scientific event will attempt to draw an archaeology of the concepts that are at the basis of the so called Smart City, the second day will focus on social dynamics and processes of public participation within the city when facing digital. A concluding round table including members of the scientific committee will be attended.

The Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick is pleased to announce its 18th Postgraduate Conference from Tuesday, 23rd to Thursday, 25th June 2015. The postgraduate conference covers a wide range of topics including language teaching, intercultural communication, and academic or political discourse. The aim of the conference is to provide postgraduate students with the opportunity to present their research, to attend experts’ keynote presentations, to meet peers who engage in similar research activities and to get valuable feedback on their research.

Call for Papers
Annual Conference of the Faculty of Humanities at Tunis in partnership with TESOL Arabia

Conference Theme:
Change and Innovation in the MENA Teaching/Learning Settings: Resistance or Receptivity

Dates and venue: 29-30 April 2016, Faculty of Humanities, Tunis, Tunisia

Second call

Dear Colleagues,
we kindly invite you to the 9th international conference on Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise. The conference aims to promote and foster interaction between those interested in discourse and communication in organisational settings, and follows a series of successful conferences (Lisbon 2001, Vigo 2003, Rio de Janeiro 2005, Nottingham 2007, Milan 2009, Hong Kong 2011, Beijing 2013 and Naples 2015).

In this multi-disciplinary conference we wish to think through the imbrications of violence, space, and the political. Given that our present conjuncture is one constituted by innumerable sites of apartheid, exclusion, oppression, and indeed, resistance(s), such an interrogation is both crucial and potentially productive in re-thinking questions of power and radical politics.