Conference

In marking the 10th anniversary gathering, the 2018 workshop is being organized under the theme of X-SCAPES as a deliberately and pointedly non-thematic theme. We thereby invite participants (old and new) to reconsider and re-imagine the field’s methodologies and intellectual priorities for the next ten years.

X = the number ten
X = numeric and alphabetic
X = semiotic and embodied
X = ancient and futuristic
X = unknowable and mysterious
X marks the spot

From Text to Political Positions 2010
9-10 April 2010, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Plenary speakers
- Ken Benoit (Trinity College, Dublin, Dept of Political Science)
- Jan Kleinnijenhuis (Vrije Universiteit/VU Amsterdam, Dept of
Communication Studies and The Network Institute)
- Veronika Koller (Lancaster University, Dept of Linguistics and
English Language) and Paul Davidson (University of Bradford, Dept of
Peace Studies)
- Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh, Dept of Computer Science).

Organised by the *Media Discourse Group* at De Montfort University, this
one-day conference will examine the various ways in which security is
described in the media, with particular reference to the stories
promoted by news organisations when they attempt to support or undermine
the various propositions made to the public about security and the
‘terror threat’.

Our keynote speakers are Professor Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of
Economics), Professor Mark Neocleous (Brunel University) and Dr Zahera
Harb (University of Nottingham).

On behalf of Luisa Martín Rojo:

The European Network for Intercultural Education Activities (ENIEDA) is convening a panel at the forthcoming International Symposium 'Discursive Constructions of Europe', Faculty of Economy, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 15-16 November 2013. The proposed panel is entitled '(Beyond) Europe: Text, Context and Interaction'.

"Die Organisation von Bildung" Soziologische Zugänge, Analysen und Ergebnisse

Conference organized by the Education Sections of the Sociological Associations of Switzerland (SGS), Germany (DGS) & Austria (ÖGS)

Friday–Saturday, 13–14 June 2014
University of Teacher Education Basel, Switzerland

Conference languages: English and German

Keynotes
Prof. Dr. Moritz Rosenmund, Vienna
Prof. Dr. Christine Musselin, Paris (to be confirmed)

Speakers:
Les Back, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Melanie Friend: photographer, University of Sussex
Prof. Mary Hickman, St Mary's University, London
Sunder Katwala, Director of British Future
Refugee Action
The Refugee Council

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Visual and Cultural Studies graduate program is pleased to announce the CFP for our 10th biennial conference, "Drawing Together: Solidarities, Pictures, and Politics," which will be taking place from April 10-11, 2015. You can find the CFP on our website as well as attached below and as a .pdf. Please take a look at it and help us spread the word!

InVisible Culture
503A Morey Hall
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627

http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu

The Department of Slavonic Studies at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena organizes a workshop on the occasion of the Day of Slavic Literacy. Its main focus lies on political discourse in the Slavic speaking countries. Linguistic study of political discourse and its genres has become an important research topic within the pragma-linguistic studies. The nature of political discourse necessarily invites to cross-disciplinary considerations which have been reflected in a great number of empirical and methodical research findings.

Connecting the Dots in a Glocalized World 2016 will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas in the four main disciplines of language, linguistics, literature and translation. As the title for the conference suggests, the aim is to focus on the relationship between global themes and local practices, highlighting the under-examined interactions that occur as globalization takes on negotiated forms in different contexts.